Chapter 448 Strong Confidence
The violent explosion caused the ground and mountain walls to tremble, and countless gravel and dust fell from the sky like rain, making crackling sounds.
"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"
"Watch the top of your head!"
"Pay attention to cover and avoid!"
"Plan B-4, use the 'folding barrier' immediately!"
The officers of the Imperial Army reacted quickly, blowing sharp whistles and shouting loudly.
The whistles are three long and one short, and two are short and one is long, which seem to contain certain codes.
The army did not panic under the sudden bombing. Thanks to their daily training and strong obedience, they quickly took action amidst the orders and whistles of their officers.
Except for a few extremely unlucky soldiers who were hit by bombs falling from the sky and shattered into powder on the spot, the rest of the soldiers worked in groups and took out palm-sized metal cubes from their backpacks, manipulated them and threw them on the ground. .
Just a few banging sounds were heard, and the metal cube fell to the ground, unfolding itself into a cross-shaped metal piece, and then continued to flip several times, laying on the ground into a large piece of iron sheet, and finally arched like a balloon to form a tent-sized piece. hemispherical bunker.
The soldiers got into the "iron ball" in an orderly manner to avoid the bombing. Although they could not completely resist the bombing, they could effectively reduce a large amount of shrapnel and burn damage... At the same time, those square shapes on the outer shell of the "iron ball" Several holes were opened in the iron plate, and flintlock barrels protruded from them, aiming at the enemy troops on the mountain walls on both sides of the head.
"Counterattack!!"
The imperial officers did not even hide in the bunker, but stood outside, standing upright, blowing whistles against the shock wave and strong wind.
Xiu Xiu Xi——
The whistle penetrated through the canyon, and several officers were killed on the spot, with broken limbs and arms flying everywhere, but the other officers turned a blind eye and remained indifferent, as if they were not afraid of death.
Bang bang bang...! !
Bullets shot upward from the bottom of the canyon like an inverted rain. For a moment, the death squads of the Anlong United Kingdom were seen dying at extremely fast speeds and falling from the mountain wall.
The corpse looked like a broken rag doll, spinning and hitting the ground at an extremely fast speed, making a dull sound. Individual corpses hit the iron hemisphere, causing a deep depression in it, and the blood stained it dark red.
At this time, General Vance had already got off the carriage, and four strong military men more than two meters tall followed him, holding special shields the size of door panels to protect them.
The general put his hands behind his back, straightened his posture, and walked calmly through the hail of bullets. He also wore a pair of sunglasses on his face, raised his head and looked at the enemy's situation.
I saw that the Anlong enemy troops on the mountain wall had suffered heavy casualties. Although they ambush here in advance, their numbers were at a disadvantage. After being exposed, they lacked bunkers and protection, and were directly killed by the imperial army's counterattack.
After a while, General Vance said faintly:
"Order to send out the 'Mechanical Falcon' to pursue. No enemy can be let go."
"Yes, Your Majesty General."
The messenger who followed him immediately responded and immediately used the walkie-talkie to convey the order to the officers of each department:
"The mechanical falcon is dispatched! Chase the enemy!"
Beep——
There was another strange whistle.
Hundreds of metal falcons puffed out steam, the precision gears under their abdomens rotated, and they flapped their wings soaring into the sky, hovering over the canyon.
They quickly locked onto the naked human bodies escaping on the mountain wall, their eyes lit up red, and then they opened their beaks, revealing a dark steel pipe.
Xiu Xiu Xi——
The steel pipe sprayed out fire and cannonballs, which fell accurately.
Boom! !
The artillery shells bombarded the mountain wall wantonly. The Anlong Death Squadron who attempted to evacuate was shattered into pieces in this round of bombing by the mechanical Falcon. Along with the smoke, dust and gravel, the flesh and blood even carbonized into small particles, blooming like fireworks.
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After a while.
Chen Lun, surrounded by his subordinates, walked through the temporary tent cluster.
"Commander, General Vance seems to have predicted that he did not need our help at all when the attack occurred. Those 'military guards' trained with mysterious substances have already protected him..."
Frey and other congressmen reported the situation softly.
Chen Lun hummed and nodded slightly.
He looked around at many medical soldiers carrying stretchers and carrying the wounded into the tents in an orderly manner. Some soldiers who had been treated walked out of them as if nothing had happened, exchanging words while putting on their military uniforms and returning to the team.
'The Imperial Army's firm belief in loyalty to the Sun Royal Family, strong obedience and discipline, coupled with various black technologies developed by the Extraordinary Workshop, and medical standards that surpass other countries, directly give the Imperial Army the military power to crush other countries. Strength... I still underestimate them. ’
Chen Lun couldn't help but shook his head and sighed.
Although he had participated in the Western War in his previous life, he had always fought against the odds. In every battle, he almost swept Anlong's army in a crushing manner, so that he failed to see some of the countermeasures hidden by the imperial army.
Now that he had personally experienced this ambush and counterattack, he reassessed the Imperial Army in his mind, but it was accompanied by deeper doubts.
‘If the Imperial Army was so powerful, why did they still fight at the Hercule Bridgehead? Is it because of overconfidence? Judging from General Vance's character, maybe this is really possible. ’
Chen Lun thought to himself.
After a while, he came to the command room, which was the tent where General Vance was. Under the watchful eyes of several guards, Chen Lun asked his men to wait outside and walked in alone.
General Vance and the top military officials remained as before, sitting behind the table, while the clergy of the Moon Church and the Hailing Regiment sat opposite each other.
As soon as he entered, Chen Lun heard the middle-aged male priest of the Hailing Regiment expressing his dissatisfaction to the general in a deep voice:
"General, the fact is that as we said, there is indeed an enemy ambush in the canyon... We, the three churches, would like to remind you at the same time, why do you insist on going your own way?"
"Priest Kuni, first of all, thank you for your warning..."
General Vance smiled and nodded.
"But it's not that we didn't take your opinions into consideration, but after discussion with the command headquarters, continuing deep into the canyon is the best choice... In this encounter, we only had 122 casualties, and all the wounded have been treated, and the battle has resumed. force, but the enemy lost 750 people, no one was spared."
As he spoke, he knocked on the table lightly, his expression becoming more serious.
"That's Anlong's death squad, a death squad that carries extraordinary objects with hiding effects and a large amount of high explosives! Annihilating 750 people, this is a great victory! How many more times can Anlong send out such a team? ?”
The clergy of the Hailing Regiment frowned.
General Vance continued:
"Logically speaking, I don't need to explain anything to you, but for the sake of our relationship in the future, I feel it is necessary to tell you... In war, victory is the goal, no matter what the means, and the Imperial Army is particularly good at this. Please keep your responsibilities in mind. , Priest Kuni, it involves strategic and decision-making matters, and you have no right to interfere.”
Cooney sighed and nodded sullenly.
At this time, General Vance turned to look at Chen Lun again and asked lightly:
"Consul Jack, what happened this time?"
"Nothing, I just want to know about the battle situation and ask about the next actions. What do we need to do?"
Chen Lun did not sit down, but stood at the door and said calmly.
General Vance nodded slightly.
"You can ask Major Fuller about the specific battle situation. His men have already completed the statistics. As for the next actions... we need to wait until the troops have completely entered the Kerr Plain before we can tell you. It's not that we don't trust it, but that the command also needs to be based on specific information. Temporary arrangements are made based on the situation.”
"Okay, I understand."
Chen Lun nodded and left the tent.
He turned around, but he knew very well in his heart that in fact, the military did not have any requirements for the Church of the Seven Gods. It only needed to deal with enemy extraordinary beings and various treacherous extraordinary methods...Other than that, the military did not Hope they get involved in anything.
The best way for both parties to get along is to keep things separate from each other.
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Time passed and it came to the morning four days later.
At about eleven o'clock, the imperial army had crossed the Kerr Plain. In the distance, a spacious river spanning the left and right sides of the line of sight could be seen. The water flow was so fast that it was simply a delusion to cross the river by ordinary means.
And the width of the river, which is hundreds or even thousands of meters, also gives people the feeling that the other side is far away.
In the past few days, the imperial army was attacked by Anlong's side several times in the plains. Chen Lun, representing the Generous Council, and the clergy of the Hailing Regiment of the Moon Church also fulfilled their duties and warned General Vance in advance.
However, in these encounters, General Vance did not retreat, but chose to be tough... The results were just as Chen Lun expected. Even though the imperial army was repeatedly passive, it was a great victory every time.
These attacks caused Anlong's side to lose thousands of death squads and countless extraordinary objects and weapons and equipment... while the Imperial Army only lost more than 400 people.
The endless emergence of black technologies from the Empire's Extraordinary Workshop allowed Chen Lun to refresh his knowledge once again. Many extraordinary things that he had never seen in his previous life were used extremely skillfully in the hands of the Imperial Army, reversing many obvious disadvantages.
However, during this period, Chen Lun informed General Vance and the Imperial Command of some of the information he knew, using the "results of observation and inference" as an excuse... He said that there was a trap arranged by Anlong Fang's transcendent in Ker Plain. Using reconnaissance and early warning methods, the actions of the Imperial Army were clearly detected by the enemy.
General Vance actually saw the clues. After all, the enemy attacks were coming one after another, and he obviously knew the trajectory of their actions... So the general canceled the "crossing the river" strategy and directly chose to turn to Hercule The bridgehead was planned to be captured head-on in the simplest and crudest way.
There is absolutely no problem with the strength of the Imperial Army.
This is also Cuisul's strong self-confidence.
More than two hours passed.
Chen Lun sat in the carriage, opened the curtains, and saw through the window a stone bridge standing quietly on the Benavides River in front of him on the right, with a huge fortress connected to the other end.
The strong and thick high wall is dark gray, and small bunkers stand on the high wall like candles on a cake. Many large-caliber metal cannons were set up on the notches of the city wall, like fierce eyes, staring at the Imperial Army by the river.
Thick wooden spikes were arranged around the city wall, and many Anlong troops could be vaguely seen patrolling the high wall, with flickering firelight.
After a while, the carriage stopped.
Golov opened the curtain and said softly:
"Mr. Jack, the messenger has conveyed the order. The Imperial Army is preparing on the spot and will officially begin attacking the bridgehead in the evening."
"Well, I understand."
Chen Lun nodded.
He stood up from the sofa and turned to look at the rest of his men.
"According to the plan I told you before departure, we can start taking action."
"Yes, Mr. Jack."
Everyone agreed in unison.
They then stepped off the carriage and escaped into the spirit world.
Although Chen Lun had already expected that the extraordinary beings on Anlong's side would take precautions in the spirit world near the bridgehead, he believed that Floy and others could solve this little trouble.
Sitting alone in the carriage and meditating for a moment, Chen Lun began to operate the panel, and then issued a task to the more than two thousand circus players who were accompanying the army——
[Side mission: Western War/Battle of Hercule Bridgehead/Siege Battle! 】
Mission description: You have chosen to follow Jack Speight, the consul of the Generous Council, on an expedition. Your first goal is to find ways to break through the blockade of the Hercule Bridge and invade the bridgehead!
Mission reward: Successfully capture the bridgehead and gain 5,000 experience points, 80 silver coins and 20 contribution points. (Additional kill rewards: enemy soldiers or ordinary players, 100 experience points; enemy sequence nine extraordinarys, 500 experience points and 1 contribution point; enemy sequence eight extraordinarys, 1000 experience points and 2 contribution points Degree. )
"Wow! It's coming, it's coming!"
Behind the tent cluster, Dongyang and others were sitting in a tent. Goutoujin was the first to notice the prompt from the panel, stood up and shouted.
"Brothers, the mission is here!"
Dongyang scanned the task description carefully, smiled slightly, and chose to accept it.
Then, he turned to look at everyone.
"After the war begins, let's follow the army to see the situation. After figuring out the enemy's attack mode, we can discuss and study it... In short, it is only a matter of time before we capture the bridgehead. This mission reward is a must. After all, this is We have also known the strength of the Imperial Army in the past few days, and some are ridiculously strong... So what we have to do is try to save the number of resurrections.”
"Dongyang is right."
Chen Xi nodded in agreement, and immediately looked at Polaris.
"During this process, if you encounter an enemy sequence eight NPC, let everyone know in the chat room. Let's trap the opponent together and create a duel opportunity for Polaris."
"Okay, it's settled!"
Su Keying waved her fist and responded.
Polaris looked at everyone, took a deep breath, and walked out of the tent with firm eyes.
other side.
Chen Lun had already stepped off the carriage alone. He lowered the brim of his hat, wielded his silver cane and quietly passed through many temporary tents, passing by the imperial soldiers.
For some reason, these soldiers seemed to ignore his presence, but reflexively avoided Chen Lun's body and made way for themselves.
After a while.
In the headquarters tent not far away, a human-shaped shadow appeared behind General Vance, and he made a deep voice:
"Vance, the leader of the army of the Generous Council, the consul named Jack is leaving the camp and heading to the river in the west."
General Vance looked down at the documents and maps and waved his hand.
"Let him go. If it doesn't affect the Imperial Army, don't worry about it."
"Yeah, I got it."
The shadow fell and retracted into Vance's shadow.
Benavides Riverside.
Chen Lun took off the black glove on his left hand [Moonlight on Palm], bent down and scooped up some water with his hand, put it to his mouth and took a sip. The cold and slightly sweet taste made him lament the excellent quality of the water here, but it was a pity that artillery fire and mountains of corpses and seas of blood would eventually pollute it...
Immediately, he took out a dirty glove covered with mold and put it on his left hand.
This is the [A-level monster - Desire of Decay] he applied for from the headquarters of the Council of Generosity. It can suppress the target's desire to fight, kill and conflict on a large scale, and can even affect the reaction of firearms, but it is only for ordinary people. With the object, the effect on the mysterious power will be greatly reduced, so that this strange object is rarely called.
During the last bloody battle, Chen Lun had already memorized some information about strategic-level monsters in his church, so when he was thinking about countermeasures, he immediately thought of it.
Chen Lun raised his left hand and lightly snapped his fingers.
Countless dark green particles emerged from his hands and spread like dust or spores, flying towards the Hercule Bridge and the fortress.
They avoided people's sight and seemed to have traveled between the real world and the spiritual world. Even if they flew past the eyes of the imperial soldiers and Anlong soldiers, no one noticed them.
Until they fly into the countless gunpowder barrels hidden under the bridge, on the Benavides River bed, in the basement of Hercule Bridgehead, and beside the load-bearing stone pillars...
The dark green particles were submerged in the gunpowder, taking root and sprouting until a strange mold grew... (End of Chapter)