Chapter 212 Grenadiers

The fuse made of saltpeter and string burned, making a sizzling sound.

The grenadiers at the front line used the open flame inserted in the position to ignite the long-fuse explosive pack in their hands, and threw it with all their strength at the elemental rock man entangled with plants in the mud pit in front of them.

Throw the thing out.

The instinct engraved in human genes, human ancestors used their excellent throwing ability and tool-making ability to achieve the final victory in the struggle with other lives.

250 grams, five taels, a quarter of a kilogram of explosive pack.

The fuse has been lit.

Thirty meters.

This distance is not far, and the elemental creatures who take steps only need a few steps to cross it, and for creatures like forest spiders, it can cross it in a few seconds.

The vines that coexist with the forest rock element launch swift spikes as powerful as light crossbows, which will eliminate the scout hunting spiders that enter its range. There are also symbiotic plants that suddenly rise up and entangle the scout hunting spiders that use their own superb mobility to interfere with the forest rock element.

The hunting spider that suddenly stopped was smashed to pieces by the extremely flexible turn of the elemental creature.

They are not as bulky as they look. The bodies hidden under the surface of the gray-white and earth-brown rock layer are as flexible as humans.

The soldiers held their breath and watched the forest rock element turn around and smash a scout hunting spider that ran over, crushing its shell and flesh and merging them with the soil.

Then it fell into the pit they dug to restrict the movement of elemental life.

A simple pit one meter deep with a thin wooden board covered with grass is enough to make it difficult for the sturdy elemental creature to break free from it for a while.

Now.

Without anyone's order, the soldiers who have received standard grenade throwing training immediately threw the explosive packs in their hands.

Several explosive packs passed through the air, and the burning fuses drew thin white marks on the light fog wall caused by the musket team's firing.

The scout hunting spiders have received simple training and know to run away when they see such things, but the forest spiders are completely unaware of this.

They then took another deep breath, paused, and steadied themselves before taking out a new explosive pack, lighting it, and throwing it.

In just ten seconds, the grenadiers had completed two rounds of bomb throwing.

Of course, their throwing did not require too high accuracy, they only needed to throw all the explosive packs out to complete their bomb throwing task - those big guys stuck in the soil

For one line of defense, each squad was issued five kilograms of explosives and twenty explosive packs.

The twenty infantry squads that were put into battle threw nearly one hundred half-pound explosive packs in the first round of engagement throwing.

The ability to use explosives so comfortably is due to the fact that the territory currently has free crystal mines that are almost free. The cost of making excellent explosives was halved, and the territory's army has never experienced a shortage of gunpowder.

For newly trained musketeers, explosive packs are even the standard single-soldier configuration in their cognition.

Cover up the lack of accuracy with the amount of firepower projection.

The spellcasters standing on the second line of defense all tightly grasped the spell models that had already been formed in their hands, and looked at the large cloud of gray smoke rising in front of the first line of defense with pale faces.

Explosions, explosions, and continuous explosions almost made them tremble uncontrollably, after all, the explosions occurred in a continuous area within their sight. The soldiers who were closer to the explosives were temporarily trapped in tinnitus, and it took a long time to recover.

Without the action of casting spells, the power of destruction had already torn open the shells used by elemental creatures to protect themselves, temporarily affecting their self-repair ability.

This kind of explosive pack does not cause the brilliant fire in the film and television effects. They will only burst out a lot of smoke and explode the soil and rocks in an instant with a loud bang. The spreading high-temperature shock wave of the explosion will destroy the solid objects around the target and form pits.

If it is thrown into the line infantry line...it can easily tear open or even destroy a dense infantry line.

Its extremely short range of only 30 to 50 meters also means that only the bravest and most elite soldiers in the army can serve as grenadiers.

The throwing effect of the grenadiers is extremely significant. The outer protective shells of most forest rock elements have been stripped off under multiple violent impacts, revealing the softer brown-black body inside, which is also flashing with purple light. The symbiotic plants on their bodies that pose a serious threat to infantry are also mostly damaged under the impact.

He shot down a forest spider that had come up at some point, and dodged the thorns fired by the plants on the forest rock element. He took the rifle from the soldier behind him and accurately interrupted the symbiotic plant that was extending its deep purple inflorescence and accumulating the next fatal shot.

Chang Heng was distressed that he still brought too little explosives this time. If they could continue throwing for a minute, they would not even have to suffer casualties.

They had little explosives left, so they had to evacuate from the first line of defense.

"All units should immediately throw all explosives in stock and withdraw to the second line of defense."

The first line of defense was already within the attack range of the symbiotic plants on the elemental creatures. When several soldiers threw bombs, they thought that the enemy could not reach them. They were targeted by the vine needles that changed their targets. The needles shot through the shoulders and arms of the musketeers.

The moment the musketeers threw the explosives, they had already entered the range of the symbiotic plants on the elemental creatures.

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"In the range?"

The officer saw the outstanding results of the grenadiers and immediately turned to ask the spellcaster standing next to him, who nodded with difficulty.

They were retreating from the first line of defense to the second line of defense.

There was also a reserve of explosives in the second line of defense.

As for the musketeers, they used the muskets in their hands to kill the elemental creatures.

This joke is not funny.

Whether it is a burning armor-piercing bullet or a standard lead bullet, when it encounters the thick soil and rock layers on the Linyan element, the expected lethality is buffered and absorbed. The only thing that can be done is to kill the symbiotic plants on the Linyan element.

The officers standing on the second line of defense must find a way to cooperate with their generals to make their retreat successful.

"Aim at these three elemental creatures and be ready to fire directly."

The fireball burst out and hit, blocking the Linyan element who was striding forward. The fireball released by the spellcaster swept past, and at the moment of hitting the target, a fireball with a diameter of one meter bloomed and engulfed it in the flames.

The flames burned the surface of the forest rock element. It was fearless of flames, but the high-temperature flames were a disaster for the plants and elemental spirits that lived with it. They shrank into the element's body in the high-temperature flames. Some shallow symbiotic plants that did not react in time were completely destroyed by the penetrating temperature.

At this relatively close distance, it was finally time for the caster to show his power.

The flames disappeared in the air for a few seconds, and the forest rock element that came out of it turned black, and the green on the surface was completely lost. It looked more like the elemental creatures born beside the volcano, charred and with earthy yellow.

After the support artillery was loaded, it fired directly, and after the firing was completed, a new round of shells was replaced.

The elemental body, which was brittle under high heat, was finally unable to resist the bombardment of small-caliber artillery. Every hit could peel off a large piece of stone.

The artillery misfired, and the firing limit of ten rounds had been reached. If it fired again, there would be a risk of explosion, and a new explosion replaced its muffled sound.

A brand new wall of death blocked the last steps of the elemental creatures.

The grenadiers who successfully transferred to the second line of defense began to use the newly acquired explosive packs to destroy the slowly advancing elemental creatures. Without the outer shell, they could no longer withstand the explosion and fell to the ground.

Forty-five musketeers were recalled, and thirty-two sets of infantry equipment and two hundred and forty scout hunting spiders were lost.

At this price, they took the last floating stone vein on the floating island.

After half a month, all resource points on the island were directly controlled by the territory.

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