Chapter 286: Interception at Sea
Trist and Luo Feng were talking, but they saw the retreating knight soldiers turn around again.
The soldiers picked up many discarded wagons from the slums and the Oaking market, piled sandbags and stones in the wagon bodies, and pushed the wagons up to the bridge, hoping to use this artificial obstacle that could move to ward off machine-gun bullets.
"Prepare to retreat, there is no possibility of continuing to defend." Luo Feng smiled bitterly: "Our enemies are also good at learning lessons from battles. ”
The gray dwarf machine gunner put the hand-cranked Gatling machine gun into the bag, and followed Luo Feng and Trist down the rope to slide down the tower, Luo Feng took out a short iron cylinder, ignited the lead of the iron cylinder, this iron cylinder shot a red fireball, the fireball flew into the air, opened a small parachute, and slowly floated down.
This is a signal flare that Luo Feng uses to give the snipers who are hiding in ambush in the city to retreat.
The Shadow Thieves have been in the city of Ascatra for many years, and have built many interconnected secret passages in the city's houses, as well as ropes and hanging wheels between the roofs of the houses, which are the exclusive passages for the Shadow Thieves, and now serve as a way for the guerrillas to evacuate.
Receiving the signal, the gray dwarf guerrillas left the sniper point where they were hiding and rushed to the docks as fast as they could.
In the coastal port of the dock area, several merchant ships loaded with people slowly left the port, and only one large ship remained at the port, waiting for the return of the guerrillas.
As soon as the soldiers who had pushed the wagons through the blockade of the bridge had just entered the port area, they stepped on a mine, and the wagons full of rubble were blown to pieces, and the stones flew into the sky and rained down like stones.
The soldiers did not dare to venture forward, they had encountered mine tactics in their previous march to Askatra, and if it were not for the mage to use a wide range of magic to destroy the minefield, the soldiers would have to break many legs just by breaking through with their lives.
The entire city was covered in the red spell of "Practice Makes True Knowledge", and the prophecy "teleportation technique" could not be used, so front-line officers could only send leg-and-foot heralds to run out of the city to find mage support.
The mages had retreated outside the city to avoid the sniper guns that were ubiquitous in the city, their numbers were very small, and their lives were much more valuable than the soldiers' gold, and they refused to put themselves in danger.
When the mages learned that the Bredro gang had fully evacuated and blessed, they rushed to the sky above the minefield to perform the Rolling Stone Technique, and the large ship moored in the harbor had already pulled up its sails and slowly sailed away from the docks.
On the deck of the big ship, there was a row of steel cylinders standing diagonally, and the gray dwarf artillery was calibrating the firing angle, Luo Feng held a telescope to observe the knight soldiers who poured into the port area, waved his hand, and said in a loud voice: "Shoot out all the shells, you won't need them for the time being after returning to the dark area." ”
In the dark area, it is difficult to find an opportunity to use the mortar as a weapon of war, and the projectile is limited in height, and it often crashes into the roof of the cave and explodes before it begins to fall.
Yao and Io's research team are working on recoilless guns and rocket-propelled grenades, two weapons that can be used to storm cities in the dark environment.
After this operation, the Ferron underground party will be dormant for a long time, and instead of transporting the shells back to rust in the damp warehouse, it is better to fight them all and leave a deep and terrifying memory on the enemy.
The mage's rolling stone technique created a minefield passage through which the Knights' soldiers marched in a neat line, and as the whole team marched through the minefield, a sharp whistle was heard in the air.
The soldiers immediately panicked, and after the terrifying whistle sounded in the air, there was an outbreak of dragon breath around them, and many of their colleagues died under the dragon breath technique.
The soldiers, who were busy running for their lives, scurried around like flies, and in great fright, forgot that they were in a minefield, and the team scattered at once, and before the mortar shells hit the ground, there were already fires on the ground - the unlucky soldiers stepped on the mines on both sides of the passage.
The soldiers who stepped on the thunder were thrown into the air by the huge force of the explosion, and then fell down hard, many of them did not die on the spot, but the lower limbs were blurred with blood, and many of them had their legs blown off.
Seeing the tragic sight of the soldiers stepping on the mine, the soldiers who had not yet rushed into the minefield were frightened and did not dare to continue running, but it did not take long for an even more violent explosion to break out in the crowd, and mortar shells fell.
The explosion of mortar shells far outstripped the mines, and the covering extended artillery fire swept through, engulfing the knights who had nowhere to flee.
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Not long after the flotilla left the port, the sailors who climbed onto the mast and carried out the lookout mission with binoculars shouted: "There is a flotilla in the sea ahead to intercept us!" Look at the flag, it should be the offshore naval warship of Baldur's Gate! ”
Baldur's Gate is a country established by pirates, and Baldur's Gate, which is an important node of maritime communication on the Faeron Continent, attaches great importance to naval construction, and Grand Duke Flame Fist has an offshore fleet composed of more than ten warships.
Luo Feng raised the binoculars and looked in the direction pointed by the lookout, and sure enough, a fleet was sailing from all sides, and a total of eight sailing ships on the other side were lined up, forming a semicircular encirclement on the sea, and they were coming towards the evacuation fleet in the encirclement.
From the outside, these eight ships have a wide hull, all of them are three-masted galleons, which look a bit like the Spanish galleon, but due to the deviation of the technology tree of the Feron continent, it is very strange that no artillery was invented, and all the gun emphases where the Galen galleons were originally installed were giant crossbows.
From the telescope, the soldiers on the warship can be seen preparing for battle, pushing the giant crossbow to the side of the ship to shoot the battlement, pulling the turntable to wind the giant crossbow, and igniting the giant crossbow arrow.
In the Faren Continent at this time, the main weapon of the human navy was the Flame Giant Crossbow.
The ships of the coastal countries on the continent of Faren are all wooden sailing ships, and if they are shot, the giant crossbow can ignite the hull and sails.
This kind of giant crossbow can shoot up to 3,000 yards, that is, nearly 1,000 meters, but the hit rate of shooting at targets at a distance of 1,000 meters is very low, and the effective combat distance is about 400 meters.
The underground party led by Luo Feng evacuated the mass fleet, and only one ship was modified, and the bow and stern were equipped with turntable platforms that could place hand-cranked Gatling guns. The rest of the ships were civilian and merchant ships, and they were not capable of fighting at all.
Baldur's Gate is the closest large port city to the city of Askatra, and the city has a standing naval warship on standby to hunt down the pirates who are rampaging through the Bay of Swords.