Imagine the feelings of the orc troops: they had seen all kinds of weapons they had used on the battlefield. They used these rags to smash into the iron walls of Qin's Western Wall Fortress.
At that time, they saw for the first time what "quick guns" meant. At that time, they were beaten to disgrace by breech-loading cannons. They abandoned their armor and were in a state of embarrassment but did not gain an inch of land.
Later, the orcs holding Cyric's flintlocks gradually heard that there was a human "company" called Datang Group, which had developed a series of new weapons, putting Cyric's former arms leader in the dust.
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Later, the story became familiar to everyone. They received the support of the Tang Empire, and then through the slave trade, achieved... modernization in the true sense.
Well... maybe we should be a little more modest. They are just on the road to modernization. As for whether they have just started from the starting point or have almost completed this journey, no one knows.
The ancient 75mm gun not only has a short range problem, but its shells actually have a very thick shell due to processing, and the explosion effect is not good, and the power is actually very limited.
In the past, when blooming bullets were compared with solid bullets, the power of the explosion was shocking, and it could indeed have a good effect. However, with the advancement of technology in various countries, this kind of explosion is now as childish as a child.
Today's 155mm caliber artillery shells will basically create a crater of more than ten meters when fired, and the damage radius of the explosion can reach hundreds of meters. Compared with this small steel cannon, the power is many times greater.
The Mirage Kingdom actually knows this kind of thing, but they really have no other better way. If they have the choice, they also want to be good people... No, if they have the choice, they also want to use advanced weapons
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In order to arm civilians, flintlocks and even axes and shovels have become weapons. Bayonets are all good things, and there are even wooden poles with one side ground into a spike shape.
Some daggers and spikes made of shrapnel appeared on the battlefield. When the mirage army used these things, it felt like they had traveled through the apocalypse.
Coupled with the collapsed houses and cracked walls around them, the scene was simply a beautiful moment that directors of apocalyptic movies would never dare to imagine.
After the Battle of the South Island, the Battle of the New Island, the Battle of the Southwest of the Main Island, and the Battle of the Central Island, the overall combat effectiveness of the Mirage Army was actually constantly declining.
This is actually easy to understand. The losses of the Mirage Army were really too great. A large number of experienced veterans were encircled and annihilated and died on the battlefield. They could not bring their valuable experience back to the army, and the remaining
There is no way for the troops to improve their combat qualities.
In this case, the mirage army can hardly improve its experience. In addition, the training of the troops is getting worse and worse. The untrained troops are eager to replenish them and consume them on the battlefield. It is natural that the overall combat effectiveness is reduced.
Originally, this was a vicious cycle. The troops suffered heavy losses and needed to be replenished in large quantities. The new recruits who were replenished did not have enough combat power and the losses were even greater, so they could only replenish more and worse recruits.
Replenishing new recruits means slow death. If you don't replenish the front line, it will collapse directly. No matter what, it is a death. If the logic is closed, it is a yes.
"It would be nice to add some reinforcements, our company is almost exhausted." The soldier who came to ask for support begged bitterly.
When he came out, the company commander asked him in a pleading tone to bring back some reinforcements, otherwise he would not be able to hold his position.
He also promised his company commander that he would bring some reinforcements back.
Obviously, his battalion commander could not provide him with more assistance. The battalion commander said helplessly: "Look what is going on! My battalion headquarters is about to become the front line, where will the troops come from to support you?"
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What the battalion commander said is true. With the current battle situation, he really cannot do without manpower here. If he redeploys more troops, it will be even more dangerous if the main position is lost.
The soldier who came to ask for support was also anxious. He grabbed the battalion commander's arm and continued to plead with a tearful voice: "Battal Commander! Two of them! You can just let me take two people back!"
"..." The battalion commander looked at his men and had no other choice. He shouted to three soldiers who were firing not far away: "You three! Follow him back! Support the 2nd Company! Go quickly!"
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He asked for two and gave three, and he felt that he had done his best. The three soldiers heard the order, put down their rifles, and followed the soldier and ran along the ruins towards the 2nd company's position in the distance.
Here, the 75mm mountain gun next to the battalion commander is still firing, but the shells it fires are not as powerful as the 80mm mortar commonly equipped by the orc troops.
The goblins had no choice here. They didn't have that many advanced mortars, so they found such a mountain cannon to use as support firepower for the battalion.
If placed in a general army, this artillery would be placed in an infantry regiment or even an artillery team directly under the infantry division! That is a good thing!
The situation on the battlefield was changing rapidly. While the Mirage troops were struggling to support themselves under the pressure of the Orc troops, the Orc bombers arrived on the battlefield.
These seemingly outdated bombers seem to have exerted their residual heat on the battlefield of Mirage: the short Hanafang-style nose and the huge propellers on both sides have become the signature appearance of the Junkers 88 bomber.
Junkers bombers loaded with bombs took off from the airport near Dingcheng, could easily reach the mirage, and then dropped the bombs fully loaded.
Because the distance is too close, the range can no longer restrict the Junkers bomber. It can easily be fully loaded and drop rows of bombs above the mirage army.
For the soldiers of the Mirage Kingdom, this is not good news: raindrops of aerial bombs fall from high altitudes and hit their heads densely. It feels really sour.
The accompanying earthquakes and swaying of mountains forced all Mirage troops on the ground to huddle up, hold their breath, and wait for this disaster to pass quickly.
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The battle had to be paused because of the bombing, and soldiers on both sides were waiting for these damn planes to get away quickly.
The exchanges between the Army and the Air Force are sometimes so deceptive. The Orcs have no idea that at this time today, the Air Force is actually carrying out a damn bombing of this scale!
The small grains of sand on the ground were bounced by the explosion, and those damn bombs were endless, as if they were going to wipe the entire city off the map.
An aerial bomb is much more powerful than an artillery shell of the same volume and weight, because the aerial bomb does not need to rely on a hard shell to accelerate rotation in the barrel.
Therefore, these aerial bombs can be added with a lot of charges, so that when they explode, they will be more genuine.
Although the raindrops of aerial bombs gradually receded and the Orc bombers had flown to the center of the Mirage City, the battlefield on the edge of the city remained silent.
Everyone needs time to slow down and let the shock just fade away from their minds. This statement is on the spiritual level, but it is much more straightforward on the physical level: there is too much smoke and dust to fight.
Collapsed buildings and exploding aerial bombs will kick up dust. When these choking things floating in the air dissipate, the battle will begin again.
However, the bomb just now really caused chaos in the rear of the Mirage Army. Some of the newly established headquarters were destroyed, and some locations for distributing supplies were buried or blown up.
In short, recovery will take time and require a lot of manpower. At this time, if you ask a few civilians to help clean up the collapsed building, they will probably steal everything buried inside.
No matter what it is, military things are good things: except for large-caliber artillery shells, anything nowadays is considered a good thing in the eyes of civilians.
Arms? Keep bullets and guns for your own use, which can give you a sense of security on a chaotic battlefield. Grenades and all weapons that are easy to hide can save your life at critical moments, so pistols, grenades, bayonets and the like are very popular among civilians.
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On the other hand, it goes without saying that rice and flour are the food to eat. Clothes and military supplies are also very valuable: the weather is getting colder. A pair of leather shoes and a few clothes, no matter how thin they are, can be used to keep out the cold, right?
If you are lucky and can find medicines when clearing the ruins, you will really make a fortune: these medicines can really save lives at critical moments, and they are real "cost-effective gold"!
The smoke gradually began to fade, and the frontline troops of the Mirage Army began to become nervous: because they had just experienced a bombing, some of the ammunition senders had not arrived, and some reinforcements had not yet arrived... They themselves did not know what the problem was at the rear.
The orc army was different here. A large number of soldiers got up from the ground with curses, and then sent the injured soldiers back to the starting position. The remaining people would quickly continue to attack.
It is impossible to avoid accidental damage in such bombings, so the Army has deep resentment towards the Air Force pilots. They are eager to receive support from the Air Force, but they complain and are annoyed because they often eat bombs dropped by their own aircraft.
"Chug, chug, chug!" The sound of the tearing machine appeared again. Tracer bullets shuttled through the turbid air. Under the cover of the barrage, the densely packed M35 helmets crossed the streets full of bomb craters and began to attack the small high ground where the rugged ruins were piled up.
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The Mirage soldiers on the high ground began to fight back, and the clear gunshots of Cyric Type 1 rifles began to echo. Orcs fell from time to time, but soon the soldiers wearing steel helmets rushed into the Mirage's defense line.
Shouting of bayonets came one after another, followed by some mirage soldiers shouting slogans "Long live the Mirage Emperor" and holding grenades and rushing out of the trenches to fight with the orc troops.
The sound of explosions echoed through the sky, and the orc troops finally began to retreat. The mirage army finally defended their position, but they paid a heavy price.
In fact, this is the real battlefield. Not every attack will result in gains. In fact, most attempts will fail because the opponent is not a target that cannot fight back.
On the position that gradually fell silent, three Mirage soldiers walked along the twisted natural tunnel. The leader was the signal soldier who went to the battalion headquarters to ask for help just before the bombing.
He carried his Cyric Type 1 rifle and carefully avoided the corpses of mirage soldiers on the ground, as well as the corpses of some orc soldiers.
The two men following behind said nothing. The bombing just now caused them to lose a comrade on the road. The other party was also unlucky. A brick flew from nowhere and hit his head.
It should have been nothing serious, but he didn't have a helmet...
The steel helmet that was relatively common in the past has become a rarity in the Mirage Army, and only officers can guarantee that all members will wear it. As for soldiers, only half of them can probably be issued this kind of good thing.
The other half can only make do by wearing cloth military caps. If they encounter artillery fire or bombing, it is inevitable that the death rate will be high.
The remaining Mirage soldiers on the position looked blankly at the "reinforcements" arriving, not knowing whether they could survive until dinner.
That's right, their biggest comfort now is their stuttering. That's what they become soldiers for, because without this stuttering, they might have starved to death a few days ago.
Several officers were collecting various bullets from the corpses. If they were lucky, they could pick up a Thompson submachine gun and a relatively sufficient amount of bullets from the orc corpses.
The process is very risky, because there are orc sharpshooters who will attack the goblins cleaning the battlefield. The safest thing is to find the weapons of the orc corpses in the bunker, but not all weapons are easy to use.
In fact, when it comes to rifles alone, there is not that big a performance gap between the Mauser 98K rifle and the Cyric 1 rifle, and you can use either one.
It's nothing more than replacing some goblin soldiers who use Cyric flintlocks with Mauser rifles to make them look more like soldiers rather than cosplayers.
"Collect ammunition!" the goblin 2nd company commander reminded his sleepy men, asking them to seize the time to do something meaningful.
Sometimes the replenishment of ammunition is not timely. You can find some enemy weapons and use some enemy ammunition, which can save lives at critical moments.
"Company Commander! I brought back two reinforcements." The signal soldier introduced the two soldiers from the battalion headquarters with some embarrassment.
The commander of the 2nd company nodded, indicating that they could be more casual: "There's not so much fuss here! I'm very grateful for your help."
After introducing themselves, they were assigned tasks, and then they picked up helmets that looked in good condition from the goblin corpses and put them on their heads.
There is no way. Although the M35 steel helmets of the orcs are all over the ground, this kind of helmet is not dared to be picked up and used casually on the battlefield. Because it is easy to be accidentally injured by highly nervous comrades and die under one's own gun. That is the real thing.
The unjust ghost.
A few minutes later, the orcs' shelling began again, but this time the shelling was not aimed at them. The explosions in the distance sounded very dense, but to everyone in this position that was not shelled, it was really...
What a cozy lullaby.
Soon some people fell asleep amidst the rumbling cannons. They were too tired, and there was no reserve team to replace them in the battle. All the goblin troops could only stay in place, being consumed and eaten away bit by bit.
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No one complained, because there was no strength left to complain. They found a random place and fell asleep leaning on a rock. Only those who were assigned to stand guard forced their exhausted bodies to continue.
