Chapter 597 Ashes (I)
"It's the alchemical poison again."
The leader of the cavalry lowered his gas mask and shot the cavalry who was still struggling on the ground, ending his subordinate's painful struggle.
Use death to let his soul return to the territory and enter the resurrection process, without having to endure the burning pain brought by the alchemical poison gas.
The cavalry captain turned the bolt, ejected the yellow-orange gray shell from the chamber, and put it into the waist bag he carried with him.
Reloadable shells are very valuable materials. Reloading and processing bullets is not a particularly technically difficult job. Many lords' small factories also rely on selling secondary or even multiple reloaded bullets to make a small profit...
The prices of the bullets sold by each of them are different...Of course, the quality is also different. Some factories can make their reloaded bullets similar to ordinary bullets.
The best bullets are definitely new bullets produced by Standard Mining. The second best are the various caliber ammunition produced by the ground lords who purchase production machinery. Standard Mining only supplies the three mainstream full-power bullets...Because the market is huge and bullets are consumables, the price is not cheap.
This also gave other ground lords a chance to do business. They launched their own "custom bullets" one after another, injecting dart bullets, iron sand bullets, and bullets with spells engraved on them.
They couldn't buy new bullets for special modification, so they bought reloaded shells.
Even the front-line rangers would not casually discard these reloadable copper shells. They could bring them back to the quartermaster to exchange for narcotics such as cigarettes and alcohol.
"Only one person died. You guys pick up his equipment."
The other cavalry seemed to have gotten used to it. They tightened the reins and watched the bodies of their colleagues on the ground disappear in the light stream. The lenses under the leather gas masks only revealed indifference.
A cavalryman took off the purifier hanging on his horse to clean the equipment stained with alchemical poison.
The purifier will wash away most of the alchemical poison stained on the equipment, and the residual poison needs deep treatment to eliminate it.
These equipments contaminated with alchemical poisons can no longer be used by the cavalry under the frontline lords, but they can be sold to other lords at a lower price for centralized recycling. But no matter what... they will not leave their equipment in place and leave it to the troops of the Church.
Half a year of fighting has made this land, which is already shrouded in shadows, even more gloomy. I don’t know if it is soaked in blood or the seasons change.
Looking up at the sky, I can only see the faint fluorescence at the bottom of the sky island, and I don’t know what kind of plants growing at the bottom emit the star-like light.
Alchemical poisons are just one of the traps that the mobile cavalry will encounter. They are lethal, but small in number. There are countless other types of spell traps. These traps, similar to the mines on the blue planet, contain a large number of deadly spells, causing trouble to the passing cavalry troops.
And the lords will also let the spellcasters with the army place various trigger traps on the road that the Church troops must pass. The deadly traps mastered by the spellcasters under the lords are no worse than those of the Redemption Army.
I don't know if it was intentional by the system or it should be so. The rare resources in the shadow area appeared like a fountain after the outbreak of several large-scale battles.
Their behavior seemed to nourish the land, and the land in turn nourished the other people on the land.
And around these rare resources, more intense small-scale conflicts appeared.
There was no longer a large-scale division battle at the regiment level before, but a large number of combat squads clashed, but the downgrade of the battlefield scale did not lead to a decrease in intensity.
The Church invested a large number of front-line interception trenches to block the mobility of the lords' cavalry. They did not need to destroy the lords' mobile cavalry, but only needed to find a way to restrict the opponent's movement to obtain a relatively safe rear.
And the mobile cavalry would periodically let the monster infantry carrying medium-caliber artillery bombard the camp interception trenches periodically. The irregular and unstable bombardment always caused considerable casualties to the redemption army and ordinary troops in the trenches, and the psychological pressure that followed made them hide in the anti-bombardment bunkers under the trenches.
This place has become a "war zone".
There are more and more resources scattered on the battlefield. Both sides are sending their own mobile forces or hidden forces to recover the weapons and resources left on the battlefield, and their deaths will lead to more and more resources on the battlefield.
Although there are quite a lot of scavengers in the atonement army of the Holy See, which makes resource recovery more efficient, their horses cannot be replenished immediately after death like the lords.
The cavalry captain asked the remaining cavalry to clear the way first, slowly clearing a safe passage out of the obstacles.
They did not bring a special orc road-clearing force. It is said that some lords have brought orc monster infantry to clear the way in the team, which is more effective and cheaper than using cavalry to clear obstacles.
This kind of monster infantry, which has been enhanced by shamans, has a lot of toxins and spell resistance. A monster infantry can clear a route for the cavalry team to pass through the trap.
As for the occasional rage of orcs, it is not a problem. After all, it is a one-time consumption of troops.
After the improvement of weapons, the dispatched troops have become the main source of profit for many rear lords, and everyone takes what they need.
The Undead Lord can also send out special necromancers to help clear the way, but the cost of hiring a necromancer is not cheap, and only larger cavalry teams will consider using necromancers to open a safe passage.
Behind the cavalry were ten rat troll monster infantrymen carrying long-barreled mortars. These modified monsters with long black hair could carry the weight and keep up with the cavalry.
Each gun group consisted of two rat trolls, one carrying the gun barrel and the other carrying the mortar shells mounted on the rack.
When the lords first considered the firepower problem, they took a detour, that is, using the traditional horse-drawn artillery method to bring the mortar to the front line. After using it for a while, they found that it was not easy to deploy on complex terrain.
The lords brainstormed for a long time. Since various monster infantrymen can directly use their bodies as launchers, why don’t I optimize the launchers... This way, they can even save the weight of the gun carriage to carry mortar shells.
Then they got a heavy mortar group with more firepower.