Chapter 562 The Zigzag Gray Line (IV)

In April of the fifth year, the Rhine River Defense Line.

The soldier wearing a pointed helmet leaned against the sandbags with a wooden dinner plate, put the beef and potatoes on the plate into his mouth, and discussed the enemy on the opposite side.

The officers were worriedly discussing the attack by the mutant beasts on their position yesterday. If the coalition forces had not filled the gap opened by the mutant beasts with soldiers in time, they might have lost control of a bastion.

No, maybe their line of defense will collapse as a result.

Three hundred biochemical beasts caused 3,500 casualties to Bastion No. 3. In the cramped environment, humans had nothing to do with these large cats and canines injected with mutagens.

Bloodthirsty, agile, and deadly.

The musketeers caught in the scorching street fighting simply cannot use their weapons to cause enough fatal damage to the flexible mutant beasts. As long as they are not fatal, they can gnaw on flesh and blood to recover from their injuries.

In the end, the knights in heavy armor relied on their numbers to kill the mutant beasts one by one in close combat.

The people of the Teutonic Knights can also take this opportunity to consider the position of these heavily armored warriors who are gradually out of touch with the times in the new era war system. The high-quality soldiers they have spent a lot of effort to cultivate cannot be abandoned just because of the progress of the times. .

It is also true that the heavily armored knight became unsuited to the battlefield because he relied too much on close combat.

Some spellcasters who were resting in the rear in order to save energy were also temporarily transferred to the trenches. They would prepare spells to deal with the mutant beasts that rushed up.

Explosive packs were also distributed in batches to the front lines, allowing trench soldiers to kill the enemy's monster infantry when necessary.

"There should be no problem with the strengthened trench line... Damn it, who would have thought that those Easterners would come up with such a monster." Ren scolded: "They can't even double the mutant beasts in the strengthened trench line. Want to rush over."

Quiet.

The other side of the river was as quiet as ever today.

There was no movement in the camp outside the range of the fortress artillery, and the soldiers hiding in the trenches could only shoot coldly with rifles that were not very accurate.

In the early days of the battle, there was a prolonged exchange of fire between the trench lines of both sides, across a fifty-meter-wide river.

The three-hour long exchange of fire finally caused... up to thirty-five casualties.

Yes.

In the three hours of shooting, the total number of people involved in the shooting exceeded 4,000, and the total number of casualties on both sides was only fifty.

The cold guns in their hands have no effect on the soldiers hiding in sandbags and mud. Frequent shooting consumes a lot of gunpowder...Gunpowder is not a cheap resource for the Teutonic Knights that can be squandered at will. Lin's support gunpowder situation is better, but they also need to save gunpowder for siege.

Based on the calculation that each soldier fired 75-90 times, one person would need to consume 1.1 kilograms of gunpowder during the entire battle, and every 1,000 people would consume about one ton of gunpowder.

Four thousand soldiers used up four tons of gunpowder in one afternoon just by firing rifles.

Even if gunpowder of this magnitude was thrown directly into the opposite position, it would not cause only fifty casualties.

The two parties had a tacit understanding and did not actively participate in shooting after that day.

"Don't worry, the defense line is absolutely safe. The Easterners who have strengthened the defense line will not be able to get in." Feng Lane waved his hand and told his colleagues to be patient: "We just need to sit quietly and wait like this for a month. They themselves They will retreat due to pressure.”

"Yeah, the territory they conquered, if they don't build a defense line in time, it will probably be easier for the Crusaders." Renn said: "That's not necessarily a bad thing. If the Crusaders get involved, we will have to bear it. There will be less pressure.”

"The next thing we need to consider may be how to make the cowards at the rear spit out the meat in their mouths." Von Lane said: "They can't enjoy our shield and remain indifferent. The Teutonic Knights have already sacrificed to protect them. Nearly 10,000 casualties.”

The two lords belonging to the Teutonic Knights set their sights on the trenches where the hills could be seen in the distance.

Wet soil was packed in sandbags and piled on the shore to form one zigzag trench area after another. A black-based military flag was flying farther away from the visual distance.

That was the position of the coalition forces. The coalition forces deliberately set up the position where the fortress guns could not reach it, but where they could see a little bit.

As for these trenches...

There seems to be nothing unusual, but once this group of Easterners wants to launch an attack, countless soldiers will climb out of the trenches and attack their bastion along the floating board.

Although the fortress artillery can cause damage to the soldiers in such folded trenches, they do not want to waste precious gunpowder on dealing with the trenches... As von Lane said, they can achieve the final victory as long as they hold on.

There is no need to waste precious gunpowder in trenches that can be destroyed countless times.

Von Lane remembered the story of the Three Kingdoms, oh, the story of the Orientals.

They watched the sun on the far side gradually sink below the horizon, placing Sky Island Continent in the dividing line of dusk.