Chapter 1505 Shelling
The translucent venom shot out fifteen feet away in an instant, hitting the back of the Gnoll man's neck.
The Jackal felt a chill on the back of his neck, instinctively touched a handful of the oily venom with his backhand, and leaned in to check it, an indescribably bitter breath came to his nostrils.
If the skin was only stained with venom, it would last for another two minutes. However, this guy committed suicide by inhaling a large mouthful of the poisonous gas from the monster snake's venom. He immediately felt dizzy and fell to the ground with a groan. His face turned purple after a short while. Foaming at the mouth, heart paralyzed and died.
Holding two big iron swords, Joan walked past the dead wolf man with no expression on his face. He was about to go deep into the forest to search for other enemies when suddenly there was the sound of rumbling guns behind him.
Qiao An stopped and turned around, looking through the vegetation in the forest, looking at the gate on the west side of the town.
"It's the sound of the magic crystal cannon!" Conti said with a serious face, "I heard that the Jumonville Corps has specially deployed an artillery company, carrying eight 12-pounders and more 6-pounders with it. It seems that the enemy has finally put The cannon were shipped to the front."
"Sister Kandy, brother Joan, can the defensive position at the entrance of the western town withstand the bombardment of cannons?"
Ruby couldn't help but worry.
"If you only look at the lethality of shells, even if the enemy has cannons, it is not so easy to break through our defense line," Kanti sighed, and had to tell the truth, "However, the psychological deterrence caused by cannons to our soldiers may not be enough. To exceed the actual damage caused, once the morale collapses, the position will not be able to hold."
Joan fully agrees with Conti's concerns. There may be shells falling on the top of the head at any time, and the god of death is hovering around. Being under such huge mental pressure for a long time can really drive people crazy.
After thinking about it silently, Joan turned around and said to Conti and Ruby, "I'll leave this to you. I'll go to the west side to see, maybe I can help."
"Brother Joan, I'll go too!" Ruby shouted without thinking.
Joan shook her head lightly: "The situation here is also very serious, you stay by Kandy's side obediently and help her deal with the jackals, I will come back as soon as possible."
Ruby still wanted to insist, but Kandy held her hand and gave her a wink, signaling her not to be willful.
"Okay then, Brother Qiao An, take care of yourself!" "Miss Ruby" exhorted aggrievedly.
"You should also be more careful. If there is anything abnormal, remember to cast a spell and contact me in time."
After Joan's instructions, he was still worried, so he opened the "portable dimensional hole" and ordered the magic pilots to stay here to protect Conti, Ruby, Gray and Jamie. Afterwards, he transformed into a Hawkman form and flew to the west of the town. side.
Joan flew up to the top of the forest, looked down, and found that groups of gnolls were driven out by giant insects, giant mosquitoes and poisonous pythons in the forest, and were exposed to the sight of Asa hunters and Delin town militia on the opposite side.
Magny and Flint did not miss the chance, and immediately ordered the attack.
Dense arrows and bullets pierced through the rain curtain and shot towards the area where the wolf men gathered. After a round of shooting, a large number of corpses fell down by the edge of the forest.
Joan sneered silently. Judging from this momentum, some wolf men in the woods suffered a lot.
Yingren fluttered his wings and flew high, and soon came to the west side of Delin Town, over another battlefield.
On the defensive position at the mouth of the town, a sentry tower was unfortunately hit by a cannon in the middle, and half of the tower collapsed, injuring several officers and soldiers nearby.
Qiao An couldn't help feeling a pang in his heart when he saw the wounded soldier being put on a stretcher and the dead being carried away covered in a white cloth.
He was awakened by the sound of the rumbling guns. Thousands of yards away, on the artillery position of the Hailan people, there were no fewer than twenty field guns of two calibers, and a new round of bombing began.
The defenders on the Alfheim side, facing the enemy's shelling, from the officers to the privates, all ignored their dignity. They either curled up in the trenches to avoid it, or lay down in the muddy puddle with their heads in their hands.
The shells streaked across the night sky, like shining meteors, and fell on the defenders' positions, exploding clouds of smoke and dust, and flames ignited around the crater, and nearby buildings and personnel, as long as they got a little spark, they would burn violently stand up.
The officers and soldiers who were unfortunately ignited were forced to roll on the spot, trying to extinguish the flames on their bodies.
However, neither the raindrops falling in the night sky nor the muddy water all over the ground could immediately extinguish the flames on their bodies.
Unless there are nearby comrades who risk being shot or even shelled by the enemy and use shovels to dig up the sand and cover the people on fire, they will only be burned alive.
The miserable scene of purgatory in front of him made Joan realize a very serious problem.
Originally, both he and Kanti thought that the sea blue artillery fired conventional solid shells, which mainly played the role of destroying buildings and psychological intimidation in positional warfare.
If we really want to talk about the killing of personnel, the effect of solid shells in positional warfare is far less significant than in field battles. Unless they are particularly unlucky, defenders hiding behind fortifications will rarely be hit by this kind of solid shot.
However, after witnessing the shelling scene with his own eyes, Qiao An discovered that the cannons of the Hailan people were not loaded with solid bullets at all!
The shell exploded the moment it hit the ground, and the range of the erupted flames was equivalent to the 3-ring "fireball technique". It can be seen that only the shell of the shell is made of iron, and the inside is filled with alchemical gunpowder. The two main ingredients are "thunderbolt stones". " and "blazing glue", the former will explode violently at the moment of impact, while the latter is flammable and difficult to extinguish, it can continue to burn even on the water surface, and the high temperature released can melt steel in just a few minutes.
This kind of terrifying alchemy bomb poses a threat to the defenders that doesn't just stop at the psychological level. Witnessing his comrades being blown up and ignited one by one, no matter how brave a person is, he can't help feeling cold from the bottom of his heart.
What made Delin's defenders even more desperate was that they had no artillery in their troops, so they could only endure the unscrupulous bombardment of the enemy, lying on the ground and praying for the blessings of the gods, but they could not find any effective way to fight back.
Joan spread his wings and hovered in the night sky, taking a panoramic view of the situation on the battlefield. He felt the fear and helplessness of his own officers and soldiers. ", spread his wings and fly to the artillery position of the sea blue people.
Perhaps in order to guard against a surprise attack by the defenders of Delin Town, General Jumonville placed the artillery battery on the east bank of the Delin River, a thousand yards away from the west gate of Delin Town, and at the rear of his position.
At this distance, the cannons of the sea blue people can hit the defensive position of Delin Town, but the side of Delin Town does not have any weapons that can effectively fight back at such a long distance, so they can only be beaten in vain.