Durin's Diary

Chapter 994 Circling the Flying Beam

As soon as Dulin reached the city wall, he saw a large fire burning in the barracks in the distance.

The communications soldier shook the phone back, and Dulin heard good news over the phone—the artillery crew's observers on the hot air balloon spotted Chaos's food truck.

Unlike the Changtang canteen in Guanshang, in Dulin's eyes, the Chaos Guys' Big Head ate standard pig feed. In fact, what these guys ate was liquid food placed in tanks. Every morning, these tank trucks would come from the rear camp to distribute breakfast to the Chaos Guys in the front camp.

To avoid losing ground anti-aircraft fire and the cover of the Celestial Master, the observers couldn't see the situation in the main camp, but they did see those food trucks for several days in a row.

Sure enough, today they saw them enter the forward camp again and start distributing food. The observer didn't stand on ceremony and dialed the phone to Dulin's artillery crew commander. The artillery crew commander waved his hand and ordered 20 guns to fire five rounds in rapid succession.

As a result, all the food carts were blown into the sky, and nearly a thousand Chaos people died because of this—they were all queuing up to eat, who could have imagined that the cannons of Changtang could reach such a distance that they had never been able to reach before, and that they could hit so many people so quickly.

So the first round of shells all landed in the ranks, and very few could escape after being hit by shrapnel.

"Now their cannon fodder will have to launch an attack on empty stomachs." The Minotaur commander laughed heartily while holding his binoculars—this kind of drama, where the enemy starves while they themselves don't, really seemed perfect for the soldiers to watch.

The fact that there was no longer a situation where the soldiers were full while the enemy was hungry made them even happier.

Sure enough, after a short while, some of the enraged Chaos Lords began to organize an attack on the city. The cannon fodder were moving unusually slowly today. The Minotaur general thought for a moment and looked at Dulin: "My lord, do you think we should stop firing at the cannon fodder today and wait until they reach the city walls before burning them with spells? For now, let's attack those armored guys, what do you think?"

"I think it's fine." Although the Chaos cannon fodder is worthless and has little combat power, they haven't even eaten today. Obviously, their already meager combat power will only drop further. At this moment, the elite troops on the city wall are firing at them. If their commander is an impatient person, they might start killing each other without even needing the Changtang people to take action.

No, cannon fodder isn't even considered human.

With this in mind, Dulin watched as the Chaos Lord's attack became unsustainable before it even reached its halfway point—because all the firepower was being poured onto the Chaos Lord's elite troops.

Their armored warriors were felled in droves, their archers were covered by spells and harvested by chain bullets, and although their sorcerers had learned from yesterday's experience and had shield-bearing behemoths to help with cover, the exploding bullets from Dulin's name always managed to turn them into parts as well.

As for the cannon fodder, they collapsed without suffering any damage.

Then Dulin saw the Chaos commander angrily begin ordering his warriors to slaughter the cannon fodder.

As a result, the cannon fodder fled even faster, and their rout even scattered the cannon fodder and ranged units behind them—the already crumbling morale of the Chaos ranged units was also swept away by the cannon fodder and ran off with the tide.

Finally, the sharpshooter at the top of the wall shot the commander to the ground, and then a group of daring forest rangers descended the city wall and, in full view of everyone, chopped off the Chaos Man's head.

"So you guys have experience now, huh?"

"Isn't this a case of the timid starving to death while the bold get rich?"

Faced with Dulin's smile, the leader of the forest-crossing team placed his head in front of the Minotaur Guardian: "Commander Minotaur! I have fulfilled my mission!" The Minotaur Guardian, known as Commander Minotaur, grinned from ear to ear. He handed his head to the guards, who hung it on the wall, and then looked at Dulin: "Mr. Dulin's artillery crew deserves the greatest credit this time."

“I’m a guest general, here to help. I’ll take care of what you all have, so you don’t need to worry about it.” Dulin smiled and gestured to the old man not to flatter him, then took out a stack of windproof lighters and two packs of cigarettes—the lighters were refillable—and handed them to the group of forest travelers: “A little reward for the brave warriors, but if anyone dares to disobey orders again, I’ll have to use the staff the Grand Tutor gave me to spank their backside.”

The forest travelers accepted the lighters and cigarettes with smiles. They had seen Dulin use the windproof lighters in the past few days and could only say that they were really useful. The fact that Lord Dulin was giving them silver-cased ones this time was clearly a reward.

As for cigarettes, they are the most valuable form of currency in Shanhaiguan.

"Thank you for the reward, sir."

"Lighting fireworks will give you away your position. Don't be so stupid as to kill yourself, understand?" Dulin said with a smile.

"Don't worry, none of us Forest Travelers are stupid," the young Forest Travelers patted their chests in unison.

That's good.

Dulin nodded, then looked at the battlefield where everyone had fled, turning to the forest traveler: "I'll give you something. Go downstairs again and see if anyone's still in those siege towers. If not..." He pulled out some block-like objects from his spatial storage: "Here, I'll teach you how to put these at the bottom of the siege tower platform..."

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Dulin taught the Forestwalkers about the malleable explosives from the Eastern Territory. Although they were a bit expensive to make, they were very useful. Once installed, they could be detonated from a distance by inserting an arcane ignition fuse.

After the foresters descended the wall and installed their equipment at the base of more than twenty siege towers, they returned to the city wall.

In the afternoon, the Chaos Lords, having fed the cannon fodder to their hearts' content, launched another attack. They drove the cannon fodder to the front and then began to stuff the soldiers back into the siege towers. This time, the cannon fodder were not spared on the city walls either, and the artillery units behind them did not attack the siege towers.

When they were pushed to within a hundred meters of the city wall, Dulin pressed the remote detonation button.

Watching the armored soldiers in the siege towers being blown into the air, the middle-aged forest traveler exclaimed, "This thing is really good! I just thought of countless ways to trick Chaos Lao."

“I can provide you with some,” Dulin said, watching the Chaos Legion scream and begin to flee—they had not sensed any fluctuations in the spell, nor had they seen the trajectory of the cannonballs. Faced with the bizarre fact that all the siege towers had exploded at once in an instant, their morale collapsed once again.

First, the cannon fodder began to flee, then the armored soldiers, and it eventually turned into a complete rout.

Looking at the setting sun, Dulin realized that Chaos wouldn't be able to launch another offensive today.

(End of this chapter)