Chapter 599 Ashes (Part 3)

"What day is it today?"

The cavalry captain bit the charcoal pencil and made a mark on the notebook in his arms.

In a world without sunlight, it is difficult to distinguish between day and night. The only way to determine that the outside world has entered daytime is through the faint light revealed by the distant skyline.

Once it encounters rainy weather, they can't even distinguish between day and night.

Because of the large number of biological and industrial activities on the sky island, a large amount of water vapor can often accumulate in the secondary cloud layer, causing the area directly below the sky island to be quite humid

"Suppress the three defense line areas with artillery fire and assist the resource transport team to recover the newly appeared small rare mineral veins."

This is their mission.

The short-term artillery fire will cause the Vatican's residence to fall into chaos, and they can take advantage of this time to quickly recover the rare resources close to the Vatican's front. Monster infantry with good physical strength such as Minotaur and Giant Stag will come in handy at this time.

They will use their abundant physical strength to quickly dig up rare resources, and then send the resources across dozens of kilometers back to the nearest lord supply station. The supply station stationed on the front line will transport the resources collected by the search team to the rock wall defense line a hundred kilometers away.

The purpose of war is resources, and the lords only need the rare resources that continue to emerge on this land.

The cavalry team still rushed to the first position before the scheduled artillery suppression time. Although they lost about 15% of the mobile cavalry due to various problems, these cavalry can be replenished... The problem is not big.

Acceptable casualties.

"Are there any poisonous wind shells?"

The cavalry captain turned and looked at the cavalry responsible for ammunition statistics behind him. The latter took the horse to the last five rat troll mortar groups in the team and then came back with the data.

"I brought thirty poisonous wind shells and ninety conventional mortar shells. There is no problem with the shells in this operation."

The communication cavalry saluted.

If it weren't for the existence of monster infantry, they wouldn't be able to carry so many shells and 120mm medium mortars around.

"Okay, use it sparingly, we need to bombard two areas next."

Mortars, the ground lords use seamless steel pipes to modify the company-level rapid support firepower to solve the lack of rapid firepower support.

Lords in low-tech environments can make do with rifles, but they are not qualified to produce barreled artillery with longer range and long-range shooting. The barrels, mechanical components and shooting airtightness of barreled artillery are enough to block a group of ground lords.

There is a joke in the 21st century that there are fewer countries that can produce medium and heavy artillery and corresponding artillery shells than countries that can build aircraft, and much fewer.

And using the magic side of the arcane cannon for the cavalry seems a bit too extravagant. The cost of this thing is not cheap... and at least one spellcaster is required to use the arcane cannon with the army.

In summary, the mortar, as a modern version of the mortar, naturally became the first choice of the ground lords.

It has abundant firepower, low cost, and low learning cost.

The cast iron shells, the impact fuses and the purchased explosives, after the craftsmen's operation and combination, are a standard 80-120 mm mortar shells.

The biggest technical difficulty of the mortar lies in the shells rather than the barrels. The production problem of mortar shells lies in the charge... and the high-quality explosives can be purchased unlimitedly from the sky island lords by the ground lords.

The cavalry stopped to set up camp, and the originally silent team suddenly became busy, and began to prepare for the artillery on the gray-black land.

Several cavalrymen unloaded the iron cans from their horses, and a cavalryman unfolded the deflated balloon on the ground and fixed the tether to the ground with a long nail.

The cavalrymen were lying on the ground and fiddling with it. After pouring powder into the iron cans, they immediately connected the deflated balloons to the iron cans with a hose. The deflated balloons quickly expanded and became the appearance of a small airship.

The artillery observation balloons took off.

The rat troll took off the long-barreled mortar on his body, and the cavalry assembled the simple fixing bracket of the mortar step by step. After the assembly was completed, the rat troll fixed the barrel with his hands to improve stability.

The intelligence of the rat trolls was not high, but they only existed as transportation and loading tools. It was enough for them to understand the simple instructions of the cavalry.

We can't expect the rat trolls to maintain and assemble the mortars?

The cavalry captain looked at the observation balloons that gradually rose into the sky... and the cavalry tied to the sounding balloons. He would guide the direction of the ground artillery very well.

As soon as the artillery began, the Vatican troops in the trenches would hide like turtles, and they didn't dare to let the team go out for several days in a row.

The cavalry pulled out 120mm medium mortar shells from the squatting rat trolls, and screwed the impact fuse into the threaded groove at the front end.

Like aerial bombs, mortars also use separate fuses and shells. The lords don't want this thing to explode brilliantly during transportation.

A special kind of shell was placed aside by the cavalry. The shell of this shell was painted with dark green patterns and circles.

"Captain, the poisonous wind shell needs... you to activate it, after all, we don't have a spellcaster."

'Poisonous wind shell'

Humans without magic can only put explosives in the mortar, but the lords can do more than just put explosives in it... they have the ability to put more powerful things in as shell charges.

For example, if you put explosive thorns in the plant system, a small thorn area will be generated when it lands to block the enemy or generate damage; the mages of the undead system will happily launch the infected bomb as a charge and kill nearby soldiers with the undead wasteland; the energy system is more traditional, and it will release high-temperature flames, frost, and support bombs such as flash bombs when it lands.

For example, the infamous poison gas bombs used for regional blockades in World War I.

The lethality of the poison wind shells that have been enhanced by magic is a little better than that of traditional poison gas. After all, the killing effect of poison gas in the original world can only be described as better than nothing, and the biggest effect is to cause some damage to morale.

After the lords modulated it, they improved it to be more contagious. After the bombardment, the troops of the Church needed a lot of time to clean up the residual poison in the trenches, and they just used this part of time to recycle resources.

One side used alchemical poison traps, and the other side used poison wind mortars. It can be said that it was a courtesy.

(374 divine numbers and 340 secret numbers)

(434 words)

(Someone asked, so I posted it, UwU)

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