When Gazrouin conveyed Lugwitz's attitude to Prell and told the story about Gresu's family verbatim, Prell also fell silent.
For the first time, he felt that he was really guilty, but he soon comforted himself by saying: "The sin is not as bad as that of my family! This is a good thing done by the greedy shareholders at the top of the venture capital company. Why should I bear the responsibility?"
pot?"
He looked at Gazruin: "Do you think we kobolds are born to be slaves to others? We are born to be discriminated against? Our dignity is trampled on? Our right to survival should be ignored?"
Gazruin panicked: "No, no, I didn't mean that!" He was sweating: "You know I have never been such a goblin!"
Prell yelled: "War is never right or wrong. I just want to survive, for the survival of my people! Since Lugwitz is unwilling to surrender, then I will give him a war!"
He yelled: "Adolf Deep Sand!" A kobold musketeer stood up and saluted: "Here you are! Dear Chief!"
"Gather your men, spread out in a skirmish line, and attack the swamp!"
"As you command!"
Adolf Shensha was a kobold musketeer who was promoted in the Battle of Backwater Oasis. Prior to Prell's military system reform, he was promoted to the commander of the second battalion of the Kingdom's garrison. This time he led the battalion to follow the Prussian army.
Rael goes to battle.
Gazrouin retreated, frightened by Prell's violent outburst of emotion just now. Prell has always been a kind leader, he is willing to communicate with anyone, and is not the kind of tyrannical and violent leader.
Arrogant kobold.
But obviously Gazrouin's reply just now angered Prell, because if he were from the position of a venture capital company or even Gresu, Preel should not and cannot have any resistance. He must obediently accept the consequences of him and his tribe.
Destiny is to become a low-level employee, or semi-slave, of a venture capital company represented by goblins, selling their physical strength for them in exchange for a meager salary, and barely surviving.
Prell did feel guilty about what happened to Gresu's family, but he always felt that regardless of whether Gresu was right or wrong, what happened to his family was an act by senior executives of venture capital companies that broke through the moral bottom line, and it could not be counted in any case.
On his head.
And Gazruin's tone was vaguely accusing himself. If he hadn't been concerned about Gazruin's attitude towards his own people, Prell even had murderous intentions. He realized that perhaps some individuals of some races have always been...
It's impossible to be of the same mind as him.
Adolf Fukasa has led his soldiers and began to slowly press towards the camp. Lugwitz also made defense preparations in the camp. Two armies and guards also used muskets as their main weapons.
The team is about to start shooting.
But Lugwitz did not wait until the kobold musketeers approached the range of the muskets. He saw further away, there seemed to be groups of kobolds busy with something.
After occupying the Gale Valley and transforming Black Wolf Town, Prell has never been idle. He spent almost all his free time in the arsenal of Black Wolf Town. Together with the Dark Iron Dwarf craftsmen, he made another
Hundreds of muskets.
Moreover, Prell also "invented" a small artillery and named it "Tiger Crouching Cannon". This was inspired by Prell's memory from the firearms equipped by Qi Jiguang's army in the Ming Dynasty.
The Tiger Crouching Cannon is about 1.5 meters long, with a muzzle diameter of 18 centimeters. The gun body is made of bronze-doped alloy, with five iron hoops evenly distributed to prevent the gun body from bursting. In order to fix it, behind the shooting port
The second iron hoop has a bifurcated iron support. In order to grip the ground, the support part is designed in the shape of a claw, hence the name Tiger Crouching Cannon.
In fact, humans, dwarves, dwarves and even goblins in the Eastern Kingdom have already used artillery, mainly to defend cities and install it on battleships for naval battles. They are rarely used in field battles on land.
As for who invented the cannon? The dwarves and goblins disagree and argue to this day. However, the cannons used by humans and dwarves are much longer, heavier and have a greater range than the Tiger Crouching Cannon "invented" by Prell.
Also farther.
The theoretical range of the Tiger Crouching Cannon is 700 yards, but the actual range is about 400~500 yards. Beyond this range, the kinetic energy of the projectile is weakened, and it basically does not have much destructive power and lethality.
Moreover, the Crouching Tiger Cannon is the same as the artillery used by humans, dwarves, and goblins. It does not use explosive shells, but uses gunpowder to push iron balls, stone balls, etc., and the damage is in a straight line instead of a surface.
When Prell took out the drawings of the Crouching Tiger Cannon and asked the Black Iron Dwarves and the Bronzebeard Dwarves for their opinions and suggestions, he was laughed at by a group of dwarves. They all felt that such a short range and such a light weight was simply too much.
It’s just a toy!
The Tiger Crouching Cannon is indeed very light, weighing less than 200 kilograms, but Prell's original plan was to use this trot for field battles rather than for city defense, so he didn't bother to pay attention to the ridicule of the dwarves and ordered the tauren craftsmen to
He and the kobold apprentices tried to build one.
This tiger crouching cannon exploded in the chamber during the test. Prell was not discouraged and ordered people to continue developing it. After three consecutive chamber explosions, Morgan Barbarossa couldn't stand it anymore. He didn't look like Tyros.
Stonebeard and the Bronzebeard dwarves, no matter how you look at it, the Dark Iron dwarves and the kobolds have nothing to do with each other. He felt that the Kingdom of Thresh could not threaten the Kingdom of Thaurissan, so he gave some guidance.
In the end, Prell forged 5 tiger squatting cannons. Each tiger squatting cannon was guarded by 5 kobold soldiers, forming a small artillery team directly under the command of the war chief.
Prell's order was to continuously bombard the wooden fence wall to the west of the swamp camp and blow up all the fortifications. Although he himself did not have much military experience, Prell always remembered one truth: use
Minimum human cost, maximum victory!
Kobold soldiers are not as easy to cultivate as other powerful races. Without Prell's influence, Prell finds it unimaginable to just rely on these ordinary soldiers to upgrade themselves.
Five squatting tiger cannons have been deployed. Although these cannons were evaluated as usable after test firing, Morgan. Mansu believed that these weapons would not be of much use in the war, but Prell has already
I am too lazy to explain anything to this proud dark iron dwarf blacksmith.
Five small red flags were raised, which meant that the Crouching Tiger Cannon had been set up and ready to fire at any time. Prell stepped forward and raised the Burning Blade. Unlike other commanders, Prell had
I never deliberately said anything to boost morale. He thought it was all nonsense, because he was always on the front line in almost all wars in the kingdom.
A chief's personal charge can boost morale far more than those loud words.
"Ready!~~~Let go!" Prell slashed the long sword down hard.
The five polished stone balls made a piercing roar and flew towards the wooden fence of the mud swamp. Although the daily training time was too short, luck was obviously on Prell's side. Three of the stone balls flew too high.
It passed over the top of the wooden fence, but the remaining two hit a section of the fence directly, and the distance was less than two meters, leaving a large gap.
The three high-flying Tiger Crouching Cannons immediately readjusted their muzzle positions. Prell raised his sword again, and as he slashed hard, five more stone balls flew out.
So the battlefield became like this: Adolf Fukasa led hundreds of musketeers to a position about 200 yards away, then stopped and started digging trenches; behind them, the Tiger Crouching Artillery fired continuously
Shooting hits the wooden fence wall.
Gazrouin returned to the back of the camp and was continued to be guarded by two soldiers. He stood at the entrance of the tent and looked at the battlefield ahead from a distance. He suddenly realized that Prell could still endure even when he was angry.
The ability to resist impulse and lead and initiate a battle at one's own pace is already rare.
So from noon to dusk, the shooting of the squatting tiger cannon stopped, and in the end it became every few minutes, five squatting tiger cannons fired in turn. The kobolds in front had dug a trench several hundred meters long.
It looks like the digging will continue.
Naturally, Lugwitz did not dare to attack. Regardless of the number of troops on both sides, too many of his men were ordinary workers without military training. The combat effectiveness and fighting will of these people were far inferior to those of Prell's men who had been in the army for a long time.
It doesn't take long for the regular army.
So on the second day of the battle, the Tiger Crouching Cannon, which had been firing intermittently all night, continued to fire intermittently, while the kobold soldiers in front were still working hard to dig trenches, and they continued to extend to both sides.
go out.
On the afternoon of the third day, Krinig Badse led hundreds of steel-maned wild boars to appear near Prell's army. He was invited.
Prell's purpose of inviting him is not simple at all. No matter how the war against the mud swamp goes this time, the Kingdom of Thresh will inevitably face the revenge of the venture capital company in the future. Adding another force to the list will always be a way to protect himself.
of.
Krinig Badbi obviously didn't think so long-term. He felt that the venture capital company had long been disliked anyway, and a battle was nothing. Since Prell came with troops to kill, he came to join in the fun.
can get more benefits.
The arrival of the quilboars from Thorn Ridge made Lugwitz miserable, because it meant that the indigenous races in the Barrens and the Stonetalon Mountains had a faint tendency to unite again. He actually wanted to send someone to contact the Merchant Coast.
On behalf of the envoys, he hired a group of South Sea pirates to come as soon as possible, or spent a lot of money to hire centaurs to help him, but it was already too late.
Prell has blocked all possible help routes in the Silt Swamp. He sent out harpy scouts, led by the Bloodfury Harpy and the Witchwing Harpy, from the south of the Silt Swamp from west to east to the Raging River.
The entire west bank is covered with scout teams.
If Silt Swamp wants to call for help, the only way is to cross the Raging River to the east and then turn south, toward Tiragarde Castle.