Warlord: King of All Clans

Above the gate of Fort Bavanachi, there is a wooden tower. The square-flag knight Hughes Bavana and several northern knights are hiding inside, watching the enemy outside the city.

An Ilanrado knight looked at them for a while, frowned and asked, "What the hell is the other party doing? Are they going to attack the city?"

Another knight laughed. "How can they attack the city when they don't even have a ladder? This is just a demonstration. Soon, someone will come out to challenge us."

This older knight had obviously participated in large-scale battles. In many battles in the North, the attackers would line up outside the city as a demonstration, and then send people to shout and taunt, in order to provoke the defenders to go out of the city for a decisive battle, or to engage in a knight duel.

This is the best plan for attacking the city, but it requires the other party to agree.

But the people in the North are very susceptible to this. If the enemy shows off their strength outside the city and is not stopped, their morale will drop sharply.

Many brave knights would choose to go out of the city to fight alone.

Therefore, the elder knight admonished Hughes Bavana after he finished speaking: "Lord Bavana, don't fall into the enemy's trap. We will stay in the castle and wait for the enemy to tire themselves out. We only need to hold out for three days, and reinforcements will arrive."

Hughes nodded and laughed in his heart, do I need you to tell me this?

I heard that there are a lot of Wind Knights in Isenbol City now, all of them are arena champions. Only a fool would go out to die.

Although Bavanachi Castle is small, it is the closest to Isenpol. In order to win him over, Lord Victor of Ilanrado rewarded him with two hundred sets of iron armor and ten crossbows.

Now ten crossbows are installed on the top of the city. Even if the Wind Knight is wearing scarlet armor, he can't withstand the targeted shooting of the crossbow.

Although the walls of Fort Bawanachi were not high, Hughes felt that he could defend the city and hold off the 4,000 people on the opposite side for a few days.

At the artillery position, young Noyes looked at them and whispered to the artillery commander Marvin beside him, "Instructor Marvin, are you confident?"

Marvin laughed and said, "For 600-yard target practice, all you need is a hand, right? Especially since the target is this big."

The cannons of the thousand-man captains are still the same, but the ones of the thousand-man captains now are more sophisticated than before.

After the precision machine tools from the Imperial Capital entered Hewan, Hewan immediately unlocked the gun barrel boring machine technology.

All the thousand-man cannons that left the factory were re-processed on the hydraulically driven gun barrel boring machine.

The original thousand-man cannon had an irregular barrel after casting. The gunsmiths did not have precision machine tools and could only use traditional manual lathes to perform simple boring and milling on the barrel.

The quality of such a gun barrel depends entirely on the time and craftsmanship of the gunner. The caliber and range of each cannon are slightly different.

It's okay to fire solid lead bullets or shotgun shells, but firing solid iron bullets will easily cause the chamber to explode.

But now, the gun barrels processed by special precision gun barrel boring machines have smooth and straight bore walls, greatly improving their power and accuracy, and the data of all artillery are more consistent.

Looking at the low city wall in the distance, Marvin sighed and said, "It's a pity that the captain is difficult to move. Otherwise, if the captain's cannon was transported here, such a small city wall could be destroyed with one shot."

Leo waited quietly for the artillerymen to finish their operations before raising his hand and waving it down.

After receiving the order, Marvin kept staring at the figure of the legion commander. Seeing this, he turned around and ordered, "Everyone, open fire!"

There were artillery squads around him, and the squad leaders shouted orders, "Fire!"

All the firemen immediately put their torches to the fire door.

With a burst of dense and loud noises, the twenty thousand-man cannons shook violently at the same time, the gun carriage retreated half a meter, and the wheels and gun carriage sank deeply into the mud.

The Isenbol Legion not far away was shocked, and many knights and attendants could not even control their horses, causing a commotion.

The war horses in the river bend had been exposed to the sound of artillery for a long time and had long been accustomed to it.

The Boar Knights led by Six were on the other side of the artillery position, and all the unicorn boars were lying on the ground to rest.

Hearing the boom of the cannons and feeling the ground shaking, the unicorn boars wagged their tails but didn't even raise their heads.

The tower of Bawanachi Fort collapsed with a roar and turned into ruins.

Those knights who were standing stupidly on the city wall and watching were directly submerged in the smoke and dust.

Little Noyce looked at the result and praised excitedly: "What a precise shot!"

Ma Wen smiled calmly, without any disturbance. He was a man who could injure a high-level extraordinary person with a single shot from three miles away.

After a round of artillery firing was completed, two gun barrel maintenance soldiers standing by quickly carried dry and wet barrel cleaning tools to extinguish the remaining sparks in the barrel, scrape out the remaining powder residue, and check the changes in the gun body.

Although the thousand-man cannon is of high quality, it can also crack or deform. If it reaches a point where it can be seen with the naked eye, the cannon will have no choice but to withdraw from the battle.

Marvin continued to give orders, "Adjust the muzzle of the gun, target the city wall, and fire three rounds of rapid fire!"

Soon, in the midst of total silence, artillery fire roared once again, bombarding the outer walls of Fort Bawanachi.

These stone walls are three meters thick, but the inside is made of rammed earth. Only the surface and buttresses are made of half-meter thick stone slabs.

Such city walls are strong enough to withstand attacks from small and medium-sized catapults, crossbows, and rain of arrows, and are considered heavy fortress-level in small-scale wars.

However, under the bombardment of twelve-pound solid shells, the outer stone slabs and buttresses of the city wall exploded, shattered and rolled down, and the rammed earth inside was fragile and soon collapsed.

The defenders on the city wall completely lost their support, and many of them fled from the city walls. Some of them were not hit directly by the artillery fire, and hid under the battlements that were still intact, trembling in fear as they watched the collapsed city wall and the corpses on the ground not far away.

The casualties caused by artillery bombardment of the city walls were not great, but the deterrent effect it exerted was ten times the lethality.

After three rounds of artillery fire, smoke has filled the battlefield.

The Isenbol Legion on one side of the battlefield looked at the ruined city wall in the distance in collective silence, swallowing their saliva and temporarily forgetting their need for breakfast.

Leo waited quietly. When the smoke cleared, he did not see the other side surrendering. He frowned and said, "We northerners are indeed strong. Our will to fight is so firm. Even with such a heavy blow, we did not choose to surrender."

He was about to consider launching another round of bombardment when Knight Arnold beside him swallowed his saliva and said, "Is it possible? Is it possible that all the enemy generals have been killed? You might as well wait a little longer."

Leo then realized that Marvin's first round of artillery fire was concentrated on the tower where the enemy knights showed their heads, and he was afraid that the entire command system would be wiped out in one wave.

No one came out to surrender at this time, everyone was in panic.

After waiting for a long time, the people on the city wall finally reacted and a white flag was raised tremblingly.

Hughes Bavana, covered in dust and blood, appeared at the gap on the city wall with a white flag.

Seeing that Hughes Bavana was still alive, Knight Arnold breathed a sigh of relief, "It's good to be alive, it's good to be alive."

Leo asked curiously, "Why, is he someone you know?"

Arnold was a little embarrassed, "Knight Bavana, he is my brother-in-law."