Chapter 1574: Composite Plate Armor
In any case, the Viku have trained these fearsome Ancestral Dragons into mounts.
These wurm knights are the biggest trouble for the coalition!
If you don't kill these guys and go straight to Icecrown, no one knows what will happen to the coalition's supply lines.
Seeing the swarm of Ancestral Dragons rising in the sky, which looked like a swarm of locusts and a dark cloud, almost every Alliance Commander smiled triumphantly.
"Show these barbarians of the Northern Regions what a net of heaven and earth!" Varian's [Serameni] in his hand slashed down in the air.
In the sky, not even Naxxramas fired.
It was the coalition flying ship units that were wobbly suspended in mid-air, all the gun doors were opened, and the 40mm eight-group bangbang guns were installed. Plus those new [Dongfeng anti-aircraft guns] on land.
Empty and empty, even the [Three-Type Bullet] is useless, and it directly forms a dead domain that is enough to turn the entire airspace into an absolute forbidden space.
It was black smoke and light bombs pulled by thousands of anti-aircraft guns at different angles. In the midst of a thud that was denser than the sound of rain, little Sarufar only saw the sky full of red Ancestral Dragons being directly broken into pieces of foul-smelling flesh and exploding in the air along with their owners. They hadn't even flown off the castle of Utgard before they had turned into blood and sludge and fell back onto the castle.
That's the most demoralizing thing.
The morale of the Viku people is declining at an almost visible rate.
Before the battle was engaged, it was already bombed by heavy artillery and almost collapsed. Now that the Ancestral Dragon Legion, which he was most proud of, was directly wiped out, even the Viku infantry who had already begun to charge began to slow down their pace.
The screams that had shook the sky a quarter of an hour ago became like the futile cries of three or two kittens.
I don't know if it's to hide the fear in my heart or if it's really brave.
Varian also felt a little bored, and the Excalibur was on the ground, and only four words came out of his mouth: "Xu Jin Shelling!"
Under the influence of Du someone, Varian became the commander of a new era. He has the qualities of a modern military commander on Earth, as well as powerful combat skills and swordsmanship. It can be described as a model of the leader of the new era.
In the face of the primitive Viku people, he did not spare his hand. Directly with heavy artillery and mortar formations, all the Viku who dared to rush out were blown up into dogs.
If you are lucky enough to have infantry who break out of the bombing area, or a dragon knight who flies out of the forbidden area, there will naturally be sniper troops to strangle you.
Varian stared at the ruined castle of Utgard with a faint smile on his face, "Uncle Duke really cares about our Stormwind Kingdom!"
"yes!" one of the Iron Triangles, Browl Bearskin, also sighed.
Duke, as a commander, is best at this kind of favoritism, which seems to be fair, but there is no trace. Put all the dwarves on the western front first, then the eastern front naturally can't also use dwarves as the main force.
The small Viku dragon raiding clan is certainly not worth the safety of Wari. What the Veku really value to Duke and Varian is the eggs of their Ancestral Dragons. Adult dragons have a will of their own, and they are accustomed to the command of the Vikus, so it is impossible for them to listen to humans.
Dragon eggs are different.
The Archaeopteryx is a typical beast, not like the five-colored dragon, even if it already has its own sense and consciousness in the dragon egg. As long as the dragon egg is captured, then in time, the Storm Kingdom will be able to cultivate a dragon knight army of its own.
It's not that the current griffons aren't easy to use.
First, although the griffin is easier to tame, the griffon's combat power is always inferior to that of the dragons, which has been proven by countless battles.
Second, in the alliance, the most awesome domesticated griffins have always been the Brute Hammer Dwarves. Arguably, the best populations of griffons have always been in the hands of the Hammer Dwarves. If the Stormwind Kingdom wants to further develop its air force, an exclusive race of empty birds is a must.
The Night Elves have the Horned Hippogriff, the Blood Elves have the Dragon Eagle, the Dwarves and Gnomes have the Griffons, and the humans have the Ancestral Dragons, which is not bad. Anyway, as long as he didn't directly control a large number of five-colored dragons, the Dragon Sleep Temple would not have an opinion.
"It's a pity that the Worms aren't used to being too cold......" Varian muttered to himself.
"Varian, don't be greedy. What's more, those bugs are not directly under the Stormwind Kingdom. Valeera's words made Varian laugh too.
The next battle can be said to be thrilling.
When all the forces that the Viku could use to counterattack have been wiped out, it will be the most orthodox siege battle.
After smashing all the arrow towers and other things on the periphery. Heavy artillery could never blow a towering fortress to the ground in the true sense of the word. When a large amount of rubble is laid on top of the ruins, the shelling also becomes inefficient.
Cannonballs also cost money.
To contribute to the remnants of the castle buried under the rubble, an infantry regiment had to be sent in the end.
This is where little Sarufar's Blackstone orc forces come in handy.
In the midst of a flurry of slogans of "Lok-tar, ogar!", the Viku were overturned by the car.
The Viku are slightly taller than the strongest orcs, about 3 meters tall, and are on par with the orcs in terms of strength, but they are a cut short in agility. Their movements are slower and heavier.
It is the weapons that determine the victory.
The Alliance's mass-produced steel weapons and multi-layered composite plate armor gave the orcs greater destructive power and better survivability.
In fact, the concept of composite plate armor was also proposed by Duke.
Consider that the lethality of sharp weapons in melee combat is getting smaller and smaller, and the enemies facing you in the back are getting bigger and bigger. With the physique of a human being, being smashed by a two-and-a-half-meter-tall orc with all his strength, and being smashed by a three-meter-tall giant, the result is a bird-like, all of which are one-trick seconds.
So Duke came up with the concept of composite plate armor.
The principle is similar to the reactive armor of the M1A1, the main battle tank of the last century, and its sandwich material provides better penetration resistance.
Of course, a single soldier can't use something as high-end and high-grade as reactive armor. Duke's development was to change the original one layer of stamped plate armor to two layers, the total thickness of which was the same, but a large number of fixed small springs were filled into the two layers of plate armor, and then filled with a large amount of cotton, taking into account both defense and warmth—because iron can make the body lose heat faster.
After repeated tests, against heavy weapons such as heavy hammers and sticks, composite plate armor can greatly increase the soldier's survival chances by more than 50%.
The front-line soldiers have used it and said that it is good.
Of course, on the bright side, Duke will never favor one over the other, and even the troops of little Sarufar, who came to work, are equipped with composite plate armor with an orc physique, and said that after this battle, the orcs can take these plates with them when they go back.
Duke's generosity and magnanimity deeply touched such a simple fierce general as little Sarufal. It's a pity that Duke is not a blue-faced and fanged orc, otherwise little Sarufar would have knelt down and been willing to be a little brother.