Iron Power And Sorcerer

Iron Power And Sorcerer Chapter 309

2021-05-07

Chapter 309 Tugsaw
"[Hedde] What's going on here?" with a lion Armored Soldier, the red plume of the nose, was stationed on the edge of the Gervoudan valley, and asked the blue plume in front of him dissatisfiedly: "Didn't the [Herde] fire roaster say that he has captured the city? big brother?"

and The red feathers look similar, and the blue feathers also have a lion's nose. Armored Soldier brows tightly knit: "[Herde] How do I know? You pick a few good players and ask them across the river."

Two The position of people is condescending, and the white gunpowder gushing out from the city wall on the south bank can be seen at a glance.

Just between them and the battlefield, in addition to the earth, there is a wide river.

Little Lion's Nose replied in a low voice, and then asked a little confused: "[Hedde] what should you and me do now?"

"[Hedde] The fire roaster seems to be there. It's up to him to fight hard." The big lion nose narrowed his eyes slightly and said solemnly: "[Herde] But if he loses, neither you nor I will be good. You take your children and scare the two-legged people on the north shore. He was startled."

Little Lion Nose whistled, turned the horse, and let out a whistle to the sky.

The more than 100 cronies who accompanied him dismounted one after another, and reluctantly took off their saddlebags.

The saddlebags of every horse, whether riding or riding, are bulging - their "spoils of war" and just the carry-on part.

North along the road, out of sight, more Heards are escorting slaves and captives toward Gervodin.

Here comes the Left Army of the Turtletown Department.

……

In the old city of Gervodin, Anna found the old Mayor Priskin in the chaotic city hall.

"I see a beacon." Anna tried her best to remain calm and composed: "Mr. Mayor."

"Yes, a beacon, Mrs. Montagne." Old Priskin His wrinkles became more subtle, and he stood up with the help of the table: "The outpost that stayed in Hammer Castle found that there were barbarians attacking, so he lit a beacon... Fortunately, the young men all withdrew, and the residents of Hammer Castle also early in the morning. Evacuate..."

"Hammer? North?"

"That's right." Old Priskin's eyes were full of weariness: "From Vigne Here comes the barbarians, alas."

The city hall was already like a military camp, and the panicked city councilors carried out bundles of weapons and distributed them to the equally panicked citizens.

However, most of the young and middle-aged men were brought to the south bank to defend the city. Except for half of the city guards who maintained law and order and the residents who had recently entered the castle, the men who stayed on the north bank were either too old or too young.

Even an old man like Priskin, who had to walk with a cane, had a short sword in front of him.

"grandfather!" A young man in a leather jacket rashly pushed open the door: "I brought all my friends here!"

Seeing inside the mayor's office There was also a young and beautiful lady, and little Priskin couldn't help being stunned.

"This is." Old Priskin lightly coughed: "Lady of the tribune of Montagne."

Little Priskin's knees trembled subconsciously, and he panicked. He saluted and left quickly, carefully closing the door as he left.

Anna didn't understand why the other party saw her like a mouse seeing a cat, but she was very thoughtful and quickly guessed it.

But those things are obviously not important right now, Anna looked towards Mayor Priskin Old: "Is there anything I can do?"

Old Priskin wanted to say "No", but he still replied: "I have sent someone to find Mason Tribunal for help, but I'm afraid it won't come for a while. All the city councilors, including me, have to go to the city wall, if you can help stabilize the civilians in the city That would be great."

"Don't worry." Anna gently nodded.

"Or..." Old Priskin thought: "Could you please find me another two hundred—three hundred strong women?"

......

The new town of Gervodin.

Every musket in the whole city was sent to Fort Arrowhead on the west wall, and the wooden cannons arranged on the south and east walls were also concentrated on the west wall.

After Fort Arrowhead, militiamen are racing against time to build the urn.

At Fort Arrowhead, Mason personally commanded two wooden cannons and used solid bullets to blast the chariots of the Teltowners.

The musketeers are deployed to the flanks of Fort Arrowhead, pulling the distance to flank the enemy. Lead bullets and arrows come and go, constantly harvesting fresh life.

"Ah!!!" A burly militiaman shouted as he started running and threw grenades at the chariot with all his might.

The moment the grenade was released, he seemed to be sucked out of all his strength and gasped violently.

However, the next scene made the air solidify: the grenade that flew out of the city wall flew back to the city wall the same way, and the unburnt gunpowder twist was still si si.

Lead too long! The barbarian picked up the grenade and threw it back!
Mason next to the gun truck was thrown down by the demon Anse. The other militiamen screamed in despair, rolling and crawling away.

The grenadier militia also wanted to flee, but the lower limbs were too stiff to move.

The old sergeant behind him yelled, fiercely pushed him away, grabbed the grenade and moved it towards the wall.

Before leaving my hand, the grenade exploded.

The old sergeant and the grenadier militia were killed on the spot, and three people were seriously injured by the flying fragments. The old sergeant's right arm was blown off, and shredded meat splattered everywhere.

The choking smoke dissipated, and someone was vomiting.

Mason got up and shouted an order: "What are you doing? Carry away!"

The stretcher team rushed over and carried away the dead and the seriously wounded. A member of a stretcher team was picking up minced meat on the ground, and he couldn't finish picking it up.

"Drums!" Mason lit the gun's propellant with his own hands: "Fire!"

The snare drums and guns sounded again, and the battle continued.

"Your Excellency!" After repeated psychological struggles, the middle-aged Dussack in charge of the cavalry team made up his mind to come to Mason: "Let me lead the cavalry team out for a round."

The Captain of the cavalry team volunteered, but his knees were shaking slightly.

Mason's face was blackened by the gunpowder gas, he looked at him with a scrutiny: "No one can answer you, you will die if you leave the city."

Dussac bit He gritted his teeth and replied, "I know."

"You're not afraid of death, so I can't let you die in vain." Mason wiped the soot from his face and was unusually calm: "You don't have to go out of town to fight back, It's useless to go out."

With the input of more troops, the Gervoudan defenders gradually suppressed the Terdun people in turn.

Mason rallied his militia, Captain, to redeploy the defenses.

Many of the militia Captains were in a trance, apparently unaccustomed to bloodshed and death.

"Listen, don't be afraid of the Teltown people digging trenches." Mason slammed the ground with his saber: "No matter how fast they dig, it's impossible for us! At worst, build another city wall! The barbarians are still a little tender for the soil work."

Many militia captains subconsciously swallowed their saliva.

Mason pointed to the east and south: "Telltown people won't kill one, the troops on the south and east walls keep your own positions, don't crane your necks to watch the west wall. !"

The militia captains defending the southern and eastern walls were desperately nodded.

"Your Excellency, the beacon of the old city?" Someone hesitated.

"You don't need to worry about the security of the old city, the tribune of Montagne and I have been prepared." Mason replied flatly, with a flash of fire in his eyes: "As long as we can stick to the city wall, the situation will be in our favor, Not Teltown!"

Mason drew his saber sharply, and the militia captains were taken aback and took a half step back unconsciously.

"Did you see it?" Mason shouted sternly: "In hand-to-hand combat, the barbarians can kill you all with one charge! Holding a musket, standing twenty meters away, and slamming the firing rod at the enemy, there are What's so difficult?"

At this moment, the demon Anse walked quickly to Mason's side: "Your Excellency, the hand cannon is ready."

"Go!" Mason suddenly Come to the spirit.

 …

Gervoudan, North City.

Little Lion-nosed led the group around the city wall, not only did not find a gap that could be used, but found that there were at least a thousand defenders on the city wall.

He planned to get closer to check the situation, but as soon as he entered the city wall, Xiaolei, the defender, opened fire immediately.

Little lion-nosed didn't want to take the risk, so he backed away.

North City's defenders are already extremely nervous. All men who can take up arms are on the city wall, and all the flags that can be found are planted on the city wall.

At this moment in Beicheng, only half of the defenders are men, and the other half are women with blackened faces and men's clothes.

Seeing that the barbarian rider left after just a little probing, there was a big gasp that avoided a catastrophe at the top of the city.

Little lion nose returned to the edge of the valley and told his brother what he saw.

The lion-nosed brother had only a hundred troops beside him, and attacking the city where thousands of garrisoned garrisoned troops would be tantamount to suicide.

"[Herde] You and I will wait for the rest of the tribe to come and meet." The big lion-nosed thought about it, and decided to be safe. Their brother plundered the plentiful harvest this time, and didn't want to lose his life at this time.

The big lion-nosed asked the younger brother again: "Can [Herde] send someone to the other side of the river?"

"[Herde] sent someone, but he hasn't come back yet." Lion Nose asked sullenly: "[Hede] big brother, if the fire roaster wants to share your loot, what should you and I do?"

Big Lion Nose sneered: "[Hede] roast the fire Who is to blame? A horse has four legs, and a man has two. If he treats him unfairly, you and I don't have to stay in Teltown."

"[Hede] Wow!" The little lion nose was dissatisfied with the way the fire roaster divided the two wings: "[Hede] Jinren's taking advantage of one's position to bully people is not a day or two! You I've long been..."

"[Hede] don't need to say this first!" The big lion nose stopped the younger brother and instructed: "[Hede] is camping here, and let the children go out to find Come back with some food and drink."

The big and small lion noses grabbed a lot of goods, but not much food and drink, and they all relied on scavenging along the way to replenish.

More than 100 Hurd cavalry found a sheltered place to put down their loot, and then split up to loot nearby populated places.

That night, the battallion, the mounted infantry that Winters had sent to the North Shore, raided the camp.

The heads of the big and small lions were cut off.

……

The new city of Gervoudan, outside the Fort Arrowhead on the west side of the city wall, the moat of the Terden people.

As the defenders mobilized more musketeers, the Teltowns were gradually losing ground in the counter-fire.

A musketeer only needs ammo and courage, an archer needs physical strength in addition to ammunition and courage.

And in the face of close-range fire from a heavy matchlock gun, wearing armor or not is only the difference between a quicker death and a slower death.

Hong Lingyu [Ta Hei]'s companions and guards died one after another, making him devastated.

However, the Hundred Cavalry Team, who was supervising the battle, was behind, and Ta Hei did not dare to retreat. He could only keep telling himself: The fire roaster's future reward will be as rich as promised.

Tahei's subjects and slaves are working hard to dig trenches. They all make a living by grazing and are not used to the work of digging soil.

It stands to reason that this kind of work would not have required them to do.

Because enslaving captives to work and driving women and children to fill trenches are the usual methods of the ministries,
But if a two-legged person outside the city can't be caught, so the ministries can only do it.

The thunder on the city wall roared one after another, and the chariots nailed with iron sheets and cowhide were as fragile as straw mats. After the solid iron ball penetrates the carriage, it can still smash the flesh.

Tahei ordered the team to pile up dirt in the cart, which gradually turned into a dirt cart, temporarily blocking the deadly thunder.

There is no one who dares to hold a bow and shoot at two-legged people, even if the Kotas offer a high reward.

Fortunately, the two-legged man did not dare to take the initiative to attack.

As the trenches were dug deeper and deeper, it seemed that the two-legged man also found that there was no point in continuing to shoot. The gunshots became more and more sparse, and the thunder no longer roared.

Ta Hei was hiding behind the gradually thickening and heightened earth wall, and this small space actually started to make him feel safe.

The eerie silence was followed by another dull thunder.

But what followed was not the tremor of a solid iron ball hitting the chariot—nothing happened.

"[Herde] missed?" Tahei thought to himself.

No, a dark iron ball with the sound of wind, like a huge hailstone smashed into the rear of the carriage from the in midair, and sank deep into the ground.

Tahei stared wide-eyed, because of his position, Dalei can't hit him anyway.

"[Herde] was thrown in?" Tahei was shocked: "[Herde] is there such a fighter in two-legged people?"

Then came the second one , This iron ball has one more hemp rope than the previous one.

Tahei's chest almost burst, he howled and leaped to the trench: "[Hedde] Black Thunder!"

Too late, the grenade exploded "hong" , took Tahei away.

 …

The new city of Gervodin.

A large open space was cleared behind the city wall on the west side, and twelve oddly shaped stubby iron pipes pointed obliquely to the sky.

They looked like mortars, but the caliber was too small and the walls were too thin.

Mason carefully took out a modified grenade, which contained an extra layer of protection compared to a normal grenade.

Immediately after lighting the swirl, Mason put the cannonball into the spool gun.

The demon Anse also immediately lit the fuse of the short-barreled cannon, and the two immediately retreated far away.

The short-barreled cannon roared, and the grenade was fired into the sky, missing its whereabouts.

"Just use it like this!" Mason looked around at the subordinates all around: "Do you understand?"

The gunners seemed to be nodded.

They have learned how to use the first, second and third generation wooden cannons from Mason Tribunal, but this grenade launcher is unprecedented, unheard-of.

The gunner, who was in charge of observing the impact point, ran over to report: "Missed!"

"Are you close?" Mason asked.

"It's getting close! It's still to the right!"

"Get him two small flags." Mason pointed to the gunner who was in charge of the observation: "Speak with the flag, so you don't have to run back and forth. "

The demon Anse nodded.

The Blacksmith's workshop in Gervodan was not capable of casting a whole gun barrel, let alone forging a whole gun barrel directly.

So they can only forge short iron pipes first, and then splice the long barrels, which is laborious and time-consuming.

What Mason lacked most was time. That being the case, the artillery captain decided to simply omit the welding process and directly transform the one-foot-long, one-inch-thick short iron pipe into a grenade-launching mortar.

The renovation work started as early as the first day of the siege, and it came in handy today.

"The Teltown people dug trenches, pushed carts, and built dirt walls to block direct fire." Mason said to his subordinates with a trace of cruel pleasure: "Okay! Please let them taste Taste the artillery!"

...

The grenade-firing grenade can easily hit a four-pound grenade twenty meters away, and has a curved trajectory that allows the shell to fly Cross the chariot and then fall into the trench.

They became the last straw that broke the people of Teltown.

Although the Teldun people who attacked the new city displayed tenacious far beyond the ordinary Hed tribe, they could not be bombarded and dug trenches at the same time.

Mason thought to himself that if he were to command the siege, he should be able to take some countermeasures. Mortars are not without their drawbacks, they are just as dangerous to the user as to the enemy.

However, what happened today has exhausted both the offensive and defensive sides.

The Terdun people left the dead and the wounded and their chariots behind, and let the war cavalry wield butcher knives, recklessly defeated.

The defenders were similarly powerless to pursue, not even a celebratory cheer.

As the sky darkened, the battlefield became quiet, except for the groaning of the dying, abandoned Teldon people in incomprehensible language.

A daring and greedy militia quietly climbed out of the city wall, trying to cut off the head of the barbarian, and accidentally encountered the Terdun people who were planning to loot the property of the dead. Both sides were startled and ran away shouting indiscriminately.

Mason sent men to burn down the Teltowns' chariots and backfill the enemy trenches as much as possible.

Second day, the siege battle started again.

Telltown used more troops, and while approaching by digging trenches, they split up and tried to bypass the city wall.

Telltowner intercepted by fleet from river sneak attack.

Mason mounts the second-generation wooden cannon on a small boat, moving towards the Swimming foes, pouring deadly boulders and iron.

Telltown man who forcibly swims to the shore finds the shallow riverbed littered with sharp wooden sticks - how could Richard Mason leave a hole? They were soon killed on the beach.

On the third day, the Teltown people finally got through the trenches and the city trenches.

Mason also uses last resort.

With an explosion that shook the earth, a huge gap was blasted on the banks of the Saint-Georges River northeast of the new city of Gervodin.

The turbulent river poured into the moat, and the Turdun slaves who dug the wall had no time to escape, either drowning or being shot.

The moat became a moat—or rather, it was a moat from the very beginning, but deliberately not watered.

On the fourth day, it was very quiet outside the city.

Mason sent someone out of the city to check and found that people were already going to camp outside the city.

"The barbarians are defeated?" Old Priskin such as the amnesty.

"No." There was no joy in Mason's eyes: "I'm afraid they have achieved their goal."

"I don't understand what you mean, Your Excellency."

"The real purpose of the Teltown people has always been to force Winters to attack. They want Winters most, and us second."

"What do you mean?" Priskin was half terrified and half joyful: "Your Excellency Montagne has launched an attack?"

"The Teltown people took the initiative to withdraw." Mason said calmly: "It means that the real battle has begun. ”

Meanwhile, at the dammed fortress on the banks of the Big Horn, Tamas and Samukin also found that the Terden people who besieged them disappeared without a trace.

"Let the water go now!" Tamas immediately made the decision.

"The water isn't full yet!" Samukin disagreed: "Let the water out now, no one can guarantee that the pontoon will be destroyed."

"Can't wait!" Tama S shouted: "The Teltown people have withdrawn, which means that the Hundred-Men Commander has been fighting! Now let's release the water!"

"Tear down the dam." The silent Captain Morrow suddenly spoke.

Samukin looked at the two and agreed with difficulty.

Mason and Tamas were right, the final battle had begun a day earlier.

[Tonight—or maybe tomorrow morning, there will be another chapter, so there will be no debts]
[The last time, no flag will be raised in the future (O_O;)]
[The flag is really an apology (T_T)]
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