Chapter 1249, artillery firepower
Outside the Winter Fortress, a large number of hyena infantry started charging with strange screams.
The armor they wear is extremely crude. It is said to be armor, but in fact it is just two metal plates several centimeters thick. One is tied to the chest and the other is tied behind the back. They also wear a hat on their head. The workmanship is really terrible.
The metal helmet can be said to be very characteristic of the orc civilization.
To put it simply, it is a standard, protect the vital points and ignore other things, and the metal plate must be absolutely thick enough.
According to the physical condition of the orcs, as long as the shot was not fatal, what would it matter if a few shots to other parts were taken?
On the main force of the orc army, with hyenas as the vanguard and composed of various orcs, the entire offensive momentum was ferocious.
However, this was not over yet. Along with the crazy forward pressure of the orc army, a dense muffled sound came from the rear of the battlefield, and a large number of Elephant Soldiers with large tonnage stepped onto the battlefield at this moment.
They didn't come up with bare hands, but they were dragging huge carts made according to their size. On top of the carts, there were piles of round black cannonballs with a diameter of about 1.5 meters in diameter!
There were no cannons, but the elephant men who broke into the battlefield stretched out their hands and grabbed a cannonball from the cart with one hand. After lighting the fuse, with a low roar, each of the elephant men exploded with power,
Initiate a full throw.
This is a true 'orc cannon!'
Driven by a terrifying brute force, huge black cannonballs flew hundreds of meters directly towards the outer trenches of Wanjie Civilization!
What is the concept of a cannonball with a diameter of 1.5 meters? For some tall and short people, this is basically a cannonball of the same height!
At this moment, when the northern soldiers guarding the outer trenches faced such a battle, their expressions suddenly changed.
"Get down!!!"
Amidst the roar, the black cannonball that fell down exploded. Obviously, the cannonball was not as heavy as it looked, because it was full of explosives!
The violent roar of the explosion almost shattered people's eardrums.
It can be said that all the soldiers who were closer to the center of the explosion suffered.
In the Winter Fortress, facing such a battle from the opponent, Hill, who was dressed in military uniform, had a gloomy expression on his face, and then loudly ordered...
"All cannons change their attack targets and aim at the Elephant Man in the opponent's back row!"
After all-out research and years of improvement by the ordnance research and development talents of the three tribes of humans, dwarves and goblins, the latest cannons in the civilization of all realms now have an effective range of four thousand meters, while the opponent's elephant man is completely
Within their range.
Standing on the cannon stationary platform of Winter Fortress, each dwarf artilleryman began to adjust the attack angle of the cannon neatly.
Then, with a deafening roar, the cannons placed on the fortress fired simultaneously.
After two rounds of ballistic calibration, one shell after another began to hit the target.
On the body of the Elephant Man who was bombarded, blood flowers bloomed one after another.
However, the situation was not particularly optimistic, because they discovered one thing, that is, their cannonballs seemed a little too small for the Elephant Man...
Although the powerful gunpowder in the warhead exploded, it directly blew up a whole piece of flesh and blood on the elephant people, but due to the huge size, the impression always seemed a little subtle...
At the same time, Hill, who was inside the Winter Fortress, also discovered another problem.
Even the cannonballs fired at the Elephant Man were not as ferocious as they looked.
To put it bluntly, the ultimate reason here lies in gunpowder.
During the same era, the high explosives produced by the dwarf explosives workshop, a special building of the dwarf civilization, were undoubtedly of the highest quality, while those of human civilization were slightly inferior. However, the orc civilization with low technical capabilities produced them
The gunpowder is naturally worse...
This quality problem is obviously directly reflected in the power of the explosive.
But considering it from another perspective, according to the technical capabilities of the orc civilization, it is actually not easy for them to start producing gunpowder.
As his thoughts whirled, Hill directly signaled the dwarf artillerymen on the wall to launch a concentrated fire attack.
But the execution of this order was not smooth, because the elephant soldiers had a huge advantage. They could move the cart carrying the artillery shells flexibly, and the efficiency of movement was much faster than that of the heavy cannon.
.
After all, the Elephant Man is not stupid, standing there and letting you aim and fire? How is that possible?
The moving Elephant Soldiers made the difficulty of artillery hits skyrocket. They did not feel this way when attacking enemy artillery units before.
With no other choice, Hill could only signal the dwarf artillerymen to give up precision bombardment and use range suppression instead.
Taking advantage of the cover of their own artillery units and seeing the opportunity, the soldiers stationed in the northern border picked up their rifles and began to pour out firepower wildly. With the dense firepower network, they forcibly contained the advance of the orc army.
At the same time, behind the trenches, the orc soldiers who also belonged to the northern troops were ready to go, and were mentally prepared to rush forward and fight the enemy orcs with bayonets at any time.
And during this period, on the periphery of the northern battlefield, seeing the opportunity where the garrison of Winter Fortress was engaging in a frantic exchange of fire with Raymond Soucy's army, an army quietly came in from one side of the battlefield!
"Report, report to the general! A strange human army appears on the left side of the fortress! The number is estimated to be more than 50,000!!"
After discovering the enemy, the soldier who rushed over to report the situation had obvious urgency and panic in his voice.
"Human army? Where did the human army come from?!"
Faced with such an unexpected situation, Hill looked obviously shocked.
The orc army on the frontal battlefield is already a huge threat. At this juncture, if another human army of more than 50,000 comes...
Thinking of this, Hill's face turned extremely ugly.
"Colonel Wade, Lieutenant Colonel Luke, bring your troops and come with me!"
Without any time to think, after quickly calling the troops of White Wolf Chief Wade and Elephant Man Chief Luke, Hill stepped on a pair of black military boots and hurried towards the side of the fortress, wanting to confirm the situation with his own eyes.
And by the time she arrived, the army that was charging into the battlefield had already started pouring firepower towards the outer trenches of the Winter Fortress.
A whole row of enemy cannons opened fire wildly.
On the Winter Fortress side, most of the troops were concentrated on the frontal battlefield. The troops responsible for watching this side could be said to be extremely limited. The cannons pouring out firepower almost overwhelmed them so that they could not even lift their heads.
If minefields were not set up all around this winter fortress, which blocked the advance of this army to a certain extent, then this fortress might have fallen just now.
Chapter completed!