The New Civilization of Witches

Chapter 116: War for Border Town (Part 2)

It was not that the knights could attack from the very beginning with their fastest speed, after all, the horses were limited by their physical endurance,

so they were only able to maintain their fastest speed for a short period of time.

At one thousand or eight hundred meters they would begin to increase their speed gradually until they reached a distance of five hundred meters from their target,

only when they came within a distance of two hundred meters would they begin to gallop.

While in theory, the twelve-pound Napoleon cannon has an effective range of up to 1,300 meters if using a solid shell.

Perhaps because the diameter was only half of the usual, the Roland cannon only had an effective range of a thousand meters.

As a result, the furthest distance the artillery group was allowed to open fire was eight hundred meters.

At this distance, reaching the target area can be guaranteed, while at the same time the cannonball will also bounce forward after hitting the ground.

Produces line damage, with a high chance of killing multiple targets with a single shot.

To let the mercenary attack go first, Duke Ryan had ordered his knights to step aside –

letting them wait in a completely safe area, which meant an area where bows and bows could not reach the knights, but this distance was still close.

enough to launch an effective knight attack.

Knowing the low efficiency of the mercenaries, the knights were always ready to withdraw the control of the horse, waiting for the resistance in one place.

However, like this, they became an almost certain target, for the artillery group.

But the Duke of course did not realize that by the time he ordered his troops to step aside, that they had stepped onto the battlefield that Roland had prepared.

While the middle of the road may be flat and broad, both sides are crammed with foliage and other vegetation.

What seemed from afar was just ordinary grass, actually a dense vines covered by a layer of knee-high weeds, it was like a road plastered with a natural tripwire.

If the cavalry wanted to start a wing attack on the defensive line, they would only be able to move forward with a very slow rate of progress.

The distance of a thousand meters was clearly marked on the ground, it might not be visible to the people on the ground, but to the Lighting flying in the sky, it was clearly visible.

The battlefield is precisely divided into several segments, and each mark with different colors represents different distances –

the enemy was now only a ruler moving on the chessboard, allowing the artillery group to fire without having to calculate the angle of the barrel.

They just follow the steps as they have applied during the training. The cannon of Van'er's group was the first to roar furiously.

A large amount of gas produced by the gunpowder explosion pushed the projectile out, and at that moment it flew out of its muzzle,

it had reached a speed of over four hundred meters per second, so after two seconds, its shell had already nearly reached the knight.

It instantly flowed through the group of knights and immersed itself into the ground beside the road.

Splashing the ground and pebbles in all directions and creating panic among the horses, a knight reacted rather late and fell off his horse.

The next two bullets also missed the target and only produced a lot of dust.

But the last group managed to get a lucky blow –

there was originally no one in his flight path, but a knight who was unable to regain control of his frightened horse happened to pass by.

In front of this massive amount of kinetic energy, his armor only existed in name.

The cannonball simultaneously pierced through the thin iron and human flesh, and after bouncing off the ground, it then hit another knight, cutting off his calf.

Furthermore, it finally penetrated through the horse chest under the knight's hips and spread its internal organs throughout the ground.

If the Knight was in their normal attack phase, the artillery group would need to adjust their angle of fire, but the sudden blow seemed to shock the entire coalition of Duke forces.

They don't know what hit them, how they can – their shells too fast to be seen with the human eye

. So the knights did not receive the order to attack, instead, they were still pacing back and forth in their original location, trying to calm their agitated mounts.

Once again Van'er's group most quickly completed the reloading process, starting the second round of shooting.

The new weapon revealed how fragile and tender the human body, once hit by a passing iron ball, could cause incurable injuries.

But when his rider was hit directly, other than he lost some limbs, it would also splash blood everywhere.

Only when they were hit by the second round artillery shells could they finally see a vague black shape, while it claimed the lives of their comrades.

After the second round of fire, Duke was finally able to connect the flames and roaring sounds in the enemy camp with an indescribable attack against his unit.

It seemed that the other party had obtained an incredible weapon, with a far greater range than an arrow, almost like one of the fortress trebuchets.

thinking that as long as they could reach close range, these long range weapons would also become useless.

The knights, however, when hearing the horn, showed some kind of reaction. Some of them actually rushed towards Border Town, though,

but the others were still fighting on their own horses, while a small portion of the knights retreated to the back of the battlefield.

Together with the huddled mercenaries, the entire scene quickly turned into chaos.

When the invading knights returned to the street, the artillery group suddenly became panicked,

in addition, in order to clean the barrel and refill its ammunition, they also had to adjust their cannons.

At this moment, Lighting flew once again towards the defensive line, holding a red ribbon in his hand.

The red signal meant that the enemy was approaching the five hundred meter line, at this distance, the level of artillery attacks would reach over eighty percent.

Van'er shouted: "The shooting angle is right! Quick, turn on the fuse, turn on the fuse!”

When a deafening roar rang out once more, he did not even look to see if they had hit something, instead, he immediately turned towards the ammunition distribution staff and shouted: 'Brease:

"tube, send the bullet!"

During the artillery training, His Majesty had repeatedly emphasized the point, that when the red signal is sounded, the,

even if the barrel is already filled with solid bullets, they should immediately shoot and then reload with the tube bullets.

If the barrel is not loaded, they should immediately fill it with a tube shell, and then wait until the point where the enemy reaches the three hundred mark.

The canned shell looked like a can containing balls the size of a thumb and sawdust.

To make a tube shell, they first make a hole in the can, then they fill it with a ball and sawdust, and then they stop it with a thin piece of wood.

When Lighting finally showed the purple ribbon, the four artillery groups fired almost simultaneously.

This was also the first time Van'er had used the – tube shell according to His Majesty, the injuries caused by the tube shell were very difficult to heal, so they only practiced the loading procedure.

So today was also the first time he had seen the incredible killing potential of this particular shell.

Due to the enormous pressure difference, the lead broke into pieces after leaving its muzzle.

The small iron balls inside the can fell like raindrops on the enemy, placing the knights three hundred meters away in the middle of a deadly metal storm,

and turned the people and the horses into a bloody mist that resembled wheat that fell when it was cut.

down's up. The few iron pellets after breaking through the knight's body still had so much kinetic energy left that even the knights standing behind them were also unable to escape.

The knights who were lucky enough to survive the storm finally entered the sprint distance, while having only one thought in their minds –

that is to break through this thin line of defense, and slaughter the cowards who can only hide behind those ruthless weapons.

Just a small amount of time required to cover the last hundred and fifty meters, the knights had already lowered their bodies, pushing the horses to reach their highest speed.

However, this seemingly short distance of a hundred and fifty meters, turned into an impassable distance,

the last round of tube-bullet shooting completely destroyed the last part of their fighting will.

Within a hundred meters, the solid iron ball was able to pierce through as many as two to three people, turning the area in front of the cannon fire into a death field.

Of the twenty knights riding on the frontline, almost no one could survive, the only difference between them lay in the number of iron balls they struck.

The knight attack had completely collapsed. Because the fear created by the collapse of the knight attack was so great,

the knights who followed were trying to reverse their horses that wanted to escape from the battlefield.

When they saw the knights scattering, the mercenaries were unwilling to take another step forward.

They always work only for money, but they immediately turn around when they see how much they have to pay.

Now, by the time they retreated, they were running faster than when they attacked.

When their wave of crushing defeat swept through the allied forces of the rank of a duke, the situation soon became impossible to control.

The crowd only had one thought left, they had to flee.

There are people who fall and are trampled to death, no one takes the time to care for others, they just hate themselves for not being able to grow another pair of legs.

At this moment the melody of guerrilla war songs resounded across the battlefield, and the infantry ranks began to march, sweeping across the battlefield.