Chapter 34: Mortar Strikes
In the Gully Valley of Radiance, directly above the Crystal Ball Hallows, a white pillar of light projected from the Sacred Weapon to a height of more than fifty meters, condensing a spherical yin-yang fish the size of a football and composed of black and white in mid-air. In the face of the invasion of monks outside the valley, the dark side of the spherical yin-yang fish kept bursting out black light like lasers, attacking those outside monks who were about to rush over the mountain and attack the valley from afar. As for the part of the spherical yin-yang fish that emits white light, it is constantly releasing buff spells, constantly blessing spiritual shields or blessings to increase speed spells for their own cannon fodder monks in the valley. And under the supervision of fifteen monks from the three squads of Mao, Chen, and Si, any cannon fodder monk who dares to fight passively in the valley will be triggered by the poison pill at the vital position of the body, and quickly convulsions and fall to the ground to die!
The gossip array on the hills around the valley continued to slow down the attack speed of the foreign enemy, striving for more long-range attack opportunities for their own cannon fodder monks in the valley. With the shooting of sharp arrows blessed with amplification spells, those monks who were trapped on the mountain by the Bagua Great Array were killed by arrows one after another, even if they were more defensive, they were only barely maintained by shields.
The four major families of the attacking side all knew that this outermost layer of defense was only the easiest line of defense to breach. In order to meet the follow-up challenges in a better state, the descendants of the four major families did not use all their strength, but the family disciples in their respective teams were responsible for leading the way. In order to prevent being bombarded by the huge spherical yin-yang fish in the sky with his ultimate, the monks of the four major families chose to attack in teams of five or ten, and the different squads maintained a close contact with each other.
"Fight steadily, don't be in a hurry, and continue to release defensive spells. "Under the observation of the battlefield of flying spirit beasts in the sky on the outskirts of the valley, the multiple squads of the four major families maintained a relatively consistent pace of attack, neither too aggressive squads, nor squads that were holding back and cowering. In the face of the stragglers in the valley with low morale, the disciples of the four major families held high the specially prepared tower shield in their hands, covered the tower shield in front of them layer by layer of spiritual power shield, stuck to their hearts to resist the interference of the gossip array, and forced towards the valley with a sharp arrow array!
In the sky above the Gully Valley, flying spirit beasts from all directions had already continued to attack the valley under the drive of their respective masters. Although there was a sniper rifle in the sky inside the valley that fired high-powered bullets, there was only one sniper rifle after all, and there was no way to kill and injure multiple flying spirit beasts at once. Moreover, the flying spirit beasts have discovered the flaw of the sniper rifle, which is the slow turning speed. Well, this point is mainly due to the problem with the coordination of rice grains and wind carvings. After all, the Wind Eagle is not a hummingbird, and it is good to be able to hover smoothly in a small area, and it cannot be required to accurately adjust the angle of the body in place. Therefore, in the face of the threat of the Wind Eagle and the Sniper Rifle, once the flying spirit beasts on the periphery found that the Wind Eagle's head was rushing towards them, they would immediately turn around and fly to the left and right or above!
However, the existence of the sniper rifle still greatly deterred those flying spirit beasts, making them dare not focus on attacking the enemy's flying spirit beasts in the valley. Moreover, at this time, the owners of the flying spirit beasts in the valley will also use arrows to assist their own flying spirit beast attacks. As a result, the battle between the flying spirit beasts above the valley remained evenly matched for the time being, and the cannon fodder monks in the valley did not encounter flanking attacks from the air and the ground.
Just when the battle entered a brief stalemate, and the monks of the four major families rushed into the Bagua Phantom Array before they could rush into the valley, Robot No. 1, the most central part of the valley, finally adjusted the mortar. After determining that the gravitational acceleration of the Spirit Force Continent was almost the same as that of the Earth, Robot No. 1 finally loaded a 120mm caliber mortar shell weighing nearly 15 kilograms into the barrel that was erected high! That's right, you read that right, the caliber of this mortar is 120mm, and this is a heavy mortar with a maximum range of seven kilometers and a radius of fifteen meters for the explosion of the shell! The reason why it carries a heavy mortar, not a light mortar, is of course because of the space ring! Now that there are even very convenient and labor-saving means of transportation such as space rings, light mortars that facilitate marching are useless. Now that the transportation problem has been solved, it is natural to carry large-caliber shells!
The flames rose, and the terrifying sound of cannon shots made people shudder. In the smoke of gunpowder, a heavy large-caliber mortar shell crossed a graceful arc in mid-air under the shocked gaze of the monks along the way, and crashed towards the ten-person squad that had been relatively scattered in formation to the north of the Throat Valley!
"Get out of the way!" In the face of the mortar shells that fell from the sky and were wrapped in strong oppressive force, the monks who felt the danger in advance immediately quickly dodged to the side, and the nearest one was more than ten meters away from the point where the shells hit! According to the monks' ideas, at a distance of ten meters, even if this huge piece of iron splashed with kinetic gravel, the monks would be able to dodge in time. What's more, they also have defensive shields and spiritual shields on them.
However, these ten monks, who were only fifteen meters away from the mortar shell, did not know that the killing radius of this mortar shell reached thirty meters, and the fragments of the shell could even kill the enemy at a distance of 100 meters!
With a loud "boom", the violent flames spread out in all directions with the blast wave of the explosion, and in an instant, the ten monks who thought they were in a safe area were engulfed in the flames in the sky! The explosion shock wave slammed into the bodies of the ten monks like a tsunami, shattering the spiritual shields on their bodies like a devastating one, and throwing these monks whose internal organs were shattered far away!
"Damn, what kind of weapon is this?!" The battlefield that was originally stalemate was instantly quiet for a moment. All the monks who were able to see this scene were stunned by the tremendous lethality of the cannonballs!
"Could this be the attack method of the powerhouses of the Saint Realm?" Looking at the central area of the core area of the valley hidden in the misty mist from a distance, the monks on the periphery were frightened by this explosion like the roar of a god, and their fighting spirit was low!
"Don't be afraid, such an attack can't be sustained, even if such an attack is a strong person in the Saint Realm, it is not a small burden!" Although he was very uncertain in his heart, in order to boost morale, the high-level of the four major families had to stand up. If you don't stand up at this time, the disciples under your command may really turn around and run away! Although the doormen work for the four major families, they have not yet realized the consciousness of dying for the four major families! Even if they have to die, they are forced to the point of last resort. Originally, the big guy was just to obtain the cultivation resources given by the family, so he would act as a guest for the four major families. For the sake of some cultivation resources, it's really not worth giving away your life!
However, less than half a minute before the explosion of the first mortar shell, the propellant and fuse of the second 120mm mortar were installed by Robot 1 alone!
The scalp-tingling whistling sound struck again, and in the frightened gaze of the monks, the second mortar shell chose the south side of the valley because of the distance, and did not feel the power of the explosion!
"Disperse quickly!" Facing the cannonballs that fell quickly in mid-air, the monks of the Ma family in the south immediately became a mess and quickly retreated in all directions. It's just that as soon as the formation of these monks was chaotic, the spherical yin-yang fish in the center of the valley emitted a series of laser-like spiritual power rays, quickly shooting those monks who had exposed their weaknesses because they had abandoned the defensive formation!
"You can't dodge, as soon as you dodge, the flaws will be revealed, and you must destroy the iron bumps before they fly down!" After two major casualties in a row, the patriarchs of the four major families who saw the explosion through the visual sharing of the flying spirit beast quickly formulated a strategy to deal with it. And the strategy of the Quartet is to detonate the mortar shell before it hits the ground!
Although mortar shells fly fast, they are much slower than other shells. After all, mortars belong to smoothbore guns with low chamber pressure, and the characteristic of low chamber pressure is the slow muzzle velocity of the shell.
suffered two losses in succession, and although the monks on the attacking side were hit hard and their fighting spirit dropped a lot, they already had the experience to deal with it. In the face of the third whistling mortar shell, the monks of the Lejia family in the west of the valley shot their bows and arrows in unison, unleashed wind blades formed by spiritual power, or threw short spears with clay as rods.
Encountering dozens of intensive attacks, this third mortar shell exploded in mid-air thirty meters above the ground before it landed!
Then, the monks were horrified to find that the radius of the mortar shells that exploded in mid-air had actually increased instead of decreasing! Fortunately, because of the relatively long distance, although the lethality of the mortar shells was still there, the destructive power was already within the range of the monks. Except, of course, for those unlucky ones who were unfortunate enough to be hit by explosive fragments.
Although the explosion point of the mortar shells from the ground is getting higher and higher, and the lethality of the monks is getting smaller and smaller, the continuous mortar shells have greatly attracted the mental and spiritual power of the hostile monks, making them unable to attack the monks in the valley with all their strength. It's just that, as the battle continued, the monks of the four major families still attacked the inner circle of the Throat Valley after paying hundreds of casualties, forcing the monks in the Throat Valley to retreat again and again. Eventually, the cannon fodder monks in the valley were forced into the basin on the inner side of the valley, and retreated behind the mounds in the basin. At this point, the first line of defense in the Gully Valley was breached, and the monks of the four major families attacked the second line of defense in the Gullythroat Valley.
"Listen to my orders, get rid of these totem poles before moving forward!"