"Boom——"
With the roar of their engines, the steam tanks lined up in a tight formation, marching like moving mountains, with dust and smoke rolling in behind them.
Behind the armored corps, the empire's infantry corps also marched at high speed under the cover of tanks, approaching the city wall in an orderly manner.
In the sky, the bipedal flying dragons flapped their wings, screamed and howled, circling back and forth, spreading in the direction of Avendeldan like dense dark clouds in a violent storm.
The plain in front of the city wall of Avendeldan has been completely occupied by the Ember Legion. The empire's offensive is like a terrifying natural disaster, overwhelmingly pressing towards the dwarves' fortress.
"Damn"
"This, these guys are really"
In the face of such power, even the always brave dwarves couldn't help but swallow their saliva, and those rough, bearded faces couldn't help showing surprise and panic.
At this time, Ed had returned to the city under the admiring eyes of all his subjects. His thick armor had become mottled with blood, and the metal war hammer was stained red by the blood of the flying dragon.
"It's His Majesty Ed!"
"Praise be to the Lord of the mountains!"
"Did you see it? His Majesty killed more than a dozen Imperial Reptiles alone!"
"As expected of our king! Long live His Majesty Ed!"
Seeing Ed's return, the dwarves were immediately boosted in morale and cheered loudly.
On this blazing battlefield, the dwarf king stood on the top of the city wall of Avendeldan. His gaze was like a torch, penetrating the smoke of war, and his broad shoulders seemed to be able to support the hope of the entire kingdom.
At this moment, even though he was facing countless enemies, there was no trace of fear on his face, and there was a determined light in his eyes.
——This scene is just like the scene fifty years ago when Ed faced Fadlan's army alone.
It's just that Ed's fire of life has been swaying, and the rock hammer is no longer in his rough palm, and at this time, there are only more than 9,000 dwarf warriors left in Evindeldan
The situation at this moment is more desperate than fifty years ago. The dwarves can only place their last hope on their king.
Ed's voice was low and powerful, like the roar of the mountains, echoing on the stone walls.
"Compatriots, today we face unprecedented challenges. Those arrogant invaders want to trample our land with their iron knots and destroy our homes with flames!
But, let me ask you, have the courage and determination of the dwarves been swallowed up by fear? ”
The dwarves shouted: "No!"
The artillery fire was still fierce, but Ed didn't care. He just looked down from a high position, and his firm eyes scanned the faces of every dwarf below him.
This is a battlefield, and the empire's snipers don't care about the so-called "above and aboveboard".
Instead, they seized the opportunity to take advantage of the danger and pulled the trigger. A dozen bullets came through the air and shot into the dwarf king's head, heart and other fatal parts.
Immediately afterwards, several more cannonballs fell from the sky, as if they had eyes, and they hit the top of the city where Ed was.
"Be careful!" a dwarf warned in a startled voice.
However, Ed didn't even look at it, he just raised the warhammer in his hand high, and the huge mountains appeared behind him, blocking all the bullets and cannonballs.
The bombs behind him exploded one after another, but Ed ignored it and just shouted to himself: "Very good! We will never give up this land that has been passed down from generation to generation to these greedy people!
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Our hammer will smash their claws; our fury will melt their armor! Long live the mountain kingdom! Evandeldan will never fall! ”
The surrounding dwarf warriors clenched their weapons, with tears in their eyes. Their emotions were instantly ignited by the king's words, and they let out deafening shouts.
"Avendeldan will never fall!"
"Long live the mountain kingdom!"
"Won victory!"
Ed's words were like a heavy hammer, hitting every dwarf's heart hard.
The dwarves know that Avendeldan behind them is their lifeline, their only home, and the place where the shield dwarves have relied on for thousands of years.
They are willing to sacrifice everything for this fortress and the king.
The voices of the dwarves echoed on the smoke-filled battlefield, intertwining with the distant artillery fire to form a tragic symphony.
However, their shouts could not stop the Ember Legion's offensive. Ed's timing was very accurate. After he finished his speech, the Ember Legion was about to enter the range of the dwarves.
At the king's call, the dwarf warriors quickly regained their morale, prepared intensively for city defense, and once again devoted themselves to this intense war.
"Boom!"
"Boom! Boom!"
During the march, the steam tanks in the front row roared and opened fire, and the main guns continued to bombard the outside of the city wall.
The cannonballs created fierce explosions again and again, and the magic shield outside the city wall set off ripples. Under the continuous bombardment, the bright yellow light gradually dimmed and flickered.
But the dwarves had no fear at all. They launched the dwarven steel crossbows, trebuchets, stone cannons and other city defense weapons on the city walls to launch a brazen counterattack.
"Smash them!"
"Let these evil dragon descendants have a taste of our power!"
"The whole army obeys the order - shoot!"
Thousands of dwarf archers drew their long bows and fired arrows one after another. The dense arrows poured down like a torrential rain.
However, these flaming arrows, which were particularly effective against orcs, pierced the cold armor of the steel behemoth, but could not break through the defense at all. They could only leave a little white mark, followed by a crisp "dang-dang" sound. Bounce.
"What a ridiculous counterattack"
"Is this the only thing in the so-called mountain kingdom? It seems that we can go back to celebrate the Coronation Festival soon."
"Hahaha, such an attack is worse than the spittle sprayed by my grandma!"
"Charge! Kill them!"
The tank drivers of the empire were sarcastic, not even willing to expend any energy to activate their shields, and just charged with the arrows indifferently.
How could arrows crafted to kill flesh-and-blood enemies defeat their war machines?
"Boom——"
The tracks of the steam tank rotated at high speed, creating clear ruts on the plain, and continued to approach Aiwendeldan.
"Damn, these iron lumps are as hard as obsidian!"
The dwarf general was furious, but not discouraged, and hurriedly called to other city defense soldiers.
On the towering city walls of Avendeldan, the steel crossbows carefully crafted by the master dwarf craftsmen have been aimed at the advancing tanks.
The dwarves installed arrows, worked hard to turn the winch, gathered strength, and yelled hoarsely: "Fire! Pierce their iron knots!"
"Whoosh -" a harsh whistling sound sounded, and the two-meter-long giant arrow tore through the air, turned into a silver light that cut through the sky, and struck towards the steam tank.
"Whoosh!"
The cross-shaped sharp arrows carried terrifying kinetic energy and penetrated directly through the thick composite armor. They also pinned the driver in the cabin to his seat, causing the tank to stall on the spot and emit bursts of gray smoke.
"Bang!"
"Damn, what a bad luck!"
Another giant arrow happened to hit the track, paralyzing the tank on the spot and making it unable to move.
The engineers who followed quickly stepped forward to repair it and replace it with spare tracks. The dwarves also took this opportunity to release hidden arrows.
"Whoosh——"
An Imperial Engineer who was replacing tracks was shot through the heart, while the Engineers behind him continued to fill the gap.
As the common home of dwarf craftsmen, Avendeldan is full of exquisite city defense weapons, which always makes intruders miserable.
In the towering towers of the fortress, the dwarves launched the trebuchets carefully crafted by Master Trillant, and threw out flaming iron balls - discarded weapons smelted together.
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The iron ball drew a beautiful arc in the sky, and with a burst of air, it crashed into the empire's armored cluster.
"Boom!"
Fire broke out, metal fragments flew everywhere, the unlucky steam tank was directly smashed, and even the engine burned, followed by an earth-shattering explosion.
Thick steam filled the wilderness, and the steam tank had turned into a charred wreckage with billowing smoke.
Finally, the results were achieved. The dwarves cheered happily and continued to throw flaming iron balls and hit those damn "iron lumps".
With a loud noise, another steam tank was hit and exploded on the spot, sending out streams of blue smoke.
Seeing such a scene, Dror frowned and shouted angrily into the intercom: "Don't underestimate the enemy! These tanks are the property of the empire!"
"Yes, General!"
The pilots responded quickly. Under the fierce resistance of the dwarves, they finally put away their arrogance as imperial people and began to attack the city with all their strength.
“Not only did they not surrender, they actually dared to fight back?!”
Looking at the tank wreckage in the distance, Bill in the cockpit of the "Emperor's Fury" became furious and slammed the button.
As an avid steam tank enthusiast, Dragon Vein Goblin would feel far more uncomfortable seeing a tank being destroyed than seeing his people being slaughtered!
How dare these dwarves use those crude and primitive weapons to destroy a well-designed war machine. This is a naked humiliation!
This is simply unforgivable!
"Buzz——"
The runes inside the steam tank suddenly lit up and kept flashing, and an indestructible force field shield was gradually built in front of the thick armor.
Along with the howling wind, another giant arrow came through the air, but this time it was blocked by the force field shield and was broken in mid-air.
Bill said with an angry expression: "You still want to hurt my baby! Damn dwarf, give me a fucking blow!"
"Boom!"
"Boom! Boom!"
The steam tank was like a runaway wild horse, its main gun fired wildly, the firing intervals were shorter, and even the gun barrel began to become hot and red.
Under the intensive firepower, artillery shells fell on the city wall like raindrops. The shield outside the city wall flickered continuously, and even tiny cracks appeared.
"Wow!"
The last cannonball fell, and the dwarves' magic shield was finally overwhelmed, shattered, and turned into countless flickering light particles, which finally dissipated.
The Empire's ogre artillerymen have been waiting for a long time for the shield to break.
They had already calculated the shooting angle, aimed at the large city defense equipment, loaded the artillery shells, and were ready to go, just waiting for the opportunity to focus the fire.
"Boom——"
The next moment, artillery fire exploded, the earth trembled, and fire and smoke filled the sky over the imperial position.
Hundreds of heavy cannons were seen firing at once, and countless cannonballs streaked through the sky with their saliva trails, falling from the sky and landing on the dwarves' city defense equipment.
"Boom! Boom!"
"No! They want to destroy our trebuchet!" The dwarves shouted in panic, but there was nothing they could do about it.
The explosion sounded, gravel and dust flew everywhere, the city walls shook violently, and even the mountain peaks roared.
In an instant, the trebuchet carefully crafted by Master Trillant was blown into pieces. Even the tower collapsed on the spot. More than a dozen dwarf warriors were buried in the ruins, their lives and deaths unknown.
Immediately afterwards, explosions occurred one after another, and the walls of Avendeldan continued to shake, as if they were on the verge of collapse.
None of the dwarf steel crossbows, arrow towers, trebuchets and other city defense equipment on the city wall were spared, and they were all hit by precise and intensive concentrated fire from the imperial artillery.
"Boom!"
The steam tanks were only a hundred meters away from the city wall. They roared and roared, firing shells one after another, blasting huge holes in the city gate.
The machine guns were also firing continuously, firing out bullets like a storm, causing the dwarf defenders on the city top to fall one after another, and even fell off the city wall.
After the armored forces, the empire's engineering and infantry regiments advanced rapidly, and armored fighting vehicles equipped with ladders came from behind.
The Burning Ember Empire's offensive was methodical and even layered, like art.
The imperial staff do not like to use human lives to fill the gap - that is not cost-effective. They like to use steel and artillery fire to destroy the enemy's will and confidence first, and then occupy the city logically.
Looking at the destroyed city defense equipment, the dwarf general knelt on the ground with a sad face and murmured to himself: "No, that is our city, that is the hard work of our dwarves"
"Boom!"
A bomb fell directly next to him, blowing the dwarf general out on the spot, leaving his life or death unknown.
I saw a series of ferocious strange shadows passing over the city wall, they were bipedal flying dragons! They have made a comeback!
"Boom!"
Along with the flying dust, a huge and ferocious black shadow hit the city wall heavily. After the smoke and dust dispersed, he slowly stood up.
That human creature was more than three meters tall, covered with biological armor composed of scales and exoskeletons. Under the armor were bulging muscles like iron.
His left arm is equipped with a blood-stained chain sword, and his right hand holds an extremely exaggerated bolt gun with a caliber of 27 mm.
The guy grinned, with a ferocious smile on his face covered by scales: "Hahahaha, for the Burning Emperor and the Empire!
Dwarves, repent before us, your flesh and blood are weak! "The chain sword rotated at high speed, making a harsh noise.
What landed on the walls of Avendeldan this time was not only bombs, but also extremely terrifying humanoid weapons, the ultimate creation of the empire’s biotechnology—Vitagis Dragon Scale Monk! (End of chapter)