Chapter 1000： Edinburgh Castle

Only when he came to the bottom of Edinburgh Castle did Saqqara feel its majesty. Before, through the telescope, Sakala just thought that Edinburgh Castle might be troublesome to attack, but when he really came under Edinburgh Castle, Sakhara took a breath of breath ...

Edinburgh Castle is located on a hillside, the elevation is not high. However, that is just the impression from afar. If you really come down the hillside, you will find that this hillside is much higher than the city wall ...

The height of the hillside and the height of the walls of Edinburgh Castle make the army of Saqqara only look up at Edinburgh Castle when they reach the foot of the mountain. And attacking a solid fortress ... Nima, Saqqara can't imagine the level of casualties ...

With the addition of hillsides, the walls of Edinburgh Castle are much higher than ordinary walls. Therefore, this tactic of ant-attacking the city does not need to be considered directly.

Moreover, on the hillside of Edinburgh Castle, only a road down the east leads to the city. But this road is very steep, and there are a lot of artillery on the east wall of Edinburgh Castle. In other words, most of the artillery in Edinburgh City is in Edinburgh Castle to protect the safety of the royal family.

If you attack, you can only choose to attack from the east. At this time, in Edinburgh Castle, there were more than 500 Scottish guards (some of the guards did not have time to escape back to Edinburgh Castle and were scattered on the walls) and 400 French troops. These people are nothing compared with the Fourth Army of tens of thousands. The problem is that the topography of Edinburgh Castle is too great, it is located on a high slope, and there is only one way down the mountain. In this way, the defenders of the castle need only guard the east gate. Although the number of people is small, it can be kept.

Looking at the hard-to-defense Edinburgh Castle on the steep hillside, Sakara's bitter face-how is this broken?

The door of Edinburgh Castle is made of oak, but the problem is-there is no extra gasoline in Saqqara. Otherwise, burn one, and fry it again. Edinburgh Castle is also broken. However, he seriously underestimated the difficulty of Edinburgh Castle.

Of course, it was not his fault alone. Because, Marin, who provided him with gasoline, did not expect the difficulty of Edinburgh Castle. Otherwise, for the other half barrel of gasoline, he would not intend to take it to Italy, but to Sakala.

In fact, Marin hasn't gone south yet, and the half-barrel of gasoline is still local. But Sakala didn't know. If he knew, it would be a few days before he would send a speedboat back home. But gasoline is Marin's secret. No extra information is revealed, and Sakala naturally does not know that Marin still has gasoline. Therefore, he could only sigh at Edinburgh Castle.

He first tried to use gunfire to open the east gate of Edinburgh Castle, but the enemy's artillery was concentrated on the east wall. Although the artillery in Edinburgh Castle is a small-caliber bronze gun, only a few pounds, it is not as powerful as the 32-pound Karon. But the problem is-the opponent's artillery frame is on the hillside wall ...

Those who have studied physics know that it is much easier to shoot guns from the mountain than to shoot them from the mountain. Also, the Karen gun is a short-barreled barrel gun with a too close range. If the two sides fired each other, the Scottish City anti-aircraft gun on the mountain would easily hit the artillery position of the Fourth Army under the mountain.

After some mutual firing, the Artillery of the Fourth Army suffered casualties, but they could not help but the Scottish City anti-aircraft guns on the hill. In desperation, Sakala deserved to temporarily withdraw his artillery position. Because, if you shoot each other, the artillery of the Fourth Army is at a disadvantage. The caliber of the city defense artillery on the mountain is small, but the artillery position that can be used to strike the Fourth Army is enough. Moreover, the opponent's wall was blocked, and the Artillery of the 4th Army could only shoot in the open ground. The Soviet artillery can easily hurt the Artillery of the Fourth Army, but the Artillery of the Fourth Army may not hurt the artillery of the enemy. After all, the opponent has a wall cover ... Such unreasonable shelling of each other, of course, Sakala is not happy. After all, artillery is a very high-grade armament and cannot be lost in vain ...

Then, Saqqara tried another method-dig a pit under the gate of the enemy castle to bury the gunpowder barrel ...

However, the Warriors of the Fourth Army held an oak door, carrying a small shovel, and rushed to the bottom of the east gate of Edinburgh Castle on the hillside, but they were dumbfounded-the ground under the east gate of Edinburgh City Gate was a stone ground, There is no way to dig with a **** ...

So, the deceased who finally rushed up, had to retreat again, telling the bad news to Zakala ...

Sakala sighed in dismay after hearing the bad news. In desperation, he had to order several tentative attacks.

However, the effect of the strong attack was very poor. The opponent's 8 small bronze guns easily returned the strong fourth army soldiers. At the same time, there were 10 matchlock guns on the city head. Such a luxurious configuration, the sword and shield soldiers of the Fourth Army could not resist the firepower above the city. In front of guns, strong attacks can only increase deaths and injuries ...

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After repelling several waves of attacks by the Fourth Army, the confidence of the defenders in Edinburgh Castle increased greatly. They laughed loudly at the city's head, and were using English. After hearing the enemy's mockery, Saqqara was furious. However, he has no solution at all. Can't always, after listening to the sarcasm of the enemy, really go all out?

When he was a guard next to Marin, Marin told them many times-only if we angered others desperately, we should never let others anger and go desperately with each other. Because that is the most stupid way ...

Therefore, although Saqqara was very angry, he endured it without any impulse to continue to attack. Because it was a joke about the lives of the soldiers.

Suddenly, Sakala remembered a story called "Lost Street Pavilion" in the story of "Three Kingdoms" that Marin told.

The story tells that a general named Ma Deng of Shu State chose to camp on the mountain. Then, the enemy's water source was cut off ~ www.novelhall.com ~ Without drinking water, the Shu army was in chaos and collapsed without fighting ...

"The other party is also on the mountain, maybe lack of drinking water?" Sakala thought.

However, when he called the captive to ask, he realized that he wanted to go wrong. Because, such a place that is regarded as a palace and fortress, how can there be no water? Inside the castle, there are wells. Edinburgh Castle is only built on the hillside, the hillside is not high, there is still water in the well. In addition, according to the captives, the food in the castle is enough, enough people to eat for a few months ...

Hearing these bad news, Saqqara was extremely helpless. Because all the signs indicate that Edinburgh Castle is difficult to overcome. Within a few months, don't try to attack.

However, fortunately, there are no reinforcements in Scotland. As for the reinforcements in the south, even if they return, they are not afraid. Because the Fourth Army of Saqqara is more powerful than those thousands of second-line troops. They do n’t come back, but if they come back, Saqqara does n’t mind annihilating them.

Moreover, if the southern Scottish army repatriates, the main force of England commanded by Sivag will not mind following them to Edinburgh. If Sivag ’s army also came together, the attack would be more certain.

But now ... Saqqara thought about it. At the foot of the only mountain road leading to Edinburgh Castle, he made a brick wall to prevent the enemy troops from rushing down the mountain suddenly.

At the same time, he also sent people to repair the south gate of Edinburgh, in case the army of the enemy's recovery-obviously, the forced Sakala was planning to besiege for a long time ...

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