Chapter 619 Iron and Fire
Standing next to the huge and majestic war machine, Hom couldn't help but look up at its iron-gray armor and the pipes and mechanical structures covered in the shield. Beside him, the former commander of the Rock Fortress and the current Cecil officer, the Maryland Knight, exclaimed softly: "This is really a beautiful machine, isn't it?"
Hom turned his head slightly and glanced at the knight who had been re-dressed and loyal to the Principality.
After a year of labor reform and ideological reshaping, more than half a year of knowledge education, and then passed strict assessment and oath procedures, the former royal noble got the opportunity to be loyal to the lord of the southern border.
He was once incorporated into the engineering unit of the Second Legion, participated in the construction and production of many regions in the north, witnessed with his own eyes, and experienced the operating rules of the Cecil order. This Knight showed his sincere and serious attitude and excellent personal ability in this process, so he was promoted and finally joined the First Combat Corps and became the commander of the "Iron Throne".
In Cecil, there are not many "transformers" like him. After all, talents are scarce in this era. Some intellectuals in the early stages of production and construction must be selected from the old nobles. This may leave certain hidden dangers in the future, but it is better than dying in the quagmire in the early stages of development.
The Maryland Knight, who is of reliable character, should be regarded as one of the most trustworthy and expected of such "transformers".
Hom, who was born into a serf but now one of Cecil officials, laughed: "This is indeed a beautiful machine, and every part is beautiful."
He was somewhat of a pun, but he was indeed admiring the war machine on the tracks beside him - this huge armored train was the most powerful mechanical device he had ever seen in his life. It was not only a means of transportation, but also a weapon and a fortress. It was the outstanding creation of the Marquis of Rebecca and the great craftsman Nicholas, and it was also awesome crystallization of blood and sweat created by Cecil's hardworking and intelligent workers.
It has two "arsanctuary sections" at the beginning and end. The chassis of the vehicle body is equipped with a total of four large rail guns and four currently the largest super heavy burners. Between the turret and the base of the burner are placed an armored gun turret that can accommodate combatants. Depending on the battle situation, lightning, fireballs, and scorching rays can be fired to strafuse the enemy to defend the train gun;
The middle section of the train is a large carriage called the "tactical section". In addition to accommodating the train command center, it is also equipped with high-power magical obelisks and communication devices, as well as sufficient self-defense weapons;
The rest of the train carriages are "carriage sections". The huge carriages can accommodate hundreds of soldiers, and the carriages can also be replaced with open chassis to transport various types of combat vehicles. Almost all the magic vehicles currently manufactured by Cecil can be placed on the wide and powerful chassis;
Now, this terrifying war machine has twelve "Warhammer-i" tanks fixed on the chassis of four carriers. Those tanks are not only "passengers" of this train, but also terrifying armed forces themselves. When they are fixed on the chassis, they are equivalent to becoming small train cannons. Their turrets are even more flexible than the main guns of the "Iron Throne" themselves. As long as the commander of the train leader gives the twelve additional tank guns can faithfully annihilate all the sluts who dare to approach the "Iron Throne".
Fully armed and ruled the earth, it was so powerful that when he saw it with his own eyes, Holme finally realized why the name of a train was "Iron Throne" - the iron gray paint and the tough and straight mechanical structure made it live up to the name of "Trone", and even had a beauty that fascinated him. At this moment, he was even a little jealous of the Maryland Knights.
"This is just the first 'Iron Throne'," the Maryland Knights looked proud. "According to the plan, there will be subsequent Iron Throne armored trains to be put on the track to protect the land covered by the railway. Therefore, each Iron Throne actually has a subdivided name - the full name of the column in front of you should be 'Iron Throne-Zero'."
"Is the initial Iron Throne..." Hom nodded thoughtfully, and then said, "We have been laying railways extending north these days. The situation in the east is deteriorating, but correspondingly, since the lords of various places blocked their own territory and castles, a large number of wilderness areas have become completely uncontrolled areas, and almost no one hindered our activities - even if a few local lords interfere, they cannot become a climate in a mess of sand."
Maryland asked: "Where are those infected with crystal clusters currently?"
"They are still active in the area west of Solinburg, with only a few confused wanderers entering the East, and there is no threat yet."
Maryland nodded slightly.
It is obvious that the main target of the End of All Things is the capital of Ansu. They sent almost all the crystal cluster troops to the front line in the northwest direction, and they paid little attention to the food that had been placed on the dining table in the East. This is not difficult to understand. On one side of the East is the Tifeng Empire, and on the other side is the eastern part of the Holy Spirit Plain that has completely fallen. Most of the main military power and capable nobles in its territory have been lost in the great pollution of the Holy Spirit Plain. For the End of All Things that have already mastered the advantages, this land is equivalent to being swallowed by them, and now all that is left is slowly digested.
But the Maryland Knights knew that this situation would not last long - the end of everything will die. They have not adjusted their energy yet, and have not "digested" the huge army they suddenly mastered, and have not completely stood firm. However, when they completely wiped out the rebellious forces of the Kingdom Army on the Holy Spirit Plain, when their troops arrived at the city of Saint Sunil, they will begin to "absorb" the forces from the eastern border and continuously transform the population on this land into their large army of crystal clusters to sweep the remaining territory of Ansu.
And his mission is to suddenly block the pass to the East before all this happens from the unexpected perspective of the death of all things, and cooperate with Gao Wen Cecil's "blockdown" operation on the front line of the Gorgon River.
In the past few months, Baisha Mining has built a large number of railways in the interlaced areas between Baisha and Glen under the name of "building more roads to facilitate the transportation of ore". The slow reaction speed of the local lords, coupled with the money offensive of Baisha Mining Company against rural knights, tax collectors, and civil servants, has made these railways almost paved under the noses of Silas Loren. Now, due to the increasing chaos in the eastern border, Baisha Mining's actions to pave the railway can be blatantly.
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On the east bank of the Gorgon River and in the north of the abundant forest land, the steel casting legion began to advance.
In the middle of the river, three magic warships led by the "Trail Blazers" opened their magic wings. The dazzling rune light shone above the waves of the Gorgon River. The huge energy was gathered, compressed, and infused. The heavy "Truth-i" magic crystal rail guns were slightly adjusted with the assistance of mechanical devices. With the deafening sound of shells slashing through the air, the obelisk-like magic crystal shells rushed out of the track and flew straight to the sky.
In the sharp sound, shells falling from the sky fell to the earth, like a sky fire falling to the ground, and the earth collapsed and the mountains and rivers were destroyed. Countless crystal cluster giants who were walking in a daze in the wastelands and wilderness were destroyed before they could react. This blow exceeded their vision limits, and even exceeded the perception limits of the strongest among them. In the continuous fall of the sky fire, the mutated limbs and crystal clusters were destroyed, and the huge crystal cluster legion was divided into pieces. Then, they fought each other in the chaos, searching for enemies who didn't know where to hide.
On the high ground on the river bank, the steel ranger soldiers wearing black armor climbed up to the observation deck of the chariot, opened the tactical eyepiece, focused on the crystal cluster monsters coming from the plain, and continued to send signals to the warships in the river, guiding rounds of ships after round of naval bombardment.
After several ship guns bombarded, the tank began to push forward, relying on tank guns to open the circuit with long-range howitzers in the rear. The wheels and tracks crushed the land that had begun to heat up, and gradually advanced towards the area polluted by the crystal cluster giants.
In this devastating torrent, the "Iron and Steel Ambassador" supported the reinforced shield and extended the queue toward the front. In each Iron and Steel Ambassador's chariot, the most alert soldiers were paying attention to the images reflected in the observation window - the observation window had the magic effect of "detection distortion".
In the observation field that appears red due to the spell effect, the entire earth is shrouded in the surging magical power, and the arcane light on the bodies of the crystal cluster giants swaying in the smoke and dust is as eye-catching as candlelight in the dark night.
The candlelight on some of these individuals is particularly eye-catching.
The scout immediately transferred the target to the howitzer gunner, and at the same time sent a signal to the troops in the rear: "I observed the commanding individual and began to guide the shooting."
The steel ambassadors who acted as observation vehicles stopped the car briefly, stabilized the body of the car and activated their respective car-mounted howitzers. This small-powered "main gun" did not have strong lethality, and sometimes it was even intercepted by an extremely powerful crystal cluster giant with shields. However, as the long-range grenades they fired roared through the air and fell to the distant land, hundreds of "Warhammer-i" main battle tanks located behind would immediately concentrate the artillery fire in the direction marked by the grenades. At this level of attack, relying on one or two powerful casting units, it would not be intercepted no matter how.
After a short but devastating round of shelling, a considerable number of enemies will inevitably fall into chaos.
The tide-like crystal cluster giants charged towards the enemy entering their vision. Their commanders were dead before the charge began, and the charging giants... gradually degenerated into out-of-control beasts in the process.
It will take about an hour to completely weaken, but most of them will live less than an hour later.
Because they will unorganize and unorganized, striking the death fire intertwined by artillery fire and burners, without dodging or avoiding until they turn into ashes.
Due to the instinctive offensiveness of the crystal cluster giant after it is out of control, the legion does not even have to deliberately look for enemies hiding in blind spots in the field of vision or in the distance. As long as the artillery fire is still roaring, monsters almost a hundred miles will take the initiative to come into the burning purified flames.
On the high ground behind, Gao Wen stood under the sunshade, quietly watching the scene on the distant plains. The battlefield of artillery fire and the flashes from the direction of the Gorgon River (occasionally, there are iridescent beams of iridescent light sweeping across the river bank) came into his eyes. Near him, the mobile magic net relay car was broadcasting intensive communications from the Trail Blazers and the ground forces. Several magic net terminals projected different images. Communication soldiers and commanders were busy between the equipment and the tactical map, and the sound of commands and reports kept coming from all directions.
In a trance, he felt a sense of time and space disorder.
On the other side, the young Knight Philip was standing at the map table not far away, and was paying attention to the changes in the battlefield with a group of officers. Byron's holographic projection appeared beside Philip - through the Magic Net terminal, Byron, who was far away on the Trail Blazers, seemed to be at the scene of the Army Command.
The plan for water and land propulsion was proposed by Gao Wen. In this plan, he asked the river fleet to support the ground forces with heavy artillery. After initially tearing open the legion array of the Crystal Cluster Giant, the land tank troops advanced forward and rely on long-distance howitzers and other means to clean up the field for a second time. Then, before the Crystal Cluster Giant reacted, the land troops quickly occupied a favorable position and relied on heavy burners, fire-breathing infantry, White Knights Brigade and other forces to completely purify the entire battlefield.
On this basis, the Philip Knights formulated a more detailed land force combat plan - relying on the steel ambassadors to serve as reconnaissance vehicles, with the advantages of maneuver power and range, and reliable shield devices, these vehicles will quickly lock in the command nodes in the Crystal Cluster Legion ahead and guide the artillery bombardment to destroy those nodes at a long range.
After this, the loyal Cecil army will rely on the same loyal burning weapons to eliminate those enemies who have lost control.
These schemes are surprisingly effective.
Chapter completed!