Chapter 466: Heavy artillery

Chapter 460 – Heavy Artillery
“The opponent’s patience has run out.” Standing in front of the sand table, Howard thoughtfully inserted a few small flags on the opponent’s key attack positions, projecting the direction of the opponent’s next main attack.

At this time can’t randomly mobilize the One-Eyed Giant Eagle, because the other party’s army has more than one Legend sitting in the town, at this moment are keeping one hundred thousand percent vigilance, the chance of being discovered is too high, and once discovered, the territory will be missing a vital means of reconnaissance, but also in the next to be subjected to a variety of targeting, so the military mobilization of the Border City Alliance is more often than not, through conventional means to obtain.

The other side of this period of time of temptation, Howard but all look in the eyes, and estimate each other’s material reserves, under the staff has also been carried out, so very clear from the other side of the total attack of the time is getting closer and closer.

The war can from not just fight on the line, for logistics is extremely dependent, not to mention the two sides gathered millions of troops in this, the daily consumption is a small mountain, even if the two sides extracted a large amount of wealth and resources of the noble alliance, but also can not be maintained indefinitely.

Even if the two sides extracted a lot of wealth and resources from the Noble Alliance, it was still impossible to maintain it endlessly. Not to mention that compared to the Border City Alliance’s oppressive plundering, the Border City Alliance not only had to maintain its army, but also had to carry out a big migration and construction at the same time, so the consumption was more than double of the Border City Alliance.

However, Howard still didn’t have the intention to counterattack in advance, firstly because of Owen’s instructions, and secondly because of the Great Migration.

More than a million people that is so good to migrate, just resettlement is not a short period of time can be completed, so divided into 100,000, 300,000, 500,000, million, a total of four phases, even if this is also consumed a lot of energy and resources of the territory, so the longer the time to delay the better.

As for why the territory didn’t intend to keep the territory of the Noble Alliance, it was mainly because of the fear of the Noble Goddess side’s interference.

After all, next to the Border City Alliance is the Hundred Cities Alliance, a behemoth that is more than twice the size of the entire Northland combined, even if the territory takes out all its cards to penetrate it, what can be done, stabbing is fatal to a pig, but to an elephant it is just a superficial wound.

Once the Hundred Cities Alliance intervenes, the territory will fall into endless passivity, because the difference between population and volume is too great, unless the territory is able to digest the entire Northland, then it will have the capital to compete with it.

The problem is that swallowing too much population in one breath, in the absence of a systematic transformation, there are too many hidden dangers of all kinds, and I haven’t seen the Noble Alliance kneeling so crisply.

Therefore, after weighing the situation for a long time, the territory decided to give up the idea of going down in one battle, swallow half of the Noble Alliance first, then eliminate the Border City Alliance Northern Expeditionary Army, cut off one arm of the Border City Alliance so that the other side is unable to interfere in the Northlands, and then go out to solve the hidden dangers of the Barbarian Kingdom in the North, in this way, the territory will be able to obtain a long period of development time.

So Owen was never in a hurry because time was always on his side, so choosing to step back and buy time was never a problem.

Between this change in strategy, Howard against the Border City Alliance steadily, because really want to win, towards the other side of the center of the army airdrop a number of thunder close guards, what problem is solved, even if it is a legend, facing the explosive gun is only to retreat from the part.

The war continues, in the mobilized soldiers casualties nearly half has been approaching the limit of time, Cross finally allowed them to retreat to recuperate, and has long since exhausted the physical strength of the ammunitions they can not toss what chaos, by the reserve regiment guarding is enough.

The main corps of the Border City Alliance that had been waiting for a long time started their own battle, this time it was not so simple, hundreds of bronze artillery began to roar.

In addition to the lighter eight-pounders on the side of the Border City Alliance, there were also heavy cannons specially brought from the city walls, after modification, not only were they capable of firing blooming bullets, but also because they were rear-mounted cannons, their rate of fire wasn’t too slow, and for a while, the Glory Alliance’s position was enveloped in cannon fire.

Unfortunately, compared to the Border City Alliance, the Glory Alliance is more skillful in the war of guns, not only are the trenches dug in a zig-zag manner, which can effectively reduce the impact of the explosion of the shells that fall in the trenches, but also there are solid air raid shelters dug at intervals, so that when the sound of artillery is heard on this side, only the sentinels are left behind on this side, and the rest of the people all remain in the air raid shelters, taking the rare time to replenish the ammunitions and regain their physical strength. A round of shells shot out, listening to the sound of artillery Cross both proud and heartbroken, proud of the alliance of hundreds of guns of a unison shot can be a town razed to the ground, heartbroken is that these are money, all used to smash in the open position.

To realize that each shell is alchemist hand-made, not to mention the craftsmanship, just the added value is not low, and replenishment also need to look at the face of those alchemists, even if Cross as a general, want to replenish the consumed ammunition is not an easy thing.

However, this round of shelling was necessary, Cross did not want his soldiers to fill up the trenches with their bodies.

Since he decided to make a general attack, Cross wouldn’t hold back, before the shelling was over, ten steam tanks that had just finished overhauling were heading towards the Glory Union’s position.

In order to transport these ten steam tanks, the Border City Alliance used thousands of worn-out horses in one breath before all the parts were transported over in time, and then the assembly was completed by the alchemists on the spot.

As for why they didn’t drive over, of course it was because they couldn’t do it, the fuel they filled at a time could only support the operation for dozens of miles not to mention that the wear and tear of the parts was quite alarming after each operation, they had to replace a large number of parts and carry out careful maintenance, so they could only use the horses to scatter the parts and then reassemble them.

But the price is worth it, these ten steam tanks are a behemoth, twelve meters long, five meters wide, five meters high, in addition to a twin turret gun, there are also eight twin machine guns mounted, just like a hedgehog that is on fire in all directions, together with the heavy steel armor and powerful power, this thing is as strong as a locomotive, in the roar of the steam, rotating the heavy tracks towards the target.

When the steam tank was halfway, the Border City Alliance’s elite main force regiment also came like a tidal wave with bayoneted rifles, using the steam tank as a spearhead, aiming to break through the Glory Alliance’s defense line.

The number of black pressures made Howard, who was always paying attention, smile crookedly, he always waited for the other side to move out.

“Let the other side see what real artillery fire is.” Howard informed the artillery positions that had long been prepared.

The guns of the Glory Union were divided into three types, first was the mortar, because of the parry, it would usually be hidden in or near the trenches, the flexible movement made it hard for the enemy to lock on, and at the same time it could accurately smash the shells on the enemy’s head.

Next is the infantry artillery, because it is not too heavy, through the mule and horse drag can keep up with the troops, is the most powerful support for the infantry.

The other category was the heavy artillery, with a caliber of 120mm to start with, including 150mm and 200mm, and therefore very heavy.

This type of heavy artillery had to be mechanically operated, and except for a few self-propelled guns, most of the heavy artillery needed to be towed by specialized machinery.

However, the heavy not only the gun body, each shell is called the name of the God of Death, once the explosion, a hundred meters in a circle, there will be no living people, even if not directly blown up will also be shocked to death, this is the real power of the God of War, and at the moment the Border City Alliance is faced with this is a scene of despair.

(End of chapter)