Chapter 10: Giant Artillery Counterattack

"You mean the Great God Tianzhao?" I immediately understood who Rose was referring to.

"You'll know if you take a look." Jin Coin sat in front of the communication machine and operated the connection image. "There are already mosquito detectors that are about to enter the city."

Everyone's attention quickly returned to the screen. The communication machine was now directly connected to the receiver in the Giant Mosquito Outpost. From here, the signals sent back by the mosquito scouts could be seen. In the center of the picture is the signal returned by the fastest flying mosquito. Through its perspective, the smoke barriers can now be clearly seen.

The small mosquito quickly reached the top of the city wall. The players on guard here were very serious, but unfortunately they did not take the mosquito seriously. The scout slowly approached the smoke and plunged into it. The smoke layer seemed to be quite thick, and the picture was so confusing that nothing could be seen. The reconnaissance vehicle flew directly forward with inertial guidance. After passing through a smoke barrier of about ten meters, the scene suddenly became clear.

Boom. There was a loud noise in the conference room, and Ah Wei overturned his chair. Although the sound was sudden, no one was attracted by it because we all knew the reason for it. The scene in the picture is so shocking. We have guessed it many times, but we did not expect it to be such a scene.

Hiroshima, this huge port city ranks among the top cities in the game. But now, the central area of ​​​​the city has been demolished. There is a huge flat open space in the center of the city, and the distance from the open space to the city gate has also been demolished and all the buildings are empty. They are all gone, and what should have been city buildings are now wide avenues. In the center of the city, there was something that shocked us the most.

It was a huge derrick, with criss-crossing steel beams and vertical steel bars as thick as buckets forming this huge support frame. These supporting derricks are obviously temporary structures used to build large equipment. Our guild also used similar equipment when building thirteen Zerg castles. At this time, in the middle of this huge derrick. Countless workers are busy.

What is being built is more than 600 meters long, more than 60 meters wide, and no less than 70 meters high. From its appearance, I can only think of one thing - a rail gun. The rb people are building a super super rail gun with a caliber exceeding twenty meters and a super long barrel thirty times the caliber.

"How is this possible?" General Wu shouted. After all, he is also an excellent general, and he should have a thorough understanding of weapons and equipment. He knew very well how big something like a rail gun could be built. Even if the thing in front of him were built, it would never be useful, because the weight of the steel itself would be enough to deform the barrel to the point where it would be unable to fire.

Rose frowned and said: "Grandpa Wu may have forgotten. This is a game. The hardness of magic materials is many times better than steel, and the texture is relatively lighter. If necessary, you can even ask a magician to strengthen the defense to increase the hardness and toughness.' sex'."

Woma followed: "Actually, I didn't tell you this. We also have this kind of cannon."

"What?" All dozen pairs of eyes in the room suddenly focused on Woma.

"When did our guild create such a thing?" I asked Woma in surprise.

Woma replied in a low voice: "Actually, it was only developed recently. The main reason is that we see that Isinger is so big and the defensive weapons are relatively small, so we want to develop a weapon that can match the size of Isinger. So. I went to the Technical Research Department and asked for some materials, and it happened that the Selatis tribe had a new formula with good quality materials, so we took them out and used them."

"How big are our guild's cannons?"

"It's a little bigger than this. But our guild's ground cannon is mounted on a 'hydraulic' turntable. It can only rotate in place and cannot move forward and backward. I originally designed it to be used as a long-range strike weapon for Essinger. Used, I didn’t expect rb people to have the same design.”

General Wu immediately asked: "What is the specific size of our guild's cannon? Have you tried firing it? How powerful is it?"

"The caliber is twenty-three meters, and the barrel is thirty-two times the caliber, which is 736 meters. We have only designed a few types of artillery shells. Basically, they are air-explosion throwing small warheads. The propellant uses naval guns. Method, it is not connected with the warhead, and can be loaded with propellant 'powder' as needed. Each warhead weighs about 213 tons, and basically one shot can destroy a large village. A city of below medium size As long as five or seven hits are hit, it's basically over. A large city like Yunxiao City can withstand thirty hits at most."

"How far is the range of this cannon?"

"The minimum 'shooting' range is five kilometers. With the help of wind magic, and regardless of the wind direction, the maximum 'shooting' range can reach 600 kilometers. But to ensure accuracy, it is best not to exceed 400 kilometers."

Hongyue exclaimed: "Can't we directly bombard Hiroshima from here? The straight-line distance from here to Hiroshima is only about three hundred kilometers!"

Rose immediately said: "Since our artillery can directly bombard Hiroshima from Nagasaki, although the caliber of Japanese artillery is a little smaller, the range will not be too different. Three hundred kilometers is absolutely guaranteed. In this way ...?"

"The Japanese plan to directly bombard Isengard." Su Mei immediately shouted out Rose's inference.

Rose nodded and said: "It is very difficult to aim and load such a huge rail gun. Combining these two characteristics, the target must be a very big thing, and this thing moves very slowly, or may not move at all. With these two points, the RB people only have two goals left."

"Isengard Sky Fortress and the newly established Earth Fulcrum City."

"Yes. However, the defenders of Fulcrum City have not tried it yet. They have been blocked by Essinger until now. So the first person to be eliminated must be Essinger."

General Wu immediately said: "Then the enemy is going to attack us. In the battle, we must take the initiative. Since we also have ultra-long-range artillery, let's strike first. Let's bomb their artillery first to avoid suffering disaster later."

"Well, I agree with the general's point of view." I immediately said to Woma: "Start the artillery immediately."

"This...!" Woma said awkwardly: "Although our guild has built two giant cannons, they are all placed in the Steel City. Such a large cannon needs to be installed on the deck of Essinger first. Chassis and movable protective armor. These are very time-consuming.”

"That means it can't be used for the time being, right?"

"I think so. If there is nothing to fix it, the gun carriage will fly from the east of the city to the west of the city with just one shot."

"Look at the screen." Bai Ling suddenly called everyone to look at the crystal screen.

Our eyes turned back again, and on the screen was the image seen by a mosquito detector. The giant cannon is still in the picture, but it can be seen that it is very close. We can clearly see the people working. At first I thought these people were installing cannons, but now that I got closer, I realized that they were not installing cannons, but dismantling scaffolding. The cannon is obviously finished, and the RBs are building it much faster than we expected.

"What to do now?" Ah Wei asked.

"Destroy it." Hongyue replied affirmatively.

"The question is how to destroy." The gold coin clicked on the screen a few times. "Do you see who this is?"

There were many people standing next to the terrifying cannon. But there are a few who are obviously organizers and stand out. I found Matsumoto Masaga, Tanaka Shota, and the legendary Tenzhao clone there. Now that Tianzhao's clone is here, the situation is very clear. The Spider Fortress must have been knocked down by him. The cannon hasn't even had its bracket removed. It can't be it. Other things are not so powerful, only this Tianzhao. The rb player must have asked him to protect this cannon. Then use this cannon to attack our place. Although RB players still don't know that the person in the cloud is Isinger, such a big cannon loaded with shotgun or cloud bombs can definitely 'force' things in the clouds out. This is RB people's plan.

I stared at the clone of Tianzhao for a long time. The existence of this guy is really a major problem. Don't look at him as only one person. Its destructive power is comparable to that of a Zerg fortress, maybe even more powerful. Although we have thirteen Zerg fortresses and Tianzhao only sent one clone, they are still not disadvantageous. If a cannon and a pistol have the same power. Who do you think is better at fighting? The obvious answer is a flexible pistol. The destructive power of the Zerg fortress is equal to that of Tianzhao's clone, but Tianzhao's clone is only the size of a person, while our fortress is larger than a battleship. This is obviously disproportionate.

Rose put her hand on the back of my hand on the table, and I looked at her. Our eyes met and we instantly understood what the other person meant. We turned to everyone at the same time and said our joint decision in a synchronized voice: "Dispatch Isengard and use weapons of mass destruction. Wipe Hiroshima off the map as well."

Everyone looked at the two of us in surprise, but quickly came to their senses. Eagle immediately said: "Yes, activate Isinger immediately and kill the opponent before suffering disaster."

The clouds over Nagasaki suddenly surged, and the surrounding reporters immediately noticed this strange phenomenon, but no one knew what happened. They could only watch from the side, hoping that something valuable would appear.

Inside Essinger. Thirty-six large gravity resistance devices on the three steering rings were activated simultaneously. The anti-gravity device like a trolley made a slight roar. A loud warning was played inside Essinger three times, and all players stopped moving and found a nearby place to fix themselves. Turning and moving can be different. You cannot stabilize your body just by relying on your own balance ability.

Thirty-six orbital steering machines made a "chi" sound at the same time, and white high-pressure steam spurted out from the steering gear axles. There was a neat clang of steel, and the locking pin on the steering gear flywheel sprang up at the same time, and the fixing device slowly opened under the drive of the huge gear. The yellow warning lights on the bottom of the rail machines lit up at the same time, and thirty-six tram-like rail machines started working at the same time amid a sound of metal friction.

The steering gear is actually a circular rail, and there are many magic rail cars with gravity-defying decorations on the track. It is thought that the gravity resistance device cannot translate in the horizontal plane after it is activated, so these trams will not move after they are activated, but the force still exists and the vehicles cannot move, so only the rails move. The rails and the urban support structure are connected together, and driving the movement of the circular rails actually drives the city to turn. This is Essinger's urban steering machine.

The huge sound of metal friction and the flashing yellow warning light jointly reminded everyone that the steering was still continuing. Huge cities must rotate at a very slow speed. For such a big city, if it rotates too fast, the centrifugal force will tear the whole city apart. This time the target was Hiroshima. We only needed to turn a thirty-eight degree angle. This process took about two minutes to complete. The track machine has already started braking before the city approaches the designated angle. In such a big city, everything must be done slowly. Emergency braking is not fun. When the specified angle is reached, the brakes are just finished, and the city stops at the required angle. The yellow alarm light goes out and the steam unlocking device shuts down. The force of the spring automatically returns the huge metal latch to its original position, locking the drive wheel and flywheel so that the city will not move randomly. The crawler-type gravity resistance device at the bottom of the city is activated, and the gravity resistance device on the orbital steering machine is automatically turned off. After a roar, Essinger shook, and then began to move towards Hiroshima.

Players outside quickly noticed that this big guy was moving. Although the clouds were moving at a very slow speed, it was noon, and the shadow on the ground could easily reveal the movement of the city. So half an hour later, most people who were paying attention to the battlefield situation knew that the strange cloud hanging above Nagasaki was moving.

Essinger's acceleration process is very slow and its weight is too great. Take your time in everything you do. But once the speed increased, it became more obvious. All reporters simultaneously discovered that the cloud was moving in the direction of Hiroshima. The Japanese observation posts were naturally no worse than reporters. They had long noticed that the clouds were approaching Hiroshima.

"Emergency battle report." A player rushed to Masa Matsumoto's side and almost knocked him down.

Masamoto Matsumoto supported this guy. "What are you so worried about?"

"It's moving, that cloud is moving."

"Moving?" Tanaka Shota squeezed over and grabbed the man and asked, "In which direction? What's the speed?"

"It's coming straight towards us, at about eight kilometers per hour. It's still accelerating slowly."

After hearing this, Masamoto Matsumoto immediately turned around and shouted to those who were busy on the gun mount: "How long until the Ghost Fury Cannon can be used?"

A technical foreman immediately replied: "The main body has been completed. Just dismantle the gun mount and correct the angle. If nothing else, it will take about two hours."

"Speed ​​up."

On the other side of Essinger, I was also asking Woma: "What is our current speed?"

"Ten kilometers an hour."

"Use maximum torque to accelerate to thirty kilometers per hour."

"This...I'm afraid the machine won't be able to bear it."

Rose stood up and said: "We have no time."

Ah Wei asked: "Why don't we send the air force to destroy the cannon first?"

Before I could answer, Su Mei spoke first: "We defended in the last RB battle. The opponent attacked, but they were still defeated. This time you asked us to attack and they defended. Isn't it more difficult to deal with?"

“But our equipment is more advanced than before, and we have more people!”

"But with Tianzhao's clone there, the Zerg Fortress will not be able to function but will be smashed to pieces. The Spider Fortress has just returned, and you have seen the damage. Sending the Zerg Fortress there is just to feed the fish, which is meaningless. As for the air cavalry. It is an assault force. It can carry out sneak attacks and steal retreats. It can also attack key cities where large armies have been prepared and gather people. Even if the cannons can be destroyed, this battle will be considered a failure."

Rose nodded and continued what Su Mei said: "So we can only dispatch Essinger and use weapons of mass destruction to determine the outcome at once. The attack power of Tianzhao's clone is okay against the Zerg fortress, but it's not close to Essinger." . RB’s ground troops don’t have much power to cause real damage to Essinger, so we just need to make sure we kill the cannon before it is shot down.”

"I understand." Ah Wei suddenly shouted again as soon as he sank, "How about we try the Tower of Babel?"

I shook my head: "Are you here to visit Tianzhao when you are standing there? He is protecting that thing. Tianzhao has protective magic. There is still a possibility of trying the concentrated attack of Babel Tower. But now the energy is not enough. It’s definitely useless to shoot with a single shot. If you don’t believe me, just ask Woma to fire a shot.”

Ah Wei still didn't believe it in the end, so Woma actually helped him try shooting once. In the picture sent back by the reconnaissance mosquito, a red light group with a long tail like a meteor fell from the sky. Just when the light group was about to hit the cannon. Tian Zhao suddenly raised his hand, and the cannon was protected by a white translucent mask. The attack light ball of Babel Tower hit the light screen and immediately flew away. The surrounding buildings were burned in several places by the scattered light, but the cannon stayed in place unharmed.

"Quick, speed up." Although the Tower of Babel failed to destroy the cannon, it frightened Matsumoto Masaru and began to urge the rb players to speed up.

At around 2:20 in the afternoon, the super cannon in the center of Hiroshima City finally completed the final adjustments and was ready for actual combat. At this time, Essinger had just passed near Saga and was still a long way from Hiroshima. At Essinger's snail's pace, it would take at least eight o'clock to reach Hiroshima, but now the Japanese cannons have been completed.

"No, the Japanese are about to open fire." Hongyue, who had been staring at the picture sent back by the reconnaissance mosquito, shouted.

"Quick, activate the protective shield. Essinger is in first-level combat readiness."

In Hiroshima Castle, Masamoto Matsumoto was also shouting: "Hurry up, reload quickly, and those over there, hurry up. Calculate the enemy's position immediately. Prepare to fire."

Behind the huge rail gun, hundreds of players operate complex lifting equipment to load the cannon. This rail gun has a caliber of 21 meters and a shell length of 70 meters. It is almost the size of a super large transport aircraft. Loading such a large shell is a troublesome task. If there weren't a large number of giant monsters in the game that could be driven, this shell would be impossible to load manually.

Reloading took a full twenty-three minutes. The shells were not loaded until 2:45 in the afternoon. The surveyor took Essinger's latest orientation data and began to direct a large group of players to adjust the steering and elevation of the cannon. Hundreds of players ordered their large Warcraft to push the winch to drive the rail gun gear set, and the muzzle began to adjust little by little. angle. The first launch requires a relatively large angle of rotation, so it is particularly time-consuming. It wasn't until after three o'clock that the angle was finally determined.

"It's done." The commander reported excitedly to Matsumoto Masaru.

"fire!"

"fire!"

All the RB players in the city squatted on the spot and put on special earmuffs, while the RB players outside the city who were ordered to assemble covered their ears. There was a loud bang and the ground shook, and the scene of the mosquito scout suddenly disappeared. But what has happened to us.

"The enemy fired. The defense system is at maximum power, and Essinger accelerates again."

The huge shell roared towards Essinger, and five seconds later the signal of the reconnaissance mosquito was suddenly restored. The RPG players in the city were lying on the ground, the cannons were still smoking, and the huge smoke had made the city almost invisible. The rb players outside the city only heard a loud noise like a volcanic eruption, but they didn't know what was going on. Our spy Ling Yuanfuki had already reported that Matsumoto Masaru had asked the Japanese guild to assemble in Hiroshima. But all the people who arrived in Hiroshima did not enter the city, but gathered outside the city. Only a small number of people can enter the interior of Hiroshima, which is why we have never been able to get information. I have to say that Masa Matsumoto's confidentiality measures are in place. If we had known that they were doing this here, we should have taken action long ago.

In fact, we overestimate people. This cannon is not man-made by RB at all. Its owner is Russian. The Russian guy who sold the defense system was scolded by Matsumoto Masamoto and ran away, and then he brought this thing to save face. After all, the Iron Curtain device was too embarrassing. The production of super railguns is very difficult, and the Russians only have a few. The door that came to rb had been built a long time ago, but it had to be dismantled during transportation because it was too large. That's why it took so long to assemble. What if the RB people temporarily produced this cannon. Even if they have the technology and equipment, even if they start building it as soon as they see us. It will definitely not be able to make up for the seven days of defending the city.

In any case, the Japanese people assembled the cannon first, and they fired it. About a few minutes later we heard a huge rumbling sound. The sound of heavy artillery shells breaking through the air did not sound like artillery shells, but like meteorites falling. There was a shock wave-like vibration in the voice, and everyone felt their hearts beating along with it.

The shells flew from directly ahead, but they seemed to be fired at a high altitude. The warhead did not hit the protective cover. Instead, the side of the projectile rubbed our protective cover, making a harsh friction sound and creating a rainbow of flames in the sky over Essinger.

The shell passed over the city after grazing the highest protective shield. The warhead flew a short distance to the back of the city before suddenly landing. The ground shook violently with a bang, but Essinger in the sky was not affected in any way.

"Haha, missed." Ah Wei and Jin Coin hugged each other and waited for a long time before they felt any vibration before shouting happily.

Rose also stood up from my arms and patted her chest and said, "No, I'm going to go outside and watch. Waiting here until my heart can't bear it."

General Wu also hurriedly said: "I'll go too, it's too uncomfortable to wait here to be bombed."

Seeing that everyone had this intention, I quickly said: "Anyway, there is a set of communication equipment at the top square, so let's go up together."

"Okay." Everyone got back together.

Masamoto Matsumoto was furious in Hiroshima Castle. "What the hell? It missed the target. What do you do for food? Hurry up and reload."

The Russian young man next to him quickly persuaded: "Don't be angry. It's difficult to guarantee accuracy at such a long distance. It's good if you can hit it. Isn't the first hit requirement too high?"

No matter how angry Matsumoto Masaga is, a miss means a miss, and RB players have to reload honestly. It was crazy to carry such a large shell, and it took another twenty-three minutes for the large group of players to load the second shell. This time the direction calibration was much faster and was completed in a few minutes. At half past three, Masamoto Matsumoto gave the order to fire again.

The moment the gunfire sounded, we lost the picture again. It was normal for the Mosquito Detector to be unable to work properly in such a violent shock wave, but it returned to normal again after a few seconds.

"Raise higher." I gave such a helpless command, hoping to avoid the attack. With Essinger's size and speed, evasion is almost impossible. Such a big target would be hundreds of kilometers away. Most people can get hit with their eyes closed.

Maybe we were lucky, maybe the rb player was too nervous, or maybe it was because of my order, but the second shell missed again. This time the cannonball flew past Essinger's bottom. If I hadn't ordered to raise the altitude, I would have been hit. But this time we got a piece of information, that is, Essinger's defense system has no defensive effect against such a massive object. Only one layer of the shield is a physical shield, and the others are anti-magic. But this protective cover is designed to withstand those tens of kilograms of artillery shells or several-ton stone throws, not the two- to three-hundred-ton artillery shells. The only use of the protective cover is to reduce the speed of the projectile a little, but this is basically of no practical significance.

"Theirs, get out of here." Masamoto Matsumoto kicked the surveyor out of the measuring position, picked up the drawings and began to calculate and compare. The artillery loaders in the back were busy loading the next round, and no one dared to say a word. Masamoto Matsumoto is going crazy now. Anyone who speaks is looking for scolding.

The reloading time of the super cannon is almost twenty-three minutes, and based on basic calculations, it takes about half an hour to fire one shot. At around four o'clock, the angle calculated by Masa Matsumoto himself finally came out. A large group of players quickly adjusted the angle. This time the ground movement required was very small and it was done in one go.

"Fire." Masamoto Matsumoto shouted again, as if his own voice was the driving force for firing the shells.

We didn't even believe that we could dodge this third shell. In fact, we really couldn't dodge it. The third shell broke through the clouds and directly hit the middle part of the Essinger Sky Fortress. There was a loud bang accompanied by the strange sound of metal twisting. Essinger shook violently. We all took a big tumble. I hugged the rose, and the son of the night caught his grandfather, General Wu. This little guard is quite competent.

The sound of tearing metal was accompanied by the explosion, but the shock only occurred once. Although there were continuous explosions afterwards, the sound was not very loud. Shouldn't such a big shell be so powerful? We got up from the ground one by one. Before Rose could stand up, she shouted: "Report the situation."

In fact, everyone already knew something about it. Such a strong impact showed that it was hit, but the shell definitely did not explode, otherwise it would not be so stable. The NPC guard quickly reported: "The middle storage area was shot. The shell penetrated the outer armor and the warehouse armor door and extended into the living area. It was just a dumb bomb and did not explode."

Regarding this dud, our reaction was naturally very confused. When everyone rushed to the shot area, they only saw a huge, severely deformed iron lump leaning crookedly against the ruins of a building. In front of the iron guy stood two dancing black and white figures.

"Good luck? Good luck?" Everyone immediately understood what was going on. The two lucky gods of our guild happened to be active in the living area on the middle floor. Naturally, they had to pretend to be mute when the shells hit this place.

We understand that Masamoto Matsumoto does not understand that the clouds and fog obscure their view and they cannot see the results of the battle. The first two rounds knew that they missed because the shells flew out. This round entered the clouds and did not come out. It was obviously a hit, but the clouds were still flying by themselves, as if they were not affected by anything.

"Isn't it effective?" Masamoto Matsumoto asked the Russian with confusion and surprise.

The Russian young man had no choice but to shake his head helplessly. He didn't know why such a large shell disappeared silently. Ordinarily, if it hits the target, the sound of the explosion should be heard dozens of kilometers away!

In fact, this shell is not really useless. Just when everyone in the army was confused as to why the artillery shells were ineffective and the people in our guild were busy cleaning up the dumb bombs and repairing the armor, an accident that no one expected happened.

The reporters and RB surveillance personnel below Essinger were watching the reaction of the clouds in the sky. They had just seen a shell flying in. It had been so long, why was there no movement at all? While everyone was wondering, someone suddenly noticed that something was not right about the way the clouds were rolling, and there seemed to be some faint shadows appearing on the edge of the clouds.

"Oh my God! My Virgin Mary! What did I see?" A reporter from a European country shouted in surprise. He had completely forgotten how to close his mouth.

The clouds in the sky are gradually becoming thinner. In the direction of Essinger's advance, the clouds are being pushed apart by something, and some huge shadows appear. As the shadow became clearer and clearer, a majestic sky-blue city wall suddenly emerged from the edge of the clouds. It was this terrifyingly majestic city wall that shocked the poor reporter so much that she even shouted out Maria.

Not only were the clouds pushed to both sides, but there was more behind the huge city wall. The bottom armor layer of steel, the exquisite pattern carvings, the oversized guild logo, the numerous defensive weapons, and the colorful protective shields all shocked the nerves of every audience at the scene.

A player in Hiroshima stumbled up to Masamoto Matsumoto: "Out... came out. Things in the clouds came out. It's a city, a city."

"What did you say?" Masamoto Matsumoto didn't react for a while.

The player immediately repeated it. "City. Hidden in the cloud we hit is the city of the Frost Rose Alliance, a super city with an area more than ten times that of Tokyo, a mobile city that can float in the air."

"That's a city?" Shota Tanaka reacted before Masamoto Matsumoto. He muttered to himself on the side: "No wonder, no wonder. No wonder they brought so much air force, no wonder they dispatched those three terrifying giant insects. It turned out to be a city, a flying mobile city."

Compared to the shock of the reporters, the fear of the RB players, the people in our guild were also in chaos.

"What happened? Why did the fog suddenly disappear?"

The NPC soldier reported: "President, the vibration just now seems to have damaged the wind chimes of the divine fog, so the fog has disappeared."