Chapter 487: Twin Star Fall (17)
Now that the war has progressed, the sun does not set, and it can be said that it cannot take a step back. Don't look at Sherman's previous abandonment of Fort Riptide Outer City, it means that Sherman now dares to give up Midtown. As for why I say this, in addition to the fact that the sun never sets and does not place traps in the north and south of the city, the most important reason is that the buildings and facilities in the city center are more heaven and earth than those in the outer city.
Since the fortress is a military area, the castle where the sun never sets is usually very rigorous in the construction planning. The outer city of the fortress castle where the sun never sets, is generally a residential area for ordinary people and a military camp for the recruitment and training of temporary conscription troops, which also leads to the peculiar situation of the main facilities in the outer city is not those private houses but the wide stone passages; As the fortress-level castle where the sun never sets, the midtown is actually the foundation of the fortress-level castle, because the castle facilities that recruit and train from the 2nd line of the sun never sets to the professional level, such as the castle barracks, the marksman shooting range, and the siege equipment factory, are all built here; As for the inner city of the fortress-level castle, it is the central area of this giant fortress, and it is also the location area of important buildings such as the giant castle, the castle library, and the war command post.
So for example, the outer city of the fortress where the sun never sets is like the skin of the human body, although there are wounds, it will not endanger the fortress, and the middle city is like the blood vessels in the human body, and if it is destroyed too much, it will endanger the "life" of the fortress, and the inner city can be compared to the head and heart of the human body, if the enemy's blade pierces here, then the fortress will be "certain death".
It is precisely because of this that although Sherman can accept those soldiers of the Water Qilin Empire to attack the city wall of Midtown, he absolutely cannot accept those soldiers of the Water Qilin Empire to walk in the Midtown of Fort Riptide, so when the soldiers of the Water Qilin Empire have made several footholds on the city wall, Sherman pressed all the chips in his hand: on the morning of the 27th day of the battle between the two sides of Fort Riptide, that is, when there were still 8 hours before the arrival of the first support army on the side on which the sun never set, Sherman finally ordered to send out all the thousands of Greek Pyroes who had been hiding in the snow, and let them use the improvised flamethrowers that could fire terrifying Greek fire in their hands to start cleaning up the water Kirin soldiers in large numbers.
Nothing can stop the erosion of Greek fire, at least on the King's Continent, and in the Ancient Continent, which is closer to the King's Continent, the soldiers who never set the sun also came to the result from spraying the corpse of the Beamon Behemoth with Greek fire, this kind of domineering flame is even the special fireproof fur on the Behemoth's body can't stop it, although due to the characteristics of the fur on its body, the Greek fire cannot spread on its body, but the area on its body surface that comes into contact with the Greek fire will definitely become a piece of charred flesh, So let alone the mortal body of the Water Qilin Soldier.
With the addition of a thousand Greek flamethrowers, the tide of battle above the city walls was instantly reversed by the soldiers on which the sun never sets. Don't look at those Watt hoplites who are tall and tall, and they are wearing a heavy chain mail, but under the splash of Greek fire, they instantly turned into charred corpses that exude heat, black bodies, and red battle armor, as for those Barnum militiamen holding wooden iron tower shields, although they have a certain protection ability against long-range weapons, even if the powerful Mo Forging Crossbow shoots the Barnum militia advancing with a top shield head-on, the lethality it causes is sometimes even unable to shoot and kill the Barnum militia under 3 hits, Of course, this reason is not because of how strong the Barnum militia is, but because the main material of the wooden iron tower shield they are equipped with is the iron core wood used in the shell of the "Watt Warhammer".
However, the Greek firethrowers told the Barnum militia that not all long-range attacks from combat weapons could be blocked by them, and this profound lesson was even more acceptable to the Barnum militia in the east gate, which had been broken open by the water unicorn side for at least 20 hours, because if the original situation was, those Watt hoplites armed with two-handed war hammers and Barnum militia armed with shortsword tower shields would be blocked by members of the Papal Guard and Atlantic spearmen on the side of the sun. In the end, he was forced to retreat due to the exhaustion of his physical strength and morale under the inability to break through the strong Macedonian battle formation. But now, all it was necessary for the Greek fire soldiers to stand in line like the soldiers armed with arquebuses in the Renaissance, and then point the muzzle of their weapons at the enemy and tilt the ammunition in them towards the enemy soldiers.
With the help of such a powerful Qingtu weapon, there would be dozens or even more than a hundred scorched corpses at the East City Gate almost every minute. However, although the Greek flamethrower is strong, this powerful short-range long-range weapon consumes a lot of Greek fire, each Greek flamethrower consumes at least 2 to 3 cans of Greek fire each time, in addition, the Greek flamethrower is a very slow reloading weapon, just like the future arquebus, after a shot, it needs to go through a variety of cumbersome loading operations, such as cleaning the gunpowder ash in the barrel, etc., and the only difference between the Greek flamethrower and the arquebus is that the reloading speed of this weapon is slower, It takes at least 1 minute to load a Greek flamethrower, of course, the above two points are not the most annoying to the Greek flamethrower, because the former is not a problem among the two points, you must know that before Sun Lin wanted the army of the West Continent to win the battle with the Water Qilin Empire in order to let the sun never set, he withheld most of the support that was originally transported to the battlefield in the northwest region of the Central Continent to provide the army of the West Continent, in addition, the terrain of the West Continent is generally similar to that of the Northwest Continent, which is mainly in the mountains and forests. In addition, the climate of the Western Continent is more humid than that of the Northwest Continent, which means that the Western Continent has more swampy areas with asphalt, which will provide sufficient Greek fire for the Army of the Western Continent where the sun never sets, so for the Army of the West on which the sun never sets, the last thing they lack is Greek fire and oil, otherwise what Sherman can do to cover the two urban areas in the outer city with the largest area in Fort Riptide with fire oil; As for the latter, it was easier to solve the problem when Sherman ordered the Greek Pyos who guarded the gates of the city to have 3 or 4 Sunset Pyroes each.
In fact, the biggest problem for the Greek Pyro was the low durability of this improvised flamethrower.