Chapter 27 Full Fire Coverage
When all the fifteen artillery pieces of the Norman Empire were corrected, the engineer officer who was operating the artillery turned his head and looked at General Farr with the intention of asking for instructions. The general nodded and said "Yes". After the engineer officer got affirmation, he turned around and waved his hand, shouting: "Fire the cannon!!"
In an instant, the mountains shook and the ground was thundering. The Norman V horses next to them raised their front hooves in panic. The Norman Knight immediately grabbed the reins and comforted them to prevent the horse from losing control. A total of fifteen artillery fired together. Although it was not as shocking as last year's Battle of Burgundy, the hundreds of artillery came. It was enough to scare the other party, those savage savages in the mountains.
I saw fifteen bullets being thrown out and blasted straight towards the Swiss positions. Ten twenty-four-pound infantry cannons were flat shots, while five four-inch mortar cannons were curved. The shells of the ten infantry cannons were solid bullets. After adjusting the angle, several blood alleys were opened among the Swiss on the earth wall or the earth mountain.
The first rows were cut off half of their bodies, the back rows were blown into the abdominal cavity, the back rows were chest cavity, and the last one was neck and head... Because the terrain of the earth and mountains was high, the flat-fired infantry cannons were shot out in a diagonal line, so there was such a bloody and curious scene.
The lower body, three-quarters or headless corpses of those people fell down, and then the upper body, one-quarter and head were beaten into a pile of three-mature minced meat, and it fell on the other survivors like blood rain.
Artur, the boy who had just turned eighteen and participated in the battle for the first time, was a lucky or unfortunate guy. He was not hit by the Norman shells. Then a large piece of half-cooked flesh and blood were crackled on his body. One of them fell on his head.
The boy who was a little foolish by the scene in front of him subconsciously reached out and took the half-cooked piece of meat and put it in front of him - and saw that it was some unlucky guy, half of his head still dripping from his brain... on half of his face that was well preserved. The eyes were still staring at him.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
When they turned around, they saw a scene that was even more terrifying than before. The flowering bullets fired by the mortar cannon were killed. It was even more terrifying than the solid bullets. Five flowering bullets were just under the earth wall, and exploded among the Swiss people in dense arrays. The Swiss soldiers in the middle of the explosion, but they were blown up to pieces.
The Swiss soldiers within the explosion range were not at all. If they were unlucky, half of their heads were cut off by shrapnel, or shot through the chest and abdominal cavity, they would be absolutely unsuccessful. Those with slightly better luck would be hit by all limbs, hands, feet, arms and legs. If they could survive, they would be disabled and could not survive. They would just breathe more than the bad luck.
On the earth wall, the Swiss who were about to jump off saw that there was a mess and extremely miserable under the earth wall. They were even more frightened at that time. The morale disappeared and they ran away in scattered. However, before they could escape, the Norman army forward launched a second round of strikes. Hundreds of Norman longbowmen wearing half-body armor quickly stepped forward, and one round of shooting was like a rain of locust arrows.
The Swiss mountain people were backward in equipment, and leather armor was rare. Most of them were clothed in battle. Naturally, they could not stop the rain of longbows and arrows. After one round of shooting, the Swiss screamed louder. The Norman longbower had already received the order, and he did not rest after one round of shooting. He continued to fire for five consecutive rounds of rapid shooting. His arms were so exhausted that he retreated. Looking at the Swiss, the original screams louder, but at this moment, only a few people were left wailing intermittently...
Those with slower legs and worse luck were already dead now - there was no one else on the earthy mountain used to block the Normans.
"Okay! The longbowman dispersed, the crossbow stepped forward and quickly occupied the mountain of earth!" Seeing the tactics work, General Fal applauded loudly and continued to order. The longbowman in the front immediately scattered to both sides and gave way. The Emperor's Furious Crossbowman holding the crossbow quickly advanced and climbed the mountain of earth as fast as possible. Following closely behind was the Norman New Army.
Seeing the opponent's bombardment and the other bows and arrows, he killed his vanguards. The Swiss army was in a turmoil, but he was unwilling to accept this situation. With the shouts and dispatch of the officers - those old mercenaries, thousands of Swiss soldiers roared and charged towards the earthen mountain, intending to regain the position.
"Aim, launch!!"
What awaits them is a much denser and more deadly storm of continuous shooting crossbow shooting than the previous rain of longbows! General Far has 5,000 new troops, and each thousand-man team has 50 consecutive crossbow shooting players. Five thousand-man teams are 250, and one round of shooting is 250 crossbow arrows.
A mountain of earth is not high or far. It also takes nearly a minute to go. According to the slogan of the crossbow shooter's slogan for a second, that is, sixty crossbow arrows, two hundred and fifty people, which is 75,000 arrows! In total, every Swiss who retaliated over will be subjected to seventy-five crossbow arrows! With such a density of attacks, no matter how elite soldiers and generals are, they will be helpless! Of course, it can be seen from this that the crossbow shooter is a kind of army that consumes money and materials.
Of course, this is just a general calculation. In fact, it is not the case on the battlefield. At that time, when I saw the buzzing opposite - a rain of arrows like locusts, shooting towards my side continuously, more than a thousand Swiss soldiers rushing over were already stunned. The group in front of me was shot like hedgehogs at that time. The rest of my eyes seemed inappropriate, so I turned around and ran away. An attack, from the other side to the retreat, took only a dozen seconds. There were hundreds of corpses on the ground in the Tushan Mountains.
Looking at the corpses that were still slightly trembling, seemingly not dead, one by one, one hedgehog-like, the Swiss army took a breath, but they did not dare to launch the army again and counterattack the Normans.
But they did not dare to counterattack. The Norman army still did not want to let them go. The Norman phalanx infantry stepped forward and combined with the serial crossbow shooter to form a typical Norman phalanx fire. General Farr also ordered the army to advance forward. With the Norman new army as the vanguard, he in turn launched a charge towards the Swiss at the foot of the Tushan Mountain.
Immediately afterwards, the two men fought on this narrow mountain road. Just now, the Norman army relied on sharp long-range weapons to hurt the Swiss. However, they were still not far away to fight with them. After a high position, a charge defeated a group of Swiss troops, the Norman phalanx stopped advancing, and shot crossbows and muskets from a long distance, forcing the Swiss to fight against their own side. At the same time, the Norman Longbowman followed closely and climbed the earthen mountain to throw archery rain.
The Swiss had no choice but to launch several more attacks, and the final result was imagined, all ending in failure. So the Swiss army continued to retreat, and the Norman square advanced slowly, and the longbowmen followed closely behind. The square always stopped within the range of the crossbow musket. Then the longbow musket attacked the Swiss...
In this way, the Norman army fought with sharp long-range attacks and did not have any temper. After a day of fighting, the Swiss army was dispersed, then gathered to charge, and then dispersed... When they encountered earthen mountains or hills, they were transported to bombard the fire. In this way, the Norman army advanced about three kilometers, killed thousands of Swiss people, and simply occupied a camp of the Swiss.
Of course, they paid quite a lot of supplies. A total of more than 100,000 crossbow arrows and tens of thousands of bows and arrows were consumed. This made the baggage soldiers who cleaned the battlefield after the war quite dissatisfied - they had to work for several hours to find the fastest updated arrows on the battlefield - the arrow shafts can be avoided. But the steel arrows must be recycled.
On the next day, the remaining Swiss retreated directly and did not dare to fight the Normans any longer. At the same time, the Swiss commander who commanded this army also conveyed the situation to the Swiss parliament in Bern.
After learning about the entire process of this battle, the Swiss people looked at each other - if they fought against the Normans in the mountainous terrain they were best at, they would not win. Then what kind of way could stop these crazy and terrifying conquers?!
For a time, there was a quarrel in the Swiss parliament. Some members of the parliament believed that the war could no longer continue. They had to find a way to truce the Norman Empire. Some even proposed that they could betray those German "allies" as a meeting gift, and even give up the interests of some countries.
However, such a proposal was quickly refuted by more and more radical Swiss MPs as "cowards" and "traitors". The Swiss Speaker, who also belonged to the radical, took the opportunity to suppress dissidents, incite public opinion, forge evidence of those MPs who are righteous and collude with the Normans, and put them on the guillotine to strengthen their rights.
"You will destroy Switzerland! The ** and freedom we have finally obtained will be destroyed in your hands! You are the traitor!!!"
When the members of the parliament were found guilty, one of the most excited members cursed at the Speaker, with a very sad and angry voice...
Chapter completed!