Why did the lord rebel

Chapter 518: The Final Battle of Thorn City (Part )

Although the three western gates of Thorn City had become a mess due to a small accident, General Siegfried, who was in the north, had no time to pay attention to the battle situation in the direction of the main force.

Because, right before his eyes, the Aurelian Gate in the north had encountered an even more difficult situation.

The old orc held up the Darkmoon Glazed Telescope and stared at the huge black cannon standing tall in the Frost Maple Ridge position for a long time, but he could not tell what it was.

——As far as General Siegfried knows, there has never been a weapon of this size in the history of the continent.

"What the hell is this thing?" General Siegfried put down his binoculars and asked with a grim face.

On the Glorious Federation side, the person in charge of the defense of Aurelian Gate before General Siegfried arrived was an orc brigadier general named Palermo Coldbone from the Roaring Sun Division. This clan name, which originated from the bitter cold land in the far north of the continent, partially explains the cold and indifferent character of this middle-aged orc officer, as well as his unwelcome and long-wasted career in the Roaring Sun, a southern division.

  However, Brigadier General Palermo Coldbone still showed the utmost courtesy and humility to the famous General Siegfried of Desolation Watch. He took the telescope, carefully inspected the Frost Maple Ridge cannon outside the city, and said slowly:

"...I don't know. It looks like a cannon..."

"If it's really a cannon, isn't this thing a bit too big?" General Siegfried stared at the giant "Dora" cannon outside the city, licking his teeth. "But with such a thick barrel, what kind of ammunition is it used to fire?"

Palermo Han Gu shrugged, indicating that he was also at a loss.

Due to the lack of oil and gunpowder production areas in the empire, the Haven people have always used mechanical and magic-driven crossbows as the main military heavy weapons, and artillery has been excluded from the mainstream. But for the Federation Orcs located in the east, with a large number of saltpeter, oil and sulfur deposits, artillery is the most common military weapon. The orc officers, including Lieutenant General Palermo and General Siegfried, are all experts in using artillery.

They knew very well that the bigger the caliber of artillery was, the better it was: although a larger caliber of the gun barrel could bring greater lethality and a longer range, it also meant exponentially increasing manufacturing costs, transportation difficulties and loss of accuracy.

More importantly, it is difficult to find suitable ammunition for large-caliber artillery. Due to the tacit understanding of the military industries of various countries on the mainland, the shells produced by various countries, whether ordinary stone shells, iron shells, incendiary shells, shrapnel shells or enchanted shells, are mostly fixed to a specific caliber in order to seek a balance between power and transportation costs.

If the giant tubular object pulled out by Frost Maple Ridge is indeed some new type of artillery made by this wasteland territory itself, then it means that they must develop special shells for this epic cannon of unprecedented caliber.

  General Siegfried knew that the Soul-Splitting Land, where Frost Maple Ridge was located, was a barren land that was hated by humans and dogs, and even gods would spit on it. Was this wasteland territory really so rich that it could even refuse to use equipment from its mainland counterparts and instead make new weapons and ammunition on its own?

The old general was a little confused.

General Siegfried joined the army during the brief period of peace when the Fifth War was about to end and the Sixth War began. He also witnessed the whole process of the Federation Iron Army growing stronger and stronger and the Orcs' military strength eventually surpassing the Empire. Although the Federation Army had made a rapid advance with the help of the Ice Monster Mammoth and had fallen into decline after the Battle of Tumubao, General Siegfried still had a deep-rooted contempt for the military power of the Empire and even the Demons, and this mentality was naturally unavoidable when facing Frost Maple Ridge, which also belonged to the human regime.

However, General Palermo Chillbone beside him seemed much calmer.

  This northern orc who had long been ostracized in the Central Plains of the Federation was promoted from a deputy brigade commander to the brigadier general deputy commander of the Roaring Sun Division purely because he was appreciated by the new commander-in-chief. For someone like Palermo Han Gu, who rose to a high position like a rocket in just a few months, most people's reactions can be divided into two categories: the first is to be dazzled by the honor and power that come to him, and fall into a kind of passionate emotion that becomes rampant when he succeeds, until he is poured cold water on by some setbacks and then calms down;

Palermo Han Gu is the second type of person. Behind this orc's frost-like frown, he hides an extreme distrust of his power and status. He knows very well how easily his power came, and how easily others can take it back one day. Therefore, Palermo Han Gu does not have any of the arrogance and loneliness that a senior officer should have. Instead, he is more like an ordinary civilian who accidentally enters a minefield, and decides every step he takes very carefully to prevent his hard-earned career from going to waste.

Therefore, Palermo Han Gu did not hastily agree with General Siegfried's attitude of underestimating the enemy, and used his thick fingers to adjust the focus knob of the Dark Moon Glass Telescope. He looked into the tube with his single eye for a long time, then pulled his narrow-brimmed steel helmet hard:

"The Frost Maple Ridge people are loading ammunition! They are getting ready to fire!"

Almost at the same time, the federal sentinels on the tower also discovered the abnormality of the Frost Maple Ridge troops outside the city, just like General Palermo Cold Bone. Sharp enemy horns, dull anti-aircraft horns, and hoarse elemental protection horns sounded at the same time above the Aurelian Gate of Thorn City.

The friction of steel armor, the sound of arrows being loaded into crossbows, and the loud war songs of shaman priests followed closely and floated over the top of the Aurelian Gate. Countless waves of sound intertwined together, complex but orderly. The orc soldiers on the top of the Aurelian Gate raised their huge shields together, and built another steel barrier on the indestructible pure white walls of the City of Thorns. The elemental shields summoned by the orc shamans, like a slowly blooming lavender lotus, expanded to both wings with the Aurelian Gate as the center.

General Siegfried, who was quickly protected by several personal soldiers behind a giant shield, looked at Palermo Han Gu beside him with some surprise.

Even in the eyes of the picky General Siegfried, the performance of the Aurelian Gate defenders, mainly from the Scorching Sun Division, was completely worthy of the four words "strict, orderly and solemn". Considering that the most elite westward expeditionary army of the Glorious Federation had suffered heavy losses after the Battle of Tumu Fort, General Siegfried never expected that the Scorching Sun Division, a rear garrison division regarded as a reserve force, could perform so efficiently when facing the enemy.

General Siegfried knew that all this must be attributed to the young Palermo Han Gu: since last winter, the defense and military affairs of the Aurelian Gate have been under the charge of this young brigadier general. The soldiers here can perform so well-trained today, which must be due to the training arranged by Palermo Han Gu on weekdays.

The old general suddenly felt that General Omar Canyang might have been overthinking when he transferred him to the Aurelian Gate to supervise military affairs: Palermo Han Gu might be young, but the Aurelian Gate defenders under his leadership would definitely not "fall into the trap of Duke Igor."

  Just as General Siegfried was feeling overwhelmed with emotion, Palermo Han Gu had already raised his head and shouted loudly:

"Prepare—Defend—"

As if in response to Palermo Han Gu's roar, the "Dora" cannon in the Igor family's position outside the city made a deafening roar - the sound of the cannon and the shock that followed were so violent and so breathtaking that even the fierce battle at the three western gates in the distance, and even the flow of time itself, were stopped for a moment because of it...

In these few short seconds, many things happened.

General Siegfried's eyes were almost blinded by the bright flames gushing out of the muzzle of the "Dora" cannon. He could only see with blurry vision a giant cannonball with flames flying towards the top of the Aurelian Gate.

That was the largest cannonball General Siegfried had ever seen in his life.

——The giant shells surrounded by flames passed through the elemental shield built by the shamans with war songs without any hindrance, indicating that it was not an illusory creation of magic, but the material crystallization of industrial technology.

——The federal crossbows that tried to intercept the shells hit the surface of the black giant ball one after another, but they were shattered into pieces one after another and were unable to resist the huge kinetic energy that was comparable to a landslide or a falling star.

The federal soldiers on the city walls looked helplessly at the spherical shell flying towards them at high speed, and then slammed heavily into the top of the wall east of the city gate. Where the shell hit, countless federal soldiers had no time to dodge, so the ground of the city wall near the impact point suddenly appeared with a piece of steel-colored armor ruins and a vast lake of blood.

  However, even such a heavy shell could not damage the indestructible high wall of Thorn City built with moonstone. The giant ball shell barely made a small hole in the stone bricks on the top of the city wall, and then it rolled towards the south with the remaining force, and finally fell headfirst into the city wall, making a loud noise on the ground of the upper city behind the city wall. The frightened federal soldiers hurriedly clung to the battlements on the south side and looked down:

The flames surrounding the giant ball had long since faded, leaving only the bloody flesh and broken arms and legs. It lay motionless in a huge pit at the foot of the city wall, with white smoke sizzling from its surface.

General Siegfried and Palermo Chillbone looked at each other in front of the city wall.

They were all a little puzzled at this time:

The cannon barrel erected by Frost Maple Ridge was so huge, and the noise and power when shooting were so terrifying that I thought it was some ultimate killer weapon. However, the big ball of cannonball that the opponent finally shot over was neither an explosive nor processed by magic. It seemed to be just an ordinary big iron ball...

All this made the two orc officers feel disillusioned, as if they were reading a novel with a bad ending.

The iron bullet fired from the "Dora" cannon was indeed extremely powerful due to its huge mass and extremely fast initial velocity. It was enough to knock down half of the outer wall of an ordinary imperial castle. However, facing the extremely solid moonstone wall of the City of Thorns, this cannonball that only relied on impact force to cause damage was not very effective. The only effective result it achieved was killing a dozen orc soldiers on the city walls.

This result once again confirms the ironclad fact:

The best way to capture the City of Thorns is to blast open the city gates or seize the towers. Any attempt to break through the city walls itself is a futile effort - the city walls built by the gods themselves in mythology cannot be easily shaken by some mortal weapons.

In the eyes of General Siegfried, it is no exaggeration to say that the giant cannon produced by Frost Maple Ridge is a complete failure - considering the size of the shell, the energy and money spent on each shot must be an astronomical figure, while the damage caused to the walls of Thorn City is almost negligible.

  - Did Elliot Igor spend all this time just to throw a big iron ball over for fun like a child shooting a slingshot?

General Siegfried looked down at the seemingly ordinary iron ball at the foot of the city wall with some disbelief.

Palermo Han Gu also lowered his head like a primary school student who was punished to stand, staring at the iron ball covered in blood.

"Elliot Igor, what is this--" General Siegfried stopped in the middle of his sentence.

  The two orc officers discovered the problem at the same time:

At first glance, the iron ball cannonball at the foot of the city wall seemed to have never moved since it fell to the ground. However, upon closer inspection, one would find that the metallic surface of the iron ball cannonball seemed to be slowly expanding, expanding, and expanding recklessly...

"Prepare for defense! It's going to explode!" Palermo Han Gu's eyes suddenly widened, he shuddered, and yelled at the surroundings with his neck stretched.

Amid the chaos as federal soldiers scrambled to raise their shields, this "cultural bomb" at the foot of the city wall burst like a ripe pomegranate.

Driven by the wind rune array engraved inside the shell, the "white doves" that covered the sky and the sun burst out from the shell's breach, soaring into the sky and transforming into a white tornado that rushed straight into the sky until it reached high altitude, and then scattered in all directions like flowers scattered by fairies...

...No, those white things that exploded from the shells were not "white doves" at all.

General Siegfried saw that they were clearly white paper leaflets.

One after another, Frost Maple Ridge leaflets were hidden inside the shell.

Yes, the "cultural bomb" that Frost Maple Ridge shot over the city wall was purely a propaganda weapon used to drop leaflets in this "explosive way".

General Siegfried and Palermo Hangu looked on with grim faces as they watched the leaflets fluttering and falling like snowflakes. The shell was so huge that the craftsmen of Frost Maple Ridge had compacted the leaflets tightly when filling them inside the shell, so the number of leaflets stored inside the shell was no less than the number of grains of sand in the Ganges.

The overwhelming, flying, and falling leaflets had almost gathered into a canopy of dark clouds covering the Aurelian Gate, completely blocking the dazzling sunlight. In just half a minute, the top of the Aurelian Gate was covered with leaflets, covered with a thick layer of white, as if it had just experienced a blizzard.

General Siegfried stretched out his trembling hand, bent down and picked up a leaflet from the ground.

He originally thought that these leaflets would contain some political propaganda that would persuade the federal defenders to surrender and mislead the people.

Then he found out he was wrong.

Because, when General Siegfried held the leaflet in front of him, the first thing that caught his eye was...

A hot elf girl who is completely naked and making provocative gestures towards the viewer.

General Siegfried stared at the yellow elf picture on the flyer and remained petrified for a long time. He then dropped the flyer in his hand and picked up another one from the ground.

——The picture on the paper was another beautiful elf. Although their faces were different, the two elf girls had one thing in common: they were all naked, had seductive eyes, and made provocative movements.

  One, one, and another!

General Siegfried knelt on the ground and flipped through more than ten leaflets, only to be shocked to find that there was nothing else on these papers but fucking pornographic pictures that were not suitable for children!

There was no persuasion to surrender, no propaganda slogans, no political slogans, and there was not even a single word written on these leaflets. There were only the purest, naked, and undisguised pornographic pictures!

  It turns out those bastards from Frost Maple Ridge used that giant cannon to shoot hundreds of thousands of fucking pornographic pictures towards the top of Thorn City!

General Siegfried swore to the God of War that at that moment, he just wanted to kill that bastard Elliot Igor with one sword.