Chapter 636: A Bloody Battle on the City Wall
"Peter is coming . . . "
At the sight of Zhang Tie, 4 fighters in front of a position of steam ballista were happy at once . These days, Zhang Tie had become a "Sniper" who could operate steam ballista very well on the city wall . Each day, he would work with other fighters in shifts to operate a ballista S137 on the north city wall of Mocco City .
When other ballista operators operated this middle-and-short distance ballista, they could hardly kill one demonized puppets due to the strong vitality of demonized puppets unless their heads were exploded . Even if their bodies were penetrated through or their limbs were broken, they would still rush forward .
7 days ago, the fighter who operated this ballista dislocated his arm and suffered a severe bruise due to the long-term work . Coincidentally, Zhang Tie was on his side . After saying "Hand it to me", Zhang Tie then sat in the gunner's location . With his excellent ability, he soon gained the approval of the other fighters of this emplacement and became a special person who was out of the personnel scheduling of emplacement S137 .
Those who were responsible for S137 and the other emplacements on its side was a ballista camp of No . 7 City Defense Regiment under the affiliation of garrison corps in Mocco City, Symbian Republic . Usually, those who didn't belong to the ballista camp like Zhang Tie who worked as a paladin were not allowed to sit in the location of the gunner . However, nobody cared about that at such a critical moment, as long as he could kill demons .
All the other gunners were stunned at the sight of Zhang Tie sitting in the emplacement of S137 . After receiving the report, the battalion commander even came here out of fury and prepared to scold Zhang Tie; however, after watching Zhang Tie operating for 2 minutes, all of his fury faded away as he tacitly approved Zhang Tie's special status as a gunner out of the establishment . At this critical moment, everyone in Mocco City was qualified for defending demons; therefore, military uniform did not become that important .
Watching Zhang Tie coming here, the gunner who was operating the ballista hurriedly jumped off his seat like relieving a heavy burden as he gave the gunner's location to Zhang Tie, "F*ck those b*stards . . . "
Zhang Tie immediately jumped onto the seat and adroitly drew the reset catch of the steam ballista . Closely after that, he put his hands on the handle of the ballista and pressed down the trigger . With a short glance, he shot out a bolt towards the head of a demonized puppet who was holding a corpse and rushing towards the city wall more than 500 m away, blowing its white and red brains out .
All the other fighters of S137 emplacement exclaimed at once . It would take others a least 3 bolts to precisely hit a demonized puppet; however, it depended that which part of the demonized puppet could they shoot . If they shot its torso or limb, besides opening a hole on the demonized puppet, they could still not stop it running towards the city wall although it would slow down its speed . If they wanted to kill one demonized puppet, they had to consume at least 7-10 bolts . However, with 10 bolts, Zhang Tie could precisely kill more than 4 demonized puppets .
"Hurry, get some more ammo here!" The monitor of that emplacement roared as he also rolled up his sleeves and joined Zhang Tie's supporting crew .
From then on, the ballista S137 kept firing 3 times per 2 seconds and shot bolts towards demonized puppets constantly who were 30-500 m away from the city wall .
Zhang Tie, who was sitting in the gunner's seat, repeated his movements like targeting and shooting as his body faintly quivered with the ballista . As ballistas on the city wall were driven by steam high-pressure ejection, its principle was similar to that of bombs before the Catastrophe . However, the powder was replaced by a rotating high-density steam compression can . When the steam compression can was broken, the thrust would trigger a sliding barbette which was similar to a piston, shooting the bolt out of the tube of the ballista .
When the high-intensity steam compression can released its thrust, the barbette would suffer a great counter-force . Although there were devices like torsional spring on the emplacement, a part of the counter-force was still transferred to the gunner . Commoners could only keep operating it for 1 hour before their arms became numb; if longer, their arms would be dislocated; in the worst case scenario, their joints would be severely worn .
However, Zhang Tie was not influenced by that bit of counter-force at all . For a person who could stand almost 900 kg's trike, that bit of shake was too trivial .
Zhang Tie pressed his hands on the handle as steady as a huge rock on the ground as he constantly blew out demonized puppets' heads . It was a bit similar to throwing javelins . Although Zhang Tie could not realize 100% precision like how he threw javelins; using his instinct, he could reach 30% to 50% . Although Zhang Tie couldn't control the power of the high-intensity steam compression can, he could try his best to control the trajectory of the bolt in the air just like how he controlled the trajectory of his javelins .
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