Chapter 410: When the Soldiers Meet
Roughly speaking, the demon's army can be divided into three levels: elite, main force, and miscellaneous soldiers, not that the demons themselves have such a clear division of the army structure, but purely from the perspective of a bystander to observe their organizational form.
As we all know, driven by the innate chaotic nature, demons are difficult to follow, and the most familiar template of chaos and evil in the old world is none other than those bear children who have excess energy and like to make trouble and dislike dogs. You might as well imagine that a large group of over-age bear children are gathered together, and this huge destructive power and action power are simply against the sky. If you encounter the troops personally commanded by the demon lords, it is naturally the elite, needless to say, the second class is the main force led by the abyss lords, and the bottom of the demon army is a cannon fodder miscellaneous army composed of miscellaneous troops and mercenaries from various sources.
Although the quality of these miscellaneous troops is not high, and the discipline is even more negative, the number is so large that it can frighten people to death, and the million-scale miscellaneous army lineup can be casually laid out.
When the number reaches a certain level, it becomes extremely terrifying, an ant can be crushed to death by stretching out a finger, and 100 million ants will pounce on you, and any beast will have to run away first. Sensei said that the demon army was originally very fierce, and a million pigs stood there for you to kill at will, and it was not something that could be done in a while if you wanted to kill them all.
"There are too many demons, Your Majesty the King."
Brando Scarlet never came to the landing site in person, and he stayed with Luo Zhengdao on the shallow gunboat to sit in the center and command the overall situation, and the affairs on the shore were entrusted to the army staff officers and officers, and the fleet was responsible for auxiliary work such as fire cover and aerial reconnaissance. In case the land battlefield does not go well, they have to get the infantry back in time, and things can be roughly classified as this.
After listening to Commander Scarlet Yan's reminder, Luo Zhengdao also nodded, he put down his binoculars, turned around and said:
"Well, I see, is the carpet bombing ready?"
Brando's greatest fear of encountering this is what happened, and immediately said with a solemn expression:
"Your Majesty, are you sure we can take these fellows away in a wave? If the bombing effect is not satisfactory, the air force's ground strike capability will be obsolete, and the interval between ammunition replenishment will be too long. β
Hearing this, Luo Zhengdao seemed to have a bamboo in his chest, and said with a smile:
"Hehehehe, then take a gamble!"
People who plan too much are easy to lose courage, and thinking too much will reduce their ability to act, Luo Zhengdao doesn't want to leave himself with an indecisive self-evaluation. has come to this point, simply don't think about success or failure, since this battle must be fought, then put aside your worries and do your best to fight, you won't regret losing!
At the moment, the overall shape of the battlefield was not in favor of the human army, but they also had a slight advantage, and in the early tentative attack, the vanguard captured a garrison fort set up by the goblin army near the coastal headland. Due to the passive evasion of the goblin army retreated in advance without firing a shot, the fort's defenses were still intact, and after the human army launched a surprise attack, the unorganized and undisciplined demon was defeated directly after being unable to parry for a while. With this strong fortress that can accommodate a thousand-strong army, the human army has gained a stable and reliable support point for its advance, which can give full play to its long-range firepower superiority and naval and air superiority.
Unable to convince Luo Zhengdao to change his mind, Brando Scarlet could only accompany him to gamble, ordering the signal corps to turn on the frequency of the aircraft carrier detachment, saying:
"Your Majesty has an order, the bombing operation begins!"
"Yes, execute the order immediately.
The herald on the flagship of the aircraft carrier squadron trotted all the way up the mast, he quickly waved the signal flag, and the pirate fighters who were already on standby saw the signal being issued, and the on-site commander used a simple copper loudspeaker and shouted:
"All the fighters are ready to take off, and the fighters escort the bombers, and they enter the battlefield in order to ensure that the operation is carried out as planned."
"Guaranteed to complete the mission!"
"Good luck!"
"Take off!"
One after another, pirate fighters left long trails of take-off in the blue sea, and nearby ground crews shouted to bless their companions. Indeed, if something really happens today, only good luck can help these pilots.
The support of a complete industrial system for weapons technology was a crucial winning factor, such as the early Corsair fighters with only a wooden skeleton with canvas skin, and a small number of metal and magic cloth, which were improved several times since then, and the subsequent models gradually got rid of the original version of the four-like state, and professional bombers also appeared after the external technical conditions met the requirements. It's not that Luo Zhengdao didn't have the awareness to promote weapon research and development earlier, but he had an empty head of the old world's ideas, but he didn't have the ability to make technology develop by leaps and bounds.
Weapons that have no technical content and cannot be mass-produced are just expensive disposable toys, unless they are strategic weapons or alchemical props that have the ability to burn the city with one blow like a nuclear bomb, otherwise a single advanced weapon for a large-scale war belongs to the Chinese New Year's Eve to fight a rabbit, with it for the New Year, without it also for the New Year.
Under the cover of the pirate fighters that took off first, the heavy bombers with much larger bodies also began to carry out the take-off procedure, and these large aircraft with a bomb load of nearly 1,000 pounds had a combat radius of 300 miles and a maximum speed of about 230 knots. Although it is too fragile compared to the Goblin Air Cavalry, and no pirate fighter escort is equivalent to a live target, as a mass-produced model, it is more than enough to carry out tactical bombing missions.
"Boom Boom Boom Boom ......"
When the bomber group flies over the battlefield, the bombardier uses the sight to determine the target, and then flips the bomb drop button. As the bomber opened the belly magazine and dropped countless bombs, in an instant, the dazzling golden flames formed a line and spread rapidly forward on the green ground, like a carpet that was constantly rolling.
Witnessing the terrifying scene of the friendly and neighboring forces being torn apart by the blast wave of the bombing and the fragments of the bombs, the demonic army that had not yet been hit roared and launched an attack to resist the massive air attack. However, things are not as easy as they imagined, human bombers use high-altitude horizontal bombing, flying at an altitude of more than 1,500 yards above the ground, most projectile weapons and magic cannot reach this height, and even if they can hit this altitude, it is more about luck than skill and proficiency to accurately hit a high-speed moving bomber.
At this time, the demons who were thundering on the ground were powerless to stop the carpet bombardment by human air power, and could only watch as they were mercilessly engulfed by the golden flames and white smoke that burst from the stone pine spore powder from far and near.
Glimpsing this scene through the large telescope on the bridge of the flagship, Luo Zhengdao was undoubtedly very happy, he almost grinned the corners of his mouth to the root of his ears, and said approvingly:
"Well, the Air Force did a great job, remember to praise them after the war, this bombing mission was perfect."
Brando Scarlet Yan also pinched a cold sweat, fortunately there were no accidents, at this moment he touched his chest with palpitations, and said:
"Yes, His Majesty. Is it time for a ground offensive? β
Hearing this, Luo Zhengdao tilted his head and thought for a while, and said:
"No, notify the fleet to clear the remaining high-level demons with artillery fire."
ββ¦β¦ Is this necessary? β
Brando Scarlet is not a timid person, dare to touch the treasury of the Second Goblin Empire, just looking at this guts, let alone eating leopard gall, ordinary people can swallow whale gall enough to reach the standard. Brando's hesitation is because of the huge difference between benefits and costs, everyone understands that the demon army cannot be killed, and the human army is the hard-earned family fund, and it is not in their own interests to fight with the other party. If it weren't for Luo Zhengdao's plan to forcibly push forward the counterattack on the main continent, Commander Crimson would definitely attack the goblin's overseas colonies, and the feasibility of this plan was obviously more cost-effective than a bloody battle with the demons.
Luo Zhengdao didn't think about it complicated at all, and said indifferently:
"It's easier to make a good shell than to train a good soldier, do the order! Brando. β
On this matter, the commander and Luo Zhengdao had the same position, he admitted that the consumption of ammunition was worth the loss of soldiers, nodded and said:
"Yes, His Majesty."
The bloody battle between the abyss and hell involves too many worlds, and the various participants are comparable to the stars in the sky, from the unruly ruffians to the lofty gods. Although the main continent is of extraordinary importance to the new world, it is nothing more than a newly opened remote battlefield in the eyes of demons and devils, and it is not a big deal. Such a sub-battlefield that lacks strategic significance is a place for those who are not in the mainstream to brush up their achievements, counting on the possibility of casually seeing the monarch and the monarchs fighting face to face here, and the possibility is as low as Cheng DΓΉ, who is not dead when he goes out and is smashed by meteorites dozens of times.
Even if there are always exceptions to everything, as long as the base sample is sufficient, the occurrence of small probability events is not too incredible, and it is definitely not surprising that there is an occasional mixture of more powerful demons among the demon miscellaneous soldiers.
These junk goods who like to pretend to be pigs and eat tigers can only be compared with high-level professionals, and they are even reluctant to be high-level cannon fodder in bloody battles, but compared to the army and soldiers at the level of common sense, these muddy balls are an out-and-out nightmare.
"Report, target found, six thousand yards away, range 191 to 185."
The gunners of the flagship reported a series of observations, and everyone in the command tower was looking at Brando Scarlet, and Luo Zhengdao, the king, usually did not give direct instructions in actual combat, and he was wary of overstepping commands. The tragic urging of the captain of the transport brigade in the old world told him that the problems that arise on the battlefield are best left to the front-line commanders to deal with by themselves, and it is likely that the high-level intervention is likely to backfire, and it is better to keep your mouth shut than to be thankless, so as to save everyone a lot of trouble.
Commander Scarlet nodded at the captain and said:
"Execute as planned!"
Hearing this, the bearded captain rubbed his hands together with great excitement and exclaimed:
"The main gun is ready to fire!"