Struggle in the Steam Age
Chapter 277: Steel and flame
The artillery position of this group of rebels was set up in the garden near the palace because this place was designed as a fortress to supplement the blind area of the palace’s castle.
Therefore, when this building was designed, it had thicker walls than normal buildings and some reinforced space that could be used as a fortress. According to the original design, some light artillery and firearms that cannot cause damage to the fortifications should be arranged to attack from behind the enemy besieging the palace.
As a supporter of the second prince, many of the nobles' fathers and grandfathers had participated in the design and construction of this city. Therefore, after they mobilized the only heavy artillery unit on hand, they immediately deployed that artillery unit here.
I have to say that their choice is quite reasonable. With this well-designed building, they have repeatedly repelled the armed forces from the court, the palace, and other strongholds in the city to attack the artillery positions.
The open space in the center of this building can be used for a large number of artillery to be fired at the same time. The reason why only less than ten heavy artillery can be mobilized is that most of the heavy artillery and ammunition in this non-wartime state are now provided by professional artillery units. Controlled in some of the fortresses in the outer cities of the city, they were not assigned to various troops.
Traditionally, the nobles would only join the cavalry or infantry troops if they joined the army, because they felt that the artillery troops were dirty and tired, and did not fit the status of nobles. However, with the advancement of technology, artillery requires a large number of knowledgeable people like aristocrats to serve as officers to complete those professional tasks.
The end result of this contradiction is that even among the artillery in the Imperial Guard, officers and non-commissioned officers are all from the families of those employees, wealthy businessmen or factory owners. Because only they have received enough education to use them correctly. Artillery that is becoming more and more complex to manipulate.
But in daily life, the artillery officers of the Imperial Guard have been rejected by infantry officers from the noble background. For example, the infantry officers have never allowed artillery officers to enter the Imperial Guard's officer club, and even those noble officers with lower ranks would refuse to salute civilian officers with higher ranks.
Therefore, after the rebellion of the Imperial Guard broke out, these artillery officers, who had benefited from the reforms of the emperor and were rejected by those noble colleagues, naturally chose to stick to their posts and refused to participate in the rebellion, making the two princes and one party not like instigating the prohibition. The infantry of the guards instigated an artillery to join the rebellion.
In the face of artillery guarding various strongholds and possessing artillery, most of the transcendents were transferred to the rebels in the direction of the imperial palace and there was nothing to do with them. They could only watch that the artillery originally assigned to them was useless.
The only good thing for the rebels is that the artillery did not shell out the strongholds in the city that were occupied by the rebels, considering the large number of innocent people in the city without receiving orders from the palace.
In desperation, those rebels finally had to rely on the few artillery officers who fell to the rebels, commanding some old heavy artillery found in the city’s war preparation reserve to bombard the palace, and in this way cast spells for themselves The person who lifted the magical defense of the palace contributed.
But in this way, there are only a few professional artillery officers among those who control the artillery. Most of them were ordinary Janitor infantrymen who were temporarily called to act as coolies. Under the operation of these non-professionals, the whole shelling scene was extremely chaotic. All kinds of things were placed in a mess.
Although the professional artillery officers were not satisfied with this situation, but at this time, in order to shell the palace as soon as possible, they did not care so much. After the two heavy artillery fired shells in turn, the guards who were temporarily pulled to manipulate the artillery Under the command of a few professional artillery officers, they rushed out of the nearby building to prepare for the artillery reset.
At this moment, the transcendent who was standing on the sentry post on the roof vaguely heard the sound of something flying when two heavy artillery shells exploded on the magic barrier of the palace, but he hadn't Time to confirm. Lawrence and their first round of shells have arrived.
Because of the extraordinary powers in this world, the extraordinary will also notice air defense problems when they are on guard. However, because ordinary transcendents only perceive those flying transcendents with supernatural powers for air defense, they never feel these ordinary cannonballs flying in their direction.
Not to mention that mortar shells are much slower than other shells, but they don’t have such a harsh squealing sound and the flare formed by rubbing air during flight. More importantly, the wall of the referee's headquarters blocked the fire from the muzzle the moment the gun was ejected.
A distance of a few hundred meters is just a few seconds for the artillery shells, and the detailed knowledge of the surrounding judges of the previous referee also allowed these shells to fall into the surrounding houses where the artillery is located. In the clearing.
The mortar shells using the new type of impact fuze exploded suddenly after hitting the ground. As the first batch of shells fired, Lawrence chose expensive but extremely effective alchemical explosive-filled shells in order to pursue the damage effect.
The wall of the mortar shell is much thinner than the ordinary shell, so the shell can contain more than ten kilograms of explosives far exceeding the charge of ordinary shells. At the same time, the power of these explosives is far better than ordinary similar products.
The violent explosion quickly broke through the shell of the shell, exploding the shell into thousands of fragments of various sizes. At the same time, large groups of flames and shock waves also rushed out of the broken shells, covering everything around them. In an instant, disaster enveloped the entire rebel artillery position.
The chaos caused by a group of laymen immediately showed serious consequences: in order to make it easier to get the shells, these amateurs did not store all the shells in the strong temporary ammunition warehouse in the distance in the correct way, but just so directly. Stacked next to each gun position.
To make matters worse, these old artillery are not one-piece metal shell shells. Instead, the warhead is separated from the propellant and a silk cartridge is used. At the same time, as a shell was fired just now ~lightnovelpub.net~, the silk drug packages were taken out of the metal barrels and piled up near the artillery, waiting to be loaded.
For an instant, the flames produced by the shells exploded ignited the silk pouches within the range of their own explosion. Then it detonated the cannonballs and cartridges piled around. The entire artillery position was shrouded in the flames and metal storms produced after the bombs exploded.
The deadly shrapnel produced by the explosion of a large number of shells roared towards the heads and bodies of the unguarded and unguarded personnel present. In an instant, the small pieces were the size of the tip of a little finger, and the large pieces were the size of a child's palm. It penetrated their bodies, shredded their muscles, broke their bones, and destroyed everything blocking the route.
As the saying goes, bullets and shells have priority to pass on the battlefield. The continuous explosions caused everyone present to try to escape, but at this time, the random running made those flying shrapnel shred more people.
This is how many rebels suddenly fell to the ground in a daze, and never got up again. At the same time, these shrapnel and flames flying around also flew in from the surrounding buildings towards the inner doors and windows, killing and wounding more rebels.
Just when these rebels were in a mess because of the chain explosion caused by the shells that fell from the same sky, the second round of four mortar shells fell from the sky again and ignited more cartridges and shells. The flames produced by those explosions burned the entire rebel artillery positions like a furnace.
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