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Part 4 Anti-Norman Alliance Chapter 27 Full Fire Coverage

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    When all fifteen cannons of the Norman Empire were calibrated.  The engineer officer who controlled the artillery turned his head and looked at General Fall with the intention of asking for instructions.  The general nodded and said "Yeah".  After the engineer officer received the affirmation, he turned around, waved his hand, and shouted: "Fire!!"

    In an instant, the mountains shook and the ground shook, and the ground thundered.  A group of Norman No. 5 horses nearby raised their front hooves in panic. The Norman knight immediately pulled the reins to comfort them to prevent the horses from losing control.  A total of fifteen artillery pieces fired in unison.  Although not as good as last year's Battle of Burgundy, the hundreds of artillery pieces were so shocking.  But it was enough to scare the other party, those ignorant ravine savages.

    ¡°Only fifteen projectiles were thrown out, heading straight towards the Swiss position.  The ten twenty-four-pound infantry cannon fired flatly, while the five four-inch mortars fired in a curved direction.  The ten rounds of infantry cannon shells used solid bullets. After adjusting the angle, they suddenly opened several bloody alleys in the earth wall, or the Swiss on the earth mountain.

    Those in the first row had half of their bodies cut off, the following rows had their abdominal cavities blasted, the next few rows their chests, and finally their necks and heads Because the terrain of the mountains was relatively high, the infantry cannons fired flatly.  It's a diagonal path out, so there's such a bloody and bizarre scene.

    The lower body, three-quarters or headless corpses of those people fell down with a crackle, and then the upper body, one-quarter and head were beaten into a pile of three-mature minced meat, crackling like a rain of blood.  The same happened to other survivors.

    Artur, this boy who has just turned eighteen and participated in the battle for the first time, is a lucky enough, or rather unfortunate guy.  He was not hit by a Norman cannonball.  Immediately afterwards, a large piece of half-cooked flesh and blood was crackled on the body.  One piece fell on his head.

    The boy who was frightened by the scene in front of him subconsciously reached out his hand.  He took off the half-cooked piece of meat and put it in front of his eyes - he saw that it was some unlucky man.  The half of the head that was still leaking brain matterthe half of the face that was still well preserved.  Those eyes were still staring at him.

    ¡°Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhing scenes looking at it. Seeing such a terrifying scene that was beyond his ability to bear, his brain suddenly exploded.  A layer of goose bumps appeared densely on his body, and he screamed crazily and uncontrollably.  And with his scream.  The soldiers around him who were also frightened to death also screamed in terror - turned around and wanted to jump off the earth wall.

    When they turned around.  But he saw a scene that was even more horrifying than before - the damage caused by the exploding bullets fired from the mortars.  More terrifying than solid bullets.  Five shells exploded just under the earthen wall among the Swiss who were lined up in a dense array.  Swiss soldier in the middle of the explosion.  But it was blown to pieces.

    And the Swiss soldiers within the explosion range.  It's not like there's nothing going on.  If you were unlucky, half your head was cut off by shrapnel, or you were shot through the chest and abdominal cavity, there was absolutely no way you could be saved.  Those who were slightly more lucky were hit in the limbs and lost their hands, feet, arms and legs.  If you can survive it.  That's a disability, you can't live with it.  It's just one more breath than the unlucky one.

    On the earth wall, the Swiss, who were about to jump off, saw that the bottom of the earth wall was also in a mess, and it was extremely miserable.  I was even more frightened then.  All morale was gone and they fled in all directions.  However, they didn't get far before they could escape.  The Norman army advanced and delivered a second blow.  Hundreds of Norman longbowmen wearing half-body plate armor quickly stepped forward and fired a hail of locust arrows.

    The equipment of Swiss mountain people is backward, and leather armors are rare.  Most of them are civilians.  Naturally, it cannot stop the rain of long bows and arrows.  After one round of shooting, the Swiss screamed louder.  The Norman longbowman had already received the order, and without resting after one round of shooting, he fired rapidly for five consecutive rounds, until his tired arms ached, and then he retreated.  Looking at the Swiss side, there were originally louder screams, but now there are only a few people left intermittently wailing

    Those with slower legs and feet, and those with less luck, were already dead at this moment - not a single figure could be seen on the hilltop used to block the Normans.

    "Okay! The long archers spread out, the repeating crossbows stepped forward, and quickly occupied the territory!" Seeing that the tactics were working.  General Fall cheered loudly and then continued to give orders.  The long archers at the front immediately dispersed to both sides to make way for them.  The Emperor's Wrath crossbowman holding a repeating crossbow quickly advanced and climbed up the earth mountain as quickly as possible.  Following closely behind was the new Norman Army.

    Watching the opponent launch a round of shelling and another round of bows and arrows.  Then he killed his own forwards and dispersed them.  The morale of the Swiss army is in turmoil.  But he is unwilling to accept this situation.  Under the shouts and coordination of the officers, the old mercenaries, thousands of Swiss soldiers roared and launched a charge towards the mountain, intending to take back this position.??.

    "Aim and launch!!"

    What awaits them is a storm of continuous crossbows that is much denser and more deadly than the previous rain of longbows and arrows!  General Farr had five thousand new troops under his command, each of which had fifty repeating crossbowmen.  Five thousand-man troops are two hundred and fifty, and one shot is two hundred and fifty crossbow arrows.

    ??And whether a mountain of earth is high or far away.  It's also nearly a minute away.  According to the slogan of a continuous crossbowman shooting one arrow per second, that is sixty crossbow arrows, and two hundred and fifty people, that is seventy-five thousand arrows!  In total, every Swiss who came back would be hit by seventy-five crossbow bolts!  With such a density of attacks, no matter how elite the soldiers are, there is nothing they can do!  Of course, this also shows how much money and materials the continuous-shooting crossbowman consumes.

    Of course, this is just a general calculation. In fact, it is completely different on the battlefield.  At that time, when I saw a buzzing buzz on the opposite side - a rain of arrows like locusts, shooting towards me continuously.  The more than a thousand Swiss soldiers who rushed over were already dumbfounded.  The first batch were shot like hedgehogs.  The rest saw something was wrong, turned around and ran away.  In an attack, it only takes ten seconds from the opponent's charge to retreat.  Under the earth and mountains, there were hundreds of corpses.

    Looking at the hedgehog-like corpses that were still trembling slightly and seemingly not dead.  The Swiss army took a breath of cold air, but they did not dare to launch another army to counterattack the Normans.

    And they didn¡¯t dare to counterattack.  The Norman army still didn't want to let them go.  The Norman phalanx infantry stepped forward and combined with the repeating crossbowmen again to form a typical Norman phalanx fire.  General Fall also ordered the army to move forward.  With the new Norman Army as the vanguard, they in turn launched a charge towards the Swiss at the foot of the mountain.

    Immediately afterwards, the two sides fought on the narrow mountain road.  Just now, the Norman army used sharp long-range weapons to severely beat the Swiss.  At this moment, he is still not far away from confronting him head-on.  After a charge from a high position defeated a group of Swiss troops, the Norman phalanx stopped advancing and used continuous crossbows and muskets to kill the Swiss from a distance, forcing the Swiss to turn around and fight with their own side.  At the same time, the Norman longbowmen also followed closely behind, climbing the mountain to throw rain of arrows.

    The Swiss had no choice but to launch several more attacks. As you can imagine, the final results all ended in failure.  So the Swiss army continued to retreat, the Norman phalanx advanced slowly, and the longbowmen followed closely behind.  The phalanx always stopped within range of the repeating muskets.  Then the longbows, crossbows and muskets were fired at the Swiss

    So several times in a row, the Norman army relied on sharp long-range attacks to defeat the Swiss without any temper at all.  After a day of fighting, the Swiss army was dispersed, then gathered to charge, and then was dispersed again When they encountered mountains or hills, they brought in artillery to bombard them.  Such a continuous battle.  The Norman army advanced about three kilometers.  Thousands of Swiss were killed and injured.  And simply occupied a Swiss camp.

    Of course, they also paid quite a lot of materials.  A total of hundreds of thousands of crossbow bolts and tens of thousands of bows and arrows were consumed.  This made the baggage soldiers who were cleaning the battlefield after the war quite dissatisfied - they had to work for several hours to find the fastest updated arrows from the lost house on the battlefield - the arrow shafts were not required.  But the steel arrowheads had to be recycled.

    On the second day, the remaining Swiss retreated directly, not daring to fight the Normans again.  At the same time, the Swiss commander who commanded this army also conveyed this situation to the Swiss Parliament in Bern.

    After learning the whole process of this battle, the Swiss looked at each other in shock-if they fought the Normans in the mountainous terrain where they are best, they would not be able to win.  So is there any way to stop these crazy and terrifying conquerors?  !

    For a time, there was a quarrel in the Swiss Parliament.  Some members of Congress believed that the war could no longer continue.  We must find a way to cease war with the Norman Empire.  Some people even suggested that Germany's "allies" could be sold out as a gift, and they would not hesitate to give up some national interests.

    However, such a proposal was quickly refuted by the more numerous and more radical Swiss parliamentarians as "coward" and "traitor".  To attack.  The Swiss Speaker, who is also a radical, took the opportunity to suppress dissidents.  Incite public opinion.  Forged evidence of collusion between the peaceful councilors and the Normans.  Send them to the guillotine.  To strengthen their own rights.

    "You will destroy Switzerland! The democracy and freedom we have finally obtained will be destroyed in your hands! You are the traitor!!!"

    When the congressmen were pronounced guilty, one of the most excited congressmen cursed at the speaker, his voice filled with grief and anger

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