Industrial Cthulhu, starting from the island lord

Chapter 201: This Side of the Enemy
The battle on Ash's side has not yet begun. At Zeus's request, the Banshees have made a lot of preparations, including a lot of explosives, but they have yet to choose to start a war.

The number of merfolk and sea urchin monsters here increased more and more, and monsters kept landing from the sea. Soon the number of merfolk exceeded a hundred, and there were more than ten sea urchin monsters.

"Lord Ash, shall we not attack yet?"

"Don't worry, our main task this time is to coordinate with the Skitarii's shooting."

"The Skitarii?" Nini curled her lips. "You think they can fight sea urchins and arm monsters?"

"cannot."

"Then why are you still waiting for them? My Lord, you're just overthinking things. Relying on the Skitarii is impossible."

Ash shook his head and glanced at Nini. "You saw the report on their battle with the murlocs just now, didn't you? Although they were outnumbered and their combat prowess wasn't impressive, they did manage to repel the murlocs."

"Isn't that because of the lord's rifle? With this weapon, we will definitely be more powerful than them."

"Yes." Ash nodded and looked at the murlocs and arm monsters in the distance. "But the lord still distributed them to them."

Nini circled around Ash in surprise. "What did I hear? Are you complaining? Complaining that Hughes didn't give us weapons? Wow, Ash, you actually complain about the lord."

"I'm not complaining, I'm stating a fact. Humans are weak, but even if the lord equips them with guns, they can still go to the battlefield. We are powerful, but the bullets we fire are not faster."

Nini blinked and lowered her head thoughtfully.

She had also seen those rifled guns. They were not a big threat to the banshees. They could indeed injure them under normal circumstances, but once the flesh and blood magic was activated, these bullets would only tickle them.

"Weapons can bring humans closer to us, right?" Nini muttered to herself. She was not stupid and quickly figured out the key points.
Seeing that Zeus doesn't seem to care much about the rifle, this is definitely not the most powerful weapon he has made. Nini has also participated in a lot of weapons research and development, and knows that Zeus is making some big ones recently.

She was a little worried, a little relieved, and vaguely confused and afraid of the unknown. With such a feeling, Nini saw the crusaders coming to the battlefield.

This time they were farther away from the fishmen, about seven or eight hundred meters. This distance was beyond the effective range of rifles and difficult to aim, but a volley could still cause damage.

This location was specially chosen. It is very close to the webway. If the enemy approaches, they can hide directly in it. After discussion, Zeus and Ash decided to set the battlefield here.

"My Lord, the murlocs are still gathering. This wave of their attack seems particularly large. There are already over a hundred of them, and more are gradually coming from the sea."

"While we were fighting the murlocs over there, was there any movement here?"

"Not at all. They don't seem to notice anything over there."

"How strange! They're not far apart, yet they both came up from the same ocean."

Ash was silent.

Yes, it is indeed very strange. These enemies are very weird from beginning to end. I don’t know how Richard’s interrogation of the murloc captives goes.

"Alexei, fire in formation."

Alexi nodded. Ash had already communicated with him and explained the battle plan. Now two teams of banshees were guarding the two sides of the Crusader Army, ready to cooperate at any time.

Orders were given one after another, and the soldiers formed long lines again. The team leaders explained the key points of the battle to the soldiers.

"We are shooting at a close range this time. Don't aim. Just raise the muzzle to this angle, point it in the direction of the enemy, and pull the trigger directly." Soon, as the reloading order was given, the soldiers began to stuff new bullets into the barrels.

"Fire!"

The effect of the first wave of volleys was unexpectedly good. This time, the fishmen and arm monsters had not yet organized their formation, but were just piled up there in a mess. At least ten of them fell in this round of volleys.

Before they could react, the second round of volleys began. By the time they started rushing towards this side in a disorderly manner, they had already been shot three times.

Three rounds of shooting left forty corpses, and at this time, the monsters were nearly one kilometer away from the people.

After starting to move, the shooting effect was not very good, but as the distance shortened, the bullets became accurate again.

The fishmen were still running far away, while the arm monsters were rolling towards them quickly.

Around the fifth round of shooting, they had already come to within 300 meters of the people. There were a total of ten monsters. Although they were hit by many bullets, only one fell down.

The crowd was agitated, and at this rate, they could only fire one more round at most.

"Calm down, the Lord is with us, the Banshee is right beside us, don't embarrass the Skitarii!" Alexi immediately shouted, "Keep reloading!"

The effect of this sentence was surprisingly good. When people turned around and saw Zeus not far away, they felt obviously much more at ease. Since their lord did not run away, they would definitely win.

"Fire!"

boom! !

The arm monsters were already more than a hundred meters away. They were huge and close, so most of the Crusaders' shots hit their targets, and three more monsters fell.

"Draw the Sword"

The banshees drew their swords in unison, but did not take any further action and remained standing where they were.

"Reload on the spot!"

Alexei roared, and the squad leaders kept maintaining order. The soldiers' legs were shaking a little. They knew that it was too late for them to fire the next shot, but no one turned around and ran away. They were still trembling as they loaded the bullets, and the bullets in the hands of several people fell to the ground.

The remaining five-armed monster had just rushed to a hundred meters when suddenly a burst of fire appeared on the ground.

Several inconspicuous small boxes were placed on the ground. As the monsters approached, red flames and explosions kept flashing, and metal jets instantly turned them into sieves.

A twisted piece of iron sheet fell into the sky, bounced a few times on the ground, and revealed a line of words that were difficult to distinguish - this side faces the enemy.

Is this the trigger mine that Hughes had recently laid out, or was it inspired by Nini's bomb? The biggest advantage of this mine is that it can be detonated in a direction, using metal jets to injure the enemy, and its power is far greater than that of ordinary bombs.

Adding the words "facing the enemy" was just his bad taste. It works completely differently from the Broadsword mines on Blue Star. However, this type of shaped charge does need to be marked in the direction, as the sunken warhead can easily be misunderstood.

On Blue Star, this type of mine is generally used for anti-armor purposes, and it is even a bit of a waste to deal with this kind of arm monster.

(End of this chapter)