"Boom, boom, boom--" The goblin army's attack was quickly discovered by Lawrence and the others. The first to respond was the Enterprise. This warship located at the southernmost point of the entire position began to use the artillery on the ship to fire at its own artillery.
Those within the goblin swarm point began shooting.
The 150mm caliber heavy artillery is extremely powerful. The 30-meter range around the impact point of each artillery shell is a fatal killing range. Even from the position, Lawrence can see the impact point of the artillery shell as a black cloud rises.
The khaki goblins around him immediately fell to the ground.
Unfortunately, there are only three cannons on one side of the Enterprise, and they can only fire one shot per minute. Therefore, even if the cannonballs are extremely lethal, they still cannot stop the tide of goblins charging.
"The opponent's number is close to 70,000. Our previous reconnaissance was wrong." At this time, Nora suddenly issued a warning voice, "There are 20,000 goblins hiding in the woods and moving to the north of us."
"Understood." After receiving the order, Lawrence immediately asked his subordinates to hang a string of flags on the flagpole in the center of the camp. After seeing these flags, he was about to turn around the ship and fire with his cannon on the other side.
The USS Enterprise immediately increased its power and drove towards the north, dragging a thick plume of black smoke. Based on the length of the position and the speed of the Enterprise, the warship should be able to arrive at the firing position before the opponent moves to the designated position.
Watching the Enterprise leave, Lawrence continued to turn his attention to the front of the position. Those boar and goblin cavalry just brought huge trouble to the front line. The high speed of movement and the vitality of the wild boars made it difficult for humans to eliminate them.
Very difficult work. The last few fallen cavalrymen even rushed to a place less than ten meters away from the first trench.
More importantly, in order to stop this group of cavalry and prevent them from rushing into the trenches of the human army, the machine guns had to adjust their direction and shoot after them. As a result, some of the machine gun fire points that were originally intended to be hidden were exposed. In addition, the cavalry also
It successfully attracted most of the people's attention and firepower, and bought valuable time for the main goblin force that rushed out later.
At this time, Lawrence also looked away from the killed Wild Boar Cavalry and looked forward, only to see the goblins rushing toward the position in waves like waves.
There are 70 to 100 of these goblins in a cluster, and most of them are clusters of ordinary goblins. But there are many teams of elite goblins, bugbears, hobgoblins and even goblin extraordinarys mixed in among them.
Although the core team of goblins was not large in number, it was hidden among the large groups of ordinary goblins and used them as cover to quickly approach Lawrence's position and charge.
When he saw the goblins rushing out of the trees and covering almost all the open space in front of the position, Lawrence knew that he should let everyone prepare the back-ups. Because the first group of goblins had already reached the barbed wire fence and began to destroy it.
The barbed wire fences blocking their way.
The efficiency of this kind of destruction is very low. After all, it is impossible for the goblins to bring special wire cutters, engineer shovels or even blasting tubes to destroy these obstacles in front of them.
"Let the mortars fire." Lawrence said as he looked at the goblin corpses piled up in front of the barbed wire. The machine gun fire caused the goblins who were caught in the barbed wire to die one by one, but more goblins came up from behind and killed them one by one.
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Some dead goblin corpses were spread on the ground, climbed over the barbed wire fence, and rushed toward the trench step by step. What's even more terrible is that at this time, a large number of bugbears and hobgoblins appeared in front of the barbed wire fence across nearly a kilometer of flat ground.
The messenger immediately conveyed Lawrence's order to the mortar position under the camp wall using semaphores. Then the artillerymen temporarily trained on the ship began to adjust the angle of the artillery according to the previously planned area. Finally, a loader used both hands to
Pick up the cannonball and put it into the muzzle.
"Let go!" As the artillery commander waved the small flag fiercely, the artillerymen holding the shells immediately released their hands and let the shells slide down the barrel to the bottom of the barrel, causing the firing pin at the bottom of the barrel to contact
Primer to the rear of the shell.
"Boom -" With a crisp metal collision sound, a large amount of gas produced after the primer at the bottom of the mortar and the additional charge package were ignited instantly expanded, and then the heavy shell was pushed out of the muzzle, drawing a graceful line.
The arc crossed the city wall and plunged into the group of goblins gathered in front of the barbed wire fence.
In an instant, the goblins who gathered together and rushed forward splashed with waves of soil mixed with broken limbs. Then many bloody gaps were exposed in the neat charging formation. They were incompatible with the slow-firing heavy artillery just now.
Differently, the mortar shells fell like raindrops, almost wiping out the goblins blocking the front of the position.
Although the goblins behind them were still charging bravely under the inspiration of the gods and the coercion of their surrounding companions, the debris of the same kind on the ground still slowed down their charge, which was inherently lacking in courage.
After clearing the enemies gathered in front of the barbed wire fence, the mortar crew began to adjust the angle of the artillery so that the impact point of the shells slowly extended into the distance. At the same time, the steam machine gun that had been hidden before and had never been fired began to move out from the hidden bunker.
Spraying bullets, knocking down the remaining goblins in front of the barbed wire in pieces.
Among the surviving goblins, the proportion of elite and elite subspecies, such as bugbears or hobgoblins, is much greater than that of ordinary goblins. On the one hand, when facing the shell fragments and bullets flying across the battlefield, their vitality
and flexibility make it easier to survive. On the other hand, their higher intelligence than ordinary goblins allows them to use the terrain on the battlefield and even the corpses of their companions to reduce damage to themselves.
However, most of them were no better than ordinary goblins when faced with bullets that were specifically aimed at them. They were easily knocked to the ground by the steel-core steam machine gun bullets that flew across the battlefield at high speed.
A few goblins who had reached the extraordinary level successfully broke out of the death trap in front of the barbed wire fence, but after approaching the trench, they were successfully intercepted by the commando organized by the extraordinary people led by Sephiel. In the face of the organized extraordinary people
With the commando team fighting in large numbers, the goblin supernaturals who rushed over one after another were filled with hatred on the battlefield.
This out-of-control goblin extraordinary charge caused the goblins in front of the barbed wire to become completely chaotic, because these extraordinary goblins are often the leaders of the goblin army. After they were killed one after another, the goblins who had just barely maintained order were completely in chaos.
It became a mass, unable to move forward or retreat.
Some of the goblins did maintain the courage to move forward under the inspiration of the gods, but faced with battlefield conditions they had never seen before, they had no idea what to do next.
But under the protection of good luck, a few groups of goblins successfully followed the path left by the extraordinary goblins and approached the trenches. They used the rough javelins and small bows and arrows used for hunting to act like human weapons hiding in the trenches.
The force launched a counterattack.
It's a pity that this kind of hasty and small-scale scattered shooting was not very lethal to the soldiers hiding in the trenches. Only a few unlucky ones were hit by javelins or poisonous small arrows and were carried down the traffic trench.
, and soon the backup personnel took up their positions and continued shooting.
After a basic number of shells were fired, the charging goblins were separated. The half of the goblins closer to the human position completely hesitated, and they did not dare to move forward to face the intensive human firepower.
, and did not dare to retreat to face the capital team organized by the goblin spellcasters at the rear and the mortar shells that continued to explode.
Faced with this situation, the militiamen in the trenches, led by the guard soldiers, began to advance towards the extended trenches. They brought more goblins into their attack range from the side, and the humans on the battlefield also sounded the clarion call for counterattack.