Chapter 614 Battle (I)

No holy soldiers returned, and the plan did not fail. 1,500 holy soldiers did stop the enemy's sporadic bombardment.

But no holy soldiers returned to the position to report the results of their actions.

The flying priests responsible for long-distance monitoring reported that a large amount of explosives were detonated in the enemy's heavy artillery position. The holy soldiers had completed their mission.

There were no more explosions and screams from the falling shells, nor the sonic booms from the shells tearing through the sky. The trench defense line of the Holy See had never been so quiet.

It was so quiet that it was uncomfortable.

"Let us mourn for our deceased colleagues... They will eventually return to the kingdom of the Lord..."

After a simple mourning and mass, the front line began to operate as planned as usual.

The Holy See could finally resume transportation work. Carriages could deliver supplies from the fortress to the front line along the flattened mud road, bringing personnel and supplies to the front line.

The redemption army in gray uniforms carried shovels and worked behind the trenches, using the shovels in their hands to level a landing field for the armored airships that were about to arrive, using pure manpower to level a landing field.

The priests counted the coffins of the holy army, printed the consumed holy seals on the empty coffins with melted red wax, and sent the hot holy boxes to the carriages waiting for the arrival of a new batch of holy army.

This air assault has used up half of the reserve holy army.

Even though this was a suicide operation, the loss of 1,500 holy soldiers made the high-ranking priests heartbroken.

The remaining 1,500 holy soldiers were used to maintain the safety and stability of the defense line. As long as there are these winged colleagues... the enemy fleet cannot fire at will.

They never lack manpower.

Whether it is the redemption army or the believers, whether it is the elite infantry or the divine magic troops.

The Church, backed by dozens of directly governed worlds, can draw population from these worlds at any time to fill the gaps on the front line.

When the Redemption Army is used up, conscripts will be used...

Batch after batch, one after another, the wave-like tide can always drown the enemy.

On the fifth day on the front line, with the efforts of overloaded carriages and foot infantry, the troops in the trenches were finally replenished to 200,000.

Late at night on the fifth day, the ground blocked by the super-large floating island fell into a pitch-dark night, and almost all natural light was lost here.

Starlight and atmospheric reflected light do not exist.

A letter arrived at the front line, and Levins asked the front-line troops to launch an attack immediately after preparation.

"Order, the legion will advance immediately, the Privy Council needs results. There will be casualties in the war, and the more the generals are afraid of casualties, the greater the casualties will be."

For a war machine that is being started, 200,000 people are just very low casualties.

The high-ranking priests on the front line signed the order to launch the attack without hesitation, and sent 100,000 soldiers and siege equipment out of the trenches, allowing them to launch the first wave of exploratory attacks along the wide front.

The pitch-black night is the best cover for the soldiers.

Get closer, get closer to a safe distance.

Then kill the enemy with the weapons in your hands, and use the absolute advantage in numbers to drain their blood in close combat.

Every soldier was given a cigarette before the action was launched. They could only feel the silence and heartbeat, smoke, and let the tobacco soothe their uncontrollable heartbeat.

Soldiers holding flintlock rifles walked out of the trenches. One hundred thousand people, ten infantry divisions, stepped into this future bloody meat grinder.

Without the whistling shells, the front line was as quiet as a cemetery.

For the first time in three months, the Holy See set foot on this land very close to the coalition forces, and pushed the front line at its doorstep to the front of the enemy's fortress.

The first batch of soldiers arrived five kilometers away from the fortress. Five kilometers, it was already covered by the enemy's standard long-range firepower.

Five kilometers, it was just a short distance on the map.

They advanced in the dark, no enemies were found, no one died, only barbed wire and interception pits everywhere.

The vanguard infantry was very lucky to dig trenches on the spot under the command of the priests accompanying the army, providing a safe temporary defense line for the rear, while the remaining troops continued to advance.

The soldiers and priests quietly cut the barbed wire and pushed the chevaux de frise away... until an unfortunate soldier stepped on the poisonous wind bomb trap buried deep underground.

The dark green poisonous fog that burst out suddenly awakened the Allied fortress guards, and the flares fired by the war wizards belonging to the lord illuminated the battlefield, illuminating the enemy's shadows for the riflemen and machine gunners in the fortifications.

The flag of attack was erected in the Vatican army, and the exciting aura released by the Templars pushed all the soldiers forward.

"Charge! Attack!"

In the last three kilometers, there were only endless overlapping barbed wire and concrete interception piles.

The divine artillery swept through the fortifications, and the light beam cannon using thermal cutting rays penetrated into the shooting window of the bunker, turning into a stream of fire rain to completely kill the garrison soldiers in the bunker.

Melting the allied soldiers and their automatic weapons together, using the hot beam to clear a safe passage on the battlefield for the Vatican soldiers to pass through.

The destructive power of divine arts was fully revealed at this moment.

The soldiers in red and white uniforms crossed the still scorching earth, and the increased speed of the Invigoration Art allowed the Vatican soldiers to charge faster and approach the position.

They never relied on the scriptures to influence the enemy.

The gun crew was in place, the gun position was rotated, and the enemy artillery was inserted into the center of the 75mm field gun's sight.

The 75mm field gun quickly launched a counterattack against the prism that was emitting light. The armor-piercing shells penetrated the divine artillery that was still in operation. The energy that lost its restraint immediately began to be released uncontrollably. The divine artillery turned into a bomb and exploded a ball of light dust in the army.

The shell hit the concrete ground, making a crisp echo.

The battle began.

One day.

The Church suffered the highest single-day casualties since arriving in this world.

60,000 casualties.

30,000 people fell on the way of attack, fell between dense barbed wire and wooden chevaux de frise, and fell between the fire rain of automatic weapons.

30,000 people fell on the way of retreat, fell between imperfect wound treatment and the neglect of priests, and fell in the infection of germs and toxins.

It never rained in the shadow area cast by the sky island, but now the land was wet enough to soak water.

It was raining on the front line.

The fortress's ammunition reserves were in a critical situation.