As early as April, the Arda Navy began its land and water reconnaissance of the upper reaches of the Weiss River, but the reconnaissance was carried out by galleys disguised as ordinary businessmen on the water. They must ascertain the water level, siltation and other information, otherwise, what should they do if a warship with a larger tonnage, carrying nearly 20 artillery pieces and hundreds of sailors comes in, accidentally runs aground.

They also had a clear idea of ​​the ports along the river. Based on the ready-made information, the staff finally chose a place called Fishtail Town after careful consideration.

The lord of Fishtail Town is named Solo Carter, a Viscount, formerly a vassal of the Ferdinand family, but now he is loyal to Maltz Kent—now he is called Maltz Ferdinand on the surface.

The viscount had already realized that he might become the target of Arda's navy. After all, Arda's extermination of pirates had just passed, and he obviously had considerable water power, so it was logical to attack along the Weiss River upstream.

Therefore, after the war between the two major factions in the Northwest Gulf, he strengthened the defense of Yuwei Town, repaired the city wall, organized the militia, and got four ballistas from nowhere.

However, the staff still chose this place, because the wharf facilities here are the most complete, enough to unload all kinds of supplies, and the logistics requirements of the Arda army exceed those of other armies at the same time.

After entering June, the increase in precipitation has made the Weiss River more abundant, and the monsoon from the sea is also enough to provide sufficient power for sailing warships. After more than a week of intensive preparations, the second fleet and the third fleet have a total of 16 ships. This ship set off with two infantry battalions. In addition to 4 sailing warships, the navy also had 12 galleys, some of which were the navy's own ships, and some were recruited from the private sector. Wave forces a total of more than 1600 people.

Just when Operation Overlord was about to start, Arda's aid also followed Derrick to Bidowburg.

"How could he...how could he be like this? Gleiman is really outrageous."

Earl Malcolm looked angry, but what made him angry was not that Graeman didn't directly send troops over.

"How can he ship the goods here without everyone's consent? How much money will it cost?"

What really made him angry was that Paul gave them the weapons and armor that [Northwestern Industries] was waiting for export without authorization.

After hearing Earl Malcolm's words, the people in the hall fell down one after another.

Earl Price Parker: "Ahem, the situation is urgent. It is understandable for Earl Greyman to do so. With this batch of ordnance, it will be easier for us to hold Pittburg."

He turned to Derrick: "So, we only need to persist for two weeks?"

Derrick confirmed: "Earl Greiman said so, unless...unless the Arda army's operation in the upper reaches of the Weiss River failed."

Someone began to pray silently.

Earl Parker encouraged everyone: "Cheer up, everyone, after all we have 4 artillery pieces!"

Mentioning the artillery, everyone's eyes lit up, and Greiman actually gave them such a sharp weapon. Thinking of the impressive performance of the artillery in the last Battle of Pidtburg, it was heart-warming.

At this time, a total of 4 cannons were brought, and Heller, Parker, Malcon, and Johnston sent the most troops, so each family got one cannon, and the other small lords were only greedy.

"boom!"

On the top of the wall of Bidowburg, the Arda artillery instructor who followed was teaching the soldiers of the coalition army how to operate the artillery.

The artillery that was aided to the coalition forces, even for the Arda army, is a new type of artillery—sub-mother cannon. In another time and space, there is another name "Francis Machine", which was introduced by Portugal in the Ming Dynasty. Manufactured in large quantities.

This is an iron rear-loading smoothbore cannon. The whole cannon consists of three parts: the barrel, the belly, and the sub-cannon. The gunpowder and projectiles are all installed in the sub-cannon. When shooting, the sub-cannon is directly put into the belly of the cannon. Encapsulated, so compared to the previous front-loading artillery, the rate of fire is greatly improved.

Therefore, Paul gave it another name - "rapid fire gun".

However, limited by the technical level, the cannon-casting craftsmen of Arda are still unable to solve the problem of the large gap tolerance between the sub-cannon and the cannon belly, resulting in more leakage of gunpowder gas, so the range of the rapid-fire cannon is relatively short, and it can only shoot 300 Many meters, and because the mechanism is relatively complicated, it can only be made relatively small.

The four rapid-fire guns come with a total of 20 sub-cannons, which is enough to maintain "uninterrupted firepower" for quite a while.

The soldiers of the coalition army gathered on the city wall to watch the lucky ones selected to operate the legendary "Thunder Hammer". With the loud roar again and again, there were constant exclamations and admiration sounds on the city wall, and the power of the artillery when it fired was really scary.

It is impossible to teach these rookies how to infer the distance and calculate the pitch angle of the artillery in a short time~lightnovelpub.net~ Even the Arda army relies more on the experience and intuition of the gunners themselves.

So Instructor Arda first asked the artillerymen to shoot from different angles, and then measured the distance between the impact point and the castle, and drew a striking circle mark with white lime at the impact point, as a reference for quick aiming after the battle began.

In the early morning of June 3, the Kent army appeared on the field outside Pittburg. The sound of snails was loud in the castle, and the defenders rushed to the wall one after another, nervously preparing for battle.

"It feels like they have more than 8,000 people coming this time."

"My God, it looks like that guy Maltz is going to eat us."

The lords whispered and frowned. Now there are more than 2,000 defenders in the fort, far less than the enemy.

"Oh! What are those big guys?"

…

Jia Aisi looked at the fortress in front of him complacently, and there was a kind of excitement in his heart that his revenge would be avenged. The last battle in Pittburg had left him with an unforgettable humiliation, so that the previous series of victories could not let him go.

"Today I can finally wash away the humiliation, right where it started...!"

He clenched his fists tightly.

A person next to him wrapped his body in a cloak whispered, "Master Viscount, since it is a siege battle, my people are only providing support."

Jayce nodded with a smile: "Okay, Captain Doug! But when we advance to the wall later, we need your longbows to suppress each other."

The man in the cloak nodded.

Jayce waved his hand: "Quickly prepare our [Thunder Hammer]!"

Pushed by the soldiers, six behemoths slowly advanced towards Fort Bidok.

Those were six huge trebuchets.