By the time Ackerman led his troops to the Ember Hills, it had already become a Shura field full of blood and fire.

Relying on the hilly terrain, the enemy army set up three layers of defense from low to high, and a large number of bunkers, trenches and tunnels were built in each defense line.

The sound of thousands of muskets firing at the same time joined together to form a deafening roar, and the smoke from the muzzles of the guns gathered together, shrouding the entire battlefield in fog.

Turtle shotguns, snake cannons, eagle cannons and even lion mortars were placed at the rear of each pillbox, raining a storm of steel on the army below.

The two columns from the Dragon Expeditionary Force had already broken through the first line of defense, but they were blocked by the second line of defense.

Randall, who had just entered the battlefield, held his shield and protected Ackerman behind him, and led his team to rush into the cover of the first line of defense.

As soon as they entered the bunker, they saw an orc commander wearing a dragon bone, guarded by hundreds of Holy Cult soldiers, sitting behind the earth and rocks, cursing loudly at everything around him.

"You're the commander of the Eleventh Column......" Ackerman squatted beside the orc, looking at the latter's lower body, and couldn't help but gasp.

The upper body covered by the keel is no different, but the lower body of the orc, from the knee to the foot, is filled with iron pieces and debris that have been splashed after the explosion.

The orc commander pounded the ground around him hard and roared angrily, "Just half an hour ago, I led my troops to attack their second line of defense, if it weren't for that damn pile of mines!"

Randall peeked out of the trench and quickly glanced out, the bullets and shells flying in the air made him retract his head.

"Did those madmen of the Southern Empire sell the entire country's firearms to the church?!" Randall patted the dust that fell on his body and shouted, "The firepower here is stronger than all the enemy troops we have encountered before!"

Ackerman touched Randall's arm and motioned for him to look at the sky.

The three Valkyries rode griffons, hovering in the sky, seemingly looking for a target to drop bombs.

Finally, a Valkyrie commanded the griffons and swooped down towards a large bunker on the ground.

At a height of nearly 100 meters above the ground, the spores under the griffin were all released and rained down on the enemy's position.

One after another, the huge explosions shook the entire mountain by three points, and the blazing white light filled the earth, dyeing everything in the world white.

When the explosion slowly wore off, Ackerman, who was dizzy with tinnitus, crawled to the edge of the trench and asked, "How is it?

Randall carefully observed for a while, and finally shook his head in disappointment: "Spore air raids can use glare and impact to temporarily incapacitate enemy positions, but unless they are directly smashed directly above the bunker, it is difficult to blast through these fortified stone forts several meters thick." ”

Ackerman waited for the smoke to clear, and found several huge potholes with a diameter of more than ten meters on the position, but due to the problem of accuracy, the bunker group was only a small part of the collapse by the impact, but it was not devastating.

"The spore parasite is covered with a toughened layer of biological leather, and in addition to a small amount of cartilage and texture, most of the body is an alveoli-like balloon, filled with an explosive fluid-like liquid similar to nitroglycerin. ”

Joonella's speech caused Randall and Ackerman to look at each other inexplicably.

Ackerman's eyes widened and he asked, "So what?"

Joonella looked at the two remaining Valkyries in the sky who were still hovering, and said, "The physiological characteristics of the spores determine that when they are thrown from a high altitude, they will have a large accuracy deviation due to the influence of wind and fluids. Therefore, the spores are generally used against enemy forces that are denser or less armoured......"

Randall interrupted Joonella's words: "The principle will be explained later, and you can tell me directly, in this situation, how to deal with the enemy's defense line?"

"There are three ways. ”

"The first way, the alien warship that the kingdom is staying in the southern seas can blow up these bunkers with electromagnetic cannons......"

Ackerman couldn't wait to say, "Great, what are you waiting for?

Joonella gave him a blank look: "Range." Far from the coast, the Far Ember Hills were already beyond the range of the electromagnetic guns. ”

Ackerman looked annoyed and said, "If you can't do it, don't bring it up." ”

"Then I'll say the second way, the Valkyrie only needs to reduce the height of the bomb, and the accuracy can be improved, but ......"

Before Joonella could finish speaking, as if to confirm his words, the second Valkyrie in the air began to swoop downward, straight towards the bunker of the second line of defense.

The altitude was getting lower and lower, but the Valkyrie still didn't give the order to drop the bomb, and as everyone watched in amazement, the griffin fell towards the ground like a meteor.

Joonella grabbed her hair: "After the attack just now, the enemy will definitely be on guard in the air, so this time to drop bombs at low altitudes...... It is tantamount to suicide. ”

Fifty meters above the ground, gunfire rang out again in the bunker, and countless bullets shot into the air.

With a wailing sound, the griffon, which had been shot several times, could no longer swing its wings, and it stumbled to the ground, its feathers and blood splattering in the air.

The Valkyrie with a feathered crown drew her sword with one hand and stroked the mount below her with the other, and with a determined expression, she used all her strength to shout an ancient vow.

In the next second, she and her mount drew an arc in the sky, and accurately crashed into the bunker position of the defensive line, and the earth-shattering explosion tore a huge gap in the enemy's second line of defense.

A flaming feather quietly turned to ash in the air, as if it was using this moment of fireworks to show everyone the last splendor of its owner.

Ackerman, who witnessed this scene, was stunned and his blood was surging.

He put a feathered arrow on the bowstring and shouted at the soldiers beside him: "Because of our incompetence and cowardice, our unfinished task has finally cost our sisters their lives! Is this what you want to see? Is this what you have sworn to God?"

In the loud roar of the Cult soldiers, Randall spread all his keels like a large umbrella made of steel, and he was the first to rush out of the trench.

Carroll patted Aldnan on the shoulder, followed Randall, and rushed out with a lunge, taking advantage of the flying gunpowder smoke to run wildly towards the gap in the second line of defense.

Joonella crouched in the trenches and shouted to the charging warriors, "Follow the path of the beasts!

Harnessing the power of the keel, combined with the effect of lightning speed, Randall boosts his running speed to the extreme.

In just a few tens of seconds, he took dozens of dragon knights and rushed through the two-kilometer-long span of the defensive line, directly approaching the trench of the second line of defense.

The Valkyrie's sacrifice caused a brief moment of confusion among the enemy army, but soon, the knights' charge caused the church army to react instantly.

The sound of gunfire, which had been somewhat silent, rang out again, and bullets and shells rained down on the attackers like hail.

Randall and the knights spread their keel shields with all their might, and the wriggling parasites quickly grew, extended, and entrenched, quickly forming a black wall in front of the enemy lines.

The lead bullet of the musket struck the keel with a clattering sound, but it did not shake the shield in the slightest.

Randall used his keel armor to resist the frontal impact as he shouted to his side, "Follow the beast!"

Dozens of giant wolves lay on the ground on all fours, hiding behind the insect shield, and sniffing vigorously on the ground with their noses.

Soon, the vanguard of knights and war beasts successfully carved out a safe route through the minefields of the defensive line.

When Randall and the knight's shield array advanced to only two hundred meters away from the enemy's second line of defense, the enemy's artillery began to prioritize them.

After the deafening sound of shelling, metal shells of various sizes flew from the bunker in the firelight.

After bouncing once on the hard ground, the cannonball smashed directly into the knights' keels with great kinetic energy.

The keels were dented by the cannonballs with a metallic thud, but the ability to regenerate them quickly returned to normal.

However, the users of the keel, those knights, caused a lot of damage due to the force brought by the impact.

Seeing a knight fall to the ground after being hit by a cannonball, Randall used the hive on his back to give orders to everyone.

"Take advantage of the gap between the cannon reloading, everyone in the Order obeys the order! Put away the shield! Advance at full speed!"

The knights adjusted their keel shields from extended to folded, drew their weapons, and charged towards the enemy lines with all their might.

After paying a lot of casualties, the knights finally took the lead in storming the enemy trenches.

As soon as Randall jumped into the trench, he was greeted by a panicked soldier with a cross on his chest.

The other party hurriedly tried to load the musket, but Randall didn't think about it, and turned a keel parasite into a spear, which pierced the opponent's chest directly.

Carol, Aldnan and Bourville also rushed into the trench at this time, and the strength of the orcs, the speed of the werewolves, and the tenacity of the minotaurs were put to good use in this narrow passage.

Aldenan jumped onto the mound of the trench and, with a sudden force, jumped directly into the ranks of the enemy musketeers.

A pair of sharp claws flew up and down, and one after another the heads of the enemy flew into the sky.

Carol, the green-skinned monster nearly two meters tall, walked slowly towards a knight commander of the Church Army, who raised his short gun in panic and pulled the trigger on the former.

After the gunshot, the lead bullet embedded in the orc's skin, but it didn't cause much damage to the opponent at all.

Carol simply shook her body and continued walking towards the enemy.

When the orc walked in front of the enemy commander, the former grabbed the latter's helmet with one hand, and squeezed it with five fingers.

The helmet made of steel resembles papier-mâché, pinched and distorted.

Bones and blood burst out of the cracks in the helmet, splattering all over the ground.

The surrounding church soldiers, seeing this scene, were all frightened, and they all dropped their weapons and fled to the rear.

At this time, the Minotaur Bourville crashed directly into the enemy bunker, and in the screams of the enemy soldiers, he actually directly removed the cannon mounted on the turret and waved it as a weapon.

All of a sudden, the entire bunker was full of flesh and blood, and no one survived.

Half an hour later, the three thousand soldiers of the Dragon Expeditionary Force completely controlled the second line of defense in the Far Ember Hills.