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Chapter 1032 Cannonballs
In fact, the word trench has existed for a long time, but most of the time it is not used like Yang Ce.

For example, in ancient China, in order to prevent the enemy cavalry and infantry from attacking, they would dig several layers outside the camp according to the situation, bury some barbed stakes, pour water or gold juice, how to marinate it, anyway. To bathe the enemy.

A moat is a large trench.

In the era of Chen Mu, there were people in the trenches, but he was not the first person in the trenches. During the Battle of Constantinople when the Ottoman Empire fell to Byzantium, Sudanese soldiers got into the trenches to fight with others.

After all, the Ottoman siege is a must.

As for the stone-shooting cannon that Belle of Spain likes, Constantinople has been blasted away time and time again by this thing.

It has been 130 years, what was the Ottoman stone-shooting gun at that time, and the stone-shooting gun in the hands of Spain and France is still the same, except that it is smaller and has fewer patterns.

Billund is not someone who has never seen a trench, but he has certainly never seen someone who gets into a trench before the battle begins.

So many shells have been emptied, so angry!
Thinking that the king conscripted thousands of donkeys and horses along the way, and sent 24 heavy siege cannons and shells weighing tens of thousands of catties here, his wild cannons couldn't hit the enemy, and his siege cannons couldn't hit them. Near the city - Bilong was even more angry.

Just when his artillery stopped shelling, Marshal Biron, who was sitting on his horse and looking at the battlefield, noticed...his enemies seemed to be happy because of the artillery bombardment.

Yes, it was happiness. Although there was a pause, almost all the soldiers in the trenches were cheering, and some even climbed out of the trenches and shouted loudly with open arms.

People are of the same kind, even if the skin color is different, but Billund can feel that the dark soldiers on the opposite side are happy when they emerge from the soil, not to boost their morale.

In fact, Yang Ce didn't know why his subordinates were so happy. Even the Nanyang officers couldn't hold back the soldiers. He didn't know what was going on until a hundred households ran over to show him a cannonball——France The cannonballs of the king's army were not stone, nor Spanish stone or iron bullets, but copper.

Yes.

Biron's troops used a throwing machine made of wrought iron and powered by chemical energy to throw more than 300 catties of copper balls to Yang Ce's trench in a short period of time.

Copper, it is worthless in Daming, far from gold and silver.

Copper wire costs 20 taels of silver per hundred catties, and the prices of red copper, red cooked copper, second-fire brass, and fourth-fire brass are all between [-] catties and ten taels of silver.

However, if it is made into copper coins and becomes an ordinary equivalent, it will be slightly more valuable. A hundred catties of copper coins can be worth fifteen or six taels of silver, but it is still not as expensive as processed copper wire.

But it was very valuable in the Han Dynasty, because the Han Dynasty did not thrive on silver taels, and the four kings of the Han Kingdom were reluctant to hand over silver to the people. The legal currency of the people of the Han Kingdom was Daming Tongbao.

It was not easy for Lin Feng to get Tongbao, so Tongbao had stronger purchasing power in Han, not to mention that the pirate chiefs still used Tongbao to fool those African chiefs, saying that it was a treasure.

What does this mean for the African Army?

This is equivalent to when Chen Mu was fighting someone, and suddenly found that the other side threw gold at him, and he couldn't hit him accurately... Who can resist this!
Seeing that Billund did not fire the cannon, the African Army became anxious, jumping out of the trench one by one and roaring loudly.

Chen Jiujing on the city wall was delighted, and raised his hand to pat Margaret's helmet, shaking the woman inside dizzily: "Look at General Yang's soldiers, they are very motivated! They didn't feel discouraged at all after being bombarded." , challenged loudly, with such morale, he can cross my trenches than Lun? Chen really misjudged, he is really a warrior!"

Billon was so angry that he ordered another blast.

It turned out to be the same thing, and people were once again in the trenches.

After each Franc cannon fired six bullets, the African Army that jumped out was even more aggressive. This time, many people took off their pants, turned around and slapped and shouted at the King of France with their black buttocks. , It was like a group of demons dancing on the front line.

They didn't even need military music, all they heard was the sound of tinkling copper coins, and more than 300 catties of copper arrived in the account.

No one took the dead bodies of Pao Ze seriously, and the atmosphere in the battlefield was extremely cheerful.

This scene was also seen by an army hidden in the forest to the southwest of the right bank. They were the cavalry of the Kanguru tribe returning from Agen and the stragglers of the Kingdom of Navarra.

When Kanggulu arrived in Agen, the battle was almost over. The Huguenot rebels, whose main weapons were pitchforks, logging axes, and ball-headed hammers, defeated the royal army armed to the teeth with the help of the Agen defenders. With heavy losses and wounded leaders, they were unable to pursue the enemy.

Most of the king's army who had discarded their helmets and armor finally died in Arang, and only a small number of cavalry and infantry who fled into the forest in time escaped Kanggulu's pursuit.

But the situation of King Bourbon Henry of Navarre is not very good. His breastplate was cut full of scratches and dents, and there were a few small lead cakes inlaid on the armor. The marks didn't really hurt him a hair.

The real big problem was a crossbow bolt.

The crossbow bolt pierced through his armor and penetrated below his collarbone, not far from his heart and neck.

Seeing Kangurus' cavalry appear on the battlefield to hunt down his enemies, the king smiled like a child, and fainted with happiness after ordering his vassals to 'advance to Bordeaux'.

He didn't wake up until less than ten miles away from the city of Bordeaux. Kang Gulu felt that the king was awakened by fright.

Otherwise, what else could make the 'king', who had been carrying a high fever on the road and carried by his subordinates for two hundred miles, suddenly wake up?
Kanggulu thought for a while, and it might be the roar of the African Army.

Anyway, Kang Gulu doesn’t think that this unlucky guy who was not killed by the gun but was shot by the crossbow arrow is the king. If he is the king, then Kang Gulu is also the king. Harbin, oh sorry, it’s the Hada department. Valla is much bigger.

Bourbon Henry, with a pale complexion, sweating profusely, and shirtless arms wrapped in white cloth, pushed away his doctors and vassals, stumbled slowly to Kanggulu's horse, leaned on the tree trunk and looked towards Bordeaux with dazed eyes looking at.

Due to the angle, he couldn't see Billund's royal army, he could only hear the sound of shelling one after another, but he could see that after each shelling that made his liver tremble, dense black soldiers would emerge from the soil one after another. Emerging, it made a louder roar than dozens of artillery salvos.

He asked almost unconsciously in French: "What are you doing there?"

Only Kang Gulu answered him: "Huh?"

After reacting, Henry smiled at Kang Guru embarrassedly, and asked again in Spanish: "What are they doing?"

Kang Gulu could only shake his head subconsciously, bang and yell, if sound waves could kill people, there might be no one left in France: "I too... fainted again?"

Ugh.

Hearing the bang, Kang Gulu sighed in his heart, looked back at Bourbon Henry's men who had just replaced the pitchforks with captured weapons, and were covered in wounds, and interpreted to the Baishan camp beside him: "Let these gangs People carry their leader from the south, and go into the city to treat the wounded, this little thing is dying."

"All dismount, let the animals rest, and prepare to attack them."

(End of this chapter)