Chapter 554 Hammer Fall (VII)

The firepower network intersected, the sound of machine guns tore the quiet night sky, and the twin 20mm semi-automatic machine guns began to fire armor-piercing shells at the ground in a very rhythmic manner under the control of the shooter.

One of every five machine gun bullets was a burning tracer bullet used to mark the trajectory for the shooter, and each scratched tracer bullet represented four solid armor-piercing bullets with the same power.

The firepower density of the fleet responsible for recovering the fleet was far more than the light spots seen by the soldiers on the ground, much more.

In front of the large-caliber machine guns, whether it was the lightly armored Crusader soldiers or the physically iron canned Templar Knights, they were all the same.

The only difference was that the former was like a rag and the weapons in their hands were smashed together, and the part hit by the large-caliber machine gun directly exploded into a blood mist; the latter's armor was hit and a two-finger thick dent appeared directly, and the large-caliber machine gun easily penetrated the armor they were proud of.

"Everyone, deploy your shields!" The leader of the Templar garrison shouted, "Shield forward, the attack is coming from the sky!"

The long sword was inserted into the ground, and the prayers on the shoulder armor and armor lit up together. In front of each Templar, an arc-shaped shield rose. The 90-degree arc-shaped shield blocked the center of the firepower range of the Templars and the interceptor.

'Holy Shield'

The Templars' shields are different from the hexagonal shields of the mages. They are more like a translucent eggshell, which can block almost all small and medium-sized projectile attacks for them.

Spells from mages, arrows from crossbowmen and crossbows, and heavy weapons from monster infantry.

The White Knights stood on the battlefield with their special shields built by their divine arts, using their bodies as shields to support a temporary line of defense, greatly improving the survivability of the Templars.

It only takes less than 0.5 seconds to open and close the shield, which makes the Templars almost invincible in close combat with the enemy's elite troops and monster infantry.

Block, defend, and then pick up the long sword to chop the enemy.

After removing the shield, you can quickly draw the sword to inflict heavy damage to the enemy.

It only takes 20 seconds for the Templars to kill a troll and only one minute to dismantle a dead skeleton structure.

It is no exaggeration to say that they are already T0 heavy infantry standing at the top of cold weapons.

If they can get close to the mecha of the island alliance, they can even use the long sword to cut the armor plate in 20 seconds to drag the pilot out of the gorgeously decorated silver-white mecha, and then use 10 seconds to dismantle the joints of the mecha.

Now their well-trained tactics have no effect when facing the enemy who is like a dimensionality reduction attack. The opponent does not care about any tactics used by the Templars at all.

They don't care about the combat skills honed by the crusaders of the Holy See.

In an instant, they were pulled to a higher-level battlefield, where only death awaited these soldiers who were not used to the future fighting methods.

No matter how strange the enemies the knights had faced before, the fighting methods and tactics they used were still within the range of their quick adaptation and understanding... But the enemies now were different, completely different.

They used obstacles to intercept their footsteps and coldly cast death on the ground.

The rain of bullets swept across the ground like an iron sickle, splashing traces on the shield like raindrops falling on the water.

They could only protect themselves, and the Crusaders outside the shields were killed by the sickle before they even had time to react.

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Like the Templars and Crusaders bathed in the rain of bullets, the paladins and priests also had their own enemies to face.

The second round of bombardment, changing to armor-piercing shells.

There was no explosion, only the sound of heavy objects falling to the ground, and the heavy solid projectiles fell to the ground with inertia.

The rolling shells swept across the ground like an iron plow, rolling and smashing the bunkers in a straight line, leaving a bloody mark in the dense Crusaders.

However, the damage caused by armor-piercing shells is far less than that caused by high-explosive incendiary shells. The tumbling shells can only take away dozens of soldiers at most, and the actual damage caused to soft targets such as infantry is far less than that caused by high-explosive incendiary shells that can spread a large amount of incendiary agents and overpressure shock waves.

Unlike the panic of the soldiers, Yves and Susie, who were sitting high up overlooking the battlefield, were a little confused.

They were puzzled as to why the shells with the best killing effect were not used in this bombardment, but were replaced with solid shells with worse killing effects on soft targets.

"Ji... they changed the shells." Susie raised her head and said with doubt: "It's not the kind of shells that will explode. If they want to expand the results of the battle, they should continue to use the kind of shells that will explode to attack our camp."

Did they run out of ammunition for the explosive shells? Or...

"If they want to support the people in the square, they should continue to use those explosive shells..." Susie said: "I don't know what the attackers in the square did. Our troops... suffered heavy losses, but there is clearly a Templar garrison stationed near the square! The Templar garrison can't let them slaughter our soldiers!"

The elite Crusaders' vanguards are disappearing like snowflakes under the scorching sun.

"Susie, help me see where the shells are landing." Yves said: "Range, the range of the artillery attack... The attackers may..."

Susie expanded her perception area, but Yves' sixth sense got the answer earlier than Susie... Their action targets include... themselves?

The landing points of the shells began to converge.

The pointed cone shells tore through the air, like a heavy hammer, accurately and efficiently injecting kinetic energy into the surface of the shield.

The killing of solid armor-piercing shells is more concentrated, and the killing efficiency will not be lost due to explosion. The kinetic energy brought by long-distance flight is enough for 152 artillery to penetrate the top armor of any unit.

Kinetic killing, the purest killing, without any special effects.

If it is just one shell, the shield will not have any pressure to bear it, and the shield will even have enough power to deflect the direction of the shell to reduce the damage it causes to the shield.

Now there are sixteen shells falling on the shield.

Yves covered the corner of her mouth, and a trace of scarlet blood flowed along her fingertips and dripped on her dress.