Chapter 421

Fifteen mortars with flowering bullets were fired at the same time. Naturally, the scene was not comparable to that of a single mortar.

Although it's just a test fire, a distance of 1200 meters is nothing to 55 mortars. You should know that in normal training, the distance between one kilometer and two thousand meters is the most.

So, while the sharp whistling of the cannonball still reverberates in the sky, fifteen huge sparks have erupted inside and outside of okron fortress, followed by loud noise and small black mushroom clouds.

Coincidentally, I don't know which gun fired the shell. It just hit the fort of a fortress gun. Even if the fort is so strong and there is a special arch above it to protect the wind and rain, the fortress gun still tumbled down from the fort more than three meters high under the explosion of 400 grams of black powder.

The four or five French soldiers on the fort, who were ready to fire, were also torn apart in the explosion like thatch torn by a hurricane. Then they didn't know where they were blown by the shock wave.

It is estimated that this is the first time that a mortar fire gathering scene appears in the new world of North America in actual combat, so the French who have not seen this scene are stunned by this spectacular scene.

Compared with the earth shaking explosion of hundreds of catapults, the volley of only 15 55 mortars is naturally not so powerful. However, the power of a single 55 mortar is much greater than that of a catapult, and the impact points of 15 mortars are all concentrated in the fortress of okron. Naturally, that kind of scene is another kind of soul stirring!

It may be that the impact points are relatively concentrated, so it is estimated that the smoke generated by the explosion of seven or eight shells fused together to form a huge mushroom cloud.

The black smoke, like the devil's palm, is constantly rising, which adds a kind of fear to this soul stirring explosion. The rising black mushroom cloud is just like the grim smile of death, which makes people shudder.

Because of the barrier of the fortress wall, the stone bear can't see the situation inside the fortress, but the stone bear is sure that after this round of volley, the whole okron fortress will be seriously injured. After all, the Frenchmen in the fortress didn't realize what weapons they were facing before firing.

But it doesn't matter to stone bear. He came here to completely level the fortress.

If the stone bear was salivating for the fortress that occupied the dangerous terrain when he first came to okron fortress, after Baiyun died, he had no feeling for the fortress.

Pulling out this fortress is the biggest goal of the stone bear now!

"In addition to the five 55 mortars aimed at the mountain road outside the fortress, the other ten mortars continued to fire for five rounds!" Stone bear turned his head and said coldly to the messengers around him. There was no emotion in his tone, only a strong murderer.

According to the word, the herald quickly sent out the flag. A few seconds later, ten 55 mortars roared again. The other visible fortress gun on the opposite side didn't even have time to adjust its muzzle.

The firing rate of mortars is considerable. Although the firing speed of this kind of mortar measured by stone bear can't be compared with that of later mortars, if it is shot rapidly in one minute, it can also reach the terrible firing speed of 20 shots in one minute.

However, rapid firing is a big damage to the barrel, so usually the stone bear will not allow rapid firing.

In this era, the average shooting speed of 8 seconds to 10 seconds is enough to flatten all the enemies in front of us.

Now these ten mortars are basically launched at the speed of one shot in ten seconds. Almost a minute later, the once majestic fortress of okron, 1200 meters away, has completely lost its prestige.

The walls of okron fortress are very thick, about one meter thick, and they are all built with huge rocks, which the stone bear had seen when he first went to the fortress.

For such a thick wall, it can't be completely exploded by the power of mortar, but the thick wall also limits the possibility of Flemish escaping in the fortress.

Anyway, after 50 mortar shells fell into the fortress, the whole fortress was full of thick smoke and raging fire.

Although the wall did not explode, the fortress gun on the wall was completely dead. It is estimated that in the volley just now, the French soldier who was going to control the fortress gun had been killed.

Fifty mortar shells, that is, the charge of 10 kg black powder, plus fragments of shells and the iron sand filled inside, exploded in a fortress with a diameter of less than 100 meters. It is estimated that the interior of the fortress has become a hell.

Anyway, from the beginning of the first round of volley to the end of the sixth round of volley, no one ran out of the whole fortress of okron, even on the other two sides of the fortress.

Stone bear knows the situation in okron fortress. Although the fortress looks majestic, it's actually not very good inside. In the whole fortress, except for the city Lord's mansion, which was built with stone, most of the other houses were built with wooden boards, and there were even many dilapidated tents.

In this intensity of fire, even the city hall is estimated to be unable to resist, let alone those wooden houses and tents.

The stone bear nodded to his satisfaction, and then said to the messengers around him, "blow the horn, and let the Musketeers leave 200 people to continue to monitor the marshes in the South and West, while the others March to the fort along the river bank."

After a pause, the stone bear said to the second messenger, "let the mortar team continue to prepare for shooting, and the others prepare to cross the river!"

With these two orders, the soldiers of the first regiment of the explosive bear brigade immediately got busy.

Whether they are grenadiers or Musketeers, they need to receive other training skills besides their own projects, such as engineering skills, simple rescue skills

These are the skills that enable a soldier to survive on the battlefield as much as possible.

The logistics soldiers quickly tied the rafts with ropes, and many soldiers began to cut down trees. If we want to cross the river, we must have enough rafts.

By the time some of the Musketeers who had set up an ambush circle in the swamp area across the river arrived at the fort along the river bank, the stone bear had also crossed the Tennessee River with the raft.

By this time, the fire in the fortress had even begun to extinguish, but no one escaped from the fortress.

Stone bear can say for sure that there are no living people in this okron fortress!