Struggle in the Steam Age

"I think we'll be able to attack right away." That's when the artillery was mobilized ahead of the defenders of Pine Hollow. The female dark elf, one of the two commanders of the wilderness race this time, looked at the elite dark elf squad assembled near her and said to the gray dwarves beside her proudly.

"Obviously, these elite troops of mine will easily tear apart the defensive positions of the surface bastards."

"But this is based on the premise that our artillery will tear apart the defensive positions for you." The gray dwarf leader glanced at the dark elf and said. "Otherwise, with your small number of people, you will definitely not be able to break through the human firepower net."

"In just five minutes, you will realize that your so-called elites are worthless in front of my artillery." The gray dwarf leader finally said. "After all, times have changed, and those days of wielding swords are over."

"Okay, then let me see what your artillery can do for a while?" The female dark elf curled her lips in disdain, and then watched the pack beasts and goblins in the distance slowly The dragon cannon that pulled into the gun position said.

"No matter how powerful your artillery is, the firing speed is still the same. So the task of destroying this transit hub in the end will not fall to our hands."

Just when the senior dark elf commander was about to say something more, he suddenly saw the gray dwarf who was still bickering with him just now looking in the direction of Pine Tree Valley with his mouth wide open, not listening to what he was just saying.

"Did you see—" It was obviously a very boring thing to argue without anyone listening, not to mention that the gray dwarf's expression was a little too exaggerated.

So the dark elf commander standing opposite him turned her head and said, but before she could say anything, what she saw made her open her mouth in the same astonishment.

As an extraordinary person, this senior dark elf commander clearly saw dozens of nearly a hundred black spots in the night sky roaring down towards the starting point of his own attack on the periphery.

And at the place where these shells flew, three red light spots were slowly falling from the sky, and the light emitted at the same time dyed the surrounding woods an ominous blood red.

"Bombardment——" After seeing those black spots, the dark elf commander reacted immediately, and at the same time smashed a magic item hanging on his waist and called out the bombardment siren. In an instant, a sharp female voice almost filled the entire battlefield, but unfortunately, it was a bit late for her to sound the alarm.

Because at the moment when her siren was amplified by the magic props, the first round of shells attacking various important targets also fell on the targets selected by the artillerymen before and exploded.

Then group after group of fireballs containing a large number of high-speed flying metal fragments suddenly rose from the ground, and then surrounded the frontline positions of the wilderness races.

"This time—it's over." Looking at the places where the fireballs exploded. The leader of the gray dwarves looked at the flames rising not far from them with a look of disbelief.

The position where the suddenly rising fire was located was a position where two dragon cannons were placed, and now, the two cannons that had just entered the position and the surrounding personnel were all shrouded in a yellow flame, even in this The heat of the flames on the ground could be felt everywhere.

"Ahem, ahem——" At this moment, a gust of wind blew over, and the thick white smoke from the burning positions was brought to the two commanders by the wind.

After being choked by the pungent smell, the dark elf commander who was about to open his mouth to speak suddenly choked back.

"—Attack, we attack immediately." After fanning the white smoke in front of him with a wave, the dark elf commander immediately grabbed the gray dwarf beside him and said.

"If we don't do anything now, we will die when we go back. Now we can only attack at any cost."

Just as she was yelling, the second round of shells also fell from the sky. It's just that because of the first round of shells, when the second round of shells switched to some targets, the targets that were not attacked before also realized that the situation was wrong and began to evacuate subconsciously and look for bunkers.

Therefore, after the second round of shells exploded, the overall damage of this batch of shells was somewhat inferior to that of the first round of shells.

"Yes, we should attack, and we should attack now." The gray dwarf commander who was shocked when he saw the artillery position was completely destroyed just now came to his senses after being reminded by the dark elf.

After all, it is understandable whether it is material damage or casualties on the battlefield, but if they pay heavy casualties but do not make any counterattacks, they will definitely be executed by the furious commander after returning.

So soon the two commanders released two balls of light into the sky, and then there was a burst of howling and footsteps around them:

Those wilderness race troops hiding in various garrison points around Pine Tree Valley immediately rushed towards Pine Tree Valley under the command of some surviving commanders.

"Change the artillery firing position from e4 to d3. The hobgoblins and bear goblins in the group of goblins in area e4 have all been wiped out, so they should not be able to pose too much threat to us in a short period of time, and now the group of goblins in area d3 A few trolls are likely to pose a threat to our front lines."

At the beginning of the shelling preparation phase, Lawrence came to the side of the heavy mortar position next to the field hospital to take command.

With Nora's real-time intelligence, he can command the artillery to quickly change the shooting target, instead of only shooting according to the originally observed target like other artillery.

"The effect of the new white phosphorous bomb is really good," said Nora, who used her special ability to observe the situation of the bombed sites through the thick white smoke in the sky.

"Although those dragon cannons look fine on the outside, I can be sure that the surrounding artillery operators are completely finished."

"It's natural. White phosphorus is used as an incendiary bomb, which has a double killing effect. In addition to burning, the smoke produced by white phosphorus burning is also poisonous."

As Lawrence spoke, he also raised his binoculars to look at the dense white smoke rising from the jungle not far away. "It's a pity that the production of this special shell is really insufficient, and each heavy mortar can only be equipped with two to three rounds of this shell."

To be honest, Lawrence might not have dared to use white phosphorus bombs so intensively if they were placed elsewhere. After all, we must consider the wind direction.

But because this place is a valley in the mountains, the drafts that pass quickly through the valley can naturally blow the toxic smoke to the sides and the downwind of the canyon. Therefore, as long as this kind of shell is not used when shooting the few targets upwind.

"The opponent is attacking." Nora suddenly reported to Lawrence after the last white phosphorous shell was fired from the artillery position next to Lawrence. At the same time, three sparks, two red and one yellow, exploded in the air with the Ruo rocket that he carried with him.

After receiving the alarm signal, Lawrence immediately looked towards the edge of the forest around the valley. As a result, a large number of black shadows emerged from the edge of the forest, and rushed towards the defensive position on the front line of Pine Tree Valley while making piercing howls.

"Switch to anti-personnel shells and shoot at the line from d1 to the edge of the jungle in d6." Seeing the black wilderness rushing out of the woods, Lawrence immediately issued a new order to the artillerymen. "We want to conduct interception shooting to minimize the number of enemies rushing to the front of the position."

Ten seconds later a new round was fired into the line at the edge of the woods. The wilderness race team rushing towards the Pine Valley defensive position like a tide was immediately cut in half.

A large number of hot steel balls flying at high speed formed a steel wall, abruptly cutting off the momentum of the wilderness army's charge.