Chapter 456: Confrontation

The Bossa Allied Forces also had 50 artillery pieces, which were basically three-pound guns loaded behind. Moreover, all belong to the electorate of Saxony. After all, Saxony's business is developed, and there is still the financial means to build 50 artillery pieces with a large amount of copper. Moreover, the consumption of expensive gunpowder is also affordable.

Of course, that is also limited. It is okay to manufacture 50 three-pounder guns in the electoral country of Saxony. Let them build a six-pound gun or even a 12-pound gun that consumes more copper material. Unlike Marin, all the cheap copper previously purchased from India was used to cast guns. Moreover, there is now support for a large number of copper ingots produced by the Falun copper mine in Sweden.

As for the electorate of Brandenburg, that is a country that is forced. Don't look at being one of the seven electors, and the largest site. But in fact, Brandenburg is now the poorest of the seven electors.

Because the electorate of Brandenburg is basically an agricultural country, and it is strange to be rich. As for the subsequent rise of Prussia, it was Prince Albrecht of the Hohenzollern family. After becoming the head of the Teutonic Knights in 1525, he united Poland shamelessly and simply changed the Teutonic Knights to hereditary. Principality of Prussia. Then, because they belonged to the same family and were married to each other, in 1618, the electoral kingdom of Brandenburg annexed the Principality of Prussia through marriage. Then Prussia grew stronger.

After adopting the name of Prussia after the union, everyone can know that Prussia is richer than Brandenburg ...

The main reason is that there are several Hanseatic commercial cities such as Königsberg in East Prussia, and the economy is naturally stronger than the agricultural country of Brandenburg at that time. Therefore, when upgrading to the kingdom, the Hohenzollern family simply used Prussia as the kingdom name, not the Kingdom of Brandenburg.

Before the annexation of the Teutonic Kingdom, the Brandenburg electorate was arguably the poorest electorate. Therefore, although the Brandenburg electorate can bully the effect of rubbing more than it, in the Imperial Parliament, it is mainly mixed with others.

However, although Brandenburg is a poor country, it is quite a martial art. Therefore, military power is not bad. Otherwise, Frederick III may not take him to play.

It's just that Brandenburg doesn't even think about the extravagance of artillery, let's see how the Saxons fire ...

He looked enviously at the 50 three-pound Franc aircraft that the Saxons had lifted from the carriage. They were equipped with bronze guns. Before he was amazed, the sixty artillery opposite Marin opened fire ...

"Boom-Boom-Boom-Boom-"

Sixty iron ball artillery shells flew straight at the artillery who installed the artillery in front of the array. In just an instant, dozens of artillery lives were taken away. Among them, there are more than a dozen people, the most experienced artillery.

This does not count, these shells did not meet the previous killings, and continued to fly forward. The tremendous impact continues the life of the reaper Bossa coalition soldiers. Mainly, the life of Swiss mercenaries.

Because, this time, the artillery of the Bossa Allied Forces was mainly placed in the middle of the Battle of the Bossa Allied Forces. Their purpose was to kill those East Frisian musketeers with shells. Because, Marin's musketeers are all arranged in the front. The army in the middle of the Bossa coalition is mainly 20,000 Swiss mercenaries.

Therefore, while Marin's artillery fired the Saxon artillery, the Swiss mercenaries were also attacked by Yang ...

The power of iron ball shells is huge. Even a six-pound shell can penetrate half a company at a distance of 200 yards. For this reason, the Swiss mercenaries paid a huge price for this shelling.

The 65 volleys of artillery not only took away dozens of Saxon artillery, but also brought great casualties to the Swiss mercenaries standing behind the Saxon artillery.

Because it is convenient for the artillery to shoot, the effective range of the three-pound gun is only more than two hundred meters. Therefore, the distance between the Bossa Allied Forces and the Marin Army was only 200 yards. It is outside the firing range of the musket, but within the firing range of the artillery.

But I did not expect that the Saxon artillery had not yet been laid, and the opposite side fired. Moreover, the accuracy of the gunfire is very high ...

The first round of shooting alone took more than 50 artillery and more than 400 Swiss mercenaries ...

This is the first round of artillery bombardment, the artillery is actually still firing ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ If some of the artillery firing is not adjusted properly, the lethality may be even more amazing.

Moreover, some of the shells were raised because of the barrel, and the shells flew directly over the head of the Bossa coalition soldiers, and fell a thousand kilometers away.

As it happens, a cannonball, carrying not far from Frederick III and Joachim I, smashed the head of a bodyguard ...

Blood spewed from the neck of the Brandenburg guard, splashing the soldier's face on the side. Some blood was directly splashed on the command vehicle ...

Joakim I was terrified, so he suggested:

"Otherwise, let's back up a bit?"

If the cold weapons were fighting on the battlefield, Joakim I wouldn't have been so alarmed. However, the deterrent effect of the artillery is too amazing.

In front of Jokim I, he saw an iron ball and smashed the head of one of his bodyguards. After the head was smashed, the faithful bodyguard left only a large blood hole in the neck of the bowl.

A little bit in front, when the iron ball shells "cannon hit a line", on the straight line where the shells travel, no one can escape. Some of them were directly smashed into the head, while others were pierced by iron ball shells, revealing a large blood hole. Some of them are smashed to the lower leg or thigh ... In short, no one's body is complete where the iron ball shells fly ...

This is the power of artillery, and its lethality may not be as much as that of a gun. However, the shock it brought was extremely amazing. Many courageous soldiers will be frightened after seeing the horror scenes of the comrades around them all missing their arms and legs, and even their heads being scrapped.

Therefore, the presence of artillery is used to create terror. Faced with the destruction of artillery shells, human flesh and blood have no resistance. The morale of the bombarded battlefield was easily hit.