◈ 375. [STAGE 15] One-Way Street (2)
Goblins have low intelligence.
But I know how to learn.
The fact that there are excellent snipers among humans has already been learned painfully during the last three days of march.
The guerrilla snipers who attacked the Goblin Legion relentlessly aimed only at the officers, and Amir and Janissaries were killed in droves.
Every night the Goblin God King had to promote new Amirs and Janissaries.
In this siege, it was clear that the sniper would only target the officers.
So Kali-Alexander prepared a tactic of deception.
He supplied high-quality armor to ordinary goblins and painted patterns on their faces.
The number is one hundred.
During this time, the real Goblin Amirs took off their armor and applied orc blood instead.
Goblins, who have a sensitive sense of smell and have been dominated by orcs for hundreds of years, can smell an orc even in the middle of a battlefield.
The goblin amirs made their presence known by smell.
The humans on the wall couldn’t find it, but the goblins could recognize each other’s ranks.
While the human snipers shot and killed the decoy, the Amirs passed on command while mingling with the regular soldiers.
As a result, even in the absence of the God King, the Goblin Legion was able to maintain its formation and continue to charge as planned, even while falling into madness.
“The great Kali-Alexandr foresaw everything,”
muttered the old goblin, the eldest of the goblin Amirs and who had fought with Kali-Alexandr since the beginning.
《When he was assassinated in his previous life and he was unable to accomplish a great cause, he decided to always take measures in this life. Even if you disappear, the army can move… … .]
In the previous life, when Kali-Alexander was assassinated, the Goblin Corps collapsed and the Greenskin Kingdom collapsed.
Therefore, Carly-Alexandre made arrangements for his absence this time.
Camps were set up so that the troops could only charge forward, and officers were instructed to supervise only the charge.
And everything was running right.
Although the god-king was kidnapped by the enemy commander, the advance of the goblin army effectively drove them right in front of the castle wall.
《… But great god-king. We need you.”
It was as the orc emperor Daimak said.
The goblins were just dogs chasing the wagon. It was more like a beast driven by instinct.
After all, they were wildfires and typhoons. It was close to a disaster that wanted to kill and burn everything in front of it.
It was the god-king who gave them direction.
Without the God-King, a wildfire that has lost nothing to burn will eventually go out, and the goblin legion will perish itself, just as a typhoon that has lost steam will die.
< Please come back safely. >
And burn this world together.
The old goblin, repeating, beckoned. The goblin Janissaries recognized his signal and waved their hands.
Kyaaaaaa-!
Kirik! Kirik!
Two elite goblin troops waiting in the rear stepped forward.
Goblin Chariot Corps. and.
Chunk!
bang!
A trump card kept secret by the God King.
It was a sapper.
***
Tuhak!
Damian gritted his teeth and sharpened his crossbow.
An arrow shot from afar landed in a beautiful arc and toppled the armored goblin.
Whether the opponent Amir multiplied or a simple deception tactic, he was in no position to cover it.
If there was a real officer among them, I had to snipe anyway.
“huh?”
Damian, who continued sniping like that, found something.
The entire goblin legion was approaching the wall, but something was being prepared in the rear unit.
Damian, realizing his identity, exclaimed urgently.
“It’s a catapult-!”
“… !”
Lucas slashed the arrows of the goblins that kept falling over the wall with his sword, then looked urgently in the direction Damian was pointing.
A catapult was being assembled in the back of the goblin legion, albeit in a crude form.
Tuhak!
Damian hurriedly fired an arrow at it, but the goblins finished assembling the catapult without caring whether the ally next to them died.
I don’t have the technology to make a catapult strong enough to throw heavy stones at goblins.
Then, what they are about to throw out now
is- yank-!
The catapult, crudely made of wood and string, whirled around and fired at something that was hanging.
It roared as it flew through the air and into the castle walls.
Kyaaah-!
Lucas, realizing his identity, shouted.
“It’s a suicide bomber!”
However, the goblin suicide bombers fired did not reach the top of the walls.
The power of the catapult was not enough and the flight distance was short. The self-destroyer, which was slumped in the middle of the wall, exploded.
Kwakwang!
The iron plate surrounding the castle wall was slightly warped and a few bricks fell.
However, despite its unsightly power, the humans on the wall could not laugh.
Wedge love!
It was because dozens of goblin suicide bombers were flying all at once across the air.
bang! Kwagwagwang!
Not a single one fell over the wall. All of them exploded as they slammed into the middle or bottom of the wall.
However, the goblin sappers did not give up and continued throwing suicide bombers. And their landing point rose higher and higher.
Kwajik-!
Finally, when one of the suicide bombers exploded on a metal plate right under his feet, Lucas had to adjust his defensive tactics.
“Damian! Do you and your party members’ horse guns reach the range of their catapults?”
“yes! However, our snipers are limited to shooting and killing sappers, but they keep shooting at them, changing gunners whether they die or not! After all, we have to destroy the catapult itself!”
“Having that range and firepower… .”
Lucas looked at Junior and Junior shook his head.
They were just barely out of the magic’s effective range, continuing their attack.
Junior’s own magic was enough to destroy one or two catapults, but it was impossible to deal with them all.
The wizards under his command are not capable of firing that distance in the first place… … .
Then Damian shouted.
“What about our cannons? It can reach the range and has enough power!”
However, if you now turn the cannon fire to the enemy’s back row, the front line that is barely blocking it will break through.
Lucas hesitated for a moment, but then made up his mind.
It was because the group of suicide bombers who had managed to fly in had raised their hands to the edge of the wall and climbed up.
Kirik Kirik… … !
A goblin suicide bomber grinned as he climbed onto the walls of the Crossroads for the first time.
Denggung-!
The blade of light that Lucas wielded slashed the man’s head in one fell swoop. His corpse, dripping with green blood, exploded beneath the walls.
However, goblin suicide bombers continued to fall over the walls. Lucas shouted.
“Artillery units! Change aim! Destroy their catapult!”
The artillery commander urgently objected.
“Then the battle lines are empty! The goblins’ lead will reach the walls!”
“The empty canvas is covered with all the artifacts! More than that, the catapult destruction is urgent! hurry… !”
At that moment, a suicide bomber fell from the wall and flew in front of the cannon.
“this?!”
Damian hurriedly pulled out his pistol [Cerberus] and shot the guy’s head off, but his body was already exploding.
Kwakwang-!
The power of explosives possessed by goblins is poor. crude but sufficient
Gunpowder and sparks poured in all directions, along with the shredded goblin flesh, and hit the stacked cannon shells.
Kwagwagwang!
The cannon exploded. The artillerymen caught up in the fire could not even scream and fell in all directions in a charred state.
“Kuk!”
To prevent the detonation, Junior urgently fired water magic.
The fire was quickly extinguished, but several nearby cannons were damaged by the blast or all the gunpowder was soaked, rendering them inoperable.
The burned soldiers groaned. Lucas ordered this.
“Damn them… Aim for the catapult! right now-!”
The artillerymen gritted their teeth and corrected their aim. From the head of the goblins to the last catapult.
“Aiming complete!”
“launch-!”
Beep-!
The shells were fired all at once.
Even among the human soldiers, the artillerymen, who could be said to be veterans of veterans, were accurate.
Their skillful crossfire during the last fourteen defensive battles has shattered the goblin legion’s catapults in one fell swoop.
However, the fire net that had blocked the line in the meantime had faded, and the lead of the goblin army pushed in as if they had waited.
“Artifact mobilization! Spare nothing and use whatever is available!”
As ordered by Lucas, the alchemists activated the artifact.
A beam of magic light burned the enemy camp, flames spewed, and gusts of wind poured down.
Magical cannons spewed fire, and various magic devices floated, bounced, or teleported enemies far back.
But the goblin army pressed on.
Doo doo doo doo-!
The tank corps, which had been waiting for a long time, rushed forward vigorously and took the lead.
“It’s a tank!”
“Stop it-!”
But the means to stop it were lacking.
Despite being beaten by arrows, decapitated by sniping, and overturned by magic, the chariots managed to reach the wall.
And
Kwagwagwang!
The tank hit the wall and caused a grand explosion.
What was loaded onto the tank was explosives. It wasn’t low-grade explosives used by suicide bombers, but high-grade explosives collected by the goblin army.
“crazy… .”
Lucas murmured as he looked down at the goblins crashing into the castle wall and exploding.
Chariots can be said to be the most advanced type of soldiers in the goblin army, higher than cavalry.
A goblin who knows how to handle a rough cow and drive a chariot. It was a high-class disease that was picked and picked even within the tribe.
self-destructed it
throw it away generously
In exchange for throwing a huge amount of explosives at the castle wall, the lives of high-ranking soldiers are burned together.
As a result,
“the wall… !”
the skirmisher shouted.
“There is a crack opening in the castle wall-!”
The walls of the Crossroads, where all the technology of the empire was concentrated, withstood most of the explosions.
There was a clear crack at the right end of the wall.
The problem was that the goblin legion noticed the crack, and the lead of them had already penetrated the fire and reached the base of the castle wall.
Kirik! Kyririk!
An uncountable group of soldiers from the Goblin Legion clung to the cracked wall on the right. And
boom!
Beep-!
self-destructed
The end of the wall on the right, which was engulfed in flames, vibrated greatly, and the tip collapsed and fell down.
Soldiers screamed and bitten themselves from the collapsed walls.
“It’s boring, really… !”
Lucas gnashed his teeth.
“How many of the entire army are suicide bombers… ?!”
“They are coming again!”
“artilleryman! Repair the net! right now-!”
Again the cannons were aimed at the enemy lines and the restored fire nets began to crush the goblins.
However, the defense line began to clearly crack. Along with the shaking walls… … .
‘Master!’
Lucas bit his lip and looked towards the gray fortress where Ash was operating alone.
‘I can’t last long like this, come on… … !’
next operation.
We have to execute the counterattack operation prepared by the human side… … .
‘Lord… … !’
The gray fortress, where Ash had imprisoned himself with the enemy general, was already covered with the corpses of goblin soldiers, and now the gray was no longer visible, but all green.
Click! Click!
The turrets, covered in goblins’ blood and corpses, worked desperately to kill the goblins.
《Kyahak Kyahahaha!》
Standing alone in front of the gray fortress, the trollking continued to fight despite being pierced by hundreds of goblin spears and knives.
And of that fort-
***
FUCK-!
with a clear deafening sound.
Ash’s dagger lodged in Carly-Alexandre’s chest.
