Chapter 23 Bloody Battle at the Head of the City

"Ah, here comes Peter..."

Seeing Zhang Tie's arrival, the four soldiers on a steam ballista position on the city wall became happy. During these days of defending the city, Zhang Tie has become a "steam ballista" on the city wall here. "Sharp Gunner", working on the city wall every day is to work with other soldiers in shifts to operate a ballista position numbered S137 on the north wall of Moge City.

When other ballista players operate this short-range ballista position, because of the powerful vitality of the demonized puppet, even if they are operating the ballista, it is not easy to kill a demonized puppet, because the demonized puppet is terrifying. With his immortality, unless his head is blown off in an instant, he will still rush over even if his body is pierced by a ballista, or even his limbs are severed.

Seven days ago, the gunner who operated the ballista gun position was too long on the gun position, and his arm was dislocated and severely contused. Zhang Tie happened to be next to him and said, "Let me do it." "After that, he sat at the gunner's position, and by virtue of his outstanding ability, he was quickly recognized by other soldiers on this gun position, and became a special non-staff member of the S137 gun position.

The person in charge of S137 and the artillery positions around it is a ballista battalion of the Seventh City Defense Regiment under the Moge City Garrison Corps of the Republic of Saipan. It is generally impossible for non-staff personnel with the status of ranger to sit in the gunner's position, but at this time, no one cares about these, as long as they can kill the demons.

Originally seeing Zhang Tie sitting on the ballista position of S137, the people around were still very surprised. After watching Zhang Tie for two minutes, his anger disappeared, and he acquiesced in Zhang Tie's identity as a special non-staff gunner. At this time, as long as the people in Moge City can be said to resist the demons, everyone is responsible, so the military uniform is nothing.

Seeing Zhang Tie approaching, the gunner, who was still sitting on the ballista gun seat, jumped down in relief and gave up the operating position to Zhang Tie, "Fuck those bastards hard..."

Without saying a word, Zhang Tie quickly jumped up and sat on the gunner's seat, skillfully pulled the reset bolt of the steam ballista, put both hands on the shooting handle, pressed the trigger with his hand, swept his eyes, and the crossbow When the cannon shook, a crossbow arrow flew more than 500 meters from the muzzle, and accurately exploded the head of a demonized puppet who was rushing over with the corpse, and scattered a large amount of red and white things.

The other soldiers on the S137 gun position all suddenly shouted happily. If other people were in Zhang Tie's position, they would be able to accurately hit the demonized puppet after about three shots, but where they shot on the demonized puppet's body would depend entirely on luck. In addition to opening a hole, the demonized puppet can still run over, at most at a slower speed. To really kill the demonized puppet, the gun emplacement will consume at least seven or eight or even ten arrows. With Zhang Tie, ten crossbow arrows can accurately kill more than four demonized puppets with him.

"Hurry up and help transport the ammunition!" The squad leader on the artillery position roared, rolled up his sleeves, and automatically became Zhang Tie's logistics staff with the others.

From this moment on, the S137 gun emplacement vibrated in a low voice, shooting out one by one crossbow bolts at an accurate frequency of three rounds in two seconds, continuously harvesting those arrows within a distance of 30 meters to 500 meters below the city. The life of the demonized puppet rushing over.

Zhang Tie, who was sitting on the gunner's seat, kept repeating the actions of aiming and shooting without distraction, and his whole body was slightly vibrated along with the ballista.

Because the ballista on the city wall is ejected by high-pressure steam ejection, the principle is similar to the chalk bullets in the era of thermal weapons, except that instead of chalk powder, it has become a movable high-density steam compression tank that rotates under the gun emplacement. The thrust released instantly by the vapor compression tank enters the gun barrel, ejecting a piston-like sliding mount in the barrel, and the crossbow bolts loaded in the mount can be shot out.

At the moment when the high-density vapor compression tank is released, a huge reaction force will also be generated on the gun mount. Although there are shock absorbing springs and other devices on the gun mount, part of the force will inevitably be transmitted to the gunner. Generally speaking, as long as one hour of continuous operation, the arm will be numb due to the shock. After a long time of continuous operation, it is a common phenomenon that the joints of the arm are dislocated or severely worn.

However, for Zhang Tie, the reaction force of that bit of gun emplacement had no effect on him at all. For a person whose body is immune to nearly 900 kilograms of blow force, the damage caused by that bit of vibration is really insignificant.

Zhang Tie's hands were firmly pressed on the handle like a rock, and he kept exploding the bodies or heads of the demonized puppets he saw in front of him. This is different from throwing spears, but it is also similar. Zhang Tie's super precision throwing ability is used here. Although the ballista cannot be as accurate as his throwing spears, but with his own feeling And instinct, it is still possible for the accuracy of the ballista to reach about 30% to 50%. Although Zhang Tie cannot control the power of the steam erupting from the rotating high-density steam compression tank, the ballista shot out The trajectory is similar to his throwing spear.

It is precisely because of this ability that Zhang Tie has become a respectable "sharp gunner" on this section of the city wall. Even Zhang Tie can't remember how many demonized puppets he has killed in the past few days.

For others, such a harvest is something to be happy about, but for Zhang Tie, such a harvest is meaningless, but he has to do it, because those demonized puppets were also human beings before they were alive, and the ones killed here are not demons, but It's just a larva and eggs of the demon puppet worm mother, a puppet worm can give birth to hundreds of thousands of such eggs a day, and the real demon army has not appeared until this time, perhaps for that As far as the demon army is concerned, the so-called demonized puppet army is just worthless and low-value consumables. The purpose of their existence is to be cannon fodder and death.

Who in the entire city of Mog knew that the once-famous Eagle of Cernes would be relegated to the position of a small steam ballista and play the role of a gunner at this time.

The demonized puppet that rushed within 30 meters of the city wall entered the downward shooting dead angle of the steam ballista on the city wall. At this position, it was the coverage area of ​​the scattered strike weapons below. There are layers of defensive weapons, and the demonized puppets that rushed here, after dropping the corpses they held in their hands, almost could not go back alive, and those demonized puppets didn't seem to want to go back alive, and they were almost covered in blood. The demonized puppets that have been like a sieve gather under the city wall, actively accumulating to make the movable demonized puppets try to climb up, and as long as they are close to the city wall, the densely packed pieces in the middle of the city wall

In the hole the size of an egg, a row of sharp steel guns operated by machinery will pierce out of the hole, retract it, pierce it out, retract it again, and repeat this action continuously. The efforts and bodies of the demonized puppets were crushed.

Although the demonized puppets who stepped on the corpses of their companions failed every time, every time, as the corpses became more tired and taller, the distance between the demonized puppets and the highest part of the city wall became closer and closer. After it was completely blocked, the defensive weapons in the middle and lower sections of the city wall also began to lose their effect layer by layer.

Everyone knows that the time to really test Mog City has not yet come, but it is not far away from that time.

As soon as he stayed at the artillery position, Zhang Tie even forgot the time. At some point, in addition to the torches, the lens headlights on the city wall were also lit up, illuminating the place within a hundred meters away from the city wall. But farther away, it became blurred. Burning pots were thrown out of the city one by one, and burned in the empty and dark areas outside the city, illuminating those dark places, so as to provide a brighter future for the city. The shooting weapon on it provides enough light source.

After the sky was completely dark, because of the cover of darkness, the long-distance accuracy of various weapons on the city wall began to decrease. The demonized puppets became more restless, and the density and frequency of attacks increased significantly. The incendiary bombs outside the city will always be extinguished by the demonized puppets very quickly, completely darkening the surrounding space.

In the darkness, the ferocious faces of the demonized puppets were like ghosts rushing out of the darkness, rushing towards Moge City in waves.

Zhang Tie's dark vision allows him to maintain the same accuracy in the dark as in the daytime, because the density of the attacking formation of the demonized puppets increases, and in the dark, the lethality of the ballista operated by Zhang Tie increases instead of decreasing. But on the entire city wall, there was only one person with Zhang Tie's ability. Therefore, the number of demonized puppets that rushed within 30 meters of the city wall began to increase significantly.

I don't know how long it took, but Zhang Tie only heard a bang in his ears, and then his face became hot, and the firing of S137's ballista stopped suddenly...

A place on the ballista stand exploded suddenly, and a burst of metal fragments cut through Zhang Tie's face, leaving a finger-long wound on Zhang Tie's left cheek...

"Ah, the high-pressure rifle of S137 is broken. How could it be like this? Damn it..." The gun emplacement squad leader, who had been replaced by the second squad next to him, lay down on the ground and looked under the gun emplacement, and yelled. Several soldiers around were also a little panicked...

Regardless of the injury on his face and the dripping blood, Zhang Tie wiped it casually, jumped down from the gunner's seat, and lowered his head to check. A pipe at the bottom of the gun mount was obviously damaged. A scorching steam spurted out from inside...

"How is it? Can it be repaired?" Zhang Tie asked the monitor...

"This is a key part of the turret. Logically speaking, it shouldn't be damaged at all. How could this be the case? This thing can only be replaced and cannot be repaired. To replace this thing requires removing the entire turret. It will take at least three days at the fastest Time can fix it?" The squad leader of the S137 gun position turned pale...

In the blink of an eye, another ballista turret exploded in the distance, and another ballista fell down...

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