Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 1097

[Chapter 1097 Frightened]

“Oh, my God!”

A huge cloud of smoke rose from the battlefield into the sky after the explosion.

Harriman let out a horrified sigh with his ears buzzing.

Wesley also looked at the location of the explosion with incredible eyes.

This is the most powerful explosion he has ever seen.

Six howitzers near the explosion were completely destroyed.

“May God bless us.” Wesley crossed himself, feeling more and more uneasy.

Having experienced countless battles, he knows very well that when a new weapon is put into the battlefield, it will put enormous pressure on the enemy and seriously weaken the morale of one’s own side.

Before finding a way to counter this weapon, it would be difficult to revive one’s morale.

He didn’t need to observe, he could imagine that the soldiers of the coalition army were panicking now.

The only belief that can support them to continue fighting is that they are defending Tianzhu, the British asset.

Also, once they fail in the East, the West may also be threatened in the future.

Just like they came to the east to burn, kill and loot, no one can guarantee whether Da Song will retaliate against them. .

Although this is a manifestation of a guilty conscience, it is not impossible.

“We can’t stand here like idiots. We have to do something, let the soldiers shoot into the sky, and shoot down all these ghost things.” When Wesley was thinking, Harriman suddenly shouted like crazy.

He snatched the rifle from the soldiers around him and aimed at the airship.

Seeing this, other officers followed suit.

Many soldiers in the trench also reacted and raised their guns to shoot overhead.

“Bang bang bang…” For a while, intensive gunfire rang out from the coalition fortifications.

However, their counterattack is destined to be slaughtered.

After some shooting, not only did they not suffer any damage to the airship, but the falling bullets injured many of their own people.

“Bastard! Put up the cannons and shoot them down.” Seeing that the musket shooting was not effective, but also accidentally injured his own people, Harriman became furious and continued to growl and give orders.

Wesley was calmer than Harriman at the moment because he had fought against the Dasong army. He stopped immediately, “Enough, Harriman, do you think the Dasong army on the opposite side is stupider than you? They must have considered all the information , let this ghost thing fly so high, the range of the smoothbore gun is indeed very long, but it is flat fire, vertical fire is impossible, just like our muskets.”

Just as Wesley thought, the height of the airship is indeed is calculated.

When he was in Yancheng, Wang Chong tried it according to the level of British muskets and artillery.

They counted each other’s rifled guns as the maximum range of 900 meters for flat shooting.

When the rifled gun shoots vertically, the distance can only reach about 430 meters.

As for the shells, because the opponent is still using solid shells.

Solid bullets weigh much more than conical lead bullets.

This means that after the solid body is launched, it will face greater air resistance and gravity.

The higher the flight, the greater the limiting force, like a hand pulling a cannonball back.

Therefore, the range of their field smoothbore guns is 3,000 meters, but the vertical launch is barely 600 meters.

“You’re right.” Harriman calmed down after being scolded by Wesley, and a layer of sweat broke out all over his body.

If he gave this order, it is estimated that more soldiers will be killed by his own people.

It would be a stain on their military careers.

Then, he looked at Wesley, no longer the arrogance he had maintained since arriving in Tianzhu.

At first, he thought that Wesley was inferior to himself.

Now he finally fully understands that anyone else will suffer a disastrous defeat in Malacca.

“Wesley, what should we do now?” Harriman was completely out of ideas.

After being bombarded by the opponent, it’s fine if you can’t fight back.

Now, there is another thing flying in the sky, like a sharp sword hanging above their heads, threatening their lives at all times.

“There is no way but to fulfill our duty as an army, to fight to the end with our British enemies. We may have sacrificed more than them, but even so we must fight to the last man and win the final victory. This is holy war, We must eradicate heresy.” Wesley said loudly.

Harriman nodded, “That’s right, they are devils and heretics, but we are knights of justice, and we will eventually defeat these eastern devils.”

Turning to other generals, he shouted, “Did you hear that? Go to fight , Tell your soldiers the same, we are not only fighting for Britain, but also for God!”

“Boom boom…”

Just as he finished speaking, another violent explosion occurred on the trench fortification of the coalition forces.

These bombs were also dropped by flying objects in the sky.

As one bomb after another fell, they realized that the bombing of these flying objects was purposeful.

The main goal seems to be to destroy the artillery on the coalition positions.

But even if this is discovered, it will not help.

Their every move is under the surveillance of these flying objects.

No action can escape their detection.

The next change in the bombardment position of Dasong artillery further confirmed the fact that they were monitored by these flying objects.

Because the opponent’s shells are getting more and more accurate, and their field artillery is constantly being destroyed.

“Boom boom boom…” The

flying object continued to drop bombs, and Da Song’s artillery seemed to be more violent.

Although soon encouraged by the generals, the fear of death still made the coalition soldiers cower and hide in the trenches like moles.

Some cried out of fear, others were hit by shrapnel and screamed.

The soil mixed with flesh and blood was constantly being rolled into the air, and it rained down on them.

In the pungent and thick gunpowder smoke, they only felt deep despair.

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at the same time.

Qin Shan, Guan Tong and other generals are also observing the bombing effect of the airship.

Seeing huge fireballs set off one after another on the coalition positions, while everyone was excited, they also felt a little bit of coolness behind them.

At this moment, they were really glad that the airship belonged to them.

“With the airship’s precise bombing and battlefield guidance, the opponent’s artillery will probably be cleaned up soon.” Guan Tong said while observing.

At this time, Qin Shan looked at an airship through the binoculars, and then replied, “Not necessarily, their generals will be shrewd, and they didn’t expose all the artillery.”

The semaphore played by the soldiers on the airship just now told them that there were hidden weapons in the bombing just now. The artillery cover was lifted by the shock wave.

Guan Tong frowned when he heard this, “In that case, let’s carry out a night raid these few nights and let them expose all the artillery.”

“It’s exactly what I want.” Chang Wei nodded.

Obviously, this decisive battle with the Western-Turkish Allied Forces cannot be resolved within three to five days.

The opponent’s guns and artillery are only one generation behind them, and the number of soldiers exceeds them by a lot.

If they confront each other head-on, although they can win, the price they will pay will definitely be huge.

In order to annihilate the Western Turkmenistan Allied Forces at the lowest cost, they must be a little patient and disintegrate their defenses step by step.

(end of this chapter)