Dawn dawned on the heights of the slope, staring at the busy but well-organized position in front of me, my thoughts were up and down.
This is not the first time he has been on the battlefield... At the age of fifteen, he was already an excellent knight's squire, following the lord to charge into battle, and when he became an adult, he even won the reputation of the number one knight in the West.
War should no longer be unfamiliar to him.
But here, he felt a completely different atmosphere.
Before the war, the nobles shouted, rewarded, and ate and drank, so as to improve the morale of the team, so the freedmen and mercenary camps were often immersed in a chaotic carnival. City is no different. Every so often, the knights would laugh at their gang of beings like donkeys, and a few slices of cheese bread could make them get carried away, but they didn't know that these things cost their lives.
At that time, Ferin Sylt also took it seriously, thinking that only nobles knew how to fight. Without the encouragement of the leader, no amount of free people would be just a shard of sand.
It was not until Duke Lane was beaten to pieces by a group of miners in Border Town that he realized that the truth was a little different from what he thought.
It's just that he, who realized his wish for revenge at that time, did not continue to investigate, but put all his energy on his wife Irene.
After a lapse of two years, Dawn Morning Light, who decided to join the staff because of his father's talk, found that the war had completely changed.
If the discipline displayed by the First Army in the past month's march has surprised him, the professionalism displayed by the soldiers at this moment is enough to make most nobles feel ashamed.
No need for any agitation, everyone was familiar with their tasks: several trenches were dug at the bottom of the slope, all the topsoil was put into cloth bags, and simple low walls were piled up in front of the machine gun positions. There are also barbed wire and temporarily processed wooden horses interspersed in the middle of the trench. It is almost as difficult to break through directly as to capture a main city wall.
There are also multiple buffer areas behind the defense line. Even if the machine gun position is broken through, it does not mean the battle is over. The Taquila Witch not only protects the barrier of the artillery battalion, but also can support the frontline reserve troops at any time.
The top of the last slope is the core of the first army's attack. The six fortress artillery is elevated, pointing straight to the direction of the devil's outpost. The artillery is correcting the shooting parameters and making final preparations for the upcoming attack.
All this does not require the commander to order one by one. In just one day, the First Army transformed this place into a qualified battlefield.
Filmin had seen the power of the new type of firearm in the artillery drill, but it was always the operator of the foreign object weapon, and it still had to fall on people in the end.
And these soldiers composed of free people are what makes him sigh the most.
Such a disciplined team with clear division of labor is difficult for even a knight group formed by a large noble.
Although he could sense the changes in the people in Neverwinter, it was nothing compared to the shock of the scene in front of him.
"Do you know now?" A familiar voice suddenly came from behind Du Xiaochenguang, "The answer to the previous question."
Filin turned his head and nodded to Sir Sylt, "Yes, father."
Why, when His Majesty announced that he would unify Graycastle in just a few months, and march into Hermes and Dawn Kingdom at the same time, the staff not only did not raise strong objections, but instead formulated a bunch of seemingly unbelievable plans.
Because of having such weapons and such warriors, there is no one on the continent who is his opponent, or rather... other hostile forces are not worth mentioning compared to him.
"It's a pity that Your Majesty has banned nobles from joining the fighting force," Fei Lin said with a little regret, "I would rather try to fight side by side with these people than sitting in the study."
"Personal prowess is of no importance now, and the staff is the best place for you." Sir laughed, "Besides, what if you are fighting an unknown enemy like the devil, what if there is a mistake? I'm still waiting What about the grandson. Didn't that good friend of Irene just give birth to one recently? You have to work harder."
"Father!" Fei Lin couldn't help but said while holding his forehead.
"Okay, okay, I don't say it," Sylt stroked his beard, "the sun is almost close to the horizon, let's go back to the camp, the artillery battalion should be firing soon. I can't stand the sound of that thing. "
"Yes," Dawn Morning took a last look at the position, and then walked down the heights with his father.
It was time for him to go to another battlefield and complete his duty.
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At 5 o'clock in the evening, the shelling officially began.
The six artillery pieces fired in sequence according to the pre-adjusted firing angles, tearing the silence of the Fertile Plain in an instant.
After a lapse of more than 400 years, human beings once again set foot on this land and launched an attack on the devil.
First, there were two rounds of test firing to correct the errors on the paper. When Sylvie gave feedback on the hit, the sound of the guns became neat.
The improved 152mm fortress gun is a little closer to its predecessors in history. In order to increase the firing range, the medicine room has been enlarged a full circle, and the shells have also become segmented loading, and the rate of fire is half a beat slower than that of the whole gun. However, driven by higher chamber pressure, these artillery pieces are enough to cause a lethal threat to fixed targets ten kilometers away.
The extended range also brought an increase in self-weight and greater logistical pressure. The final solution was to separate four of the artillery pieces and transport them by Taquila's worm carrier.
No one can see the roar and flames of the warhead when it hits the ground. This is a brand-new mode of warfare. If it hadn't been through many shelling battles, it would be hard for the soldiers to believe that they could be in a stress-free environment without looking at the enemy. You can destroy enemy strongholds and cities with just a few cycles of action.
There are two main reasons for choosing to attack when the sun goes down. One is that the observation of the magic eye does not depend on the sun, and it can also guide the artillery to correct the shooting point at night; the other is that the terrifying beast cannot be active at night, and the devil will spend the whole night. Only passive beatings.
The fort's guns fired every two minutes, and the night-shrouded battlefield didn't seem to have changed except for the faint thunder from the skyline. But in Sylvie's eyes, the land ten kilometers away is completely different.
The air waves caused by the explosion turned the surface of the area over and over, and most of the more than ten black stone towers were blown to pieces. Especially when the shells penetrated the fog storage tower, the detonation caused by the explosion can instantly destroy the black stone. into an erupting volcano.
But from the beginning to the end, she did not find any trace of the devil.
Until the next morning, just when everyone thought the enemy had abandoned the outpost, a change suddenly occurred.
A large group of devils suddenly appeared in the north of the First Army's position, eight kilometers away from Wangbei Slope!
At the same time, Sylvie also observed signs of the activity of dozens of terrifying beasts. These enemies, who had disappeared for several days, rushed towards them like dark clouds.