The sparks of shrapnel exploded on the battlefield, just like the fireworks blooming over Fanjiazhuang City during the New Year, dazzling.
The European soldiers broke out of the trenches, formed skirmish formations, and rushed towards the city of Lisbon. The soldiers held up their rifles and rushed forward in dense numbers, scattered like ants on the battlefield. Then the grenades fired from the Tiger Army artillery positions
Shotgun shells bloomed one after another like flowers above their heads.
A storm of shell fragments rained down on the soldiers.
European soldiers suddenly discovered that outside the trench, the power of shrapnel was even more terrifying. Inside the trench, the European soldiers were arranged in a linear pattern, and the shrapnel exploding in all directions could only kill European soldiers in a line inside the trench.
However, by the time the soldiers rushed outside the trench, all the explosive power of the shrapnel had been maximized.
Every time a shrapnel exploded, all the European soldiers within a radius of more than ten meters fell. Those sharp shrapnel pierced the bodies of the white soldiers like knives. It only took a few seconds to kill these famously tough soldiers.
of European fighters incapacitated.
The shrapnel on the battlefield was like a whack-a-mole hammer in the game field of later generations. Wherever it hit, the soldiers who were standing on the battlefield seemed to be beaten and all fell down.
The humans standing with guns in their hands all screamed and groaned, and fell to the ground rolling and twitching.
Louis XIV's eyes were bloodshot and he stared at the carnage on the battlefield.
He had anticipated the power of shrapnel shells before, and he knew that once the soldiers rushed out of the trench, they would be harvested by the shells exploding in the air. His current idea was to hope that more than 400,000 European coalition troops could rush up against these terrifying shells.
, rushed to the range of the Mini rifle and exchanged fire with the Tiger Army.
Louis XIV hoped that the European coalition forces could rely on their numbers to overwhelm the Tiger Army in the trenches.
After a round of shelling, thousands of European soldiers fell on the battlefield, and then the battlefield became temporarily quiet.
The soldiers continued to charge forward with their rifles, and even some barons and counts joined the charging team. These brave little European nobles understood the vital importance of this battle. They rode their big horses and rushed up from behind.
Holding high the flag with the family crest printed on it, he gradually rushed to the forefront of the entire wave.
Europeans have no shortage of courage and heroes to charge into battle.
Louis XIV counted each word word by word.
one two three.
According to the rate of fire of the Tiger cannon just now, it would take about forty seconds for these terrifying cannons to fire again. The trenches of the European coalition forces are about six or seven miles away from the Tiger and Ben army positions. At the forward speed of the European soldiers, the soldiers can advance in forty seconds.
Nearly two hundred meters. In other words, as long as it withstands a dozen bombings and loses tens of thousands of people, the Europeans can rush to the front of the Huben Army's position and start shooting.
Seven, eight, nine.
The European little nobles on the battlefield waved their flags and loudly encouraged morale in the team. Louis XIV became more and more nervous, because the charge at this time was his last resort. If this tactic was defeated, then the European coalition forces
The end result is complete collapse.
Louis XIV's eyes were blood red, and his eyeballs seemed to pop out.
But his count stopped abruptly at fifteen.
The Huben Army's artillery was silent for only fifteen seconds before firing again.
Louis XIV opened his mouth wide and looked at the Tiger and Ben Army positions opposite with the most panicked expression.
The Tiger artillery is a breech-loading gun, and the sealing method used is the same as that of the Krupp artillery. Of course, the Tiger artillery cannot yet reach the true sealing level of the Krupp artillery. The breech-loading gun used by Li Zhi
The method can be said to be a simplified version of the Krupp artillery.
But even so, this is a breech-loaded artillery, and its shooting speed is qualitatively different from that of a front-loaded artillery. If the front-loaded rear cannon can fire one or two rounds per minute, a breech-loaded cannon using smokeless gunpowder can fire in fifteen seconds.
Fire a cannonball.
The defensive positions under the city of Lisbon spurted out tongues of fire, shooting shrapnel onto the heads of the charging European coalition forces.
Everyone looked in panic at the black cannonballs that pierced the sky, and watched the cannonballs draw death curves and hit the endless heads of white soldiers.
The sea of fire exploded in the sky again.
In the fifteen seconds between the two shellings, the white soldiers advanced only about seventy meters.
Fifteen seconds passed, and a torrential rain of shrapnel fell on these unprotected soldiers again.
A group of Swiss riflemen wearing lion-heart coats were knocked down by shrapnel in an instant. A team of nine people was spread out in an area of five or six meters long and wide, and all of them were pierced by shrapnel in an instant. This team
Two shrapnel were inserted into the captain's head, and he rolled to the ground while holding his head. However, the gap in the skull became larger and larger due to the violent rolling, and the captain became more and more miserable.
None of the other riflemen could escape. The shrapnel only covered half of the team's head with shrapnel, but it was enough to kill all the white people. Some people's faces were pierced by shrapnel, and their faces suddenly
The flesh and blood were blurred. Some people were pierced by shrapnel in the chest or back, and their organs and muscles were cut to pieces by these cutting objects. Some people's leg bones were directly broken by steel shrapnel, and the bones suddenly deformed in a way that no one dared to see.
No longer able to support the soldier's body.
Not only this squad, but similar massacres were being staged everywhere on the battlefield.
Shrapnel is a technology of the late 19th century. This technology actually did not fully mature until around 1892. It can be said that the technical content is even higher than that of the internal combustion engine. However, Li Zhi brought this technology to 1656 in advance, causing
The devastating damage can be imagined.
Cromwell's body shook violently.
He saw a Prussian viscount suddenly hit by shrapnel. The Prussian viscount was wearing a light chainmail and a light horse armor with the family crest on it. He had been rushing to the front of the German queue. Behind him
The retinue was waving a flag with an eagle pattern to boost morale, but was suddenly covered in a hail of bullets.
The shrapnel almost exploded over the head of the viscount, and countless shrapnel pierced his body. The chain armor could not block these shrapnel at all, and a dozen blood arrows were shot out of the viscount's body in an instant, and he fell down without saying a word.
horse.
The retinue behind the Viscount was killed at the same time, screaming and bringing down the battle flag.
Cromwell understood that these shrapnel shells were terrifying.
But the most terrifying thing is that it only takes fifteen seconds for these shrapnel shells to sweep across the battlefield. Facing such a shooting speed, European soldiers simply cannot catch up.
