What is "artillery fire"

Usage examples of "artillery fire".

They would pound the Spaniards with artillery fire, as Effingham had, but their guns were far heavier than anything Queen Elizabeth's navy had been able to bring to bear against Medina Sidonia.

This area was supposedly safe from infiltration, and there had been no artillery fire from the Flenserists for hours.

And it was apparent to Sunday that very little of it had been artillery fire.

Cochran put some artillery fire on the roadblock and destroyed it.

They'd built a lot of the Rapier antitank guns, and duly copied NATO guided antitank weapons, but you dealt with those by blanketing an area with artillery fire, and Peng had lots of guns and mountains of shells to deal with the unprotected infantrymen who had to steer the missiles into their targets.

The Big Uglies knew enough to move forward in open order, which left them less vulnerable to artillery fire.

There might still be 50,000 of the centaurs out there to our West, but they are busy in Stockton and trying to avoid the artillery fire.

They reached Klameth Canyon country without drawing down artillery fire onto their heads, but the last few kilometers were fraught with tension.

On the remote television screen that adorned one wall of his command post he saw a nightmare he had somehow hoped he would never see again, a sea of reptilian centaurs chewing through wire, mines, and machine gun and artillery fire to get at the defenders.

The trees had either been blasted to bits by artillery fire or cut down to form barricades across the broad streets.