Chapter 282: Dublin Offensive and Defensive Warfare (Part 1)

While both the UK, France, and France were waiting for news from Ireland, Dublin, Ireland, had a terrifying offensive and defensive war ...

Richard Ball led a 20,000 army to Dublin and saw a few dumbfounded iron gates. Originally, he brought a batch of artillery over, and also wanted a way to bombard the city gate + blast the gate. However, after trying for several rounds, it was found that the iron ball shells could not deal with the big iron gate, so they gave up directly.

Then, 7,000 long bowmen, under the command of Richard Ball, began to shoot at the city's head. Suddenly, the dense arrows flew to the city head like a rainstorm. However, due to the reminder of the North Sea Chamber of Commerce spy, not only 2,000 musketeers were replaced with half-body plate armour by Count Edward, but other arms also prepared door panels ...

Yes, door panels! Earl Edward saw the representative of the North Sea Chamber of Commerce "Jonathan" carrying the door panel and blasted Wicklow's city gate, so he was very fond of the door panel shield. After receiving the news that the British army had gathered national longbowmen to commit crimes, Earl Edward sent someone to cut all the trees around Dublin. First, let the woodworkers in the city process into door panels to resist bows and arrows. Second, it is also to prevent those trees from becoming materials for the British army to manufacture engineering equipment.

As an English aristocracy, Earl Edward was taught the English Longbowmen's heroic deeds from an early age until he was imprisoned in the Tower of London. Therefore, Count Edward attaches great importance to the English Longbowmen. When the Longbowmen of England began to shoot in turns and hit the defenders above the city with arrows of rain, "doors" were erected all over the city ...

Although the English Longbowmen are powerful, they stand farther away from the city wall and project. The farther they are, the lower the kinetic energy of the arrows. What's more, the projected bow and arrow hit the city head from the ground. Because the height is different when it falls, the kinetic energy has not been fully released, so the power is greatly reduced. Originally, a long arrow that could penetrate through the mail armor, but could not shoot through those door panels ...

In desperation, Richard Ball ordered the Longbowmen to move forward, intending to take a close shot. In this way, the kinetic energy lost by the arrow can also be less, and the arrow penetration can also be stronger.

However, I didn't expect that when the Longbowmen approached the distance of 100 meters from the city wall, a lot of plate-armor ...

Earlier, the English Longbowmen were too far away for the Musketeers to aim. So, simply sitting on the ground above the city's head, without a head raised, waiting quietly.

But upon discovering that the English Longbowmen entered the range, the 2,000 musketeers wearing half-plate armor stood up one after another, aiming the long-filled musket guns at the front row of longbowmen ...

"Pap-Pap-Pap-Pap-Pap-"

After a burst of beans-fired gunshots, although the musket hit was low, many English longbowmen fell to the ground and began to howl ...

Marlin provided the Earl Edward with a relatively small caliber, and the weight of the bullet was 30 grams, which was about the same weight as the later British-style flintlock "brown bass" flintlock. The weight of this bomb is very reasonable, and it is also enough to attack those "iron cans" wearing plate armor.

A 30-gram lead shot can be played with iron cans, not to mention the English Longbowmen who only wear some chain armor at most? So, after several rounds of shooting, the English Longbowmen in the front row suddenly fell to hundreds of people.

Moreover, the hundreds of people who fell were seriously injured. Because, the ball-shaped lead projectile, after hitting the human body, is easy to cause tumbling, which makes the wound become very big and spouts blood violently. Often, a 30-gram lead bullet, although less than 20 millimeters in diameter, can cause a large bowl injury and looks very serious. Of course, it is actually very serious.

It can be said that the warrior who has hit the arrow, with a stronger will, can continue to fight. However, it is difficult for someone who has hit a 30-gram lead shot to continue fighting ...

That is to say, the more than one hundred longbowmen who fell in the front row, except for dozens of people who were directly killed, were definitely unable to return to battle. Even if you survive and don't mention lead poisoning, such a large scar will easily make those longbowmen say goodbye to the battlefield completely.

At first, Richard Ball didn't care. However, when the Musketeers on the city head reloaded in the second round, a three-segment shot came again. Then, more than a hundred dozen British Longbowmen were shot down and howled.

Richard Ball immediately realized that it was wrong. He saw that the enemy musketeers on the city's head, because they were wearing plate armor, could not help their longbowmen, but they could injure them. This, this is too bad ...

Moreover, it takes more than ten years for a longbowman to be trained ... So, the longbowman withdrew immediately ...

Next, Richard Ball dispatched the Swords and Shields to set up the siege ladder, intending to forcibly board the city. However, for Musketeers, those wooden shields that could resist bows and arrows were vulnerable in front of the Musketeers. The musket bullets first destroyed the wooden shield, which in turn could hurt the sword shield soldiers. Moreover, the shield of the sword shield soldier is not the shield of the big shield soldier. When the Sword and Shield soldiers climbed the city wall, the distance between the musketeer and them was only within ten meters. At this distance, the musketeer can basically aim at ...

Then, with a series of screams of "Ah", "Ah", "Ah", "Ah" ..., the Sword and Shield soldiers fell off the siege ladder like dumplings. The Musketeers are so invincible. What's more, these musketeers even put on half a set of plate armor, which is simply hanging ...

Looking at the corpses of hundreds of swords and shields under the city head, Richard Ball wanted to cry without tears. However, he is not incompetent. At this moment, he suddenly remembered the artillery that was originally intended to bombard the city gate ...

Artillery has a longer range than muskets, and musketeers in plate armor cannot withstand the artillery bombardment. So, he put up the 30 light artillery that were originally intended to hit the door, set it up, and aimed at the city head ...

"Boom-Boom-Boom-" After a burst of artillery sounds, there were a few unlucky musketeers who were directly hit by iron ball shells and finished.

However, at the same time, on the side of the city wall, Marin sent the blaster Sahi (Jonathan) to the Edwardian army, carrying a group of French artillery, deploying the 20 heavy guns that Marin sent to Count Edward, aiming at the British army. What about the artillery position ...

In this era, apart from East Friesland, it is probably the most artillery and artillery in France. In order to support the confrontation between Count Edward and the British army, Louis XII not only sent a lot of gunpowder and shells, but also sent a group of experienced artillery to support Count Edward's army.

Taking advantage of the British artillery's power, Sahi, who understood the artillery's aim, used the simplest line to align the muzzle direction of the artillery with the enemy's artillery position. Then, I started to adjust the angle of the artillery up and down and the amount of charge ...

At the beginning, the school fired only one artillery, and the British did not care. But after the school shooting was completed, the other guns used the same angle and charge amount ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ The power finally broke out ...

20 front-loaded bronze guns of 12-pound class all burst into roar. Twenty iron **** hit the British artillery position ...

At this time, the British artillery also focused on the front wall. However, those Musketeers are not stupid. After being taken away by a few rounds of shells in the first round, they all crouched down, covered by the city walls, and iron ball shells could not take them.

While the British artillery was thinking about how to strike the enemy on the city's head, the side, 20 12-pound guns had long aimed at them. Moreover, Sahi is very cunning. Only one gun was used in the school shooting, and the other barrels were placed on the city head without being erected. Therefore, the British army directly ignored that gun. But after the calibration was completed, the other 19 gun barrels were set up according to the position, and then the vertical line was positioned vertically, and adjusted to the same angle and charge as the first gun. Then, the attack on the British artillery positions followed one after another ...

What is the concept of a 12-pound iron ball hitting it? That's really dead! Several British artillery soldiers hadn't reacted yet. Several 12-pound iron **** screamed and smashed over, some of them hit their heads, and then their heads flew away. After a while, they spurt blood from the chest.

Some are smashed through the chest, so a big hole can transmit light. Then, everyone saw his internal organs ...

Some bad luck eggs were directly smashed off their arms or legs. The victim was stunned for a while, and then, under the stimulus of severe pain, a scream of trembling. At the same time, blood is sprayed on the position of the arm or leg ...

After several rounds of shooting, more than 30 people were killed in the hundreds of British artillery. Moreover, there was a 12-pound iron ball that directly penetrated three artillery units, which was terrifying.

Under the suppression of the heavy artillery in the city head, the British artillery who survived, regardless of the commander's threat, turned around and ran away ...