Chapter 241 Internal strife and projection suppression

"Does the enemy underestimate the enemy too much in setting up a catapult position at a distance of one thousand meters?"

Jiang Hai couldn't help but smile contemptuously as he looked at the short green creatures busy surrounding the huge steam catapult.

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At this time, the enemy was within the range of the six crossbows on the bastion, and was busy without any warning. Jiang Hai felt that if he didn't give the other party a surprise, he would be sorry to the sky, the earth, and the middle.

After the messenger informed the crossbows in flags, Jiang Hai quietly waited for the show to begin.

"Hurry! Hurry up! Pile the ammunition quickly and prepare for the attack!" Gordon kept scolding the goblin engineers under his command, asking him to hurry up and work.

After the artillery appeared on the battlefield, its huge power caused a large number of traditional medieval castles to collapse and become as fragile as paper. Even giant cities like Constantinople fell without any suspense. However, the castle was a new defense system specially created to fight against artillery. Gordon knew that the steam catapult he developed under the constraints of conditions had no advantage compared to the front-mounted artillery, so he had to take a twelve-point spirit in this siege battle.

Gordon was urging his soldiers in a nervous mood. Suddenly, he heard noisy shouts from the human soldiers ahead, and there was chaos.

"careful!"

"The enemy's crossbow is here, run away!"

"Don't panic, stick to the spot and maintain the front line, otherwise there will be no mercy to kill!"

The panic shouts of the soldiers and the rebukes of the officers reached Gordon's ears. A doubt surged in his heart: "Box cannon? It can be fired at such a long distance, what kind of torque does it have? Is the balloon a torsion spring made of dragon tendons? No matter how luxurious it is, it will not be done!"

Soon, two huge explosions completely dispelled Gordon's doubts. The human crossbow cannon does have a long range beyond imagination and is powerful.

A steam catapult located on the far right side of the position was hit hard by three heavy flame crossbows.

The huge shock wave generated when the fire element energy burst, blowing the short goblin engineers to the point of stuttering. The core transmission device and steam boiler were completely blown up, and the wooden turret burned violently, and then ignited coal as fuel.

For a moment, fires surged into the sky and black smoke rolled on the position.

"Stop, stop, go and put out the fire, you stupid, lazy, timid mice!" Gordon scolded his goblin subordinates in anger. Unfortunately, even these timid goblins still have their own timid and cowardly nature, after encountering the attack, the poor 5-point organization quickly dropped to zero, and then fell into chaos.

The tall steam catapult is much easier to hit than ordinary soldiers. In this round of volleys, Jiang Hai did not use triple volleys, but adopted a stable single-fire mode, which can improve some hit rate.

Although these crossbows are easy to use, unfortunately they have limited ammunition. Now that they are surrounded, it is difficult for Jianghai to obtain supplies from Kariard City, so they have to save money.

Jiang Hai clearly saw the chaos that occurred in the enemy's stone casting position. He immediately continued to work hard and ordered the crossbows to fire again.

"boom!"

This time, a fire crossbow hit the flame stone bomb piled on the open space of the enemy, and then triggered a death-destruction. A steam catapult was torn to pieces by the power of the explosion. An iron pipe was even sent one kilometer away by the impact force and landed in the castle of the river and sea.

"Calm down!" Li Jiana didn't expect to lose two steam catapults as soon as she got up. She had to pull Goden. The dark elf raised her hands high, and the magic energy surged in her body.

She chanted a magic spell loudly, and then spread a circle of blue light on the battlefield.

The goblin engineers shrouded in this circle of blue light finally recovered from the chaos, and then hurriedly operated the remaining four steam catapults and retreated.

"Fortunately I will 'rejoice' in magic, otherwise, you'll wait for all the trenchers to be destroyed today." Li Jiana said.

Gao Deng also wiped his sweat and was still scared. At this time, the two had already evacuated three kilometers away, far beyond the range of the defending crossbows, so he felt relieved.

"What's going on? Why are you proud of the catapults defeated by the enemy?" Shacket, who led 15,000 caveman warriors to wait behind Gordon, came to the engineer with a pale face.

Gordon lost two stone catapults that consumed a lot of resources and was in a bad mood. After a series of classic American national curses such as "**", "son_of_bitch", and "asshole", popped out of his stomach, he said to Shacket in anger: "Didn't you say last night that the enemy's crossbows range is only 800 meters? Why did I still get attacked when I set up a formation one thousand meters away?"

Shacket was stunned and his face was a little uneasy. He encountered a small blow last night. In order not to lose face in front of others, when he was telling the battle, he said that his soldiers were attacked by the enemy's crossbows when they bravely rushed to a range of only 800 meters from the city wall. In fact, the distance between his soldiers was one thousand meters when they were attacked by the crossbows.

Shacket knew that it was because he had distorted the actual situation, which caused the losses today. However, he couldn't stand it and apologized to Gordon, the "outsider" who did not belong to the dungeon world. He just snorted and left in a hurry.

"Bah! Pig-like teammates." Gordon spitted thick phlegm at Shackett's back, but he could do nothing. The other party was a serious dungeon lord, who was better than himself in terms of status and strength. He could only endure what he had today.

Jiang Hai didn't know that there was a conflict between the enemy's commanders. He saw the remaining four steam catapults pushing forward again after resting for a while. This time, Gordon became smart and set his position two kilometers away from the bastion.

Amid the rumbling of the steam engine, the dungeon army's attack on the bastion finally began.

First, it was the first wave of stone bomb attacks.

All the stone bombs used in the steam catapult were polished into smooth circles and weighed 50 kilograms. In this way, when flying, the smooth appearance provided the stone bombs with more stable ballistic performance. All four stone bombs hit the same wall of the bastion. However, only a few shallow marks were left on the thick wall.

Apart from a splash of dust, the soldiers guarding the city felt a slight vibration under their feet, this time the stone-casting attack did not have any results.

After several rounds of futile attacks on the city walls, Gordon found that it seemed unlikely that it would be very likely to destroy the city walls of the castle in a short period of time. So he changed his strategy and turned the attack target into soldiers and facilities in the castle.

And this time, he used fire bombs, not ordinary stone bombs.

The blazing fire bomb was like a meteor from the sky, dragging its smoke-rolling tail into the bastion.

A supply factory was unfortunately hit by this fire bomb. With the loud bang and the rising flames, the building was completely destroyed and turned into a pile of burning rubble.

"Damn it!" Jiang Hai cursed, and then hurriedly ordered the farmers to put out the fire and clean up the ruins. Fortunately, the buildings destroyed this time were just cheap supply factories, and even if they were rebuilt, they would not cost much resources. If they were promoted to the top barracks or even permanent buildings such as military academy were smashed, it would be a big loss.

Before Jianghai could breathe a sigh of relief, three other fire bombs followed one after another. They landed on the battlements, turning the hit wall into a hell of flames.

Four Gondor infantry and three Gondor archers were killed due to this attack.

The lucky soldier was knocked away by the shock wave when the fire bomb landed, and fell directly under the city wall, and smashed into flesh with his armor. After the lucky soldier was swallowed by the flame tongue, the hot armor clamped against the flesh, like a maggot attached to the bones. The high temperature instantly evaporated the blood and tissue fluid, roasting the muscles and bones into black coke.

When the incident was handled later, the bodies of these dead soldiers and the armor deformed due to the high temperature were tightly stuck together, and they could not be separated at all, so they could only be buried together.

Ordinary flames do not have such power at all. Obviously, Gordon used special fuel to achieve such lethality.

Jiang Hai had no choice but to reduce the defensive forces on the city walls and allow half of the soldiers to enter the underground bunker to rest. Anyway, according to his observation, except for the stone casting tools, the other enemy siege troops were not in a hurry to attack. This battle may last for a long time.

Just as Jiang Hai expected, the enemy's stone-cat attack lasted from morning to afternoon. During this long day, the stone bombs fired by the steam catapult and the rumbling sound that hit the bastion were as accurate and regular as a pendulum.

However, because the morning crossbow attack scared the enemy, the steam catapult only dared to start attacking two kilometers away, which was twice the original attack distance. In this way, its hit rate also dropped a lot.

In addition to the earliest fire bombs destroying a supply factory, Jiang Hai was injured in another supply factory for the whole day.

Moreover, because they were ignited by the flame crossbow in the morning and lost many fire bombs, most of the fire bombs fired by the steam catapult were ordinary stone bombs.

In addition to the two buildings, the bullet rain on this day also caused Jianghai to lose about seventy soldiers. There was no way, Gordon's steam catapult was not man-manned, and the launch frequency and sustainability were not comparable to the original scale pole catapult. Although even if a stone bomb hits accurately, it can kill at most two or three soldiers, but it cannot withstand the dense firepower. Jianghai can control the loss to less than a hundred people, which is already very good.

Of course, compared with the actual losses of construction and manpower, what really worried Jiang Hai was that after a day of rocket bombing, the morale and organization of the soldiers were affected.

Both the main defensive troops, Gondor Archers and Gondor Infantry, both have a 25-point organizational level. However, the organizational level of several teams of soldiers who had been guarding the city wall for a day, has dropped by 10 points, and their morale has also been affected. Jiang Hai had to rotate them all to rest. In this way, if the enemy launches an attack, the available defensive troops will be only two-thirds.

Whatever you are afraid of is what you come.

After dinner, when night fell and the dark mist created by the Sphinx dissipated, the enemy finally prepared to attack with infantry.
Chapter completed!