Chapter 174: Nicknamed "Heavy Rain"

There was no explosion of burning barrels, no crashing sound of steel parts of the giant crossbow defending the city, there was only the sound of ceramics breaking in the noise of the sea of people, but just after this faint sound was made, dozens of orange-red fire balls suddenly appeared in the dense Warsaw army, and the huge fire balls instantly engulfed more than a dozen ironclad heavy infantry around, and the miserable screams immediately resounded throughout the battlefield, but this was only the beginning.

As a flame that burns everything, it is extremely harmful to modern soldiers wearing seamless explosion-proof suits, and often explosion-proof soldiers who can't even blow up a high-explosive grenade will be embarrassed by an incendiary bomb, so not to mention these Warsaw people in heavy iron armor in front of them, under the erosion of Greek fire, these Warsaw soldiers finally tasted hellish pain. The sting of life and death made them instinctively run to their comrades around them for help, but they didn't know that doing so would only spread death faster.

Most of the soldiers avoided it ruthlessly, because the veterans who had experienced the baptism of blood and tears knew that the flames in front of them had burned so that the soldiers inside the armor could not have any hope of survival, even if it was not the Greek fire that lit them, because they had to untie the armor, and during the period of unraveling the armor, these comrades who were eroded by the fire were enough to be burned more than a dozen times. Of course, there are still some good-headed recruits, or kind-hearted recruits (veterans will never do such a thing, because veterans firmly believe in the principle: in the case of one of the two must die, the old soldier's heart will always be dead friends and not dead poor Dao) to rescue these soldiers, but before they touched the bodies of these veterans, those burning flames suddenly stuck to these recruits as if they had magical power, and immediately spread.

Although they are recruits, they have been systematically studied when they joined the army, and they have learned many emergency handling methods, and they immediately roll on the ground, in the absence of water, this method is the best and fastest way to extinguish the fire on their bodies, but the premise is that these flames are ordinary flames, but the problem is that the flames stained by the soldiers in Warsaw are not ordinary flames, but Greek fire.

This kind of flame, which has the same characteristics as asphalt and gasoline, cannot be quickly extinguished by water or rolling on the ground, and even the scholar who developed the Greek fire told Sun Lin that the only way to extinguish the fire of Xila at present is to isolate all flammable materials around the flame.

If this fire strike is a nightmare, then this nightmare has only just begun. In fact, the power of the canister bow is not very powerful, the reason why each ceramic jar can kill more than 10 people this time is mainly because the Warsaw people were completely unprepared for the fire attack before this, because they did not believe that a fire could still be ignited on this scorched earth, and the Warsaw people were facing against the Mars people below, the Mars people were stronger than the Warsaw people in terms of physique, and the Warsaw people needed to fight in formation if they wanted to make up for this, and the most effective was the shield wall and dense formation. If the Warsaw people had prepared for the fire attack and pulled the formation apart, these ceramic jars would only be able to kill two or three at a time.

This effect is actually not in line with Sun Lin's wishes, and even after testing the power of the can-throwing bow, Sun Lin even had plans not to approve the mass production plan of this city-defending weapon, just wanted to use it as a backup city-defending weapon, but after the scholars who developed this weapon proposed another feature of the can-throwing bow, Sun Lin did not hesitate to sign this plan for the mass production of the can-throwing bow, and another characteristic of the can-throwing bow is: the shooting rate of the can-throwing bow is 2/3 of the crossbow, In other words, the shooting rate of a canned bow is faster than that of a pulley crossbow. As for the simple reason, the speed of throwing a can bow on the pull line is the same as that of a pulley, but throwing a can bow does not require a pulley. Even improved steel scorpion crossbows, counterweight trebuchets, and heavy torsion catapults, to load ammunition into leather belts and shooting slots, all that was needed was for the engineers to hold the ceramic canister and pull it back with the belt and let go. Because of this, the can-throwing bow is nicknamed "Rainstorm" in the mouths of the Sunset Empire and its enemies, which means that once this weapon is activated, its attack will be as fierce as a rainstorm. Although some scholars believe that the canister bow is the ancestor of mortars and howitzers, the scholars of the empire with many sunsets believe that the canning bow should be the ancestor of future machine guns and semi-automatic rifles.

There was only a pause of less than 5 seconds, when the Imperial Engineers were about to put the steel javelins into the improved steel scorpion crossbow shooting slots, those ceramic jars with the mouth on fire flew out of the city wall again and smashed into the Warsaw army, but their heads froze, and they were still thinking about the Warsaw guards in front of them who were wearing heavy iron armor and were not even afraid of compound archers and arrows, and they didn't react until these ceramic canisters flew out of 3 rounds.

"It's a demonic weapon on which the sun never sets! They're sending reinforcements to fight us! ”

"That's a scorpion crossbow! A scorpion crossbow that can shoot through the siege tower's baffles! Our armor is absolutely unstoppable! ”

"Run! The army of devils on which the sun never sets is coming, and those man-eating monster warriors (presumably those orc warriors) will bite our bones and iron armor together! ”

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From entering the Northwest Continent to taking root in the Northwest Continent, from the destruction of the Lancer Empire to the defeat of the combined forces of Mars and the Michael Empire on two fronts, from the capture of Fort Wilcot to the cavalry slaughter of the rear of the Warsaw Alliance, the army that never sets the sun not only establishes an undefeated myth in the eyes of the people of the Northwest Continent, but also sets up a terrifying rumor, eating human flesh and drinking human blood or something is an appetizer, and the soldiers who never set the sun have done the best way to stop the crying of children in the mouths of the aboriginal mothers of the northwest, As soon as a certain mother says to put you in the hands of the soldiers on which the sun never sets, all the children immediately become 3 good students. Of course, only soldiers know how terrifying the soldiers who never set the sun are.

Although the top brass of the Warsaw army did not want to believe that the sun never set would join the battle, the unique shape of the scorpion crossbow on the city wall dispelled all the illusions of the Warsaw people.

And while these Warsaw generals were still arguing in the rear about whether to retreat, at the front of the battlefield, the soldiers who had already broken and fled had begun to appear among the Warsaw troops.