Chapter 285

As early as April, the Alda Navy began to conduct land and water reconnaissance on the upper reaches of the Weiss River, but they were on a galley, disguised as ordinary merchants. They had to find out the water level, siltation and other information, otherwise, what if a warship with a larger tonnage carrying nearly 20 guns and hundreds of sailors ran aground accidentally after entering.

They also knew the ports along the river clearly. Based on this ready-made information, the staff considered again and again and finally chose a place called Fishtail Town.

The lord of Fishtail Town is named Solo Carter, a viscount, and a vassal of the Ferdinand family. However, he is now loyal to Maltz Kent - now his official name is Maltz Ferdinand.

The viscount has realized that he may become the target of the Alda Navy. After all, Alda’s extermination of pirates has just happened, and it is obvious that it has considerable water power. It is also a natural thing to attack upstream along the Weiss River.

Therefore, after the two major factions in the northwest bay went to war, he strengthened the defense of Fishtail Town, repaired the city walls, trained militia, and got four crossbows from nowhere.

However, the General Staff still chose this place because the dock facilities here are the most complete, enough to unload various supplies, and the logistics requirements of the Arda army are higher than those of other armies of the same era.

After entering June, the increase in precipitation made the water volume of the Weiss River more abundant, and the monsoon from the sea was enough to provide sufficient power for the sailing warships. After more than a week of intensive preparations, the Second Fleet and the Third Fleet set off with a total of 16 ships carrying two infantry battalions. In addition to 4 sailing warships, the navy also had 12 galleys, some of which were the navy's own ships and some were recruited from the public. Including the sailors, the first wave of troops for this expedition had a total of more than 1,600 people.

Just as Operation Overlord was about to begin, Arda's aid materials also arrived at Bidoburg with Derrick.

"How could he... How could he do this? Graman is really outrageous."

Earl Melken was furious, but what made him angry was not that Graman did not send troops directly.

"How could he transport the goods here without everyone's consent? How much money would it cost?"

What really made him angry was that Paul arbitrarily gave them the weapons and armor waiting to be exported by [Northwest Industry].

After hearing what Earl Melken said, everyone in the hall fell down.

Earl Price Parker: "Ahem, the situation is urgent, and it is understandable that Earl Graman did this. With this batch of weapons, it will be easier for us to defend Bido Castle."

He turned to Derrick: "So, we only need to hold on for two weeks, right?"

Derrick confirmed: "Earl Graman said so, unless... unless the Arda army's operation upstream of the Weiss River fails."

Some people began to pray silently.

Earl Parker encouraged everyone: "Come on, everyone, after all, we have 4 cannons!"

When it comes to cannons, everyone's eyes light up. Graman actually gave them such a powerful weapon. Thinking of the excellent performance of the cannons in the last battle of Biddo Castle, it makes people excited.

At this time, a total of 4 cannons were brought. Heller, Parker, Melken, and Johnston sent the most troops, so each family was allocated a cannon, and the other small lords could only envy.

"Boom!"

On the top of the wall of Biddo Castle, the Alda artillery instructor who came with him was teaching the soldiers of the coalition how to operate the cannon.

The cannons aided to the coalition are a new type of cannon even for the Alda army-the mother-and-child cannon. In another time and space, there is another name "Flangji". It was introduced from Portugal during the Ming Dynasty and was manufactured in large quantities.

This is an iron breech-loading smoothbore cannon. The whole cannon consists of three parts: the barrel, the belly, and the cannon. The gunpowder and projectiles are all packed in the sub-cannon. When shooting, the sub-cannon is directly placed in the belly of the cannon. After firing one sub-cannon, another cannon is put in to fire. Because the propellant and projectiles are pre-packaged in the sub-cannon, the firing rate is greatly improved compared to the previous front-loading cannon.

Therefore, Paul gave it another name-"rapid-fire cannon".

However, due to the limited technical level, the cannon casting craftsmen of Alda have not yet solved the problem of large tolerance of the gap between the sub-cannon and the belly of the cannon, resulting in more leakage of gunpowder gas, so the range of the rapid-fire cannon is short, only more than 300 meters, and because of the relatively complex mechanism, it can only be made relatively small.

The four rapid-fire cannons are equipped with a total of 20 sub-cannons, which is enough to maintain "uninterrupted firepower" for quite a while.

The soldiers of the coalition gathered on the city wall, watching the lucky ones who were selected to operate the legendary "thunder hammer". With the roars again and again, the city wall continued to exclaim and admire, and the power of the cannon when firing was really scary.

It was impossible to teach these rookies how to infer the distance and calculate the elevation angle of the artillery in a short period of time. Even the Arda army itself relied more on the experience and intuition of the gunners themselves.

So the Arda instructors first asked the artillerymen to shoot at different angles, then measured the distance between the impact point and the castle, and marked the impact point with white lime to mark a conspicuous circle as a reference for quick aiming after the battle began.

In the early morning of June 3, the Kent army appeared on the field outside Bido Castle. The castle was filled with the sound of conch shells, and the defenders rushed to the top of the wall, nervously preparing for battle.

"It feels like there are more than 8,000 of them this time."

"Oh my god, it looks like Maltz is going to take us."

The lords whispered, frowning. There are more than 2,000 defenders in the fort, far less than the enemy.

Take a look at the book bar!

"Oh! What are those big guys?"

...

Jais looked at the fort in front of him with great pride. He was excited about the upcoming revenge. The last battle in Bido Castle left him with an unforgettable shame, so that the previous series of victories could not let him go.

"Today I can finally wash away the humiliation, right where it started...!"

He clenched his fists tightly.

A man wrapped in a cloak next to him whispered: "My Lord Viscount, since it is a siege, my people are just providing support."

Jais smiled and nodded: "Okay, Captain Doug! But when we advance to the wall later, we still need your longbows to suppress the opponent."

The man in the cloak nodded.

Jia Aisi waved his hand: "Hurry up and prepare our [Thunder Hammer]!"

Six huge monsters slowly advanced towards Biduo Castle under the push of the soldiers.

They were six huge catapults.