Chapter 164
The terrifying firepower coverage lasted for nearly half an hour.
The reinforcements had 3,000 artillery pieces and 1,000 rocket launchers, which fired more than 600,000 rounds of various types of shells in half an hour, and fired more than 20,000 tons of ammunition.
The amount of ammunition Van Fleet had was just for fun. With the blessing of modern technology, the barrels are more durable, the ammunition is loaded and replaced more quickly, and the accessories can be replaced and maintained modularly after damage.
The firepower delivery capability is far beyond that of decades ago.
The scale of firepower delivered by these 3,000 artillery pieces and 1,000 rocket launchers in this half hour is unprecedented even in Blue Star.
After all, Blue Star has never fought a truly high-intensity war since entering the new era. These weapons usually look ordinary and seem to have nothing outstanding.
It's just because the scale of application is far from enough.
Artillery is a weapon that can only reflect its value when used on a large scale, and it also brings the greatest shock to people.
At the moment, the defenders of Mengchuan City are obviously the most shocked group of people.
After the overwhelming bombing, the smoke and dust outside the city took more than half an hour to dissipate.
The battlefield in front of us was already devastated, and there was no intact ground to be seen.
There were shell holes and various corpses everywhere, including elves, orcs, and more of them were dwarves and goblins, the main races in the coalition.
Corpses were everywhere, but it was difficult to find a few intact corpses in them.
The moat that had been filled with sandbags by the coalition had been completely buried and disappeared under the dense artillery fire that did not distinguish between enemies and friends.
It was as if there had never been a moat here.
This was just the place near the city gate.
A little further away, the coalition camp could be seen on the city wall, and the flames had not even been extinguished at this time.
Under the rising black smoke was a ruin where no trace of living people could be seen.
The defenders who witnessed this doomsday scene in the whole city were all pale at this moment. With shells flying all over the sky and bombing everywhere, they couldn't believe what they would do if they were standing under the city wall now, facing such a large-scale bombing.
The range of the bombing was too large. In addition to the 155mm howitzer, there were also a large number of powerful rockets of various types.
From time to time, there would be a few fuel-air bombs, thermobaric bombs, and white-collar incendiary bombs mixed in.
For ordinary shells, warriors and magicians above level 4 could still find a way to resist and save themselves, but when facing the various rockets that emerged one after another, they had no way to do anything.
It can be said that it is impossible to defend against it.
In this environment, only warriors and magicians above level 7 can survive on the battlefield.
The actual situation is indeed the case. Unless they are deliberately interfered by Weiwei and some high-level beings in Mengchuan City, the high-level warriors and magicians in the coalition have basically escaped smoothly.
But once they are entangled by teammates of equal strength and cannot escape for a while, even high-level warriors will die here.
The eighth-level priest of the elves and the princess and the commander of the coalition forces, An Qi, are among them.
The former died on the spot.
Weiwei thought that the latter was also dead, but she didn't expect that when a bunch of cavalry were sent out of the city to clean up the battlefield, she was accidentally picked up by An Qi. This guy actually had a breath left.
Of course, it doesn't mean that she, a seventh-level warrior, can withstand two fuel-air bombs and dozens of artillery shells. But as the princess of the elves and the most beloved daughter of the new elf king, she has many life-saving treasures.
She barely survived in this hell-like environment.
But she only had a breath left.
When she was picked up, there was no good meat on her body.
For a prisoner of this level, Weiwei certainly wouldn't let her die like this. After sealing her with magic, she used the water of life to save her.
It will be very useful whether it is used as a bargaining chip in negotiations with the Elf Kingdom or for other purposes.
The spoils obtained by cleaning up the battlefield after the war are far more than just the prisoner An Qi.
After cleaning up the front battlefield outside the city, the cavalry of Mengchuan City advanced a few kilometers, cautiously probing as they advanced, and entered the camp of the coalition forces.
Before entering, they found that the fire ignited by the incendiary bombs in the camp had not been extinguished, but it was terribly quiet inside.
At first, they thought there would be an ambush and were quite cautious.
But after entering the camp, they found that the camp was empty.
Most of the camps had been burned down, and the rear camps that were not affected by the war were also empty at this time.
The cavalry of Mengchuan City searched the camp for a long time and found only a few hundred living people. These people were either injured and unable to run, or were completely scared and didn't even have the courage to run.
From these people, they finally understood that the bombing had not stopped yet, and the soldiers in the coalition camp who were not fighting had begun to flee in large numbers.
No matter how the middle and high-level warriors and magicians tried to stop them, they could not stop them.
Even after the artillery fire from Mengchuan City directly hit the coalition camp, the middle and high-level warriors and magicians also began to flee.
The defeat was vividly demonstrated at this moment.
Because the coalition camp is further north, there is a mountainous area with rugged mountain roads, and several of the necessary roads are narrow valleys, so after the large-scale rout, the coalition forces suffered a very serious stampede on the way to escape.
Everyone only regretted that their parents had not given them two more legs, fearing that the terrifying shells behind them would hit them.
Abandoning the road is completely abandoning armor and weapons without regard for the consequences.
As for the abandoned logistical baggage in the camp, it is countless.
According to statistics after the war, among the various types of supplies that were not burned, there were more than 300,000 sets of ordinary weapons and armor, and more than 100,000 sets of low- and medium-level armor and weapons engraved with magic inscriptions.
More than 100,000 tons of ordinary food supplies, and more than 20,000 tons of various magic ingredients.
More than 5,000 barrels of life water used as marching medicine, each barrel is about one cubic meter, and this kind of life water is the concentration that Weiwei originally traded to Su Yi.
As for the casualties, it is even more outrageous.
Following An Qi, the most elite troops of the coalition forces, totaling 200,000, gathered under the city to prepare to take Mengchuan City in one fell swoop.
When counting afterwards, it was roughly estimated that more than 160,000 coalition soldiers died in the front battlefield, and the total number of those who escaped from the battlefield after the artillery fire was no more than 40,000.
The situation in the rear camp was even worse than the front battlefield that was bombed. The front army at least had some armor and other protection, but the soldiers in the camp had no defense at all, and there were nearly one million coalition soldiers stationed in the camp!
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