Exit 3 of the Plains of Damnation, which had just been captured by the human Hell Gate Garrison Legion, was something to celebrate a moment ago, but now, it was something that everyone couldn't talk about.

Because this is a newly captured position, the defensive barrier here has not yet been repaired!

And now, what they need to face is a demonic torrent that is only slightly smaller than the demonic tsunami they faced when they lost the ground a few days ago!

On the canyon road, which can accommodate more than a dozen Tan~Ke side by side, human soldiers wearing full-body alchemy armor are blocking the attack of the crazy demons with a long wall of flesh and blood.

Like a steel city wall, the soldiers brandished their long knives neatly, slashed forward three meters with unrivaled momentum, and then jumped backwards in unison, returning to the place where they started, and when the corpse of the demon they killed was detonated, they would also injure the demon who stepped on it again, and then slash forward again.

The cycle repeats itself over and over again, slaying countless demons on the ground in front of the defensive barrier.

Every minute someone falls to the ground, but every minute a new person steps up to the front row to join this wall of steel, flesh and life.

As for why the tactics used by other troops are not used here, it is because the improvised defensive barrier simply cannot hold an attack of this level!

Not to mention letting the demons attack the defensive barrier unscrupulously, even a few explosions at close range may cause this defensive barrier to collapse.

The original permanent defensive barrier? The whole position is overwhelmed by demons, and you think this existence at the forefront will be preserved?

And among the demons on the ground, there are not only low-level individuals who can be killed by powerful alchemy weapons with a single blow, as the real frontline, there has never been a shortage of high-level demons here.

But every time these high-level demons appeared in front of the position, they would be set on fire by the powerful firepower that fell from the sky, and they would either fall directly there, or they would go forward to receive the last sword to harvest their lives.

The only thing that is fortunate is that because of the madness of the demons, in the previous battle, the fire points on the cliffs on both sides were not completely cleared. It's just that because of the impact of the flying demon, the permanent magic guide cannon fixed on the firing point has been scrapped, and the attack is on the portable magic guide cannon that has just been assembled and disassembled.

Even so, the pressure on the ground was enormous, and endless demons were surging wildly, piling up in this battlefield where a single brick could hit three heads, which was enough for a barely defended human to be considered a real meat grinder battlefield.

Not only on the ground, but also in the air.

"Top~Stay! Top ~ Stay! An officer stood at the front of the position and roared loudly, "The first and second arrays of magic guide cannons, anti-air scattershots!" Launch! ”

In the neat flashes and a series of roars, the portable magic cannons in the first two rows of the defensive position let out their own roars into the air, and countless cyan meteors streaked across the sky, sweeping towards the demon hordes flying in the air. And every meteor that hits a demon will be directly detonated, lighting up in rows and countless spots of light in the sky. This round of volleys killed hundreds of demons in mid-air in one go, and nearly a thousand demons fell to the ground because they were affected.

But it didn't serve any purpose, as more flying demons had already crossed the first layer of anti-aircraft fire nets, ready to dive inside the position. But they were greeted by a denser second-tier anti-aircraft fire network, a near-ground defense network organized by countless mobile dense repeater formations similar to modern anti-aircraft combat vehicles.

The magic cannon does have countless advantages, but under the countless miscellaneous tactics, it has an irreparable and almost fatal weakness: that is, the firing frequency!

Although it is possible to perform multiple bursts of extremely fast fire in an extreme period of time, this is at the cost of the durability of the magic cannon itself, ignoring the illegal operation of damage. The firing frequency of the magic cannon itself is about 10 to 30 seconds, and the specific frequency is related to the type and mode of the cannon chosen.

In short, this is definitely not something that can shoot continuously and strafe like an assault rifle!

In addition, the magic bombs fired by the magic guide cannon do not have such a thing as a navigation device at all, and as for the mental power lock that often appears in the magic world...... This is a mass-produced alchemy product Well, the Ilona continent is not advanced enough to install a personality system on a mass-produced PDA, and there is not even a mind on the magic guide cannon, how can there be spiritual power?

Therefore, the magic cannon is definitely not suitable for air combat!

Thus, in order to relieve the pressure on the bow unit and fill the shortcomings of the melee unit, the crossbow was born. However, the crossbow's reloading efficiency was too low, so the repeater was born. But even a repeater, which can shoot dozens of alchemy arrows in a row, is only an insignificant existence on the real battlefield. So the Dense Repeater Array was born, but this guy was too bulky and too cumbersome to change magazines. Finally, the final product of the mobile Dense Crossbow Array was born in a repeater assembly plant a hundred years after the birth of the Array.

Incidentally, the crossbow series of tech trees were all ordered by humans themselves.

The Celestials ordered the ultra-high-tech tech tree, the Titans ordered the technology tree for affordable mass production, the dragons ordered the tech tree for the Demon Martial Arts Skill, the Elves lit the tech tree for the Constructed Creations, the Dwarves lit the tech tree for the blade armor, the Orcs lit the tech tree for the War Array, and finally the humans lit the tech tree for the War Machine.

That's right, the first product of the magic cannon came from the hands of human alchemists!

Only if the individual strength is weak, must rely on various external forces to make up for itself, and at the same time has a natural advantage in the design and manufacture of precision machinery, and there are enough human beings who can mass-produce key components, can really point out the scientific and technological tree of war machinery.

As for goblins and gnomes?

The goblins point out the art of explosions, and the gnomes point out the logistics transport!

Sorry, but it seems that the gnomes of Ilona still have some halfling or hobbit blood......

As the front line of the most invested troops by mankind, there may be a shortage of people, warships, and weapons of mass destruction on the battlefield of Hell's Gate, but there will definitely be no shortage of various mass-produced alchemy war machines!

At this time, there were dozens of nearly a hundred alchemy ballistas, which were safely parked behind the magic cannon position. Each ballista was manned by at least four people, a driver, a gunner, and two loaders. And each ballista is followed by at least one large space-expanding transporter equipped with alchemy arrows: the kind that can hold at least a thousand siege bolts at a time.

The Movable Repeater Array, or Ballista for short, is not a weapon that is less powerful than the Magic Cannon - if you want, you can use this guy to fire a disposable artifact, as long as it's a crossbow bolt, whoever cares what ammunition you fire.

The biggest gap lies in the logistics supply!

The magic cannon has no ammunition, or ammunition is just pieces of high-energy crystals, which can completely allow soldiers to carry a lot of them on the road. But with a fixed volume of alchemy crossbow arrows, you try to let ordinary soldiers carry and transport them, how much can they be transported at one time?

And the Phalanx is such a thing, its ammunition consumption can be called inhumane, not to mention the others, as far as the ballista is concerned, what is a thousand crossbow arrows? Shoot them all in ten minutes!

Squad-level armament is really enough to have a portable magic cannon, which is already considered a trench. As for each squad, it can drive an air defense vehicle that comes into production as standard...... Sorry, that picture is so beautiful, both friend and foe.

Therefore, the ballista is generally only used in the defense of the city and the offensive and defensive battles of the strongholds, as well as in major battles, and is not the standard armament of the troops: this guy's classification is the city defense equipment.

And on the battlefield of Hell's Gate, that's a ball!

In addition to the ones that have been launched now, there are at least a thousand ballistas in the warehouse!

"Can't let them in! All Ballista! Anti-air rockets! Three rounds of salvos! ”

With the help of the machine, the two loaders next to the car loaded the magazines of the quadruple repeater crossbow array on the vehicle in one second, and with a command, the ballista, which had already adjusted the angle, shot twenty by four alchemical crossbow arrows with fire and bombs into the sky in ten seconds.

A portion of the alchemy's crossbow bolts slammed into the flying demon, detonating the bomb it was strapped to, and the goblins' carefully orchestrated bomb turned into a mass of sparks and blasted the flying demon into a pile of minced flesh.

However, most of the crossbow arrows did not hit the target, but it doesn't matter, as one of the main bodies of the near-air defense network, the alchemy crossbow arrow will automatically detonate when it flies to a certain height: remember this kind of crossbow arrow is fire?

The shattered arrow fragments, under the powerful kinetic energy of the explosion, flew in all directions, injuring more flying demons and even losing the ability to fly.

So, in the sky, after the cyan light that was connected together, it was once again covered by the Flame Lotus.

There will always be fish that slip through the net, and no matter how dense the firepower net, there will always be lucky people who will appear in front of you stepping on the corpse of others.

"Don't miss a single one! In the name of the Sky Knight! ”

At this time, it was the turn of the Air Cavalry Regiment to appear, and the warriors riding the large aerial beasts: griffins, fearlessly wielding their long-handled weapons in their hands, together with their own mount partners, intercepted and killed the fish that slipped through the net above the ground.

Because of the range and space, in fact, the air guarded by the griffin is even a little further than the ground battle line, and the downed flying demons will not fall inside the position.

By the way, alchemy bolts that do not detonate automatically will not be wasted, and under the effect of gravity, they will return to the embrace of the earth, in the form of explosions and killing.

In a way, there is a balance of power, or stalemate, on this battlefield. But this is definitely bad news for the human forces guarding the position. Because the number of mad demons is still unknown, at least for the defenders, this unknown may even be infinite. And human beings, whether it is physical strength, fighting spirit, magic power, energy, etc., and even including logistics materials, all have limit thresholds......

But perhaps, both sides may not be able to wait for one of them to show signs of fatigue.

"General! Discover a large number of high-level demons about to arrive at the front line of our army! Expect contact in half a minute! ”

"When will the original defensive barrier of the position be repaired? What about the commander-in-chief? What did the commander-in-chief say? ”

"The Wizard Force says it will take at least half an hour! The commander-in-chief's order is: the minimum requirement for retreat is to kill all the high-level demons! ”

“…… Come with me! Adjutant, you stay! After I die in battle, I will be commanded by you! ”

With his own personal guard, the general stepped to the forefront of the battlefield.

"Soldiers! At our feet are the positions that our predecessors have guarded for countless years, but we actually lost here once a few days ago! This is our unpardonable sin! But thankfully, we've got it back! ”

"Now, we are about to face the toughest test again! Last time we retreated shamefully, but this time, I will stand here with you and swear to the death! ”

"Want to get over here? Ask about our swords first, then step over our corpses! ”

"For the continent of Illona! All the army advances! ”

"Fight to the end! Swear not to give up! ”