Chapter 1574 Composite Plate Armor

Regardless, the vrykul have trained these fearsome protodragons into mounts.

These Yalong Knights are the biggest trouble for the coalition!

If we don't kill these guys and go straight to Icecrown Glacier, no one knows what kind of disaster the coalition's supply line will be in.

Seeing the swarm of Ancestral Dragons rising in the sky that looked like both a swarm of locusts and a dark cloud, almost every alliance commander showed a successful smile.

"Show these barbarians in the Northern Territory what a dragnet is!" The [Selameni] in Varian's hand swung down heavily into the void.

In the sky, Naxxramas doesn't even need to fire.

It was those Alliance airships floating precariously in mid-air, with all their gun doors opened and 40mm eight-unit bang-bang cannons. Plus those new [Dongfeng anti-aircraft guns] on land.

One in the air and one on the ground, even the [three-type bombs] are useless, directly forming a dead zone that is enough to turn the entire airspace into an absolutely forbidden air.

It was black smoke and light bullets pulled out by thousands of anti-aircraft guns at different angles. Amidst the banging sounds that were denser than the sound of rain, little Saurfang only saw the red Archosaurs all over the sky being beaten into pieces of smelly flesh and blood, which exploded in the air together with the masters who rode them. Before they even flew away from Utgard Castle, they turned into blood and mud and fell back onto the castle.

This is what demoralizes the most.

The morale of the Vrykul was declining at an almost visible rate.

Before even engaging in battle, it had been blown up by heavy artillery and almost collapsed. Now the Ancestral Dragon Legion that he was most proud of was directly wiped out, and even the Vrykul infantry who had started to charge began to slow down.

The shouts that had shaken the sky a quarter of an hour ago became like the futile screams of three or two kittens.

I don’t know if it’s to hide the fear in my heart or because I’m really brave.

Varian also felt a little bored. He leaned his sword on the ground and only said four words: "Xu Jin bombardment!"

Under Du's influence, Varian became a commander of a new era. He not only has qualities equivalent to those of modern military commanders on Earth, but also possesses powerful combat skills and swordsmanship. It can be said to be a model of a leader in the new era.

Facing the primitive Vrykul, he did not hold back. Directly use heavy artillery and mortar formations to blow up the Vrykul who dared to rush out into dogs.

If by chance there are infantrymen who break out of the bombing zone, or dragon knights who fly out of the restricted air area, sniper troops will naturally strangle them.

Varian stared at the dilapidated Utgard Castle with a faint smile on his face: "Uncle Duke really takes care of us in the Kingdom of Stormwind!"

"Yes!" Broll Bearskin, one of the Iron Triangle, also sighed.

As a commander-in-chief, Duke was best at this kind of seemingly fair but invisible favoritism. If you put all the dwarves on the western front first, then naturally you can't also use dwarves as the main force on the eastern front.

The small Vrykul Dragon Raider Clan is certainly not worthy of the Vari security forces. What the Vrykul really value to Duke and Varian is the eggs of their Archosaurs. An adult dragon has its own will. If it is accustomed to the command of the Vrykul, it is impossible to listen to humans.

Dragon eggs are different.

The Archosaur is a typical beast, not like the five-color dragon, even if it already has its own senses and consciousness in the dragon egg. As long as the dragon egg is captured, over time, the Kingdom of Stormwind will be able to cultivate a dragon knight army of its own.

It’s not that the current Griffin is not easy to use.

Although griffins are easier to tame, their combat power is always inferior to that of dragons. This has been proven through countless battles.

Secondly, among the alliance, the most powerful ones in taming griffins are always the Wildhammer dwarves. It can be said that the best gryphon population is always in the hands of the Wildhammer dwarves. If the Kingdom of Stormwind wants to further develop its air force, a dedicated aerial bird race is a must.

The night elves have hippogryphs, the blood elves have dragonhawks, the dwarves and gnomes have griffons, and the humans have archosaurs, so that's not bad. Anyway, as long as they don't directly control a large number of five-color dragons, Longmian Temple will have no objection.

"It's a pity that the Qiraji are not used to areas that are too cold..." Varian muttered to himself.

"Varian, don't be greedy. Besides, those bugs don't belong directly to the Kingdom of Stormwind." Valeela's words made Varian also smile.

The next battle can be said to be a near miss.

After all the forces that the Vrykul could use to counterattack were wiped out, the most orthodox siege battle began.

After smashing all the surrounding arrow towers and other gadgets. Heavy artillery can never blow a towering fortress down to the ground in the true sense. Bombardment also becomes ineffective when large amounts of rubble are laid over the ruins.

Cannonballs also cost money.

To contribute to the remaining castle area buried under the rubble, infantry regiments eventually had to be sent.

That's when Saurfang Jr.'s Blackrock Orc troops came in handy.

In a continuous chant of "Lok-tar, ogar!", the vrykul was overturned.

The Vrykul are slightly taller than the strongest orcs, about 3 meters tall. They are on par with the orcs in terms of strength, but a little behind in agility. Their movements appear slower and cumbersome.

What determines victory or defeat is the weapon.

The alliance's mass-produced stainless steel weapons and multi-layer composite plate armor give the orcs greater destructive power and better survivability.

In fact, Duke also proposed the concept of composite plate armor.

Considering that the lethality of sharp weapons in melee combat is getting smaller and smaller, and the enemies faced in the future are getting larger and larger. With a human body, a two-and-a-half-meter-tall orc could hit him with all his strength, and a three-meter-tall giant could hit him with all his strength. The result would be like a bird, both in one move.

So Duke proposed the concept of composite plate armor.

Its principle is similar to the reactive armor of the M1A1 main battle tank of the last century, and its sandwich material provides better anti-penetration performance.

Of course, individual soldiers cannot use something as high-end and elegant as reactive armor. What Duke developed was to change the original one-layer stamped plate armor into two layers, with the same total thickness. He just put a large number of fixed small springs into the two layers of plate armor, and then filled them with a large amount of cotton, taking into account both defense and warmth—— Because iron can make the body lose heat faster.

After repeated tests, composite plate armor can significantly increase a soldier's survival probability by more than 50% against heavy weapons such as hammers and sticks.

Frontline soldiers who have used it all say it is good.

Of course, on the surface, Duke would never favor one over the other. Even Saurfang's troops who came to work were equipped with composite plate armor with orc-like physiques, and said that after this battle, the orcs could take these with them when they returned. Plate.

Duke's generosity and magnanimity deeply moved such a simple warrior like little Saurfang. It's a pity that Duke is not an orc with a green face and fangs, otherwise maybe little Saurfang would kneel down and be willing to be his younger brother.