$ Chapter 264 Chapter 746 Friendship Between the Old and the New

Chapter 264 Chapter 7.46 The New and the Old

The year 3603 of the Fengfu calendar is also the "Year of Steam" to be renamed.

The North-South War in the Kingdom of Aige has entered a state of all-out decisive battle as the two sides have completely broken up.

September 19, 3603 of the Fengfu calendar.

The King of Aige officially declared the North a rebel, which politically completely cut off any room for easing between the two sides.

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

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

In the afternoon of the 19th, the Kingdom Army Headquarters issued orders to various noble legions through the teleportation array, and at the same time, messenger birds flew around, and a large number of detailed orders were issued to various teams.

The Kingdom Army has four army groups under its jurisdiction, gathering towards the east. This is a large group of 160,000 people, marching towards the northern industrial territory, with the Xuanguang Industrial City as the center of the province.

The uniforms of these legions were different, and the family decorations on the helmets were also different. In short, it was very messy, but the iron helmets and breastplates were unified.

This was because the washbasins and enamel pots sold by the United Industries in the North were standardized. The blacksmiths in the South hurriedly made iron armor. In order to complete the tasks assigned by the lords, they all used this civilian material to modify this kind of equipment without a teacher.

Therefore, this only unity not only lacked the majesty of standardization, but also had a weird style of migrant workers using snakeskin bags to go north to ask for wages from black-hearted bosses. The sound of metal colliding along the way was like the sound field of spoons hitting bowls when the elementary school cafeteria opened for dinner.

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In short, the nobles led the front-line infantry with steel swords and the shooters with muskets on their backs. Under the notification of the sound art, they began to march in formation.

On the side of the Industrial Party, on the 400-kilometer front line, in order to deal with the 400,000 troops of the Kingdom Army, the United Industry invested a total of 50,000 troops.

8:1, this is just a comparison of numbers. In fact, the numbers on the surface are inaccurate.

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The 23 fully staffed regiments of the Industrial Party are all full combat forces, while the 400,000 troops of the Kingdom Legion are almost two-thirds of the baggage workers who do not even have rune light armor.

What really matters in war is the logistics throughput of both sides.

When the Kingdom Army was still using "war puppets" with a small number of mechanical levers to transfer materials on steam trailers, the Industrial Party regiment arrived at the front line and built a temporary camp with hundreds of steam cars and more than a dozen industrial airships, using mechanical slings to transfer containers one by one.

Even the mechanical motorcycle rider team, when facing siege, can launch the "earth and stone deformation" arcane within ten minutes and build sandbag positions on the spot. At the same time, within half an hour, the air force can send "medium caliber" (100mm) magic energy cannons to counterattack.

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In this war

The most common B-class regiment of the Industrial Party has a logistics supply scale three times that of the most elite Land Dragon Knights of the Kingdom!

Carret has been farming in the north for thirty years, and his regiment has long replaced pack animals with heavy tracks and steel wheels.

School officers above the rank of sergeant are as familiar with the speed of steam flowing in mechanical pipes as they are with the speed of blood flowing in their own veins.

[Joint Industrial Mechanic's jargon: "A mechanic should know whether a steam engine can start easily, just like a man knows whether his most passionate thing can be filled with blood"]

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The background of this war is that the logistics gap between the two sides is too big. The logistics of the Kingdom's army can't hold up, so they have to move first.

When such a large-scale troop operation has to end from a good confrontation, the party that moves first is "highly likely", no, it should be "destined" to make mistakes in a hurry.

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After the 20th, more than a dozen legions of the Kingdom suddenly changed their deployment, and the main force was deployed to the east.

In the eyes of the United Industry, the purpose of the Aige Kingdom Army is not difficult to guess. Such a change in the deployment of troops is to threaten the Meridian Railway.

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

The noble think tanks of the kingdom believe that if the army is deployed in this way, the Northern Industrial Party will definitely mobilize a large number of troops to surround the Meridian Railway. Then, when the Northern United Industry takes into account the defense of the Meridian Railway and Xuanguang Industrial City, there will be loopholes.

But they thought wrong, and the key to the mistake is that Carret will 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 had been nagging "both sides value peace", and he looked like he would not fight if he could avoid it, and he did not want to see war and was afraid of things.

But ah! Even the gods of this world can't get the pulse of Master Wei.

Wei Keng's character is to tolerate small things and explode in big things. ——What is the critical point from stability to explosion? A thousand Master Wei have a thousand ways to burst out.

White Deer Supervisor Note: Eastern style of forbearance. If you don't fight, then it's fine. But when the opportunity comes and you decide to fight, you will definitely hit the opponent hard.

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

Originally in the confrontation, the South was weaker in combat power. And such a deployment attempted to open up the gaps in the battle line of the Northern Industrial Corps, but in fact it would expose strategic gaps for itself first.

And even if the railway is cut off, according to Mr. Wei's character of doing everything as a backup, it will take several months for various industrial reserves to have problems. Moreover, taking into account wartime controls and giving priority to military supplies, there will be no problem for several years.

When Mr. Wei saw Wang Guojun's actions, his mood could be compared to "The feeling of Marshal Lin, who had only cooked one table of meals and was afraid of the arrival of two tables of guests, suddenly heard that Liao Changtong was beating Zhang Wu and cutting off his retreat."

Through aerial reconnaissance, Mr. Wei determined that the kingdom's army stretched for twenty kilometers and headed toward the east line along the highway.

He immediately stood up and gave the highest instructions to the battle line: "They are going to attack the east side, now we will attack the west side. They turned to the right, and we also turned to the right. They wanted to intercept our retreat, and we also caught up. Take their retreat."

Narrator: Strategically at this time, the offensive forces of the two sides are like a counterclockwise yin and yang Tai Chi diagram. The armies of the kingdom are turning, and the troops of the Industrial Party are also turning. It depends on who can turn faster. Whoever can chase the other's ass.

At 9 o'clock on September 20, just forty minutes after the Kingdom's army set off eastward,

The four most elite mechanical legions of the Industrial Party Chapter 01, 05, 11, and 12 began to attack, forcing themselves across the river to directly attack the Kingdom's army staying here.

Braun City.

This castle is defended by a kingdom marquis, and now he faces the 11th Mechanical Corps. The smell of steel and boiling water that hit his face made him hold the scepter tightly in his hand.

The lines of infantry and skirmishers, as well as the huge mechanical chariots between the skirmishers, put a huge pressure on the thousands of troops, causing the morale of the Royal Army's regiments that were still in the hollow square formation to waver.

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11th Mechanical Corps, Mechanical General Bartos.

As an industrial believer whose mental power can leverage the eight-ring runic structure, there is an industrial 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 be referred to as Red Alert's battle fortress.

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

The aerial mechanical force equipped by such an armed force is a spiral fan steam helicopter, which flies in the air with a white steam trail. The thermal runes in the boiler and the boiler runes on the ground chariot are unobstructed, so there is no need to worry about insufficient steam energy. The only thing that needs to be considered is what to do when the boiling water in the boiler runs out.

Emergency changes in the air, or firing steam ejection bullets to strafe, all require the release of steam. Therefore, the helicopter can only stay in the air for a few hours at most. Of course, it is enough to fight with the Griffin Knights and protect one's own large airships from flying into the airspace to launch heavy rockets.

(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 launched under the command of electronic communication,

This huge mechanical force, blown by the breeze, sent streaks of white smoke uniformly towards the left side. Visually it is very full of "heat".

When both sides were close to about 500 meters, the siege troops from both sides began to shoot at each other.

[The energy level effect allows the kingdom’s current siege crossbows to still reach the 11th battle group. As for the current mortars of the 11th Chapter, in order to prevent the muzzle steam from spreading and burning to our own troops a hundred meters away, the initial muzzle speed can only be controlled at 79 meters per second. 】

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

The four elastic crossbow arms released elasticity, and the steel crossbow with magic runes penetrated the mechanical army of the Industrial Party like straight lines. After these crossbow arrows entered the sky, they spread out huge spiral chains, sweeping around like a bladed whirlwind.

The soldiers of the Mechanical Corps were caught off guard. Even though they deployed their protective light shields, they were still knocked away by the sweeping chains, and were swept ten meters away like kites with broken strings. The armor on his body was deformed and parts fell off.

This salvo caused more than ten casualties to the industrial troops.

But for the highly disciplined industrial troops, this was not serious enough to damage morale.

In fact, such a volley of crossbow arrows is actually the ultimate move of the Royal Army. When dealing with the Undead Scourge Corps, this "Blade Storm" crossbow can kill hundreds of dense skeletons with each stroke. However, the Industrial Corps is a skirmisher line and its lethality is really limited.

The "greetings" given by the Kingdom's troops to the 11th Chapter were crossbow arrows. In the 11th Chapter, the creaking metal turntable began to rotate, and the red lights around the "ramming car" mortars began to tick and flash. With a deafening sound, the five Tons of artillery shells began to fire back at the Imperial troops.

In the phenomenon of this world explosion, after a violent explosion, the heat tunnel can reach hundreds of meters away, and the sound will also carry a high energy level. The sound wave energy of more than one hundred decibels can make the lake water agitate as if it is boiling. (That’s why there is magical damage like Banshee’s Howl.)

Since the power of gunpowder is difficult to act on the projectile and increase its kinetic energy, the only way is to increase the weight of the projectile. Of course, if you don't pursue explosive speed, steam is gentler than gunpowder.

Because the five-ton artillery shell flies very slowly, its fiery red trajectory is visible to the naked eye as it moves.

The Kingdom troops operating the bed crossbows watched the red projectile fly over their heads, and then exploded like a punctured water ball. The hot flames spread with the fuel, like a fire magic flame storm, and poured over a 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, starting the second shot.

The time from loading to firing these several tons of heavy artillery shells was only half of the time it took the Kingdom Army's Dragon Slayer Crossbow to fire.

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And the lethality of each artillery of 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 is still 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 vehicles carried triple turrets and advanced step by step like Mount Tai.

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

The Marquis looked at the advancing heavy mechanical units with a serious face.

The iron chariot relied on its heavy armor to ignore the light spear of the behemoth, and the magic crossbow arrows roared forward. The tweeter resounded with "heavy metal rock music", which made the momentum of the rolling steel tracks press on the heart of the Kingdom Army.

As soon as the northern troops attacked, the Kingdom Corps was shocked by the overwhelming momentum of these moving steel hills and kept retreating.

The formation of the hollow square array was already in chaos.

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On the rear side of the Kingdom's troops, all kinds of firepower had been used, and the Marquis played all his trump cards regardless of anything.

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

This rune was attached to the bow and arrow and pierced into the armor, just like a fruit knife piercing an apple.

Now more than seventy sharp runes are attached to the two-meter-long siege crossbow made of swordfish skull.

However, the attack on the steel plate in front of the "Heavy Knight" armored vehicle of the Industrial Party only pierced a few solidified rune networks in the thick steel plate, and failed to penetrate the armor.

The light prisms placed on the mechanical racks with carved patterns by the temple priests were emitting energy light spears. These energy beams that could burn a football-sized hole in the giant's skin also collapsed in front of the energy shield in front of the steel chariot, turning into red, blue and yellow scattered light.

What made the Marquis even paler at this time was the more terrifying behemoth behind the tanks of the Industrial Army.

It was a fifty-meter-long mechanical fortress that looked like an industrial spider.

Now on the battlefield, the city of Braun was able to deploy so many anti-large firepower, which showed that the Marquis had anticipated the attack in advance and made the best preparations he could.

But such wisdom and decisiveness were useless in the face of absolute strength.

At the beginning of the battle, the firepower of Braun City was prepared to greet the mechanical spider.

But before the mechanical spider rolled over, the tracked armored vehicles such as "Heavy Knight" had already proved that all the siege firepower of Braun City was ineffective.

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The mechanical general of the 11th regiment, Bartos, is now temporarily staying in the mechanical fortress.

This mechanical fortress crawls and moves with six mechanical legs, but in fact, it supports its 2,500-ton steel body with the energy spell of the abdomen. With the activation of the energy spell, the steam discharged from the chassis will be fixed into a balloon, which is like an old-fashioned mouse ball, supporting the body of the huge mechanical fortress in the middle.

This large combat unit is directly controlled by a colonel officer.

In this mechanical fortress, Bartos has to listen to his subordinates except for issuing battle orders. And when this subordinate is determined to join the battle, he can even drive Bartos away. ~ This is because this is the strongest combat mechanical troop, which is used for fighting, not for being a hotel for generals.

The general needs to command in a safe place. This conflicts with the combat attributes of the mechanical fortress.

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

Bartos ended the observation magic unfolding in front of his view.

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

Bartos pointed to the position of the marquis on the city wall in front and said to the colonel: "Make a hole here for me."

After giving this order, Bartos took his knights and went down the metal slide released from the back of the mechanical fortress.

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

General Bartos' knights jumped onto the carriage with a squeak, rubbing against the metal poles, and jumped out of the back of the carriage a few seconds later on their motorcycles. They formed a cavalry team and roamed on the battlefield, like a group of sharks waiting for an opportunity in the rolling yellow sand.

Bartos himself opened his flight backpack, rushed to the airship, and continued to overlook the battlefield.

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A few minutes later,

When the 11th regiment launched a new wave of artillery bombardment on the city wall. In the burning, the mechanical fortress approached the 20-meter-high city wall and raised a five-meter-long mechanical drill. When the bricks and tiles shattered, the cracks spread to hundreds of meters, and in the center of the cracks, countless sparks spun out of the steel drill during the drill's breakthrough.

The marquis who escaped from the tower saw the building he had just stopped to observe from 50 meters away, destroyed like a biscuit.

He looked pale, but his expression didn't change. However, he had completely lost the courage to stay!

On September 20, at 10:44 in the morning, the city of Braun was breached.

The western section of the Kingdom Army was lost first.

Two hours later, the other three regiments also crossed the defense line from here. They penetrated the strategic rear of the Kingdom Army.

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

"The wonder has already been built in the north. Today's victory is just the miracle of the past."

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