Plane Merchant Fancy Death

Chapter 217 Shelling
At this time, the Duke of Celetto in the main city is waiting for the feedback from the elves.Of course, he sent the elves before. So far, the situation is not bad. After all, the other party is not ready to attack the city yet.

Yes, Ye Junwen's troops were still in the camp more than ten miles away. If they wanted to attack the city, of course they wouldn't be there. The troops had already moved over and surrounded the main city.The Duke of Celeto also knows military affairs, so he knew that this morning must be a very good time to start the siege. If the opponent's soldiers haven't come yet, it means that the elf messenger he sent out before has played a role.

"Serina...is really too young." Duke Celetto was a little happy. Now it seems that although this person named Selina has outstanding military capabilities, he is still very young in politics.The conditions offered by the Duke of Celetto are very simple. Don’t you support some queen, and this queen is his daughter, so the Duke of Celetto said that if I let her be the heir, it will be over.

Of course, this kind of talk is like farting. Anyone can write a blank check. As long as he can hold on now, there will be plenty of opportunities to kill these troublesome people in the future.Ye Junwen is very good at fighting, and the Duke of Celetto panicked him, but after putting down his weapon, the Duke of Celetto has many ways to deal with him.

However, when the Duke of Celetto was secretly happy, he suddenly heard a few "boom boom boom" sounds from the city, the sound was very loud, although he knew it was a little distance from him, But being able to reach here already shows that there is a lot of movement.

"What's going on?" Duke Celetto immediately walked to the window and looked in the direction of the sound, and then he found that there seemed to be several smoking places in the city, which seemed to be caused by an explosion or a fire. Category.

"What's going on, go check it out." Duke Celetto immediately said to the soldiers next to him.

"Yes." The soldier next to him also nodded immediately.

Although the city has entered a state of alert, the enemy is still more than ten miles away, so no one would think that this is an attack launched by the enemy. Most of the soldiers also heard the sound of the explosion, but they just wondered if it was an attack from the city. There was an accident or something, or enemy spies were wreaking havoc in the city, but no one noticed that the threat was falling from the sky.

Of course, this round of shooting has no effect at all. Ye Junwen's goal is to destroy the city walls or gates, but this round not a single shell landed on the city walls, basically all of them fell into the city. The hair even hit outside the city.Of course, I don't expect them to hit with one shot. If the artillery is so easy to practice, then fighting is really too easy.What's more, these soldiers were also exposed to cannons for the first time. Fortunately, Ye Junwen still had a lot of ammunition, so let them try it casually, just as practice.

On the hills more than a dozen miles away, the scouts of the artillery battalion also used binoculars to judge the landing point. Since they are all engaged in artillery, of course Ye Junwen also prepared things like binoculars, and no guns are equipped with rangefinders. Help with side alignment.The first round is just a test shot, and the second round will slowly approach the target point.

Soon after a slight adjustment, the second round of shelling also started. After a burst of firing, several flames rose in the distance, and this time, one shell had already landed on the city wall.

"I hit it!" The gunner who hit the target couldn't help shouting, "I'm the first one, I'm the first one to hit it."

"Very good." Ye Junwen's voice suddenly came from the side. Everyone turned their heads and found that Ye Junwen was next to them. They hadn't noticed it just now, but now they saluted quickly.

"It's okay, I'm just here to check the situation, you guys continue to fight." Ye Junwen said, "The position of the battalion commander of the artillery battalion is still vacant..."

This is the temptation of Chi Guoguo. It is obvious who can win the greatest military exploits in this battle. The battalion commander's position is his. Of course, these artillerymen also hurriedly aimed seriously.

Ye Junwen came here, of course, to see the situation of the shelling, but he was not very satisfied with the results of the shelling.Yes, it was a hit, but the city wall didn't seem to have suffered much damage. The city wall of the main city is indeed a bit too strong. It seems that the city wall with a height of more than [-] meters is indeed not something that can be demolished under normal circumstances. .Ye Junwen has already fired a cannon, but unfortunately the caliber is still not big enough, it seems like tickling.

However, the small effect does not mean that there is no effect. If the bombardment is indiscriminate for a few rounds, it should be useful.Ye Junwen is more optimistic about the city gate instead, because the city gate should not be as strong as the city wall, and it should be able to collapse after a few shots. Unfortunately, the city gate is really difficult to aim at. It only depends on the learning ability of these artillerymen. .

"Continue to shell and aim in the direction of the city gate," Ye Junwen said.

"Yes, Marshal." The soldiers nodded excitedly.

Since the number of cannons is relatively small, the intermittent cannon sounds are not very scary, but this never-before-seen situation still frightened the soldiers in the city.They really didn't know what happened, and there was an explosion in the city inexplicably, and it was a seemingly random explosion. This unknown thing made them feel panic.

"What's going on?" At this time, the Duke of Celetto had already arrived at the front line and asked quickly.

"Your Majesty, it seems that the enemy launched a long-range attack on us." The general here said a little uncertainly, because they received some reports that something seemed to fall from the sky and exploded, and then they also saw In the distance, Ye Junwen's barracks seemed to be emitting fire, so it was speculated that the other party had launched some kind of attack, but they didn't know what it was.

"Long-range attack? The enemy launched a long-range attack more than ten miles away from us?" Duke Celetto was of course dumbfounded, as if you were joking.

"Your Majesty, we don't know what's going on, but if you look over there, there seems to be something on the enemy's height, and there are still flames coming out from time to time, and when the other party's fire is coming out, our side will An explosion occurred." The general also pointed in one direction and said, after all, they didn't have a telescope, so they could only see a few black spots from such a distance.

"Huh?" Duke Celetto looked over there, and he did see a few points, and then when he was looking, there was a sudden burst of footsteps, and there was a loud explosion sound from the right, which was very close to him this time. up.

Duke Celetto turned around and saw that there was an explosion on the wall next to him. The scene was in a mess. Several soldiers were killed on the spot, and then the rest of the soldiers were knocked to the ground. Because they didn't know what happened, the soldiers panicked. 's started running around.

"What the hell is this?" The Duke of Celetto was also a little panicked. It must be the opponent's attack, but the question is what can attack them from a distance of more than ten miles, which is too exaggerated. Bar.Now that I think about it, it's no wonder Ye Junwen and the others went to the village more than ten miles away, and they don't come here now. It turns out that they have such weird attack weapons.

Thinking that he also got some information before, some deserters from the Fifth Army also came back and told them that the enemy had some new weapons. It should be these things too.

"Your Majesty, what should we do?" the general asked anxiously.The current situation is very troublesome. It is obvious that the opponent is aiming at the city wall, because the recent explosions are all concentrated in the direction of the city wall. The enemy is obviously preparing to blast the city wall, but it seems that the city wall is still very strong. It has been fried for a long time, but they can't be allowed to keep frying, it will explode sooner or later.What's more troublesome is that they must also stand on the city wall.

Yes, although the soldiers here knew that the enemy was going to bomb, they still couldn't get down the city wall. What if they got down and the enemy didn't bomb, and they went straight to the city.But standing on the top is not a living target, and the soldiers don't do it either, so the current actual effect of this round of bombing is less effective, but the deterrence and morale impact on the enemy is very good. It is obvious that Celetto The soldiers on the Duke's side panicked.

"It won't work like this." The Duke of Celetto also said, he also knew that sooner or later the city wall would collapse if it went on like this. Once the city wall was lost, their military strength would be too far behind the opponent's, and they would definitely lose.So what should we do now? There was no response from the elves. Why did they say they started fighting at the beginning? What happened to the discussion?

After thinking about it, the Duke of Celetto also felt that he could not continue to wait for news from the elves. The current situation is likely to be a collapse of the talks, and he can only carry out defensive warfare now.Looking at the opposite mountain, he said: "Let the soldiers not panic, this thing is equivalent to a strengthened trebuchet, it is not such a scary thing, and listening to the sound, the number of such weapons owned by the other party is not very large. It feels like there are only a few.”

"but now……"

"If it keeps being bombed like this, it will definitely not work, but it seems that it will take a long time so far. Wait a little bit, and there should be a turnaround." Duke Celeto thought for a while and said that he already had some plans. It's just that there is no need to tell the generals defending the city on the front line.

The artillery fire continued into the evening, and because the sun set and it was impossible to see anything, the artillery fire also temporarily stopped.The attack on this day did not have any effect. Part of the city wall was broken, but the damage was not great.And this night, the Duke of Celetto will also start his own actions.

(End of this chapter)