Chapter 54: Sneak Attack
Two tanks and more than eighty armed guards armed with rifles rushed through the corner, and then collectively froze.
What a scene in Sunset Square!
The ground, which was supposed to be paved with brown rock, had a thick, fishy stench of dark red blood on it.
Everywhere there were flies flying around, scurrying around in mid-air, sucking clotted blood clots on the ground with a cacophony of noise.
It was an unprecedented "feast" for flies. And the "food" on the ground is much more than blood clots all over the floor.
The square had clearly been cleaned up. A large number of corpses were scattered and piled up into several hills. It can be seen that the people who cleaned up the bodies did not have any basic "respect" for the victims. They presumably grabbed the corpse's limbs - whether it was arms, legs, or necks or even revealed - and threw them directly with the powerful push of the Steam Knight.
The corpses were smashed in the corners of the walls, and then piled up three or four stories high. Where the huge bronze statue of the first Duke of Thrall was once erected, the huge bronze statue of twelve jol-high was completely covered by the corpse. On the ground at the bottom of the statue, blood and other liquids are still flowing out, and this is the liquid that the corpses at the bottom are pressed out under the weight of layers of weight.
Even the sickest artist could not paint such a horrific scene. It's not that Dussander hasn't read the human descriptions of the "afterlife."
But those things are just imaginary scenarios imagined by a group of people. Compared to this...... Those scenes are simply weak.
Packing up the body, of course, is to make room. In Sunset Square, four huge boilers were parked, spitting black smoke outward. And the steam knights, dyed a disgusting pink with dried blood, were surrounding the boiler. Several thick copper pipes protruded from the boiler, like a huge umbilical cord, straight into the back of the steam knight.
Dussander had just recovered from the shock when he immediately realized it was a great opportunity to attack. He was about to give the order to the tank gun commander to attack the boiler, when the two tanks in front of him suddenly stopped with a sudden brake.
Rumble! The two guns opened fire at the same time, and the huge and sudden opening of the cannon made Dusand unable to hear anything for a moment.
The three-inch naval gun mounted on the tank spouted two metal projectiles traveling at high speed. Under the combined effect of the spiral rifling in the barrel and the lead airtight ring at the tail of the projectile, the two projectiles flew towards the target at a high speed of 24,000 revolutions per second.
The brass casing first touched the casing of the two tall boilers. This highly malleable metal is blocked by a cast iron casing and then begins to stretch outward, revealing the tungsten core inside.
The extremely hard tungsten core passes cleanly through the cast-iron casing of the boiler at high speeds and directly through the high-pressure chamber inside the boiler. The high-explosive gunpowder filled behind the tungsten core quickly caused an explosion and blew the opening of the high-pressure chamber even larger.
In the high-pressure chamber, high-pressure steam with a pressure of 2,700 tons per square millimeter is quickly leaked out. The Empire's superior metal materials science and pressure-resistant vessel manufacturing technology became a burden at this moment - the pressure vessel was not torn to pieces, and the broken boiler played a role like a "water rocket".
Two high-pressure boilers flew into the sky with the steam knights attached to them, and a huge blasting sound resounded in the sky. Dozens of steam knights and high-pressure boilers just disappeared before Dussand's eyes.
To tell the truth, the sound of the high-pressure boiler exploding, Dussander didn't hear it at all. He just felt the shock wave from the explosion with his chest.
The old accountant jumped up with joy when he saw the results of the tank.
"One boiler can replenish high-pressure gas for up to thirty steam knights at the same time, and two boilers are sixty!" The old accountant laughed, he patted Dussand's shoulder and asked him to look in the direction of his finger, "These laymen are really stupid, they didn't even reserve high-pressure tanks for their steam knights in advance!" ”
As a former army artilleryman, the old accountant is quite familiar with the combat methods of the steam knights. In the Imperial sequence, steam knights and artillerymen were often placed in the same flank-rear positions. It's just that the artillerymen built a position here to prepare for the bombardment of the enemy, and the steam knights repaired and replenished the steam in this position.
Due to the special forms of operations of the Empire and the Alliance, the artillery positions and the positions of the steam knights were dominated by permanent and semi-permanent fortifications most of the time. Occasionally, however, there were field battles in which the steam knights would replenish the steam by connecting it directly to the boiler. After all, it is always faster and easier to inflate the built-in pressure chamber directly with a pipe connection than with an external one.
The old accountant slapped the tank next to him vigorously, and then shouted, "Keep firing!" ”
Of course, such a shout could not be transmitted into the tank, after all, through the 80 mm thick armor plate on the side of the body, even if the old accountant folded his hand, his voice could not reach the hull.
The gunners in the tank were reloading as fast as they could, and due to the Empire's level of technology, Polina had her hair twisted into a huge chicken nest and was unable to cram the turret into the "semi-automatic loader" that Dussand had requested. Therefore, the gunner in the turret of the tank could only change ammunition with his own hands.
Grain
Fortunately, the navy's three-inch naval guns currently only have armor-piercing explosive shells. In order to allow the sailors on the battleship to complete the loading as soon as possible, the shells were designed with a separate projectile body and powder keg.
This makes it easier for the tank gunner to quickly reload and fire again. At the training ground at the Belford Auto Factory, the best gunners were able to narrow the firing interval to 10 seconds.
However, there is still a big difference between the actual combat situation and the training ground.
Ten seconds, twenty seconds...... The main guns of both tanks were slow to fire again. After regaining a little of his hearing, Dussaint immediately gave the order to open fire.
If you don't fire, you can't do it, and the bearded, black-robed priests charged in the direction of the tanks with their weapons in hand. The remaining bearded men rushed towards the steam knights, who were still in place.
It appears that the priests followed the command in the combat manual that the driver should stay away from the steam knight when the steam knight was directly connected to the boiler to replenish the steam to prevent the high-pressure steam from leaking.
In the sunset square, countless flies flew up in surprise by the fierce gunfire, and the black pressure of the flies exploded violently, and then was ploughed open by bullets to open a few blanks.
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Running barefoot, Androni heard the cannon fire and heavy gunfire in Sunset Square, and she gasped for breath, her pace slowing slightly.
The sound of gunfire and artillery meant that someone was fighting in Sunset Square, and she couldn't decide for a moment whether she should keep running until she reached the safe house, or get back into hiding as soon as possible.
"Madame, come here!" Just as Androni hesitated, a wooden door on the side of the street suddenly opened. A fat head sticks out, and it twists from side to side, as if to determine if there are any pursuers, "Hurry up, hide in!" ”
Feuerbach's head was covered in sweat, and he looked nervous. But he kept the wooden door open and waved vigorously to Andronie, "There are so many white steam knights slaughtering in Sunset Square!" The emperor is above, this fucking ally the allies have called! ”
As if sensing Andronie's hesitation, Feuerbach continued, "Madame, you must get in quickly, for the Emperor's sake, I ...... I didn't dare open the door for too long! ”
As soon as Feuerbach finished speaking, a huge cannon fire rang out again in Sunset Square. A pitch-black thing flew into the sky with a long white smoke trail.
"Mom!" Feuerbach exclaimed, and his fat head disappeared behind the door.
Androni also ran through the door.
There was blood coming out of her foot, and the soles of her feet had been cut somewhere.
After rushing into the room, Androni slammed the door shut, and began to gasp for breath. She was almost gasping out of her lungs.
"Mr. Feuerbach, why are you here?" Androni finally caught her breath, looked up at the sweaty man, and asked, "What is this place?" ”
"Bang!"
A wooden stick smashed directly into the back of Androni's head. She fell straight to the ground, her blonde hair covering her face.
"This is where you died." Feuerbach crouched down with some difficulty, and a satisfied smile appeared on his face, "Blessed are you—you almost let you run away!" ”