out of cage

Chapter 264 Chapter 7.46
The 3603 year of Fengfuli is also the "first year of steam" that will be renamed soon.

The civil war in the kingdom of Eiger entered a state of full-scale decisive battle as the two sides completely broke up.

Fengfu calendar September 3603, 9.

King Aiger officially declared the North a rebel army, which completely cut off any room for détente politically.

Previously, the huge legions confronted each other in the area of ​​the fortress group, and the "warm greetings" between the knights on both sides could also be said to have produced fierce military friction.

But now that the kingdom is so arrogant, there is nothing to say.

On the afternoon of the 19th, the Royal Army headquarters issued orders to various noble legions through the teleportation array. At the same time, messenger birds flew around, and a large number of detailed orders were issued to each team.

The four group armies under the Kingdom's Army are gathering towards the east. This is a large group with a total of 16 people, marching towards the northern industrial area, with Xuanguang Industrial City as the center.

The clothes of these legions are different, and the family decorations on the helmets are also different. In short, they are very messy, but the iron helmets and breastplates are unified.

This is because the washbasins and enamel cylinders sold by the Northern United Industries are of a uniform standard. The blacksmiths in the south hurriedly made iron armor. kind of equipment.

So this only unity, not only does not have the power of the standard, but there is a weird style of migrant workers uniformly using snakeskin bags, and going north to ask the unscrupulous boss for salary.The sound of ping-pong-pong metal collisions along the way is like the sound field of a spoon hitting a bowl when a meal is in the elementary school cafeteria.

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In short, the nobles lead the front ranks of infantry with steel swords, and archers with muskets on their backs.Under the notification of sound technology, they began to march forward in line.

On the side of the Industrial Party, on the 40-kilometer front, in order to deal with the 5 army of the Royal Army, the United Industries invested a total of [-] troops.

8:1, this is just a comparison of numbers, in fact, it is not accurate to look at the numbers on the surface.

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The Industrial Party has 23 full-scale war regiments, all of which are complete combat forces, while almost two-thirds of the 40 troops of the Kingdom Legion are laborers who don't even have rune light armor.

What the war really depends on is the logistics throughput of both sides.

When the "war puppets" in the Kingdom's army cooperated with a small amount of mechanical levers to transfer the materials on the steam trailers, after the industrial party arrived at the front line, they built a temporary camp with hundreds of steam vehicles and a dozen industrial airships. The mechanical sling will transfer and unfold the containers one by one.

Even the mechanical motorcycle rider squad, in the face of siege, can also launch the "soil and rock deformation" arcane technique within 10 minutes, and build a sandbag position on the spot.At the same time, within half an hour, the air force can send a "medium caliber" (100mm) magic energy cannon to counterattack.

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In this war
The most common second-class battle group of the Industrial Party has three times the logistics supply scale of the most elite ground dragon knights in the kingdom!
Carret has been farming in the north for 30 years, and his corps has long replaced pack animals with heavy crawlers and steel wheels.

The school officers above the non-commissioned officers are as familiar with the speed of the steam in the mechanical pipes as they are with the blood flow in their own blood vessels.

[United Industrial Mechanic's black words: "A mechanic should be as clear as a man about whether his hottest thing can be filled with blood, whether the steam engine can be started briskly"]

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Against the backdrop of the start of this war, the logistical gap between the two sides was too great.The logistics of the Kingdom's army couldn't hold it anymore, so they had to move first.

When this kind of large corps battle has to end from a good confrontation, the first party has a "high probability", no, it should be "destined to" make mistakes in a hurry.

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After the 20th, more than a dozen legions in the kingdom suddenly changed their deployment, and the main force was deployed towards the east.

In the view of United Industries, it is not difficult to guess the purpose of the Eiger Kingdom Army. Such a change in the deployment of troops is to threaten the Meridian Railway.

This railway transports a large amount of industrial products to the south every year, and also transports a large amount of industrial raw materials to the north. It is the main economic artery of the north.

The aristocratic think tanks of the kingdom believed that with the deployment of the army in this way, the Northern Industrial Party would definitely mobilize a large number of troops to encircle the Meridian Railway.Furthermore, there will be loopholes when Northern United Industries takes into account the defense of the Meridian Railway and Xuanguang Industrial City.

But they were wrong, and the key to the mistake was that Carret would be intimidated by the huge number of the kingdom's army and insist on a defensive strategy.

Indeed, when the two armies confronted each other, Carret always said "peace is the most important thing for both sides", and he pretended not to fight if he could, and he didn't want to see war and was afraid of trouble.

But ah!Even the gods of this world couldn't get Master Zhunwei's pulse.

Wei Keng's character is that of forbearance in small things and explosion in big things. ——What does the tipping point from stable to explosive look like?A thousand Master Wei has a thousand ways to burst out.

Remarks of the Bailing Deer Monitor: Eastern style of forbearance.If you don't fight, it's fine, but when you have the opportunity, if you decide to fight, you will inevitably draw a ruthless one.

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The Meridian Railway is indeed very important, but does the military mobilization speed of the Kingdom of Aiger have this strategic time?

In the original confrontation, the southern combat power was weaker.And this kind of dispatch is trying to open up the gap in the front line of the Northern Industrial Corps, but in fact it first exposes itself to the strategic gap.

And even if the railway is cut off, according to Mr. Wei's character of backup and work, it will take several months for the various industrial reserves to have problems.And counting the wartime control and giving priority to supplying the military, there will be no problem for a few years.

Seeing Wang Guojun's actions, Master Wei's mood can be referred to as "Dashuai Lin, who only cooked one table and was afraid of two tables of guests, suddenly heard Liao Changtong attacking Zhangwu and cutting his own back."

Through aerial reconnaissance, Master Wei determined that the army to the kingdom stretched for [-] kilometers and headed towards the east along the highway.

Immediately stood up, and issued the highest instruction to the front: "They are going to run to fight the east, and now we will fight the west. They turn to the right, and we also turn to the right. They want to cut us back, and we also catch up Take their back route."

Narrator: In terms of strategy at this time, the offensive forces of the two sides are like a Yin-Yang Tai Chi diagram rotating counterclockwise.The army of the Kingdom turns, and the army of the Industrial Party turns too, it depends on who turns faster.Whoever can catch up to the other's ass.

At 9:20 on September 9th, just 10 minutes after the Royal Army marched eastward,
The four most elite mechanical legions of 01, 05, 11, and 12 of the Industrial Party battle group began to attack, forcibly crossing the river and directly attacking the Kingdom army staying here.

Braun City.

The castle was defended by a Marquis of the Kingdom, and now he was facing the 11th Mechanical Corps.The smell of steel and boiling water blowing towards his face made him hold the scepter tightly in his hand.

The infantry skirmisher lines and the huge mechanical chariots between the skirmisher lines created a huge oppression for the thousands of troops, and the morale of the Royal Army's corps that was still in the hollow phalanx was shaken.

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The 11th Mechanical Corps, Mechanical General Bartos.

As an industrial orthodox believer whose spiritual power can pry the eight-ring rune structure, there is an industrial god emblem on his chest.

The regiment it controls is also one of the five first-class regiments in the industrial army.

The core of its main force is twelve "heavy knights".This is a 250-ton triple turret tracked combat vehicle, which can refer to the battle fortress of the Red Police.

At the same time, it is equipped with five "Chongche" mortars.This is a 150-ton Karl mortar.

The aerial mechanical force equipped with such an armed force is a spiral fan steam helicopter, flying in the air with a white steam trail.The heat energy rune in the boiler and the ground tank boiler rune are unobstructed, so don't worry about not having enough steam energy.The only thing to consider is what to do when the boiling water in the boiler runs out.

An emergency change of direction in the air, or a steam catapult strafing, requires the release of steam.So the helicopter stays in the air for an hour at most. Of course, it is enough to bombard the Griffin Riders while protecting one's own large airship from flying into the airspace for heavy rocket projection.

(Due to energy level loss, heavy rockets are projected three kilometers away, which is an appropriate distance that can tolerate energy consumption and make the airship safe.)
When the battle group was deployed under the order of electronic communication,
This huge mechanical troop, under the breeze blowing, strips of white smoke uniformly scattered towards the left.Visually, it is very full of "heat".

When both sides approached almost 500 meters, the siege troops of both sides began to shoot at each other.

[The energy level effect allows the kingdom's current siege crossbow to reach the 11th battle group.The current mortars of the No.11 battle group, in order to prevent the steam from the muzzle from spreading and burning to the own troops 100 meters away, the initial velocity of the muzzle can only be controlled at 79 meters per second. 】

The kingdom's thirty dragon-slaying crossbows started firing after the kingdom's officer commanded the saber to fall.

The four elastic crossbow arms released their elastic force, and the steel crossbow with magic runes pierced into the mechanical troops of the Industrial Party like straight lines.After these crossbow bolts entered the sky, they launched a huge spiral chain, sweeping around like a whirlwind of blades.

The soldiers of the mechanical corps were caught off guard. Even though they deployed their protective light shields, they were still blown away by the swept chains, and were swept ten meters away like a kite with a broken string.The armor on his body was deformed, and parts fell off.

This volley caused a dozen casualties to the industrial side's troops.

But this is not enough to damage the morale of the highly disciplined industrial troops.

In fact, such a volley of crossbow arrows is already a big move of the Kingdom Army. When dealing with the undead Scourge Corps, this "blade storm" crossbow can kill hundreds of dense skeletons with every blow.However, the Industrial Corps is a skirmish line, and its lethality is really limited.

The "greetings" given by the kingdom's troops to the 11th battle group were crossbow arrows. In the No. 11 battle group, the creaking metal turntable began to rotate, and the red lights around the "charging" mortars began to tick and flash. With the deafening sound, the five Tons of artillery shells began to return to the Imperial troops.

In this world explosion phenomenon, after a violent explosion, heat tunneling can reach hundreds of meters away, and at the same time, the sound will also carry a high energy level. The sound wave energy exceeding [-] decibels can make the lake water turbulent like boiling. (So ​​there is the magic kill of Banshee Howl.)
Since the power of gunpowder is difficult to act on the projectile to increase its kinetic energy, then the weight of the projectile can only be increased.Of course, if you don't pursue detonation speed, steam is milder than gunpowder.

Due to the slow flight speed of the five-ton cannonball, its fiery red trajectory is visible to the naked eye when it moves.

The kingdom troops operating the bed crossbow just watched the crimson projectile fly to the sky above them, and then exploded like a pierced water ball. to the range of hundreds of meters.

After the steam cannons fired the first shot, the mechanical pull rod quickly pushed the projectile into the barrel, and then the barrel quickly stood up again, and the steam from each pipe was injected into the barrel, and the second launch started.

The time from loading to firing these several tons of heavy artillery shells is only half of the time it takes to launch the Royal Army's Dragon Slaying Crossbow.

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And the lethality of each artillery fired by the mechanical corps is more than ten times that of the kingdom's crossbow! ——The energy level of this world is limited, but the mechanical power system still has an order of magnitude advantage over animal power.

After the first artillery was fired, the armored forces on the ground also began to advance.These 250-ton "heavy knight" armored combat vehicles are advancing step by step with triple-mounted turrets.

The remaining anti-large firepower of the kingdom on the top of the city has no time to deal with the infantry of the mechanical corps.

The Marquis looked at the advancing heavy machinery units one by one with a serious face.

Relying on its thick armor, the steel chariot ignored the giant beast's light spear, and the magic crossbow bolt rushed forward--"heavy metal rock music" resounded from its tweeter, and the momentum that made the steel track roll was crushed. Wang Guojun agreed.

As soon as the northern troops attacked, the Kingdom Corps was overwhelmed by the overwhelming momentum of the moving steel hills and couldn't help but retreat.

The array of hollow square arrays has been chaotic.

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On the rear side of the kingdom's troops, all kinds of firepower have been used, and all the cards of the Marquis have been played regardless.

The dragon-slaying crossbow has been replaced with an expensive magic crossbow, and this small spear has been loaded with four rings of sharp runes.

These runes were attached to bows and arrows, and pierced into armor like a fruit knife into an apple.

Now more than 70 sharp runes are attached to the two-meter-long siege ballista made of swordfish skulls.

However, the strike on the steel plate in front of the "Heavy Knight" armored tank of the Industrial Party only pierced a few solidified rune networks in the thick steel plate, failing to penetrate the armor.

As for the priests of the temple, the light prisms placed on the mechanical frames carved with patterns are emitting energy light spears.These energy beams that could burn the giant's skin through the big hole in the football also collapsed in front of the energy shield in front of the steel chariot, turning into red, blue and yellow astigmatism.

At this time, what made the Marquis even paler was the even more frightening behemoth behind the tanks of the industrial army.

It was a mechanical fortress 50 meters long, like an industrial spider.

Now on the battlefield, Braun City can deploy so many anti-large-scale firepower, which shows that the Marquis has anticipated the attack in advance and has made preparations that can be done.

But being so wise and decisive is useless in the face of absolute strength.

When the fight just started, the firepower of Braun City was prepared to greet that mechanical giant spider.

But before the giant mechanical spider ran over, the tracked armored vehicle "Heavy Knight" had already proved that all the siege firepower of Braun City was not effective enough.

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The Mechanical General of the 11th Chapter, Bartos is temporarily staying at the Mechanical Fortress.

This mechanical fortress relies on six mechanical legs to crawl and move, but in fact it supports its [-]-ton steel body, relying on the evocation spells in its abdomen.With the activation of the evocation spell, the steam emitted by the chassis will be fixed into a balloon, which is like an old-fashioned mouse ball, supporting the body in the middle of the huge mechanical fortress.

This large combat unit is under the direct control of a colonel officer.

In this mechanical fortress, Bartos had to listen to his subordinates except for giving battle orders.And when this subordinate is determined to fight, he can even drive Bartos down. ~This is because this is the strongest combat mechanical unit, it is used for fighting, not for generals as a hotel.

Generals need to command from a safe place.This conflicts with the combat attributes of the Mechanical Fortress.

The colonel was already standing beside Bartos, ready to ask the general to put on the mech and leave his "mobile fortress" at any time.

Bartos ended the observation magic unfolding in front of the camera.

This observation magic is like an unfolded energy lens, with a front sight and a large number of mapping lines on the lens.

Bartos pointed to the position of the Marquis on the city wall ahead, and said to the colonel, "Give me a hole here."

After simply giving this order, Bartos took his knights down the metal slide released from behind the mechanical fortress.

At the end of the mechanical fortress, as the metal slide fell, a transport vehicle was already waiting,

The knights of General Bartos squeaked on the metal poles and jumped onto the carriage, and jumped out from behind the carriage on their own motorcycles a few seconds later.Form a cavalry team and swim on the battlefield, like a school of sharks waiting for an opportunity in the rolling yellow sand.

And Bartos himself opened the jetpack, rushed to the airship, and continued to survey the battlefield.

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A few minutes later,

When the 11th regiment bombarded the city wall with a new wave of artillery.During the burning, the mechanical fortress approached the 20-meter-high city wall, raising a five-meter-long mechanical drill.When the bricks and tiles shattered with a bang, the crack spread to hundreds of meters, and in the center of the crack, when the drill bit broke through, countless sparks spun out of the steel drill.

The Marquis, who fled down the tower, saw the building he had just stopped to observe 50 meters away, destroyed like a biscuit.

His pale face seemed to have not changed, but he completely lost the courage left behind in his heart!

At 9:20 am on September 10, Braun City was breached.

The western section of the Royal Army was lost first.

And two hours later, the other three battle groups also crossed the line of defense from here.Slant into the strategic rear of the Royal Army.

After a large number of airships arrived, a large number of captives looked up at this human creation that covered the sky and the sun, and were horrified in their hearts.

"The miracle has already been built in the north, and today's victory is just the miracle of the past."

　Wei Keng: Nephew show me French rollers, what to do, wait online, urgent.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)