Chapter 988 The First Victory on the Plains

The No. 6 Fortress Cannon was the artillery group that Vanner patrolled before the attack. Since it was located close to the edge of the position, it suffered almost no other attacks except two waves of spears. Compared with those cannons that were knocked topsy-turvy by the terrifying beasts, it only needed to replenish Operations can resume once staff is available.

Less than a minute after receiving the parameters, the fortress cannon sprayed out angry flames in the target direction!

The distance of two kilometers made the arc of the artillery shell extremely low. Both human soldiers and devils on the battlefield heard the special whistling sound produced by the warhead whizzing past——

But the difference is that the latter was followed by an earth-shaking roar!

The heart-stopping Lord of War has returned to his realm once again!

The accuracy of the large-caliber artillery at this distance was no longer erratic, and the first shell landed accurately at the feet of a crawling monster - the violent explosion directly overturned half of its body, and the open shell even more It disappeared, leaving the flesh and blood inside completely exposed.

Also killed were a group of crazy demons guarding the crawling monster.

Judging from their posture, they were obviously on guard against the witch's surprise attack. However, due to the pressure of the mortars, they had to curl up next to the lying "big spider", hoping to rely on the stone outer limbs to block the flying shrapnel.

However, in the face of the difference in caliber, this move became meaningless. The energy generated by the explosion was easily transferred to them through the crawling monster.

The shock wave shattered the internal organs and bones of the mad demons in the blink of an eye, causing their seemingly stable bodies to ripple like water ripples. When the dust fell to the ground, there were only corpses scattered around the blast heart.

"Hit!" Sylvie couldn't help but waved her fist, "The next target is... 12 degrees 6 minutes, a distance of 2480 meters!"

"No problem, support will be here soon!"

At the same time, the Devil, who had suffered from mortar bombardment, finally entered the area one kilometer in front of the position.

Just when everyone thought that the war was about to reach a decisive moment, the enemy's offensive came to an abrupt end.

The whole process lasted less than ten minutes.

The madman who rushed at the front once approached within 500 meters of Wangbei Slope, that is, in front of the first barbed wire fence.

But that's all.

Without the threat of the Terror Beast, all machine gun squads on the front line, including anti-aircraft machine guns, aimed their barrels at the swarming enemies.

The entire battlefield could almost be described as boiling.

The firepower possessed by the First Army is no longer the same as that of the Battle of Hanfeng Ridge. At that time, the limited number of heavy machine guns were carefully placed in bunkers and only used against the most threatening targets. Now Finally, you can freely throw ammunition at any enemy who steps into the range - even if this "squandering" can only last one battle.

The five-hundred-meter section became the hunting ground for the precision shooting team in the first trench.

For devils, they usually don't pay attention to obstacles such as barbed wire fences. Their strong bodies are enough to jump over or uproot wooden piles.

But in the eyes of a sniper, there is no difference between doing so and seeking death.

When the devil found that he could not get within the spear-throwing distance anyway, the collapse was no longer controllable - this had nothing to do with discipline and morale, but more like the instinctive despair of the beast.

After they dropped nearly a thousand corpses in front of the defense line, they turned around and receded like a tide. During this process, the machine guns kept firing until the barrels were roasted red.

Compared with the fierce fighting in the rear positions, the front line seemed a bit calm.

Sylvie finally felt relieved. I'm afraid only she knew how thrilling the "ace showdown" two kilometers away was. The magic vortexes of the last two crawling monsters have been filled up, and just when they are about to be activated, the revised No. 1 and No. 3 fortress cannons have made up for this link in time.

If it had been just one or two seconds later, the stone pillar would have definitely caused greater damage to the First Army that was in the middle of the firefight.

But no matter what, human beings won this battle - entering this forgotten land again after four hundred years of silence, human beings finally got their way back from the devil.

…

By the time Roland got the detailed report from the front, it would already be four days later.

Due to too many victories, the First Army spent a lot of energy to clean up the battlefield - according to Taqila's experience, the first thing to do was to burn the devil's corpse and take away all the magic stones.

Especially the latter, if the magic stone cannot be taken away from the enemy's body, it cannot be considered a complete victory. If it is recycled by the opponent, it will soon appear on a new devil.

The final statistical results were also very shocking. Almost more than 6,000 devils died in this ambush. This number had exceeded the total number of participants in the First Army.

Less than half of them were killed directly by artillery and machine guns - most of the devils died when the red mist cut off, and they just lay scattered on the road they came from.

The opponent was not unprepared. During the post-war inventory, the First Army found more than a dozen siege beasts converted into delivery vehicles, not including the scraps that had been blown into parts. If humans were at a disadvantage, they could take their time to replenish the fog cans, but the defeat made all this come to nothing. Relying only on the red mist it carried, retreating from the outpost to the ruins of Taquila became an unreachable road.

"If I remember correctly, those siege beast witches can also use it, right?" Roland said to the listening sigil.

"You are right. The core of this thing is magic stone. It only needs a little training." The replyer changed from Iron Ax to Zoe. "Although the movement speed is slow, it can carry a lot of things. The Federation will It was used to replace mules and horses for long-distance transportation.”

It seemed good to hand them over to the Ministry of Construction. Roland thought to himself that the engineering team happened to be short of a number of delivery vehicles, and the slow speed was actually an advantage in the city.

It's a pity that the most captured throwing magic stone is of little use - it needs to be combined with a magical life form to exert its full effect. It is a special magic stone for the devil group and is usually brought back to the rear for centralized destruction.

"By the way, how did the enemy avoid Sylvie's detection?"

"Let me answer this question," Agatha cleared her throat. "After the battle, we conducted a comprehensive search of the outpost and found an underground passage that connected to a cave two kilometers away. And there, we discovered the underground camp built by the devil. Not only was there a fog storage tower, but there was also a divine punishment stone pillar. The overall scale was a bit larger than the outpost used as a bait. In fact, that was It is the true stronghold of the devil.”

Roland couldn't help but frowned, "The Stone of God's Punishment that can cover an entire camp?"

"That's right," Agatha said slowly, "nearly five meters in diameter, about ten meters high, and the cut surface is smooth, as if it were an ice edge cut off by a sharp blade - such a thing was simply unheard of in the Federation era. , If I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes, I probably wouldn’t believe it.”