The queue seemed to be stalled for a little too long.
Half a quarter of an hour passed, and the princess still did not issue an order to attack. While waiting, the soldiers began to whisper among themselves - after all, according to His Highness's past habits, no matter how bluffing the enemy seemed, they had to charge once or twice to test the opponent's true level.
Until a strange "monster" came behind them.
This thing instantly attracted everyone's attention.
The monster's body is made of wood. If you say it looks like a beast, it has only two legs; if you say it looks like a human, it has nothing but legs and half of its body. And that half of the body is also very strange. It has no hands or arms, but it is supported by a long iron bar.
But even then, no one laughed at how ugly it was.
Especially when it passes in front of a soldier, who must look up at it. A huge creature resembling a humanoid is inherently oppressive.
"I delivered the item, but do you really plan to use it in combat?" Mo Yun controlled the machine beast and walked to Ning Wanjun and Xia Fan, "This is just a trial product."
On her way from the rear, she had already roughly understood the situation on the front line.
The original intention of the machine beast is indeed designed for war, and its main function is not to replace logistical baggage, but to carry artillery on its back to accompany the army. It can transport artillery weighing hundreds or even thousands of kilograms up hillsides and other commanding heights in most places.
But using it to fight
Both speed and sensitivity are too poor.
At the same time, the celestial instrument is not very earthquake-resistant, not to mention that this prototype is still made of wood. If it eats a solid cannonball from the enemy, not to mention the machine beast itself, the controller on it will all be turned into meat.
Of course, Mo Yun was not naive enough to think that the two of them were going to use this thing to break through the ground formation. The key was the iron-like thing on the top of it—Xia Fan had already taken it out when she had just finished splicing her legs. The schematic diagram of the upper structure is obviously prepared for irons.
Unfortunately, the invasion came too suddenly, and she had never really seen the use of the iron rod, so she just reminded the princess and Xia Fan that the machine beast was a vehicle and not to have too high expectations for it.
"Do you know what's the best way to deal with an artillery piece?" Xia Fan asked.
Mo Yun ordered the machine beast to squat down and jumped down lightly, "I guess your answer is not the alchemist."
"It's a cannon with a longer range." He took over the other person's place and injected Qi into the celestial instrument.
The machine beast trembled twice, then stood up again with a snarl.
In order to reduce the difficulty of manufacturing and improve the versatility of the bipedal machine beast, Xia Fan considered the possibility of modularization from the beginning, that is, separating the upper body from the traveling mechanism, and matching different "bodies" according to actual tasks. For example, this experimental mechanical beast has only one gun mount above its legs, and its rotation and pitch are controlled by hand, which saves the consumption of the celestial device to the greatest extent.
"Artillery?" Mo Yun was a little confused - the bronze cannons trial-cast by the Ministry of Industry occasionally exploded, let alone the long iron pole on the machine beast? No...it's not all sealed, so what kind of cannon is it
And Xia Fan has already controlled the machine beast and walked towards the street entrance.
He knew in his heart that even though the technical principles and design concepts of this heavy weapon were several dimensions beyond the solid iron cannon opposite, the two were still at the level of "mutual destruction", so it was obviously not a good idea to go out in a big way.
His biggest advantage lies in his range and the flexibility of his two-leg mecha.
Yes, even if it walks slowly and slowly, it is not as good as a five or six-year-old child, but that also depends on the object of comparison. Compared with the enemy's front-loading cannon that relies on fixed gun mounts placed on the ground, this thing can be said to be completely elusive.
Xia Fan turned to the right, and the machine beast roared directly into the houses on the street!
The wall mainly made of thin wooden boards can't stop the huge force of this monster. In layman's terms, it means that the speed of the sky motion instrument is not high, but the torque is huge. As long as it is stable enough, it wants to move this long street. Anywhere.
As the soldiers watched in stunned silence, Xia Fan stepped forward, treating the row houses on the street as a new passage.
So when he arrived at the house at the end of the street, the enemy didn't even realize that someone was watching him.
In other words, the other party doesn't care.
There is no possibility of a sneak attack at an unobstructed distance of two hundred meters.
Xia Fan extended the guide rail from the window, and then placed a new projectile into the bullet chute.
Like the track, this cannonball was also specially cast by the blacksmith. Since he had money in his hands, he has become much more confident in building things. Not only does the modeling requirements become more and more complex, but he also often asks the other party to rework and recast it. If it is not If you give him a lot of money, the blacksmith might think that he is here to amuse himself.
For example, the projectile he is using now, in addition to having a sharper head, also has an arch-shaped tail fin at the tail, which can better resist the track when it expands due to heat and reduce the occurrence of arcs.
Just as the soldiers on both sides were holding their breath waiting for the next confrontation, Xia Fan held the handle on one side of the rail and activated the streamer technique with a new talisman!
A piercing scream suddenly sounded in his ears.
It even drowned out the explosion caused by the expansion of the heated air!
The projectile slid out along the track and far exceeded the speed of sound when it exited the barrel. Unlike the spherical iron cannonballs that could still be caught with the naked eye, when the enemy noticed a window suddenly spewing out a large amount of sparks, this sharp projectile The projectile had already crossed the 200-meter blank space and plunged into the sandbag wall!
"puff!"
It was an extremely dull sound.
To Hojo Zuo, he couldn't connect this sound with the word danger. Even if his own cannonball landed on a sandbag, the power would be greatly reduced.
But while the consciousness in his mind was still stuck on this part, the projectile had already penetrated the sandbag and headed straight for the iron cannon behind it - the violent friction caused it to completely deform, and the high temperature wrapped the projectile with a layer of flames. ! Following it, a large number of sand grains flew out. They were also heated to red, and the kinetic energy they absorbed could easily penetrate the human body.
What follows is a buzzing sound like a bell being rung!
A cannon flew up instantly. Under the violent impact, it rolled backwards several times before falling. In this process, it moved about five or six meters. The first person to be affected was obviously standing around the cannon, ready at any time. Gunner firing.
Those in the front were directly smashed into sieves by high-temperature sand grains, while those in the back were hit head-on by iron cannons. The parts next to each other were either this section or had their bones shattered.
But that's not all.
After hitting the iron cannon, the projectile had already broken into pieces and turned into fine but more deadly fragments. It spread out in a fan shape and even flew nearly a hundred feet!
Guarding around the iron cannon were none other than Hojo Sa's spear troops. They were numerous and closely arranged, which could not only create a sense of majesty and majesty, but also immediately stop the Princess Guards who were rushing through the fire net.
Faced with such a dense formation, the cracked projectiles swept down more than ten people in an instant. Some suffered pierced intestines and stomachs, and some lost their limbs.
It was only at this moment that Hojo Sa turned his attention from the first sound to the second.
This process only took a blink of an eye, but by the time he came to his senses, heart-rending screams could be heard from the position under attack!