Chapter 705: All Beings Are Equal Maxim, Saving the Dying and the Wounded Gatlin

Silver Era 1474, early March.

Southeast coast of the Beast Paradise, the capital of the Solomon Empire, River City.

Rumble.

On the distant sea surface twenty kilometers away from the coastal defense artillery, the white steam unique to the dreadnought lingered, and five steel warships launched the [Demon Slayer Order] to pour endless artillery fire on the top of the city.

However, it was blocked by the barriers of the Kingdom of God and the Solomon Code. The flames and shrapnel spread wantonly on the invisible iron wall, and they never broke through the Kingdom of God of a demigod.

The commander did not give up, and still persevered in ordering to continue firing.

The family residents in the city have long been accustomed to the continuous sound of artillery fire in the past month. They can tell whether it is a 305mm 45-caliber main gun or a 76mm caliber rapid-fire gun by pricking up their ears.

Gulfstream City is not only the administrative and military center of the Solomon Empire, but also almost exactly in the middle of the long strip of the empire's territory.

As long as they break through here, they can dismember the entire Solomon Empire and start to surround and kill the scattered clan cities.

Both humans and clans naturally hoarded heavy troops here, with no dead ends on the sea and land, striving to quickly accumulate strength and use a decisive battle to completely determine the future direction of the entire material world.

It is also destined to be the last world-class war before the arrival of the Luoyan era.

Therefore, during the entire month of February, the old gods and the incarnations of the priesthood have been desperately shaking people all over the world.

Byron not only wants to drive them back into the sea, but also wants to kill as many living forces as possible in the clan to reduce the pressure when facing the world-destroying flood in the future.

So he let Lucifer continue to mobilize reinforcements from other clan forces.

At the same time, he took the opportunity to send out the commerce-breaking fleet and the dreadnought fleet, with three Night Demon Dukes: Admiral [Sun Holy Wall] Bruch, Vice Admiral [Storm Apostle] Beretania, and Vice Admiral [Construction Lord] Little Hans as fleet commanders.

In the Sea of ​​Monsters, they fought fiercely with the reinforcements from the Corridor of Truth, and fought several large-scale naval battles.

They often broke through the territorial waters of the Solomon Empire and the blockade formed by sea monsters and alchemical warships with their elite fleets, and launched artillery attacks on the coast day and night.

Destroy coastal ports, cut off sea transportation lines, and completely turn the Solomon Empire into an isolated island on land. The longer they delay, the weaker they will be.

The First Empire of the Sun Never Sets has a complete industrial system and a large amount of crude oil that has just been transported back from the Brain Eater World. No matter how many shells they make, it will only sprinkle water.

The captains 100% implemented the emperor's philosophy: "If you are poor, you can use tactics. If you are rich, you can bomb, bomb, bomb!"

On this day, the Solomon Empire, which had been besieged for a long time, finally responded.

The city gates were wide open, and a large number of soldiers and families carrying muskets and sabers ignored the bombardment they were used to, and rushed out of Lucifer's Kingdom of God, the Seven Hills City, and disappeared through a space crack.

The old gods, led by the Emperor of the Solomon Empire [Arrogant Morning Star] Lucifer and the enemy son Belia, also regrouped and quietly came to the land front only more than 200 kilometers away from the capital.

——The gateway to the royal capital Bay Stream City, the strategic location of Creo Plains sandwiched between the mountain roads.

Lucifer, whose face had feathers growing after being expelled from the human race, looked around at the gods and the generals on the front line and said expressionlessly:

"Everyone, our opponent, the North Sea Empire, is a maritime power country, and its strongest army is the navy.

The only blood beast legion and sea monster legion that we can fight against were all killed in the civil war, and the number of legendary warships has been unbalanced. During this period, their dreadnought fleet and commerce-breaking fleet have been showing off their power in the Sea of ​​Monsters.

I have stopped the reinforcement of the whale oil alchemy warships in the Corridor of Truth and ordered them to cooperate with the battlefield of the Beast Paradise and seek opportunities to attack the Sun City of the Desert Empire to contain the naval forces.

Help us create opportunities to launch a counterattack and open up the situation in the interior of the Beast Paradise."

"Counterattack?"

The generals on the front line looked at each other.

In the past month, the expected eruption of the Ring of Fire Mountains did not happen at all. They played clowns for nothing, and most of the time since then, they could only shrink and passively defend.

There are dreadnought fleets and commerce-breaking fleets on the eastern sea, and a large number of natives on the western land. The war has not stopped for even a day.

Many middle-level and grassroots officers were in a state of uncertainty.

Although the clans could not escape the clutches of the old gods because of their strong mystical personal dependence, they could not help wondering how they could counter the British Empire?

When [Sleeping God] Kraken heard about the imbalance in the number of legendary warships from Lucifer, a divine light flashed in his gray eyes, and he remembered the treasure hidden in his own kingdom of God. He sighed deeply in his heart:

‘If it weren’t for the [Nibelung Ring] released by the Wild Hunt God Woden that made me lose my mind and pursue power, I would have fled to the next world in advance, just like I fled the Brain Eater Empire in the Mythological Era.

How could I end up being a minion of the world’s will? ’

But this was the last trump card in his hand, and there was no reason to use it to explain the victory of the Solomon Empire.

Lucifer did not tell his irrelevant subordinates the detailed plan.

After the backstabbing incident of [Eros Elf] Salome, he saw everyone as a traitor and would never trust any of his followers again.

He only had limited trust in a few old gods who were in control of the World Will and the Sea of ​​Essence.

He just casually ordered:

"Yes, we will launch a counterattack soon. Let's go down and prepare."

In fact, Lucifer was much more anxious than Byron.

In the last battle, they were killed by [Funeral God] Gris, [Life-Playing Clown], and the [Seven Deadly Sins] that they had finally gathered.

Only four demigods are left: [Enemy Son] Belia, [Arrogant Morning Star] Lucifer, [Monster Mother] Echidna, [Sleeping God] Kraken.

On the other hand, the last time the First Empire of the Sun Never Sets, Byron, Catherine, Violet, Cleopatra, Amita, and an old friend of theirs, Nova, took action.

Nova took back her trunk and used a Noah's Ark to make up for the shortcomings, which is equivalent to six demigods in total.

The top-level combat power of the sixth level is obviously unbalanced. Even with the support of [Blood Angel] Jeanne from the Twilight Church, the old gods are still at a disadvantage.

Otherwise, they would not be passively beaten.

Especially Gris, who was eaten alive by [Sick Girl] Alice, can be said to be using his life to help the enemy.

They must restore the balance of combat power before Alice digests this demigod and replaces her, or even suppress them!

The most immediate way is to break through from the upper level of the old gods, promote several divine incarnations, and help them restore their demigod strength.

Lucifer waited until the family generals went out to prepare for the counterattack before looking at the plan executor [Monster Mother] Echidna, her pair of children [Thousand-Faced Snake] Hydra, [Hundred-Headed Dragon Mother] Tiamat.

There is also [Jackal God] Anu, whose main body has awakened but was blasted once by Byron in the Kingdom of Horus.

These are the three old gods who are most likely to recover their strength in a short time.

The first two are the two most outstanding among Echidna's countless monster children, and are highly consistent with "The Book of the Hundred Beast Families (Volumes 1 and 2)" and the indigenous totem god tribe.

The latter is a pure god of death. As long as there is a large-scale death of living beings, it can become his nutrition. Intelligent creatures are the best.

For the old gods, the material world itself is a rice jar for mice. As long as there are sacrifices, everything is there.

The plan is not new. It is still the same as Tiamat using a war to start a blood sacrifice, extracting the [Bloodline Original] of the corresponding totem god and his family to replenish himself, and leaving the souls to the jackal god.

Prepare to imitate the Byron family who just broke through and create three demigods at the same time.

In the chaos of this month, the strength of the three of them has been growing rapidly.

But the scale is not enough!

It is necessary to take the initiative to attack and start a decisive battle with a scale of millions of people.

Lucifer's eyes were cold:

"It doesn't matter whether the enemy's vitality or the vitality of the family, all I want is death.

Everyone, let's turn this Creo Plain, the gateway to Gulfstream City, into a Creo meat grinder!"

Nodding to Echidna, who played the most critical role among the gods:

"Ms. Echidna, show them some color."

"Leave it to me."

The order was issued, and hundreds of thousands of family soldiers distributed on the eight-kilometer deep front began to move and began to counterattack.

The main battlefield on the front.

The fifth-level totem god [Earthquake Dragon King], the proxy commander supported by the Sun Empire, saw the gate of the opposite camp open.

A group of family members drove a large number of strange servants and rushed out on their own initiative.

There was nothing wrong with their tactics. In this era, whether it was family or natives, the only way to break through the enemy's position was a large-scale army group charge.

But it was different from before.

There were not only all kinds of normal monsters, but also weird and evil spirits who were inspired by the status of [World Monarch] and joined their camp.

The scale is much larger than that of the previous month.

There are also many strange and bizarre species made up of different species, with lion heads, elephant bodies, snake tails, eagle wings, dragon scales, etc. mixed together in a mess.

It seems that the creator accidentally knocked over the reagent bottle when creating them.

In fact, the situation is indeed similar to the guess.

These are all creations of the demigod authority of the monster mother Echidna [Life Editor, Blood Beast Lair]:

"It can create various monsters with biological materials, except that it cannot create intelligent creatures that are born with reason and humanity. Everything else can be created.

And it can allow any creature to experience a second pregnancy, decompose and reorganize into a new species, and obtain the advantageous genetic codes of various creatures."

A six-meter-deep pit was dug on the ground behind the old god's position. The scarlet flesh and soil at the bottom of the pit together formed a strange organ like a cystic womb.

Many flesh and blood roots extended from it and spread from underground to the battlefield.

Various monsters emerged from it continuously and joined the front-line army.

"Roar, roar, roar"

"Fire!"

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

"The musketeers are ready to fight!"

As the army of the First Empire of the Sun never sets changed its equipment, the agents of the Totem God Tribe also changed their equipment, picking up many of the top equipment of the Silver Continent countries in the past.

After the battle, the battlefield was filled with smoke and blood and flesh flew everywhere.

There were both the clans and the human natives.

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The roots underground and countless light red filaments that were invisible to the naked eye were hanging in the air, all of which were "slurping" and sucking non-stop.

Whenever someone on either side of the enemy died, all the essence would be immediately "collected" and sent to Tiamat and Hydra whose bodies were half buried in the flesh and blood nest.

After being joined by [Blood Angel] Joan of Arc, a demigod who holds the authority [Blood Crown, Feng Rang Expropriation], they further improved the plan based on the original plan.

With Echidna as the main character and Joan of Arc as the auxiliary.

There is no one in this world who knows how to "knock on the bones and suck out the marrow" better than the Night Devil.

While Joan of Arc cooperated fully, she quietly glanced at the lair composed of mud and flesh.

"No wonder I can't find the [Four Basic Elements: Earth] anywhere. It turns out that it has fallen into the hands of these families a long time ago.

Until recently it was assigned to the Mother of Monsters.

It can generally be determined that the basic ability of the priesthood [Earth] is ‘gestation’. "

As soon as Byron gathered the four basic elements [Water], [Fire], and [Wind], he tried to sense where the last [Earth] was.

Like the previous [Fire] and [Wind], it must have an owner. It turns out that the owner's spirituality affects the accuracy of the induction, so it can only be determined that it is in the Corridor of Truth.

So she asked Joan of Arc to use the "grandmother of the Northern Continent" Elsa to spy on the information, but before she could find it, she saw the target with her own eyes in this paradise of beasts.

The fate of the original owner of the priesthood is very likely to be unhappy.

At this time, looking down from a high altitude, one can see that the Familia clan left no room as soon as they came up and launched a fierce attack from the front, left wing, and right wing at the same time.

The strategic purpose is simple.

Not only do they want to cut through the indigenous fronts at all costs, but they also want to eat this group of indigenous warriors and use [Fallen Legion, Mark of the Beast's Name] and [Life Editor, Blood Beast Lair] to digest them into their own strength.

One is responsible for the elites with a total of 666, and the other is responsible for the large-scale regular legions.

Once you obtain a large amount of resources and population, you can quickly explode your troops and become stronger the more you fight.

"Not good. Are these Familia crazy?"

"Chief, we can't hold on anymore."

Although the natives received intelligence support from the Imperial War Department and knew that the Familia would launch an attack recently, they were still caught off guard by their flood-like and fearless offensive.

Especially those giant monsters created by the Mother of Monsters. They were huge, rough-skinned and thick-flesh, and could actually carry the solid bullets fired from field artillery and rush all the way into the indigenous lines, killing the indigenous people.

Following closely behind were a group of centaurs.

They were wearing the military uniforms of the Pyrenean Empire, and their lower bodies were combined with the galloping horses.

This invincible army was originally stationed in the capital of the Pyrenees Empire.

After defecting to Lucifer, a considerable number of elites became the emperor's personal guards. The ladder of glory seamlessly connected with the [Code of Solomon], and their combat effectiveness and military quality were top-notch.

After being transformed by the Mother of Monsters, he became a trump card in the hands of the Solomon Empire.

At this time, everyone has a bolt-action rifle or a pump-action rifle.

The alchemy skills of the Familia are not bad. After so long, it was enough for them to imitate a batch of modern firearms that can be used.

The personality of the world's will also helped them withstand the backlash of Violet's "patent rights" and did not let them die suddenly when they just plagiarized.

Although there is a problem of excessive parts tolerances, making each of these guns almost unique like rare objects, they are still very sharp when used in assault battles.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The marksmanship of the Guardsmen was much better than that of the natives. In less than half a day, they opened seven or eight gaps in the natives' defense line.

When he reached the front of the formation, he switched his saber and used his superb saber skills to sever the heads of the indigenous warriors.

"kill--!"

The Familia's three-line attack is that if one place is broken, the other places cannot be defended.

Large swaths of indigenous warriors fell in pools of blood and became nourishment for the three priestly incarnations.

The Earthquake Dragon King's eyes were splitting when he saw it, but he suddenly remembered Byron's instructions to him, and gritted his teeth and yelled:

"Withdraw, I will personally break it off, and the others will withdraw to the second line of defense in an orderly manner."

At this time, Byron was guarding the second line of defense.

After receiving the information, he immediately led the army to dig trenches behind the battle line and set up fire positions, preparing to give a big gift to the family members who took the initiative to attack.

When I let go of [God's View], I saw that on a front line about 30 kilometers long and several kilometers deep, the indigenous people quickly evacuated in front, and the family members followed closely after defeating the rear troops.

You chased after me and soon reached the range of the second line of defense.

Lucifer and the Old Gods are not idiots.

The rough-skinned and fleshy human shields of the Familia and the swift and windy centaur cavalry are very reasonable. Bolt-action rifles and shotguns will also appear particularly weak in this combination.

After just a few shots, you will get a head-on blow, which is far less effective than the old-fashioned musketeers who used line tactics in the past.

The family members think so too.

However, just as the family members' troops in dense formation stepped onto the 1,500-meter red line, an unprecedented intensity of gunfire suddenly rang out.

Not the old one: "Bang! Bang! Bang!"

But one that never appeared on the battlefield: "Da da da da da da."

The steel-like team in the front row "melted" instantly, and the troops who were still charging without knowing what was happening also fell together like dominoes.

But it was the second line of defense that sprayed out a dazzling chain of fire every 100 meters. The firepower crossed, like a pair of large scissors that were 2,000 meters long, cutting towards the torrent of flesh and blood with a "click" sound.

Even the big tree they were hugging could be cut easily by the fire chain, let alone the mere flesh and blood.

No matter how fast a person or a horse can run, they can’t beat the crossfire without any blind spots. No matter how thick the monster’s skin is, it can’t stop the 600 rounds of bullets per minute.

The Royal Navy has dreadnoughts, the Air Force has flapping-wing aircraft and airships, and the Army can’t just be given a pair of new military boots to send them away, right?

The secret weapon that Byron prepared for the Army is the heavy machine gun that can easily crush the human wave tactics (Chapter 688)!

And not just one but two:

“Maxim, all beings are equal, Gatling, saving lives and healing the wounded!”

[Maxim Heavy Machine Gun] is the world’s first automatic weapon powered by gunpowder gas. The inventor is Hiram Stevens, Violet’s gunsmith apprentice.

The caliber is 11.43 mm, the gun weighs 27.2 kg, and it adopts a short-recoil automatic barrel with a water-cooled barrel.

The ammunition capacity is 333 rounds, and it is fed by a 6.4-meter-long canvas belt. The theoretical rate of fire is 600 rounds per minute. It can be fired in single or continuous shots, or adjusted to a slow rate of fire of 100 rounds per minute through a rate of fire regulator.

The rate of fire of the [Gatling Gun] can almost reach 600 rounds per minute, and it adopts a multi-barrel hand-cranked design.

The inventor Richard Gatling is not a professional gunsmith, but a hospital sequence [surgeon] who originated from the Holy Spear School. Researching firearms is purely his hobby.

Because when he was saving lives and healing the wounded in the Corridor of Truth during the Civil War, he couldn't bear to see the tragic situation of soldiers injured on the battlefield, so he decided to develop a new type of firearm.

It has 10 barrels, which rotate and shoot continuously. Only one soldier needs to operate it to exert the firepower of 10 soldiers. In this way, the number of soldiers who need to go to the battlefield can be reduced tenfold.

The two people also have something in common. They are both "great philanthropists" and "good doctors" who are committed to reducing the input and casualties of their own soldiers. Together, they cured His Majesty Saint Byron's fear of insufficient firepower.