Be the savior from Frostpunk

Chapter 174 Artillery Fire
The special cannonballs made of three steam hubs are entrusted with powerful potential energy, drawing a perfect arc in the air, and are about to fall into the crowded center at the front of the corpse tide.

In the cracks of the shell of the steam hub, you can even see the flame traces of the burning coals, leaving sparks in the air after the flames were ignited, until the shell at the bottom automatically rotated and untied before hitting the ground, allowing the blooming The flame is more magnificent.

Then the first air burst started, and the metal fragments shot out downwards penetrated a large number of infected people under huge acceleration. Most of the infected people who were lucky enough to not be completely killed also lost the ability to continue moving and were killed behind them. Those of the same kind who knew no fear trampled past and died at the feet of their own kind.

Finally, at the front end of the steam hub, after the main body full of gunpowder triggers the impact fuze, the internal deflagration device takes effect immediately, and the gunpowder chamber that has been preheated with the previous explosion process is wrapped in flames in the interlayer, completing the heating up process of the explosion .

At this moment, the flames swallowed up the nearby corpse tide, and a huge fire light shot into the sky, covering the nearby ground, making it impossible for anyone to see clearly what was happening inside.

The gray smoke gradually dissipated when the flames began to die down. Li Jianghao stared closely and found traces of red mist.

One of the reasons for the doomsday of the ice age world in the legend, an industrial chemical that can greatly cause the greenhouse effect, is famous for its red material and slightly red mist after use.

That is to say, Li Jianghao knew that the real cause of the cold disaster was the dimming of the sun. Otherwise, the ecological environment of the earth would have been able to support people obsessed with industrial development for a long time.

That's why I agreed with Alexander to add red chemicals to this shell design to increase the power of the weapon.

From the current situation, it works very well.

People farther away could only see the three forts firing continuously, and only a small number of people saw the open light door.

These two kinds of news will spread among the people at the same time in the future. As for which one people will believe, it depends on themselves.

Typhus was only a little interested in the current scene, the battlefield without the sound of artillery fire was too peaceful in his eyes.

There is no sense of conquest against this kind of infected who can be killed with bare hands.

"How long can this artillery system continue to fire? The interval between each shell is about 15 seconds. Every five rounds, there will be a turret ceasefire and enter a longer preparation period. If these things can only last ten to three 10 minutes , then the number of infected people that can be eliminated is only between 40 and 70."

Typhons made his own judgment and pointed forward: "Moreover, among the front-line infected people, there are not many fifth-generation infected people with mutations. Those things have some intelligence and will not set foot in dangerous places from the beginning. .”

Li Jianghao agreed with Typhons's estimate, which was actually similar to Alexander's estimate.

The three dreadnoughts can only load five steam hubs as shells at the same time.Subsequent launches require a reloading process.

After half an hour, the dreadnought had to stop designing for revision.

Although under the ice and snow, the overheating of the gun barrel will not affect too much shooting, but the huge launch stress is still beyond the load for a land dual-purpose ship that was originally a transport ship.

"It counts as much as it can be eliminated. The first ones are all fresh infected people who run fast. After these things are eliminated, the follow-up infected people will slowly rise. However, the fifth generation infected people will also appear on a large scale at that time. At that time, it will be up to you to solve it first. The variant technology of the sniper is still being handed over, and it will take some time. This artillery system can continue to fire a batch after ten hours, and it is estimated that there will be another fire in three days when facing the main body of the corpse wave reserves."

Li Jianghao reported the report from New London, and waited for the tide of corpses to pass through three landmine traps by the way.

Within half an hour, in conjunction with New London's artillery strikes, all the 56 freshly infected people were wiped out.

This number was automatically recognized by the numerical control system on Viking. After that, more ordinary infected people walked very slowly.

But at this time, the distance from the camp is only through a tunnel.

Rather than blowing up the tunnel while the tide of corpses passed through the tunnel, Li Jianghao would rather let the tide of corpses enter the plains to fight normal battles.

Because that tunnel was almost the only passage connecting the camp to the area near Phoenix City, it was easy to blow up, but difficult to destroy.

Even Negan back then only activated the cutting measures from the middle instead of destroying the tunnel.

But it is impossible for them to block the entrance of the tunnel and let the tide of corpses come over the mountains and mountains, making them more scattered and difficult to eliminate.

So it can only be induced to gather the corpse tide, and when the subsequent artillery fire is covered, the number of kills will be a little more.

After all three landmine traps exploded, the front line moved back as a whole and began to move towards the tunnel entrance.

The three simulated turrets were pulled by the rail car and installed at the reserved base at the entrance of the tunnel. It was already seven hours later.

The two hundred mutant soldiers supported by Klan and the nineteen World Plague Army began to delay the three hours of the final artillery CD.

They walked in front of the tide of corpses, tried their best to control the direction of the tide of corpses, and prevented them from leaving the direction of the tunnel, and at the same time, they would not head straight for the tunnel.

Finally, as the sun went down, an evacuation message came from the tunnel entrance

Under the night, the flames of artillery fire are more blazing than during the day.

Every explosion seems to be a huge and terrifying flame giant crawling out from under the ground, subverting everything on the ground, not even leaving a complete body for the infected.

The centers of those flames were extremely bright, and the airbursts during flight time also replaced the role of flares, exposing every scene of the corpse wave before it was bombed.

Before that, except for the sacrifice of three mutant soldiers, the rest of the people were unscathed.

The Plague Army was even a little unhappy because they were forced to evacuate because of Typhons' order.

Otherwise, even if they are within the range of artillery fire, they are willing to continue to slaughter these infected people who have blasphemed death, to pay their eternal respect to their loving father.

Anyway, in their eyes, this level of artillery strikes would cause them to stumble at most, without causing much damage.

After completing the previous two artillery strike missions, Li Jianghao and the others will completely retreat to the defensive line of the camp and really face the defensive battle.

The two artillery strikes eliminated a total of 120 million infected people, but about one-twentieth.

A third artillery strike is expected to increase that number to 300 million to 400 million with greater concentration.

After that, the remaining more than 600 million infected people relied on defensive warfare to resist.

(End of this chapter)