Myriad Realms Free Mercenaries

Chapter 394

On the fifth watch, before dawn, the Cangyun army camp was already in full swing, and most of the ammunition boxes were unloaded. Except for 100 people left behind to guard the 8 taels of silver, the rest of the Cangyun army went into battle.

The mortar was moved to the top of the mountain where they checked the situation yesterday. Ouyang Fei was in charge of it alone, and the others were all with the main force.

Eight mortars are lined up, and there are two boxes of shells next to each gun. One box holds [-] rounds, and there are more than a dozen boxes in the back. They are guarded by logistics personnel. go up.

At the same time, the Cangyun army and the gunners were also getting ready three miles away from Yanmen Pass.

They had made an agreement with Ouyang Fei that as long as they heard his long whistle, they would march towards Yanmen Pass according to the set plan, and when they reached the wall of Yanmen Pass, they would line up one mile away from the wall.

Yanmen Pass, as a great pass through the ages, has been easy to defend and difficult to attack since ancient times. There are walls on both sides of the north and south.

The largest defensive stronghold of Yanmen Pass is located outside the iron-wrapped gate on the top of Gouzhu Mountain. The iron-wrapped gate is named after the dark brown color of the stone gorge, and it is a pass dug by hand.

The pass is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom. The situation is dangerous and fortified. It is about seven feet wide from east to west and half a mile long from north to south.

There is a wooden gate tower on Tianxian Gate, called "Yan Tower", which is far away from the beacon tower in the north of Yanmen Pass.

Therefore, in order to break through the Yanmen Pass, one must attack from the Tianxian Gate or the Dili Gate, but the special funnel-shaped terrain outside these two gates makes it inevitable that once the army enters this half-mile-long road, it will be attacked by three sides.

In addition to the attack on the front tower, the left and right walls can also attack the troops in the lower pass.

To put it bluntly, the road in front of the Yanmen Pass is an alley, which is wide at the beginning and narrows as it gets closer to the city gate.

You can imagine that once a large number of people rush in from the wide alley, they will get more and more crowded as they go forward. In the end, they may be so crowded that they can't even move, and they can only stand inside and be beaten.

Under normal circumstances, to break through this pass, one must have at least dozens of times as many soldiers and horses as the guards. The supplies for defending the city, so it is possible to break through.

Otherwise, it would be impossible for someone to break through this majestic pass, which is more difficult to conquer than Hulao Pass, Tong Pass, and Hangu Pass.

Then if you want to attack Yanmen Pass, the first thing you need to do is to destroy all the defenders on the wall near Tianxian Gate and the defense weapons.

If it was the original Cangyun Army, let alone 5, [-] people would not be that possible, but now, it is very different, and the difference is there. People of this era listened to the sound, and the face of the cliff was dumbfounded Forced password.

"Attention all, the target, the stone cannon position of the Spike Army, the ruler is [-], the reference point is [-] to the northeast, one cannon and one shot, prepare..."

Following Ouyang Fei's command, the gunners turned the mortar steering wheel to adjust the direction of the mortar's muzzle and the elevation angle.

Finally, the gunner of the leftmost gun among the eight guns took a shell and placed it in the muzzle. Ouyang Fei raised his telescope and looked at the location of the stone cannon position.

Although he couldn't look directly at that position, he still knew the general direction. He only needed to look at the position where the fire and smoke rose, and he could roughly know where the shells fell.

"Good shot."

"put."

The gunner of the first gun on the left released his grip on the shell and turned his head away.

"tom"

"call out"

"boom"

Ouyang Fei clearly saw the place where the fire was rising, and immediately continued to speak: "All pay attention, correct the direction, turn to the left by [-], add [-] to the order, and shoot ten shots quickly, prepare..."

"Good shot."

"Second Cannon is good."

"Three guns are good."

"..."

"Hello eight guns."

"put."

"Tom tom tom..."

"Whoa, whoa, whoa..."

"Boom boom boom..."

"Tom tom tom..."

"Whoa, whoa, whoa..."

"Boom boom boom..."

The first shot is just to test the trajectory, and it doesn't have to hit the target. Of course, it is best to hit the first shot, so usually only one shot is fired in the first round.

After the gunner has a clear idea and corrected the position, he can go all out.

There are three types of mortars: rapid fire, salvo, and constant rapid fire.

Shoot quickly, that is, after adjusting the orientation, don't worry about anything, just shoot out one shell after another according to the number specified by the gunner. It is usually used to destroy the specified target.

Salvo naturally means that all the cannons are fired at the same time. After firing a cannon, take another shell, and let go after hearing the command from the gun commander. This can form a covering bombing, which is usually used to destroy the enemy's vital forces in an area.

Equal rapid fire means from the first shot to the eighth shot, with the same time interval, firing successively. For example, if the password is "one shot per second, let go", then after the first shot is fired, the second shot will be fired at a one-second interval, and the third shot will be fired at a one-second interval. , and so on.

The function of constant rapid fire is to form a continuous bombardment, making the opponent exhausted and not knowing which direction to avoid, causing confusion to the enemy.

At the end of the first round of bombing, ten shells were fired from each cannon, a total of [-] shells. Ouyang Fei believed that the stone cannon position of Langya was already a pile of broken wood.

"Attention all, target the enemy camp, correct the direction, one shot and two shots, turn left [-], up and down single repair plus three, three shots and four shots, turn left [-], up and down single repair, plus three... salvo preparation ,..."

Following Ouyang Fei's command, the gunners quickly adjusted the mortars.

"Good shot."

"Second Cannon is good."

"..."

"put."

"tom"

"Boom..."

"put."

"tom"

"Boom..."

This time Ouyang Fei fired fifteen rounds of volleys in one breath, 120 shells before he stopped.

Don't worry about uncorrected shells landing in the same spot, the odds of two shells landing in the same crater are lower than the odds of winning the lottery jackpot, so on the battlefield, those big craters are usually the best Natural bunker fortifications.

This is because during the firing process, the recoil force will cause the mortar itself to vibrate a little bit, but don't underestimate the slightest vibration, as the so-called slight difference can be thousands of miles away.

Of course, the mortar is not that exaggerated, but after each shot is fired, the landing point of the next shot will definitely change slightly, which prevents the shells from falling in the same position and wasting shells.

The stone artillery position and the barracks have been bombed, and now it's the turn of the city wall.

"Attention all, target, bed crossbow on the city wall, direction correction, one shot and two shots, right [-], up and down order minus [-], three shots and four shots, right [-], up and down single repair, minus [-]..."

(End of this chapter)