Industrial Cthulhu, starting from the island lord

Chapter 230 The Sun Rises on the Battlefield
If the monsters' attacks in the past were like a tide, then the attack in front of Zeus was a huge tsunami.

The fishmen rushed up densely, covering the ground. The soldiers didn't need to aim at all. They could hit at least one enemy as long as they fired. They often even shot through several of them. The number of fishmen was exaggerated to this extent.

Arm monsters nearly three stories high were also rushing up quickly. They were like huge balls, crushing a path among the fishmen, completely disregarding the fact that they were their own friendly forces.

The fishmen seemed to be completely crazy. They didn't even try to hide and rushed towards the fortifications desperately.

Flames kept coming out of the long firing holes. The rifle's firing rate was not fast, but Alexei had developed a new shooting process.

There are four people in a group, one person is responsible for shooting, and the three behind him are responsible for loading. The shooter only needs to aim and pull the trigger, while the loader concentrates on loading with his head down, without being affected by the battlefield situation, and his movements can be more skillful and efficient.

After the shooter fired the shot, he immediately put the weapon aside. Someone collected the rifles and sent them to the rear. The three loaders loaded the bullets and handed them directly to the front.

The machine gun position above the fortress also started firing, and several intersecting lines of fire immediately stopped the charging fishmen. Then the dense bullets even pushed the battle line back towards the fishmen.

Hughes changed his view and saw Ash near the machine gun point above the fortress. She stood there looking coldly downwards. She had successfully held the front line relying solely on the fire of the Skitarii.

Soon, more Banshees will come to support.

Many banshees around also received the news. They were quickly rushing to the entrance of the underground webway. The monsters' attack had never stopped. Most of the banshees took advantage of the breaks between the attacks to watch the airship take off for the first time. Now that the monsters had launched an attack, they needed to go back quickly.

The machine gun was indeed a deadly force on the battlefield. These swarming fishmen were completely unable to resist the bullets with their flesh and blood, but soon, the huge arm monsters also joined the battlefield.

They did not appear one by one, but came up in rows.

Although the Gatling gun's firepower was strong, when it landed on the arm monster it was as if it had landed on the snow, without even a splash of water.

An arm monster can usually withstand nearly ten seconds of strafing before falling down, and these arm monsters are arranged in rows and rows, with no end in sight.

In almost an instant, the battle line was pushed back by the arm monsters.

Although the Banshees' support came quickly, it still took some time to be felt. Even faster than them were the bullets from the cathedral's machine gun fire.

There are several fortifications between here and the cathedral, but the total distance is only a little more than one kilometer. The cathedral is much higher than the fortress here. After the monster launched the attack, Alexi immediately organized the machine guns in the cathedral and started firing bullets at this side.

The cathedral had no view of the battle going on here, as the shots were fired at a fixed point beyond visual range. Despite the lack of vision, the bullets seemed to have eyes, landing precisely on the battlefield.

Alexi had arranged for people to conduct shooting experiments in advance on the fixed battlefields where the monsters here often attacked. Once a battle broke out, the machine gun points on the top of the church could open fire according to the shooting parameters that had been adjusted before.

The Banshee left behind in the cathedral communicated directly with Ash through a mind link. Every time Ash reported a location, machine gun bullets would fall a moment later.

The cathedral was a permanent fortification carefully designed by Hughes. There were as many as sixteen machine gun points on the top alone. Several of them that were in suitable positions had already opened fire, and the battle soon became tense.

The arm monsters fell one after another, but the battle line was actually slowly pushed towards the fortress. The reason was that there were too many arm monsters.

Machine guns are too inefficient in killing them, and it is difficult to defend them without artillery.

Slowly, the arm monsters advanced, bearing down on the bullets. They clustered together, shielding each other from the bullets. Sometimes, after a monster was killed, its body would be pushed a distance by the monsters behind it, thus withstanding more bullets. Hughes frowned; the battle situation was worse than he had imagined.

"Chloe."

"Got it, the airship will be here soon!"

Hughes raised his sight and saw the airship swaying in the air. It was hand-cranked, and the sea snakes on it were almost kicking sparks from the crank, but its speed was still pitifully slow.

Fortunately, the airship was not far from the battlefield. It took some time for it to rise over the fortress and now it was right above the battlefield.

Wait, a 200-kilogram bomb
"Chloe, stay as far away from the fort as possible."

"Hey, don't worry—descend, descend, Nini, let some air out of the airship!"

Unlike hot air balloons, if an airship does not have a stable engine to propel it, if you want to adjust its altitude up or down, you either have to use a compressor to control the amount of hydrogen in the balloon or just deflate it.

This simple airship was naturally not equipped with those complicated equipment, so Chloe took the simplest method: deflating.

A sea snake that Nini left inside the top skin released a special air bleed nozzle, and hydrogen quickly leaked out of the airship, causing it to descend.

"Just a little more to the left, throw!" Chloe shouted excitedly.

"good!!"

Nini also excitedly slapped the ground with her tail, and the bomb hanging on the airship suddenly fell down.

The entire airship lost a lot of counterweight and suddenly rose upwards, but no one cared about its condition anymore.

The bomb was made into a huge spherical shape. Since it was dropped at low altitude, it had no tail fins at all. It was just a simple steel shell + warhead.

The entire bomb weighs 200 kilograms, most of which is explosives. This is also the bomb with the largest yield that has appeared on the battlefield. Neither the previous mines nor the explosive packs can compare with it.

The bomb fell accurately towards the place where the arm monsters gathered. When it was about to land, Nini, who had been prepared for a long time, had an idea, and the sea snake hidden in the bomb bit the fuse fiercely.

Time seemed to slow down. The bomb in the air slowly disintegrated not far from the arm monster. Bright and dazzling flames suddenly burst out. The arm monster's arms waved unconsciously, casting long shadows on the ground.

The soldiers in the fortifications felt that their ears suddenly became quiet, and the originally noisy battlefield seemed to have turned into a quiet morning.

Soon, the sun rose above the ground.

The huge fireball, scorching and bright, carried enormous energy and illuminated the entire battlefield in just a moment.

A sun appeared on the battlefield, and soon, there was nothing left except the sun.

(End of this chapter)