As early as April, Arda Navy began conducting land and water reconnaissance on the upper reaches of the Ves River. However, he was riding a galley on the water, pretending to be an ordinary businessman. They must find out the water level, siltation and other information, otherwise, what if a larger warship carrying nearly twenty Artillerys and hundreds of sailors comes in and accidentally runs aground.
They also knew the ports along the river clearly. Based on this ready information, Staff Department finally chose a place named Fish Tail Town after repeated considerations.
The lord of Fish Tail Town is named Solo Carter. He is a Viscount. He was originally a vassal of the Ferdinand Family, but his allegiance is now to Maltz Kent - now his official title is Malz·Ferdinand.
This Viscount has realized that he may become the target of Arda Navy. After all, Arda has just wiped out the pirates not long ago. He obviously has considerable water power. It is logical to attack Ves River upstream.
Therefore, after the war between the two major factions of Northwest Bay, he strengthened Fish Tail Town's defenses, repaired the city walls, and trained Militia. He did not know where he got four ballistae.
But Staff Department still chose this place because the dock facilities here are the most complete and are enough to unload various supplies. Alarda Army's logistics requirements exceed those of other armies of the same era.
After entering June, the increase in precipitation made Ves River more abundant, and the monsoon from the sea was enough to provide sufficient power for Sailing Warship. After more than a week of intensive preparations, Second Fleet and A total of 16 Third Fleet ships set out with two Infantry Battalions. In addition to the four Sailing Warships, the Navy also had 12 galleys, some of which were the Navy's own ships and some of which were recruited from civilians. Including sailors, the first wave of troops in this expedition totaled more than 1,600 people.
Just when Overlord Operation was about to start, Arda's aid supplies also came to Biduo Fort along with Derrick.
"How could he... how could he do this? Greiman is really outrageous."
Earl Mairken looked angry, but what made him angry was not that Greiman didn't send troops directly.
"How could he transport the goods here without everyone's consent? How much money will this cost?"
What really made him angry was that Paul gave them the weapons and armor that [Northwest Industry] was waiting to export without authorization.
After hearing what Earl Mairken said, everyone in the hall fell silent.
Earl Price Parker: "Ahem, the situation is urgent. It is understandable for Earl Greiman to do this. With this batch of ordnance, it will be easier for us to defend Biduo Fort."
He turned to Derrick: "So, we only need to hold on for two weeks, right?"
Derrick confirmed. "That's what Earl Greiman said, unless... unless Alarda Army Ves River's upstream action failed."
Someone began to pray silently.
Earl Parker encouraged everyone. "Cheer up, everyone, after all we have 4 Artillery!"
When Artillery was mentioned, everyone's eyes lit up. Greiman actually gave them such a sharp weapon. Thinking of Artillery's outstanding performance in Battle of Biduo Fort last time, it made people excited.
At this time, a total of 4 Artillerys were brought. The four families of Heller, Parker, Malcolm, and John ston sent the most troops, so each family was allocated a Artillery. The other small lords only coveted it.
"Boom!"
On the top of the Biduo Fort city wall, the Arda Artillerymen instructor who followed was teaching the coalition forces' Soldiers how to operate the Artillery.
The Artillery that assisted the coalition forces, even for the Alarda Army, is a new type of Artillery - Nested Cannon. In another time and space, there is another name "Folangji". It was introduced from Portugal in the Ming Dynasty and was manufactured in large quantities.
This is an iron breech-loading smoothbore cannon. The whole gun consists of three parts: barrel, belly and sub-cannon. The gunpowder and projectiles are all installed in the sub-cannon. When shooting, the sub-cannon is directly put into the belly of the cannon. After firing one sub-cannon, another cannon is put in for firing. Because the propellant and projectiles are packaged in advance in the sub-cannon, the rate of fire is greatly improved compared to the previous front-mounted Artillery.
Therefore, Paul gave it another name - "Rapid-Fire Cannon".
However, due to technical limitations, Arda's cannon-casting craftsmen have not yet been able to solve the problem of a large gap tolerance between the sub-cannon and the barrel, resulting in a large amount of gunpowder gas leakage. Therefore, Rapid-Fire Cannon has a short range and can only shoot more than 300 meters. Moreover, due to the relatively complex mechanism, it can only be made relatively small.
The four Rapid-Fire Cannon come with a total of 20 sub-cannons, which is enough to maintain "uninterrupted firepower" for quite some time.
Soldiers from the coalition forces gathered on the city wall, watching the lucky one selected operate the legendary "Thunder Hammer". With the roaring roars, the city wall continued to make sounds of exclamation and admiration. The power of Artillery when it fired was really scary.
It is impossible for rookies like Church to deduce the distance and calculate the pitch angle of Artillery in a short period of time. Even Alarda Army relies more on the gunner's own experience and intuition.
So the Arda instructor first asked the Artillerymens to shoot at different angles, then measured the distance between the impact point and the castle, and drew an eye-catching circle mark with white lime at the impact point as a reference for quick aiming after the battle started.
In the early morning of June 3, the figure of the Kent Army appeared in the wilderness outside Biduo Fort. There was a loud roar in the castle, and the defenders rushed to the walls, nervously preparing for battle.
"It feels like they have more than 8,000 people coming this time."
"Oh my God, it looks like that guy Malz is going to defeat us."
The lords whispered and frowned. There were now more than 2,000 defenders in the fort, which was far fewer than the enemy.
"Oh! Who are those big guys?"
Jia Ais looked at the fortress in front of him with satisfaction, feeling excited that he was about to get revenge. The last battle at Biduo Fort left him with an unforgettable shame that even a series of previous 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 next to him, wrapped in a cloak, whispered, "Master Viscount, since it is a siege, my people are only providing support."
Jia Ais smiled and nodded, "Okay, Captain Doug! But when we advance to the wall later, we still need your longbow to suppress the opponent."
The man in the cloak nodded.
Jia Ais waved his hand. "Hurry up and prepare our [Thunder Hammer]!"
The six behemoths slowly advanced towards Biduo Fort driven by Soldiers.
Those were six huge trebuchets.