The European soldiers in the trench let out horrific screams.
Although more than a thousand cannons don't seem like much, and not all cannons can hit the target in the first salvo, the scary thing is that each of the cannonballs weighs more than 20 kilograms, and contains hundreds of fragments.
Steel pieces and steel slag. Each shell explodes and covers a circular area of more than ten meters in diameter.
In other words, once a shell explodes over a trench, the trenches around ten meters away will be completely covered by various shrapnel. All soldiers in the trenches of more than ten meters will be exposed to sharp shrapnel.
Europeans have never seen such bombings. They are soldiers who have just entered the era of hot weapons. A hundred years ago, they found that the armor of the cold weapon era could not withstand bullets, so they took off their plate armor and chain armor. However, they had not yet invented the steel helmet.
And body armor, as vulnerable as a baby to shrapnel.
The colorful military uniforms they wore were no hindrance to the extremely fast shrapnel. The sharp steel pieces pierced the bodies of the white Europeans like killing pigs and cutting meat, directly piercing the organs under the skin.
Where the shells exploded, human blood spurted out like fountains. The soldiers in the trench were like a group of worms that had been hit hard, twitching and rolling on the ground desperately. Without helmet protection, dense shrapnel knots
It exploded firmly on everyone, and almost no one in the explosion area could escape.
Screams rang out from hundreds of shell explosion points at the same time, and when they merged together, it was like the sound of boiling water, making the entire battlefield extremely noisy.
The soldiers who were not hit looked at the people who were hit in panic, with their mouths wide open and their whole bodies trembling.
However, they found that there was no way to escape at this time. Even the safest trenches would be carpet-bombed by shrapnel shells. Where else could they escape?
Next, we can only stay in the trench and wait for the bombardment, waiting for the judgment of death.
Seeing the power of the shrapnel, William II suddenly became unsteady on his feet. He rested on the shoulders of a guard beside him and looked at the battlefield ahead with wide eyes.
The angle of the first round of artillery firing is not corrected, so generally speaking, the hit rate is very low. About 300 of the more than 1,000 shrapnel rounds hit the target, but more than 300 rounds of artillery shells killed and injured them in an instant.
More than a thousand people made all these people withdraw from the battle.
Next, Li Zhi's artillery will calibrate the angle, which will increase the hit rate. I am afraid that 70 to 80% of the next artillery will hit the trench. How many European soldiers will be taken away by a single salvo by then?
It was really the first time for William II to see such firepower and such cannons.
William II only felt that the self-confidence brought by the coalition's numerical advantage collapsed in an instant, and his position was somewhat unsteady.
Cromwell's face turned white.
Britain had lost to Li Zhi several times. Cromwell knew how powerful Li Zhi was, but he didn't know that Li Zhi was so powerful. The European coalition had more than 6,000 artillery pieces, and these artillery fire could not kill 600 Portuguese in one salvo.
People. And Li Zhi used revolutionary artillery shells. The power of a thousand cannons was several times that of the six thousand cannons here.
How to fight such a battle? If Li Zhi continues his bombardment for a few days, won't the European coalition forces outside Lisbon be crushed or even completely wiped out?
However, Cromwell could not think of any corresponding solution. Outside the city of Lisbon was the Portuguese trench. Li Zhi's Tiger Army was guarding there with breech-loading guns, and the European coalition forces could not rush forward at all.
Cromwell felt his heart beating loudly. He frowned and looked at the confident Louis XIV, hoping to gain some confidence from this young king.
But when he saw Louis XIV, he was even more panicked than he was.
Louis XIV was a proud young king. He came to the throne at the age of five. He grew up among the treacherous palace intrigues, ambitious dukes and counts, and the eyeing enemy countries. He was able to successfully survive to this day and successfully control the power.
It can be said to be a miracle created by an extraordinary young man. Louis XIV has always believed that he is one of the few outstanding figures in the world. At least at the level of a king, Louis XIV has absolute confidence and believes that he has insight into the trends in Europe and the world.
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When Louis XIV ambitiously organized the European Union to fight against Li Zhi, Louis XIV believed that he had done the right thing. In his view, the combined force of the entire Europe was unimaginable. Li Zhi was tens of thousands of miles away.
China, it is impossible for the Chinese to compete with the white alliance in Europe.
No matter how powerful Li Zhi was in the past, in the eyes of Louis XIV, they were just legends spread by cowards. Louis XIV did not believe that anyone could change the war or the world on his own. Louis XIV firmly believed that he could rely on his own authority to create a
Powerful France leads Europe back to the center of the world.
However, Louis XIV suddenly understood at this time that he had thought wrong.
This was the first time he faced off against Li Zhi. When he saw Li Zhi's shrapnel firepower, he felt bad all over.
The Tiger artillery roared in the trench, and Louis XIV knew that these artillery would soon defeat the European coalition.
Louis XIV was in a trance, and his worldview seemed to collapse in an instant.
Suddenly he understood that what he met was not an ordinary person. Li Zhi could easily change the war and change the world. But in front of Li Zhi, the white people in Europe were just a group of dirt-drained country bumpkins who could be completely defeated at any time with advanced weapons.
The pride of the young king suddenly turned into a huge irony, and the Europeans' respect and fear for Louis XIV suddenly turned into bayonets stabbing the young man, making him feel like a joke.
Queen Christina of Sweden covered her mouth and looked at the explosion of shrapnel in front of her, and then looked at Louis XIV, as if she didn't believe that Louis XIV's decision could be so wrong.
Louis XIV noticed Christina's mood, and his face gradually became ferocious.
But the shelling from the front continued.
The Tiger artillery took only forty seconds to cool down and reload, and opened fire on the European positions again.
This time there was a qualitative leap in the accuracy of the artillery. At least 70% of the artillery hit the target. The shells bloomed like fireworks on the outskirts of Lisbon. The trenches of the European Allied Forces once again experienced a catastrophe, with blood and flesh flying everywhere.
What is even more frightening is that the Tiger artillery began to attack the European artillery positions this time.
More than two hundred shrapnel shells exploded on the heads of the European artillery - the artillery trenches had to be dug wider and larger to accommodate the artillery. Even if these artillery positions built earthen walls in front to defend against the artillery shells, they would not protect the direction above their heads.
Shrapnel exploded on the artillery position, and the effect was completely devastating.
