After Becoming The Tyrant

The light blue mist in the morning seemed to be dissipated by the thunderous roar in an instant, and all the birds in the woods flew up at the same time, and the flocks of birds were neighing in the dawning sky.

Legrand soldiers blew the horn of death to reap life.

"what is that?"

Tali heard Duna, the follower beside him, asking in horror. Their ears were filled with the loud noise of artillery fire, and flames lit up in the shadows of the valleys and bushes on both sides.

Iron bullets came through the air, and while the knights tried their best to control their horses, they raised their shields to avoid this strange attack.The neighing of war horses and the screams of knights mixed together, and the entire narrow valley was in chaos.The knights of the Eternal Knights fell from their horses one after another, and one after another blood splashed in the pungent smell of sulfur and saltpeter.

"They accepted the temptation of the devil! These heretics!"

Someone in the Eternal Knights roared in horror.

The sky is blue, metal iron bullets staggered down from the jungle with a huge whistling sound, the sturdy plate armor and the exquisite and expensive chain mail are more fragile than knights in front of these loud things. their imagination.They swung their swords in a vain attempt to fend off attacks from both sides of the valley.

"Holy Lord, Legrand's hand cannon...is that still a hand cannon?!"

Tari couldn't believe his eyes and his judgment.

Hand cannons, like cannons, have appeared sporadically on the battlefield earlier. [1] Tari has also seen hand cannons in the hands of military traders along the coast of the Hopeless Inner Sea.But the hand cannon, which is nearly one meter long, was only regarded as a "novelty" by the nobles at that time.

By the Lord!Isn't hand cannons inferior to longbows and crossbows on the battlefield?Everyone knows that it is useless except to scare the enemy!

However, right now, the hand cannons appearing on both sides of the valley show a completely different side from the previous impression.Tongues of flame spewed from the clumsy muzzles of traditional knights, and with each flicker of fire, the knights fell one by one.

The muzzle flames illuminated the faces of Legrand soldiers buried here, and the muscle lines on each of their faces were stretched like iron and steel.After the soldiers in the front row fired the first round of iron-lead bullets, they immediately retreated to the back to make room for the soldiers in the second row.

The projectiles are intertwined to form a tight fire net.

It was not that the Eternal Knights, whose front and rear retreats were blocked by giant trees, did not organize the knights to launch a counterattack charge, but they were greeted by icy iron bullets accompanied by loud noises.The sound of hundreds of hand cannons firing together almost pierced people's eardrums. The horses were more afraid than humans of this kind of nightmarish attack that they had never seen before.

The tower had to shout, let everyone get off their horses, gather together, and form a defensive circle with the horses and the corpses of their comrades holding their shields.

Almost all the Eternal Knights subconsciously reached out and pressed their hands on the cross coat of arms on their chests. These soldiers who had launched cold-blooded and brutal massacres against heresy almost lost their souls at this moment.

Except for Tari, almost everyone firmly believed that the Legrands must have accepted the invitation of the Hell Devil.Only with the help of hell devils, they can use terrifying and evil means to transform the hand cannons that were originally dotted on the battlefield into hideous death scythes.

"The accuracy is still too bad."

The Rogers brothers, who were identified by the Eternal Knights as "complicit with evil", and Mr. Lauer, the head of the military design department, stood on a high ground with a wider view.

Minister Lauer held witch glasses, and Brother Rogers wrote and drew with pen and paper.

Minister Raul clearly observed the battlefield in the valley with witch glasses.

Legrand's first military industrial department moved out of hell before the official war between hell and angels.Despite the help of the skeletons, the military-industrial sector was established in too short a time.For a limited time, their improved hand cannons and cannons were only able to arm a small group of elites.

"The barrel of the gun is not stable enough, and the trajectory of the bullet is difficult to grasp."

While roughly judging various data, Minister Raul quickly pointed out the shortcomings of the current batch of gunpowder weapons.

"The No. [-] gunpowder you newly developed is less stable than the No. [-] gunpowder, but the hand cannon that uses the No. [-] gunpowder as a filler is [-]% more powerful than the No. [-] gun... the 'Lizard' hand gun exploded once, There is a problem with the arc of the barrel..."

While the head of the military design department and the two brothers Rogers, a chemist, faced the flesh-and-blood battlefield and made all kinds of records frantically, the king was also examining the entire battlefield.

The Eternal Knights deserved to be the elite knights of the Holy Court. They quickly used their horses and the corpses of their companions to build a temporary protective wall for themselves.Coupled with the resistance of the shield, the power of the hand cannon, which has not been completely improved at this stage, has obviously begun to decline.

For this result, the king knew it well.

Hand cannons at this stage are not enough to cause truly terrifying damage on the battlefield.Even, if the valley is not too narrow, the front and back retreats have been cut off by the king first, and the Eternal Knights are forced to gather together in large numbers, becoming a natural target that even the blind can hit, then the hit rate of the hand cannon will drop by five into more than.

Unless after a longer period of research, until the hand cannon is officially transformed into a more convenient gun, the damage value of a single weapon in this era is actually lower than that of a bow and arrow. [2] However, even the most primitive thermal weapons have natural advantages that cold weapons cannot match.

After the bow and arrow hit the enemy, unless each arrow hits the enemy's throat and kills him on the spot like the Keya archer, it will take some time to cause exhausting internal bleeding.However, when bullets made of iron and lead hit cavalry at close to the speed of sound, they can not only penetrate the hard plate armor, but also shatter the metal armor. The fragments of the armor will form new uneven wounds on the human body , making the knight incapacitated in an instant. [3]

Watching the lethality of the hand cannon against the Eternal Knights gradually decline, the king issued a second order:

"fire."

The gunners, who had been trained for a whole month, stood in front of a large-caliber gun made of bronze, which was the only material they carried on this hasty march.Now is the time for this bronze cannon named "Blood Rose" by the Minister of Military Design to show its might on the battlefield.

The "Blood Rose", which was supposed to be used for siege like a trebuchet, was used by the king in this valley ambush.

As the fuse burned out, the gunpowder in the bronze barrel was ignited, and the sound of the cannon that shook the mountains and forests sounded in everyone's ears. "Blood Rose" was like an ancient beast, and this beast Stepping onto the world stage today, it uttered its first roar full of fighting spirit towards the old age—as if the entire mountain forest trembled at that moment, the leaves rustled down, the birds dispersed, and the people were all heartbroken. cold.

The bronze muzzle sprayed out dazzling and eye-catching flames, and the heavy artillery shells jointly developed by the lunatics from the Military Design Department and the Gunpowder Research Department smashed into the defensive circle formed by the reunion of the Eternal Knights, dragging the flames and gunpowder smoke.

The eternal knights holding iron shields didn't even realize what happened—

Their ears buzzed and their heads swelled at the instant of the gunfire.

They were almost subconsciously looking for the source of the roar of the ancient beast, and the moment they looked up, they saw the "shooting star" falling towards them with a flame tail.

The "Blood Rose" exploded the moment it smashed into the center of the crowd of knights.

Dust, fragments of armor, blood, human remains...

All these things were thrown high, as if coquettish and bloody roses bloomed in the valley.

What kind of lethality will a shell that can blow through a thick city wall fall on a crowd?

Terry didn't know the answer to this question before, but at the last moment of his life he knew.

It was a horrible massacre like hell on earth.

The city wall made of flesh and blood was mercilessly torn apart at this moment, the shells exploded in the middle of the crowd, and the entire defense camp disappeared in an instant.Where the shells fell, the ground turned blood-colored, and the people who stood there had been turned into fragments of corpses, and the ground was poured with blood and ink.

If the previous hand cannon just terrified them, then the "blood rose" blooming in the crowd would completely destroy the cognition and reason of the Eternal Knights.

They don't even know what's going on right now, and the courage and force they are proud of become worthless at this time.They felt that this was the Holy Lord's punishment for them!

These knights who were able to set fire to heretic country towns could no longer maintain their defensive formation. They either scattered like crazy, or threw away their swords, fell to their knees, and surrendered loudly.

More looked at the king.

The iron cannon itself and the shells were very heavy, and they could not carry more when they rushed to the aid of Jolin County this time. The few shells just now were actually all the "Nightrose" shells they carried this time.In addition, after the Eternal Knights did not gather together as before and began to flee in all directions, the aiming of the hand cannon became a problem.

The sun rises from the horizon.

The sun passed through the woods and fell into the blood and dust mixed valley.

Facing the rout and surrender of the Eternal Knights, the king drew out the sword at his waist and pointed down.

The Legrand cavalry, who plugged the ears of their horses early, appeared from both sides of the valley. Under the dazzling sunlight, they surrounded the Eternal Knights, which suffered heavy casualties.Whether it was the rout who had no intention of fighting again, or the surrender who put down his sword, they all met the murderous cavalry and the cold blade.

War horses trampled past, and swords rose and fell.

This is the king's answer:

——Legrand refused to accept the surrender of the Eternal Knights.

A tooth for a tooth.

eye for eye.

The author has something to say: [1] Regarding the use of cannons and muskets in the early Middle Ages, there was an explanation in the Hell Military Industry Department, you can look it up.

[2]美国学者杜普伊计算出了不同时代兵器杀伤力的理论指数,火绳枪和滑膛枪的数值分别为10和19,远低于十字弓和长弓的33和36。火枪技术的性能决定了它在战场上的射击目标不是个体，而是对密集群体进行扫射。

[3]张扬.中世纪晚期欧洲火药武器发展初探[J].首都师范大学学报(社会科学版),2009(S1):185-190.