Chapter 376, Steam Tank and Gray Stone Faraday Cage
On the chaotic battlefield, the rat people and the ghost-eyed people are still fighting day after day.
Death, roar, rising dust, the cracked and cracked earth dyed with various weird colors by chaotic elements.
It seems to be an illusion. I always feel that some soil from the battlefield is dug out and filled into the Ratman's latest magic steam hybrid furnace. It seems that it can be used as fuel.
The war has been going on for a long time, and both sides have accumulated too many lives on this small piece of land.
That big river will be filled up by the rat people with the wreckage of war equipment and warships. The river water is no longer as clear as it used to be, and has become turbid and black. It is obviously a big river that is constantly surging, but in this section In the area, it looks like a dirty, smelly ditch.
Twisted steel structures and wreckage, these things pierced out of the turbid black water like sharp and twisted thorns, spreading unbridled on the river.
There has to be a winner or loser.
There is always a winner.
The war priests on the other side of the river almost always set their sights on the fortress opposite that is covered with mottled scars, and always focus their sneaky eyes on those exhausted On the human army.
Their tactics are not so clever or sophisticated, but rather dull, but they can bring maximum pressure to the heretics, and are most suitable for the current situation of the rat people.
It means endless pressure, pressure, pressure, and more pressure, without giving those humans any chance to breathe, looking for every possible opportunity, pressure, and more pressure.
Just like now.
The war priests sensed a possible opportunity.
Not long ago, an army broke away from this fortress and left towards the rear. This may have something to do with the flag that was constantly marching across the river, but there is no doubt that this made the Dark Eye human race in this fortress There was a slight omission in the defense on this front.
These warriors of the Ghostly Eyes are not the golems made of steel. They have seriously lacked the necessary repairs in the long war. The rotation of the battle line relies on the constant replacement of the fixed armies in the fortress.
Not long ago, one of the armies left this front.
So? So! Press on some more Skaven! Press on some more Skaven!
Like this? Will this crush these damn heretics?
The idea occurred.
These war priests did not just think about this matter, they really tried it like this.
Countless young ratmen who were newly recruited into their command were simply sent to the battlefield after being given a simple magic spear.
The weapons in the hands of the Ratmen have been constantly iterated.
It must be admitted that Gray Stone is already an absolutely key figure in the field of rat weapons.
The things he tinkered with are very special. The magic rifle has become a very exaggerated thing through continuous iterations. In a fully loaded attack, it can even penetrate those Iron golems created by human mages for their mage towers or spell nodes on the battlefield.
And the most important thing is that Gray Stone's works are born with a temperament that seems to be incompatible with the Ratman's technological line.
Reliability, the weapons he developed actually possess reliability and safety.
This allowed the Ratmen's gun-carrying teams to gradually become famous on the battlefield. With the updating of weapons, the gun-carrying teams continued to improve their shooting skills after surviving the battlefield time and time again.
As for why these gun-carrying groups are able to survive from the battlefield again and again, it is probably because the weapons in their hands can shoot far enough.
Some of these experienced guys are constantly approaching the elite units. Standing in the corners of the battlefield, at the edge corners that are difficult to observe, they accurately target the commanders and mages of the Dark Eye human race on the battlefield. Some tricky targets for sniping and point-killing.
Of course, there are only a few gun-carrying teams who can do this. Most of them are better at raising the magic guns in their hands in a safe corner behind the large army, and dancing and dancing to attack the enemy. That's a slightly more precise suppression attack.
And sometimes it is inevitable to beat up friendly troops.
Just how to put it, we need these bluffing guys on the battlefield, but they can’t all be such bluffing guys.
Those unlucky ones who charge forward bitterly are the majority on the battlefield, and it is obvious that in the current war, even these cannon fodders had better hold something in their hands.
The spear can no longer be used as the main weapon.
Faced with such a problem, the industrial zone of Waste City was the first to come up with a solution. The cannon fodder-type magic energy rifle has a simple structure. It is just an iron pipe engraved with magic energy patterns and a trigger. Yes, that's it. , a magic rifle was released.
The quality is extremely poor. According to tests, the actual service life of a brand-new cannon fodder type 1 can only support it to fire about ten to fifteen rounds of magic energy beams.
And this is even just the test result under optimal conditions. The more realistic situation is that often within ten rounds, these simple iron pipes may disintegrate themselves. The more realistic situation is that a During the battle, the war priests would probably only give the young guys holding these cannon fodder No. 1 a low-quality soul stone that could only be fired three times.
That’s enough. Various shortcomings have brought it some outstanding advantages that are difficult to ignore, such as extremely low cost, difficulty in production and lightness.
As long as you casually throw out a hundred or two hundred blood mushrooms, those big-claw priests will be able to bring you a batch of cannon fodder that can arm a thousand troops. It can even be said that those who serve as The transportation costs of the inferior green soul crystals of ammunition and the Great Claw Priests are more expensive than those of these broken iron pipes.
Its production difficulty is even more ridiculously low. As long as you want it, no matter which industrial zone in the Rat Man Empire has the ability to produce tens of thousands of such broken water pipes in one day, and that's just At least.
If the industrial zones in the Underground Rat City and Waste City were to put down other things and concentrate on producing such broken water pipes, it would probably not take many days before even the countless slave rats in the Rat Man Empire would be It is now possible for everyone to have a magic rifle.
Under such circumstances, the power of this cannon fodder type is not low. It is definitely far behind the one made by Gray Stone, whether in terms of distance, accuracy and power.
However, compared with the magic firearms commonly installed by the soldiers of the Youyan tribe, although there is also a large gap in the accuracy of shooting distance, to put it more simply, this broken water pipe is not very accurate. The speed can be said, whether it can hit from ten meters away basically depends on fate, but the power is slightly better.
There are problems like this, but due to its low cost and easy production, this simple magic firearm quickly became a regular weapon in the rat army.
For every young ratman newly recruited into the army, his first weapon will probably be this Cannon Fodder No. 1, and his last weapon will probably be this Cannon Fodder No. 1.
On this battlefield at this time.
The young rat warriors rushed to the battlefield amidst the curses of the war priests and crawled out of the trenches, fortresses and ruins. In fear, many young rat warriors would kill themselves at this time. The ammunition has been used up.
The green beams of light scattered all over the sky wantonly, and the effect was good. At least this round of magic energy beams flying all over the sky can indeed temporarily suppress everything on the battlefield. No one wants to The most confusing thing is to be killed by these randomly scattered beams of light. It can prevent these young guys from being killed in large numbers by fierce attacks when they just climb out of the trenches.
Various madness techniques fell down.
The group of war priests were still shouting crazily.
“For the gods, for the great gods!”
“Kill these heretics, kill these heretics!”
“Charge! Charge me!”
The red-eyed young rat people began their own charge. The wreckage of the war equipment and rat warships that sank in the river has become a solid bridge, making it no longer so difficult for the rat people to cross the river. .
The young rat people jumped and ran wildly on the ruins on the river.
Such a scene has happened many times in this area, and everyone is familiar with it.
A variety of magic cannons were pushed onto the battlefield by the Youyan human race.
In these long years, they relied on their absolute superiority in firepower to hold the rat people back.
The rat people are far behind in this aspect. Even though the lightning cannon has been upgraded and modified again and again, it is still far behind the magic energy cannon of the Youyan people.
This situation did not change until the emergence of magic resistance armor.
Amidst the terrifying roar, a huge steam tank rushed across the ground and appeared on the battlefield. Terrifying black smoke continued to spit out from the large chimney behind its butt, and there was even a faint smoke in it. There was a flash of green lightning.
This is the current highest technological crystallization of the Skaven, the new darling of the Big Claw Priests, a steel behemoth that marches ruthlessly on the battlefield.
Steam tanks.
And this is not an ordinary steam tank, it is a specially modified steam tank with aquatic capabilities.
Amidst the terrifying roar, the entire battlefield attracted attention.
Maybe describe this shocking scene.
Including the Soul Lightning Tower it carries, the data of this steam tank is twenty-five meters long, twelve meters wide, and fifteen meters high.
What is this concept? Compared to a car that is eight stories long, four stories wide, and six stories high. It is covered with thick gears, puffs of dark steam, has irregular rough surface armor, and is also Slowly open the turret protective cover in front of you, and the metal monster begins to burst out with deep green lightning.
Not to mention anything else, just in terms of appearance, it is also a first-class eye-catcher.
In fact, as expected, before the steam tank drove into the river amidst the black smoke, the various magic cannons in the fortress began to focus fire on it.
One after another, magical vortices rose around the steam tank, but when the smoke dissipated, the terrifying roar remained the same.
You can vaguely hear the high-pitched laughter coming from the Great Claw Priest on the steam tank.
The protective cover on the turret slowly opened with the rotation of the huge gears, and the terrifying tower wrapped with green lightning was completely revealed on the battlefield.
The Rat Man's steam tank does not have a conventional turret. Instead, it has a lightning tower that can resist magic cannon bombardment to a certain extent. This tower is the steam tank's defense method and its weapon.
More intense black smoke dispersed from the rear of the steam tank, and the green lightning on the tower shook violently.
It began to spread irregularly and gradually enveloped the entire battlefield. It was not just the humans who felt uneasy about these blue lightnings. In fact, the rat people on the battlefield were even more afraid of it.
They panicked and wanted to escape from the dispersing green lightning, but they were still enveloped by the lightning field that opened up on the battlefield.
Shouting in horror, until they suddenly realized that nothing seemed to have happened to them, they did not die like this, they did not become that kind of sluggish human flesh, and they did not even suffer.
No, it wasn't like nothing happened. The hair on their bodies seemed to stand up one by one, and they suddenly found that the magic rifle in their hands started to get hot.
In the stinging pain, he instinctively threw away the weapon in his hand.
And it’s not just the magic rifles in their hands, the entire battlefield, the area shrouded by green lightning, all the magic weapons, whether they are magic rifles, magic cannons, or those The magic lines engraved on the fortress all had different reactions.
The roar that enveloped the entire battlefield paused.
This is the first time this type of steam tank has appeared on the battlefield.
Gray Stone discovered a special situation when iterating on the lightning cannon. In the special situation, the soul energy that should have been gathered together and launched suddenly began to disperse violently, forming a strange and Unstable lightning field. In this field, all magical energy will also become unstable.
This tower was designed based on this discovery.
Based on the friendly relationship between the temple guards and Gray Stone, this weapon was sent to this battlefield as soon as possible.
It really has a very good effect.
The originally chaotic elements in this area became more manic and active in the diffuse lightning field, which also caused all the magical creations on the battlefield to gradually dim. Lost its original function.
Losing magic is not a terrible thing for the rat people, but it is different for that group of heretics
Yes, this is a terrible thing.
The war priests pushed more ratmen onto the battlefield in excitement. With loud shouts, the ratmen began to run wildly.
“Kill them! Kill them!”
“For the gods! For the great gods!”
(End of this chapter)