Chapter 563 The Zigzag Gray Line (V)

Time 22:00.

The earthquake that shook the earth woke Von Lane from his sleep. All he could see was the spreading fire, and the scarlet fire was spreading uncontrollably in the trench defense line.

Soldiers wearing pointed helmets are huddled in the trenches, waiting for the rain of death fire falling from the sky to subside. This simple temporary trench fortification can only block part of the destructive force. The next thing to do is to pray that the shells will not fall on them. beside.

Von Lane saw a sudden rise of a 'volcano' made of flames and sand erupting from the ground. Ten mud springs mixed with flames instantly rose from the position of the No. 4 Bastion.

He saw the magic caster on the position opening his mage armor, and in the next second it was torn into rag bags by the spreading flames and shrapnel.

"What happened!" Feng Lane grabbed an officer who ran past him and slapped him: "Don't stand there in a daze, talk!"

"Shell bombardment! It's bombardment!" the officer said in a hoarse voice: "Our position has encountered a large-scale bombardment by the coalition forces. At present, the trench line of No. 4 Bastion has lost all contact, and the fortress artillery crew has not responded. We need Retreat to the headquarters defense line to reorganize the troops..."

His voice was even obscured for a moment by the sound of explosions in the distance. Fortunately, Von Lane could tell what the officer was talking about.

"Our people cannot stay on the position and must retreat immediately!" the officer said: "This is the first round of artillery bombardment. The temporary trenches cannot hold up and must be protected from artillery bunkers. We must leave the trench defense line and retreat to the bastion. !”

He was right. The trenches in front of the bastion could not effectively resist the covering strikes of heavy artillery. At best, they would slightly weaken the power of some artillery shells.

In order to fight against possible mutant beasts, the Teutonic Knights placed a lot of disposable explosives on the front line. Now all these disposable explosives have become accelerants for high-explosive incendiary bombs.

The rain of fire ignited everything within sight of the soldiers.

"Who would waste time and effort to build anti-artillery bunkers!" Von Lane yelled angrily: "Where did these Easterners get the ultra-long-range heavy artillery? With this firing frequency, they brought all the heavy artillery in the army here to attack Are we going to open fire?"

The soldiers of the Teutonic Knights dug bunkers without considering that their positions would be attacked by the entire heavy artillery group. After all, the small number of artillery owned by the enemy were heavy artillery, and they were all super-heavy siege mortars with a caliber exceeding 400mm. Artillery... It doesn't matter if there are anti-artillery bunkers to deal with that kind of thing.

Anyway, if this 400mm or above siege mortar falls near you, you will be dead no matter where you hide.

In the exchange of fire between fortress artillery and siege mortars, it is always these soldiers who are consumables who suffer.

Those Easterners also like to use a projectile explosive package buried in the ground. This low-quality mortar, which is not very accurate or even non-existent, can send dozens of kilograms of explosives to the enemy's head.

The accuracy of this thing is appalling... but it can deliver explosives ranging from a few kilograms to dozens of kilograms, which is much more powerful than a 6-pounder or a 12-pounder at close range.

It's disgusting. The explosive packets fired from the trenches have already caused a lot of casualties to the Teutonic Knights' defenses.

Don't these people lack explosives?

Von Lane saw a brief flash of light from the beachhead not far away, and thought that the coalition soldiers were hiding in their trenches again and started attacking by throwing explosive packets.

Then he saw pure pillars of mud rising from the ground - this time the swamp only had shock waves and fragments of different sizes, but no flames brought by another type of cannonball.

However, there was no fire of heavy artillery fire further away, only the brief flash of the firing of those projectile explosive charges that the Orientals liked to use.

Von Lane could not see the light produced by the muzzle of the heavy artillery when it fired within the visual distance. Under the night, it seemed as if he could see the black army gathering like a tide. Shadows as tall as city walls stood up from the ground, and the behemoth troops were already in place. .

After thinking rapidly for ten seconds, his brain came to the conclusion that the opponent was about to start attacking the city.

He looked up at the bastion that did not belong to the Teutonic Knights. The towering outer walls of the bastion also collapsed in the flames. This time, he could see more clearly without the cover of mud.

At the moment of the explosion, the orange-red flames were thrown around, splashing viscous burning material like water droplets, which landed on the surrounding wooden buildings and began to burn blazingly.

The giant beast at the far end began to lean down, using its body as a bridge to connect the two ends of the Rhine River. The high-speed cavalry began to flow into the position that had just been swept by artillery fire and still had flames like falling black ink.

Immediately afterwards, the infantry began to rush into the trenches and began to grind meat.

"These madmen would rather fill the artillery gap with their own troops at the risk of being accidentally injured by friendly artillery?"

Von Lane still wanted to say something. He raised his head and relied on his excellent dynamic vision to see a projectile with a metallic color in the firelight falling to the ground and landing next to him.

He only had time to curse before being drowned in the flames of high-explosive bombs.

Until his death, he never figured out where the coalition forces got so many heavy artillery.

At the last moment before his death, he saw a large number of flames starting to rise over the city wall and inside the fourth bastion.

Von Leyen suddenly realized that the defense line established by the Teutonic Knights along the Rhine River might not be able to be maintained.

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