Giacomo's army pushed along the steel bridge towards the “air suppressor”, and on the way, they encountered three neutral points, a human settlement, a knight's camp, and a Timonium mine. These three neutral forces still have some fighting power, in order to reduce casualties, Giacomo is prepared to use artillery to solve the battle, forty-six steam cannons were pulled to the front line, under the unified command of Renyu opened fire. In fact, Andrew was reluctant to let the artillery, the god of war, fall into the hands of non-white travelers. But the reality is that Andrew can't find anyone to replace Renyu.
Rumbling artillery fire rang out, this was the artillery's show, forty-six steam cannons were constantly adjusting the angle of the muzzle and the position of the muzzle under Renyu's observation and calculation, now Renyu was only one last step away from being a qualified artillery commander - Fight it out with other artillery pieces.
The Japanese girl, Ryoko Nakamura, who had passed the test earlier, after so many days of conversation, Renyu understood that her talent was surprisingly Magneto type of psychic ability, but like everyone else's, it was still weak. Her magnetic energy could only move a hundred grams of metallic substance within five meters with difficulty. Well, this girl hasn't realized the brutal atmosphere of the battlefield, and seems to imagine that she's the second coming of “Misaka Mikoto”.
Two base numbers of shells were shot out, totaling two thousand shells, and rows of shells were like rhythmic drumbeats, constantly pounding the earth as if they were playing a symphony of death.
The shells exploded on the ground, raising sheets of dust and flames. These flames formed a blazing wall of fire four hundred meters away, illuminating the entire battlefield. Immediately after, the next wall of fire formed again and extended ten meters into the camp.
The cavalrymen of the Vinci Empire in the olden days were once known for their valor and fearlessness, but at this moment, they could only wail before the God of War. Their warhorses neighing in terror, they fled in all directions. In front of this destructive force, the mighty combat power of the Cold Weapon Era seemed so fragile and powerless.
Forty artillery guns were constantly bombarding the opposing camp, the other six artillery guns were not involved in the battle to ravage the camp, they were confronting the enemy's airships five hundred meters away. Finally, it seemed that the enemy could no longer tolerate this one-sided shelling, and their airships began to try to fly over the defense line to interfere with the artillery's firing.Renyu was keenly aware of this situation, and immediately gave the order to those six artillery guns to load shrapnel shells and set the clockwork. He then quickly reported the elevation and azimuth angles of the guns based on his observation, and the artillerymen quickly shook the steering wheel to adjust the direction of the guns. Immediately afterward, with a command, the six guns fired simultaneously, and several dazzling sparks burst into the sky.
These flames did not come from the self-detonation of the craft, but rather the glow from the explosion of the shells. As the shells exploded, countless steel projectiles scattered in the air like a storm of steel, raining down on their targets. In just an instant, the external hard-shelled airbags of the three airships were riddled with holes, as if they had been turned into a tattered piece of cloth. Losing the support of their buoyancy, these flying machines fell down crookedly in the sky, eventually smashing hard on the ground.
If in the earth, ground howitzers want to hit the airplane is near impossible. But in this world, due to air resistance, the aircraft is a low-speed, high-load route. For the same reason of air resistance, the bullets fired by the aircraft at the ground could only produce damage within a hundred meters. And that range is precisely the range of airborne armament that can be shot down by steam cannons. The large airships of this world were targets for steam cannons in the sky.
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In the rear infantry formation, Kalini nodded triumphantly, then gave Lianlana a rather meaningful glance. Lian Lana didn't care about Kalini's gaze and said calmly, "Your Excellency General, this artillery officer of yours, he's progressing quite fast. It seems the battlefield is the best military school."
Kalini froze for a moment, then smiled, "It was Mina's military school that laid the foundation."
Lianlana was right, Renyu was improving, as could be seen from the draft of the arithmetic formula, from the complete arithmetic formula at the beginning to just drawing two numbers and reporting the answer.Renyu was getting more and more skillful in arithmetic, writing arithmetic formula was a waste of time.
Renyu had seen this kind of computational proficiency in front of his high school math teacher. That teacher, a middle-aged man in his forties now, wrote a few numbers on a piece of paper and computed the answer within a few seconds, causing Renyu and a group of other students to exclaim at the miracle.
Renyu had seen this kind of computational proficiency in front of his high school math teacher. That teacher, a middle-aged man in his forties now, wrote a few numbers on a piece of paper and computed the answer within a few seconds, causing Renyu and a group of other students to exclaim at the miracle.
Now, Renyu understood that it was due to being too skillful. The artillery in this world had a range of no more than six hundred meters, with a relatively small and fixed muzzle elevation and direction angle, and very little interference from the external environment. After a long time of use, Renyu had become so skilled that he didn't need to write out formulas on paper to calculate.
Renyu's current state was something that could have been achieved in a few months if those Japanese as well as Li Cun Cheng had worked on it, but unfortunately they decided that it was an unsurpassable talent and stopped working on it.
After firing two thousand rounds of artillery, the entire battlefield was practically decimated by the enemy. Cavalry crashed into the wall of death fire, musket infantry as well as native soldiers charging with shields were covered by artillery. The air force that tried to raid were also shot down by the artillery. Both Giacomo and Kalini were very satisfied with Renyu's performance.
Giacomo praised, "It was quick and accurate."
By now Lianlana had boarded her own craft, and with no outsiders, Kalini didn't have to suppress his expression as he smiled and said, "This artillery commander has increased the speed of artillery firing by at least fifty percent and reduced the artillery pre-corrective firing steps. Our artillery is at least twice as effective."
The rest of Mina's troops were happy to watch as their own powerful firepower savaged their opponents. The troops quickly moved without damage to the vicinity of the “air suppressor”. Seeing this big steel guy, and the dense rocket launching tubes like launching nests on top of it, each tube's at least three hundred millimeter caliber, a bunch of launching tubes, symmetrically aligned in the direction of Peralta city. A steel fortress with a killing multi-multi-mounted giant cannon launching tower, this kind of picture is almost similar to the Third Empire's Dora's giant cannon's.
Unfortunately, the recoil of the “air suppressor” was too great, and for the sake of the machine's stability, the angle of pitch was limited, so there was nothing to be done about hitting Mina's army at its feet. Renyu realized that this was the last target of the Peralta campaign.
The flames of the shells exploded on the fortress's multi-mounted turret, and the barrel of the “air suppressor” twisted like a twist. The sound of the explosion mixed with the sound of the steel structure twisting was very harsh. After determining that the “air suppressor” had lost its resistance, Giacomo ordered Renyu to stop the shelling. The battle was over. It was time for political talks between Giacomo, the leader of the Mina, and Carlini, the representative of the Peralta family.