Chapter 130: The First Battle of the Legion of the Undead (Part I)
Seeing the sparse rain of arrows falling, the charging frogman soldiers raised their shields one after another and blocked them in front of them.
After the arrows fell, most of them were blocked by the shield, and only a few shot through the shield or through the gaps in the shield, hitting the enemy.
The frogman soldiers who were hit by the arrows let out screams, some of them fell directly after being shot, and some of them did not fall down, but carefully retreated with their shields in their hands.
With the sound of a bowstring, the bed crossbow controlled by the black sledgehammer also shot out a crossbow bolt as thick as a gun, although he did not bless the internal force on this arrow, but with the power of the bed crossbow itself, it penetrated the bodies of three or four frogman soldiers at once, those simple wooden shields were as fragile as white paper in front of them, and the two snapped apart as soon as they touched, and the sputtered pieces of wood even injured many frogman soldiers around.
However, this casualty was not enough to frighten the enemy, and the frogman soldiers were still charging towards the station at a rapid pace, the only thing that was more fortunate was that these frogman soldiers did not seem to have any decent long-range weapons, and only some of the stronger-looking frogman soldiers were equipped with a few javelins.
This is actually quite normal, after all, most of these frogmen are mixed at sea, and long-range weapons such as bows and arrows are obviously not easy to use in the water, so it can be said that it is very normal for these frogman soldiers to have no special long-range weapons.
Seeing these enemy troops getting closer and closer, Wu Da Sledgehammer was actually a little nervous in his heart, wondering if those undead soldiers could withstand the impact of these frogman soldiers.
However, the zombie pikemen who were at the forefront did not feel the slightest nervousness, after all, as undead creatures, they had long lost the feelings that only these living beings had, and they just leveled the spears one by one according to the established battle procedures in their brains, and stood closely together one by one, forming a gun formation that looked extremely strong.
Behind them, the skeleton musketeers, also calmly holding flintlock rifles, waited for the enemy to come within range of the rifles, and then opened fire at the commander's command.
While reloading the bed crossbow, Sledgehammer and another soldier were silently estimating the distance between the enemy and their own army, and when the opponent was within two hundred meters, Sledgehammer immediately ordered the skeleton musketeers to start shooting.
The skeleton musketeers who received the order from the black sledgehammer picked up the flintlock rifles in their hands in unison, aimed at the frogman soldiers on the opposite side, and pulled the trigger without hesitation.
Although the frogmen soldiers had never seen the flintlock rifle, they could guess that it was a long-range weapon of the enemy, so when the skeleton musketeers pointed the muzzle of the flintlock rifle at them, they also raised their shields and blocked them.
But then there was a burst of gunfire like fried beans, and most of the shields of the frogmen soldiers who rushed to the front were shattered by the burst of bullets, and then the bullets continued to move forward, bursting blood flowers on their bodies.
The black sledgehammer, who had seen so many musket salvos for the first time, was also taken aback by this huge movement, and he didn't feel it when one or two muskets fired alone, but at this time, five hundred muskets fired at the same time, and its momentum was really like thunder, and when the fire flickered, a large number of bullets shot out, and just one salvo, seventy or eighty frogman warriors on the opposite side fell.
The frogman warriors were suddenly hit by this wave of blows, and the speed of the charge couldn't help but slow, but soon as a loud frog chirp sounded from behind, these frogman soldiers resumed their previous speed again, as if they had been stimulated by some kind of stimulation.
When they heard this huge frog roar, they couldn't help but have some bad premonitions in their hearts, the frog cry was so huge that it could spread all over the battlefield, obviously the strength of the water jumping frog that made the chirping sound would not be weak, and it was likely to be a second-order transcendent beast.
And since the charging footsteps of those frogman warriors did not stop, the shooting of the skeleton musketeers naturally did not stop, as the skeleton riflemen in the back rows handed the rifles that had already been loaded to the shooters in the front row, the crackling gunfire was continuous for a while, and there was almost no stagnation.
With the sound of gunfire, the frogman warriors also kept falling. This time, however, none of the frogman warriors stopped because of the death of their comrades.
By the time they braved the dense rain of bullets and rushed to within a hundred meters of the station, more than 1,000 frogman warriors had already fallen more than 500, but under the command of the frogman general, more than 1,000 water jumping frogs followed, stepping on the corpses of those frogman warriors all the way to continue to charge.
And the black sledgehammer was completely settled at this time, and he could see it at this time, although the range of those flintlock rifles was not as far as the strong bows in their hands, but the lethality was not weak at all, and even more lethal, as long as it hit the human body, the lead bullet would roll forward in the human body, and finally drill out a blood hole the size of a fist. With such a huge wound, the blood loss rate is naturally very fast, so even if they don't hit the vital point, once those frogman soldiers are hit by flintlock bullets, they will soon lose their combat effectiveness due to excessive blood loss, and then fall on the battlefield and swallow their last breath painfully under the trampling of their comrades and the torture of continuous blood loss.
Therefore, with these powerful flintlock rifles, and the phalanx of spears that looked very reliable at first glance, it was impossible for these frogman soldiers with only some thin armor on their bodies to break through the defenses laid by the undead soldiers.
At this time, the water scorpion used the large slingshots made before to shoot grenades at the enemy soldiers in a few soldiers.
Those frogman warriors had also never seen a grenade as a weapon, and when they saw the black, round 'stones' thrown towards them, these frogman warriors with decent agility immediately jumped to avoid these 'stones'.
After successfully avoiding these seemingly unthreatening 'stones', one of the frogman warriors who rushed to the front provocatively stuck out his tongue at the enemy on the opposite side.
But just as the frogman soldier spat out his long, mutated tongue, the grenade that had fallen to the ground exploded.
Suddenly, large pieces of iron nails and pieces of iron shot out in all directions under the influence of the blast wave, and the frogman soldiers who were completely defenseless against this were immediately swept down in pieces.
"Good fellows! This grenade is really fierce enough! ”
The water scorpion and others who really detonated the grenade for the first time also exclaimed in surprise when they saw the effect of the explosion, because the number of this grenade was limited, a total of fifty were sent, so they used stones instead when they practiced projection before, and they didn't know how powerful it was.
Now that they have seen their terrifying lethality, they immediately fell in love with these unassuming home-made grenades.
The frogman soldiers on the opposite side seemed to be blown up by the violent explosion just now, and many frogman soldiers who were knocked to the ground by the shock wave finally struggled from the ground for several seconds to get scared.
These frogman soldiers who were lucky enough to survive turned their heads and looked around, and found that the comrades beside them were at least about 100 people at once. The ground was full of corpses that had been blown up by grenades, and some frogman soldiers who were not yet dead looked at the dense wounds on their bodies that had been pierced by a large number of iron nails and iron sheets, and let out frightened cries in their mouths, wanting to pray for their comrades around them to save them.
It's a pity that their comrades-in-arms are also too busy to take care of themselves at this time! As the skeletal riflemen on the opposite side once again raised their rifles in unison, ready to fire, several other grenades were again projected from the air.
As the distance got closer, the skeletal riflemen fired more and more bullets, and often more than a hundred frogman soldiers were killed and wounded in a single round. In the face of the bullets that rained like a torrential rain, the poor frogman soldiers had no choice but to continue to charge.
It's a pity that the flesh and blood are too frustrating and fragile in the face of the terrible rain of bullets, and the more than 1,000 frogman soldiers who were the first to charge didn't have time to rush in front of the zombie pikemen, and they were all killed when they were still more than ten meters away from the gun array.
And the only counterattack they made was a few javelins that they threw before they died, most of which were javelins made of fishbones, how could they penetrate the heavy steel plate armor of the zombie pikemen! At most, it left a few shallow scratches on it, and then it was bounced off.
Seeing the tragic fate of those frogman warriors, the water jumping frogs in the rear were a little afraid to continue rushing, but as a few huge frog cries full of urging sounded in the rear, these water jumping frogs could only try to suppress the fear in their hearts and continue to charge with their heads down.
At the same time, the army in the rear, under the leadership of the frogman general, also began to charge, apparently trying to break through the defense line laid by the undead soldiers in one fell swoop by relying on the superiority of troops.
Among them, the black sledgehammer and they finally saw the water jumping frog that had been making a frog cry before, this guy is really an extraordinary beast, more than eight meters long, the bulging body is like a small mountain of meat, but he also likes to jump like other water jumping frogs, every time he jumps to the ground, the huge weight will make the ground tremble, as if a miniature earthquake has occurred.
In addition, the sharp-eyed black sledgehammer also found that there was a wound the size of a melon on the side of this transcendent water jumping frog, and there were some charred black wounds at the wound, which looked very much like a wound caused by artillery.
If this wound is really caused by artillery, then it means that this group of pirates should have fought with the Blue Dragon Empire Navy before, and they have suffered a lot of losses, and now they are attacking their military station, this is to pick up a soft persimmon pinch! If it was in the absence of a thousand undead soldiers to help them fight, Wu Sledgehammer and they were facing the pressure of thousands of enemy troops, and they really had only one choice to retreat, but now with these thousand undead soldiers, Wu Sledgehammer felt that they could completely rely on themselves to defeat this group of enemy troops.
But the most important thing here is to find a way to kill the transcendent water jumping frog first.
At this time, many of the other militiamen who discovered the appearance of the second-order water jumping frog also shot arrows at the big guy. But all of these arrows were blocked by a pale blue protective shield on the surface of the water jumping frog's body, and it was impossible to break through its defenses.