Chapter 30: Artillery and Comrades

The confirmation of the guarantee of the chain demon has proved to some extent that the devil's guarantee still counts partially.

The day after Quith and his party settled in the mercenary camp, some "soldiers" and ordnance materials were escorted by groups of devil troops. It's just that there don't seem to be many people who can be called "warriors", but fortunately, this is mainly a mercenary camp, and there are no inferior demons who are arranged into teams like other small Batzu camps with the disgusting appearance of constantly melting human forms.

"None of them can fight—" After reading the newly replenished soldiers, the ogre Naru walked into Quest's tent, sat cross-legged on the ground and began to complain: "The new arrivals are a group of inadequate little men, still clamoring for the demons to have a good taste of their high martial arts. ”

"Hehe," his brother, the ogre witch doctor, handed him a newly made energy ointment, which actually had the magical effect of calming the bad temper of the alien creatures that involuntarily erupted in Bato, "Naru, you need to learn to control your anger, only the anger that erupts in battle can bring harm to your enemies and not your own." ”

"The new soldiers weren't good, but the new ordnance was a bit of hope. Blue, who had gone with Quest to check on the newly delivered armaments, opened the tent, carrying some samples in his hand and under his arm. The purpose of his tent was to allow Quest, who was dragging more wooden boxes, to walk in.

"Hu ......" seemed to be taking a breath, and it was a bit of a struggle to drag these heavy boxes with the blue dragon in the form of a young man.

Blue lowered the curtain as soon as Quiz entered the tent, and hurriedly threw everything he was responsible for carrying to the ground, the muffled sound and the signs of the ground falling showed that the ogre was not lazy just now, and that the items he had brought were just as heavy.

"What kind of weapons and equipment are these? It looks a bit like a battering ram, but even if it's made of bronze, it's a little smaller, huh?"

Naru was obsessed with all kinds of weapons, and when he heard that it was a new shipment of weapons and equipment, he couldn't help but observe and study it on his own. Curious, he picked up the new weapon that Blue had thrown to the ground. He had thought it was some kind of battering ram cast in bronze, but the middle of the column was hollow.

"It's a bronze cannon," Quest called it more concisely and directly, instead of using the name "Purgatory Roar" told to him by the devilish quartermaster who gave him the weaponry. ”

Seeing that Naru wanted to wave the bronze cannon in his hand, wanting to try the use of this weapon by mistake, Quith directly opened the lids of several wooden boxes he had dragged, revealing some cannonballs stacked neatly with hay as a buffer.

"Bronze cannons are not used by wielding, but by the explosion of gunpowder to fire these shells in order to inflict a blow. Blue stopped his brother's recklessness in almost tearing down the tent, explaining in passing: "Quest says it's a good thing, and if you fiddle with it, the power of each cannonball fired is about ...... of my bursting fireball."

In fact, the devils invented this weapon because of the fire damage it can promit. Most of the Abyssal Tanari demons are only nearly immune to electric shock and toxin damage, and fire, strong acid, and cold can effectively kill low-level demons who are not so tough. In Aphnas, the main raw materials of gunpowder are sulfur and saltpeter, which are extremely cheap to manufacture, and most of the Bad Zu devils are not afraid of the damage of fire, so this kind of artillery is widely used on the front line of the blood station.

The devil can easily use this kind of artillery, only two ordinary barbed demon soldiers, one is responsible for shoulder-mounted aiming, and the other assists him in changing ammunition and igniting fire, as long as the demons do not rush to him, this bronze cannon can fire non-stop, inflicting heavy damage on the enemy's miscellaneous soldiers. As for the overheating of the barrel and the cost of the bore due to uninterrupted use, it was just a figure on the battle damage report, and no Batzu commander was particularly concerned.

"Twenty shells fired in a row, with an average of thirty breaths, the barrel of the brass cannon was somewhat overheated and had to be cooled. Seeing such familiar killing weapons, Quest was naturally not prepared to use them casually like the devil - relying entirely on numbers to annihilate the opponent, and of course, the dozens of bronze cannons equipped in this camp could not form a covering blow in a large scene like a bloody battle.

Whether it's racial instinct or remembrance of the world in his memory, Quest is ready to experiment with this weapon in order to find a more effective way to strike it.

"The tactics of infantry and artillery coordination are probably not usable, and the soldiers in this camp definitely don't have that kind of military literacy. This caliber of artillery is good to deal with miscellaneous soldiers, but if you encounter a high-level demon who can teleport at a high level, I'm afraid that no matter how large the caliber is, you have to find a way to attack while they don't pay attention to the fire. Quest pondered these questions as he wrote down some of the parameters and questions he had just experimented with on a piece of paper tanned from unknown biological skins.

[Weapon Name]: Bronze Cannon (Infernal Roar)

[Parameter Description]: This is a long-range attack weapon that fires explosive shells as a means of damage, and can be fired at an elevation angle of 45 degrees for the longest range of fire. The maximum attack distance is about 4,000 feet (more than 1,300 meters), and the effective firing rounds of the enemy are 3-4 rounds. Infantry is required to resist the onslaught in order to achieve sustained firepower. Each gun is fired 10 times in a row, with cooldown......

[Damage Description]: The cannonball can deal both kinetic and fire damage to the enemy......

At Naru's strong request, Quest jotted down some of the weapon parameters in the way he was accustomed to recording. When the ogre blacksmith saw this new weapon, he seemed to have the idea of writing a "Guide to Ogre Weapons" like his brother. Unfortunately, he couldn't write himself, so he had to ask Quest to help him record the results of the experiment, and he was responsible for transporting the copper cannons and ammunition from Quest's tent to the outside of the camp in exchange for testing.

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"Boss, those stupid big men and that kid just took out the weapons sent by the devils and used them, and those devils are reluctant to send them to our guys, but the power is not weak-" Before he could finish speaking, the gang boss interrupted the thief's report and his jaw with a wave of his hand.

As the hooligan boss of the "Broombrow Eyebrow" bandits, Dalton hates spit on himself when people talk to him. Just now, this subordinate may have been too excited to forget this, so he received this fatal slap. The rest of the gang members, seeing what happened to their companions, secretly reminded themselves not to make the same mistakes.

Seeing that his subordinates were frightened because of their tyranny, and they all showed expressions of fear of themselves, "Broom Eyebrow" Dalton was very satisfied. "It seems that it still has to be ruthless, and these little cubs seem to have forgotten their mother's etiquette since they came here. Dalton habitually shrugged his broom brow. These small skills of dominating the villains have always been what Dalton is best at, and these skills can be said to be the "capital" that has allowed him to develop.

Since he obtained the "capital" to develop himself from the devil, who may be a merchant who is disguised by the devil, Dalton's road to the underground world of Soft Maple City has never been smoother, and one thief gang after another has come to take refuge, and even the nobles in the city have to show respect for themselves.

This kind of good life lasted until the businessman who gave Dalton "capital" came to ask for a "return". I would have done it countless times – to exchange the promise of a rambling fortune for someone else's precious wealth, and when the victims came to their senses to collect their debts, they tore up the agreement, beat the debt collectors or threw them down the drain to feed the rats.

But Dalton miscalculated, he only showed a little sign of wanting to break the contract in front of the devil merchant just now, his whole skin was torn by the flames, and after using up some spell charms that he had accumulated over the years to buy before he escaped with his life, he wanted to report this heretical evil to the god priest who preached in the city. Again, he miscalculated, and before he could finish his gruesome account of the devil's wickedness, the pastor shouted, "The wicked who make a deal with the devil need to be purified!" – as if the pastors had forgotten any word of the doctrine they often preached about "salvation."

Killing the priest who yelled to purify himself, Dalton, who had no place in the world, had no choice but to obediently abide by the provisions of the contract, and came to this ghost place called Aphernas to start his Bartow career, but due to the punishment for the previous breach of contract, as soon as he walked out of the portal of Aphners, he was thrown to the mercenary recruitment office by the devil merchant, and then he was immediately arranged to participate in the latest bloody battle.

To tell the truth, when he first came to Bartow a few days ago, Dalton, like the little cubs under him, was almost scared to pee when he watched all kinds of demons fill the streets and dodge the deadly fireballs that immediately fell from the sky.

You must know that before they came to this ghost place, in the place of Soft Maple City, even children knew that the hardest speaker in the city was not the city lord who could only command and give orders, but Dalton, the boss of all the gang bosses.

But in fact, if he knew what the "bloody battle" really meant, it is estimated that he would not almost be scared.

"Little cubs, go with Lao Tzu to meet the guys who got new weapons for a while," not all of them didn't listen to the report of the unlucky guy just now, in fact, it was he who personally gave the order to send someone to find out about Ques and his party. It's one of the many tricks Dalton has mastered – learn to weigh someone else's weight before making a decision.

I tidied up the open shirt that was a little wrapped around my body because I was sweating profusely, and put on the signature bowler hat of the "broom eyebrows". Dalton stood up from the stone pestle and stamped his feet, as if trying to shake off the hellish dirt soaked in the roasted leather shoes, the garlic-like rosacea nose slightly distended, and muttered in a voice that sounded very cunning and cruel, "This damn place has always made Lao Tzu's nose uncomfortable, and all places uncomfortable." ”

Having just finished experimenting with the name "Hellroar" from outside the mercenary camp, Quest and the ogres, who were actually bronze cannons, happened to meet this group of "broom eyebrows" who wanted to come to them to weigh them.