Heart of Empire Chapter 336: Another airstrike
The garrison army is not considered elite, but at least after a period of training, they have more or less guaranteed discipline. 【】
After the construction site was bombed and projected by the flame bat cavalry, the whole camp was faintly restless, but after Paran escaped from the sea of fire and began to take over the command of the troops, the whole camp panicked. The mood has stabilized a lot.
Soldiers also have feelings. When leading their own military officer, even when half of his face was burned, he still insisted on being in the command post, and even took the lead in pouring sand into the sea of fire with his hands. At that time, who would not be moved by this?
Under the command of officers at all levels, groups of soldiers began to get busy. Some people are using engineer shovels to excavate sand and soil from the wasteland, and some people are responsible for quickly filling the excavated sand and soil into sacks.
The sacks just packed will be quickly picked up by someone, and thrown forward, they will be thrown into the hands of the soldiers on the edge of the sea of flames who are responsible for dousing the flames.
The two soldiers worked together to sprinkle the sand from the sack on the flames that were constantly spreading outward.
Soon, the sea of flames finally stopped flowing outwards, and the range was controlled.
Palan heaved a sigh of relief. After the range of the flames was brought under control, at least the damage wouldn't increase too much.
But it is far from the time to slack off, the fire has only just been brought under control.
Palan continued to dispatch troops. Standing on a high place, the skin that had just been burned by the fire was stinging unceasingly when blown by the wind and sand, which even made his head dizzy. However, he still gritted his teeth, ran around, conveyed orders, and further organized more soldiers to participate in the fire fighting.
His hard work has paid off.
Three hours later, the fire was extinguished.
A quick tally of losses, and things aren't looking good.
The construction site that was attacked by Batrider was opened up yesterday by Pallante to install and build the siege equipment pulled from Shawan Harbor. On the land of the wasteland, there is no wood that can be obtained locally, and naturally there is no way to obtain materials on the spot to make equipment, and can only rely on transportation.
Palan brought a lot of semi-finished equipment from Shawan Port. Last night, he was ordering his soldiers to work in three shifts, hoping to take the opportunity to build more. However, today, it is not completely destroyed, but the loss is not small. The work of last night was almost useless, and a large number of equipment was burned. Although part of it was salvaged, these things had to be removed and reinstalled.
Based on this, almost half of the siege equipment he brought from Shawan Harbor has been lost.
However, this is not the most troublesome part for Palan. His headache was not the loss of soldiers. Although there were more than 300 soldiers in the sea of flames and were working on the construction site at the time, most of them were either burned to death or burned, and could no longer continue to participate in the battle, but there were still some of them. People escaped.
What troubles him the most is that he seems to have no way to guard against the batriders who don't know when they will fall from the sky again!
Those batriders attacked in the early morning, and the location they chose was quite precise. If you don't fight anywhere, just stare at the siege equipment in the construction camp, there must be a source of intelligence.
I think, at night, these Batroopers have already sneaked in to investigate.
However, no matter how worried Palan was, the work must go on.
As he dispatched sentries, he wanted nothing else but to be able to give an early warning when he found another batrider flying over from the horizon. In addition, he also ordered his soldiers to dismantle all the equipment worth saving and place them separately, so as to reduce some losses as much as possible. At the same time, he also urgently assembled some archery experts under his command, and specially allocated a team of archers to try to be able to resist the next time the enemy attacked.
Palan has already done a very good job. If someone else takes his place, he may not be as calm and calm as he is now.
But it is a pity that the enemy will not come to trouble him because of his calmness.
Just after eleven o'clock in the morning, when Palan reorganized the troops who had been busy all morning, the mournful whistle sounded one after another.
This is the alarm method agreed upon by the scouts he sent out. When this sound sounds, it means that the Batriders are coming again.
Palan, who was in the tent, being treated by a few military doctors for his burns, didn't care that his wounds had not been healed, so he ran out of the camp and started shouting loudly.
"Officers at all levels! Scatter with soldiers! Absolutely no troops are allowed to gather! Absolutely no approaching flammable objects is allowed! Prepare sandbags!"
Continuous orders were issued. Having already experienced an air strike, he summed up a set of methods to deal with the air strike within a few hours. He doesn't know whether these methods are effective or not, but it must be better than facing the air attack in a panic.
However, although he has already taken some countermeasures, the soldiers' implementation is different. Even with the restraints of the officers, the entire camp inevitably showed many signs of chaos.
As for the horizon, those batriders came at a speed not much later than the sirens! But a moment later, another group of black spots were approaching the sky above the camp at a very fast speed.
It's too far away~IndoMTL.com~ I can't see clearly, but judging from the number, Palan feels that the Batriders who came this time are probably the same group that came at dawn.
His fists were tightly clenched together, feeling quite aggrieved in his heart. He would rather the entire enemy army go out of the city, at least they can fight in a dignified manner. When encountering such a method of constantly using air strikes to find trouble, the feeling that the power cannot be used really makes people quite angry.
Now, he can only hope that the order to disperse the troops can reduce the loss as much as possible. In addition, the temporarily equipped archer team can make the bat cavalry pay some price when they dive.
Preparation should be done, now, Palan is waiting for the arrival of those batriders!
And just as he was about to grit his teeth, a panicked voice suddenly sounded in his ears: "Colonel... Colonel, there are also a group of air cavalry behind us!"
Hearing this, Palan was taken aback—where did the air cavalry come from behind? He couldn't help but raised his head from the bunker where he was hiding, and looked in the opposite direction of Iron Nail Hill, the surprise on his face quickly turned into ecstasy!
Where is the enemy's bat cavalry, it is clearly Lord Dayne's griffin! (To be continued.)