As the horn sounded, Castel's coalition forces also began to move slowly.
Viewed from the hills, the mighty coalition army was divided into five military formations by Baron Angus, marching towards the rebel camp in a "2+3" Z-shaped formation.
The coalition's formation was not as good as Charlotte had imagined. It was even worse than the medieval military formations she had seen in movies and TV shows in her previous life. From a distance, it looked like five huge, slowly changing shapes. The moving gray-black rectangle can only be barely recognized as a military formation at best.
If the nobles at the front of the military formation had not maintained a relatively orderly formation, Charlotte really doubted that such a large military formation might have become chaotic while walking.
But there is nothing that can be done about it. Caster's coalition is not a well-trained standing army. In the final analysis, it is just a group of nobles, private soldiers of nobles and recruited peasant soldiers gathered from various places.
Maybe many conscripts were still doing farm work in the fields or hunting in the woods three months ago, and their training time was only more than a month. To have such discipline and execution now, one has to lament the nobles of the North. The efficiency and ability of Baron Angus were gone.
Of course, even so, the sense of crisis of the overwhelming army still enveloped the entire rebel camp. Relying on the vampire's excellent eyesight, Charlotte could clearly see that after Castel's horn sounded, the soldiers in the rebel camp were very close. Kuai also took action.
Archers swarmed up the wooden walls and towers, and the crossbows and small rock cannons on the guard towers also moved slowly under the operation of the soldiers, aiming the crossbows and muzzles at the distant army, and more The soldiers poured out of the tents, lined up and assembled under the orders of the nobles on horseback.
After being stationed in place for two or three months, the camp has been built into a sizable fortress by the rebels. Even Charlotte had to praise the efficiency of the rebels.
In a different world with extraordinary powers, the work efficiency of many things cannot be compared with that of Blue Star in a similar era in the previous life.
Not to mention that after communicating with the local villagers, Charlotte learned that the camp where the rebels were stationed was originally a small town with walls, but now it has been further transformed by the rebels on the original basis.
The coalition forces moved slowly, like an approaching giant wave.
The forward troops stopped when they were about 500 meters away from the rebel camp.
A slightly low horn sounded on the battlefield, and Charlotte saw the nobles leading the two military formations at the front taking action. They raised their swords to give orders, while the soldiers in the military formations moved to both sides. A dark gun barrel was pushed out by the soldiers.
They were stone-shooting cannons, which were also used in sieges in the world of Miria. Even though they were facing only a temporarily reinforced wooden fortress, these firearms were still brought over by the coalition forces, twenty of them in total.
The main providers of stone cannons are the Charlotte Direct Territory and the Leon-Castle family. Noble families with smaller siege weapons cannot afford them.
As an early artillery piece, its barrel was short, usually made of bronze or iron, and sometimes made of copper and brass. Castell's stone-shooting cannon was about 5m long and had a caliber of 500mm. The stone projectiles weighed 700 pounds.
The firing of these rock cannons was far from accurate, and their muzzle velocity was extremely low. In order to improve the effectiveness of the cannon, corresponding magic inscriptions are engraved on the cannon body. After adjustment, the effective range can generally reach 500 meters, which is far beyond the range of bows and arrows and hand crossbows, and far exceeds the range of low-level mages who are less than 100 meters. meter range.
The stone bullets they fire are not entirely stone bullets. Depending on the situation, the bullet bodies will also be engraved with inscriptions. Especially in the first few rounds of firing, they usually use expensive enchanted stone bullets with the additional [Destroy Demon] Effect, used to destroy extraordinary powers.
Seeing the artillery being pushed out, the rebel soldiers obviously became commotion, but they were quickly suppressed by the officers.
There was another low horn, and bursts of white smoke burst out from the muzzles of the twenty stone cannons on the battlefield. After a few seconds, Charlotte heard the rumble of the cannon coming over.
With a series of loud noises, the stone bullets fell into the rebel camp, and translucent ripples appeared around the camp, like flowing water.
That's the mage's shield.
The flowing shield blocked all the fired stone bullets. Those stone bullets seemed to have been hit by a piece of viscous corrosive liquid. First, their speed quickly decreased, and then the projectile body lit up with a fiery red light and melted like snowflakes.
However, one round of shelling is obviously not the end.
Three minutes after the first round of stone bombs was blocked, the second round of shelling also began.
The shield of the low-level mage was obviously not enough to compete with the stone bullets with the magic-breaking effect. After weakening more than a dozen stone bullets, the translucent shield almost reached its limit and then shattered.
However, because the wall of the rebel camp was not high, most of the stone bullets did not hit the wall directly, but passed over it at low altitude and hit the camp like meteorites.
Most of these stone bombs missed, but two hit their targets. One of them shattered a tent, while the other hit a watchtower and directly penetrated the tower of the watchtower.
But that's all.
Miria's current artillery is still too weak.
Although the stone bullets with the [Destroy Demon] effect can severely damage the caster's protection, they can only rely on kinetic energy to kill, and do not have the explosive effect of Blue Star's later artillery.
But pure kinetic energy coupled with the special effects of [Destroying Demons] is already the most powerful force to restrain spellcasters on the battlefield.
Six minutes later, the third round of shelling began.
This time, the rebel spellcasters obviously had no time to rebuild a large spell shield, and the meteorite-like stone bullets met little resistance and all crashed into the camp.
Charlotte saw that after this round of shelling, two more tents were smashed in the rebel camp.
In addition, several stone bullets fell into the rebel team assembled in the camp. The soldiers who were hit were unable to find their armor on the spot, and the stone bullets that landed on the ground bounced several times based on their inertia. , causing further casualties among the rebels, and causing commotion and panic.
However, this was not the biggest result. The biggest result was that a stone bullet finally hit the wall of the village. After losing the magic protection, the wooden wall was obviously unable to compete with the artillery, and a hole was directly torn out.
This caused further confusion among the rebels.
The rebels reacted faster than Charlotte expected. After the wall was breached, soldiers carrying large shields quickly rushed over to further strengthen the defense.
After a few more minutes, the fourth round of shelling began.
After the calibration of the first three shellings, the accuracy of the stone bullets this time became more accurate, and a full five stone bullets hit the wall.
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Although two of them were blocked by the magic of suspected initiates, three of them still hit the wall of the village, and after the first gap, three more holes were made.
On the frontal battlefield, the walls of the rebel camp were already crumbling.
"Ugh——!"
A horn sounded that was much louder than the one just now.
This is the order for the soldiers to attack.
Castell's coalition array moved again. The nobles and elite private soldiers at the front raised their shields one after another. The peasant soldiers at the back picked up ladders and rushed towards the rebel camp...
