◈ 375. [STAGE 15] One-Way (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 targeted only the officers, and Amir and Janissaries were killed in droves.
Every night the Goblin God King had to promote new Amirs and Janissaries.
It was obvious that the sniper would only target the officers in this siege.
So Kali-Alexander prepared a tactic of deception.
He supplied high-quality armor to ordinary goblins and painted patterns on their faces with paint.
The number is one hundred.
During this time, the real goblin amirs took off their armor and instead drenched their bodies in orc blood.
Their sense of smell is sensitive, especially goblins who have been dominated by orcs for hundreds of years and can distinguish the smell of orcs even in the middle of the 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 decoys to death, the amirs passed on command while mingling with the regular soldiers.
As a result, even in the absence of the God King, even in madness, the goblin corps were able to maintain their formation and continue to charge as planned in advance.
《The great Kali-Alexander foresaw every situation.》
murmured the old goblin, the eldest of the goblin Amir, who had been with Kali-Alexandr since the beginning of the war.
《When he was assassinated in his previous life and 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-Alexandre was assassinated, the goblin army disintegrated 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 just like the parable given by the orc emperor, Daimak.
The goblins were just dogs chasing the wagon. It was more like a beast driven by instinct.
They were a wildfire, after all, a typhoon. 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 an army of goblins will perish, 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.
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Tuhak!
Damian gritted his teeth and sharpened his crossbow.
An arrow shot from afar landed in a beautiful arc, knocking the armored goblin over.
Whether it was the opponent Amir’s multiplication 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, not 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.
If so, what they’re throwing out now is-
slap-!
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 wall.
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!
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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 catapult now?”
“yes! However, our snipers are at their limit in 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… … .”
When Lucas looked at Junior, 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 rear row, the front row 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 yelled.
“Artillery troops! 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. It’s crude, but it’s good enough.
Gunpowder and sparks rained down in all directions, along with the goblin’s torn pieces, and touched the cannonballs piled up.
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 put out, 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 called 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 been holding back the battle line in the meantime had faded, and the lead of the goblin army pushed in as if they had waited.
“Artifact mobilization! Spare nothing, whatever is available!”
As ordered by Lucas, the alchemists activated the artifact.
A beam of magic light burned the enemy camp, flames spewed out and gusts of wind poured down.
Magical cannons spewed fire, and various magical devices floated, bounced, or teleported enemies far back, and they struggled.
However, the goblin legion 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 how to drive a chariot. It was a high-class disease that was picked and picked even within the tribe.
It self-destructed.
throw it away generously
In return for throwing a huge amount of explosives at the castle wall, the lives of the advanced soldiers were 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 bottom of the castle wall.
Kirik! Kyririk!
A group of soldiers from the goblin army, who couldn’t even count how many camps they were now, clung to the cracked right side wall at once. and,
pop!
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 at this rate, come on…’ … !’
next operation.
The counterattack strategy prepared by the human side must be executed… … .
‘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, it was all green.
Chunk! Chunk!
The turrets, covered in goblins’ blood and corpses, worked desperately to kill the goblins.
《Kyahak, Kyahaha-!》
Standing alone in front of the gray fortress, the trollking continued to fight, even impaled by hundreds of goblins’ spears and knives.
And, inside that fortress-
***
hook-!
with a clear deafening sound.
Ash’s dagger lodged in Carly-Alexandre’s chest.
