Chapter 25 Masamoto Matsumoto’s Enthusiastic Attempt to Retain Him

"Emergency." As we were talking, the correspondent in charge of the crystal communicator suddenly called out.

"What's going on?" I asked as I ran over.

The correspondent quickly let the screen out, and we immediately saw the picture on the crystal screen. This picture is obviously from the reconnaissance mosquito. The picture shows the charging Japanese army. They are rushing towards Essinger crazily. But it’s not these people that matter, it’s what’s behind the crowd.

"What is that?" General Wu also noticed the unusual object in the picture.

I got closer and took a closer look: "It seems to be a kind of cannon, and the caliber is quite small."

"Is it a city-breaking cannon?" Bai Ling asked.

Woma shook his head: "It doesn't look like it. Besides, Essinger's city wall is not afraid of any artillery with a caliber less than two meters. Of course, the opponent's use of magic cannons is another matter."

"This doesn't seem to be a magic cannon. It should be a type of artillery." Rose said seriously: "But the Japanese are not planning to attack the city. Their goal may be...!"

"Tracks!" we shouted together.

"Quick, quick, stop them." General Wu shouted nervously.

I immediately picked up the communication machine. "Fort battery, city battery, please pay attention. There are artillery in the enemy camp. Destroy them first."

"The battery control station understands that it searches for enemy artillery and suppresses it."

Rose grabbed the call crystal: "I don't want you to suppress it, I want you to destroy it, completely destroy it."

"Yes, completely destroyed."

Bai Ling suddenly pointed at the screen and shouted: "What are they doing?"

"No, they have already started setting up artillery. Counterattack immediately."

The huge Essinger is still moving slowly under the pull of the crawler propeller, but the heavy artillery of the Japanese behind it has begun to deploy. Although the caliber of these guns is large. But the city walls of Essinger have no power. The key problem is that their target is obviously not the city wall.

Due to the sufficient manpower, the RBs quickly set up the artillery. I couldn't help but rushed out of the command room and ran towards the top deck.

Masamoto Matsumoto kept urging the people around him to deploy the artillery supports. When fully unfolded, these big guys looked like a big octopus on the beach. The eight legs stretched out to fix the ground, and the huge turret in the center was like an octopus head. As soon as the artillery was in place, four shirtless Japanese warriors used two poles made of steel pipes to lift a heavy artillery shell to the firing chute. The gun door was opened by someone. Six players use a long push rod to send the shell from the chute into the gun chamber, and then close the gun door.

"It's over." The RB player responsible for loading the ammunition shouted loudly.

The gunner immediately covered his ears with his hands and stepped hard on the firing linkage. boom. A piece of white smoke and red flames spewed out from the muzzle, and the heavy artillery shells flew towards Isinger with a harsh scream. Before the recoil barrel had fully returned to its position, the loader had already opened the gun door. A shell with sparks in it was pulled out by a player wearing gloves and thrown aside. The chute next to it was already ready. The second shell was quickly pushed in.

The complete shooting method of RB players is said to be taught by some players who have been artillerymen in the past. Regardless of whether they are professional or not, at least the reloading speed is very fast. Large-caliber artillery shells quickly flew towards Isinger. And quite dense. The horizontal shooting angle of the artillery shells is very small, almost straight shooting. With Essinger's towering height, anyone knows where they are hitting the ground.

Below Isinger, the huge transmission bearing drives the even larger crawler tracks to move slowly. The two-story high crawler base plate and the metal wheels as tall as hills support the upper metal hydraulic rods, and these hydraulic rods support the entire weight of Isinger. Just as these giant machines were running slowly. A shell accurately hit the track base plate. There was a loud explosion, and flames rose from the sides of the tracks. After the flames dissipated, the track was still running, but there was a big crater in the base plate that was hit.

The second shell arrived immediately after the first, and flames rose from the connection point of the drive shaft. Some auxiliary stabilizing structures were blown apart by the explosion, and lock metal pieces flew everywhere like bullets, sending sparks flying from several crawler drive devices nearby.

The attacks from behind arrived one after another, and multiple tracks were hit one after another. Essinger shook violently in the large flames. Although the wheel axles are very thick, they are now under unimaginable pressure. Under such a large pressure, the impact caused by the shell hitting is quite dangerous.

Suddenly, a shell hit a track base plate full of cracks. There was a loud bang followed by the sound of metal twisting, and the base plate that had been hit multiple times finally broke. Huge pieces of metal flew everywhere. The gravity resistance device hidden in the base plate was also blown apart by the huge force, and various parts fell everywhere.

"It's terrible." Woma stood in the observation room of the lower power room. Here, you can directly see the working conditions of the tracks, and of course you can also see the results of their shelling.

After the base plate broke, the track lost its tightening ability and automatically slid to both ends. The track guide wheels also lost their function. All the huge gravity resistance devices fell off, and even one metal wheel actually fell off.

"Put that track away."

"Yes. Put away the track No. 2013." Essinger has a total of four hundred track propellers. There are exactly twenty rows and twenty columns, and the first two digits represent the row number where the propeller is located. The last two digits are the column number.

As the damaged propeller was recovered, the track slipped off the axle due to gravity. Although there is a gravity resistance device in the track splint, we don't need to recycle that thing. Even if the RB people get the real thing, they can't imitate such a high-precision product.

The subsequent barrage became more and more dense. In the early stage, the R&B people had to aim and shoot, but later they knew the rough positioning and could shoot continuously. After the first crawler track was damaged, other crawler tracks went wrong one after another. Seven or eight crawler tracks were unable to drive normally and were forced to be withdrawn. Now Essinger only relies on 392 crawler tracks for support. Although Essinger can move by maintaining at least 150 tracks, something will happen sooner or later if the RB people continue to fight like this.

The hangar on top of Essinger opened again, and a large number of air cavalry ran out of it. Immediately behind the air cavalry are the spear and dragon formations, and behind them are the snow eagle formations carrying bombs. We have air supremacy in our hands and we don't have an agent to make good use of it.

A large number of our air force just set off, and RB responded immediately. A large, dark mass of aerial units pressed towards us.

I stood on the platform and looked ahead. "Masaga Matsumoto is really willing to spend money. How many air units will this cost?"

Eagle shook his head helplessly: "Our guild has spent a lot of money on those air cavalry. I believe Matsumoto Masaga will not be stingy than us. With this attitude, Matsumoto Masaga is planning to drag us to the death in Honshu!"

Bai Ling said: "At worst, we have to fight with them. The decisive battle in Fulcrum City is also a decisive battle, and the decisive battle here is also a decisive battle. It is necessary to fight anyway. With Essinger's support, we are not a melee in the wilderness. We should have a strong force."

"Okay." I turned around and said: "Woma is responsible for the movement management of the city, and we should try to stay away from Honshu Island. The general is responsible for the overall battlefield command, with Rose and Sumei assisting. Eagle, you also bring your heavy cavalry detachment, Shura Ziyi And Big Pot Rice will follow you on time. Bai Ling, you are in charge of the archer formation, Hong Yue is in charge of the mage formation. The others follow me, go down and have a fake decisive battle with little rb. You should pay attention to keeping a distance during the battle. Once Essinger successfully escapes , you must return quickly, I don’t want to have a decisive battle with the Japanese here, it will not be good for us.”

"clear."

"Okay, let's split up."

A large number of troops swarmed out from various exits of Essinger. Since the goal is to make the Japanese people think that we intend to fight them here, we must make it look good. At least we can't just send a little reserve team, which will make the Japanese people suspicious.

Masamoto Matsumoto looked at the troops pouring out of Isinger's exits without a smile. His goal was finally achieved. What the Japanese need is to prevent Essinger from evacuating. In such a large city, if it hadn't been successfully attacked by a giant cannon at the beginning, it would have been impossible to give these Japanese people any chance. Masamoto Matsumoto knew that if I didn't kill Essinger this time, I would have no chance in the future.

"Order the artillery troops to move forward." Masamoto Matsumoto ordered loudly.

The so-called rolling advance is to divide the army into two, let the first half advance, and the second half remain in the firing state. Wait for the front half to move to a certain distance and then unfold it on the spot, and then the back half will put away the cannon and continue to move forward. This method of movement ensures continuous battlefield fire suppression. But the premise is that the opponent's cannons are not as many as yours, or your cannons are well hidden. Such a tactic should not be used in today's situation, but Masamoto Matsumoto had no choice but to use the loss of the cannon to damage Isinger's thruster.

The shells with howling winds exploded near the tracks one after another, and Essinger had to continuously take all the severely damaged track devices back into the city.

Woma stood in the maintenance warehouse on the mechanical floor, working on his hands and knees to repair the damaged gravity resistance device, while the other technical players were all busy with their own tasks. This is the first time for these big guys from Essinger to participate in the battle, which can be regarded as a practical test. I didn't expect that the performance of the test, which is very good in ordinary times, would cause so much trouble on the battlefield. It seems that our design is still very unqualified.

I rode Yeying and led my own troops to the front of the team. Although at this time I have returned to the large form of Ziri. But the effectiveness of the pill given by Black Kirin to Dina did not show up at all, at least I couldn't feel any change myself.

The result of the conflict between the armies on both sides was that we soon met. But the first ones to meet were the guys above. Masamoto Matsumoto seems to have purchased a large number of monster NPCs to join the battle this time. These air forces are not air forces at all, and they are a mess beyond description. The black air force above us is composed of thousands of monsters, most of which are very weird. Weird creatures that only appear in nightmares also appear. Some of them don't even look like creatures at all, and they are also mixed in the air force. Li Fei came out to fight.

We can't control the chaos of the Japanese air force. We can only pray that their combat effectiveness is as chaotic as their type, but we ourselves know that this possibility is unlikely. Compared with those in the sky, the Japanese troops on the ground are much more unified.

The NPC legion hired by Masamoto Matsumoto mainly includes three main combat arms. The first type is, of course, RB’s signature unit, the ninja. The ninja profession is divided into many branches just like the Taoist priests in our country, according to Yu Zhe, a genuine ninja. RB's ninja system is roughly divided into three major categories, each category is subdivided into dozens of subcategories, and each category is divided into several categories. But he only knew that there were so many categories, and he didn't know exactly what these categories looked like. However, the ninjas who appeared this time were easier to recognize, as they were all Masaki's weapons. This type of ninja is actually a kind of ninja between soldiers and ninjas. This kind of ninja knows very few ninjutsu, and most of them are simple and practical low-level ninjutsu. Compared with regular ninjas, soldier ninjas have higher attack power, and they are one of the few ninjas equipped with armor. Of course. As defense and attack went up, other things went down. The most obvious thing is that agility is much lower than ordinary ninjas. However, ninjas are still ninjas after all. Being slower than ordinary ninjas does not mean that they are slow. Compared to ordinary arms, they are still a relatively fast arm.

The second main unit purchased by Masamoto Matsumoto is the Japanese samurai, but don't think of him as a Japanese ronin who wears loose clothes and shaves his head into a small shape holding a Japanese sword. This kind of samurai is a real samurai, strictly speaking, it can be regarded as a type of heavy infantry. They have complete armor on them. The Japanese sword in hand is generally longer and has a smaller arc. These warriors are actually similar to European warriors and our country's fighting soldiers. The only difference is that the style of the armor is slightly different.

The third type of soldier is the archer. This is a classic profession. The environmental background in which gunpowder guns are not popular in the game has greatly improved the status of bows and arrows, the main long-range attack weapon on the battlefield. The number of enemies killed by archers in a battle directly determines the number of casualties after the war. Archers killing people would not be hit back because their enemies were far away. And ordinary soldiers engage in close combat with the enemy. Even if your personal strength is outstanding, you will still be beaten to death by the group in the end, so the archers can unilaterally massacre the opponent's personnel to gain a strength advantage for their own side, and in exchange for as little cost as possible, the enemy can be killed as much as possible.

Although an archer. But the type of archer Matsumoto Masa purchased was rather special. No one in our guild knows what type of archer this is. These archers all wore RB-style clothing, which was a kind of armor made of rattan and reeds, with a round hat on their head. These archers seem to be very light, and they may be agile archers. The number of such archers in Masamoto Matsumoto's army is terrible. Based on the money invested by Masamoto Matsumoto this time, he should not be able to afford so many archers. The only possibility is that the archer Matsumoto Masa bought is relatively low-level, so it is cheaper.

At present, Masamoto Matsumoto's troop configuration seems to be dominated by these three professions, with some remaining troops from previous battles and most of the players included. Players act as low-level commanders in the team. NPCs act as soldiers.

As soon as I led the team to the front of the Japanese army's formation, a dense rain of arrows fell from the front.

"Defense." I shouted, and the Tyrannosaurus Knight and Bell Knight following me quickly raised their shields to cover themselves. As for their mounts, they didn't need to worry about them. Ring Knight's armored dragon is a dragon-shaped tank, as long as it doesn't get hit by cannonballs. The Tyrannosaurus Knight's baby tyrannosaurus itself also belongs to the warm-blooded reptile branch. To put it bluntly, it is the subsaurus branch. The scales on its body are definitely not lower in defense than the shield.

We're just getting ready. A rain of arrows fell down. While blocking the rain of arrows, I roughly tested the power of the unknown archer on the other side. The conclusion drawn was so-so. The shooting range of these archers seems to be slightly shorter than that of our archers, if they are longbowmen in our guild. He started shooting when he was more than 800 meters away, but the opponent only started shooting when he was close to more than 300 meters. In addition to the 'shooting' range, the power is pretty good. There is a clear sense of strength when hitting the shield, which shows that the arrow is very powerful and it is possible to penetrate the armor when it hits it. As for the rate of fire, defense, flexibility and accuracy, we can't test it. The opponent just fired one round, and there was no way to test the shooting speed since he couldn't see the arrow going up. Professional flexibility and defense can only be tested after getting close. We can't test the accuracy. It doesn't make much sense for so many people to shoot arrows at the same time. It's fine if they can be released.

After the first round of arrows, we quickly rushed through the last three hundred meters. After all, my personal guard was also a full cavalry lineup, not to mention that they were all special cavalry and were much faster than ordinary cavalry. The Tyrannosaurus Knight's baby Tyrannosaurus and the Bell Knight's Armored Dragon are both good runners. They can still reach a ground speed of more than 100 kilometers without the help of magic. It is no exaggeration to say that they are lightning fast.

Eagle led a large group of regular heavy cavalry regiments diagonally behind us. Their task was not to trample on people, but to outflank them from both sides and then go back inside the enemy to take out their damn cannons. Originally, this damn mission should have been completed by the air cavalry, but the problem is that our air force encountered a large group of RB monster air forces, and they are still fighting with them in the sky.

"Come on." Scott was even more excited than me, and he shouted and rushed forward.

The vanguards of the two armies crossed over quickly, and everyone's camps were sparse. As soon as they came into contact, they rushed into each other's formation, and then the formal battle began. The tyrannosaurus knight waved his halberd and started slashing left and right like a kayak. The RB player was short, and we were all on mounts, so we took advantage of the fight. Riding a high mount means that you can save a lot of energy compared to others, and usually when fighting with swords, because we are in a high position, we often press down. The enemy not only has to surpass our strength, but also has to be able to withstand it. It takes our weight to overturn us, but there are not many people with such strength.

Scott shouted to both sides: "The Bell Knights spread out their attacks and fill the gaps in the attacks."

"Yes." After receiving the order, the other Ringtone Knights immediately rushed out along the battle line from both sides. Scot's order is to let them fill the gaps. The enemy's strength is not even. In some places, the enemy's combat effectiveness is strong, and our people will consume more time. If this continues, the front line will become deeper and shallower. It became an irregular front. If the enemy can seize the concave position on our front and launch a physical assault, then we will be in trouble. However, the Ring Knights are all powerful units, and their levels are very high. It is easy to use them to plug these gaps.

"Be careful." Scott suddenly ran over to me after giving the instructions. He stretched out his shield and stood in front of me. There was a bang, and a giant arrow as thick as a man's wrist was inserted into the shield. .

I saw the arrow and immediately started looking around. Such a big thing is obviously not an arrow, it is a crossbow bolt fired by a crossbow. There must be a large crossbow equipment nearby. With the range of the crossbow, it is impossible to attack me from a long distance unless there is a shooting rack nearby.

Scott also followed me and looked around, but in the end I found it first. "What a boy, you're actually hiding there." I pointed to the front right. There was a huge ballista over there that was protected by a group of RB players. No wonder I didn't see such a big ballista here just now.

"Let me kill him?"

"No need." I pulled the half-moon from my back and threw it out. The huge half-moon rotating blade flew out with a sharp blade. From a distance, the high-speed rotating half-moon looked like a round plate. The visual effect of the half-moon flying with black magic flames and red arcs was exaggerated. None of the enemies could react. I actually started attacking from such a distance. They thought we couldn't hit this far.

Under the guidance of my consciousness, Ban Yue adjusted his posture and prepared to completely smash the crossbow. But at this critical moment, a hand suddenly stretched out from the side and grabbed Ban Yue. My half moon was actually pinched? Who is this?