A shrapnel shell can cover an area of more than ten meters in diameter after exploding. As a breech-loaded rifled gun, the Tiger artillery is basically a direct shot at a distance of ten miles, with an error of no more than fifteen meters. In other words, the Tiger cannon
With each salvo fired by the Japanese artillery, about 60% of the artillery shells hit the artillery positions of the European coalition forces.
With this hit rate, the artillery positions of the European coalition forces immediately suffered the most brutal damage.
The shrapnel of shrapnel cannot destroy the heavy bronze cannon of the European Allied Forces. Although steel is harder than copper, the steel fragments and slag can only scratch a few scratches on the bronze cannon. The shrapnel kills a lot of artillery near the bronze cannon.
The artillerymen were even less protected than the infantrymen in the trenches. They only had cotton-padded clothes and had no ability to resist shrapnel.
The European artillery positions are all heavy artillery of more than 18 pounds. These heavy artillery are equipped with at least ten artillerymen, and as many as twenty people are required to operate them. More than 2,000 heavy artillery are probably equipped with nearly 30,000 artillerymen. These heavy artillery
The artillery was scattered in the four directions of Lisbon, concentrated in nine different artillery positions.
At this time, all nine artillery positions were baptized by shrapnel. Behind the roaring explosion of shrapnel, there was the scream of the artillerymen like killing pigs. Nearly 30,000 European artillerymen were reduced to human form under the bombardment of hundreds of shrapnel.
, blood flew.
Cromwell held up his binoculars and looked at the artillery positions. Artillery trench positions were often shielded by earthen walls in the front and open in the rear. Looking from Cromwell's perspective, he could clearly see everything happening there.
In the telescope, he saw under the huge explosion sparks that an artilleryman who was cleaning the barrel was suddenly pierced by shrapnel in the head. The human skull could not withstand the power of high-speed steel and was pierced in an instant. The artilleryman let out a tearing sound.
The heartbreaking scream stopped abruptly because his brain was damaged, and he fell to the ground with a plop.
He was not alone. Several artillerymen next to him were shot at the same time and fell to the trench ground like sandbags. This artillery position was probably bombarded by more than sixty shrapnel shells, killing more than a hundred artillerymen in an instant.
After this artillery position was bombed, there were explosions in another artillery position. Cromwell looked at the artillery position on the other side in panic and found that the artillery there had been severely damaged.
Large areas of artillerymen fell to the ground, twitching and rolling on the ground. The shrapnel stabbed the artillerymen's bodies like water columns of blood, spraying everywhere. Not only the blood was flying, but even some artillerymen's limbs were cut off by the shrapnel.
Cromwell saw an artillery captain's wrist cut off by the steel fragments in the shrapnel, and the entire wrist fell off, leaving only a layer of skin connected to the arm. The blood from the broken arm gushed out like spring water.
Splashed one or two meters away.
The artillery captain desperately covered the wound on his wrist and screamed like crazy. However, he was knocked down by another artilleryman before he screamed a few times. The artilleryman was stabbed in the stomach by two broken steel slags, which caused severe pain.
He went crazy and rushed wildly beside the gun barrel, knocking the artillery captain to the ground.
On the ground were three other twitching and writhing wounded soldiers.
In just one salvo, the Europeans lost thousands of artillery pieces.
Cromwell opened his mouth in panic, not knowing how to face such a terrible situation.
Beside Cromwell, William II was already trembling.
William II knew Li Zhi. Although he did not have the absolute confidence of other European kings, he originally felt that the European coalition was strong. Although the Netherlands had lost to Li Zhi countless times, William II always hoped that the whole of Europe would unite this time to defeat Li Zhi.
Playing at home can recover some lost ground.
The facts severely shattered William II's last thoughts. The Tiger shrapnel cannon had completely dominated the battlefield, and the European coalition forces could only be massacred.
William II looked at the horse parking area behind him in panic, and seemed to be preparing to escape.
Louis XIV's face was frighteningly dark.
The artillery of the European coalition forces is also fighting back, but the shooting accuracy of smoothbore cannons is far inferior to that of rifled cannons, and they are no match for long-distance bombardment. What's more, the fuses of European artillery shells are very backward, and it takes two or three seconds to explode after landing. The Huben Army
And Portuguese soldiers were often able to react to dodge bombs. Casualties caused by lagging exploding bombs were very limited.
If this continues, it may only take two days for Li Zhi's artillery to take out all the artillery here, and then start a one-sided massacre.
The proud young king always thought that he was the leader of the most powerful country in Europe, but suddenly found that he was as helpless as a baby in front of Li Zhi.
His eyes were so wide and getting redder and redder.
The French General Bart beside him was sweating nervously and whispered: "Your Highness? What should I do? Your Highness? This is not the way to go?"
However, the Sun King Louis XIV seemed not to hear a word, and only stared at the battlefield filled with artillery fire.
The European artillery, which suffered heavy losses, began to fight back, but with little effect. Then the Tiger Army began the third round of artillery bombardment.
More than a thousand shrapnel shells flew across the battlefield, exploding gorgeous sparks over the trenches.
The soldiers of the European Allied Forces found that they could no longer be called soldiers. They felt that they had become lambs to be slaughtered. They could only tremble under the power of the new artillery. The shrapnel exploded in the air directly killed the soldiers in the trenches.
, the trenches are no longer shields against bullets and artillery shells, but graves for soldiers.
European soldiers died one by one in their graves amid the rain of shrapnel.
The Queen of Sweden couldn't bear it at first.
This time the Swedes brought 70,000 Nordic soldiers, all of whom were the elite of the Swedish Legion. The Thirty Years War that just ended has proven that Swedish soldiers are strong and tough warriors and have better qualities than other European soldiers. However,
In the face of these new artillery shells, Sweden's high-quality soldiers fell one by one like pigs and sheep.
Christina angrily shouted at Louis XIV: "Your Highness Louis! Being beaten like this is waiting for death! You must come up with a way out! Now!"
Louis XIV looked at the young Christina in surprise, not expecting that this beautiful Nordic woman would roar at him.
He swallowed and looked around.
All the European nobles were helpless. They were all like headless flies. They all looked at Louis XIV in panic, hoping that Louis XIV, who had always been calm, could come up with a countermeasure.
Louis XIV's eyes were a little hollow.
If they retreat now, the European coalition's attack on Portugal will be considered a complete failure. The one million European coalition troops are likely to suffer from instability and collapse during the retreat, and such losses will be terrible.
The carnage on the battlefield continued, and the new artillery of the Tiger Army began its fourth salvo.
Louis XIV gritted his teeth and suddenly shouted: "Attack! The whole army comes out of the trench and attacks the opposite trench!"
