Chapter 4: The Siege
Quasimodo, the chief of the Night Watch, laid out the classic "Eagle Wing Tactic".
Most of the knights were spread over the high ground on both wings, and the ghouls could only charge upwards to attack, and had to slow down due to climbing.
Scattered on each side of the high ground is a knight armed with a shotgun, a powerful weapon that can easily knock a slowing ghoul down a hill.
The laser rifle is the main force of destruction, smelting flesh wounds through high temperatures, accelerating the ghoul's blood loss and death.
Since it is not easy to attack on the high ground, ghouls with basic hunting instincts will of course choose the central pass of the high ground on both sides to break through as soon as possible, which is the position guarded by the knight Langri.
Although seemingly alone, Langley has the strongest heavy weapon in the team, the flamethrower, which is an ultra-high temperature flame generated by military combustile, which can quickly burn any target within three meters in front of him.
Ghouls, who are naturally afraid of fire, are almost inherently restrained to death when faced with this kind of weapon.
Therefore, neither the direction of the "Eagle Wing", where the heights are located, nor the direction of the "Eagle Beak", where the flamethrowers are located, are actually not able to easily break through.
If nothing else, these ghouls should be killed by the flamethrower first, and then forced to turn to attack the high ground on both flanks, losing a lot of life force in the climb, and finally being annihilated or fleeing.
This is the ideal situation.
Of course, given the huge disparity in the number of friends and enemies, casualties are also possible.
Hundreds of ghouls rushed to the high ground together, no matter how awesome the shotguns were, they couldn't all go down the mountain, and the revolver still had a few possibilities.
However, there was an accident at the beginning...... Instead of rushing to the central pass, as Quasimodo had expected, the ghouls took a large arc and rushed to the edge of the high ground on the right.
Quasimodo hurriedly looked over there, and was shocked to see the two mercenary girls running frantically, while the ghouls were chasing after them, and the distance between the two sides was almost fast.
"Lorent, Roger! Overclocking Shot Interception! The knight commander made a quick decision, and hurriedly let the high ground on the right strengthen the fire projection.
Overclocking is a mode of increasing the frequency of fire in a short period of time at the cost of accelerating the life loss of the laser rifle.
With the sudden increase in the rate of fire, sure enough, more than a dozen ghouls could not withstand the blow from the side and turned to pounce on the high ground to the right.
However, for the army of ghouls chasing after the two mercenary girls, it can only be regarded as a negligible loss of troops.
"Asker!! I won't let you go!!! In the Mind Channel, Medea's angry screams echoed like an explosion. Because the ghoul at the head had almost caught up, Medea could even smell the disgusting stench of corpses behind her.
"Don't be afraid." Asker replied, removing the sniper rifle from his back, the same weapon he had picked up during his last hunt for Vonkesim.
"Mi'er, staggered suppression preparations." Asker got down on one knee and aimed his gun in front of him.
"Roger." Honey on the tree replied.
Rhythmic firing began to sound over the plains. Two sniper rifles, one on the tree and one under the tree, shoot accurately and steadily.
Whenever a ghoul is about to catch up with Medea and Sheila, the next second he will be shot in the head by a sniper bullet and his body will fly upside down in mid-air.
"Quasimodo, am I right? That's staggered suppression! Looking at the field ahead, a Knight of the Night's Watch exclaimed in the channel.
Staggered suppression is a shooting tactic of a team of gunners.
Since a shot hit will put the enemy in a hit, the charge will stall or even be knocked back.
Therefore, when a large number of enemies charge at the gunner team, the gunners need to shoot at targets from near to far in turn, and regularly create hitstun to suppress the enemy's overall charge speed and avoid being close to the enemy in a short period of time.
This tactic is simple to describe, but it is very difficult to practice.
The first problem is the accuracy of shooting, to determine which enemy is closest in a short period of time and hit it quickly, which is a great test of the gunner's reflexes.
The second problem is coordination, the coordinated shooting of multiple gunners is called "staggered suppression", but it is easy to appear that two gunners hit the same target almost in equal order.
This is a wasted opportunity to create hitstun. How to determine which target is about to shoot by your companion and which target you should shoot is a great test of the tacit understanding between the gunners.
And what the Knights of the Night's Watch saw at this time was such an unbelievable sight.
Ghouls, as undead, do not have a vital part, so they are not easy to be killed by a single shot from a sniper rifle.
However, they attack by pounce, briefly jumping into the air.
Once you are shot by a sniper rifle in the air, your entire body will be shot out by bullets.
I saw that the army of ghouls instantly caught up with the two girls who were running, and the closest ones kicked their hind legs, and pounced viciously on the girls' backs.
At the moment of leaving the ground, the figure of the forward rush suddenly froze, and then flew out strangely upside down.
A second ghoul crossed its body from below, roaring ferociously and leaping forward with all its might.
Then he was shot in the head again, flew upside down, and fell to the ground.
Such a peculiar sight was coherent, that is, countless ghouls swooped forward one after another, and before they could touch the corners of the two girls' clothes, they flew back one after another.
What really makes the ghouls perform this exaggerated "acrobatic show" is the two sniper rifles from the distant hills, which produce two near-perfect staggered firing trajectories.
They never shoot at the same time, nor do they shoot the same ghoul, but they steadily suppress the ghouls' charges, so that they are never able to knock the two fleeing girls to the ground.
βBravoοΌ (Played beautifully!) Seeing the three ghouls pounce at the same time and be shot away by sniper rifles in the air, even the calmest Jalevin in the team couldn't help but applaud, "It's so exciting!" β
"I've never seen such a perfect staggered press!" The other knights also commented.
"Their gunslinger is definitely at the professional level!"
"Quasimodo!" The grumpy Lorente yelled again, "Are you sure we're here to watch?" A professional mercenary gunner of this level should be pulled over to fight side by side with us! It's a shame to die at the hands of ghouls! β
"It's too late now." Quasimodo sighed. It takes at least 20 seconds to rush from here to there, enough for the ghouls to tear these mercenaries to shreds.
"Everyone held their ground, and the laser rifles continued to shoot at a distance, trying to eliminate as many ghouls as possible before they died." Regret to regret, professionalism still made Quasimodo make the most rational choice.
Four laser rifles roared at the same time, crimson rays of fiery fire piercing the air, scorching the ghouls' rotting bodies.
In pain, the ghouls became more and more twisted and frenzied, and scrambled to pounce on the two fleeing girls in front of them.
Finally reaching the bottom edge of the highlands, Sheila and Medea were out of breath. Eleanor walked past the exhausted two, and the shield in her hand swung violently, smashing the ghoul who rushed to the front.
The right-handed gun came out like a dragon and stabbed the other ghoul in the abdomen.
Dragon Lance!
The spear picked the ghoul whole. The ghoul flicked his teeth and claws in the air, still unable to shake off the impaled gesture.
In the next second, it was thrown out by the spear, and like a huge cannonball, it smashed all the ghouls in a straight line behind it.
At the top of the tree above the heights, Mi'er quickly switched Slayer III to assault form, and the muzzles of the guns began to clatter in a dense manner, shooting at the horde of ghouls rushing towards Eleanor.
Although the bullets are not very lethal to the undead, they can put them in a stun state and prevent Eleanor from being besieged by these monsters.
Eleanor held her shield across her chest in her left hand, resisting the scratches and pounces of the ghouls in front of her. The spear in his right hand was pulled to the far left side, and his waist rotated with a sudden force.
Slash Iron!
This slash of iron slashed out 270 degrees, knocking all the ghouls around him flying.
Sidlifa next to him immediately rushed forward with an axe and slashed in a whirlwind!
The ghouls, who had been struck by the slashing iron, collided head-on with Sidlifa's axe storm, and were torn apart like chopping melons and vegetables.
On the other side of the Highlands, in a direction that the Night's Watch Knights couldn't see, Mia teleported Sheila and Medea from below into the Hearthfire Island, and then teleported out again, just like a transport plane in StarCraft that loaded the troops under the Highlands and then instantly airdropped them on the Highlands.
"Where's that Asker!" Medea, who had just ascended the high ground, spread her teeth and claws like a ghoul, eager to tear Aske to pieces.
"He jumped off the heights!" Mia hurriedly replied.
"What?" Medea and Hiraziqi were shocked.
Eleanor and Sidlifa are below the heights because one of them is equipped with Demonic Bronze armor and the other is equipped with Meteorite armor to withstand the ghouls' claws that can tear through steel.
Asker only wore a piece of chain mail, and he dared to rush directly into the battlefield like this?
"Is he crazy? Rush down like this! Before Medea could speak, Sheila immediately couldn't breathe, and cried out in panic, "If he is killed, what will our team do in the future!" β
"No, how could Asker die?" Mia subconsciously denied it and said, "Even if we are all wiped out, he will definitely be the one who survives to the end!" β
Sheila didn't talk nonsense with her, but quickly pounced on the edge of the high ground, and saw Aske pressing his sword with one hand and rushing in the direction of Eleanor and Sidlifa.
Several ghouls quickly besieged them, as ferocious as wolves besieging a lone antelope.
Then the antelope in the center becomes a male lion.
Draw your sword and slash! A cold light like a half-moon swept by, and all the ghouls that swooped up in the air flew upside down. Asker swung his sword in his right hand and slashed Aphrodite's trigger with his left, sending the bullet to a snap.
The ghoul who was hit by the bullet was pushed farther in the air by force, almost flying more than a dozen meters away.
More ghouls are coming this way. Asker quickly sideways, dodging the ghoul's grasp before a lion's tooth struck it in the head.
The ghoul was slashed down by the blade of the sword. In the next second, Asker had stepped on its head and leaped high in the air with the help of its strength.
Empty Jump!
He leaped through the shoulders and heads of countless ghouls like a dragonfly in the air, quickly approaching Eleanor's position.
As soon as a ghoul tries to pounce, he slashes down with his sword, slashing them out of the way.
"Whirlwind slash, spiral rush, breakthrough at 3 o'clock." In the channel, Asker said quickly.
At this time, Eleanor and Sidlifa, as soon as more ghouls arrived, fell into the disadvantage of being outnumbered.
They could only lean back to back, dealing with the poisonous claws coming from all sides, and their armor was covered with white marks pulled by sharp nails, with faint signs of corrosion.
If it weren't for the protection of these high-grade armors, they would have been torn to the ground by now.
Hearing Asker's command, the two immediately turned around and charged without hesitation, killing in the direction of 3 o'clock.
Sheila was stunned when someone pulled her up.
"Hurry up and help!" Mia shouted in her ear.
Sheila was stunned to find that there were about forty ghouls who had left the besieging of Asker and began to attack the high ground on this side.
Peggy held the only gentle slope she could rush up with her sword, and frantically moved around in a narrow area of four or five paces, slashing and stabbing the ghouls in close proximity.
The remaining ghouls, some continuing to assault the gentle entrance to the heights, others trying to cling their claws up the cliffs. Nora and Mi'er are shooting them down one by one.
Sheila took a deep breath, and the Mithril circuit on her right arm began to light up.