The War Court and Lap Pillow, Austria's Mandate of Heaven Chapter 93

Ambrosius rode on a donkey with a binoculars, watching the chaos inside and outside the city of White Horse, looking a little funny.

Ambrosius wanted to find a horse, but due to the mountainous terrain and climate in this area, the locals preferred donkeys to horses.

Donkeys have better stamina and are easier to feed, but they are less interesting as mounts.

The battle situation in front of him is very chaotic. After all, Ambrosius graduated from a military academy, and he hopes to fight a more "regular" war.

However, the current situation is beyond his control.

"Artillery ready!" cried Ambrosius.

The ten cannons of the Skitarii at this time were all moved from armed merchant ships, and even the gun mounts were made temporarily.

Although it is a bit crude, it is still not known how many times more advanced than the artillery of the Vietnamese.

Fan Zhu also found this strange army outside the city, but he couldn't help laughing contemptuously when he saw the leader of the other party sitting on a donkey.

"The knife players are ready, give them a blow."

At this time, nearly 10,000 Vietnamese troops gathered at the Nancheng Gate. In Fan Zhu's mind, these 10,000 people were soldiers who had seen blood and were definitely not comparable to those at the North Gate.

Two thousand elites can completely take down the entire White Horse City. The newly appeared enemy army looks like 20,000 to 3,000. It should be more than enough to keep 8,000 people.

Here, in order to prevent these temporary forces from collapsing suddenly, Ambrosius made them march in a dense formation as much as possible.

In fact, the mainstream of this period was the skirmish line + formation, but Ambrosius only let the Austrian soldiers in his hands form a shallow skirmish line, and the rest were several large infantry phalanxes.

Ambrosius didn't have many professional artillerymen, and they used long-barreled heavy artillery removed from armed merchant ships, so the deployment was very slow.

Ambrosius was also taken aback by the speed and speed of the opponent's response. If the opponent had a cavalry team, he would probably suffer heavy losses now.

Because Ambrosius has been in contact with the generals of Chenla all the year round, he found that they know little about the role of artillery, and they are slow to fight. After an order is issued, it may take a few days for the army to execute it, so Ambrosius That's why he dared to prepare artillery in front of the enemy's formation so swaggeringly.

It's just that the Vietnamese seem to be sending... shirtless knife players holding iron knives and wooden cards?

"Are they here to die? It seems that there are only 2,000 people at most, but we have 4,500 people." Ambrosius couldn't help but sighed.

"Maybe they are here to die." Captain Birafon pointed to the Vietnamese army at the city gate. They seemed to be cleaning up something and trying to close the city gate.

"As long as their city can withstand the shooting of artillery? What's the point of closing it or not?"

The power of artillery during this period has long exceeded the range that traditional city walls can bear, which is why bastions are the mainstream of European fortresses.

Even the walls of Constantinople can't stop the shooting of modern artillery, let alone the simple city walls of Baima City, which are a mixture of mud, trees, and stones.

Fan Zhu really wanted to let these cannon fodder die. He wanted to see how the opponent's firepower was, and at the same time buy time for closing the city gate. After all, siege warfare has been more beneficial to the side defending the city since ancient times.

And this White Horse City is a representative of the high city and the deep pool. If it weren't for the fact that the Chenla people who guarded the city couldn't open it, and I had come up with clever schemes, I really don't know how long it would take...

However, while Fan Zhu was still lamenting how unpredictable his use of soldiers was, the cathars fired. The shells were not aimed at the swordsmen rushing ahead, but at the walls of White Horse City.

The solid shell fired by the sixteen-pound gun hit the city wall, and the huge impact directly opened a big hole in the three-meter-high and one-meter-thick city wall.

This is not because of the advanced artillery of the Austrians, but more because of the unreasonable construction and structure of the city wall of Baima City, and the fact that it has been exposed to wind and sun for a hundred years has already become a high-risk building.

At this time, the city wall of Baima City was bombarded by heavy artillery, and it was like a candle in the wind after only one round.

"How is it possible?" Fan Zhu murmured, and his subordinates also found it incredible, but they instinctively wanted to persuade Fan Zhu to run away.

At the same time, the sword players on the front line also joined the battle.

To be honest, skirmishers are obviously not as useful as line infantry for this kind of intensive charge of cold weapons. After two rounds of shooting, the Austrian skirmishers simply joined the formation directly.

At first, the sword players could bear the sporadic shooting of the skirmishers, but their morale was broken in the first round of confrontation with the line infantry.

Due to the quality of the soldiers, even the pediatric tactics of the three-stage strike can only be done by the main force of the Skitarii. As for the recruits recruited temporarily, Ambrosius' request is that only the first row is responsible for shooting, and the rear The first few columns are responsible for loading and passing the guns.

Even so, after a round of shooting, the knife players of the Vietnam Army collapsed and fled frantically. Some rushed to Baima City, while others fled to the mountains.

If Ambrosius had a cavalry under him, he would have ordered the pursuit, but he didn't. With the impact of the donkey, he could only laugh the opponent to death.

Those remnant soldiers who fled into Baima City are not terrible, what is terrible are those who fled into the mountains and forests, they will become unstable factors in this land in the future.

Fan Zhu ordered the army to guard the south gate, while he led a large army to the north gate.

Although the city wall has collapsed in many places, those tall buildings still gave the Vietnamese army a little psychological comfort.

It's just that the artillery of the Austrians started firing again soon~www.mtlnovel.com~Although Ambrosius had already seen that the opponent's army was in a bad state, he didn't want to sacrifice every single soldier under his command, so he decided to Continue to bombard, forcing the opponent to fight with him out of the city.

Another point is that at this time the Skitarii has a range advantage, and once entering the city for street fighting, the Skitarii's advantage will be greatly weakened, and it may even become a passive party in the street fighting due to the problem of the gun itself .

The heavy artillery bombarded round after round, and the formation of the Skitarii was also approaching the city wall. However, the Vietnamese did not dare to fight back. First, they did not have artillery. Compared with the rifle in the hands of the teaching army.

What's more, there are more than a hundred skirmishers on the side of the cathars, and the rifled guns in their hands are not vegetarians.

The front at the south gate was still advancing in an orderly manner, while the north gate was already in chaos. At first, the Vietnamese who suddenly came from behind Guan Jinpan and others made them fall into despair.

However, what happened next puzzled Guan Jinpan and the guarding soldiers of Baima City. After the large group of Vietnamese troops killed from the south opened the city gate, they did not join forces with the Vietnamese army at the gate to wipe out the people in the city. Instead, the defenders fought with the Vietnamese army outside the city, and the scene was very tragic.

In the end, the Vietnamese army in the city broke through the defense of the Vietnamese army outside the city and rushed towards the mountains.

At the same time when Guan Jinpan and others reorganized their defense, another Vietnamese army rushed towards the north gate. They seemed to be avoiding some terrible beasts. In this way, Baima City was killed by two Vietnamese.

However, those Vietnamese soldiers seemed to have no intention of capturing the city at all, and they all fled for their lives in the mountains and forests in the north, which made the Chenla defenders who were already kneeling on the ground ready to surrender feel very embarrassed.

Chapter end