Chapter 247 Chapter 729 Gunfire
Chapter 247 Chapter 7.29 Gunfire
On June 2, 3579 of the Fengfu calendar, on Xinghui Peninsula, a wave of foam surged onto the shore, and then the foam was left layer by layer, forming a layer of white walls.
In the waves of the sea, two huge sea beasts floated up from the sea water, and the waves they pushed out were like submarines rushing out of the water. The iron chains wrapped around their bodies were covered with rough oysters.
From a distance, this thing looked like a super-large plesiosaur. The tonnage was about 100 tons, which was the tonnage of a blue whale, but unlike whales, with the weight of whales, it would be a piece of meat on land. After this thing arrived on land, its bones were strengthened by magic and could stand up.
Because of its huge size, its neck was covered with sharp thorns, and at first glance it looked a bit like a sub-dragon.
But this has nothing to do with dragons. The relationship between the two is like the difference between sloths and primates represented by humans. It just looks like it.
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Dragon species are intelligent, and their inherited memories often make them proficient in magic.
This giant beast is obviously a big fool, and there are some sea creatures driving it on its huge back. These sea creatures are rooted in the neck of the huge sea beast like suckers and control it.
Let's call it a sea snake.
This is a war beast raised by the sea creatures. According to Miss Blue Dragon, there are only five sea creatures in the northern seas. Such beasts have been sleeping for years. Now two have been dispatched, which has already mobilized all the current war forces.
Around the sea snake are a large number of sea guards who are half floating in the water. Their upper bodies are covered with armor plates connected by shells. The weapons in their hands are also hung with algae brought out of the sea water.
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The male sea guards often look like muscular men, with snake tails and weird heads. Some look like humans, and some look like turtles. As for women, they are more gentle.
They are Nagas. Nagas are a special group in the ocean.
According to the intelligence, mermaids will awaken the sea creatures, and the sea creatures will be infiltrated with human information. Then they will become nobles of their own race.
According to the analysis of the main world, this external infiltration information will interfere with the genes of marine creatures in a special way, allowing them to generate brains similar to humans.
If the first generation of awakened sea creatures mate with the strong next generation of their own race, they will naturally continue to become lords and nobles of their own race.
However, after the infiltration of human genes, the aesthetics will also change.
For example, if a crab becomes humanoid after awakening, then after it has wisdom, it will not be interested in the enthusiastic female crab.
Therefore, after awakening, there will often be hybridization of sea creatures that have awakened each other.
For example, the humanoid after the shark awakens and the humanoid after the sea snake awakens fall in love with each other. They will form hybrids.
Such love will not be understood by the sea creatures of their own race. The awakening is to make the wise appear in the tribe, not traitors, so hybridization will be excluded by the tribe.
The sea tribes expelled by their own tribe will come to the Qiling Hall to seek redemption, become the slaves of the mermaids, and give birth to the next generation with other sea tribes who are also abandoned by them.
After several generations of hybridization, the genes have become a melting pot, and the final stable ones are the Naga, whose men are very sturdy, women have multiple arms, and have very strong regeneration power.
They are the most loyal servants of the mermaid sea tribe. The kind of iron rods.
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After the sea tribes entered the land,
on the shore, the human villages that had been prepared for defense rang the bells, and a large number of humans fled in panic. A lot of dried seafood and ironware were left behind.
Ironware and porcelain are the things that the sea tribes value most.
To be honest, things like gold, silver and jewelry are just like dirt in the sea tribe. A large number of shells will shed a large number of pearls every year. And the gold mines are deposited on the seabed of natural ocean currents, and no fish is willing to pick them up.
Ironware sank into the seabed with the sunken ship. If the sea people didn't find it quickly, they would attach gold foil to its surface to stop corrosion and make it their own treasure. Although porcelain will not corrode, it is very fragile.
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The retreat of humans allowed the sea people's vanguard to swim into the village. Soon, the sea people who entered the village first were a little slow. They began to collect in every corner of the village.
Because the vanguard was so slow,
a large number of sea people could not just soak in the sea water, and they also went ashore.
Since then, the full picture of the sea people's great march after leaving the water can be observed.
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The local knights saw the dense sea people landing on the coastline of dozens of kilometers, and their faces were full of horror. There were more than 200,000 of them.
In the past few decades, only the largest invasion of the sea people can be compared with today's scale.
These local nobles vaguely remembered that when the kingdom dealt with such a large-scale invasion of the sea people, it also retreated to the land before defeating the sea people. Unlike today, the northern territory actually tried to fight a decisive battle with the sea people in the area where the sea breeze could blow.
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The knights of the Northern Territory now squatted on the steam locomotive and spread out the map, receiving the information transmitted by the airship. While drawing the map, they made the following analysis of the current strength of the sea tribe.
A large number of sea tribes are actually magical creatures such as small fishmen. This is because the salmon in the ocean that originally devoured water plants suddenly mutated into combat creatures that grew into paws and held up bone spurs. Weighing between a dog and a cow. They are cannon fodder for the invasion of the Sea Tribe, and they are used as food supplies as they enter the land.
In all the past battles, they were all considered by the human side to be within the scope of the Sea Clan's combat power system, but this time was the only exception.
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At this time, twenty kilometers behind the coastline, the human corps was ready.
The number of militias mobilized exceeded fifty thousand. Of course, during half a month of training, their formation movements were still lacking. Now they could only follow the square positions drawn with lime and perform simple position changes. Belongs to the young man level. That is because this is my hometown and I have money and food, so I haven't deserted yet.
The Northern Army's requirement for these militiamen is to hold their positions, and when necessary, they can complete the gathering and move to other positions within half an hour.
As for the main force of the human legions, they are more than 2,000 regular legions and 6,000 reserve militia cadres brought from the northern territories.
On the flanks of the frontal front, fifty steam tanks have been activated, and behind the tanks is a musket phalanx composed of the former northern regular army and reserves. Compared with the local militia, these reserves are the elite troops in this battle. Led by regular sergeants, they sang war songs.
On the defensive front, whether they were reserves or local militia, each musketeer was using his pencil to follow the pattern on the barrel to carve the emblem of his regiment.
This kind of depiction has no objective physical effect, but it can allow the musketeer to focus on the barrel. To a certain extent, it can help these soldiers to mentally resonate with the muskets they live with day and night before the war, and reduce the loss of gunpowder tunneling. The effect is gone.
The reserve elites can currently make the bullet's energy level break through the second level, which is a speed of 350 meters per second.
As for those militiamen who have only been trained for a month, currently only a handful of elites can make their guns break through the first energy level.
Of course, after the victory of this battle, most of the militiamen have experienced the dangerous impact of the battlefield, and their mental power will be generally upgraded, almost reaching the level of breaking through.
(In this world where everything has information stored, ordinary people also have experience bars.)
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The Sea Tribe also discovered the human defense front.
Of course, this was also the first time for the Sea Tribe to encounter a situation where humans attempted a decisive battle when their side had just landed and was still at the peak of its strength.
Then, the conch sounded, and a large number of sea anemone vanguard troops with crabs as mounts and magic tentacles on their backs began to lead a large number of murlocs and began to attack the human infantry line.
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Seeing this situation, Carret asked his newly appointed Governor Robin to order the militiamen on the front to hold the line for half an hour.
Robin hadn't spoken yet, but the local veteran knight rushed to say: "Your Highness, please rest assured, this is just a test by the Sea Tribe, and no magic troops or siege turtles have been invested. The multiple barriers we have here are completely capable of Can resist it.”
Carret looked at the local noble who rushed to answer.
After capturing the Blue Dragon, many nobles of all sizes on the peninsula also turned their attention and began to look for refuge.
However, they do have the capital to take refuge. Although the noble in front of them may have the stubbornness of a conservative noble, he has also made great achievements in the sea invasion campaign for decades.
Carret emphasized: "For half an hour, what I want is a must! Anything may happen on the battlefield, such as a sudden summoning of a huge water element, or a weird curse. Any accident may destabilize the morale of the knight." Sir, what I want is a guarantee that cannot collapse under any circumstances, Robin——"
Robin: "Yes"
Carrette: "What guarantee will you give me!"
Robin: "The people are in position."
Carrette: "What should we do if the front is shaken?"
Robin: "Transfer command, I will be at the front, while the Supervisory Team will be at the back."
Carret turned to the noble again: "Your Excellency, Viscount, can you give me such a promise?"
The old knight drew his sword very resolutely: "I swear in the name of the Luo Xun family."
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Carrette nodded and shouted to the surrounding officers: "In half an hour, all fighting fronts and all militiamen will record third-class merit, uh, ~"
Carrette thought for a moment and decided to use a down-to-earth tone to appeal.
The loudspeakers began to play at various positions: "Brothers, hold on, each person has fifty kilograms of corn. The injured and their children will be sent to my canteen to provide food for three years. The fallen will be buried and the children will be taken care of." Things. Brothers, kill these salty fishes."
When the loudspeaker reverberated the sound back and forth between the various barriers, it seemed to improve morale a little, but left the nobles speechless.
Carret is the highest noble in Aige, how come he is fraternal with the lower-level militiamen?
Such self-deprecation left many nobles at a loss as to what to do.
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The first wave of war started soon. The militia captains from the north, beating gongs and speaking unskilled local dialects, picked out the militiamen from various defensive barriers and reported them one by one. Anyone who saw him dawdling would kick him up and ask him to put on his helmet.
These reservists in the north are also the organizational managers who have emerged during the development of industrialization in recent years.
Such an organization has also accurately counted the number of dispensable units on the battlefield, such as militia!
Each group has a number, in order to minimize the appearance of "smart people" hiding in small places to claim military merits. Reporting with rewards is tacitly allowed. Of course, if you are really not present and are intercepted by soldiers from other areas, you can just issue a certificate.
The militia muskets quickly entered the barrier array. In the reserved parapet observation port, they looked nervously at the cold-blooded animals a few kilometers away. The sea tribes are very barbaric and have no flags. The different ethnic camps have erected the skulls of different animals.
The defense line where the militia is stationed is pushed out by steam bulldozers. It is a barrier, not a trench. This is to deal with the flooding of tunnels by the sea tribe's water magic.
The arrangement of the barrier is the situation after the enlightenment of the earth's muskets and cannons. It is built according to geometry, and every section protrudes to maximize the firepower. The concave area in the middle allows the opponent to gather together for slaughter.
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Half an hour later, the fishy attack tide that had just come ashore from the sea surged onto the frontal barrier. The crabs were densely arranged on the beach, and the sound of the collision between the shells was so loud that it made people feel sick.
But the first wave of sea creatures soon learned the defensive effect of the barrier arranged geometrically after the enlightenment of the industrial age.
Aim, prepare for rapid fire, and fire.
Bang, bang, bang.
The smoothbore gun began to fire dense rain of bullets like a series of firecrackers.
The defensive firearms equipped by the Northern Territory for the militia were smoothbore guns, but they were revolvers with six rounds of continuous fire.
The paper shell bullets, which were comparable to small steel sticks, were stuffed into the revolver before firing. And because of the energy level limit, the bullets could not break through the speed, so the closed and deflated characteristics of the main world revolver were nothing.
Therefore, during the firing process, a very dense rain of bullets was fired in an instant.
The 200-gram steel cone bullets at a speed of 70 meters per second continuously hit the shock waves of the sea creatures, which were composed of 30 to 40 kilograms of small sea creatures, forming an effective interception within a distance of 50 meters.
In order to deal with the possible crawling of the sea creatures, there is a corrugated arrangement in front of the position, which is very unfriendly to most sea creatures with too low chassis.
Especially the crab, it got stuck when passing the convex ridge, and the short range of 50 meters became a natural moat.
The faces of the militiamen were scorched black by the fire elements scattered by the muskets, but no one cared about the burning pain. Looking at the approaching sea creatures, these infantrymen who went to the battlefield for the first time all started to operate in mechanical mode.
There were many mistakes that caused confusion, such as forgetting the cooling step of wiping the barrel with a wet rag, which caused the revolver to collapse. So the officers' shouting and scolding filled the entire position.
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Under the rain of bullets, the crabs dropped their broken limbs and finally approached within ten meters of the human front. The militiamen squatting on the ramparts looked at the sea monsters waving their big claws, and their morale was shaken for the first time. These local militiamen were farmers a month ago.
Of course, the front broadcast a warning to two or three positions, "If you flee, you will be shot immediately!"
The warning sounded and the sound of shootings appeared, so the militiamen on the front returned to their posts and opened fire, but they soon found that their defensive position was a high point, and it was very difficult for those sea creatures to climb up and gnaw the ramparts.
The entire position was built according to the wave line. The bulge in front of the front line was an extremely high trapezoidal rampart, and the concave part of the front line happened to be where the two bulges could block the fire.
When the brainless sea creatures could not bite the raised barrier, they unconsciously bypassed the barrier and gathered in the concave areas reserved in the front line. The steam projectiles fired oil barrels into the sky, and after a bang, they burned the concave areas of the front line into torches of death.
This pit killing is very industrialized.
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The anemone tentacles on the back of the crabs stacked in front of the barrier also stung some people with their ejected stings, but the poison of one or two tentacles was not serious, just making the militiamen groan with swollen faces.
The barrier protection limited the lethality of these poisonous vines, but also reminded the militiamen of each group of the importance of pulling down the glass eye mask mask after the enemy approached.
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Just when the militiamen fought for twenty minutes.
The metal war drum music sounded from the side of the sea creatures - this style is completely different from the conch, this is the human army.
At this time, on the side and back, the elite musket infantry regiment of the northern territory had gone around and deployed to form a skirmish formation.
Black rubber boots trampled, and there were dense and neat footsteps in the shallow puddles of mud and water everywhere.
The military song codenamed Poshan sounded loudly, and the fearless atmosphere shone.
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Two hundred meters away from the watchtower behind the front line, the nobles of Xingyue Peninsula watched the battle, and they were now watching with "uncertain" eyes.
Heatherlin put down the telescope and couldn't help but feel worried.
Heatherlin tried to remind her husband in a gentle tone: "Your Highness's Corps is elite, but now it's too alone to go too deep."
Robin looked at the front and explained to his unhurried lover: "The distance reserved for our infantry from the enemy's main camp is just right. The tank troops are in the middle. Even if they are surrounded by the enemy's light units, the armor can rush out."
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The one in charge of the command was Jiade, a knight of the same class as Robin. Robin knew what tactics his classmates were using.
He adopted a combination of infantry and tanks to advance to the right rear line of the first wave of the sea clan,
Of course, this is three kilometers away from the rear sea tribe base camp, and it seems that a small number of troops were sent to the position of being surrounded by others.
However, as long as the troops are fast, it is not certain who will be surrounded.
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In this process, 800 people followed the tanks in a dense formation and advanced neatly. Along the way, the steam machine guns on the tanks fired at a large number of small groups of sea tribe troops. A whole group of hundreds of fish soldiers who were originally prepared to replenish the front line were directly dispersed by the steam of the tanks.
In the process of advancing, everyone was filled with a large bottle of "Ganlu" refined grain potion, which is a substance with "extremely high positive vitality".
This is the medicine for the trainee knights to nourish their bodies for half a month when they are attacking the bottleneck. Now it is supplied to a corps at a time as a combat potion. This is the heroism after industrialization.
The "breaking ground" offensive cluster quickly rushed to the rear line of the first wave of the sea tribe, and then deployed a scattered horizontal line at a distance of 300 meters from the first wave of the sea tribe.
The 800 people who were originally shrinking in the square behind the tanks suddenly spread out a long line, which surrounded the first wave of thousands of sea tribe troops from the side and rear.
As the golden top, black, blue and red chimney flags were raised, the elite musketeers began to raise the long-pole muskets with silver thread patterns.
On the three-kilometer long battle line, neat volleys began to output firepower. The crisp sound drowned out the distant waves.