Thousands of sparks

Chapter 58 Shelling
Counseling is not a shameful thing, especially in a life-threatening situation, suddenly counseling is not only not shameful, it can even be said to be a very wise move.

Our own side has no heavy weapons, no automatic weapons, and we need to wait at least a quarter of an hour for support to arrive.And there may be many people on the other side, and they are all a group of "thugs" who have almost no expectations for life and are ready to trade their lives for a piece of black bread at any time.

Such a "thug" can explode with shocking force.They can be timid, they can be cowardly.But driven by hunger and a leader, they were able to make all the large animals of the entire planet disappear in their stomachs.

In the history of the empire, there have been more than one occasions when vagrant mobs stormed towns.While not surprisingly every shock event ended in a resounding victory for the Imperial Army, the graves of more than 3 Imperial Army soldiers in Olin's "Soldiers of Honor" cemetery serve as a reminder to everyone in the Empire .

Do not underestimate the power of the mob.

Dusande may be the nobleman in the entire empire who understands how terrifying such a "crowd" is.In the early Qin Dynasty, Liu Ting was the head, and at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Chongba was behind. These people who tied their heads to their waistbands and risked their lives to fight, can burst out with power that can be passed down through the ages.

Du Sande didn't want to be a stepping stone or background board in the other party's story that was passed down through the ages.

So, just be a little bit cowardly, no shame.

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After receiving Dusand's warning, the naval officers quickly made a decision-immediately called the landing ship to approach.To this end, they activated the machine mounted on the carriage that looked somewhat like an armillary sphere.

The brass-made instrument quickly adjusted the angle according to the commands input by the officers, and then followed and locked the angle with a crisp "ding ding ding" sound.Small square lenses protruded from the brass support arms, and then wrapped the huge calcium stone in the middle of the "armillary sphere".

A flame burst out from the gap wrapped in the mirror.After about a few seconds, the flame disappeared in the middle of the lens.Instead, there is the fierce sound of high-pressure gas gushing from the combustion port.

This armillary sphere is actually a huge calcium stone lamp with its own reflector.

As the planetary engine-like heating continued, the calcium stone began to emit a dazzling light.A white beam of light went straight up to the sky, like a white jade pillar piercing the sky.

"The navy uses this to mark the entry position of the landing ship?" Du Sande observed the huge beam of light curiously, and then sighed, "This thing looks more like a bombardment indicator than the army's black chimney... "

Before the words fell, there was a sharp "cracking" sound in the sky.

Everyone heard the voice, but the only one who responded to the voice was the navy captain who had just put on the steam knight armor and was standing guard in the distance.

"Bombardment, lie down!!!" The captain's voice even overwhelmed the ominous sound from the sky.But the response speed of the officers of the Newsail Garrison Navy was still not satisfactory. It took them several seconds to understand the movement, and after the logistics officer from Olin rushed out of the carriage and lay down, they did not go together. lie down.

The reaction speed of active duty officers is actually not as good as that of logistics officers.

Compared with them, Dusand's movements are faster.

At the same time that Mr. Captain finished shouting, Dusand directly turned the knob inside the steam knight to the fire level.

He slammed his feet out and rushed to the logistics carriage as fast as he could.Stretching out the steel giant hand, directly tore open the carriage compartment.

Lorraine was sleeping curled up in a wooden box covered with cotton, which just saved Du Sande a lot of work.He directly hugged the wooden box and Lorraine in his arms, and then grabbed Paulina who turned her head to see the situation.

His grip was on the back of the overalls Polina was wearing.

A few seconds later, Dusande, holding his arms in his arms, found a naturally sunken earth pit.Without hesitation, he stuffed Lorraine and Polina who had woken up together, and then covered the hole with the steam knight's breastplate.

"Open your mouth, cover your ears, squat on the cotton and don't move!" These were the last words Du Sande shouted.

Then, the shell fell to the ground.

When a shell explodes, the intense shock wave is the first thing people perceive.It was as if an invisible big hand had slapped Dusand on the back suddenly—the strong shock wave directly stimulated Dusand to start coughing.

But he stopped coughing right away.

To Sander's horror, he could hardly fill his lungs with any air.No matter how hard he tried, the lungs still seemed unable to expand at all.

The bombardment time of more than ten seconds was extremely long in Dusand's subjective feeling.Dusande, whose face was almost purple from suffocation, regained his strength after the intensive sound of metal collisions on the armor plate behind him stopped.He took two sharp breaths of the air with a strong earthy smell and gunpowder smoke, and then picked up the wooden frame that contained Lorraine and Paulina, who were so pale and frightened that they were crying together.

In the smoke and dust, experimental vehicle No. [-] and the other two carriages were all destroyed.The worst damage was the logistics carriage that Lorraine and Polina were riding on.The gas tank on the carriage seems to have deflagrated during the shelling—of course, it may have been hit directly by a large-caliber shell, and the entire carriage disappeared completely.

Instead, there is a huge crater that looks very deep.

Du Sande himself carried Paulina and Lorraine through the gunpowder smoke, and moved forward in some confusion.Reason told him that now he should leave the shelling scene as soon as possible, and then move to a place with shelter.But he had no idea in which direction he was moving.

Father and the other naval officers didn't know what was going on.He really wanted to search and rescue, but he had to settle the two women in his hand first.

Relying on vague thoughts and thoughts, Du Sande trudged through the gunpowder with one foot deep and one foot shallow.The steam knight's right foot probably suffered some shocks, and it always feels a little out of place when it moves.

After an unknown amount of time, Dusande suddenly saw a flash of light in front of him.

"Finally found you!" A pitch-black crow's beak abruptly passed through the smoke and dust, and appeared in front of Dusande. Along with this scary beak, Mr. Captain was rough but happy. voice.

Du Sande was about to say hello to Mr. Captain happily, but his eyes suddenly caught the right hand of the steam knight.

In other words, there should have been a right hand place.

There is nothing there.

Mr. Captain didn't seem to notice that he was missing an arm at all. He enthusiastically patted Dusand's shoulder with his remaining arm.The two steam knights collided with each other, making a loud metal collision sound.

"We have to get out of here quickly." The captain said sternly, "The caliber of the artillery they use is not small, and it will take about a minute or two to fire again. If we leave here now, we will be safer."

"Sir, your hand..." Polina finally recovered from the shock, and then looked at Mr. Captain's empty arm, and fell into shock again.

"It was just bitten by a bug." Mr. Captain looked at his arm that was still bleeding, and replied with a smile, "Let's leave quickly, so that I can take emergency measures such as stopping the bleeding later."

(End of this chapter)