Chapter 147: Fierce Battle in the Port
Compared with the main guns of cruisers and battleships, the main guns of this destroyer are much less powerful, so many soldiers of the Hanhai Empire have successfully completed the assembly in front of Shark Fort City, and then formed several long lines and rushed towards the port.
Gongsun Lie was in charge of commanding the troops at the port, and when he saw that the enemy had gathered so many troops to kill the port, he was also very anxious, and constantly urged the air force to bomb the enemy and weaken the enemy's forces as much as possible.
However, the air force can't get away for a while, because this Hanhai Empire also has a special air force, although it is not as strong as the Golden Eagle Empire, but it is not weak.
The air force of the Hanhai Empire is mainly composed of two types of troops, namely the white-headed black-winged sea eagle and the poison-spraying skuua.
Among them, the white-headed black-winged sea eagle is the strongest, and when it becomes an adult, it generally has the strength equivalent to the acquired sevenfold, with a wingspan of more than five meters, its flight speed is very fast, its claws are extremely sharp, and it can easily crush the skulls of those low-level fierce beasts by diving.
And the strength of the poisonous skua is slightly weaker, and when it is an adult, it generally only has the strength of the acquired quadruple, with a wingspan of more than two meters. However, this guy is able to spew an acidic venom out of his mouth, and once contaminated, even the iron armor will melt.
Of these two flying beasts, there are more than 2,000 white-headed black-winged sea eagles, and there are more than 8,000 skuas spraying poison.
Therefore, under their entanglement, the air force could not get away for a while, and could only concentrate on the firepower to deal with these annoying guys first.
The air forces of the Blue Dragon Empire are much more shabby than the navy, the main force is still those few combat airships, on top of the eight combat airships, each of which is equipped with twelve main guns with a caliber of 100 mm, distributed on both sides of the airship, and there are also 32 high-level dual-purpose anti-aircraft guns with a caliber of 40 mm.
And with them, there are a thousand flame spinches and more than 3,000 Divine Fire Crows, in fact, the Divine Fire Crows under the Golden Crow King before were more than that, but they lost a large number of younger brothers in the previous war with the Holy Tree King, so these are the only ones left to the adult Divine Fire Crows. However, these adult Divine Fire Crows, their strength is also more than seven levels of the day after tomorrow, as for the Flame Sparrow that was transformed by Dr. Zhang, the strength is similar to that of the Divine Fire Crow, but they have not experienced much actual combat, today is the first time these Flame Sparrows have faced this kind of large-scale battle, if this thing can withstand the test of actual combat, Dr. Zhang will only make it in large quantities later.
In the face of the black pressure of the enemy air troops, the eight combat airships quickly set up a long snake formation in the air, and one main gun aimed at the enemy, and as soon as the opponent entered the firing range, they opened fire one after another.
Although the main gun is only a small cannon of 100 mm caliber, and even the main gun of the destroyer is larger than it, but the combat airship is a flying machine after all, not as stable as the ironclad ship, and after these main guns are fired one after another, these combat airships are shocked back several meters by the huge recoil.
However, the effect of this wave of strikes was also good, these shells flew into the enemy line and exploded, killing at least seven or eight enemy flying beasts with each shot.
After seeing the terrible lethality of these high-explosive bombs, the leader of the sea eagle beast and the leader of the skua gull on the opposite side immediately realized that it was a fool's act to let their subordinates advance together, so they ordered their subordinates to disperse, even if these enemy artillery hit, they could only kill one or two flying beasts at most, and the lethality would be greatly reduced.
Relying on this move, the air forces of the Hanhai Empire quickly approached those battle airships, and soon approached within two thousand meters of the opponent.
At this time, the large number of small-caliber anti-aircraft guns on the combat airship also opened fire, after the enemy dispersed, those main guns with slow loading speed against those enemy troops, just like a cannon to fight mosquitoes, often finally reloaded, a shot out, even an enemy was not killed, people feel that there is no place to use, and the punch that has accumulated enough strength is in the empty place.
And now these small-caliber anti-aircraft guns are different, the loading speed is much faster, and with the distance is shortened, the hit rate is also greatly improved, hundreds of anti-aircraft guns fired at the same time, and immediately shot down dozens of flying beasts of the enemy.
At the same time, the Flame Sparrow and the Divine Fire Crow who had been guarding the airship also attacked one after another, stepping forward to entangle each other to prevent the enemy's flying beasts from continuing to approach the combat airship.
When the air forces of the two sides were in a group, the ground forces of the two sides were about to collide head-on.
After a rough count, Gongsun Lie found that due to the short time, there were only more than 20,000 soldiers who successfully landed at this time, and although the enemy troops on the opposite side were constantly bombarded by the guns of destroyers, and many were killed, but now the number of people killed in front of them was at least more than 50,000, more than twice their strength.
Fortunately, before launching this expedition, Guo Dafu completed a change of clothing for his soldiers, which greatly improved the combat effectiveness of the soldiers of the field legion, otherwise at this time, in the face of such a disparity in strength, Gongsun Lie really had no confidence that he would be able to win.
"Quick! The shield soldiers are all on top of me, and the defensive line is set up, ready to meet the enemy attack! ”
In the roar of Gongsun Lie, one by one, the full-time shield soldiers, carrying a thick tower shield more than three meters high, quickly came to the front, and smashed the big shield against the ground, and the two spikes under the shield then penetrated deeply into the ground, and then those shield soldiers pressed a small mechanism on the shield, and suddenly the buckles on these tower shields popped up one by one, connecting the shields together, making the shield wall built by the tower shield more solid and difficult to break. And there are small holes on the top of the shield, which can allow the spearmen in the rear to stretch out their spears from these small holes to stab the enemy, and on the outer surface of the shield, there are sharp spikes, if the beasts dare to collide with the shield as before, they will definitely be pierced by these spikes and bleed.
Compared with the previous spear and shield soldiers, these full-time tower shield soldiers are obviously more professional, and there are many very practical small improvements in equipment.
After the shield soldiers erected a piece of tower shield more than three meters high to form a solid shield wall, the pikemen also followed in place, these pikemen were equipped with super long spears that were more than five meters long, in order to be able to fight with fierce beasts with fangs and sharp teeth without being easily cut off the barrel of the gun, these spears and even the sound of gunfire, are made of stainless steel, extremely heavy, each weighing hundreds of catties, and this is still in the case that there is a part of the hollow inside.
The also professionally trained pikemen carried heavy extra-long spears, carefully protruding the tips of their spears from the small holes in their shields, and the tail of the spears being inserted diagonally into the ground, so that when the large beasts hit the defensive line, most of the strength would be borne by the ground, which could make the pikemen more labor-saving and safer in battle.
Behind the pikemen are melee units such as the Shield and Halberd, which are more agile than the Shieldmen and Pikemen, ready to respond to the flanks of the formation, and are also responsible for dealing with high-ranking beasts that force their way through the shield wall and break into the formation.
And each of them is also equipped with a demon exterminator type flintlock rifle, which can also provide a certain degree of fire support in peacetime, some of them are relatively strong, tall and long-arm are part-time bombardiers, responsible for throwing those huge earthen grenades to kill and injure the enemy, which can be called a humanoid catapult.
At the rear, of course, were the archers, who were the main long-range fire output, each of them equipped with at least two bags of arrows, and more arrows were constantly being brought up from the rear landing craft to ensure that the ammunition of these archers would not be cut out.
As soon as Gongsun Lie's formation was set up, the enemy army had already rushed to less than two hundred meters away from the port, so the archers and those infantry armed with flintlock rifles opened fire one after another, and suddenly a dense rain of arrows mixed with lead bullets hit the soldiers of the Hanhai Empire who were killing fiercely.
Because the armor of the soldiers of the Hanhai Empire was very poor, in the face of the sharp long-range attack of the Blue Dragon Empire's army, they were immediately killed and wounded, and only the first round of salvo fire, at least more than two thousand fell.
In the face of such heavy casualties, the morale of those human soldiers couldn't help but plummet, and the speed of the charge slowed down a lot, but the demonized beasts inside, one by one, were extremely bloodthirsty and crazy, and the death of their companions could not scare them at all, but only made them more excited.
"Shoot me hard!" In the ranks of archers in the rear, Wu Dahammer, who had been successfully promoted to the platoon commander of the field regiment, held a war bow in his hand, constantly firing his bow and arrows, throwing arrows at the enemy one after another, and shouting at the soldiers beside him.
At his urging, the archers beside him also fired arrows as fast as they could, trying to kill and wound as many enemy troops as possible before they officially came into contact with their own array.
However, some of these beasts were so fast that most of the archers only had time to fire three rounds of arrows, and these guys rushed to the front of the formation, and then slammed into the shield wall, and some of them fired bone spurs and other things, and carried out long-range strikes, causing a clank on the shield.
Seeing that the beasts were about to crash into the shield wall, the shield soldiers all pressed their shoulders against the shields, ready to meet the impact.
And those pikemen also clenched their spears one after another, ready to see the opportunity to stab their spears and kill the fierce beasts that rushed up.
With a muffled thud, a large number of fierce beasts slammed into the shield wall, most of which smashed their heads and bleed, and their eyes were full of gold stars.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, those souvengers immediately stabbed out the spears in their hands, and stabbed these fierce beasts on the spot who were still a little dizzy due to the violent impact.
And there are some fierce beasts that are more than one of the guys, and they actually relied on their strong bouncing power to jump over the tower shield more than three meters high and fall to the rear of the military formation.
However, these guys are also killing themselves, because there are still a lot of melee soldiers waiting for the pikemen!
The lone wolf in the last days is one of them, seeing a long-clawed rabbit with the strength of the nine major consummations of the day after tomorrow falling in front of him, this guy finally showed his true strength, only to see that the armor on his body and the mysterious patterns on the battle axe in his hand were lit up one after another, emitting a faint silver-white light, which is a manifestation of the extraordinary equipment being blessed by the pure internal force of the innate martial artist.
In this state, the warrior's attack and defense will be greatly improved, at this time, I saw the lone wolf in the last days swing out with a fierce axe, and suddenly a more than one meter long axe shot out, and the long-clawed rabbit in front of him, which was only half a step away from the innate realm, was easily split in half, and it became a corpse before he even had time to let out a scream.