Chapter 302 Artillery Guidance
As early as the counterattack plan was finalized a few months ago, Wendy and her housekeeper Reina wrapped themselves in cotton-padded clothes and sat on the white dragon in the dog days of summer and ran around the Spine of the World Mountains to find a suitable location.
Although this mountain range is difficult for mortals to reach the sky, for Bailong, it is just a matter of flapping its wings. They found it in less than three days.
The original plan was to use explosive arrows or flame arrows, and even a small trebuchet was considered, but Aldai said that I had seen information about gasoline barrel cannons in the God Realm, and this thing is much easier to use.
I always felt that she might have been watching an anti-Japanese documentary.
This is why Li Chengqi specially sent a batch of oil barrels. As for the problems of propellants and explosive packages, Ao Dai personally solved them. She also added new ideas to extend the fuses of the explosive packages, add parachutes, and rely on wind power. spread further.
Of course, forget about accuracy.
Before the test started, Aldai swore that it would be absolutely fine, but when the test started, she said it was not very reliable.
It’s time to reach this point, you have to be reliable even if you’re not reliable.
This may be the difference in thinking between frontline commanders and technical staff.
Wendy was too lazy to talk to Aldai about this. She took out the monocular from her arms and observed the impact point of the volley just now.
Although every effort was made to extend the range, it was only about three hundred meters. After all, there was still a big gap between this thing and a real cannon, not even a gas tank cannon.
But they don't want to rely on this thing to destroy the enemy. To be fair, an army of 120,000 people cannot be blown up in a few hits even if it is exploded with modern cannons, unless it is a cannon-launched atomic bomb.
Seeing that the impact points were all within the expected range, Wendy raised a small red flag and waved it behind her: "Start the bombardment now and use up all the ammunition!"
The soldiers who received the order quickly reloaded, and after a while, there were continuous popping sounds, pushing the explosive package towards the enemy position diagonally below, exploding into colorful sparks.
You can see the panic among the enemy troops below, and you can also see the sparks igniting the flames caused by the flammable materials. However, for the army of Subia Demon Kingdom with good military discipline, this trouble will be solved in a short time.
There were only fifty gasoline barrels stuck on the hillside, and the ammunition they carried was only enough for seven or eight volleys. The damage caused by this firepower was very limited.
But they still fought, and even cooperated specifically with Qihang City to let them launch a feint attack.
The reason is.
The explosive packets fired are not for killing, but for guidance.
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The muffled bangs of the bangs were mixed with the explosions of the explosive packs falling to the ground. This indeed caused some confusion in the Subia Demon Kingdom army, especially the soldiers who were awakened from their dreams, thinking that they had encountered an enemy attack on the camp, and their armor Not even dressed properly, he ran out with weapons in hand, looking around in a mess.
When the officers arrived, the chaotic situation was quickly ended, and everyone worked together to put out the fire under the officer's orders.
Some soldiers were moved near the gate. They believed that the enemy might take advantage of the chaos to launch an attack. After all, the power of the explosive package was really limited. Unless it was unlucky enough to hit them on the head, it would have basically no lethality on people.
"Inform the general that the enemy has launched explosive packages at the north gate to create chaos. There may be other big moves."
The officer ordered the messenger next to him that all changes must be reported to the headquarters as soon as possible.
The messenger next to him nodded and was about to leave.
"What is that!"
Suddenly, panicked voices came from the soldiers putting out the fire.
The messenger turned around and saw a huge red beam of light falling from the sky. It landed on the open space outside the military camp, illuminating the nearby rocks a bright red.
The plasma-like dark red made people shudder, and what was even more frightening was that the red light pillar began to slowly rotate and expand.
Standing in the distance, you can clearly see the rotating red light pillar falling on the ground and turning into a rotating magic circle pattern. It is impossible to identify what kind of magic it is with the officer's level of knowledge, but what is certain is that the huge magic The formation has almost covered the entire north gate. Once activated, the power of this magic cannot be underestimated. Now it was too late to order the soldiers near the gate to escape, but the soldiers guarding the gate thought that we could still save our lives, so they turned around and ran for their lives under the illumination of the red light, only regretting that their parents had lost two legs.
Amid the sense of panic and crisis, the rotating red magic circle suddenly disappeared, as if it had never appeared before. It made people wonder if it was just to scare them.
The fleeing soldiers even slowly slowed down. They couldn't tell what was going on. They could only glance around in confusion to make sure there was nothing wrong, and then looked up at the night sky with falling snowflakes.
At this time, they saw that the dark clouds covering the stars and the moon above their heads suddenly bulged up into a large piece, and something huge fell from the sky. The torn dark clouds were like smoke wrapped around it. It was not clear whether it was ice or snow. It was pulled into slender threads while falling at high speed.
——Boom!
The giant object made a terrible muffled sound when it hit the ground, and was accompanied by a slight earthquake-like shaking. The soldiers couldn't help but lower their bodies.
"Illuminating arrows! Quick! Fire the illuminating arrows!"
Through the gate, one could see the falling behemoth, which had a terrifying shadow as big as a hill. It landed in the open space outside the military camp.
The officers had a bad feeling. Damn it, could this be a monster summoned by super magic?
The archers drew out special lighting arrows and fired them. The arrows flew to the commanding heights, exploded with a layer of flash, and slowly fell.
By these faint lights, a vague outline of something never seen before emerged from the darkness.
It looked like a vehicle, but there was no livestock to pull it. It was much larger than the largest sailing warship, and the wheels alone exceeded the walls of the military camp.
The thick car body showed an unseemly sheen, and some parts looked like glass, but with the current level of productivity, they couldn't make such a large piece of glass with complex curves.
The upper part of the car has a relatively elongated structure that separates like petals, revealing a dark hole.
For some reason, the officers instinctively felt that the thing looked like the muzzle of a cannon. But reason makes them think it is impossible. After all, no country can build such a large-caliber artillery now.
Just when everyone was shocked, they heard a low hum from the huge thing falling from the sky, as if it was activated.
A dark red light strip lit up along the outer shell of the car, like the eyes of some prehistoric beast looking at the stunned Subia Demon Kingdom soldiers.
A strong sense of crisis enveloped everyone, as if a knife was held to their foreheads, causing a vague sting.
The wheel began to roll forward. At first, it could be seen clearly with the help of the lighting arrow, but the speed of the wheel's rotation soon became very blurry, and even the huge ravine on the wheel was difficult to identify.
Almost instantly, the solid wooden exterior wall and the gate were shattered together. The soldiers who had not had time to jump off the gate of the military camp were crushed over one after another. Some lumps that could not be distinguished as earth, rocks or human body fragments were mixed with the falling debris. Snowflakes were flying everywhere.
"Array! Array!"
The officer shouted in an attempt to drown out the terrible humming sound, but his voice was still not loud enough, and the soldiers were running around like headless flies.
Seeing the behemoth advancing towards the depths of the military camp, the officer turned his head and shouted to the messenger:
"Inform the general of all this, North Gate..."
The messenger who was listening attentively to the officer's order suddenly heard a crisp sound, accompanied by strong wind pressure passing by his ears. He turned his head slightly and saw numbly that the officer who was still alive just now only had one leg left. In place, the upper half of his body was gone.
The messenger touched the warm and sticky blood on his face, and for a moment his mind was unable to make any judgment.
He saw that the tents in a straight line with the officers and the warehouse storing military supplies were pierced by some kind of large sphere, but it was impossible to see clearly what it was.
Until the behemoth roared past the messenger with unparalleled momentum...
(End of chapter)