Chapter 626 Artillery Position

After defeating the first wave of Alien Legion, Zheng He made a decisive decision, ordered the army to land, and seized the time to build a fortification between Fengshan County and the port.

The naval soldiers are dominated by archers, accounting for more than 70%. The remaining 30% are basically light sword and shield soldiers wearing leather armor. Heavy infantry and cavalry, almost none.

In addition, it is a specially formed firecracker team.

The three major types of arms are all crispy types, which are not suitable for close combat at all.

Zheng He knew very well that facing a fortified city, if he attacked by force, he could only use his own weaknesses to attack the enemy's strengths. Even if the city gates are blasted open with artillery, the navy that rushes into the city to fight will fall into the quagmire of war and cannot extricate themselves.

The most ideal strategy is to draw the enemy out of the city again and fight outside the city. This is the reason why fortifications should be built in time. Otherwise, a single cavalry charge by the enemy can overwhelm the navy.

Fortunately, the territory of Xingguo is small, and there are no war horses produced at all. Cavalry is also a scarce unit in Star Country, especially for adventure players, who basically fight on foot.

"Hey! Ho! Hey! Ho!"

As soon as the battleship docked, hundreds of sailors used special carriages to dismantle the cannons from the battleship, and transported them to the port with difficulty, and then transported them to the designated artillery positions.

It took a full hour to install the twenty cannons in place.

The entire ocean-going fleet is equipped with more than 300 artillery pieces. In addition to giving some to the Central Route Army, the East Route Army still has a hundred artillery pieces left. Zheng He's plan was to transport at least half of the artillery to the artillery positions.

The artillery of the Ming Dynasty is a bit ridiculous to say, it can only shoot flat. Therefore, even if the artillery is pushed into the enemy's city wall, it can only be blasted to the city wall, instead of crossing the city wall and shooting directly into the city.

Therefore, in siege warfare, the only function of artillery is to blast through the doorway or to smash down the city wall. And the artillery is cumbersome, it is really a tasteless existence.

Fortunately, the navy has Zheng He, a firearms expert, and knows how to maximize the power of firearms. In positional warfare, the power of artillery is unquestionable, and it is a great defensive weapon.

Therefore, taking advantage of the opportunity when the enemy army was beaten and retreated into the city in embarrassment, Zheng He ordered to set up a complete fortification with the port as the rear.

The soldiers collected materials locally, and bags of sand were built into high ground and earth walls. At the highest point, there are fifty artillery pieces lined up in sequence, which are also the biggest reliance of the Eastern Route Army.

The entire firepower network of the position is divided into four levels according to the range.

The first level is the long-range strike composed of archers. The bow and arrow have the longest range and the largest killing range. The disadvantage is that once the enemy breaks through, the lethality will be greatly reduced.

The second level is the firepower network composed of artillery. Breaking through the rain of arrows prepared by the archers, the enemy will face the bombardment of artillery, which is the strongest in terms of lethality and impact.

The third level is the fire support network composed of firecracker teams. According to the establishment of the navy, each sentry is equipped with a firecracker team; a naval formation is equipped with eight firecracker teams.

In mobile warfare, the firecracker is naturally criticized for its cumbersome operation and unsatisfactory front sight. However, relying on fortifications and hiding behind sandbags, the firecrackers can exert powerful lethality.

The fourth and last level of firepower is a position composed of swords and shields. Their task is to protect the safety of the artillerymen, members of the firecracker team and the archers.

Enemies who break through the first three firepower nets will face the end of the sword and shield soldiers.

With a reasonable cross-fire network and fortifications to defend, in the era of cold weapons, it is simply a nightmare for the enemy.

Zheng He's use of firearms is indeed the best among the generals, and no one can match it.

Of course, Zheng He's plan has a major premise, that is, the enemy army will take the initiative to attack the ground. Otherwise, once the enemy bypasses the position, the so-called firepower net is just a display.

In other words, the fact that the enemy army could not retreat at all was also a failure for Zheng He. Zheng He did not forget that the mission of the Eastern Route Army was to drag the Alien Legion into full custody. If it's just a confrontation, players in the city can teleport back to Lion City at any time, and the attack of the central army is simply a joke.

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The head of Fengshan County.

It should be said that Zheng He's strategy was extremely clever.

The army did not go ashore first, and bombarded them with artillery, which brought great fear to the enemy. Immediately afterwards, they took advantage of the victory to pursue and successfully established fortifications on the shore.

It is conceivable that if there is no first wave of attack, the enemy troops will rush out to cause damage.

What now?

The Alien Legion, still in shock, could only stand on the top of the city, watching the enemy busy in front of them, building a fortification at an astonishing speed, and remained indifferent.

Among the aliens from the Xingguo, there is no one who is not afraid of death.

When the East Route Army installed artillery, some players also suggested that they should leave the city in time to stop the enemy.

The problem is that the lord of Fengshan County has experienced some setbacks, and now he dare not open the city gate no matter what. In his mind, as long as he can't shrink back and has a large number of players supporting him, the territory can naturally sit back and relax.

And once you attack, if you make a slight mistake, you may be hit back by the enemy.

On balance, the lord of Fengshan County naturally chose a conservative strategy. The so-called national honor, in the eyes of ordinary players, is naturally relatively pure, without too many interests involved.

But for lords and guild leaders, the two must make a trade-off.

The choice of the lord of Fengshan County is not surprising.

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In this way, the whole morning passed slowly amidst the confrontation between the two sides. Throughout the morning, teams of players continued to teleport over from Lion City to support the front line, and the alien army approached the 30,000 mark.

In addition to combat professional players, some life professional players from Xingguo also came to Fengshan County one after another to rush to manufacture medicines, equipment, arrows and other supplies to support the frontline army for free.

Players can be seen everywhere in Fengshan County. Everyone's face is filled with a kind of solemnity in the face of national crisis, and the ambition to devote themselves to serving the country.

The two opposing emotions, mixed together, motivate players to move forward without asking for anything in return. Even the players who had died in battle didn't complain at all, instead they had a faint sense of pride.

Star country players are still relatively united, and no one backs down in the face of the national war. The will of the entire country, in the face of crisis, slowly condensed into one, indestructible.

By noon, the total number of players gathered in Fengshan County had exceeded 50,000. More than half of the adventure players in Xingguo except [Temasek Mercenary Group] have gathered in Fengshan County.

Such a scale once again gave players confidence.

Seeing the enemy army building fortifications outside the city and showing off their power, the Star Country players couldn't swallow their anger. The voice of calling for battle in the city is endless, and the waves are higher than the waves.

"This is our territory, it cannot be desecrated, it must be fought!" someone shouted.

"Fight! Fight! Fight!" The responders gathered.

The sound of the call for battle broke through the sky, and even the positions of the Eastern Route Army could be heard clearly.

When Pei Donglai saw this, a trace of solemnity flashed across his face, such an enemy army with high morale should not be underestimated. Thinking of the governor's judgment just now, Pei Donglai felt even more ashamed.

Zheng He's face was calm, but he just ordered the whole army to enter a state of first-level alert, ready to fight at any time. Logically speaking, the longer the time dragged on, the stronger the fortifications Zheng He built.

However, this battle is definitely not a local war, but a battle related to the overall situation, which must be resolved quickly. Therefore, Zheng He hoped that the enemy army could go out of the city to face the battle as soon as possible.

Thinking of this, Zheng He went on to order that all the soldiers of the army shouted to the top of the city, actively provoking each other, playing tricks on the enemy's already sensitive nerves, and striving to start the war as soon as possible.

"Listen to the turtle up there, do you dare to come out and fight your grandpa!"

"How dare they come out to fight after their butts were beaten to the ground." Someone responded deliberately.

"Haha~~~"

The unscrupulous ridicule was extremely ear-piercing.

"Useless bastards, don't look at it, go back to your mother's belly!"

"These turtle sons are afraid of our cannons, so they dare not fight. A group of cowards!"

"Haha~~~"

The soldiers were a bunch of big bosses, and when they scolded someone, it was quite simple and rude.

After hearing this, the players from Chengtou Xingguo felt that they were so angry that they were so angry that they couldn't control their already fiery emotions, and they burst out completely like volcanic magma.

At this moment, even if the lord of Fengshan County wanted to stop it, he couldn't stop it. If he really wanted to forcefully intercept him, he, the lord, would be the first to suffer.

Volcanic eruptions are the power of heaven and earth, which cannot be resisted by human beings.

The lord of Fengshan County, who can firmly occupy the throne of the first lord of Xingguo, is naturally not an easy person. Seeing that there is no hope of blocking, he can only follow the trend.

He learned the lesson of the first attack, completely disrupted the 2,000 troops under his command, organized them into the player brigades, and was in charge of temporary combat command, so as not to rush forward in a swarm.

The players did not reject the arrangement of the lord of Fengshan County. They knew very well that as adventure players, they were used to killing monsters in small groups, so they really had no experience in confronting such a large army.

Xingguo is a small country, and there are almost no fights between lords in the wilderness, which seems very strange and peaceful. Therefore, similar to the mercenary group in China, in Xingguo, there is no soil for birth at all.

Comparing the two, the Xingguo, which is in a peaceful corner, can indeed be regarded as a paradise. The question is, this is a game, a wilderness, and where is the real paradise? !

When war comes, all fairy tales will cease to exist.

In the chaos, it took a full hour for the Alien Legion to line up and reorganize. More than 40,000 alien legions once again drove out of the city gate in a mighty manner, rushing towards the enemy's position.

At the front of the army is the rarest cavalry unit of 5,000.

It is called cavalry, but there are all kinds of mounts. In addition to war horses, there are wild boars, leopards, tigers, wolves and other wild animals, or wild animals.

Such cavalry can be regarded as unprecedented.