The wind has lasted for 3603 years, which is also the "First Year of Steam" that will be renamed.
The Civil War in the Kingdom of Egg entered a state of all-out decisive battle as the two sides completely broke apart.
September 19, 3603 in the Fengfu calendar.
King Aige officially declared the North as a rebel, which completely cut off any room for relaxation between the two sides politically.
Previously, huge legions faced each other in the fortress area, and the knights from both sides "greeted warmly". It can also be said that there was fierce military friction.
But now that the kingdom is so bastard that it swallows the weight, there is nothing to say.
On the afternoon of the 19th, the Royal Army's headquarters issued orders to various noble regiments through the teleportation array. At the same time, messenger birds flew around, and a large number of detailed orders were issued to each squad.
The four armies of the Royal Army gathered towards the east. This was a large group with a total of 160,000 people, marching towards the northern industrial territory and the province centered on Xuanguang Industrial City.
The clothes of these legions are different, and the family decorations on the helmets are also different. In short, they are very messy, but the iron helmets and breastplates are unified.
This is because the washbasins and enamel jars sold by Northern United Industries are of the same standard. The blacksmiths in the south hurriedly made iron armor. In order to complete the tasks assigned by the lords, they did not learn from the common civilian materials and modified this.
kind of equipment.
So this only unity, not only does not have the majesty of the standard, but it has a strange style of migrant workers uniformly wearing snakeskin bags and going north to seek salary from the evil boss. The sound of metal collisions along the way is like a meal in a primary school canteen.
At this time, the sound field of the spoon hitting the bowl.
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In short, the nobles led the front row of infantrymen holding steel swords and the shooters carrying muskets. Under the notification of the sound technology, they began to advance in formation.
On the Industrial Party's side, on a 400-kilometer front, in order to deal with the 400,000 troops of the Kingdom's army, the total number of troops invested by the United Industry was 50,000.
8:1, this is just a numerical comparison. In fact, the numbers on the surface are inaccurate.
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The 23 fully-formed battle groups of the Industrial Party are all full combat forces, while almost two-thirds of the 400,000-strong army of the Kingdom Legion are heavy civilians without rune or light armor.
What the war really depends on is the logistics throughput of both sides.
When the Royal Army was still a "war puppet" with a small number of mechanical levers to transfer materials on steam trailers, the Industrial Party war group arrived at the front line and built a temporary camp with hundreds of steam vehicles and a dozen industrial airships.
Mechanical slings transfer and unfold containers one by one.
Even a team of mechanical motorcycle riders, when faced with a siege, can launch the "earth and stone deformation" arcana within ten minutes and build a sandbag position on the spot. At the same time, within half an hour, air power can send "medium caliber"
"(100mm) magic energy cannon to counterattack.
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in this war
The most common second-class battle group of the Industrial Party has a logistics supply scale that is three times that of the Kingdom's most elite Earth Dragon Knights!
Carret has been farming in the north for thirty years, and his regiment has long replaced the beasts of burden with heavy tracks and steel wheels.
Officers above the rank of sergeant are as familiar with the speed of steam flowing in mechanical pipes as they are with the slow flow of blood in their own veins.
[Collection of the slang words of United Industrial Mechanics: "A machinist should know as much about whether a steam engine can start easily as a man knows whether his most ardent thing can be filled with blood."]
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The general background of this war was that the logistics gap between the two sides was too big. The kingdom's army could not sustain its logistics and had to move first.
When such a large-corps operation has to end from a peaceful confrontation, the party that moves first has a "high probability", no, it should be "destined" to make a mistake out of haste.
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After the 20th, more than a dozen legions of the kingdom suddenly changed their deployment, and the main force deployed towards the east.
From the perspective of United Industries, it is not difficult to guess the purpose of the Egg Kingdom Army. Such changes in troop deployment are intended to threaten the Meridian Railway.
This railway transports a large amount of industrial products to the south and a large amount of industrial raw materials to the north every year. It is the main economic artery of the north.
The kingdom's aristocratic think tanks believe that with this deployment of troops, the Northern Industrial Party will definitely mobilize a large number of troops to protect the Meridian Railway. In turn, when the Northern United Industries takes into account the defense of the Meridian Railway and Xuanguang Industrial City, loopholes will appear.
But they thought wrong, and the key to their mistake was that Carret would be frightened by the huge number of the kingdom's army and insist on a defensive strategy.
Indeed, during the confrontation between the two armies, Carrette always kept saying "peace is the most important thing on both sides" and acted as if he would not fight if he could, and did not want to see war, and was afraid of trouble.
But! Even the gods of this world can't pinpoint Master Wei's pulse.
Wei Keng's character is one of tolerating small things and exploding in big things. - What is the critical point from stability to explosion? A thousand Wei masters have a thousand ways to explode.
Notes from Bai Linglu Supervisor: Eastern style of forbearance. If you don’t fight, if you wait for the opportunity and decide to take action, you will definitely slap the opponent hard.
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The Meridian Railway is indeed very important, but does the Kingdom of Egg's military mobilization speed have this strategic time?
In the original confrontation, it was the South that had the weaker combat power. This arrangement was an attempt to open up a gap in the Northern Industrial Corps' front line, but in fact it only exposed itself to a strategic gap first.
Moreover, even if the railway is cut off, according to Mr. Wei's character of doing everything in backup, it will take several months for various industrial reserves to have problems. Moreover, taking into account wartime control and giving priority to military supplies, there will be no problem for a few years.
When Mr. Wei saw Wang Guojun's actions, his mood could be compared to "The feeling of Marshal Lin, who had only cooked one table of meals and was afraid of the arrival of two tables of guests, suddenly heard that Liao Changtong was beating Zhang Wu and cutting off his retreat."
Through aerial reconnaissance, Mr. Wei determined that the kingdom's army stretched for twenty kilometers and headed toward the east line along the highway.
He immediately stood up and gave the highest instructions to the battle line: "They are going to attack the east, now we will attack the west. They turned to the right, and we also turned to the right. They wanted to cut off our retreat, and we also caught up.
Take their retreat."
Narrator: At this time, strategically, the offensive forces of the two sides are like a counterclockwise yin and yang Tai Chi diagram. When the kingdom's army rotates, the Industrial Party's troops also rotate. It depends on who can rotate faster. Whoever can catch up to the opponent's butt.
At 9 o'clock on September 20, just forty minutes after the Kingdom's army set off eastward,
The four most elite mechanical legions of the Industrial Party Chapter 01, 05, 11, and 12 began to attack, forcing themselves across the river to directly attack the Kingdom's army staying here.
Braun City.
This castle was defended by a kingdom marquis, and now he was facing the 11th Mechanical Corps. The smell of steel and boiling water that hit his face made his hand hold the scepter tightly.
The lines of infantry and skirmishers, as well as the huge mechanical chariots between the skirmishers, put a huge pressure on the thousands of troops, causing the morale of the Royal Army's regiments that were still in the hollow square formation to waver.
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11th Mechanical Corps, Mechanical General Bartos.
As an industrial believer whose spiritual power can leverage the eight-ring rune structure, he has the industrial emblem on his chest.
The regiment it controls is also one of the five first-class regiments in the industrial army.
The core of its main force is twelve "Heavy Knights". These are 250-ton triple turret tracked combat vehicles. You can refer to Red Alert's battle fortress.
At the same time, it is equipped with five "rush" class mortars. These are Karl mortars weighing 150 tons.
The aerial mechanical force equipped by such an armed force is a spiral fan steam helicopter, which flies in the air with a white steam trail. The thermal energy runes in the boiler and the boiler runes of the ground tank are unobstructed, so there is no need to worry about insufficient steam energy.
The only thing that needs to be considered is what to do when the boiling water in the boiler runs out.
Emergency changes in the air, or firing steam ejection bullets require the release of steam. Therefore, the helicopter can only stay in the air for a few hours at most. Of course, it must bombard the Griffin Knights while protecting its own large airship from flying into the airspace.
It is sufficient to carry out heavy rocket launches.
(Due to energy level loss, heavy rockets are projected three kilometers away, which is an appropriate distance that can tolerate energy consumption and make the airship safe.)
When the battle group was launched under the command of electronic communication,
This huge mechanical force, blown by the breeze, has strips of white smoke dispersing uniformly towards the left side. It is visually very full of "heat".
When both sides were close to about 500 meters, the siege troops from both sides began to shoot at each other.
[The energy level effect allows the Kingdom’s current siege crossbows to still have a range that can reach the 11th Chapter. And the current mortars of the 11th Chapter, in order to prevent the muzzle steam from spreading and burning to 100 meters away,
The initial muzzle velocity of our own troops can only be controlled at 79 meters per second.]
The kingdom's thirty dragon-slaying crossbows began to fire volley after the kingdom's officer commanded the sword to fall.
The four elastic crossbow arms released elasticity, and the steel crossbows with magic runes penetrated the mechanical troops of the Industrial Party like straight lines. After these crossbow arrows entered the sky, they spread out huge spiral chains, like a blade whirlwind.
Sweep around.
The soldiers of the Mechanical Corps were caught off guard. Even though they deployed protective light shields, they were still knocked away by the sweeping chains. They were swept ten meters away like kites with broken strings. Their armors were deformed and parts fell off.
This salvo caused more than ten casualties to the industrial troops.
But for the well-disciplined industrial troops, this was not serious enough to damage morale.
In fact, such a volley of crossbows is actually the ultimate move of the Royal Army. When dealing with the Undead Scourge Corps, this "Blade Storm" crossbow can kill hundreds of dense skeletons with each stroke. But the industrial
The corps is a skirmishing line, and its lethality is really limited.
The "greetings" given by the Kingdom's troops to the 11th Chapter were crossbow arrows. In the 11th Chapter, the creaking metal turntable began to rotate, and the red lights around the "ramming car" mortars began to tick and flash. With a deafening sound, the five
Artillery shells weighing tons began to fire back at the Imperial troops.
In the phenomenon of this world explosion, after a violent explosion, the heat tunnel can reach hundreds of meters away, and the sound will also carry a high energy level. The sound wave energy of more than one hundred decibels can make the lake water agitate as if it is boiling. (So there is
No magical damage like Banshee’s Howl.)
Since the power of gunpowder cannot act on the projectile to increase its kinetic energy, the only option is to increase the weight of the projectile. Of course, if the explosion velocity is not pursued, steam is gentler than gunpowder.
Because the five-ton artillery shell flies very slowly, its fiery red trajectory is visible to the naked eye as it moves.
The Kingdom troops operating the crossbows just watched helplessly as the crimson projectile flew over them, and then exploded like a pierced water ball. The blazing flames spread as the fuel spread, like a fire magic flame storm.
to a range of several hundred meters.
After the steam cannons fired the first shot, the mechanical pull rod quickly pushed the projectile into the barrel, and then the barrel was quickly erected, and the steam from each pipe was injected into the barrel, and the second firing started.
The time from loading to firing these several-ton heavy artillery shells is only one-half of the time it takes for the Royal Army's dragon-slaying crossbow to be launched.
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The lethality of each artillery fire of the mechanical corps is more than ten times that of the kingdom's crossbows! - This world has limited energy levels, but the mechanical power system still has an order of magnitude advantage over animal power.
After the first artillery was fired, the armored troops on the ground also began to advance. Each of the 250-ton "Heavy Knight" armored fighting vehicles held the triple turret and advanced like a mountain.
The kingdom's remaining anti-large firepower on the city walls had no time to deal with the infantry of the mechanical corps.
The Marquis looked at the heavy machinery units advancing one by one with a serious face.
With its thick armor, the steel chariot ignored the giant beast's light spear, and the magic crossbow bolts roared forward. "Heavy metal rock music" resounded from its tweeter, and the momentum that made the steel tracks roll was overwhelming.
Wang Guojun said it from his heart.
As soon as the northern troops attacked, the Kingdom's regiment was frightened by the overwhelming momentum of the moving steel hills and couldn't help but retreat.
The formation of the hollow square array has become chaotic.
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On the rear side of the kingdom's troops, all kinds of firepower had been used, and all the Marquis' trump cards were played regardless.
The dragon-slaying crossbow has been replaced with expensive magic crossbow arrows, and this small spear has been loaded with four rings of sharp runes.
This kind of rune is attached to the bow and arrow and pierces into the armor, just like a fruit knife piercing an apple.
There are now more than seventy sharp runes attached to the two-meter-long siege ballista made of swordfish skulls.
However, the impact on the steel plate in front of the Industrial Party's "Heavy Knight" armored fighting vehicle only pierced a few solidified rune networks in the thick steel plate and failed to penetrate the armor.
As for the temple priests, the light prisms placed on the mechanical shelves with carved patterns are emitting energy spears. These energy beams, which can burn the giant's skin through holes in footballs, are also on the energy shield in front of the steel chariot.
It collapsed forward and turned into astigmatism of red, blue and yellow colors.
At this moment, what made the Marquis look even paler was the even more terrifying behemoth behind the tanks of the Industrial Army.
It was a mechanical fortress fifty meters long, like an industrial spider.
On the battlefield now, Braun City is able to deploy so much anti-large firepower, which shows that the Marquis has anticipated the attack in advance and made the preparations he can.
But such wisdom and determination are useless in the face of absolute strength.
When the battle first started, the firepower of Braun City was prepared to deal with the big mechanical spider.
But before the big mechanical spider rolled over, tracked armored vehicles like the "Heavy Knight" had already proved that all the siege firepower of Braun City was ineffective.
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The mechanical general of the 11th Chapter, Bartos is currently staying at the mechanical fortress temporarily.
This mechanical fortress moves by crawling on six mechanical legs, but it actually supports its 2,500-ton steel body by relying on the plastic energy spell in its abdomen. As the plastic energy spell is activated, the steam emitted by the chassis will be fixed into
A balloon, like an old-fashioned mouse ball, supports the middle part of the huge mechanical fortress.
This large combat unit is under the direct control of a colonel officer.
In this mechanical fortress, except for issuing battle orders, Bartos has to listen to his subordinates. And when this subordinate is determined to fight, he can even drive Bartos away.~This is because this is the strongest
The combat mechanical arms are used for fighting, not for serving as a hotel for generals.
Generals need to command from a safe place. This conflicts with the combat attributes of the mechanical fortress.
The colonel was already standing next to Bartos, ready to ask the general to put on his mecha and leave his "mobile fortress" at any time.
Bartos ended the observation magic that was unfolding in front of the camera.
This observation magic is like an unfolded energy lens, with a crosshair and a large number of surveying lines on the lens.
Bartos pointed to the position of the Marquis on the city wall in front, and said to the colonel: "Let me break a hole here."
After giving this order simply, Bartos led his knights and went down the metal slide released behind the mechanical fortress.
At the end of the mechanical fortress, as the metal slide fell, a transport vehicle was waiting.
General Bartos's knights squeaked against the metal poles and jumped onto the carriage. A few seconds later, they jumped out from behind the carriage on their own motorcycles. They formed a cavalry team and wandered around the battlefield, like a swarm of sharks in the yellow sand, waiting for opportunities.
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Bartos himself opened his jetpack, rushed to the airship, and continued to survey the battlefield.
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A few minutes later,
When a new wave of artillery from the 11th Chapter bombed the city wall. While it was burning, the mechanical fortress approached the 20-meter-high city wall and raised a five-meter-long mechanical drill. When the bricks and tiles burst into pieces, cracks
It spread to hundreds of meters, and in the center of the crack, during the drill bit breakthrough process, countless sparks spun out from the steel drill.
The Marquis, who fled down the tower, saw fifty meters away that the building he had just stopped to observe was destroyed like a biscuit.
His face was pale and his expression didn't seem to change, but he completely lost the courage to stay!
On September 20, at 10:44 in the morning, Braun City was captured.
The western section of the Royal Army was lost first.
Two hours later, the other three battle groups also crossed the defense line from here and inserted themselves diagonally into the strategic rear of the Royal Army.
After a large number of airships arrived, large numbers of captives looked up at this human creation that covered the sky and the sun, feeling horrified in their hearts.
"The wonders have already been set up in the north, and today's victory is just the coming of miracles from the past."