Chapter 288: Military Situation (2nd Update)
The battle has come to an end for the time being.
This is the largest battle that has taken place in Tokai Town since the Tsutenjo Mutiny and Saruda's ascension to the throne.
The number of casualties on both sides of the war was the most astonishing since the sea and land battle four years ago, with more than 800 Minotaurs killed in Haizhen in the Middle East, and 2,000 in the first battalion, and the largest casualties were in the second battalion, and the second battalion finally withdrew to the third battalion with 8,000 Minotaurs, more than 700 centaurs, and more than 1,000 kobolds, including light and serious wounded.
The casualties of the third battalion were more than 2,000 people, mainly due to the unexpected appearance of the heavy crossbow of the aircraft platoon, which was caught off guard.
Fortunately, no major generals were killed, the most serious was Niu Duo who was injured by Shrimp Hao, Ma Wancheng's injuries shed a lot of blood, but he did not hurt his muscles and bones, and he could be healed after a few days of bandaging and disinfection.
Wanghai City's giant elephant mastiff dog two powerful warriors came to help, although they did not come much, but by the way, they also recruited more than 10,000 warriors of various tribes, and the overall level barely replenished the troops.
Taken together, Tokai still has a force that the coalition forces have to pay attention to.
As for the coalition forces of Xiong Meng and Shark Sihai, the number of casualties alone was more than three times that of Donghai Town, but they did not show much worry, because eighty percent of these dead were ordinary soldiers with relatively low combat effectiveness.
The casualties of elite fighters are far less serious than those of the Minotaurs, and they can be said to have only touched the skin.
On the coalition side, due to the arrival of the shrimp Hao Division, the number of troops surrounding the three battalions is still above 400,000.
However, the news brought by Shrimp Hao made Xiong Meng, Shark Sihai and the majority of coalition generals a little unhappy.
He ordered his men to seize more than a dozen intact rifles on the battlefield, five of which even had a few bullets that had not had time to fire.
Shrimp Hao dictated while signaling, and finally fired the bullet, and the damage caused actually didn't need him to say much, regardless of the dead soldiers, that is, many of the wounded soldiers had sharp bullets suspected of being fired by this thing, and those soldiers who did not die at that time did not survive later, because the military doctors were helpless about the wounds.
The hole the size of a small teacup in front of it is often the size of a sea bowl behind it, and even if some soldiers are strong and successfully stop the bleeding, they still have hemoptysis in the mouth that cannot be cured, just like the internal organs are shattered by a huge force, and it is impossible to survive.
Xiong Meng had personally experienced the danger he felt at that time, and he didn't understand what was going on at the time, but now after Shrimp Hao's explanation and drills, he suddenly realized, and was amazed by the creativity of the Minotaurs, and he was at a loss for the time being on how to formulate the next siege plan.
Shark Sihai was also depressed, and several masters under him died inexplicably, which was really distressing and unbearable.
In the end, Xiong Meng summoned the commander of the ape-man crossbow battalion and asked him to study the new weapons he had captured, and make sure that he understood the key to it, so that he could appear in future battles.
In fact, Xiong Meng can't do this, the single combat effectiveness of the Violent Bear Clan is very strong, but it also lacks creative imagination, a rifle of more than seventy pounds is like a small branch in his hand, and two fingers can be broken with a little force, but the power he exerts makes him have to take it seriously.
After fiddling for a long time, they had no clue, so they could only hand it over to the ape-men who were good at brain-based research for analysis, although they had already mastered the very sharp long-range siege weapon of the machine platoon heavy crossbow.
He had no objection to such an arrangement, he had seen that thing, and he really couldn't figure out why it could exert the power to threaten the lives of high-level warriors.
Although Shrimp Hao was the first to understand the principle of injuring enemies with bullets, the innate large pincers of their race determined that it was impossible for them to be more accomplished than apes with dexterous fingers.
The crossbow battalion leader of the famous ape weapon, he does like to study things like fiddling with the organ Dunjia and the like on weekdays, and this time he was actually ordered by the new emperor ape to follow Xiong Meng south to pacify Donghai Town, mainly responsible for the crossbow battalion.
As the supreme commander of the ape clan, Ape Da knows very well that it is impossible to control the battle situation by relying on the strength of one person in the war, and to a certain extent, it also depends on killing weapons, and the heavy crossbow invented by the predecessors of the ape clan is one of them, and now there are 1,000 ballistas in his army establishment, and 300 ape weapons will be distributed to his nephew at one time.
Today's siege, the first wave of heavy crossbow attacks is very convenient, presumably the casualties in the city are not light, but the second wave began to have a strange situation, first a few ballista twists collapsed for no reason, which is a bit unusual, if it is said that in actual operation a certain ballista twist broke is completely understandable, but several vehicles have collapsed can only indicate that someone is eyeing their own crossbow battalion.
At that time, he was very strange, the crossbow formation was at least a kilometer away from the three battalions, could there be a marksman in the city who could accurately hit the target thousands of meters away?
What's more, at that time, the ape didn't believe that the tendons were broken by the strong bow, and there were indeed no feather arrows found at the scene, and before he could figure out what was going on, the flag commander who was responsible for the unified command of the arrows and fired them had his head shattered and died for no reason.
At that time, he was startled by the ape, and he knew that it might not be difficult for an intensively trained archer in long-range attacks to hit an enemy's head with a weapon, but it was not so easy to shatter an enemy's head.
Even if a heavy crossbow with a range of more than a kilometer hits the head, it is at most piercing, and it is far from the effect of shattering the skull, which shows that there are people in the city who can not only hit targets thousands of kilometers away, but also that the lethal parts fired by such weapons are so fast that ordinary people cannot catch their trajectory with the naked eye.
I have to say that the ape has a good attainment in mechanics, dynamics, etc., and it took half a day to roughly understand the basic killing principle of modern firearms.
Of course, it's just a very immature concept in my head.
But the weapon that Xiong Meng handed over to him made him speechless for a long time, and he exclaimed, "How can anyone in the world invent such a sharp weapon!" and so on.
Surprise and excitement temporarily relieved him from the pain of the heavy ballista being destroyed by the giant elephant warriors, bid farewell to the commander, took the rifle back to the crossbow battalion, and devoted himself to the research of new weapons.
......
Donghai Town, 3rd Battalion, Central Army Chamber.
After Niu Ben sat down in the case, there were as many as forty-two generals of various clans in the two classes, including Niu Duo, who was seriously injured, and Mastiff Iron, the patriarch of the Mastiff Dog.
First of all, the second battalion told about the battle that began yesterday, because Niu Duo was seriously injured, it was inconvenient to say more, and the task was handed over to Niu Hong to complete.
Niu Hong sorted out his thoughts a little, and made a series of reports on the beginning of the war clearly, including the damage caused by the unstoppable shrimp Hao, and also mentioned the role played by the rifle at several critical moments.
After that, Niu Ben began to summarize the gains and losses of this battle, and the general situation was briefly stated above, so I will not repeat it here.
At the end, Niu Ben introduced the giant elephant mastiff dog clan who came all the way from Wanghai City to help, as well as a large number of leaders of various clans who were recruited on the road, and the generals of Donghai Town expressed their sincere gratitude to the reinforcements.
Mastiff regained his senses, and when he saw so many generals thanking him, he grinned, bared his teeth, pulled his voice and humbled his voice, and couldn't stop shouting, "I haven't been able to see that Xiong Meng for a long time, it's just that the ministers of the previous dynasty were inconvenient and troublesome, otherwise how would I have ...... it a long time ago."
Many generals in Donghai Town couldn't help but laugh when they heard this, and many people who went out with Niu Ben to answer found that if it weren't for the giant elephant elder and his own general to rescue him in time, this fierce general would have been Xiong Meng's ghost.
But everyone likes Mastiff's character, and as long as he follows his temperament, he can cut the meat for you.
Xiang Dong saw that the more he spoke, the more he spoke, the more he slapped his shoulder, there was a wound an inch deep in that place, the mastiff was gasping for air, and he couldn't make a sound, and everyone laughed when they saw this.
In the end, Niu Ben told everyone about Jing Jun's identity.
In fact, the Jing army had already performed well in the city, and if the first wave of heavy crossbow attacks of the ape-man had not been discovered and reminded by him early, the casualties would probably be another number, three thousand crossbow arrows, and it was possible to support people to death.
It's just that the war situation was urgent at that time, and everyone didn't have time to pay more attention to this man who looked very different and the cute and beautiful cat girl next to him.
In fact, the name of Jing Jun is like a bright moon in the sky in the major battalions of Donghai Town, because the terrifying weapons called guns in the hands of a small number of soldiers in the battalion are from this person, but the vast majority of people have never seen their true faces.
There are also many people who have imagined what this character who suddenly came to Tokai Town and became the general's brother would be, but after seeing it today, those people realized that it was far from what they had guessed.
The body is not tall, but it is more appropriate to say that it is very thin, and the appearance looks a little similar to the ape, but at first there is no ape-man's sky-high nose, and there is no ape-man's heavy body hair, especially the arms are much shorter than the ape, and the face is very similar to the cat-people, but it is different from the delicate and delicate men and women of the cat-people, but it is a little more resolute and tough, in short, I really can't think of the image of that race on the continent to match it.
However, these people have no first-time meeting at all, they are all enthusiastic brothers, long brothers and short screams, and they are not less patted on the shoulder.
When it was Xiangdong's turn, he couldn't help but wonder who this little man who was less than half his height, who seemed to have a great reputation in Donghai Town, and he also greeted Jing Jun out of politeness.
Ignoring the pain on his body, Mastiff Iron walked in front of Jing Jun, stared at the dog's eyes, and looked at it for a long time without blinking, looking slightly confused.
To be honest, Lao Jing was really a little scared of this distant relative of the Tibetan mastiff on the earth, he looked too mad, far less kind than the ordinary kobold, and this guy was still lying in front of his face like a police dog sniffing and sniffing, as if he suspected that he was carrying some kind of prohibited items.
Lao Jing thought about it, but he understood that this guy must have no malicious intent, otherwise how could others allow him to do this.
Mastiff looked at it for a long time, then turned his head to the east and said, "I said the third brother, you don't have any impression of the appearance of this Jing brother?"
He said a sentence without a beginning or end, and the more than forty people in the conference hall were all stunned.