Struggle in the Steam Age

Chapter 309: Frontal collision

"Boom, boom, boom—" The goblin's entire army was quickly discovered by Lawrence and the others. The first to respond was the Enterprise. This warship located on the southernmost side of the entire position began to use the ship’s artillery to shoot at its own artillery. The clusters of goblins inside started shooting.

The 150mm caliber heavy artillery is extremely powerful. The range of 30 meters around the impact of each cannonball is fatal. Even in the position, Lawrence can see the impact of the cannonball as a black cloud rises. The earthy goblin around immediately fell to the ground.

It is a pity that there are only three artillery pieces on the Enterprise side, and only one shot per minute can be fired. So even if the shells are extremely lethal, they still can't stop the tide of goblin charging.

"The opponent's number is close to 70,000. Our previous investigation was wrong." At this time, Nora suddenly issued a warning, "There are 20,000 goblins hidden in the woods and are moving to our north."

"Understood." After receiving the order, Lawrence immediately asked his messengers to hang a string of flags on the flagpole in the center of the camp. After seeing these flags, he was about to turn the ship and shoot aggressively with his own cannon on the other side. The number immediately increased its horsepower and drove a thick black smoke toward the north. According to the length of the position and the speed of the Enterprise, the warship should be able to reach the firing position before the opponent moves to the designated position.

Watching the Enterprise's departure, Lawrence continued to turn his attention to the front of the position. The wild boar goblin cavalry just now brought huge trouble to the front line. The high-speed movement and the vitality of the wild boar made it a very difficult job for humans to eliminate them. The last few fallen cavalry even rushed to a place less than ten meters away from the first trench.

More importantly, in order to stop the cavalry from rushing into the trenches of the human army, the machine guns had to adjust the direction to chase and shoot. As a result, some of the machine guns that were originally intended to be hidden were exposed. In addition, the cavalry also successfully attracted most people's attention and firepower, and bought precious time for the main goblins who rushed out later.

Lawrence also retracted his gaze from the killed wild boar cavalry at this time and looked forward, only to see the goblin group rushing towards the position like a wave.

These goblins form a cluster every 70 to 100, and most of them are clusters of ordinary goblins. But there are a lot of elite goblins, bear goblins, hobgoblins and even goblin superhuman teams.

Although the number of the core team of the goblins is not large, they are hidden in a large group of ordinary goblins and use them as cover to quickly approach Lawrence and their position to charge.

Seeing the goblins rushing out of the bushes and almost all the open space in front of the position, Lawrence knew he should let everyone prepare those backhands. Because the first batch of goblins had reached the barbed wire and began to destroy the barbed wire that blocked their way.

The efficiency of this destruction is very low. After all, it is impossible for goblins to bring special wire pliers, engineer shovel or even blasting barrels to destroy these obstacles that lie in front of them.

"Let the mortar fire." Lawrence said, looking at the goblin corpses stacked in front of the barbed wire. The machine gun shot killed the goblins who were caught by the barbed wire one by one, but more goblins rushed up behind them. These dead goblin corpses were spread on the ground and rushed towards the trench step by step over the barbed wire fence. What's more terrible is that at this time a large number of bear goblins and hobgoblins appeared in front of the barbed wire across nearly a thousand meters of flat ground.

The messenger immediately conveyed Lawrence's order to the mortar position under the camp fence with a semaphore. Then the artillery temporarily trained on the ship began to adjust the angle of the artillery in accordance with the previously planned area, and finally a loader with both hands Pick up the cannonball and put it into the muzzle.

"Let!" As the artillery commander waved down the small flag in his hand, the artillery holding the shell immediately released their hands and let the shell slide down the barrel to the bottom of the barrel, making the firing pin at the bottom of the barrel touch. The primer to the tail of the shell.

"Boom——" With a clear metal impact, the primer at the bottom of the mortar and the large amount of gas generated after the additional charge was ignited instantly expanded, and then the heavy shell was pushed out of the muzzle, marking a beautiful stroke The arc over the city wall and plunged into the group of goblins gathered in front of the barbed wire fence.

In an instant, there were waves of dirt mixed with stumps and broken arms among the goblins who gathered together and struggling forward. Furthermore, many **** gaps were revealed in the neatly charged formation. Unlike the heavy artillery that fired slowly just now, the mortar shells fell like raindrops, almost sweeping away the goblin that was blocking the front of the position.

Although the goblins behind, under the influence of the gods and the surrounding companions, are still charging bravely, the wreckage of the same kind on the ground still slows down their charging speed, which is inherently lacking in courage.

After clearing the enemies gathered in front of the barbed wire, the mortarers began to adjust the angle of the artillery so that the point of impact of the shells slowly extended far away. At the same time, the steam machine gun, which had been hidden and never fired before, began to eject bullets from the hidden bunker, laying down the remaining goblins in front of the barbed wire in pieces.

Among these surviving goblins, the proportion of elite and elite subspecies, such as bear goblins or hobgoblins, is far greater than that of ordinary goblins. On the one hand, it is easier to survive with their vitality and flexibility in the face of fragments and bullets flying across the battlefield. On the other hand, higher intelligence than ordinary goblins allows them to use the terrain on the battlefield and even the corpses of their companions to reduce their damage.

But most of them were no better than ordinary goblins when faced with the bullets that were specifically aimed at them. They were simply thrown to the ground by those steel-core steam machine gun bullets that flew over the battlefield at high speed.

A small number of goblins who reached an extraordinary level managed to escape the death trap in front of the barbed wire, but after approaching the trench, they were successfully intercepted by a commando organized by the extraordinary led by Syfiel. In the face of organized superhuman commandos, these sporadic goblins and superhumans rushed to hate the battlefield.

This uncontrollable goblin supercharged charge completely messed up the goblin in front of the barbed wire, because these superb goblins are often the leaders of the goblin legion. After they were killed one after another, the goblins who were barely able to maintain order just now became a mess, unable to advance or retreat.

Some of the goblins did maintain the courage to move forward under the inspiration of the gods, UU reading www.uukanshu.com, but faced with unprecedented battlefield conditions, they did not know what to do next.

However, under the protection of good luck, a few goblins smoothly followed those extraordinary goblins left behind after advancing, approaching the trenches and using rough-handed javelins and small bows and arrows used in peacetime hunting, like human weapons hiding in the trenches. The force launched a counterattack.

It's a pity that this kind of rushed and small-scale sporadic shooting is not very lethal to the soldiers hiding in the trenches. Only a few hapless guys were hit by a javelin or a small poisonous arrow and were lifted down the traffic trench. Soon the reserve personnel filled their positions and continued shooting outwards.

After the firing of a base number of cannonballs ended, the group of charged goblins was split apart. The half of the goblins that are closer to the human position completely hesitated. They neither dared to face the intensive human firepower, nor did they dare to step back to face the battle team organized by the goblin spellcasters behind, and they continued to explode. Loud mortar shells.

Faced with this situation, the militias in the trenches began to move towards the extended trenches under the guidance of the guard soldiers. From the side, more goblins were brought into the scope of their attacks, and the humans on the battlefield also sounded the horn of counterattack.