Chapter 364 Mechanical Firepower(1/3)
ps: Today’s second update, I’m currently in good condition, I should be able to last until the fourth update
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As a former general of the royal army, Parona's vision was not very broad. He recognized the enemy's methods in just a moment. However, this realization left him even more surprised and speechless~
Enchanted enhanced war machines... can generally only be realized on mid-to-high-end larger war machines, but their value is dozens of times higher than ordinary unenchanted war machines!
But these war machines all have astonishing and terrifying destructive power, and they have always been the secret trump card in the hands of various large lords!
And this small dark city in front of us is just a third-level marginal territory...
Damn it!
How come they have such good equipment?
"charge!!!"
The desperate roar sounded the next moment~
Although Parona didn't understand how the other group of adventurer lords could possess such high-end city defense weapons, one thing was certain!
When the opponent has such an absolute advantage, unless the battle is fought quickly, our losses will be extremely heavy!
Following Parona's roar, a roar like a tide suddenly sounded from the entire bandit undead army!
The next moment, tens of thousands of undead surged towards the Dark City hundreds of meters ahead like a frenzy of breaking a dike. At the same time, dozens of catapults from the enemy group also passed by the Dark City.
After the collective bombardment, they took action one after another~
For a moment, the sound of catapult bombardment and the roar of crossbow arrows piercing the sky were heard on the ground.
It seems as if the entire earth has been completely filled with this shocking sound...
In the undead land lacking archers, it is difficult for you to hear the astonishing trembling sound of thousands of bows firing in unison.
However, the continuous sounds of the motorized ballistae left a deep impression on everyone around them at this moment!
Compared with the city defense bed crossbow, the mobile crossbow can only be regarded as a transitional level of war machinery. The rated arrows used for shooting are about the thickness of a little finger, and the arrows are armor-piercing arrows made of pure steel.
Although it is not as easy as the city defense bed crossbow, which can easily penetrate dozens of enemies with one arrow and kill them all, it is more than enough to kill or seriously injure two or three people at once, even if the opponent is equipped with high-grade plate armor made of heavy armor.
As long as it is not a turtle wall combination of tower shield + plate armor, powerful arrows can break it open with one blow~
In terms of attack power, the mobile ballista is not as overbearing as the city defense ballista, but it is perfectly useful against the current players~
On the other hand, the motorized ballistae also has powerful advantages that the city defense ballistae cannot match!
That's excellent mobility!
Basically, the maneuverability of the mobile ballista depends on the movement ability of the player controlling it.
As long as the basic strength requirements are met, the mobile ballista can run as fast as the player can run.
In order to maximize its mobility and lethality, there is a group of serious "mechanical regiments" among the plague forces that have been training in this area for a long time!
Since the formation of the Plague Fighting Alliance, especially after joining members like Wanwucheng who have experience in the application of war machinery, Liu Yifei has begun to work hard to build a mechanical group.
The operation of war machinery is simple, such as catapults and ballistas. You only need to load the bullet and pull the switch and it seems to be done~
But in fact, if we say it is complicated, it is quite complicated.
Because in war, due to changes in the enemy's attack direction and attack formation, all war machines cannot be static.
The best idea is that a war machine should have three groups of people in charge, one group is responsible for loading, one group is responsible for micro-moving the position, and the third group is the most troublesome, actually adjusting the attack angle.
The power of war machinery is astonishing, and its range is far beyond that of ordinary bows and arrows or magic.
However, just like the problem with hand crossbows, the farther the range, the lower the attack hit rate!
How to use a war machine with slow reloading speed but huge lethality to ensure that it hits the enemy in every attack actually involves another important game-derived "subject" - the calculation of the arc angle of the function throw.
This is a bit funny~
Isn’t it just a virtual game?
Do we want to be so serious? Why should we be academic?
However, after careful practice and calculation, Liu Yifei and the others found that this was the simplest fact.
In reality, the process of calculating the impact point of a cannonball is so complicated and there are so many factors to consider that it is difficult for ordinary people to start. However, in the game, such troubles are somewhat shielded.
As long as it is not a powerful storm that can blow people away, the impact of heavy ammunition such as crossbow arrows and bombs can be ignored. You only need to consider the attack angle of the machine to roughly calculate the impact point of the ammunition.
and specific location.
You expect every player to memorize these theoretical things...
That's absolutely impossible~
Even though this "title" has been widely used among undergraduates nowadays, after graduation, especially those who are obsessed with games, how many of them do you expect to be able to calculate those things?
Therefore, although there are specialized talents responsible for these theoretical calculations and summaries of skills, the main "training" conducted by Liu Yifei and the others under the leadership of the "Mechanical Regiment" is "school attack".
That is to say, all members of the "Mechanical Regiment" are given several attack angles that must be memorized. Once the commander gives the order, they can accurately adjust the war machinery in their hands to a similar or even accurate angle, and then carry out purposeful regional coverage attacks.
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In this way, war machines will no longer be rigid in battle and can only blindly release attacks from the predetermined farthest attack angle.
As the enemy continues to rush forward, the war machinery will also change its attack angle and position, causing it to continuously cause damage to the enemy group. In this way, under the control of the "Mechanical Group" players of the Plague Alliance, the same number of
War machinery can exert two or three times more actual combat power on the battlefield!
In order to curb the opponent's heroic assault, Xue Lan even mobilized a regiment of mobile ballistas, divided them into ten squadrons, and under the command of the leaders of each group of mechanical regiments, tried their best to suppress the enemy's main breakthrough!
The advantage of the bandit siege force is that there are many heroes, the strength of the mercenary force is amazing, and they also have a large number of siege machines. As long as they can destroy the enemy's city defenses, especially after opening a breach in the city wall, their ground combat power is amazing!
The advantage of the Dark City side lies entirely in war machinery!
In addition to the long-term accumulation of nearly a thousand motorized crossbows, the team also has thirty-two small bed crossbows, twelve small crossbows, twelve medium bed crossbows, three medium frost-enchanted catapults, and three-level city defenses.
Three turrets.
In fact~
When the number of crossbows and catapults exceeds a hundred, the firepower of the three local city defense turrets in Dark City can be almost ignored~
The advantages of city defense turrets are only one: it is more lethal, nearly twice as powerful as ballistas and catapults of the same level; second, it is difficult to destroy; and the last point is actually convenient, with automatic calibration and locking, so there is no need to trouble the player.
For players who are not accustomed to the war mechanical aiming system in the early stage, this is an almost miraculous non-destructive killing effect~
But for today’s Plague Alliance, all this is just a cloud~
Automatic aiming and so on, they have their own mechanical regiment, and they need round firepower...
Just those three medium-sized frost-enchanted catapults are enough to easily defeat them!
These three frost-enchanted catapults are all from Emoni, and they are one of the biggest bets that Liu Yifei finally decided to make after much thought.
After returning from the Tower Clan, Liu Yifei brought back a large number of alchemy formulas and manufacturing drawings, and the most precious among them were those drawings of frost-enchanted war machinery.
It's a pity that Liu Yifei and the others don't even have the talent on hand to manufacture ordinary small war machines, let alone such high-precision technology that can only be applied to medium-sized war machines.
In desperation, Liu Yifei took out a drawing inventory and cooperated with Emoni.
The best partner is naturally Toradre, but unfortunately he is a king and his vision is too high. Unless it is something rare and rare like a soul bomb, it will never be possible to arouse his interest.
Emoni is Liu Yifei's most important strategic partner these days. A large amount of various low-price raw materials are purchased through her every week, and a large amount of dwarf-made arms and weapons are sold to foreign countries. She is definitely the best candidate for cooperation.
As a result, it became a cooperation model in which Aimoni provided talents and materials, and Liu Yifei provided remuneration for work.
Even so, Liu Yifei had to pay a minimum cost of 100,000 gold coins for each medium-sized catapult with level 5 frost enchantment...
The price is outrageously high!
But it is undeniable that... the power is equally outrageous!!!
The killing power of the medium-sized catapult can be said to be a one-hit kill for the opponent's small war machinery!
The scene of a huge stone as big as a house flying across the sky and smashing into the enemy group with a roar that tears the air is not something you can easily see~
Just the smoke and dust rising into the sky and the trembling of the earth are enough to devastate the enemy and make the blood of our own people surge~
Even if the attack occasionally misses, the frost and snow freezing ability added to the bombs by the enchanted catapult can destroy everything within a ten-meter range!
Regardless of whether they are skeletons, corpses, undead, vampires, or corpse witches, as long as they are frozen by the ice and snow caused by the bombing, almost all of them will break into pieces and be killed instantly!
The only thing that can offer some resistance may be the enemy's war machinery itself.
If it is not directly hit by a bomb, the spreading ice and snow can only freeze the enemy's small war machinery for a short time. To completely destroy it, at least three or four repeated frost attacks are needed.
However, even so, the power of the three frost catapults cannot be underestimated by Parona~
After firing in half a minute, each fire would almost certainly destroy two or three of their catapults, and also freeze seven or eight of them.
Less than five minutes into the battle, nearly twenty of our own improvised catapults had been destroyed by the enemy!
And since these enchanted catapults are in the deepest and most hidden locations in the enemy's territory, it is even more difficult to destroy them with catapults!
In these few minutes, Parona and many other enemy heroes have tried to rush forward more than once, at least into the enemy's territory to destroy the most obstructive catapults. However, they were all defeated by the enemy's first wave.
The crossbow arrows forced him back!
To be continued...