Chapter 240: Goblin and Steam Casting

"Other countermeasures?" Gordon's expression was a little surprised, as if he was surprised by Li Jiana's proposal.

The nickname "Engineer" was a veritable chemical engineer at ExxonMobil before entering the battle space. Gordon came from Utah in the Midwest United States. He was a simple town with Catholicism for generations and was a typical old-school conservative American. To be honest, this honest man's personality is not suitable for survival in the battle space. However, Luo Qianshan fell in love with Gordon's engineering talent and recruited him into his team very early.

With the help and protection of Qianshan Team, Gordon developed very well. Correspondingly, he also used his expertise to make due contributions to the team.

Seeing Gordon's surprised expression, Li Jiana knew that this old-fashioned guy was just trying to attack the opponent's leverage.

She had to patiently explain: "Last time when I was a vanguard with the perverted Dead Lanles, I was blocked by the human army and was defeated in a mess. Haven't you heard me tell the details about the battle? There is a selected person on the other side with an extremely powerful cavalry unit, and you should have an impression."

"Yes. After you described the appearance of those cavalry to me in detail, I knew that they were all Swan Knights from the Gondor camp in the World of the Lord of the Rings." Gorden said.

"When watching the battle tonight, I found that the human archers stationed in the bastion were equipped with half-body armor, and the white tree logo representing the Kingdom of Gondor. In other words, the enemy we face was the powerful candidate of the human camp."

Under the dim moonlight, Gordon could not see the armor patterns of the human archer at a very long distance, but Li Jiana was a dark elf with night vision specialty, so he believed what the other party said was true.

"It seems we have encountered a hard nail." Gordon looked a little serious.

"So, I'll say hello to you in advance. Tomorrow's battle, you can't underestimate the enemy, you need to fight with all your strength. But if you feel that you can't fight, don't be too angry and do whatever you want to take the blame or lose." Li Jiana twisted her waist and turned around in front of Gordon, "After all, the other party is the winner, not the indigenous people of this world. If the strength of the fight is not as good as the other party, I might be able to use other methods to make him retreat voluntarily."

Gordon was a little itchy by Li Jiana's graceful body curve, but he knew that this was the captain's woman and he couldn't touch it, so he had to turn his gaze to the water cup on the table, and then said, "I know, if the battle situation is not good tomorrow, I will retain my strength."

"Coward, is that broken water cup more beautiful than me?" Li Jiana smiled, touched Gordon's face gently, and then left with a gust of fragrant wind, "It's settled, I look forward to your performance tomorrow, engineer~"

While the military meeting was held overnight in the dungeon, Jiang Hai was sleeping comfortably in his bedroom.

Early the next morning, after Jiang Hai got up, he had just enjoyed a breakfast in the morning light, but found that the light golden sunshine in the morning was quickly blocked, and the sky began to darken again. The black fog as thick as lead and thick as ink once again covered the entire battlefield tightly.

"Damn it."

When Jiang Hai came to the city wall, he happened to see the four sphinxes sphericals constantly spitting out black smoke from their mouths, and he couldn't help but curse.

Dark fog is not an endless cheap resource. This gas that can block the sun and light also requires alchemists to spend materials and time to create it. Since the enemy has turned on the dark fog in broad daylight, it will definitely not be fun to watch.

"The entire army has entered a state of combat readiness!" Jiang Hai said to the messenger who was following him.

A soldier immediately received the order and then took off the horn he carried with him from his waist.

"Woo~Woo~"

The deep horn sound, long and short, echoed in the brink of the brink.

Although Jiang Hai's command is full of useful cloned soldiers, they are not robots after all, and they also need to eat and rest. Otherwise, they will fall into a state of fatigue, and the organization will continue to decline, affecting their combat effectiveness. Therefore, when Jiang Hai is not fighting, he only arranges a minimum warning force on the city wall and then lets other soldiers take turns to rest.

Now that the battle is about to begin, he naturally wants to let all his combat power enter the state of war.

After hearing the sound of the warning horn, the well-trained soldiers immediately came out of the barracks and returned to their respective garrison positions with their weapons and shields.

The originally empty city wall immediately became crowded with people, with helmets and spears in the forest.

Generally speaking, soldiers in the Cold Weapon Age would wear another burqa outside after wearing metal armor. Especially when fighting in hot areas, due to the excellent heat conductivity of the metal, if the armor is directed by the sun, the person wearing the armor will be heated like a steamed purgatory sauna, so the thick burqa becomes an excellent choice for heat insulation.

However, the Gondors inherited the superb metallurgy and armor-making technology of the Numanors, so the Gondor soldiers did not need to wear burqas, and the armor also had good thermal insulation properties.

In this way, other people's army looks colorful and messy from afar, while the army of the rivers and seas is full of white steel walls. This army full of unique metal sharpness and murderous aura makes people feel superior in appearance.

Jiang Hai patrolled the defensive fronts on the city wall with satisfaction, and couldn't help but think in his heart: "If there was a sun at this time, my army would be able to scare those cowards by relying on the light reflected by the armor."

After being intoxicated by his prosperous military appearance, Jiang Hai calmed down and waited for the enemy's actions.

This morning, under the cover of dark fog, the dungeon army launched an attack on both the north and southwest of Kariard City, with its targets being Jiang Hai, Tang Feng and Anne's fortress base.

Jiang Hai had no time to pay attention to the battle situation of his teammates at this time, but instead focused his attention on the enemy troops that were constantly advancing towards the bastion.

Walking at the forefront was a human army lined up in an evacuation formation. This army was composed of crossbowmen and spearmen, with varying quality of equipment and soldiers, and there was not even a military flag symbolizing the glory and soul of a unit. The person who commanded this miscellaneous army was the dark elf Ligana. After losing a large number of flying troops last time, Ligana, who had no available soldiers, could only spend gold coins and temporarily recruited these miscellaneous army.

In this war that burned all over Erasia, not all humans were loyal to Erasia's griffin flag. There were also many "people traitors" who surrendered to the enemy to survive.

Such a mob was not taken into consideration by Jiang Hai. What he paid attention to was the six huge war equipment behind the human miscellaneous army.

The chassis of these six huge war equipment looks a bit like the wheeled armored vehicles of the industrial era. However, this machine is not made of steel, but is a fully wooden structure. The power is neither diesel power nor a common animal power in the cold weapon era.

It is inferred from the large chimney that spews white water vapor installed on this war machine that its power comes from steam. The one installed on this steam power platform is a unique structure. Compared with the traditional scale pole catapult, this catapult obviously relies on steam power to deliver ammunition. Compared with the old catapults manually operated, the power output of this machinery is more stable at each time, which means higher accuracy.

"Steam catapult? Why are these things not prohibited by plane suppression? The equipment on the technology side actually appeared in the magic side world." Jiang Hai's heart was filled with questions.

But soon, he found the answer. The operator of these steam catapults was goblins.

A typical fantasy creature like goblins also have different characteristics in different worldviews and settings. In some worlds, goblins are similar to rats, weak and greedy, and have low intelligence. They are the first choice for the protagonists to level up after they leave the novice village.

However, in other fantasy worlds, goblins are an extremely smart race. They have amazing achievements in disciplines such as alchemy and machinery, and even created brilliant civilizations.

Obviously, the goblins that appeared at this time came from a world with a high level of goblin civilization. In other words, these steam catapults from goblin technology are not the products of pure technology. At least the main god and the system regard them as mixed blood of science and demons.

Jiang Hai saw the commander of these goblins - Gordon, on one of the steam catapults.

"It turned out to be him, so it's understandable that these goblin machines appeared." Jiang Hai nodded thoughtfully.

In his previous mission world, he had an unpleasant meeting with Qianshan Team. Jiang Hai had a clear impression of several candidates in the opponent's camp. Gordon was nicknamed "Engineer", so it was not surprising that his army system was biased towards engineering machinery.

Jiang Hai was a little lucky at this time. Gordon was just good at engineering. If alchemy and metallurgy were also good at it, maybe he could use alchemy to create magic powder that could replace gunpowder and create qualified gun barrels. At that time, Jiang Hai would probably no longer be a stone caster, but a steam cannon.

Although goblins are creatures on the magic side, their civilization is taking a scientific-like route. This is a very inspiring reminder for Jiang Hai, who decided to follow the dual cultivation route of science and magic. However, this long-term planning problem can only be slowly pondered in the future. He still needs to concentrate on defeating the enemy.

As he approached one kilometer from the bastion, Jiang Hai saw Gordon ordering the goblin engineers to stop six steam throttles.

The human miscellaneous army began to arrange a simple mixed square formation of spears and crossbows to guard six stone catapults to prevent the enemy from suddenly sending cavalry attacks.

Goblin engineers were like hardworking ants, carrying out stone bullets from the chassis of the stone-cattering tool and then stacked them neatly.

The serious siege battle will begin soon.
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