Chapter 522: Artillery Fire
Following the female knight into the battlefield, Fulvio finally saw clearly what was radiating the feeling of oppression just now.
It was a human who looked swollen and corrupted, but his body had swelled beyond the limits of ordinary people.
Even with a stooped body, it is already more than three meters tall. The body is rotten and swollen like a giant. The stinky venom flowing from the pus spores that are constantly bursting and proliferating...
No matter what From any angle, this looks like the creation of an evil mage that only appears in fantasy stories.
But Fulvio clearly knew that this was a "blessing" from a certain evil god.
"Attention, everyone! This is the disease giant corpse of the Swollen Mother Sect. Be careful not to touch the venom on its body. It is extremely corrosive and will spread the disease. Everyone uses a breathing mask! Use long-range weapons and flames to attack as much as possible!" Fulvio, as the referee knight, immediately reminded others how to deal with the enemies in front of them. They have a complete set of response procedures after dealing with various evil sects for many years.
After Fulvio told the relevant information about the enemy in front of him, their team immediately took out a breathing mask from each of them and put it on their faces.
The exception is the White Wolf Knights who have already put on the Steam Knight Armor, because the Steam Knight Armor itself has its own air filtration function. As long as the helmet is worn properly, it will naturally function as a breathing mask. function.
As the first white wolf knight to put on the steam knight armor and rush to the front, the female knight immediately raised her portable rapid-fire cannon and pointed it at the huge living corpse. Just one shelling.
For Judgment Knights like Fulvio, this kind of close-range bombardment is somewhat beyond their understanding.
Although the church quickly prepared steam knight armor for them after arriving in the north, the church still prepared the equipment for them according to the traditional configuration of referee knights.
Although they are also equipped with long-range weapons such as multi-barreled heavy machine guns, the main weapon of the Steam Knight Armor of the Judgment Knights is still an enlarged two-handed heavy sword or half-handed sword with a shield.
This configuration is of course not used on the battlefield, but is specially prepared for the combat environment that the referee knight needs to face.
According to the church’s many years of experience, in the combat environment that the Judgment Knights need to face, the various battlefield weapons commonly used by secular knights often lack room for use.
In contrast, the half-hand sword, which is more suitable for indoor environments or narrow areas, can work very well.
So the Judgment Knights had no objection to the equipment provided by the church, and even Purficott did not express any objection to it.
This also led to the fact that the Judgment Knight had never experienced what it was like to have a comrade beside him carrying a cannon to fight.
The power of the 75mm portable rapid-fire cannon is not too great, but it is still a 75mm caliber artillery. It still makes a huge sound and air waves when it is fired, which made it difficult to provide the female knight with the original plan. Fulvio, who was guarding him, was stunned and his ears were buzzing from the sound of the cannon.
But fortunately, as a Judgment Knight, Fulvio's combat experience and physical fitness allowed him to quickly stabilize his body, quickly adjust his condition, and put a shield in front of him. , holding a sword in one hand and looking vigilantly at the target ahead that was blocked by the smoke from the shelling.
Fulvio is so vigilant, naturally he is acting based on his past combat experience. After all, once the smoke obscures the sight, it will be difficult to determine the enemy's situation and it will be easy to be attacked.
But the female knight and other white wolf knights on the side were already very familiar with this. They did not stop to observe the effect of the bombardment, but continued to fire without hesitation, and three more steam knights joined them. joined the shelling ranks.
There were four portable rapid-fire cannons, and each of them fired three rounds. This is one of the tactics of the steam knights. When encountering a target with strong defense or a large size, it is necessary to focus fire quickly and effectively, directly burying the enemy with excessive firepower, instead of rushing up to melee without any plan.
It turns out that this is indeed a very effective tactic.
When the female knight fired the second shot, they had actually noticed that dark red blood mist was shaken out from the smoke. It was obvious that the target had been seriously injured.
However, the White Wolf Knights still followed the tactical instructions and fired twelve shells with four people, and each of them still had two shells in the magazine.
If the target is not killed, they can focus fire for another round.
But when the smoke cleared, they knew it was no longer necessary.
Because the terrifying-looking giant plague corpse had been blown into pieces, and it was difficult to find even a slightly larger corpse.
Almost all of them were broken into palm-sized pieces, evenly distributed in a crater with a radius of about twenty meters.
Seeing this scene, Fulvio's eyes twitched slightly. He had never seen such a scene before.
After all, although the church has money and can equip various weapons, it is only limited to cold weapons or limited thermal weapons. As for artillery, the church is not allowed to possess such things.
So even though Fulvio is an old knight who has experienced many battles, he has never seen what kind of scene this kind of artillery fire is like.
But he also had to admit that this thing is really easy to use!
In the past, for a giant plague corpse like this, the Judgment Knight would have to join at least one or two standard troops to kill it with difficulty at a certain level of casualties. Moreover, if you were not careful, you would be succumbed to the plague it spread. Infected by toxins.
Follow-up processing is even more troublesome. After all, such a large source of plague must be burned in time even if it is killed.
But it is obviously not an easy task to burn such a big corpse. Just setting up a firewood to burn it will take at least several carriages of firewood to be burned.
However, now, not only it was blown up with just one round of concentrated fire, but also the body was broken into small pieces of meat, which made it much easier to deal with.
"These corpses must be burned and purified to avoid the spread of pollution. Even the land here must be sprinkled with holy water to treat the contaminated parts." Although the battle failed to help, at least in Fulvio is indeed an expert on how to handle follow-up issues.
He not only reminded the White Wolf Knights how to deal with the follow-up, but also personally gave instructions on how to burn them quickly and well.
Soon, with the efforts of the city guards accompanying them, these corpse fragments were effectively and properly disposed of, while the White Wolf Knight, Fulvio and others maintained fully armed State, went to the settlement where the plague corpse appeared.
(End of this chapter)