Chapter 407: Land of Flames

"Launch!"

"Boom!" Accompanied by the orders of the leaders of the various Teutonic artillery squads, the Teutonian artillerymen smashed the triggers of the Teutonian heavy catapults and the giant rod scale stone thrower, and then the huge gears were detached from the state of mutual occlusion, and at the same time they made the characteristic sound of the gears dragging their teeth, and the huge lifting arms and power arms dragged the throwing ropes and projectile bags, and smashed the standard incendiary bombs with the mouth of the canister into the basin below the hillside.

Immediately afterward, only panicked shouts could be heard from the basin, and the sound of clay pots of varying heights and the sound of fires and explosions echoed in the ears of the Teutonic soldiers in the three lines of defense.

"Good" Next to one of the giant rod scale stone throwers that had just fired a standard incendiary bomb, the leader of the Teutonic artillery squad here was holding a pencil and writing something in a small notebook in his hand, and even the cheers of the Teutonic soldiers in the first two lines of defense when they saw the enemy in a sea of fire did not distract him from his concentration even a little.

After writing some things in his small notebook and calculating others, the Teutonic artillery squad leader raised his head and said to his subordinates who were operating the giant pole scale stone thrower: "Aggravated!"

"Understood! The Teutonic artillerymen who operated the giant pole scale stone thrower nodded their heads and collectively replied after hearing the order of their squad leader, and then began to get busy again: wrenched the power arm back a little, and then used a special battlefield crane to load the falling weight onto the counterweight, after doing this, the Teutonic artillerymen pulled the power arm back to the position before the launch, and the two Teutonic artillerymen worked together to put an assembled standard incendiary bomb, that is, a large clay pot, into the projectile bag, and another Teutonic artilleryman used a torch to ignite the mouth of the large clay pot and prepared for launch。

"Fire!" the Teutonic artillery squad leader's order sounded again, and the arm once again threw the standard incendiary bomb from the projectile bag with great force.

"Boom" This time, the open space in front of the first line of defense once again boiled with billowing waves of black smoke and fire, accompanied by the crackling sound of several positions burning and the screams of the enemy.

"Okay!" After hearing the sound, the Teutonic artillery squad leader nodded, and continued to record in the small notebook in his hand without even raising his head, and after the record was completed, he stuffed the small notebook into the small waist bag behind his back, and looked up at the basin under the hillside that had mostly turned into a sea of fire and oil pots, "It's okay." According to the experience of the previous fires, add or decrease the corresponding weight of heavy objects as needed, adjust and continue shooting!"

"Understood, Captain!" shouted the Teutonic artillerymen in charge of operating the giant pole scale stone thrower, without delaying their own work, retrieving the retracting arm of the lever arm, and transporting the standard incendiary bombs, striving to turn the open space in front of the first line of defense into a complete place of fire in a short time.

This scenario is not unique to the third line of defense, but is the case for all Teutonic artillery squad leaders: as the squad leaders in charge of their own squads and squads, these Teutonic artillery squad leaders selected from their companions have the best knowledge of ballistic theory and all the experience in handling the corresponding heavy weapons, and what they have to do is not just shout and fire, but provide their squads and groups with accurate coordinates of the target to fire, and in the event of an enemy approaching, take out their own or temporary weapons to fight, if there is a situation where they have to abandon their positions and the heavy weapons cannot be withdrawnThese Teutonic artillery squad leaders were also responsible for destroying heavy weapons in order to avoid capture or use by the enemy.

Commanders and leaders at all levels have been the habit of the Teutons since ancient times, just as there is a famous old saying "the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility", the Teuton's concept is that the higher your status, the greater the ability, you should naturally lead by example, otherwise why should you command and lead others, and what qualifications are superior?

This concept may be simply unreasonable for the vast majority of modern human beings, and it is estimated that a large set of chaotic theories will be brought up to prove this wrong, but no one can deny that it is this simple and stubborn and even equivalent to extreme concept that has forged the tenacious national characteristics of the Teutons, and has allowed them to come to the present, which is not comparable to the modern human beings who have developed from the beginning of wisdom to the present civilization that has survived for less than 6,000 years. Not to mention the long civilizational eras before the establishment of the Teutonic Empire, judging from the currently known historical situation of the Teutonic Empire, the Teutonic Empire itself existed for at least 6,000 years

Modern things are not necessarily all advanced, ancient things are not necessarily all backward, history has proved this countless times, but unfortunately there are still quite a few people who do not understand this simple truth, and it is no wonder that there are always so many Internet mobs and patriotic thieves in the real world

To get back to the point, while the Teutonic heavy catapult and the giant pole scale stone thrower continued to throw a number of standard incendiary bombs, the Teutonic artillerymen responsible for operating the "porcupine" repeating ballista were also working intensively, but because the heavy weapons they operated were much faster than other heavy weapons in terms of firing frequency, they were responsible for operating the "porcupine" when the Teutonic heavy catapult and the giant rod scale stone throwing machine had just thrown more than half of the previously assembled standard incendiary bombs The Ballista Teutonic artillerymen had already poured all their common bolts into the heads of their enemies, and began to sit on the ground to rest or carry over the special bolts with various enchanted effects, so that they could be prepared as quickly as possible when the Undead King gave a new battle order.

"Huh" Through the gap between the fan-shaped shield and the fan-shaped shield, Zhu Henghong, who was huddled with his subordinates, could clearly see the enemy struggling desperately in the raging fire and crossbow arrows in the sky, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, "Everyone, withdraw the shield!"

With Zhu Henghong's order, the Boghall pikemen led by him put away the shields in their hands one after another, and the things that were originally like a piece of fan-shaped shields suddenly returned to their original normal queue state, and the other Boghall pikemen company and the five Acropolis legion detachments also removed the shield wall state and turtle-shaped formation state under the orders of their respective company leaders or detachment leaders, and began to look at the open space with fire waves flying in front of the first line of defense.

Looking at the fire in the open space in a "short period of time", even Zhu Henghong, who had no bad feelings towards the Japanese because of his previous education, but did not have much good feelings, shook his head at this time and sighed softly, "But it is really spectacular, and it seems that some incendiary bombs have been smashed near the edge of the forest, I hope it will not cause a forest fire, or not only burn some of it, but it is estimated that it will take a long time to return to the vegetation state before the war." ”

"It's not that serious, Zhu Henghong, there aren't many incendiary bombs that smashed into the forest, and the vast majority of the Japanese army in the Warring States Period stayed in the forest, even if the fire started, it could be quickly extinguished, and there was no need to worry about the forest fire. Just when Zhu Henghong was sighing to himself, Feng Longde's soul fluctuation came from his soul fire, "Don't think that this wave of incendiary bombs and crossbow bolts will completely knock the enemy down, all the bows and arrows they sent out are just equivalent to finding out the situation and 'going to thunder', and they won't feel too much pain What can make them feel a little distressed now is those iron cannon ashigaru and Japanese samurai with bows who were burned to death by incendiary bombs and shot by crossbow arrows- Iron cannons, that is, hand cannons, were valuable things during the Warring States period of Japan, and they could not be mass-produced without a good industrial base and manufacturing capacity, even if they were too poor in performance compared to those things in Europe at the same time; , I will never let the Teutonic artillerymen open fire. ”

"Uh, boss, you've always been there" At this moment, Zhu Henghong's face was full of black lines, fortunately, he had been wearing a Charrell-style infantry helmet and cotton chain mail mask, so that his subordinates would not see his expression of pain now, "It seems that if you think that the enemy's long-range attacks can't pose an effective threat to us, you will let the enemy shoot us all into hedgehogs, right?"

"Almost, don't you know how much money it took to produce so many incendiary bombs that were just launched? Fighting a war is making money, and it is equivalent to dozens or hundreds of catties of gold and silver thrown out, but it is worth the money. "In the soul connection with Zhu Henghong, Feng Longde snorted, and transformed into the corresponding soul fluctuation and transmitted the past," Also, don't call it a little devil in the future, there are still a few Japanese human soldiers in your subordinates, and there are also many Japanese human soldiers and Japanese human residents among the other Teutonic troops and personnel serving the Teutonic camp, abandon those narrow views on hatred education, otherwise it will be the same as those guys who shout about slaughtering the sun and destroying beauty all day long, you kid shouldn't be the kind of deflated goods, pay attention. ”

"I understand, boss, I will never become the kind of fool who yells so much on the Internet, but in real life he only dares to smash and rob his own compatriots. After being silent for a while, Zhu Henghong replied to Feng Longde in the soul connection.

"It's good to understand, but anyone who understands something knows what kind of shit it is, only those guys with insufficient knowledge and low quality will stupidly regard those shit things as more important than anything, but they don't want to think about how to solve their personal problems, it's really TM's heart for the world" Feng Longde seemed to sneer in the soul connection, but soon the soul fluctuations that passed on to the past returned to a serious frequency again, "Forget it, don't talk about those fools- Zhu Henghong, get ready for battle, you are about to face a fierce battle next. I don't know how fierce the enemy's offensive will be, but this time it seems that the casualties will be small. ”

"Why?Boss?How many casualties can the Japanese Sengoku period army that only had bamboo spears and katana swords inflict on us?And their kind of armor made of bamboo and trees can resist maces or battle axes?" Zhu Henghong asked strangely in the soul connection, but he didn't dare to take it lightly, after all, he was beaten to death by a group of Aztec warriors armed with stone weapons, and he couldn't be careless.

"Don't think that their armor is made entirely of bamboo and wood, maybe their ashigaru or light infantry is probably like this or just cloth, but the armor of those Japanese samurai is made of iron, but there is a layer of armor made of bamboo and wood on the outside, so that it can cushion the attack power of long-range weapons, and can be decorated and marked with their own faction. Feng Longde replied in the soul connection, obviously specifically inquired about some relevant information, "Don't be misled by those so-called rabbits, but don't think how high the armor protection of the Japanese samurai is- At best, their various armors are pierced armor or fish scale armor with an extra layer of wooden bamboo armor, and although the links in each part will also be protected by armor structures similar to chain mail, their iron rings are all large, which can only be said to be better than nothing, but you and all the Teutonic soldiers should be careful, although these guys are not defensive, but they are very aggressive, and their katana and other gadgets are very good at attacking the gaps and weak points of the opponent's armor, if you really underestimate the enemy, even if you are carrying almost invulnerable Teutonic Gothic plate armor, those Japanese samurai will calmly look for an opportunity to insert the katana into the peephole of your helmet。 ”

"I'll you, boss, I see. After learning that the Japanese samurai had excellent combat experience even though their armor defense was not as good as that of their own soldiers who were generally equipped with heavy chain armor, Zhu Henghong could be regarded as serious, you must know that although more than 95% of the Teutonic soldiers in both the Boghall district team and the five Acropolis regiment detachments decided to be reincarnated as a corpse witch with self-consciousness and memory after death, who would want to die if they could not die? This is the innate instinct of the life race, even if he is really not afraid of death, he can't avoid the instinctive reaction, unless he is strong enough to overcome his instinct. "Boss, we're going to inflict maximum casualties on the enemy while trying to make sure we don't do too much damage. ”

"I hope so, and I look forward to your performance on the battlefield. (To be continued.) )