Outworld: Rise of an Industrial Empire

Moreover, the officers of the Xingnuo Empire found through the binoculars that except for one person who was unfortunately hit in the head and fell to the ground motionless, the other two actually stood up again and continued to raise their guns and fire, and what made them even more angry was that the person who was shot in the head of TM actually rolled on the ground with his face covered his face, and the projectile seemed to have just grazed his face, and did not kill him.

The first platoon of the Imperial soldiers quickly turned sideways, the second platoon went up and continued to shoot, the third platoon continued, the fourth platoon continued....

The guns crackled like firecrackers in the phalanx of the Xingnuo Empire, and the rate of fire was much faster than that of the Margaret Empire, which was shooting in three stages.

The formation of the Xingnuo Empire's phalanx instantly made the Margaret Empire panic.

But soon the Margaret Empire found that the enemy seemed to be in vain again, and not many of them had fallen.

So the Margaret Imperial phalanx stabilized again, and the three-stage shooting resumed.

So the two sides officially started a queue to shoot....

....

On a hill a few kilometers away, several knights in elaborate armor looked out over the battlefield, and they were all surprised as the flowering shells exploded.

"Hahaha, it seems that I guessed correctly, that team seems to be fearless, and at first glance, it is a backhand! I didn't expect there to be so many magic weapons!" a

male knight smiled at the female knight who led the team.

But the female knight looked at the position in front of her with a puzzled face:

"I'm very strange, why do they line up to die in such a way of fighting?"

"Xizhou are all barbarians, and what they do cannot be viewed from the eyes of civilized people. The

male knight looked contemptuously at the position in front of him and smiled, but the female knight shook her head slightly, squinting and continuing to watch the battlefield.

Moments later, there was another burst of artillery fire on the position, and the flowering shells exploded again in the phalanx of the other side, while the bombed side still lined up and walked forward.

Seeing this, the male knight looked at the battlefield and chuckled, and said to the heavily armed cavalry behind him:

"Hehe, in short, the victory has been decided!"

while the female knight frowned and muttered in a low voice,

"I feel something is wrong.....

". The male knight looked at the female knight with some doubts, and was about to ask, when the cannons of the Xingnuo Empire's phalanx began to sound, and hundreds of cannons fired in a volley, which suddenly shocked the female knight.

The male knight also took a deep breath in surprise.

"Hiss

!" "Wow, my lord, it seems that there is a backhand here

!" "Hahaha, I take back what I just said!" Looking

at the scene in front of him, a cavalryman behind him teased, and the male knight also laughed, but he quickly noticed the heavy expression on the female knight's face.

"What's wrong with you, dear, what's wrong with you?"

the male knight asked puzzled, and the female knight looked at him and said

, "According to the records of the customs clearance port, there are no more than 300 intermediate magicians who have crossed the border to Xizhou at present!

But

not many magicians are willing to come to the West Continent! Intermediate magicians are equivalent to the status of the small middle class in the Middle Continent, and their status is relatively stable, just like not many people are willing to give up their well-off life in the United States and go to a primitive tribe in the Sahara Desert to become mercenaries.

"My lord, are you doubting that these are not intermediate magicians?" asked

one of the horsemen in the back, and the female knight nodded, then shook her head again:

"Only intermediate magicians can create explosions, but... These magicians also use magic weapons.... None of them look like intermediate magicians.

"Yes, sir, you see, the way they operate these things is weird...... I've never seen a magic weapon like this!

" "Hey, you're right, if these are intermediate magicians, the power of this explosion is a little less..."

The male knight also said, and then a cavalryman behind him said

, "I heard that Kayla has a magic weapon that can produce explosive power even if it is driven by a trainee magician, could it be this?"

"Oh, there is such a thing?".

Hearing this, the male knight asked with some surprise, and then the female knight nodded and said

, "I've heard that the research scholars of those academies think that it may be a kind of energy storage magic weapon, which can be stored in advance, and then it can be driven with very little magic. The

male knight suddenly realized

, "Oh, the magic scroll is also like this

........." But in any case, the problem is that the import of common magic weapons in Xizhou is restricted

by the empire, how can these things come to Xizhou?" asked the female knight puzzled, there are only two roads from Zhongzhou to Xizhou, and both roads pass through the territory of the Weixi Empire controlled by their empire, so these two passes are strictly restricted, and the resources of Xizhou are exploited through the trade deficit.

"That's right.... One or two may be an accident, but it is absolutely impossible to transport them in such batches!"

Just as several people were discussing, a crackling sound suddenly sounded on the battlefield, and everyone's attention was immediately attracted.

On the battlefield, both sides had already begun to line up to be shot, which immediately surprised several people.

"O Goddess of the Lord, this..."

"Wait...... There is another possibility!

" said the female knight squinting at the scene ahead, and all eyes were on her again, she turned her head to look at the male knight, and said with a serious face,

"Is it possible that this is not magic?"

"Hiss..."

Suddenly, several people took a deep breath, and then a person with a staff in his hand took a few steps forward, his eyes glowed with white light, and as he recited the incantation, a ball of white light formed on the staff, and then turned into a white bird with wings instigated.

As he swung his staff, Shiratori flew forward at great speed, flying to the position of the Star Nuo Empire, and immediately rushed towards the musketeers.

The musketeer rubbed his eyes, just now he seemed to see a ball of flying birds with white light, but in the blink of an eye it was gone, and when he came on, the musket fired normally, but he felt that the smoke seemed to be a little different, not only not choking, but a little warm.

The knight with the staff closed his eyes, and after a moment they opened, and when they returned to normal, he turned to look at the female knight and said

, "You guessed right, my lord, these are not magic!"

"Hey, is there anything that can be used to produce explosions....... What a surprise!

" The male knight glared and exclaimed, the female knight took a deep breath, looked at the battlefield and said

, "It seems that as Your Majesty expected, something unusual has appeared in Xizhou.... The purpose of our visit this time is to inquire about the strange energy fluctuations sensed by the magic tower, and that energy is not magic..... It would be surprising to say that it was also made by mortals!

" The male knight laughed and said

, "Haha, dear, it seems that we can end this journey quickly, if we follow the source of this thing, then we can find out quickly!"

"Well, that's right....."

The female knight smiled slightly, but quickly pondered again, and she realized that the problem did not seem to be as simple as she imagined.....

....

....

On the battlefield, the distance between the two sides is shrinking, and the number of casualties is soaring.

The morale of the musketeers of the Celestial Empire gradually began to rise, because as the distance decreased, the accuracy of the muskets increased greatly, and the numerical superiority of the Celestial Empire was reflected at this time.

As the number of casualties rose, the officers of the Margaret Empire immediately ordered a strategic retreat!

The grenadiers in the rear left behind the broken back, and they lit grenades and threw them at the musketeers of the Star Empire.

The soldiers and most of the officers of the Xingnuo Empire didn't think of the grenade at all, the Federation had never sold it to them from the beginning to the end, and the grenades that were captured at the beginning had already been used up.

Therefore, most of them were a little surprised by the explosion of grenades thrown by the grenadiers of the Margaret Empire, and at the same time, in the face of the Margaret grenadiers who threw grenades while retreating, the attack speed of the Celestial Empire's musketeers also slowed down, taking this opportunity for the large forces of the Margaret Empire to begin to accelerate their retreat.

The campaign ended with a strategic retreat from Margaret's empire.

The number of Margaret Empire's casualties in the battle was 119, of which only 37 were directly killed, and the rest were wounded or captured by the Singno Empire.

However, the Xingnuo Empire's combat strength was as high as 863 people!

The gunpowder intensity and musket craftsmanship were the key to determining this battle.

...

Meanwhile, on the plains in the distance, a force of 20,000 men was advancing, and the defenders of the forts on either side were already attacking, and their plan of action was to penetrate the commercial cities of the southern part of the Margaret Empire and occupy a large city-state with a population of one million.

Suddenly, with the sound of hurried horses' hooves, countless cavalry suddenly appeared not far away, rushing towards this direction.

The army was in a panic at once, but the commander quickly reacted that the enemy was all cavalry! This was simply a send-off! He immediately commanded the troops to meet the enemy.

He did not order the artillery to set up a position, not even to stop the whole ranks, but only to have a phalanx of thousands of musketeers.

On the one hand, the enemy was already less than two kilometers away, and the cavalry did not have enough time to deploy the artillery, and it took time for the entire team to deploy.

On the other hand, the commander had full confidence in defeating

the enemy! The enemy's cavalry not only numbered only a thousand men, but was also

cavalry! The horses mounted by the cavalry not only did not help them, but also became an obstacle to them

! Because the spear could frighten the horse! The spear could frighten the horse, and the musket could directly frighten the horse too much or even break up.

But soon the commander noticed that something was wrong, and all the horses were covered!