Chapter 2045: Artillery in action

The battle at the head of the city continued, and the Southeast Army mobilized 20,000 iron men. After losing a quarter, they stopped going forward.

No one can stand it. The Ironman Army of the Southeast Army is piled up with silver dollars. They are armored, which is the tax of a village and town. If they are broken, it is difficult to repair. They can only be returned to the furnace, provided that they can be recycled.

It is inevitable that there will be iron soldiers with higher military pay than ordinary soldiers, and the income of professional soldiers will definitely be higher.

The cost is also high, and food is indispensable if you want to maintain their huge body.

The loss of this type of unit is too great, so stop playing and retreat!

After Yan Changwu discovered that he might have done a loss-making business, he decisively asked the troops to withdraw.

But the mobilization of the forward troops encountered obstacles. Baotou wisely blocked the section of the city wall bordering the Tushan Mountain of the Southeast Army, that is, the inner city wall was blocked, and the two sides were built with battalions and piled up to separate the city wall.

You piled up the dirt mountain so hard, it seems that people can easily crack it with one trick.

"Done a loss-making business!" Yan Changwu said hesitantly, without any frustration on his face.

Although Baotou’s battalion in the city could stop the Southeast Army from advancing along the outer wall, it was built in a hurry and lacked protection. The Baotou who died on the battalion was enough to cover the ground of the battalion!

This is not only an earth mountain, but also the other earth mountains.

When the Tushan Mountain approached the city wall, the Baotou guy blocked the two ends of the border with high-walled battalions, while the Southeast Army took advantage of the Baotou guy's panic and seized the time to violently attack the enemy's vital forces.

In the battle against Istanbul, artillery played a big role, but not a decisive role.

Take the west city wall as an example. Twenty giant Yicheng cannons of the Southeast Army bombarded together, full of power and spectacular scenes!

Even if the city wall was blasted to pieces, it would not be able to officially smash the city wall, allowing the Southeast Army to enter the city smoothly.

The situation of the Yicheng Cannon also confirms that Baotou used a similar "Urban Cannon" to bomb Constantinople 200 years ago. The Urban Cannon certainly poses a huge danger to the walls of Constantinople. , But not the real murderer who broke the city.

In fact, the city wall of Constantinople is a huge mound with a stone skin. When it penetrates the outer skin, the iron bullet falls into the soil like a stone being thrown into the mud. It loses its effectiveness and the cannon is guarded. The psychological pressure of the army is greater than the actual damage, making them panic all day long, worrying that one day they will be attacked by a cannonball to break the city wall and bring disaster to the army and civilians in the city.

The roar, smoke and vibration of the shelling made even the most determined Baotou panic.

Their worries are right. The Yicheng cannon is so powerful that it hits the flesh, every huge bullet is fired, the position of the Southeast Army is filled with smoke, and the whole section of the city wall trembles, as if it is about to collapse.

The Southeast Army used the "triangular drop" attack method to collapse multiple sections of the outer city wall of Istanbul, punching one big hole after another in the city wall, exposing the mound of soil inside.

The Baotou guys who were forced to go up to Liangshan and jumped over the wall in a hurry, used various methods to reduce the damage caused by the shelling. Similar to their Byzantine predecessors, they even consulted historical archives to find out how the Byzantines repaired the city wall back then. They used mud and bricks. The ash is instantly restored, repairing the damaged city walls, using wool, carpets and even precious tapestries in the palace to fill the collapsed areas, and filling the gaps with life and blood!

Their technology is so strong that every next morning, they can make up for the damaged places seven or eighty eight, which was unthinkable before.

If the Baotou guy who was on the front line had a pale face, the residents in the city were terrified. The huge bullets crossed the city wall and penetrated into the city for about two kilometers. Some destroyed residential buildings, some killed citizens, and some fell on the streets.

Iron bumps and stone bullets were fired. In fact, not many people were actually killed, but the people's fear was very bad!

An artillery commander of the Southeast Army said that the Yicheng artillery killed not many people. On the contrary, the artillery, flying thunder cannon, and catapult that were set up on the hills killed more people.

They used pulleys to drag the cannon to the earth mountain to assemble it. The earth mountain was still higher than the city wall, condescending, and it was a joy to see and fight!

The cannonballs dragged a long smoke and swept across the city wall. The Southeast Army had enough ammunition, and even fired with one cannonball hitting an enemy. If it hits, it will be killed or injured, which makes Baotou extremely hateful.

Some soil hills were close enough to fire shotguns to attack those who were exposed, so that Baotou's body was pierced and blood was dripping.

As for the flying thunder cannons, this time the Southeast Army dragged all the flying thunder cannons it carried. Among them were the large-caliber toad mortars that fired ten kilograms of explosives and nearly twenty kilos of explosives. The roar, fierce bombardment, the fierce artillery fire can no longer hear the waves at this moment, like a rolling thunder!

After many days of bombardment, Baotou's city walls were destroyed, fragments cracked, and gaps opened in many places. The flying gravel and bricks shot in all directions, and they flew to an altitude of several tens of meters.

A series of dynamite packets fell, and thick smoke was everywhere~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Flesh and blood flew around from the cannon. From a distance, it looked like a volcanic eruption. The defenders groaned loudly and groaned loudly.

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The sequence of artillery units that the Southeast Army bombarded Istanbul also included battleship formations in the Golden Horn and the Marmara Sea.

They are not the main force of the siege. After all, battleships cannot go ashore, but they still work hard to hit every shell.

The artillery used was mainly 18-pound or more artillery, with 18-pound, 24-pound and 32-pound cannons, which shot the shells towards Istanbul.

The ability of these artillery to break the city is limited, but the city will never be peaceful. The Baotou guy within the range does not know when a cannonball will drop over his head.

In the past, Baotou men attacked Constantinople and built an "oil road" to pass the warship over the land, into the Golden Horn, and bombard the city. In fact, it was just creating panic.

The Baotou guys learned the lessons of the Byzantines. They built a thick wall defense for the entire city. They didn't give the enemy a chance to attack the city from the sea. That was a dream.

However, the Southeast Army's battleship formations in the Golden Horn and the Marmara Sea not only added chaos to the city, they also focused their fire on the area near the western wall of Istanbul, and attacked with land artillery inside and outside.

The city walls in those places defended the enemy from the west, but not the artillery shells coming from the rear.

Although modification was made and some fortifications were added for defense, when the shelling came, Baotou found that the protection was far from enough!

The shells came from behind, so that the Baotou guy Gu Tou couldn't take care of him, especially when the Southeast Army on the land was on the ground. When the Baotou guys were overwhelmed, he ate the shells behind him. Faced with the sudden and violent blow, the Baotou guy was caught off guard and suffered heavy casualties. !

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