Chapter 1001: Siege in rainy days, just to kill
The British Isles face the warm current of the North Atlantic Ocean with plenty of rain. Although it is not as frequent as the rain in western Ireland, Scotland is also a rainy area after all.
No, just after a while of fine weather, Xia Yu ushered in again. Seeing the rain falling in the sky, Saqqara frowned. At this time, the artillery of the artillery unit was moving artillery and ammunition into the barracks. Because it is easy to wet the gunpowder on rainy days, it is easy to rust the cast iron Karen gun.
"Oh, it's really troublesome!" Sakala sighed helplessly when he looked at the Edinburgh Castle towering on the hillside in the distance.
Sacra, who was upset, went to take a nap after lunch. But as soon as he fell asleep, he heard Isaac, the commander of the Musketeering, rushing in and disturbed Sacala's nap.
Saqqara was so angry that he just couldn't attack again. Why? Because Isaac is not a member of the Fourth Army. If the people of the Fourth Army dare to disturb his nap so rudely, they would have been whip. But Isaac was the commander of the Musketeers from the First Legion. He used to be the deputy of Steindorff, the chief of the Musketeers of the North Sea. The main Musketeers of the First Legion would follow Marin to Italy. However, Isaac did not come from the mountain people in the mountains of Württemberg, but from the plain farmers in the Alsace region. Therefore, he was not very good at climbing mountains, so Marin was sent to the British Isles to assist Saqqara in attacking Edinburgh.
Therefore, although Isaac had a low level of Pisa Kara, he was an ally officer, and it was not easy for him to get angry with him. However, Saqqara stared at Isaac with a bad look to see what he wanted to say. If he says something useless, he must be reprimanded. Even if you can't smoke him, it's okay to scold. After all, he is higher than him.
"What's the matter?" Sakala asked angrily.
"Commander, it's raining!" Isaac said excitedly.
"That's it?" Sakala was already ready to scold the other party. Nima, the rain is so exciting, I ...
But before he even spoke out, Isaac continued:
"Leader, we are ready to attack!"
"What? Attack on a rainy day? The road uphill is slippery!" Sakara refused without thinking.
"No, regimental commander, on a rainy day, the opponent's artillery and arquebuses are stunned, and there is no threat to us!" Isaac finally said the point.
"Well ... this ... it's good news, but our guns are also misfired ..." The Fourth Army of Saqqara has never had a musketeer and artillery establishment, and has been stationed in England, so he still has I don't know if the clockwork lighter is not afraid of rain.
"We are not afraid of rainy days with clockwork firearms!" Isaac said the advantages of clockwork firearms.
Saqqara's eyes brightened:
"You mean, on rainy days, their guns are misfired, and our musketeers can continue to shoot?"
Isaac nodded heavily ...
But immediately, Saqqara hesitated:
"No, the east wall of Edinburgh Castle is so steep. Even without the advantage of guns, their people can easily drive down the soldiers who climbed the city. You know, the guards inside are elite ... and, If the opponent can shoot arrows on a rainy day, it will cause death and injury to the musketeer ... "
Isaac said confidently:
"No problem, I figured out that the soldiers on the other side of the city generally only use archery and stone throwing to deal with our musketeers. But throwing stones is too close, our musketeers stand 30 meters away, they throw No. As for bows and arrows, our musketeers can wear plate armor, so they are not afraid of bows and arrows. Then, their bows and arrows cannot hurt our musketeers, and our musketeers can easily hurt them ... "
"Good idea is ... I don't think your 400 Musketeers are very strong. If they wear plate armor, can they climb to the middle of the hill? Wearing plate armor is very physical ..."
Isaac rolled his eyes:
"Who said they were going to climb the mountain in plate armor? Wouldn't it be possible to climb plate and wear plate armor again?"
Saqqara suddenly realized, but he frowned:
"Even if we and the enemy on the city head dominate the shooting, it would be useless if the soldiers can't climb the wall. The east wall of Edinburgh Castle is so small, and their people are very elite. I don't think we can easily occupy the east wall. ... "
Ithaca explained:
"Leader of the Legion, I do n’t mean to capture the walls immediately, but to shoot their soldiers. You know, there are eight or nine hundred defenders in Edinburgh Castle. We have 400 musketeers, staring at the city and firing. How long can they survive the shooting? 400 Musketeers, if they shoot 10,000 people of the Fourth Army, it may take a long time to kill. But there are only eight or nine hundred people on the opposite side, and they will not be killed in a few days. Wait for them There are no more people, aren't we allowed to climb up to seize the city? "
After Sakara listened, he slammed the table and said:
"Brother, your strategy is brilliant!"
Saqqara is not a fool, just not well-informed. After all, when the Fourth Army was formed, there were no musketeers in the army, only longbowmen. Therefore, the knowledge of musketeers is relatively limited.
After Isaac's explanation, he suddenly realized that the advantage of the clockwork lighter came-on a rainy day, you can't shoot, I can shoot, this advantage is great ...
You know, shooting and archery are two different things. Archery meets the plate armor and the shield, but the musket meets the plate armor and still hurts the opponent. Encounter the wooden shield vine shield, directly break ...
Moreover, Saqqara also ignored the small number of defenders in Edinburgh Castle. Although the rugged terrain and the only way up the mountain masked the problem of the small number of enemy troops, according to Isaac's plan, if the gun was shot in rainy days, the enemy could not be hurt. The eight hundred or nine hundred defenders can't help the 400 Musketeers' attack ...
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So, Saqqara quickly ordered the army to remove the barricade on the mountain road, and then assembled the army to start the attack.
The mountain road is difficult to walk, the musketeers are all wearing simple clothes to go up the mountain. When the archer was not far away from the east wall of Edinburgh Castle, the archers stopped and the musketeers put on plate armor.
The plate armor was transported by Zhuang Ding from the city, and was transported by Zhuang Ding together. There were also ten carriages of carriages. Although the mountain road is difficult to walk, but it can also take a carriage ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ After all, the Scottish royal family often needs to ride a carriage. Of course, when the carriage goes uphill, it needs some people to help push the cart. Otherwise, it is a little difficult to go uphill.
In fact, in order to solve the problem that the carriage was difficult to go uphill, Edinburgh Castle specially built a thing similar to the overpass of later generations. It used a small **** but a long road to the top of the bridge. The top of the bridge is parallel to Edinburgh Castle. This viaduct suspended from a height directly connects to the east gate of Edinburgh Castle. As long as the carriage is on the viaduct, it can smoothly enter Edinburgh Castle.
Of course, there is no such thing yet. Now, when the carriage returns to the palace, going up the mountain requires Min Zhuang to push up the mountain from behind the carriage. When going down the mountain, in order to guard against the carriage being too fast, someone dragged behind ...
However, the strong soldiers recruited by the Fourth Army did not use their carriages as usual, but used to fill the mainspring rifle with ammunition on rainy days.
Because the clockwork lighter is not afraid of rain, but only if the ammunition is already installed. If it is raining while filling, the gunpowder will get wet easily and will not light.
Therefore, ithaca found hundreds of people and pushed 10 carriages up the hillside, which was specially used to protect the musketeers from rain.
Of course, it is not for the musketeers to get into the carriage specifically for loading. The Musketeers wore plate armor and were unable to move. After they finish shooting, there will be a special person to return the musket to the carriage. The special person in the carriage will be responsible for filling the musket. Then, the runner will send it back to the musketeer ...
In addition, in front of the musketeers, there is a row of soldiers, holding an oversized wooden shield, which is placed at the front to prevent the enemy's flying stones and bows from hurting the musketeers. These oversized wooden shields are actually wooden doors removed from private houses in the city ...
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