Chapter 1613 The pressure of the academic bullies is great
In fact, there was no need for the Marshal to order again. Major Alfonso now understood his situation very well.
The battle was first carried out without the approval of his superiors. If he did not end in his hands and gave the enemy's head to his superiors, he could only send his head over. Since Major Alfonso was an elite, of course, it was impossible not to understand such a simple truth. Since he forced himself to the edge of the cliff, he could only fight with his back. So, in the next half month, he ordered thousands of soldiers under his command to start a fierce attack on Dugu Fort.
As the highest commander in Dugu Castle, Carol naturally would not have had any spare time. In fact, if Alantis, who had not been lying in bed for a few days, had finally recovered in the past few days and shared a lot of his command pressure, he would not even have free time to sit down and read the newspapers in the past few days.
What, you said that although Alantis had a higher rank than Carol, he had never been to the battlefield to lead soldiers... Emmm, has the elite senior on the opposite side led soldiers seriously to fight a war?
In Carol's memory, he was an elite academic master. He may not have enough combat experience in the field of spell casting, but at least he can be considered an excellent academic mage. After graduating from the Magic Academy, he was a one-year short-term training session at Dugu Fort Military Academy and still ranked among the top in the exams with the four-year "elite bureaucratic groups".
However, it turns out that not all elite academic masters are really good when operating on the spot. At least, he has not found a good way to break the city even though he has ten times the strength of the defending city.
We all know that Dugu Fort is said to be a military academy, but it was clearly modified with old military fortresses. The city walls and fortresses and watchtowers were ready-made, and there were even artillery positions and magic towers, although there were neither cannons nor magicians on them. During the period when Lu Xi became the principal of the military academy, in addition to transferring more than 300 elite soldiers from the Fourth Legion in the name of practical exercises. In addition, in the name of studying the city defense topic, a dwarf engineering team was summoned, allowing students to work with the dwarf engineers and renovate the originally abandoned city walls and fortresses.
All of the above was paid by Lu Xi himself. The military affairs department, who was short of money, wanted the newly appointed principal to be so dedicated. The bigwigs of the clans were probably studying how to coup at that time, and probably they were not attentive to take care of these details.
Anyway, no matter how hard Dugu Fort is reinforced, it is just a small fortress that can accommodate up to a maximum of thousands of people. Can it be turned into heaven? Well, what? There are three hundred more people? So what? Even if it is a subordinate of the Fourth Legion, there are only three hundred people. Could it be that Elichar, who has an absolute advantage in the aristocratic sect, be able to make the world come true? It is impossible that all the 300 people are legends, right?
...Well, there may be such a possibility. Of course, three hundred legends are impossible, but three hundred golds are enough to turn the entire Elichar upside down. So, when getting off the ship, the clans really sent people to carefully inspect the group of people and found that they were indeed just ordinary soldiers of the Fourth Legion, so they felt relieved.
What they didn't know was that among the supplies and "engineering tools" they came with these 300 people, there were parts of four guide guns hidden. The most easily exposed gun barrel was directly stuffed into Carol's space bag. Well, Lu Xitao actually exchanged it for him. As for other things, inspectors who lack modern military knowledge certainly don't know what the metal parts are for. Anyway, wheels, racks, backings, rulers, and other things don't look like weapons no matter how they look.
We really can't expect these clerks who are not hungry and cannot eat enough to have serious and responsible professional qualities, and can withstand the murderous gazes of three hundred soldiers who have been on the battlefield and have seen blood and destroyed the country, and open all the boxes with sweat and check them. It is already worthy of praise.
Therefore, without anyone knowing that, four guided guns have been installed on the highest gun position of Dugu Fort. Of course, in terms of safety and secrecy, the powerful general type of the Burning Mountains type is not the powerful, but relatively light, can be disassembled, and has a very long range of warships. Now, the secondary guns installed on the Aurora and the White Ship are of this type. The power is indeed average. The shells hit only one third of the pit of the basketball court, but the range is above the magic crystal main gun used by the battleships.
Major Alfonso originally wanted to quickly use the magic crystal cannon to bombard the gate of Dugu Fortress, and then let the absolute superior force go directly. His first attack did have a good effect. One of the first rounds of attacks from the three guide cannons hit the city wall, cutting off a layer of bluestone shell, and the other two shots did hit the city gate.
Originally, the car door of Dugu Castle was a wooden door, and it was a bit decayed if it was not closed for many years. After Lu Xi came to the stage, he quickly asked the dwarves to change to an iron-packed one. But even so, he could not withstand the power of the magic crystal cannon. After the loud bang, the iron door collapsed directly as if it was hit by a giant.
Major Alfonso waved his hand and the vanguard of more than a thousand people rushed over immediately, which was quite fierce. You know, the vanguards were composed of mercenaries and private soldiers of the clan. Although their will and loyalty were suspicious, at least their combat effectiveness was definitely the best under his command.
"The first team to climb the city, each of them sent two female students!" Alfonso's chief retainer, an old sergeant from Horn, loudly inspired the soldiers next to him. He was also a mercenary, so of course he knew what was the one who could most impress the gangsters.
So the soldiers rushed forward. They felt that with magic crystal cannons and absolutely superior troops, the fortress opposite was small and short, and the city gate collapsed. Such a battle would be enough.
The three magic crystal cannons continued to charge, and the energy-concentrating crystals as big as fists flashed with bright and bright light, even in the daytime, and of course there was no more... The four guide cannons with only one muzzle exposed on the tower also fired a salvo at their positions.
Major Alfonso really has no practical experience and actually placed three magic crystal cannons together very closely. Of course, this cannot be blamed on the other party. After all, this amazing magic weapon does not have a blow-off, and there will be no danger of ammunition explosion caused by a sharp change in temperature.
It has to be said that without the help of the dwarf instructors, these gunners were actually average in their level, and they didn't hit the target in the first volley. Even the nearest shot was ten meters away from the magic crystal cannon. However, the result was completely enough.
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The explosion of five or six meters in one direction directly tore a dozen people into pieces, and the hot shock wave rushed to a place ten meters away. The people around were suddenly in an uproar. These people were recruited just now, or the idle men of magicians, and some people who were busy with military positions and ate imperial food. Major Alfonso had no expectations for the combat effectiveness of these goods, so he placed it behind the military formation and used as guards for the combat mages who presided over the magic crystal cannon.
These guys also knew their level, so it would be enough to come out and stand the streets for the men to have friendship. However, what they never expected was that they thought they were far away from the front line of the enemy, and even in the back row of Major Alfonso, the commander, inexplicably became the first to be attacked.
The rookies who were not mentally prepared at all were like a flock of chickens with a firecracker thrown in a nest, and instantly ran away screaming and screaming. They were frightened by emergency response and even directly hit the mages who were preparing to charge the magic crystal cannon. These academic mages who were not diligent in four bodies and without distinction had no experience in dealing with this situation. Many people were knocked down on the spot and became victims of trampling. Under the cannon position, various carefully drawn energy gathering arrays were also trampled into pieces.
Carol on the city tower did not know the expression of the elite senior at this moment. At least it was certain that at this critical moment, he did not respond properly, and the chaos gradually spread to the entire army. The chargers had already run below the city wall, but the subsequent reinforcements were completely out of touch with the front team.
Without waiting for Carol to order, the veterans who had experienced the entire Orgrimmar conquest would not miss this opportunity. The soldiers who had already stood on the wall raised their guide guns and began to shoot freely. So, after a dense and crisp gunfire, the mercenaries who had already rushed to the gate of the city left behind fifty or sixty corpses and the same number of seriously injured people who fell to the ground and wailed, retreated like a tide.
As for the female students, they dare not think about it, and they will never dare to think about it in their entire lives. Because even Sergeant Horn, who advocated that one person fired two, was blown into his head by a bullet, leaving only a headless corpse twitching there for several times before gradually stopping.
The artillery also took the opportunity to start the second round of volleys. Although there was only one hit this time, this was enough. Three magic crystal cannons and the priceless energy-gathering crystal were destroyed in the artillery fire, and even the magicians who were confused by the defeated soldiers were on the spot.
So Major Alfonso's first attack ended in such a dilemma.
Many excited students wanted to take the opportunity to rush out to cover the kill, but were stopped by Carol. He thought about it and moved some stones with magic, blocking the city gate in a hurry.
Perhaps this act of showing weakness gave Major Alfonso a different idea, and the "city gate" temporarily built with stones did not seem to be able to bear weight. The next day, a more violent attack began.
This time, Major Alfonso used 100 puppets, 200 orc slaves as vanguard troops. The puppets were all big road goods, but after all, they were all solid iron goods, and they moved slowly like large scale weights. Although the parts and iron filings shot by the guide gun flew around, they were still moving forward. As for those orc slaves... Well, strictly counting it, Carol and the others were actually responsible for it.
You should know that in the Orgrimmar Conquest, a large number of prisoners were sold as slaves. Orcs and taurs were strong and strong, and they were very useful for both labor and thugs. Although they were wild and difficult to tame, they were called "never a slave", but once they lost their organization and armed forces, they were actually not a big deal in front of slave owners who had endless means. Such high-quality "commodities" were of course highly praised. Even the city-state princes of Sosnes came to buy from afar. Of course, there were also the princes of Auckland, the lords of Nord, the merchants of Neosfia, and even the elegant elves and the magnificent sacred temples. Of course, the wealthy families of the Federation were no exception.
Well, after all, it is not our hometown of Lu Xi, which is shining with the light of civilization. In the era of rough and cold weapons, giving a way out is actually the greatest kindness to prisoners of war.
As a result, the Fourth Legion made a bloody fortune from the generals to the soldiers. Their commander who was extremely disgusted with the slave trade was probably because these big and thick green skins did not conform to their aesthetic views and had no objection from beginning to end.
But now, this group of goods that made them rich have become enemies.
The orc slaves were all filled with secret medicine. Before the fighting spirit broke out, the berserkers transformed into a red nose, panting and howling towards the city wall. Looking at them, they felt like they could use their heads to knock the city wall down.
The students were a little panicked, but the veterans watched all this indifferently. They had experienced such scenes and a hundred times more exaggerated scenes in Orgrimmar many times.
"Hunter!" Carol shouted.
Not all these more than 300 soldiers were equipped with line infantry with bayonets and smoothbore guns, and a considerable number of scattered soldiers equipped with long-distance rifled guns. Most of them were born in hunters' families and even just transferred to previous archers, and were trained by wood elf instructors.
Irovier raised a rifled rifle with interest, and was the first to fire, and the first to hit the target. It was an alchemist mixed in the puppet camp. He was obviously a not very strong middle-aged man, but he was wearing a very thick plate armor and walked among the three puppets in a pit. His movements seemed to be more bulky than the big iron lumps around him.
However, the thick armor did not allow him to live for a few more minutes. He fell down and died without even screaming, and three puppets lost their ability to move on the spot.
Well, the harder the puppet is, the softer the magician is. And more importantly, without the magician level mental power, the alchemists are destined to be too far away from their puppets. Based on past experience, they can certainly advance cautiously under the heavy escorts of their puppets. However, in such enemies that completely deviate from their common sense, these "academic schools" that can only rely on books and teachers to teach and read the text, how can they understand how condescending snipers will play a role in the battlefield?
Although this is just a group of "classical snipers" who use a hand-rived rifle with a speed of fire of only two or three shots per minute, they can always find opportunities to attack from the gaps in the puppet group with the advantage of the city walls.
The hunters began to shoot continuously. Of course, it was impossible for each of them to be a sharpshooter who was shot every time, but after one round of shooting, there were still four alchemists who were either dead or injured. So the remaining puppets surrounded their masters and retreated on the spot at a much faster speed than they had been.
This is not difficult to understand. The puppets have no morale, but the alchemists have morale, and they are even lower than ordinary soldiers.
As for the orc slaves, they were indeed advancing in a desperate manner in the rain of bullets. When they rushed to the city gate, there were only twenty or thirty people left. However, in their crazy state, they could not feel the pain on their bodies and pushed down the rocks in front of them with all their might.
The morale of the siege party rose sharply and he felt that his side had a chance to win. So, before the major had ordered, many new recruits were already howling and pounced on them under the leadership of their young and powerful noble officers. In comparison, the mercenaries who "can send two female students by one person" watched calmly. They did not understand the overall situation and strategy, but they had the minimum battlefield common sense and alertness.
If this group of soldiers really had one-third of the courage of drug-taking orcs and followed them to charge, they might be able to attack the city in one go. But now, the queues are more than 200 meters apart, and they will definitely collide with the retreating puppets during the process of advancing.
How could those defenders who are obviously elites in a hundred battles be spared such opportunities?
The guide cannon began to show its power again, and the chaotic crowd formed by the rusher and the retreating puppet collided. In just two or three shots, more than 200 dead people were created again. As for the crazy orcs, after rushing into the city wall, they fell into the trench created by the ground sinking technique, and all became prisoners in a daze.
Only then did Major Alfonso realize that the bad boy he had thought that he should have been fired was not only higher than his reputation and merits, but also because he really had the experience of war and command ability, he could now laugh at him condescendingly.
Chapter completed!