Chapter 255: The Unlucky Battlefield Observation Group
If you want to dispel this heavy rain, there are only two ways, one is that the Blue Dragon Empire will dispatch beast kings and beast generals with the same quantity and quality of water system supernatural powers to remove the water vapor that has been attracted. The other is to dispatch those fierce beasts with fire-based magical powers, relying on fire to evaporate all those water vapors.
However, not long after the founding of the Blue Dragon Empire, it was still far inferior to an old fierce beast empire like the Blood Lion Empire in terms of the number of top masters.
On the other side, it is easy to gather dozens of beast king-level fierce beasts who have mastered the same system of supernatural powers, but the Qinglong Empire can't do it here, the largest number of beast king-level fierce beasts in the Qinglong Empire who have mastered the water system supernatural powers, even if they add Xiaoqing, who is still in retreat and refining the Sea Dragon Emperor Dragon Ball, there are only three or four in total, and as for the beast king-level fierce beasts that have mastered the fire supernatural powers, there is only one Golden Crow King.
So in the face of this move of the Blood Lion Empire, Guo Dafu was really a little helpless.
However, the Blue Dragon Empire has always had the upper hand in the previous battles, mainly because the Blood Lion Empire fought against them for the first time, and it still suffered an unfamiliar loss.
Guo Dafu learned from the spies he sent that the Sharktooth King, who originally belonged to the Hanhai Empire, had actually reminded the Blood Lion Emperor of the strength of the Blue Dragon Empire, but the Blood Lion Emperor did not believe it all, and still wanted to collide with the Blue Dragon Empire.
So about two weeks ago, the two sides broke out in a million-strong battle in the field.
As a result, the Chinese army on the side of the Blood Lion Empire did not have time to approach the side of the Blue Dragon Empire, and they were bombarded by the heavy artillery cluster on the side of the Blue Dragon Empire and lost most of them.
Originally, Guo Dafu was worried that the Blood Lion Emperor would not be able to help but make a move, but for some reason, even if the Blood Lion Empire was defeated badly in this battle and suffered extremely heavy losses, the Blood Lion Emperor never made a move, making people wonder if he was no longer in the army.
It was also because of the loss of this big battle that the Blood Lion Empire completely lost the initiative on the battlefield after that, and it was completely suppressed and beaten by the Blue Dragon Empire.
After suffering a big loss, the Blood Lion Empire finally stopped being crazy, and began to follow the advice of the Sharktooth King, the former generals of the Hanhai Empire who had fought with the Blue Dragon Empire, and no longer fought hard with the Blue Dragon Empire, but fought and retreated, exchanging space for time, and preparing to consume the ammunition and grain of the Blue Dragon Empire little by little.
After all, according to the information they got, it has been less than a year since the Blue Dragon Empire landed on the Central Continent, and although it has already laid a lot of territory, it has no time to thoroughly digest these territories and resume its production. Now the other party's ammunition and grain and grass are all to be transported from the rear, and the rear of the Blue Dragon Empire is a big island called Roaring Island, which is also a lot of distance from the central continent, and the consumption of various materials will definitely not be small if it is transported over a long distance, as long as it is consumed with the other party like this, then the first one who cannot hold on must be the Blue Dragon Empire.
However, the Blood Lion Emperor may have felt that it was too aggrieved to retreat like this, and he had been trying to find a way to fight a counterattack.
So he managed to get together so many beast king masters who mastered the supernatural powers of the water system, and forcibly created such a heavy rain, wanting to weaken the power of the Blue Dragon Empire's firearms and create a chance for his own counterattack.
And this super heavy rain that he spent a lot of energy to create did have a great impact on the firearms on the side of the Blue Dragon Empire, those soldiers who were already equipped with Demon Slayer II rifles were okay, but those soldiers who still used a generation of flintlock rifles were terrible, under this terrible heavy rain, the firearms in their hands suddenly turned into burning sticks, and they could only be replaced with cold weapons such as bows and crossbows to meet the enemy.
"Kill!"
Under the cover of heavy rain, a large number of soldiers of the Blood Lion Empire roared and slaughtered the camps and towns occupied by the Blue Dragon Empire.
The city called Dragonbeard City, where Wu Dahammer, who has now been promoted to regimental commander, is also one of the targets of the enemy's attack.
Wu Dahammer stood on the city wall and looked down, and could vaguely see through the rain curtain that almost all the enemy troops in sight were in sight, and it was estimated that there were at least tens of thousands of people.
And the defenders in Longsu City are only in their early 20,000s in total, most of them are the recently incorporated Hanhai Empire surrender army and undead soldiers, and the real elite is more than 2,000 men and horses in his regiment, in fact, his regiment originally had more than 3,000 people, but due to the continuous siege of the city in recent times, his subordinates also lost a lot, of which more than 100 were killed in battle, and the rest were seriously injured and sent back to the rear to recuperate.
As this heavy rain suddenly fell, the flintlock rifles in the hands of the 10,000 or so undead soldiers under his command suddenly turned into burning sticks, and now the firearms in his hands are still barely able to use only the more than 2,000 elites under his command.
However, the area of this Dragon Whisker City is not small, and it is impossible for his more than 2,000 people to hold all the places, and in the end, he still has to rely on those surrendered troops and undead soldiers who have just been recruited.
As for the more than 2,000 elites under his command, they can be used as overseers to prevent those who have recently been recruited from becoming deserters or opening the city gates to rebel again.
"Give me arrows! Hurry up and release the arrows! At the urging of the officers, a group of Hanhai Empire's surrendering troops stood on the city wall, holding bows and crossbows, and unleashed the arrows in their hands towards the dense enemy troops below.
Like other fierce beast empires, when the Blood Lion Empire attacked, most of the first batch of attacking troops were those low-level cannon fodder fierce beasts, which were mixed with the surrender of the Hanhai Empire, which was not looked down upon by some of the Blood Lion Empire, so they were also sent over to consume as cannon fodder.
However, these cannon fodder seem to have no consciousness of cannon fodder, and they all have a high fighting spirit, and they are running wildly with swords in their hands and approaching Longsu City.
Because these cannon fodder soldiers have already discovered that the gunfire on Chengtou Mountain is indeed much sparse, it seems that this heavy rain has indeed affected the use of firearms on the other side.
As for those bows and crossbows, in this kind of heavy rain, the power and accuracy are also greatly reduced, and they can't do much damage at all, as long as they bring a thick wooden shield, they can basically block those arrows shot from the city.
I just don't know what they think when they know that many of their former comrades are among the soldiers who fired arrows at them on the walls.
After killing an enemy officer in iron armor with a single shot, Wu Sledgehammer touched the rain on his face, and he also felt very uncomfortable fighting in this kind of weather. Because the rain was obviously abnormal, even if he was already wearing a raincoat, there would still be a lot of rain splashed on his face and even his eyes, making his eyes tingle when he shot and aim.
Perhaps the only ones who are not affected by this are the undead soldiers, who do not rely on their eyes at all, but on the innate ability of the soul fire in their bodies to detect living objects.
Seeing that the enemy army was about to rush to the bottom of the city wall, a large group of undead soldiers, under the command of a human soldier, raised their heavy javelins in their hands and threw them at the enemy troops below the city wall.
In this kind of heavy rain, the lethality of the javelin is much stronger than the arrows, with this large area of javelins thrown, those who rushed to the city wall of the enemy troops immediately fell a large piece, but soon there was another group of enemy troops from the rear to fill this vacancy, these cannon fodder soldiers who were promised various benefits before the attack are now very high in the spirit of war, after all, under the heavy rain weather the opponent's firearms have indeed been greatly affected, which makes them see the hope of breaking through the city.
Seeing that the morale of the enemy army was so strong, Wu Sledgehammer couldn't help but have a little worry in his eyes, after all, there are more ants that can bite the elephant to death! If the enemy has been allowed to attack like this, and no reinforcements have arrived, then this Dragon Whisker City may not be able to hold on for long.
Although he was a little worried in his heart, Wu Da Hammer still pretended to be calm and commanded the soldiers under his command to fight, and only secretly sent a platoon of soldiers to the city to find a way to recruit some more young people, so that when the troops were insufficient, they could also let these young people go up and buy more time.
At this time, Miao Changjun and his party, who were already following the soldiers of the other transport teams, were forced to abandon those vehicles and supplies, and began to run towards a nearby hill in embarrassment.
Because this heavy rain is really weird, not only is the rain terrifying, but there is no stopping posture at this time, which causes the road they are on to be quickly flooded, so they can only abandon those vehicles and supplies and evacuate to higher places.
Because the rain has not stopped on the way, the ground under the feet of the road has become extremely muddy, this foot down, the boots will be sucked by the mud, it takes a lot of effort to pull out of it, in addition to the pouring rain, there are a lot of cracks above the boots poured into it, so that everyone walks for a while, the boots will be filled with rainwater, if you don't clean up from time to time, the boots will become heavier and heavier, making it more and more difficult for the soldiers to walk.
No, Guan Tao, the old man who walked beside Miao Changjun, took off the leather boots he called at this time, and then poured it slightly, and a large stream of rainwater was poured out of it, and then looked at Guan Tao's right foot, the soles of the feet were already soaked white by the rain, and if they continued, their skin would sooner or later be cracked.
Fortunately, they were not far from the hill at this time, although the hill was not very tall, but the height of more than 100 meters was still there, as long as they climbed this hill, they would no longer have to be afraid of being swept away by the flood for the next period of time, and they could repair it well.
However, just as Guan Tao put his boots back on and was about to hit the road again, he heard a slight weapon impact.
"Someone, on alert!" Before he could figure out whether he was an enemy or a friend, Guan Tao didn't dare to be careless, and after reminding his subordinates, he pulled out the steel knife on his waist with a puff.
Seeing this, the remaining 500 or so soldiers in the team also took out their swords and arrows, and the few equipped with bows and crossbows took out their bows and arrows.
As for Miao Changjun and the members of the battlefield observation group, they all took out the specially modified pistols and rifles, and they were also ready for battle.