novelaction Chapter 1353 The Battle of Gucheng Lake (Part 4)
Chapter 1353 The Battle of Gucheng Lake (Part 4)
Bang bang bang bang——!!!
Just as Gu Chengyun and his men had extinguished the eerie green, slimy flames at the top of the stairs with sand and fire blankets—
Behind them, the God of War, who had been silent for a short time, once again let out a deafening roar, tearing through the scorching air above the battlefield with an even more frenzied and resolute manner!
This bombardment was completely different from the previous salvo that covered the distant beast tide.
It's closer! More urgent! More concentrated! More... reckless!
“Swish, swish, swish, swish—!!!”
Hundreds of orange-red streaks of light rose up again, but their trajectories were lower and straighter, and their sharp whistling sounds almost blended together, briefly drowning out the roar of gunfire near the city wall!
Their target is no longer the beast tide thousands of meters away.
Instead, it's outside the city wall, three hundred meters, two hundred meters, or even... one hundred and fifty meters!
"Xu Jin's commentary! It's Xu Jin's commentary!"
The experienced veteran instantly understood what it was, his voice filled with shock and a trembling elation, but even more so with fear of the impending impact.
The barrage of projectiles is the most terrifying supporting firepower during an infantry assault, but it is also the most dangerous double-edged sword. It requires the shells to land in close proximity to the advancing infantry, creating a moving wall of steel and fire to clear all obstacles in front of the infantry.
But now, they are not on the offensive, but on the defensive.
The starting point of this barrage was almost right next to the base of the city wall!
This is to use the most brutal method to plow away all the fungal beasts that rush nearby in one go!
But the prerequisite is... the cannonballs must land with a precision down to the meter! Any slight deviation could engulf the city wall and the defenders on it!
Boom!
The first 122mm grenade exploded like a meteorite impact in the open field less than 120 meters from the city wall!
This distance, for a large-caliber howitzer, is practically equivalent to close-range firing! It's a serious violation of safety regulations!
At the moment of the explosion, Gu Chengyun felt as if his head had been struck hard from the side by an invisible, cotton-covered hammer!
That wasn't a sound, that was pressure! It was a pure, violent overpressure shockwave!
Even through the thick chemical protective helmet and noise-canceling earplugs, an indescribable, excruciating pain instantly pierced through his eardrums and shot straight to his brain!
“Buzz————————”
The sounds of the world seemed to be instantly removed, leaving only a high-frequency, sharp tinnitus that felt like countless steel needles were being frantically churning inside the skull!
The tinnitus was so intense that it even temporarily suppressed the deafening sounds of gunfire and explosions outside!
Gu Chengyun felt a sudden darkness before his eyes, stars flashing everywhere, and he staggered, almost needing to hold onto the scorching hot edge of the stack to keep his balance.
It's not just about hearing.
The explosion was so close that the massive shockwave, like a tsunami, slammed against the thick city wall!
Gu Chengyun could clearly feel that the solid fortification under his feet, constructed of reinforced concrete and bricks, which gave him an endless sense of security, suddenly trembled violently and clearly!
Dust, debris, and even some loosely secured empty bullet casings were shaken off the wall with a "clatter".
Several soldiers who were near the outer ramparts and were firing were thrown about by the sudden tremor and almost lost their footing and fell!
But this is just the beginning!
Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom ————————!! !!! !!! !!! !
Before the lingering force of the first shell had dissipated, the second, the third... and more 122mm shells, with an almost seamless and terrifying density, exploded one after another along a death corridor nearly parallel to the city wall, from near to far!
The impact points of the shells formed a clearly visible, slowly "creeping" explosion line!
This line begins at a "death distance" of less than 100 meters from the city wall, and then, like a giant branding the earth with a burning iron, it steadily and inch by inch "plows" towards the direction from which the horde of fungi is surging!
Every shell that lands is a mini-apocalyptic scene.
A blazing white core flash, an orange-red expanding fireball, and eerie purple smoke and dust mixed with the instantly vaporized bodily fluids of the fungal beast together form a totem of destruction.
The shockwave no longer spread out in a circular pattern, but was superimposed and pushed by subsequent explosions, forming a wall of death that was frantically crushing forward along the ground, a mixture of overpressure, fragments and high temperature!
The fungal beasts directly in front of this "wall," whether swift, bulky, or segmented, all appear so fragile and laughable in the face of the ultimate violence of the god of war.
Before they could even react, they were completely torn apart, vaporized, or turned into charred fragments mixed with fluorescent slime, which were then swept away by the following blast wave and splashed backward, adding more tragic "paint" to the subsequent explosions!
The beam of the searchlight trembled as it pierced through the thick, impenetrable smoke, illuminating the area that had been repeatedly cultivated.
The scene was beyond description; "horrific" was an understatement.
The narrow area between 150 and 300 meters outside the city wall, which was originally the most densely populated and fiercest area of fungal beasts, now seemed to have been trampled and ground several times by an invisible giant foot!
The ground was completely uprooted, revealing a swampy, hellish color that was a mixture of charred black, dark red, and eerie fluorescence.
The remains of countless fungal beasts—broken limbs, shattered carapaces, ejection sacs blasted into mangled flesh, and chunks of flesh still twitching nervously—densely covered every inch of land, layer upon layer, some still burning, emitting crackling sounds and an even stronger stench.
Thick, fluorescent bodily fluids gathered into trickles that flowed between the craters, and were then vaporized by the high temperature into a sweet, fishy-smelling mist.
The "blank zone" carved out by artillery fire temporarily separated the surging tide of fungal beasts from the city walls.
The subsequent surge of fungal beasts seemed to be intimidated by the imminent and extremely violent destruction, their charge noticeably slowing and becoming chaotic. Many fungal beasts lingered at the edge of the "blank zone," emitting low, unintelligible hums, seemingly hesitant to step into that hell formed by the shattered corpses of their companions and the lingering heat.
On the city wall, the soldiers who had escaped death were barely recovering from the initial ringing in their ears, dizziness, and tremors.
They stared at the scene outside the wall, which had been instantly cleared out, resembling an anthill that had been doused with boiling water by a giant, and were momentarily speechless.
Ecstasy? Lingering fear? Shock? Confusion?
A mix of emotions.
The artillery fire... it's incredibly close to us!
So close I could feel the city wall trembling, so close my ears are still ringing from the pain!
But the effect is immediate!