Grand Arcanist of Azeroth

Chapter 276 The Devastated Nest

With the rise of rocket launchers and missiles, giant cannons, a terrifyingly powerful weapon, have entered museums on Earth.

The 203mm 2S7M self-propelled artillery is the largest caliber artillery currently in use.

War is very expensive, and it always requires efficiency and cost.

However, compared to the higher cost of rocket launchers and missiles, weapons such as cannons still have some advantages.

Of course, the most important thing is that the cannon is cool enough!
The rockets and missiles launched in the flames and smoke are definitely not as cool as the giant cannons that shake the ground when they are launched.

When the drone searched for a suitable target, Herald asked the audience in the square to retreat 15 meters away.

After confirming that the surroundings were safe, he nodded to the goblin engineer.

"Okay, let's start launching!"

The goblin engineer who received the instruction immediately opened the cover with the key, and then pressed the red launch button.

The moment the launch button was pressed, the car body shook violently, followed by a loud noise like dull thunder.

Then the surroundings of the car body were shrouded in gray smoke.

It was dust blown up by the muzzle storm.

Hearing the messy complaints outside, Herald suspected that the safety distance of 15 meters was not enough.

The muzzle storm is estimated to hurt no one.

This dust storm is very disgusting!
The desert lacks everything except dust.

When people complained that the dust generated by the guns was too large, the huge shells had already flown into the stratosphere and were still increasing in altitude.

If the cannonball wants to fly far, it must not be able to fly flat.

Only by flying to Gaoli first can we draw a parabola and fly to the distance.

This is why long-range artillery is fired with the muzzle pointing at the sky.

When the shell is flying at high altitude, the satellite tracks its position all the time and guides it in real time.

Satellite-guided projectiles are nothing new on Earth.

But in Azeroth, gnome and goblin engineers can't even think about it!
Look at the flight trajectory of this expensive high-end shell.

The goblin engineer waited excitedly to witness the miracle.

The impact of the shell was two hundred kilometers away.

When they learned of such a long distance, the night elves felt unreliable.

Even if the shell is more than ten or twenty kilometers away, it should not be considered too much.

After all, that is a long distance of more than 200 kilometers!

However, the shell flew more than 200 kilometers and fell into the previously marked position accurately.

The weight of the projectile itself, combined with the acceleration of the vertical landing, produced a terrifying kinetic blow.

It easily tore through the chitin shell of the insect nest, and penetrated deeply.

Seeing that the cannonball hit the predetermined coordinates accurately, the night elves couldn't believe it.

Before they could recover from the shock, intense flames, accompanied by billowing thick smoke, spewed out from the ground.

Flames and thick smoke rose hundreds of meters high, and then set off a small sandstorm.

Judging from the astonishing scale of the explosion, it is more than ten times larger than the 155mm shell!

When the sandstorm gradually subsided, the hundreds of slumped worms on the surface of the worm nest proved people's previous guesses.

Although most of the bugs are still struggling, they won't die in a short time.

But as long as they can't get up, they will definitely not survive in the end.

However, the damage to the insect nest was not very great.

There is only a black hole left on the surface, which looks a bit like a manhole.

When people were wondering what the hole was like, Herald answered their doubts.

"It seems that the worm nest was penetrated by the shell. Otherwise, a big hole will definitely be blown!"

Breakthrough!Such a thick insect nest actually penetrated!
The big night elves present, except for Malfurion who was still sleeping at the time, all participated in the battle of quicksand thousands of years ago.

Facing the shell of the hive that was harder than steel, the night elves had nothing to do.

That thing is several meters thick, and no weapon can destroy it.

As for sending troops from the entrance into the nest to clear it.

The labyrinth-like underground world and the ferocious insects that can be seen everywhere played a very high role in dissuading.

Of the night elf soldiers who dared to enter the nest, no more than half of them survived.

Back then the Aspects had burned and burned the hives, finally getting rid of these nasty hives.

However, the insect nest has only been dormant for decades, and soon began to move outside again.

For this situation, the night elves can only eliminate as much as possible to reduce the size of the bugs.

As for the worm nest itself, they didn't have the confidence to destroy it.

Even if Tyrande led the stars to fall and bombard the hive, it would only puddle the surface.

If conventional weapons can effectively damage the insect nest, this is naturally better!

The big boss of the night elves, who didn't consider the cost factor at all, has decided to blast the insect nest inch by inch with a giant cannon.

In the eyes of these prodigals, anything that can destroy the nest is a good thing.

Good things must be used by the insect nest, so that they can experience the despair of being gradually destroyed!
During the Battle of Quicksand, the night elves lost too many people.

Whether it is to suppress the speed of the expansion of the worm nest or to avenge the clansmen, the war cannot be stopped.

Their strong vengeance is not comparable to that of the high elves who like to hang around!

Seeing a large number of worms running out of the worm nest, it seems to be rescuing the fallen worms.

The big bosses of the night elves suddenly became excited.

"Quick, quick, one more shot. Money is definitely not an issue!"

Herald was speechless at the irritability of these guys.

However, the customer's consumption requirements must be met.

He turned to the goblin engineer and gave the order to attack.

"Load the incendiary bomb and fire another round into that hole."

Hearing that the air incendiary bomb was going to be used, the goblin engineer said excitedly: "Okay, the air incendiary bomb is arranged!"

Then he selected the air incendiary bomb marked in red and clicked to confirm.

The super heavy self-propelled artillery is a fully automatic loading mode.

The manipulator takes the shells out of the ammunition storage cabinet and puts them on the guide rail of the automatic loader, without manual handling of the shells.

This kind of shell weighs several hundred kilograms, and ordinary people cannot move it.

Of course, night elf fighters definitely have no pressure.

But it is meaningless to arrange manpower for things that can be done by manipulators.

Simulate the way of manpower loading when training at most.

The red-painted shells were loaded into the barrel, and the onlookers immediately ran away.

Some even ran into surrounding buildings.

Red often represents danger, and it must be as far away as possible!

The dull loud noise and impact of smoke and dust once again swept across the square and surrounding buildings.

Facts have proved that the firing process of red shells is no different from conventional shells.

However, the red cannonball that flew into the sky was carrying terrible volatile fuel inside.

If this thing exploded in Cenarion Hold, the entire fortress would be burned to the ground.

Red shells are also a mode for satellite guidance.

It constantly corrects the trajectory through the blades at the front end of the projectile during flight.

By the time it enters the final strike, the accuracy has been corrected to be extremely high.

It is this kind of cheating method that is used to shoot shells into narrow trenches.

Seeing the red cannonballs falling into the hole accurately, the night elves were shocked.

At a distance of more than 200 kilometers, it can still hit the target so accurately.

It is too exaggerated!
The red cannonball that accurately fell into the hole shattered inside the worm nest.

The air fuel diffuses inside the nest and creates a deflagration.

The shock waves of high temperature and high pressure wantonly destroyed this area.

Insects, carbon-based organisms, turn into fly ash when they meet each other.

Under the extremely high temperature of the flame, the already damaged insect nest collapsed.

Burned down?This burned down?
The big night elves rubbed their eyes one after another, suspecting that they had misread.

(End of this chapter)