Vientiane Throne of Civilization

Chapter 1870 Let's Explode Together

Compared to conventional tanks, goblin mechs have the advantages of a wide field of vision and agility, but they also come with the risk of exposing the driver to the outside.

Of course, the goblins made the most of their small stature by using helmets and armor to compensate for it, thereby reducing the risks involved.

However, these maneuvers were clearly of little use in the face of a barrage of explosive charges.

Not to mention that the explosive charge fell from the sky.

This was a fatal blow to the goblins who considered themselves the masters of the skies.

If you rush over from other directions with a bomb in your hands, it's really hard to blow them up. But if the bomb is dropped from directly above, then there's no way to do it.

Even with protective gear, the goblin pilot's fragile body couldn't withstand the violent impact of the explosion. He was killed almost instantly, and the Ripper mech beneath him also exploded a second time under the chain reaction of impacts!

"Are these goblin mechs really that bad quality?"

In a sense, this wave of their actions was also triggered from within.

Before taking action, the giant eagle riders also harbored a certain amount of wishful thinking.

The best-case scenario is that the pilot is killed, the cockpit is slightly damaged, and the mech is otherwise unharmed.

But reality clearly did not go as they hoped; the explosion's impact likely penetrated from the driver's cab and affected the fuel tank or engine.

Wei Qing's orders to them were to ensure the integrity of the two mechs as much as possible, but this obviously had to be judged based on the actual situation. They couldn't just let the two Ripper mechs on the other side do whatever they wanted.

There's nothing we can do about not being able to keep these spoils.

During this process, the undead skeleton knights who were fighting the two mechs were also caught in the blast and were unsurprisingly engulfed by the explosion.

However, the advantage of the undead forces is that they can be ignored when their own forces are attacking.

Before launching the bombardment, the giant eagle rider did send a signal to warn others.

The undead skeleton knights heard it too. They dodged if they could, and if they couldn't, they all exploded together. It was that simple.

Even if the skeleton knights run out of their undead energy and cannot recover immediately, it doesn't matter.

Once the necromancers of their Great Zhou arrive, they can revive them. Even broken bones can be restored to their original state after being tempered with necromancy energy for a period of time.

The explosion by the Ripper mech completely shattered the goblin soldiers' will to resist, and also brought the battle to a swift conclusion.

The goblin soldiers in the camp were either dead, fled, or captured.

They didn't care about the few goblin soldiers who escaped from the camp.

The Great Zhou has already clearly understood this race. Although they possess outstanding technological capabilities, their combat strength is very poor, and their physical condition is extremely fragile.

Without sufficient resources and equipment, they would not survive a day if they fled into the desert, let alone escape back to report the danger.

Therefore, they now have more important things to do than to capture the goblin soldiers who have escaped far away.

That means quickly putting out the fire by creating sandstorms on those two Ripper mechs!
Although both goblin mechs were destroyed in secondary explosions and were probably beyond recognition, bringing back two wrecked units was better than nothing, right? In the process, the technological equipment mentioned in the previous intelligence, including radios, was undoubtedly an important target for them to seize.

The main force arrived two hours later.

With the help of the main force, they managed to deliver all the spoils and prisoners of war they had captured to the oasis outpost relatively smoothly.

However, studying the spoils of war and taking in prisoners of war was not Wei Qing's job. He directly dispatched a unit to escort all the spoils of war and prisoners of war to the rear fortress.

During this time, Wei Qing also used a small communication cube to report the operation to the rear fortress and to request instructions on the next steps.

Next, the Great Zhou had only two choices.

Alternatively, they could assemble an expeditionary force and launch a proactive attack, pushing to the border of the opposing goblins to fight them.

They can either maintain the status quo and ambush the enemy in the desert, wiping out any number of goblin troops sent by them.

The result is self-evident: their subsequent strategy was primarily based on the latter, namely, ambushing in the desert.

Given that they were separated from each other by a desert, it would be too expensive to launch an expeditionary force, so Zhou Xu never even considered it.

Under this premise, as long as the attacking enemy is eliminated and the goblins are unable to pinpoint their exact location in the desert, they will have a significant advantage in ambushing enemies in the desert.

While seemingly passively defending and defusing the goblin's offensive, they actually kept the initiative firmly in their hands!
Afterwards, thanks to the railways that had been fully laid out within the Great Zhou Dynasty, the spoils were immediately sent to the Saint Laurent border by train and delivered to the capital city of Black Moon City as quickly as possible.

For safety reasons, and also considering space issues, Zhou Xu planned to place this batch of spoils of war in the grassland military region.

On this day, the entire compound of the ordnance department within the grassland military region was emptied out in preparation for receiving this batch of war spoils.

During this period, researchers from relevant departments, such as Qin Fen, Zhuang Mengdie, and Suolin, all gathered here.

Once the mountain of spoils was loaded onto trucks and brought into the yard, everyone spontaneously began to examine them without further ado.

At this moment, Qin Fen's attention was undoubtedly focused on the wreckage of the two goblin mechs.

This was undoubtedly the thing he was most interested in among all the spoils.

But as he watched, he sighed repeatedly…

"Good heavens, it's been blown up like this, how could they possibly research anything?"

At the same time, as a core researcher in the Ordnance Research Department, Sorin immediately picked up what he was most interested in: guns!
The goblin firearms seized in this batch are mainly divided into two types: rifles and pistols.

The goblin's firearms, designed to fit the physique of goblin soldiers, are considered miniature in size by the goblin soldiers themselves.

Especially that goblin pistol, which lay in Thorin's palm like a miniature toy; Thorin's fingers couldn't even fit inside to pull the trigger.

However, he still opened it briefly, took a look at the internal structure, and while looking at it, he also expressed his thoughts, which he asked his assistant to write down so that he could use them when writing the report later.

(End of this chapter)