For about ten minutes, Reggie's mind was completely confused because he received too much confusing information.
First he saw the fleeing herdsmen. This group of nail farmers who could not be driven away by cannons disappeared completely within a few minutes.
Then he heard the battle report on the airship. The panicked Tortosa only said one sentence: "This is too much, it is too much!"
Natalie had already begun to fight the enemy, and explosions continued one after another.
Reggie held the telescope and stared at the horizon for a long time, and finally saw the general outline of the enemy army.
The enemy was very burly, at least nine feet tall. This did not surprise Reggie. Reggie had seen too many monsters in this world.
Their walking posture was very strange, as if they were dragging their legs and sliding on the ground. This did not surprise Reggie too much. There was thick snow everywhere on the grassland, and sliding forward might be to avoid falling.
What really surprised Reggie was their formation. Reggie had never seen such a wide military formation. From visual inspection, the enemy's line was nearly three thousand feet wide, which meant that there were more than a thousand soldiers walking side by side.
Come on, what kind of formation is this? A long snake formation? Such a thin military formation cannot withstand any impact.
Reggie, who was confused, was thinking about the enemy's intentions. Hurley, who came to deliver the message, integrated this series of confusing information.
"The sand devil is here!" Hurley shouted, "A woman named Alexa is here with the sand devil!"
"Muhahaha!" Reggie laughed loudly, "I have always planned to fight with the sand demons, but I didn't expect that they would come to the door themselves, and they also sent a woman. If the woman stays, all the sand demons will be destroyed!"
"You can still laugh! Do you know how many sand monsters have come?" Hurley couldn't understand Reggie's native language, but he just found Reggie's laughter annoying.
"About one or two thousand, look at how stupid they are, standing in a row waiting for me to kill them!"
The girl following Hurley shook her head and said: "More than one or two thousand, definitely more than this number. As long as Ya Lishan takes action, the number will not be less than ten thousand!"
Reggie stared at the girl for a long time, frowned and said, "I seem to recognize you."
"My name is Nolani. You saved my father. If it weren't for repaying your kindness, I would have escaped with my family long ago."
"A good and kind girl!" Reggie turned back to Shirley and said, "Take her in."
After receiving Reggie's order, Shirley immediately showed perfect execution: "Follow me to the bedroom and change your clothes first!"
"Are you all crazy?" Nolani looked at Reggie desperately, "I really shouldn't have come here to die in vain. I'm leaving. May the God of the Grassland bless you!"
Hearing this, Shirley raised her eyebrows and shouted: "You are so presumptuous! Lie down on the table and lift up your skirt!"
Reggie nodded and said, "It's time to teach him a lesson!"
Hurley rushed forward and shouted to Reggie: "First of all, take a closer look at how many sand demons are coming!"
"I can see very clearly, it won't go beyond..." Reggie was stunned. Just now he only saw the width of the enemy's formation. This time, he saw the depth of the enemy's formation.
The enemy's formation was not a long snake formation, but a standard square formation, with a thousand people standing in a row, more than a thousand rows in total.
The enemy's strength can be calculated through simple multiplication, but the calculation result is unacceptable to Reggie.
"One hundred thousand...how is this possible!"
Reggie was still in a daze when Hurley shouted, "What are you going to do at least?"
"All warriors, take up arms and prepare to fight!"
Natalie was flying in the air and was frantically dropping bombs. She didn't need any flying skills or any tactics. Facing such a huge and extremely dense military formation, she could easily kill a large number of enemies by just dropping the bombs.
Like the sand demons encountered on the Lost Mountain, although these sand demons are much larger, they are just as fragile as the little guys in the cave. The shock wave of an incendiary bomb can kill dozens or even hundreds of sand demons.
It turns into loose sand, but the attack effect after the explosion is very bad.
The flames of the incendiary bombs stuck to the sand demon, but it had no effect. These zombie-like soldiers still moved forward at a unified pace. They would not feel pain, let alone fear, and their bodies would not feel any pain.
Burns with white phosphorus.
The smart Natalie immediately realized a problem. She should not waste incendiary bombs on this group of enemies. There were more than 40 ordinary bombs on the airship, and their lethality was no less than incendiary bombs.
Natalie is right, but this judgment does not make much sense. Even if each bomb can destroy a hundred enemies, forty bombs can only destroy more than 4,000 enemies. Even if a hundred enemies on the airship are destroyed,
Throwing all of them together will only destroy more than 10,000 enemies. This is like throwing stones into the lake. No matter how big the waves are, it will have no real effect.
The army of sand demons took the same stride, the same pace, the same ugly posture, bent over and hunched back, and entered the range of the artillery.
Will immediately ordered the artillery fire. The second-generation artillery reloaded very quickly, and the twelve artillery pieces quickly completed four rounds of firing.
The killing effect of the cannonball is slightly better than that of the bomb. Before landing, the penetrating force of the cannonball can kill a dozen sand demons. After the explosion, the shock wave and shrapnel can also kill nearly a hundred sand demons.
But they faced the same dilemma as Natalie. No matter how good the killing effect was, it was nothing compared to the number of enemy troops.
After firing ten rounds of shells, the gun barrel showed signs of overheating. The gunners took out cotton cloth soaked in water and began to cool the barrel. This was the most vulnerable moment of the artillery, and the anxious soldiers wanted to sprinkle snow on the barrel.
Sulit and his musketeers were ready. Fortunately, the enemy's pace also slowed down.
It was not out of fear or exhaustion, but because there were too many corpses piled up in front of them. These corpses formed a patch of loose sand, temporarily blocking the enemy's path. This time, the soldiers clearly saw each other's bodies.
The reason why they slide with weird steps is because their knees cannot bend normally. Looking at them struggling awkwardly in the thick quicksand, maybe fighting them in hand-to-hand combat won't be too much of a disadvantage.
At least Iron Skull thought so. When the Sand Demon entered the range of the musket, Iron Skull led the giant wolf knight and began to shoot at the Sand Demon. However, in front of the bullet, the Sand Demon was very tough and his hand was broken.
His head was blown off, and even though a hole the size of a fist was opened in his body, the giant sand demon still moved forward.
Iron Skull, who originally planned to rush out for a hand-to-hand fight, hesitated, but then he saw Reggie's figure.
Reggie came to the position, felt the temperature of the gun barrel, and gritted his teeth.
The gun barrel could not cool down in a short period of time, and the sand demon army was less than two hundred feet away from the position.
Two hundred feet, sixty meters, the effectiveness of bullets is limited, and now the only things we can count on are grenades and bombs.
Su Lit commanded the Benlang soldiers to throw bombs at the enemy. One grenade could kill or injure three to five soldiers. In front of the enemy's formation, such casualties were not even a drop in the bucket.
"Take all the artillery and retreat to the castle!" Reggie shouted, "Iron Skull, let your cavalry stay first, I will prepare to detonate the incendiary bombs buried underground!"