Chapter 40: To the North

The battle on the north-south bridge of Venucci suddenly began, and the remnants of the troops who stayed behind on the bridge did not expect to be attacked fiercely at this time, on the steel bridge, the smoke of a volley of cannonballs exploded with a brief burst of firelight, and with the explosion of shells one by one, a large number of iron beads sprayed on the bridge like a rain curtain. The high-kinetic iron balls collided with the iron plates of the bridge, creating brilliant sparks. The first impact did not terminate the kinetic energy of the shotguns, and some of them bounced off hard ground, injuring the Venucci soldiers hiding in cover. An elite Venucci soldier was torn open by the ricochet.

A barrage of shrapnel shrapnel swept across the bridge, and the sparks on the bridge deck due to the impact flowed towards the other end of the bridge as the barrage advanced. The barrage was followed by a torrent of steel formed by eight mechanical spiders with 64 mechanical legs on the bridge, following the barrage fired by the longbow artillery. The Venucci soldiers, who survived the bunker on the bridge deck under the barrage, were suddenly incapacitated by the high-pressure vent of the mechanical spider spewing boiling water like white mist. In the boiler of the mechanical spider is two atmospheres (the standard atmospheric pressure on this planet). Boiling water as a weapon is impossible on Earth. But keep in mind that boiling water in this world is not the same as boiling water on Earth. The atmospheric pressure of this world is twelve times that of the earth, and at the critical temperature of water of 374.15 °C, the boiling point temperature of water rises by about 20 °C for each increase in the earth's atmospheric pressure (the formula is too complicated).

In this world, Ren Di has never seen everyone boil water under normal circumstances, boiling water until it boils. And the elite mechanical spider that Ren Di is now commanding, in the boiler is the standard atmospheric pressure of two planets, at this high pressure, there is no boiling point in the traditional sense, and the boiling point of water with a boiling point exceeding the critical temperature, the density of water vapor and boiling water is the same, and it is not clear at all. The water at this temperature was sprayed out like our insecticidal spray, and with a stinging sound, a white gas of more than 400 degrees was sprayed out. Due to the high specific heat capacity of water vapor, the heat carried is very large.

The specific heat capacity is very important, 100 degrees of air you touch, the heat quickly dissipates clean, you just feel a burst of hot gas rushing to your face, and then it is gone. But a drop of water drops on you in 100 degrees, the specific heat capacity of the water is high, and the heat released by cooling is large. It can make you hot and jump up in no time.

These eight steam spiders played the role of flamethrowers. In terms of long-range attack, the steam spider is not so prominent, but once it is melee combat, this elite steam spider sprays white steam everywhere, and everything that is sprayed on the object quickly condenses into continuously exothermic beads of boiling water. Where sprayed within ten meters, any soldier will lose combat effectiveness.

After the barrage shone on the ground with fire trees and silver flowers, it was these steam spiders who turned their vents and sprayed white mist on the bridge like insecticide, and the white mist covered the potholed bridge deck, the horrible corpses, and the bloodstains. Charred shrapnel. The entire bridge deck is the same as a "fairyland", not reminiscent of the situation under the white fog, and it is more appropriate to describe it as a ghost in the fog.

After the domineering sweep of the eight steam spiders, a large number of soldiers advanced, and according to the groans of the bridge, these soldiers poked there with bayonets, ending the pain of Venucci's wounded soldiers.

There was no heavy armor on the entire bridge as Ren Di imagined, and the forty-meter-long bridge deck, which ended in less than ten minutes, was as fast as lightning and thunder. The speed made Ren Di, who wanted to take advantage of a little bit incredible. The strategically important bridge was easily taken down. Easy incredible.

At this time, the sky made the sound of propellers, a two-meter-square, one-meter-high iron box, hanging a propeller, flying in the sky, just saw the scene of Ren Di taking the bridge down.

Robot Jik, the mechanical pet of the steam tractor hero Deschuchio, has three forms: reconnaissance siege battles. In this helicopter with a whole blade providing lift, this guy is very recognizable in a propeller flying machine like an Earth helicopter.

The robot Jik fell, and after the propellers stopped, the chubby mechanical body of the box made the sound of metal gears rubbing and mechanical parts clicking. The propeller folded and retracted, and then two mechanical arms with barrels were extended. It became a battle form. Of course, the muzzle was not aimed at the front. If he aimed ahead, Ren Di thought that this guy was going to deal with him. Whoever is pointed at gunpoint will not be comfortable. After Carini's friendly "persuasion", Deschuchio made Dijk, who was in his fighting form, a friendly form of walking with a gun to the ground, and walked through the army of Miana.

Dick walked over and clicked a note and a gleaming can of medical potion from the clattering metal box.

After reading the note, Ren Di understood why the defenders on the bridge were so weak. It turned out that they all went to the southern city-state to deal with the slow-motion troops they left behind. The cold medical potion flowed down his body. If there is anything in this world that is better than before the crossing. Ren Di will only give the answer of medical treatment.

After the quicksand of the magical creation flowed through the wound on the body, the originally purulent wound flowed rapidly, and the broken skin of the wound was tightened and forcibly healed by these shiny grit, leaving behind a crystal-like hard shell after the grit solidified. When the wound is completely healed, these crystal shells will fall off completely.

What exactly are these crystals, and why can they grow and arrange on the body like living creatures. Ren Di didn't know, but Ren Di knew that at the beginning of the Battle of Kede in this world, after Kalini died in battle, Giacomo was covered with strange crystals all over his body in the explosion of Kede machinery, and half of his face was covered with crystal stripes like a spider's web, these crystal stripes flashed with blue light, Giacomo gained the ability to turn metal into ceramic, so he used his ability to modify his steel mecha and turn the entire mecha into a composite material mixed with ceramic and steel.

The bandages on his whole body were untied, and Ren Di jumped off the longbow mechanic and shook his legs. The order for the next operational step was given. Two Longbow battle squads, eight mechanical spiders, and two infantry squads remained on the south bank of the bridge to defend.

The troops guarding the south bank were at a loss, and as long as there was enough firepower to blockade them, there was no need for a large number of infantry to garrison them. The longbow artillery had a range of 200 meters and was enough to bombard the land on the opposite bank from the side of the bridge at 40 meters.

Ren Di, on the other hand, led eight infantry combat squads and a longbow squad, and stayed in the bushes on the north bank of the bridge a thousand meters away from the bridge. If Vinucci wanted to fight, when they sent their troops to attack the bridge, Ren Di attacked from behind while they were concentrating on facing the defenders on the south bank of the bridge. If Venucci insists on giving up on destroying the bridge. Ren Di's troops hiding here will not become the main target, and will become the first target of the governor's giant artillery.

Of course, more importantly, Ren Di's troops were deployed at both ends of the bridge, which was enough to prove that he had fulfilled the task of seizing the bridge according to Giacomo's orders. As for the irresistible destruction of the bridge by the Governor's cannon, Giacomo would not have killed himself by military law even if he was unreasonable.

The infantry defended the city, and the city was taken by the enemy's infantry, and the infantry was primarily responsible. But the city was blown up by atomic # bombs, and it was not the responsibility of the defenders. It is the responsibility of the strategic commander. Half an hour later, outside the southern city-state of Venucci, the last Governor mech, was destroyed by the guns of the Celestial Tank. Dischuchio, quickly led a mechanical spider battle team and moved towards the direction of the northern bridge.

Through Dick's letters, Dischucchio knew that the bridge had been taken, but Rendi's advice was not to defend it. Deschuchio wanted to confirm it on the spot. Before confirming this, Deschuchiou's reply to Ren Di was to be as flexible as possible.

If Deschuchio didn't have a backache when he stood up, many grassroots officers in Ren Di's army scolded his mother for a while. Complaints such as "this little hairy head, do you know how to fight" appear in large numbers. Ren Di understood that this could not be blamed on Deschuchio. Monti Ragura's large army had a side effect, although the army began to dare not question the supreme orders of the top of Miana. But it also weakens the independent judgment of the grassroots army.

Ren Di now led a large number of troops, and the only order he received before setting off was to take the north-south bridge of Venucci. This order was given by Giacomo. Although Ren Di found many irrationalities in this order during the field war, he was a commander in the Miyana army. Ren Di can't go down. This is the army, it is an unfair system. The mistakes made by the commander were only verified by the soldier with his own blood, and the soldier was not qualified to bargain.

Dischucchio had already relayed Ren Di's suggestion back via steam helicopter, but it was noted that it was Ren Di's suggestion. Dischucchio needs to be on the spot before he can hand out his own opinions and suggestions, and the judgment of the two grassroots commanders with different relationships can give a reasonable judgment of the battle situation at the highest level.

It's a pity that it's all late. When the city-state of Venucci on the south bank witnessed, Miana's reinforcements converged with the previous army and wiped out the elite Venucci forces that had come to their aid. The city-state of the southern bank immediately sent radio waves at Venucci.

The hammer cannon is fired a second time.

Ren Di spread a piece of straw paper on the ground, took out a fountain pen, and poked the white paper into the dirt underneath the paper. When the dazzling light of the hammer cannon streaked across the sky, as beautiful as the sun, the reflection of the pen standing on the white paper moved with the light of the cannonballs rubbing in the atmosphere in the sky. Light moves with shadow. The shadow of the pen, in the process of the movement of the sky of the heavy artillery light, the shadow of the pen crossed an arc on the paper.

As the shells got closer to the ground, the light grew brighter and brighter. The shadow of the pen moved more and more clearly under the reflection of the light, Ren Di took out a pen, and the heavy hammer cannonball smashed on the bridge a thousand meters away into the muffled sound of falling into the canyon, and the tip of the pen traced this fleeting arc on the paper#. Then he held the paper with his hand, and the storm of air caused by the explosion of the heavy hammer cannonball swept over the place where Ren Di was, and the violent wind blew the paper with a rattling sound. But the paper was firmly held down by Ren Di's hand. A drop of sweat fell from the hair on Ren Di's forehead, and the sweat broke in the wind and splashed on the paper. And the soldiers around Ren Di collapsed to the ground as if they were the rest of their lives, regardless of their ranks, after the shells landed.

The heavy artillery shell appeared from the sky above Ren Di to the landing, the whole process from the undetectable point of light in the sky to the dazzling and unsightly, there was only a moment, at this moment, the point of light continued to expand from the sky, if you look directly, it is impossible to determine the trajectory of its movement. When the light above all the people was getting stronger and stronger, even though they couldn't look directly, they couldn't help but look at it, because it was so close that all the people under Ren Di's command now felt that this warhead seemed to be falling on their heads. Even Ren Di had the illusion that he seemed to be kneeling under this warhead. It's like the end of the world.

When a shell explodes in a canyon a thousand meters away, it is like a sudden pardon for the execution of a prisoner. A sensation of blood surging up his head appeared.

After the storm passed, Ren Di said softly: "It's 10:45 in the morning. Immediately, the tip of the pen drew a straight line on the shadow of the pen shining from the sun. Then count it up. Although the shells of the heavy hammer cannon are ballistic weapons, they are not the ones that can be rerouted by the Earth ICBM.

Deschuchio witnessed the massive warhead up close, the top of which smashed headlong into the bridge with a red-hot air beam. The bridge was like a glass plate, snapping, and countless cracks broke through from the warhead, and with the explosion of the warhead at the bottom of the canyon, the entire dark canyon seemed to be lit up with thousands of bright lights in an instant. Debris of the bridge erupted, and the storm staggered the mechs near the canyon.

After the explosion, Ren Di said to the frightened soldiers: "To the north, 15 degrees to the east." March"