Chapter Twenty-Three: The Bloody Battle at the Head of the City
"Ah, here comes Peter......"
In the days of defending the city, Zhang Tie has become a "magic gunner" who operates steam ballistas on the city wall, and his daily work on the city wall is to work with other soldiers to operate a ballista gun position numbered S137 on the north wall of Moge City.
When other ballista operators operate this ballista position at medium and close range, because of the powerful vitality of the demonized puppet, even if they are operating a ballista, it is very difficult to kill a demonized puppet, because of the terrifying undead characteristics of the demonized puppet, unless the head is blown off in an instant, even if it is pierced by the ballista, or even if it is broken hands and feet, it will still rush over.
Seven days ago, the gunner who operated this ballista gun position was dislocated from the shock of the whole person's arm and Yan zhòng's contusion because he had been operating on the gun position for too long, Zhang Tie happened to be next to him, and after saying "let me come", he sat in the gunner's position, and with his excellent ability, he quickly won the recognition of other fighters on this gun position and became a special supernumerary on the S137 gun position.
In charge of S137 and the surrounding artillery emplacements, it is a ballista battalion of the Seventh City Defense Regiment under the Garrison Corps of Mogue City in the Republic of Saipan, it stands to reason that people from non-ballista battalions, especially supernumeraries like Zhang Tie who are as rangers, are generally impossible to sit in the position of gunners, but at this time, no one cares about these anymore, as long as they can kill the demons.
Originally, Zhang Tie was seen sitting on the ballista position of S137. The people around were still very surprised, the battalion commander of the ballista battalion even came over angrily after receiving the report and was ready to reprimand him, but the battalion commander only watched Zhang Tie's side for two minutes. The anger disappeared completely, and Zhang Tie acquiesced in the identity of this special supernumerary gunner. At this time, as long as the people in Mog City can be said to resist the demons, everyone is responsible, so what is the military uniform.
Seeing Zhang Tie coming, the gunner, who was still sitting on the ballista position, also jumped down with relief. gave up the operation position to Zhang Tie, "Fuck those bastards hard......"
Without saying a word, Zhang Tie quickly jumped up and sat down in the gunner's position, and skillfully pulled the reset link of the steam ballista. With both hands on the shooting handle, he pressed the trigger with his hand, his eyes swept away, and the ballista shook. A crossbow bolt flew out more than 500 meters from the muzzle. Accurately burst the head of a demonized puppet rushing over with a corpse, scattering a large area of red and white things.
The other fighters on the S137 gun emplacements all shouted happily at once. If other people were in Zhang Tie's position, they would probably be able to accurately shoot the demonized puppet after three shots, but where to shoot the demonized puppet depends entirely on luck, if it is shot on the torso or siblings, in addition to opening a hole, the demonized puppet can still run over. At most, it's just a little slower, and you really want to kill that demonized puppet. The crossbow arrows consumed on the gun emplacements cost at least seven or eight or even ten rounds, and with Zhang Tie, ten crossbow arrows could already accurately kill more than four demonized puppets here.
"Hurry up and help transport the ammunition!" The squad leader on the gun emplacement roared angrily, rolled up his sleeves himself, and automatically became Zhang Tie's logistics staff with others.
From this time on, the S137 gun position shook in a low voice, shooting out one crossbow arrow after another at an accurate frequency of three rounds in two seconds, and constantly harvesting the lives of those demonized puppets who rushed over at a distance of 30 meters to 500 meters below the city.
Zhang Tie, who was sitting in the gunner's position, kept repeating the action of aiming and shooting without distraction, and the whole person's body also vibrated slightly with the ballista, because the ballista on the city wall was fired by steam high-pressure catapult, and its principle was similar to that of bullets in the era of thermal weapons, except that instead of gunpowder, it became a rotating active high-density vapor compression tank under the gun position, and the thrust released by the vapor compression tank instantly entered the barrel, ejecting a piston-like sliding gun mount in the barrel. The bolts loaded in the turret can be fired.
At the moment of the release of the high-density vapor compression tank, the gun mount will also produce a huge reaction force, although there are shock absorbing springs and other devices on the gun position, but part of the force will inevitably be transmitted to the gunner's body, for ordinary people, as long as the continuous operation for an hour, the arm will be shocked to numbness, the continuous operation time is long, the various joints of the arm are shocked and dislocated or cause the wear and tear of the joints, it is a common phenomenon.
However, for Zhang Tie, the reaction force of that gun position had no effect on him at all, and for a person whose body could be immune to nearly 900 kilograms of strike force, the damage of that shock was too insignificant.
Zhang Tie's hands were like rocks firmly pressed on the shooter, constantly bursting the bodies or heads of the demonized puppets he saw in front of him. This is different from throwing flying spears, but it is also similar, Zhang Tie's super ability to throw accurately is used here, although he can't make the ballista as accurate as he throws flying spears, but with his own feeling and instinct, it is still possible for the accuracy of the ballista to be about 30 to 50 percent, although Zhang Tie can't control the power of the steam burst out in the rotating high-density vapor compression tank, but the trajectory of the crossbow arrow is similar to that of him throwing the flying spear.
It is with this ability that Zhang Tie has become a respected "sharpshooter" on this section of the city wall, and even Zhang Tie can't remember how many demonized puppets he has killed in the past few days.
For others, such a harvest is worth rejoicing, but for Zhang Tie, such a harvest is meaningless, but it has to be done, because those demonized puppets were also human beings before they were born, and what was killed here was not a demon, but just a larva and egg of the demon puppet worm mother, a puppet worm, can give birth to hundreds of thousands of such eggs a day, and the real demon legion has not appeared until this time, maybe for that demon legion, the so-called demonized puppet legion, Just worthless low-value consumables, they are stored for zài purposes. It's to be cannon fodder and send to death, no matter how many people die, the demons won't feel distressed.
The people in the whole city of Mog. Who knew that the once-famous Eagle of Cernes would succumb to the position of a small steam ballista at this time to play the role of a gunner.
The demonized puppet that rushed to within 30 meters of the city wall entered the downward firing blind spot of the steam ballista above the city wall, and when it reached this position, it was the coverage area of the scattered strike weapons below, and the entire city wall was densely packed, and various defensive weapons were layered on top of each other. The demonized puppets who rushed here barely survived after dropping the corpses they were holding. And those demonized puppets didn't seem to want to go back alive, and the demonized puppets that were almost like a sieve gathered under the city wall and actively accumulated, so that the demonized puppets that could move began to try to climb up. And as long as they are close to the city walls. The middle of the city wall is densely packed
In the egg-sized hole, rows of machine-operated sharp steel guns would pierce out of the hole, and then retract, stab, and retract, repeating the action and crushing the efforts and bodies of the demonized golems.
The demonized puppets that stepped on the corpses of their companions failed every time, but every time. As the corpse grew more and more tired, the demonized golems got closer and closer to the highest part of the wall. After being completely blocked by the dense corpses, the defensive weapons in the middle and lower sections of the city wall began to lose their effectiveness layer by layer.
Everyone knew that the time to test Mog City had not yet come, but that time was not far off.
As soon as he stayed on the gun position, Zhang Tie forgot the time, I don't know when, in addition to the torches, the lens headlights on the city wall also lit up, illuminating the places within a hundred meters of the city wall, but in the farther places, it was blurred, and one by one the burning fire pots were thrown out of the city, burning in those empty and dark areas outside the city, lighting up those dark places, so as to provide enough light source for the shooting weapons in the city.
After the sky was completely dark, because of the cover of darkness, the accuracy of various weapons on the city wall began to decrease at a long distance, and the demonized puppets became more restless, and the density and frequency of attacks increased significantly.
In the darkness, the hideous faces of the demonized puppets were like ghosts rushing out of the darkness, rushing towards Mog City in waves.
Zhang Tie's dark vision allowed him to maintain the same accuracy rate in the dark as during the day, because of the increase in the density of the demonized puppets' offensive formation, in the dark, the lethality of the ballista operated by Zhang Tie increased instead of decreasing, but on the entire city wall, there was only one person who could have Zhang Tie's ability, so the number of demonized puppets that rushed to the 30-meter distance of the city wall began to increase significantly.
I don't know how long it took, Zhang Tie only heard a bang in his ears, and then his face was hot, and the shooting of S137's ballista stopped suddenly......
A place on the ballista position suddenly burst, and a piece of cracked metal sharded Zhang Tie's face at once, leaving a wound more than a finger long on Zhang Tie's left cheek......
"Ah, the high-pressure compound pipe of the S137 is broken, how can this be? Fuck ......" The squad leader of the gun emplacement, who had changed to the second shift next to him, lay on the ground and looked under the gun mount, and shouted, and several soldiers around him were also a little panicked......
Zhang Tie ignored the injuries on his face and the dripping blood, he wiped it casually, jumped down from the gunner's seat, lowered his head to check, a pipe at the bottom of the gun mount had been obviously damaged, and a scorching steam spewed out from it......
"How's it going, can you fix it?" Zhang Tie asked the squad leader......
"This is a key component on the gun emplacement, it stands to reason that it shouldn't be damaged at all, how can this be, this thing can only be replaced, not repaired, and replacing this thing requires the entire turret to be removed, and it will take at least three days to repair at the earliest?" The squad leader of the S137 gun emplacement's face turned pale......
In the blink of an eye, a ballista turret in the distance exploded again, and another ballista lay down......
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