Chapter 599
2021-01-06
Chapter 599 Blackwater Rush (Part 1)Spring thunder?
This is the first thought of some quick responders.
In the short spring before the end of winter and the beginning of summer, the warm and humid air that begins to heat up and the residual cold current cause vertical convection in fierce confrontation, forming cumulonimbus clouds and causing thunderous thunder...
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The nobles of Reach certainly don't know much about the meteorological principles, but they can at least sum up the law from their own experience: Once the thunder starts, it means that the Summer is coming.
Right now, although the temperature has risen slightly to around the freezing point, thunder...
Is it too early?
The hesitation and confusion lasted for only a few seconds, and soon they realized that this was not what they thought - after all, thunder is never accompanied by confusion and screams of people all over the place.
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Because of the existence of King's Landing, the capital of the Seven Kingdoms, the Blackwater Rush is one of the most famous rivers in Westeros, but in fact it is no matter its length, water volume, The river width is far less than that of Trident and Mander, and even the top three in the Seven Kingdoms cannot be ranked. If it does not take advantage of the abundant precipitation in the south, it barely has the characteristics of deep water and rapid flow, I am afraid that even the North's Several rivers cannot be suppressed.
However, even such a medium-sized river, even in the dry season of winter... its width at the mouth of the sea near the Night's Watch Industrial Park is more than 100 meters, plus the soft and wet ground The mudflats on the riverbed that are not strong enough, the 100-meter distance that the Confederate army camp retreated from the river bank to avoid the threat of ballistas and catapults...
It can be said that the southern army camp is completely located on the north bank Artillery is equipped with first-generation artillery beyond the effective range.
However, "effective range" is not a rigid physical parameter after all, but an artificial concept. It is a meaningful statement when both accuracy and formidable power are required. Igor's current goal It wasn't precision artillery, but projectiles were thrown into the Confederate camp to create panic.
If that's the case, then it's not the effectiveness that needs to be considered, but the maximum range.
How big is the gap between the two?
It is not easy to generalize, but an extreme example can be given: a pistol with an effective range of 50 meters, usually the user will only shoot at a distance of a few meters or a dozen meters, but if you lift thirty or forty meters Just shoot a shot in the air at a random angle, and if the wind is down, it is not impossible for the bullet to fly out and hit some unfortunate person a thousand meters away.
Considering the maximum range, the entire Confederate battalion was completely exposed to the firepower of the Land Grant Artillery.
Precision? In the face of such a super camp formed by 60,000 to 70,000 people gathered together, he could hit even with his eyes closed.
Formidable power? In this era of no armored vehicles and no concrete fortifications, an iron ball flying over a kilometer away, no matter how powerful a crossbow is when it hits... No, at the end of a strong gun, it is definitely not something that can be blocked by wooden boards or armor. of.
Igor had only five artillery pieces in his army when he won Winterfell. During the delay in his stay in the North capital, Queenscrown expedited another batch to replenish it. Twenty guns were used, and fourteen guns could be fired—in addition, the Six Sect was not broken, but could only be idle due to insufficient artillery. The problem hasn't surfaced yet, but if Fort Black Wall's transformation of the munitions factory goes well, the situation for "Cannon and the others" will soon get worse.
That's for the future.
Now, the first round salvo of the fourteen artillery pieces produced a dull roar like thunder, and the fourteen artillery shells flew over a distance of nearly a kilometer and scattered irregularly in a radius of the Confederate Army camp. within the range of several hundred meters. Among them: nine shots landed on the open space, two shots were fired low and hit the wooden fence, one shot overturned an iron pot that was cooking soup, and the other shot hit a tent where several people were gathering to gamble money. He was shocked, and one shot hit the roof of the temporary stable, shocking the dozens of military horses inside.
Due to the high firing angle, the shells cannot form the ideal "floating effect" after they land, but will directly sink into the mud. The gravy was spilled everywhere, and several people were scalded and scalded, and dozens of frightened horses were diverting the energy of a large number of managers and nearby soldiers.
In such a densely populated situation, after the first round shelling, the entire battalion was not killed. It can be said that lucky Goddess favored it. The chaos caused by the drop of the cannonball gradually subsided like ripples on the surface of the water, and the entire camp fell into the silence after being beaten... Except for the people near the drop point of the cannonball who lost one's head out of fear and tried to figure out what happened, most of the A Confederate camp was still completely ignorant of the situation and still thought it was just an inexplicable loud noise.
Everyone is waiting, waiting for an order from above to say it was just an accident, or waiting for the sound to come again and shatter their beautiful illusions.
Dazed and unresponsive, the second round shelled.
This round of cannon sounds is no longer neat, scattered in a few dozen seconds, and there is a difference of nearly half a minute between the first sound and the last sound—the reason why this happened. This situation is not a failure of command, but Igor ordered the second launch to switch to rapid fire and fire at will: the professional level and proficiency of the fourteen artillery groups are extremely different, and if the salvo is forced, it will lead to the "short board effect". "The total amount of firepower projection is insufficient, anyway, it is blind shooting that cannot see the target. If you just want to hit more and not to hit accurately, then you don't need to pay attention to it, just treat it as training and play to your heart's content.
What the crooked hit is about is that, just in terms of the psychological pressure on the enemy, the scattered and uninterrupted rumbling sounds and cold guns are actually still on top of round after round of salvos.
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Fortunately, Goddess impossible keeps staring at the same place. The personnel density in the camp is so high, and the landing point of the shell also changes with the wind speed and the deviation of the gun body. Moving and wandering, when the wooden high platform at the wedding site was also directly hit by a cannonball, a certain Knight from the hive city not far away also perfectly "catch" the entire arm of an iron ball while running. After being almost interrupted, the people finally went from dumbfounded... to soulless.
The quality of the soldiers of the Reach army and the Golden Corps is of course not comparable to that of Unsullied, but it is not so bad as to blow up the nest with a little trouble. However, there are many untrained non-combatants in such a large battalion. , as well as the military family members and the others who participated in the wedding.
The panic created by the serious injury or death of two or three people soon spread and expanded with the panic screaming and random running of non-military personnel, and it was about to develop into a terrifying bombing camp, King Aegon's Prime Minister finally reacted, and immediately shouted: "Everyone, don't move!"
"Guards, escort Your Majesty and the Queen to safety! The rest will be ordered later. Evacuate! Ladies and gentlemen leading the troops, please immediately order oneself's personal soldiers to patrol to maintain order in the camp, and those who dare to shout and run will not listen to the persuasion kill without mercy!" Hand of the King took advantage of the gap before the third round cannon. Order, "Lord Mace, please immediately order a message to Lord Tully, and let him lead the Reach army to the south of the camp - send out all the scouts to prevent the Dorne army from attacking; messenger, bring a message to every hunter Dragon crossbow position, let them wind up their hunting spears, and attack as soon as the Demon Dragon appears; Harry Strickland, immediately assemble the golden group to Blackwater Rush to stop Unsullied and the Land Granters from crossing the river!"
Jon Connington Not knowing what the rumbling thing was called, whether it was some kind of weapon or some sorcery, all he knew was that oneself was now facing a new threat that could strike from the north to the south of Blackwater Rush.
At this moment, in addition to protecting the safety of King Your Majesty, he is also facing even greater troubles - ask yourself, if he has such a long-range attack method, he will never just use it to let it go. Disrupting an enemy's wedding.
Queen and Igor, there must be follow-ups.
The confrontation between the two Targaryen actually jumped from turning face to the critical stage of a showdown without going any further!
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(end of this chapter)