Four or five flashes appeared almost at the same time. With the help of the light, Sauron immediately saw the people who were originally hiding in the darkness. His face changed dramatically, and then he heard a strange muffled sound and a strange whistling sound in the air …
Sauron could see that there were energy bodies rapidly approaching, but before he could give an order, the ground thirty meters away suddenly exploded!
"Boom boom boom!"
The "Crystal Mortar" landed on one side of the camp, and the auxiliary soldiers who were wearing their armor were blown away on the spot. The impact of the explosion was especially fierce, and it was no weaker than the Flame Blast of a high-level mage!
But the key was that a mage needed at least twenty seconds to chant a "Flame Blast", and after two or three consecutive chants, the power would be greatly reduced due to the "thinning of the elements". However, the "Elemental Mortar" did not suffer from this limitation at all, and the continuous three rounds of bombardment did not stop at all. Sauron watched as half of his camp was blown away in front of him, but he did not even see what the enemy looked like.
The "auxiliary soldiers" were blown into pieces, and their morale instantly collapsed. They were all scared out of their wits, and at this time, most of them were lying on the ground and wailing. No one knew how many were injured or killed.
Although the Orcs had rough skin and thick flesh, some of them were directly hit and exploded into two pieces. Even so, the tenacious Orcs did not die, and they dragged half of their bodies as they crawled. The only thing they wanted to do was to escape from this area, but the visual impact of the tragic scene quickly made the soldiers lose their minds.
These Orcs were not unfamiliar with what was happening in front of them.
Back in the Kingdom of Karen, when they faced Sodelor's troops, some Orcs were directly attacked by the "Crystal Lance". Now that they saw such a bombardment, many Orcs were reminded of the horror of the past, and their performance was even worse than the "auxiliary soldiers".
Sauron himself was blown down twice by the impact, but he quickly stood up again, and shouted for the Orcs to pick up their weapons and charge. All kinds of Shaman spells were quickly released, and the Orcs who had been continuously affected by the "Berserk" finally lost their fear. With red eyes, they carried out the order, roared, and began to charge with Sauron.
They ran with large strides without any formation, and many of them did not even carry weapons. Like wild beasts, they ran towards the direction of the bombardment. Not waiting for the team of five or six hundred people to reach halfway, under the gradually brightening sky, the figures in the trenches no longer hid, stood up together, and a row of "Crystal Lance" was pointed at Sauron's team …
"Kill them!"
Zoro tried his best to release 'Nature's Shelter' to protect the Orc soldiers in the front row. A faint yellow light appeared in front of the team, and the dust on the ground seemed to be attracted by some kind of force and protected them.
This kind of witchcraft allowed the soldiers to resist the damage of large blunt weapons. It was especially effective in the previous siege battle. Some orcs could even continue fighting after being hit by black wood. However, they did not realize that the 'crystal spear' in front of them was the latest gun that had been updated three generations later.
They were no longer like the first generation of "Crystal Guns", which relied solely on the impact of crystal energy to kill the enemy. Instead, with the help of industrial machines, they had metal barrels with rifling, and … large-caliber bullets.
Due to the power of the crystals, guns no longer needed to be filled with gunpowder inside the bullets. Instead, they directly relied on the compressed air inside the gun to propel the bullet. A standard crystal inserted into the gun was enough to fire two hundred bullets. The lethality within a hundred meters was astonishing, and the accuracy within fifty meters was enough to guarantee.
In other words, in terms of "hot weapons", the troops under Roddy's command had completed several iterations in the war, and now the gap between them and the ordinary cold weapons troops was further widened …
At the moment when the gunshots were fired, there was no continuous explosion, only a strange "puff puff" sound. Zoro only saw the guns in the hands of the soldiers flashing with energy, and black shadows that were hard to see with the naked eye flew out of the barrels. Then, the soldiers in front of him fell down without warning, like wheat being harvested!
After the powerful bullets hit the Orcs, the muffled sound of flesh and blood tearing and muffled groans became the only sounds left on the battlefield. Zoro saw with his own eyes that a strong Orc not far in front of him suddenly raised his shoulders, and his body staggered two steps before falling to the ground. And not far away from him, an "auxiliary soldier" was shot in the neck on the spot, and his head spun and flew away …
What was more terrifying was that there was more than one wave of such attacks. Hundreds of soldiers in the trench in front of him kept pulling the bolts, pushing the bullets, and pulling the trigger after the energy was fully charged. The "whoosh" of the bullets passing through the body made Zoro's scalp tingle. When he finally rushed to within 30 meters of this position, he suddenly found that there were no other soldiers in front of him!
Looking left and right, there were only two or three hundred people following behind him … This meant that on the way to the front, nearly half of his troops had been lost.
The Orc troops also had long-range weapons. Bows and javelins were essential for veteran soldiers, but in the rush to fight, they did not expect such an attack at all. At this time, a few of them who were holding hunting bows and javelins were shot down before they could use them.
The remaining soldiers who were lucky enough to not be hit looked at the screams on the ground around them, and even the corpses that were smashed on the spot. Even if they were affected by the "frenzy", at this time, they forcibly recovered a lot of reason. Their footsteps slowed down, or they simply fell to the ground to avoid the bullets.
The soldiers in the trench did not use "automatic weapons". In order to ensure that the barrel was sealed when it was fired, the bullets were all manually pulled after a single shot.
Therefore, after three consecutive volleys, they entered the "free shooting" state and quickly used up a magazine of 20 large-caliber bullets.
But the shooting did not stop because of this, because the second group of soldiers behind them had already rotated up and began to continue shooting. At the same time, there was a small team that threw "crystal grenades" at the Orcs who rushed close!
Zoro's abdomen was shot, and the bullet passed through all the witchcraft protection and embedded in his abdominal muscles …
Zoro, who was shielded from the pain, gritted his teeth and continued to move forward, but the two grenades that fell in front of him quickly exploded one after another. He had nowhere to hide, and could only watch as the light on the surface of the grenade extinguished and instantly exploded —
"Bang!"
His sturdy body flew backward on the spot under the impact, and the fragments even pierced through his shoulders and abdomen. When the great chief fell to the ground, Sauron saw that the sky above his head was already bright, but his ears were buzzing.
His body was completely numb, and he felt that he could no longer lift his right hand. After gritting his teeth and climbing up, Zoro found that there were no figures charging around him — on the contrary, he saw the Orcs and human auxiliary soldiers turning around and fleeing, and watched with his own eyes as they were hit by the follow-up bullets one by one and fell to the cold ground.
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