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Chapter 1697 Dynamite and Bastion

"General, picric acid explosives have arrived."

A group of 1000 marines escorted the supplies, and they defeated the French cavalry who tried to attack them.

"Finally more powerful explosives have arrived. We have been blocked in Amiens for 10 days."

Sun Chuanting personally brought people to inspect the carriages transporting gunpowder.The carriage was loaded with heavy explosives. The transportation of this unstable explosive was dangerous and the output was not high. Sun Chuanting and others had never used this explosive during the previous siege of the fortress.

"What's this?" Prince Rupert noticed a marine escorting the carriage, and couldn't help but brought a few knight guards over to check in doubt.

"Dynamite, something more ferocious than black powder, is more than ten times more powerful." Sun Chuanting said.

"Hiss... more than ten times?!" Prince Rupert gasped in surprise when he heard Sun Chuanting say that the gunpowder they brought over was more than ten times more powerful than black powder.

The only way they can increase the power of gunpowder is to improve the ratio of various raw materials of black powder or to ensure the purity of raw materials, but they have never heard of explosives that are more powerful than black powder.

"This is a very dangerous gunpowder. It is very unstable and prone to explosion and loss of control. We have no way to use it on shells. It is most suitable for use as explosives." Sun Chuanting said.

"I thought of it... During the First Mediterranean War, you also used this powerful gunpowder when you captured the Pennion Fortress in Algiers. When it exploded, it would produce a lot of flames." Prince Rupert I participated in the first Mediterranean operation and saw picric gunpowder.

Generally speaking, the Chinese Kyushu Army still uses black powder and solid projectiles the most. Only when they want to capture the fortress as soon as possible will they use this kind of explosive that is not high in production and has to be shipped to the West at the risk of explosion.

"Break through their defenses as soon as possible, march towards Paris, and end this long war." Sun Chuanting applied to the Ministry of the Navy for a batch of explosives, in order to break through France's defenses as soon as possible.

His legion has been held back by the ubiquitous fortress for 2 months, and the long war has made people lose their temper.

There are deep and wide ditches on the outskirts of Amiens, behind which is a solid earth-stone fortress with a wall several meters thick. Soldiers and cannons are stationed in the fortress. Some of the outer fortifications were temporarily built by French defenders and soldiers.

When gradually approaching Paris, the opposite side assembled a large number of troops in Amiens, relying on the fortress here to block the Holy Alliance.

Various banners were flying, and a rebel army of 7000 people supported the front line. They entered Amiens to defend their homeland with the local defenders and townspeople.

The number of defenders in Amiens reached 1, and 4.5 troops were stationed outside.

As Sun Chuanting and the others approached Paris, Prince Condé also had to find a way to stop the offensive of the Holy Allies, otherwise, once someone came to Paris, there might be an uprising in Paris, or the king's prestige would be demolished.

"I hope that Amiens can become the strongest line of defense against their offensive." Prince Condé stood on a hillside, and his troops and Amiens had horns.

The Continental Allied Forces seized the high ground near Amiens in advance, and deployed the artillery transported from the rear on this high ground.

Beside him are the Duke of Brandenburg, General De Mello of Spain, and Koniecpolski, the royal commander of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth who led 5000 Polish hussars and Cossack cavalry to support him.

Behind him is a group of prestigious Polish hussars, wearing light helmets and chain mail, with sabers from Poland, Hungary or Genoa at their waists, special saddles and stirrups with a strong oriental style, and long necks Spurs, heavy saber beside the saddle.There were also one or two spring-loaded muskets in holsters before the saddle.

In addition, they also hold special lances, with long and bright spear flags hanging on the front end.

"Their attack on Amiens has begun." The Duke of Brandenburg pointed to the Amiens Fortress, which was billowing with smoke.

For ten days, Sun Chuanting and the others let engineers and captured prisoners dig trenches close to the city wall, and then used wicker baskets filled with soil clods to form a temporary earth wall to protect the artillery and blasters from attacking the low but thick city wall.

The cannons were roaring, and the familiar gunpowder smoke filled the battlefield. The amount of smoke produced by the black powder was astonishing, which greatly hindered the field of vision of the battlefield.

"We have sent dozens of artillery pieces to the local area, which may be able to block their offensive." Prince Condé should have full confidence in his fortress, but now he can't be confident, because the other party has been fighting for two months. Conquered several fortresses.

The artillery bombardment of the bastion lasted for two hours, during which time the artillery inside the fort also fired outwards.

At this time, the blaster used the trench to quickly approach the ground of the parapet of the bastion.

"retreat!"

They ignited the detonating cord that detonated the picric acid gunpowder, and then quickly left the blast site.

Occasionally, whistling bullets fell from their heads, killing some of the blasters.

However, the detonating cord had already been ignited, and the already unstable picric acid explosive was detonated after the blasters withdrew!
Rumbling--

The sound of explosions soaring into the sky came one after another, and the flames engulfed the parapet of the bastion! ! !
The shock wave from the explosion tore through the walls of the earth-stone fortress, and the hot flames shot up along the parapet! ! !

The defenders on the city wall felt their feet shaking and the ground shook. The city wall was affected by the explosion and inevitably collapsed. The bronze cannons deployed on it were buried in the rocks as the city wall collapsed!

All the defenders were frightened by the violent explosion. They looked at the parapet blasted by the gunpowder, and most of the low and thick earth and stone walls were blown down.

The flames were still spreading, and the walls that had barely collapsed were in danger.

"fire!"

The artilleryman pushed the artillery forward again, and the roaring solid bullets destroyed the last tenacity of the city wall, and a gap appeared in the fortress!

The defenders of the fortress were extinguishing the flames that splashed into the fortress, and at the same time they had to block the exposed gaps in time.

"Let the Indian soldiers go up and capture the gap."

Sun Chuanting saw that the explosives had seriously damaged the city wall, and the fortress had a gap after the artillery bombardment, so he sent Tubang soldiers to attack.

The Tubang soldiers wearing turbans held muskets and marched towards the gap despite the cross-fire bombardment from other directions of the bastion.

Now Sun Chuanting is used to letting Tubang soldiers take the lead. They are quite effective after undergoing rigorous training. Peninsula recruitment, after simple training, you can go to the battlefield.

(End of this chapter)