The reason why this group of rebel artillery positions were set up in the garden near the royal palace was because when this place was designed, it was considered as a fortress to supplement the firepower blind spots of the palace and castle.
Therefore, when this building was designed, it had thicker walls than normal buildings, as well as some reinforced spaces that could be used as fortresses. According to the original design, there should be some arrangements here that would not cause damage to the fortifications.
Light artillery and firearms attacked from behind the enemy besieging the palace.
As supporters of the second prince, many of the nobles' ancestors had participated in the design and construction of this city. Therefore, after they mobilized the only heavy artillery unit on hand, they immediately deployed the artillery unit.
Got here.
It has to be said that their choice is quite reasonable. With this well-designed building, they have repeatedly repelled the armed forces coming from the Inquisition, the Royal Palace and other strongholds in the city to attack the artillery positions.
The open space in the center of this building can accommodate a large number of artillery fires at the same time. The reason why less than ten heavy artillery pieces are mobilized now is because most of the heavy artillery and ammunition are provided by professional artillery units in this non-wartime situation.
They are controlled in some fortresses on the outskirts of the city and are not assigned to various troops.
Traditionally, nobles would only join the cavalry or infantry if they joined the army, because they felt that the artillery force was dirty and tiring, and did not meet the status of aristocrats. However, with the advancement of technology, the artillery required a large number of people with knowledge like the nobles.
Act as an officer to complete those professional jobs.
The final result of this contradiction is that even in the artillery of the Guards, officers and non-commissioned officers all come from the families of clerks, wealthy businessmen or factory owners. Because only they have received enough education to use the artillery correctly.
Artillery is becoming more and more advanced and more and more complex to operate.
But in daily life, this group of artillery officers of the Praetorian Guards have always been ostracized by the infantry and cavalry officers of noble origin. For example, those infantry and cavalry officers never allow artillery officers to enter the officers' club of the Praetorian Guards.
, even those noble officers with lower military ranks will refuse to salute civilian officers with higher military ranks than themselves.
Therefore, after the rebellion of the Imperial Guard broke out, these artillery officers who had benefited from the emperor's reforms and were rejected by their noble colleagues naturally chose to stick to their posts and refused to participate in the rebellion, so that the second prince and his party could not encourage the imperial guards.
The infantry and cavalry of the Guardsmen thus encouraged an artillery unit to join the rebellion.
Facing the artillerymen who guarded various strongholds and had artillery, most of the rebels who had been transferred to the direction of the palace had nothing to do with them. They could only watch helplessly as the artillery originally assigned to them was not used at all.
The only good thing for the rebels was that the artillerymen took into account the presence of a large number of innocent people in the city without receiving orders from the palace, so they did not shell various strongholds occupied by the rebels in the city.
In desperation, the rebels could only rely on the few artillery officers who sided with the rebels to command some old-style heavy artillery found in the city's internal equipment reserves to continuously bombard the palace, and in this way cast spells for their own side.
and contribute to dismantling the palace's magic defense.
But as a result, except for a few professional artillery officers, most of the people operating the artillery were ordinary Guards infantry who were temporarily called in to act as coolies. Under the operation of these non-professionals, the entire artillery scene was extremely extreme.
Chaos. All kinds of things were placed in a mess on the ground.
Although the professional artillery officers were not satisfied with this situation, at this time they did not care so much in order to bombard the palace as quickly as possible. After the two heavy artillery fired shells in sequence, the Imperial Guards who were temporarily pulled in to control the artillery
Under the command of a few professional artillery officers, they rushed out from the nearby building and prepared to reset the artillery.
At this moment, the extraordinary person standing on sentry duty on the roof of the building vaguely seemed to hear the sound of something flying when the two heavy artillery shells exploded on the magic barrier of the palace, but before he could
Before they had time to confirm, Lawrence's first round of shells had already arrived.
Because there is extraordinary power in this world, extraordinary people will also pay attention to air defense problems when they are on sentry duty. However, because ordinary extraordinary people only conduct air defense by sensing the extraordinary power of flying extraordinary beings, so they simply do not
I didn't feel these ordinary shells flying towards my direction.
Not to mention that although the flight speed of mortar shells is much slower than other artillery shells, they do not have such harsh screams and flames caused by friction with the air during flight. More importantly, the walls of the tribunal headquarters block the
The moment the cannon was ejected from the barrel, the flames erupted from the muzzle.
The distance of a few hundred meters is only a few seconds for the artillery shells, and the previous inquisition judges' detailed knowledge of the surroundings also allowed these artillery shells to fall very accurately around the several houses where the artillery position is located.
in the open space.
The mortar shells using the new impact fuse exploded violently after impacting the ground. As the first batch of shells fired, Lawrence chose expensive but extremely effective shells filled with alchemical explosives in order to pursue the damage effect.
The walls of mortar shells are much thinner than ordinary artillery shells, so the shells can contain more than ten kilograms of explosives that far exceed the charge of ordinary artillery shells. At the same time, the power of these explosives is also far greater than that of ordinary similar products.
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The violent explosion quickly broke through the shell of the shell, blowing the shell into thousands of fragments of different sizes. At the same time, large balls of flames and shock waves also rushed out from the broken shell shell, covering everything around it.
.In an instant, disaster enveloped the entire rebel artillery position.
The chaos caused by a group of outsiders immediately showed serious consequences: in order to make it easier to retrieve the artillery shells, these amateurs did not store all the artillery shells in the correct way in a strong temporary ammunition depot in the distance, but just directly
Stacked next to each gun emplacement.
What's worse is that these old-fashioned artillery are not one-piece metal shells. Instead, the warheads and propellants are separated, and silk powder packets are used. At the same time, because a shell has just been fired, those silk powder packets have been separated from those metal shells.
The barrels were taken out and stacked near the artillery, waiting to be loaded.
In an instant, the flames generated by the explosion of the shells ignited the silk powder packets within the explosion range. Then they detonated the shells and packets piled around. The entire artillery position was enveloped in the flames and powder generated by the explosion of the shells.
In the metal storm.
The deadly shrapnel produced by the explosion of a large number of artillery shells roared towards the heads and bodies of the unprepared and unprepared personnel present. In an instant, the fragments were as small as the tip of a little finger and as large as a child's palm.
It penetrated their bodies, shredded muscles, broke bones, and destroyed everything in its path.
As the saying goes, bullets and artillery shells have priority on the battlefield. The continuous explosions made everyone present try to escape, but running randomly at this time only caused the flying shrapnel to tear more people apart.
In this way, many rebels suddenly fell to the ground in a daze and never got up again. At the same time, these flying shrapnel and flames also flew into the inner doors and windows from the surrounding buildings, hitting the inner doors and windows.
More rebels were killed and wounded.
Just when the rebels were in chaos due to the chain explosions caused by the artillery shells falling from the sky, the second round of four mortar shells fell from the sky again, igniting more ammunition packages and artillery shells. Those explosions produced
The flames burned the entire rebel artillery position like a furnace.