Iron Power And Sorcerer

Iron Power And Sorcerer Chapter 89

2021-03-31

Chapter 89 Fortress
The gun fort at the entrance of Red Sulphur Bay is located on the west coast of the bay, and another The small pier is located on the east coast of the bay, facing the cannon across the sea.

The two ends of the sea-retaining iron cable at the entrance of Chisulfur Bay are fixed at the gun fort and the pier respectively.

The structure of this pier is very simple, nothing more than a square surrounded by four rammed earth walls. The bottom edge of the square pier is more than ten meters wide, and the wall height is over six meters, which is about the height of a two-story building.

In the defense system of the old era, this pier was completely out of the table, and it was purely four walls. Not steep enough, not high enough, not even a shooting hole in the parapet.

In the defense system of the new era, this kind of fortification with dead ends, lack of artillery, and purely high defense is outdated.

But for Winters, a team of light infantry who lacked siege means, the fort was still a tough bone to crack.

Atop the fort, the sentinels of the Tanirians were also drowsy. In order to prevent the enemy from quietly approaching from the woods, the trees within 30 meters of the fort had already been cleared away. In the bright moonlight, everything is inescapable.

For the Tanirians defending the fort, the excitement and nervousness of ambushing the Veneta that day had long since dissipated, and all they had to do in this war was a tiresome standing guard , stand guard and stand guard.

Several muffled noises sounded, and the half-asleep sentinel was suddenly awakened by the knocking sound. He shuddered and listened with bated breath, and there were a few more muffled sounds.

This time, he confirmed that it was not his hallucinations, and the voice was coming from under his feet, neither near nor far.

The sentry drew his armed sword and walked lightly to the edge of the parapet, looking down cautiously.

He just stuck his head out when a dark hand suddenly reached out from the wall and grabbed his collar. The next moment, the sentinel only felt a strong force coming from his neck and dragged him directly outside the wall.

The sentinel screamed and fell off the high wall in a head-on-head position, breaking his neck and dying.

Immediately afterwards, two shaved, naked Heards, whose entire bodies were smeared black with ashes and black mud, climbed over the parapet. In order to hide their figures in the dark, they didn't have anything that could reflect light on their bodies, and even the only short blade they carried was baked into matte black.

Winters lurked on the edge of the woods with the rest, watching the two Hurds in action. These two were the warriors Hestas had picked out of all the Hurds, the best at climbing.

No Veneta can climb a six-meter-high wall with their bare hands, not even a rammed earth wall. However, if the remnants and slaves lacking siege weapons wanted to break into this pier, the only way was to send someone to go in and open the pier door.

Winters watched silently as the two ghost-like Heards silently approached the mound and began to climb up. At this moment, even though Winters was an atheist, he suddenly wanted to pray.

But he still heard the sounds he least wanted to hear, screams and landings. He didn't know whether the sound was made by the Hurds or the Tanirians, and the two Hurds had disappeared from Winters' vision.

"It was discovered, change the backup plan!" In the silent night, the scream could be clearly heard even by Winters more than 30 meters away, not to mention the defenders in the fort. Seeing that the sneak attack failed, Winters immediately ordered: "Follow me, even if we all die here, we have to destroy this iron chain!"

tone barely fell , Winters came out more and more with The sorcerer took his gear and strode to the shore. The others were stunned for a moment, and immediately rushed out of the woods.

Everyone stepped forward and ran fast, and the night attack turned into a strong attack, so there was no need to tiptoe.

This pier is located on the high ground near the coast. The end of the iron cable is fixed inside the pier, and it extends from the hole in the pier wall to the water surface.

Unlike the gun fort in the middle of the bay, this fort is less than ten meters from the sea, and the shore part of the iron rope is all within the range of the projectile weapons of the fort. Destroying the chains in front of one's eyes of the defenders without being detected is an impossible task.

But the plan to seize the fort has gone bankrupt, so it can only be done.

However, something that no one expected happened. The gate of the pier first revealed a bright line, and the bright line became wider and wider, and the gate opened slowly.

Winters saw the door open, and before he could think about it, he waved and shouted, "Grab the door!"

The door opened with difficulty less than a meter, and the people inside. She screamed and wanted to close it again, but it seemed to be stuck by something again.

A few steps away from thirty meters away, Winters pulled out his sword and jumped in from the gap between the two wooden doors of the fort with a loud roar.

There were six or seven Tanirian soldiers inside the door, and they were all taken aback when they saw the silhouette flash in. But Winters, who has experienced many life and death battles, did not give the other party time to react at all, and slashed the enemies around him fiercely.

The Tanirian soldiers didn't realize what was going on until Winters nearly split a Tanirian in two.

They screamed and stabbed Winters with knives and guns in their hands. Winters was about to draw a knife to block, but his machete was stuck in the bones of the corpse and couldn't be pulled out.

The current Winters is no longer the fool he was when he left the military academy, he has been tempered in iron and blood.

Finding the machete stuck, Winters dropped the knife and retreated without the slightest hesitation. At the same time, abandoning distracting thoughts and entering a spellcasting state.

Next moment, the gunpowder jug on a Tanirian soldier suddenly explodes. The explosive formidable power not only blasted a big hole in the waist of the soldier carrying the gunpowder, but also injured the soldiers around him, and even Winters was pushed to the gate by a wave of air.

This is Winters' first original spell, modified from Axel's Hair Burn. During the fight on the day of the landing, Winters realized that since the fire spell can ignite the enemy's hair, it can also detonate the gunpowder on the enemy's body. After a few tries, he found the spell to be surprisingly easy to use.

A full pot of gunpowder was detonated, like a bomb dropped in a narrow doorway. Smoke filled the doorway, blood, pieces of meat and intestinal contents were splashed everywhere on the walls and the ground.

The blast of air slammed into Winters' chest like a sledgehammer, causing him to suffocate. But he struggled to stand up, spit out a piece of meat residue that flew into his mouth, picked up a lance from his side and stepped into the smoke again.

Until then, the other Veneta and Heard followed Winters, and the Veneta soldiers and Heard slaves who broke into the gate of the fort were terrified by the tragic scene in front of them, and no one dared to do so. Step into this flesh and blood corridor.

"XX! What are you doing? Kill!" Bud came back to his senses, swearing swear words rarely in his life, and rushed into the fort with a machete.

The officers took the lead, and the others gathered up their courage and screamed into the interior of the fort.

There were only a dozen or so defenders in this fort, half of which were killed by Winters in the doorway. The Winters guys found it.

The surviving Tanirian soldiers were dragged out of cabinets, baskets, and warehouses and pushed to the open space in the center of the fort. Some cried and begged, while others closed their eyes and began to pray. .

The Veneta soldiers and the Hudds surrounded the captives.

"We left them alone and killed them all." Winters, expressionlessly, ordered the captives to be executed. He found a clean towel and was wiping the blood from his face.

The Hurds couldn't understand what Winters was saying, and the Veneta soldiers were at a loss.

Winters didn't say much, grabbed a lance and walked over to the captive, gnashing teeth said, "This is for the soldiers I'm nailed to the stake...I don't have a single one. Forget."

With that, he stabbed a prisoner to death neatly.

The other captives rolled and crawled to escape, but were pushed back by the Veneta and the Hurds on the side.

Bard also held a captive's hair blankly, inserted a machete through his collarbone, and executed a captive.

Two officers took the lead, and the other soldiers gritted their teeth and attacked the remaining captives. There were no Tanirians alive in the fort.

"Two of our men were wounded, but not dead. The Hurds were not killed either...except for those two." Bud and Winters reported the casualties: "They fought to the death and opened the door, Another guy ruined the alarm...if it wasn't for them, we'd be on the coast eating guns by now."

Winters turned his back to Bud and didn't say anything, just giving the matchlock gun reloading.

"It's almost time, you can go to the beach with the flares, you don't have to do the rest." Winters said without looking back: "If we are both gone, who will give Corps Head Where's the delivery? Come on."

Bud sighed, but didn't leave.

Winters also sighed, put down the musket in his hand, turned around and said helplessly: "I know killing prisoners is not good, but if I do it again I will do it again."

"I'm not against your execution of your captives, we really don't have people to look after them," Bud said earnestly. "I just hope you don't get hung up on revenge, and you don't blame yourself for the demise of the Hundred Men Squad."

Winters didn't speak.

Bud stood at attention with a military salute, Winters also stood up and returned the salute solemnly, Bud turned and left.

Bard led two Veneta soldiers away from the fort and moved towards the beach to the south.

Winters used up the remaining molten iron casting materials in one go, and the iron cable across the entrance to the bay was severed on the east bank and sank into the seabed.

Winters saw the Hurd warrior who was desperately trying to open the gate. He finally understood why the Tanirians couldn't close the door, because the Hurds had jammed the door shaft with their own bodies.

His clansman removed his body and laid it flat on the ground. The body had three stab wounds on the abdomen, and almost half of the body was crushed.

Winters gave a military salute to the corpse of the Hurd, as did Veneta's soldiers.

"Don't mourn for him, he is already waiting for us by the Netherworld River." Hestas said calmly: "He went to the Netherworld River as a free man, and we will also be free men Find him as his identity."

The old shaman squatted beside the corpse, put a Silver Coin in the palm of the deceased's hand, and sang the song of the Requiem of the Hurds.

Amid the whispered chorus of the Hurds, Winters led the remaining soldiers and the Hurds from the fort and headed for the cannon in the middle of the bay.

In the ambush a few days ago, although the Tanirians failed to eat the Veneta's revenge fleet, they also had an unexpected harvest.

There is a blocking tactic in naval warfare, that is, self-sinking ships block the entry and exit channels of the enemy's port, and the enemy's fleet is blocked in the port.

Clogging tactics can keep ships in the port from getting out, but also keep the ships outside the port from getting in.

Three sunk warships Veneta lie across the channel of the bay, forming an artificial reef. Even if there is no iron cable blocking the sea, the ship will hit the bottom of the ship after passing through this reef, and even capsize and sink.

It is for this reason that the Red Sulphur Island Council considers Red Sulphur Bay to be impregnable. Even without these two sea-blocking iron cables, this wreck reef alone with two artillery bases is enough to resist the Veneta.

If Veneta's head is hard, and a few warships are sunk, it will completely block the bay.

But tonight was different than usual.

A near-full moon hangs in the sky, and she thwarts Winters' surprise attack. But she will also compensate the Veneta in her own way.

Tonight is the seventeenth day of the lunar calendar, the astronomical tide!
Since nightfall, the tide in Chisulfur Bay has been surging and rising. According to Budd's calculations, the tide will be at its highest level in a month between one and two o'clock.

By that time, not even the wreck reefs could stand in the way of the Veneta warships. As long as the two sea-blocking iron cables are destroyed, the Veneta warship will drive straight in and hit the red sulfur port.

Kalman claims to be able to get Winters off Red Iwo, two at a time through a secret route of smugglers.

But Kalman told Winters it was only to destroy the unity of the Veneta from within. He didn't expect Winters to use this smuggling route to get in touch with the Veneta fleet.

The fleet that has been poised to launch in the open sea will immediately enter the Red Sulphur Bay after receiving the signal from Bard.

Winters can now find a safe place to hide and wait for the Veneta army to capture the Red Sulphur port and return. His mission has been completed, and in the original plan, he only needs to destroy two iron cables.

But he knew there was one more thing he could do—destroy the cannons in the east coast fort.

The Red Sulphur Bay is guarded by two artillery forts.

The cannon on the west bank is beyond his reach, but if he can destroy the cannon on the east bank, many fewer Venetas will be killed.

Winters didn't know what was driving him. He is not for military exploits, nor is it for a sense of honor, this war has no honor for him.

Thinking about it, he convinces himself with only one word: "If you can destroy those cannons, it will kill a lot of Veneta people."

Maybe he just doesn't want to. Saw the dead body of the Veneta.

"Our target is the artillery fort on the east coast." Warrant Officer Winters .Montagne, Chief Battalion Hundred-Men Commander, mobilized before the battle to the last soldiers of the First Hundred Men Squad: "We There are fewer people than the enemy, and the only hope of victory is to fight hard, go in before the enemy reacts, destroy the cannons and withdraw immediately.”

“You have done a lot for Veneta. , but we need to fight again for Veneta." He glanced at the soldiers who were following him in hiding on Red Iwo. Under the bright moonlight, everyone's eyes were sparkling. He stopped talking nonsense and drew out his machete: "Follow me!"

In front of him was the gun fortress of Red Sulphur Island.

(end of this chapter)