Chapter 691 Ten Thousand Liang of Gold (Leader Warhawkxz)

"call out--"

The ear-piercing whistling sounds from far to near, like the god of death swooping in from the sky.

The orc warriors who came to Azeroth for the first time were confused and didn't know what was going on.

The moonlight was not very bright tonight, so they could only look around stupidly.

But Killrogg* Deadeye, the chief of the Bloodring Clan who had experienced the battle at the Blackrock Tower in the Searing Gorge, changed his expression drastically. His wrinkled face suddenly squeezed together in fear, and he shouted at the top of his lungs: "Shell attack! Disperse! Lie down——"

Then he hid behind the Dark Portal himself.

What the hell is shelling?

The rookie orc warriors couldn't understand it, but the orc veterans around them did.

Not to mention the orc veterans, even the death knights who boasted that they were not afraid of ordinary physical attacks would crouch on the ground and huddle up like a hedgehog in front of this apocalyptic power.

There were only stupid recruits. Some stayed in place and were at a loss. Some spread their legs as if they wanted to run out of the dangerous range. Some even put up large wooden shields in an attempt to block the cannonballs that were theoretically thrown from guns and axes.

All in vain!

Knowing that the orcs will come out of the Dark Portal again, for two full years, the promised field battles have been turned into a turret defense map game. Do you really think that this crazy guy Duke won't do something?

No! Can! able!

After calculating the distance between the Dark Portal and the original historical Keep Keep, Duke first discovered a serious problem:

The cursed land is a kettle-like terrain, surrounded by steep mountains that are difficult to climb. The original site was stuck next to the only exit. Anyone who wants to leave the cursed land must go through the double baptism of artillery fire and bows and arrows.

Moreover, the Watch Fort is built on the highest position of the hill. Anyone who wants to attack must go through a painful upward attack.

It looks great, but...

The original site of Watchfort is too far away from the Dark Portal, so far away that even the most distant artillery fire of this era cannot reach it.

This is an absolute drawback.

Duke also understands that playing magic near the Dark Portal is seeking death. Once the chaotic magic energy is involved in the spatial rift, both the enemy and us will be destroyed.

So Duke's response was to expand Watchfort.

It turns out that the Watchfort in history was only a single-story city wall, and when the orcs led by Ner'zhul passed through the Dark Portal for the second time, the Watchfort was only the lowest level stone castle, and it was not at all the complete structure it would be thirty years later. .

Duke accelerated and changed all this with the Arcane Golem.

The modern Watchfort is at least ten times as big as the original one, and is shaped like three concentric circles, with three layers of walls inside and outside.

The innermost circle is naturally the original site of Watch Castle, standing on the top of the mountain, overlooking the entire cursed land.

The middle circle is divided into two parts, the front and rear. There is a huge train yard near the Swamp of Sorrows and a series of temporary unloading yards. Near the Dark Portal is an urn-like defensive area, equipped with a large number of inhumane defense devices, such as small mage towers designed to increase the magic power of mage.

The outermost circle is a layered artillery field that occupies less than a quarter of the Cursed Land.

There are seven floors in total, and between each floor there are stone walls more than five meters high, equipped with standard arrow towers, shooting holes and a large number of mortars, enough to equip five thousand defenders. The distance between each floor is about 300 meters.

The thirty-six fortress guns are actually train guns, installed on the train skins on the railway tracks. There is a locomotive hung behind each fortress gun. Once the front line falls, the locomotive can be driven directly to pull the gun back along the rails.

Of course, in addition to the locomotive, a winch for manual pulling and handrails for the cart are also prepared. If necessary, the dwarf gunners and soldiers can push the cannon back manually.

The rails extend all the way into the Watch Fortress. As long as they can be withdrawn in time, they can be reinstalled on the gun emplacement of the Watch Fortress and turned into a fortress cannon.

These fortress cannons were the pinnacle of this era.

"Hahaha! Blast them to death! Go ahead! Big steel cannon!" Muradin laughed wildly.

Well, the six-meter long cannon with a caliber of about 1.2 meters was called a "small steel cannon".

So now this gun that is fixed on the train, has a length of 10 meters, a caliber of 1.5 meters, and can shoot at a distance of 3 kilometers is called a "big steel cannon".

Lothar heard the deafening sound of shelling from several kilometers away. Not only his eyelids were beating wildly, but his heart was almost beating out of his chest.

Only the fanatical dwarves with earplugs were dancing around the cannon as if it were a Midsummer festival.

right!

If you can't improve the quality of the steel and increase the range and power, then make the barrel bigger and thicker.

The cannonball that originally required a dwarf in the state of [God Descends to Earth] can now be lifted by two dwarves.

But it doesn’t matter, as long as it works.

The only problem is that due to time constraints, not all of the thirty-six fortress cannons are [large steel cannons]. There are a full thirty of them, which are the kind of [small steel cannons] used in the Battle of Blackstone Mountain.

However, when thirty-six cannons fired at the same time, everyone had only one feeling——

sky! collapse! land! crack!

Although many train guns are equipped with derailers, due to installation errors and other reasons, the rails under the vehicle body are still destroyed in an instant. A large group of bronze-bearded dwarves had to transform, forcibly lift the train cannon out, and put it back on the relatively intact railway track at the back.

But think about it, the recoil alone is so terrible, and the power of the blast is so amazing!

That's right!

This is the Alliance's trial!

This is the howl of death!

This is the end!

More than 80% of the five thousand tribal elites who were the first to come out of the Dark Portal flew into the sky immediately.

Of course Orcs and Death Knights can't fly.

They were in the form of corpses, blown hundreds of meters into the air, exploded into hundreds of flesh and bone parts, and then scattered irregularly over several square kilometers.

Not being blown up into the sky does not mean that they will avoid death. Many orcs who were a little far away from the Dark Portal were hit by an impact that was too huge to be described in words. Their internal organs were directly shattered, and their mouths and noses bled to death.

Only those who are really far enough away, or who hide behind the Dark Portal like Kilrogg,

Those who were lucky enough to escape death also had a hard time. Many people directly felt that the world was completely silent. No matter how heart-wrenching they screamed, they could not hear any echo - because they were deaf.

Seeing the orc vanguard completely wiped out by a round of bombardment, Ner'zhul, who had sacrificed the Void Demon in exchange for extremely strong defense and escaped the disaster, was frightened: "No! No! No - it shouldn't be like this. ! It can’t be like this! How can we win against such a terrifying alliance! No! I want to go back, I quit! I want to go back—"

Anduin Lothar, who saw all this through the telescope and the eyes of the mage, made a rare wisecrack: "What did Duke say? When the cannon goes off, there are ten thousand taels of gold? Although I don't know what the hell ten thousand taels are." , but remember to send the bill to His Majesty Terenas."