Perhaps seeing the greed in my eyes, Vincent grinned smugly as he began. He led us to a gun on wheels. It had a 16.7-foot barrel and looked like a knight's spear pointed skyward.
If you asked any soldier in the world, "What do you want more by your side than your lover?" they would answer only one thing. "The biggest gun you can give me." And the biggest guns any army could field were not the ones carried by people. It would be those on wheels.
While most people equated war with knights, there was a reason they were no longer around. And while muskets had something to do with their decline, what ended them was something else.
It was something that changed the face of war. Something that made the medieval armored knight, the symbol of military power, obsolete.
It was, of course, the field artillery.
