Wasteland: My Items Can Be Infinitely Upgraded-Chapter 579 - 281: Covering Terrain, Delay and Attrition (Part 2)

In the battle department’s data, there are also coordinates files left behind by the first-generation personnel.

Especially for global routes like Oasis Avenue, the migration routes are all fixed. As early as several thousand years ago, the Holy See had measured and experimented land markers within a 50-kilometer range on both sides of the route.

Then it was transformed into a complete set of artillery coordinate parameters.

This way, as long as the scouts on the front line or the observation points on the battleships confirm the enemy’s location, they can directly report the coordinate numbers.

Then, members of the battle department can make micro-adjustments to the angle of elevation and aiming direction of the artillery through calculations and adjustments, precisely locking onto targets several kilometers away for beyond-visual range fire coverage.

The speed is so fast that from receiving the message to the shell landing, the strike can even be completed within half a minute.

As for the coverage area, for town-level battleships like the Oasis, the firepower is so strong that after one volley, it is enough to cause destructive damage across a square kilometer, being a demolition tool worthy of city destruction.

Where the shells land, only ruins full of scars remain.

After all, just the two battleship heavy cannons under the bow can launch 200mm diameter giant shells, with basic damage as high as 1000.

Just one shot can tear through a three-meter-thick defense structure, and even the Tier Two Late-stage Rock Horse Beast, known for its defense, would be as fragile as thin paper before the heavy cannon bombardment.

With up to 1000 damage, any Tier Two life form would struggle to withstand this destructive hit, though its rate of fire makes it difficult to hit Tier Two entities in good condition directly, the explosive aftermath and shockwave can still cover a 500-meter radius.

Causing hundreds of points of area damage.

Ordinary life forms within the effective kill range would either be too close and directly shattered, or their internal organs would suffer severe shock damage, critically injuring them.

Even hiding behind cover cannot withstand the blast’s impact.

Even a Tier One evolutionary form would be severely injured.

As for Tier Two beings, if it were a Human Evolver, they might still rely on their relatively slim size to reduce the impact’s injuries, but Tier Two Clan Leader-level King Beasts generally exceed 15 meters in size.

Like the Tier Two Late-stage Rock Horse Beast or Desolate Wolf Beast, the length can even reach over 30 meters, while the height can be ten meters — as high as a three-story building.

Walking on the wasteland wilderness like a moving mini-mountain, especially the massive Rock Horse Beasts in their late stage, weighing over 500 tons, can cause a small earthquake while running.

And these giant beasts, because of their enormous size, endure an area of damage from human artillery bombardment many times greater than other Tier One Evolution Beasts.

Even with stronger defense capabilities, the shockwaves penetrate physical defenses, acting directly on the internal organs within the body cavity.

The collision and vibration of internal organs, at worst, can cause internal bleeding that can gradually recover, or at best, the organ ruptures and function is impaired, causing a rapid decline in condition.

Therefore, dealing with Tier Two giant beasts, the artillery power is far more effective than an Evolver engaging directly.

During the great cataclysm, many survivor bases used powerful firepower to build solid defenses to keep mutated beasts outside the Steel City.

Today, these large cannons are mounted on mobile fortresses, similarly defending human refuges, using the pitch-black, large-caliber barrels to warn enemies in the dark.

And in Lin Feng’s view, the firepower of the Oasis Battleship is enough to suppress the Desert Wolf Race’s attack, provided that the Wolf Race Leader follows the plan and leads his evolved wolf pack into the flat wilderness to launch an assault on Oasis Town.

In this way, the super-power of the Oasis Battleship can fully unleash its lethal effect.

But the problem is, Wolf Race Leader Wolf Ao, having experienced the Old Earth Era and the great cataclysm, is sure to be well aware of the power of human weapons and the combat environment they adapt to.

This is why instead of coming with fanfare, he eventually ambushes in the mountain ahead.

Because the mountain’s cover can avoid most artillery damage, it also poses higher precision requirements for human artillery.

On the plains, large-caliber battleship heavy cannons, even if they can’t directly hit targets, can have shockwave area damage covering more than the area of five soccer fields.

Yet in the mountainous and hilly terrain, with mountain blocks and cover, not only is the area damage greatly reduced, but it must fall accurately into the same area where the target is.

Otherwise, even with a deviation of less than 100 meters, separated by a mountain, the damage would at most be a vague translation, making it difficult even for ordinary Tier One Evolved Desolate Beasts to achieve effective damage.

So Lin Feng is more worried that Wolf Race Leader Wolf Ao chooses to lie in ambush in the mountains just to play the waiting game, for Oasis Town to be compelled to enter in, to play out a scene of capturing a turtle in a jar.

When the time comes, not only can the Desert Wolf Race greatly shorten the raid route and time during the assault, reducing the damage taken from human firepower output during the process, but they can also attack from all directions at once, causing Oasis Town’s defensive line to fall into chaos and unable to offer mutual aid.

Upon thinking of this, Lin Feng immediately conveyed this issue to the Great Assistant Priest beside him.

The latter, while directing the battle department’s personnel into combat status through the camera, placing the artillery in position, replied:

"Don’t worry, Lord Bishop has already considered this point and will arrange for a special operations team composed of Tier Two Evolvers to hold back the Desert Wolf Race’s Tier Two Clan Leader-level Desolate Wolf Beast."