The Rise of the European Emperor

While Yi, Britain and France were waiting for news from Ireland, an earth-shattering offensive and defensive battle took place in Dublin, Ireland...

After Richard Ball arrived at the city of Dublin with an army of 20,000 people, he was a little dumbfounded when he saw the big iron gates in Dublin. Originally, he brought a group of artillery here, and also wanted to come up with a method of shelling the city gate + bombing the gate. However, after trying for a few rounds, I found that the iron ball cannonball could not deal with the big iron gate at all, so I gave up directly.

Then, 7,000 longbowmen, under the command of Richard Pol, began to project towards the city. Immediately, the dense arrows poured towards the city head like a torrential rain. However, due to the reminder from the North Sea Chamber of Commerce spy, not only 2000 Musketeers under Earl Edward had changed to half-body plate armor, but other arms also prepared door panels...

Yes, door panels! Earl Edward saw that the representative of the North Sea Chamber of Commerce "Jonathan" blew up Wicklow's city gate with a door panel, so he was very fond of the door panel shield. After receiving the news that the British army had gathered the longbowmen from all over the country, the Earl Edward sent men to cut down all the trees around Dublin. First, the woodworkers in the city were processed into door panels to withstand bows and arrows. Second, it is also to prevent those trees from becoming materials for the British army to manufacture engineering equipment.

As an English nobleman, Earl Edward was taught the feats of the English longbowmen from a young age until he was imprisoned in the Tower of London. Therefore, Earl Edward attached great importance to the English longbowmen. When the English longbowmen began to shoot in turns, hitting the defenders on the city head with a rain of arrows, "door panels" were erected everywhere on the city head...

Although the English longbowmen are powerful, they stand farther away from the city wall and project, the farther the distance, the lower the kinetic energy of the arrow. What's more, the projectile bow and arrow shot from the ground to the city head, because the height is different when it falls, the kinetic energy has not been fully released, so the power is greatly reduced. Originally, the long arrows that could shoot through the mail, but could not shoot through those door panels...

In desperation, Richard Boll had to order the longbowmen to move forward, intending to take a close shot. In this way, the kinetic energy lost by the arrow can be less, and the penetration force of the arrow can be stronger.

However, I didn't expect that when the longbowmen approached within a hundred meters of the city wall, a lot of people wearing plate armor suddenly stood up on the top of the city... musketeers...

Before, the English longbowmen were too far away for the musketeers to aim. So, I simply sat on the ground above the city head, did not emerge, and waited quietly.

But as soon as they found that the English longbowmen had entered the range, the 2,000 musketeers in half-body plate armor stood up one after another, and aimed their long-loaded arquebuses at the longbowmen in the front row...

"Crack-Crack-Crack-Crack-Crack-"

After a burst of gunfire like fried beans, although the muskets hit low, many English longbowmen fell to the ground and began to howl...

The arquebus provided by Marlin to Earl Edward has a relatively small caliber and a bullet weight of 30 grams, which is similar to that of the later British flintlock "Brown Bass" flintlock. The weight of this bomb is very reasonable, and it is enough to hit those "iron cans" that wear plate armor.

A 30-gram lead bullet can hit even a tin can, not to mention those English longbowmen who only wear chain armor at most? Therefore, after a few rounds of shooting, the English longbowmen in the front row suddenly fell hundreds of people.

Moreover, the hundreds of people who fell were seriously injured. Because, after the spherical lead bullets penetrate into the human body, it is easy to cause rolling, making the wound become very large, and blood spurting out. Often, a 30-gram lead bullet, although less than 20 mm in diameter, can cause a bowl-sized injury, which looks very serious. Of course, it is actually very serious.

It can be said that a warrior who has been hit by an arrow can continue to fight if his will is stronger. However, it is difficult for a person who has been hit by a 30-gram lead bullet to continue fighting...

In other words, the more than 100 English longbowmen who fell in the front row, except for the dozens of people who were directly killed, are definitely unable to return to the battle.

Even if they survived, not to mention lead poisoning, such a large scar would easily make those longbowmen say goodbye to the battlefield completely.

At first, Richard Ball didn't care. However, when the second round of the musketeers on the city's head was loaded, there was another three-stage shot. Then, another hundred and dozens of British longbowmen fell to the ground and let out a miserable howl.

Richard Bohr immediately realized that something was wrong. He saw that the enemy musketeers on the top of the city, because they wore plate armor, their longbowmen could not help them, but they could injure the longbowmen... This, this is too bad...

Moreover, it takes more than ten years to train a longbow soldier... So, the longbow soldier immediately retreated...

Next, Richard Bohr dispatched sword and shield soldiers, set up a siege ladder, and planned to forcibly climb to the top of the city. However, for musketeers, those wooden shields that can withstand bows and arrows are vulnerable in front of muskets. The musket bullet first broke the wooden shield, and then it could damage the sword shield soldiers. Moreover, the shield of the sword shield soldier is not the shield of the large shield soldier. It can only protect the chest part, and can't block the head and legs at all. When the sword and shield soldiers climbed the city wall, the distance between the musketeers and them was only within ten meters. At this distance, the musketeer can basically aim calmly...

Then, following a series of screams of "ah", "ah", "ah", "ah", the sword and shield soldiers fell from the siege ladder like dumplings. The musketeers defending the city are really invincible. What's more, these musketeers are wearing half a set of plate armor, they are simply hanging...

Looking at the corpses of hundreds of sword and shield soldiers under the city head, Richard Bohr wanted to cry without tears. However, he is not incompetent. At this time, he suddenly remembered the artillery that was originally intended to bombard the city gate...

The range of artillery is farther than that of muskets, and the musketeers in plate armor cannot resist the bombardment of artillery. So, he put up the batch of 30 light artillery pieces that were originally intended to be used to blast the door, and aimed at the city...

"Boom-boom-boom-" After a burst of gunfire, there were indeed a few unfortunate musketeers who were directly hit by the iron ball, and they were finished.

However, at the same time, on one side of the city wall, Sahi (Jonathan), a democrat sent by Marin to Edward's army, was taking a group of French artillery and deploying the 20 heavy artillery pieces Marin had sent to Earl Edward, aiming at the British army. The artillery position...

In this era, apart from East Friesland, France probably had the most artillery and artillery. In order to support the confrontation between Earl Edward and the British army, Louis XII not only sent a large amount of gunpowder and shells, but also sent a group of experienced artillerymen to support the army of Earl Edward.

Taking advantage of the British artillery's prowess, Sahi, who knew how to aim the artillery, adopted the simplest vertical line, so that the muzzle of the artillery was in a straight line with the enemy's artillery position. Then, it's time to adjust the angle and charge of the gun up and down...

At the beginning, only one artillery was fired at the school, and the British did not care. But when the school shot was completed, and the other guns adopted the same angle and charge, the power finally exploded...

The 20 12-pound front-loaded bronze guns roared in unison. 20 iron balls smashed hard at the British small artillery position...

At this time, the British artillery was still focusing on the front wall. But those musketeers weren't stupid. After being taken away by the cannonballs in the first round, they all squatted down, covered by the city wall, and the iron ball cannonballs couldn't help them.

Just as the British artillery was thinking about how to attack the enemy above the city, 20 12-pounder guns were already aimed at them on the side. Moreover, Sahi was very cunning. He only used one cannon during the school shooting. Therefore, for that gun, the British army directly ignored it. But after the calibration was completed, the other 19 gun barrels were set up in accordance with the position, and then the straight line was positioned vertically and adjusted to the same angle and charge as the first gun. Then came the blows to the British artillery positions...

What is the concept of a 12-pound iron ball smashing over? That is really dead! Before several British artillerymen could react, several 12-pound iron balls whizzed over, some were hit in the head, and then the whole head flew off. After a while, blood spurted up from the chest cavity.

Some were smashed through the chest, so a big hole that could transmit light. Then, everyone saw his internal organs...

There are also unlucky ones who have their arms or legs smashed directly. The victim was stunned for a moment, and then, under the stimulation of severe pain, let out an earth-shattering scream. At the same time, the position of the arm or leg, blood spurted wildly...

After several rounds of shooting, more than 30 of the hundreds of British artillerymen were killed. Moreover, there was a 12-pound iron ball that directly penetrated three artillerymen, which was very terrifying.

Under the suppression of the heavy artillery at the head of the city, the artillerymen who survived the British army turned around and ran away regardless of the commander's threat...