Accompanied by cannon fire in the sky, under the dense white smoke, there were a large number of marching dwarven legions.

The dwarves lined up in a neat line, their number was as large as 30,000, and the first wave of attack on the dwarves showed sincerity, but under the dense artillery fire, the dwarves' troops suffered heavy casualties, but the dwarves also had a brute strength, they completely ignored the continuous cathartic fire overhead, and stubbornly continued to advance, and soon, the sound of their own artillery fire was also heard from their rear.

The dwarves' gunpowder artillery is very powerful, although they lack magic skills, but the talent for industrial machinery is completely absent, in the development of pure gunpowder weapons, the development of the dwarves is undoubtedly the best, their artillery is of the best quality, the most powerful, but in the face of the large-scale magic attached enchanted artillery of the human race, it is lacking.

This is not to say that gunpowder weapons are not as good as magic weapons, but because the Terran artillery not only has the power of gunpowder but also has the power of magic, and the power is naturally stronger under this combination, at this time, the high-power gunpowder weapons are firing, and there are Terran enchanted cannons roaring next to them, and the elves' ballistas are not powerful at this time, they are waiting for the appearance of the black hand terrifying giants, these elves' ballistas are especially suitable for attacking those huge units, with strong penetration and high accuracy.

A thousand artillery pieces of various colors emitted a deafening roar, the dense barrage slammed into the various defenses built by the black hand in front of the fierce explosion, the violent explosion far exceeded the black hand's shoddy artillery, some small strongholds were even completely destroyed under the fire of which artillery, such a fierce fire made the dwarves who were bombarded below were undoubtedly extremely excited, they cheered and began to sprint, and a large number of dwarven musketeers walked in the front.

The dwarven musketeers wore a gradient steel frame, a steel helmet on their heads, and a backpack package on their backs, holding their own matching guns in their hands and constantly charging upward, they fired as they walked, and the white smoke instantly filled the front of the dwarven army, and the black hands above were not idle, their firearms penetration rate was far higher than that of any Middle-earth force, the black hands knew very well that the muskets would help them, and the cowardly physique of the black hands themselves had the largest increase in combat effectiveness after having the muskets.

Therefore, the black hand should pay more attention to firearms and equipment than any Middle-earth force, although they are shoddy in pursuit of production, but they can't stand the large number, at this time when the dwarves start to fire, the black hand soldiers began to use their muskets to return fire, they are not as sophisticated as the dwarves, except for the inferior musket, most of the black hand soldiers do not have any armor, the only more abundant may only be ammunition.

This battle mode between the two sides made the humans and elves really stunned, such a large-scale firearms battle is the first time that it has appeared in front of the eyes of humans and elves, although firearms have been popularized for a long time, but they never thought that there would be such a scene in gunpowder battles, this pure firearms combat method made them feel bright, and then they all felt a change in an instant.

Not to mention the human race, they themselves have the most advanced gunpowder equipment in Middle-earth, and the proportion of gunpowder troops is also increasing every year, they just lack a certain amount of experience in fighting with their equipment, but the elves are very shocked, anyone, as long as they are not fools, can feel the importance of firearms, cowardly black hand soldiers can even fight with strong dwarven soldiers after having muskets, and the army of plain knights who were once almost impossible for elves to face is now vulnerable in front of muskets.

The earliest muskets were not able to destroy the armor of Middle-earth soldiers, but with the progress of the times, the latest muskets of the dwarves have a strong armor-piercing ability, and the heavy armor is already difficult to resist the attack of this musket, even if the heavy armor of the human knight can withstand it now, it will definitely be slowly destroyed by more advanced muskets over time, and as for the practice of thickening the armor, hehe, how many muskets is enough to produce for the price of your set of armor? How many musketeers do you have enough time to train as a knight?

Lelouch never mentioned these experiences in Middle-earth, but the dwarves still began to touch the door of these things, and they already had military personnel within them who preached the theory of the victory of firearms, and Lelouch didn't know about this situation, because to be honest, even Lelouch is not sure what direction this unique culture of Middle-earth will eventually develop, the advantages of pure firearms are great, but the development of magic is also very promising, but it is demonization or firearms, and there are great differences within Lelouch's empire.

However, these differences obviously do not affect the front line of the king's pit now, the effect of this mutual firearm battle between the dwarves and the black hand is very good, the two sides flickered casualties under the dense barrage, the dwarves attacked on the back, and the number was dense, and there were heavy casualties under the dense barrage, but the black hand on the opposite side was not good, as for the strong artillery support in the rear, so that the black hand's artillery could hardly raise its head, their artillery was the object of the first round of key strikes under their own artillery, and now the black hand artillery that can threaten the artillery positions of the coalition forces is almost non-existent, only a few more rear-mounted artillery directly bombarding the dwarven attacking team will be able to avoid targeted killings by the coalition artillery.

But this situation directly led to a very serious situation, that is, the coalition artillery can tilt the barrage on the defenses of the black hand without hindrance, and any stronghold with a slightly larger number of people will inevitably suffer extremely heavy bombardment, although the black hand is not killed by the dwarf muskets, but under the bombardment of which artillery, it is heavy casualties, and it is difficult to maintain the density of the barrage against the dwarves below.

In the first battle after the coalition joined, the coalition army showed far more combat effectiveness than the dwarves when they formed an army alone, the black hand was difficult to resist the fierce attack of the dwarves in the open field, and soon, the dwarves finally came into contact with the black hand's defenses, a large number of dwarf warriors rushed to those strongholds with a variety of heavy weapons, and the few black hand soldiers in the stronghold only had time to shoot a shot and rushed to the front of a dwarf soldier before being swept up by a large number of dwarves behind him and cut down to the ground, the conditions for the use of muskets, in close combat, the black hand is not the opponent of the strong dwarf soldiers at all。

"Okay, okay, it's finally on!"

Harold in the rear was very excited to see this scene, he cheered loudly, and the dwarf officers around him were the same, Harold looked at the front-line troops who had begun to clear the black strongholds one after another, and looked excitedly at the Terran leading officer beside him:

"Now please ask the Terran troops to support us, I need 30,000 troops to join the battle, be sure to clear all the peripheral facilities of the King's Pit in one fell swoop, and drive those filthy reptiles back to the cave!"

In response to Harold's request, the Terran officers looked at each other and agreed to Harold's proposal:

"Okay, our Terran will send 30,000 people to join the battle!"

With the consensus reached at the top, the Terran troops also began to set off, the penetration rate of firearms in the Terran troops is not particularly high, they are more still existing as auxiliary combat forces, and firearms are relatively backward, the empire's recent research forces are placed on heavy equipment and super equipment, and the grassroots equipment such as muskets is less concerned, so the Terran troops still rely more on close combat, fortunately, the dwarves have cleared the way forward for humans.

30,000 human beings joined the battlefield strongly, and the dwarven troops, who were originally a little thin because the battle line was widened, were able to maintain comprehensive pressure at this moment with the addition of a new force, and the black hand lost its stronghold faster and faster, but the closer it was to the gate of the king's pit, the greater the pressure on the coalition army, and here, the artillery support of the coalition army began to become weaker and weaker, because it was difficult for the artillery fire here to avoid accidental injury, and the artillery of the coalition army weakened, but the artillery and muskets of the black hand were becoming more and more effective.

A large number of black hand soldiers relied on the towering walls to shoot at a dense rate of zero, and the artillery also changed to scatter shots to start firing, and the coalition forces were completely unable to break through the towering walls at such a close range.

"Let the front line stop advancing and the artillery positions push forward. ”

Harold quickly gave the order to stop the advance, Harold is not stupid, it is impossible to continue to put people into this kind of battle with obvious enemy superiority, Harold finished speaking and looked at the elf officer: "I don't know if the elves can provide at least five thousand marksmen, I need them to use high precision on the front line to snipe those outcropping black hand crumblers!"

In the face of this kind of request, the elves did not refuse the reason, they quickly agreed to this request, five thousand elf soldiers were also sent up, now the outside of the pit has completely become the world of the coalition army, the current black hand and the coalition army are shooting at each other under the king's pit at this time, but for a while, no one can help anyone, the coalition army is waiting for the artillery bombardment in the rear, and the black hand is stubbornly resisting, but with the addition of five thousand elf archers, the battle situation has changed.

The accurate elven arrow rain is always able to take away those black hand soldiers who are rising, and after dying at least a thousand people in a row, the black hand finally gave up looking up, and they directly raised their guns and fired at the outside after they loaded the ammunition, and the musket that was extremely lacking in accuracy is now even more inaccurate, and it will not hit the coalition forces below at all, if it weren't for the fact that there are still many artillery guns that continue to spray scattered bullets behind the disaster, the coalition forces may not wait for the artillery in the rear to continue to attack directly.

Although the black hand hid behind the city wall, the elf's terrifying archery showed their strength at this time, even if they only stretched out a hand, they were often shot through the arm by the elf's arrow, and the black hand's already thin body was directly shot off by the elf's arrow.

The battle has fallen into a short stalemate now, the black hand can't help the people below, and the coalition army below can't help the black hand on the city wall in a short time, the coalition army is waiting for the artillery to move or it takes a long time, after all, it is uphill, if the artillery can fully function, they also need to fill in a lot of land to make the artillery play better, this time is not short.

"It's not too early, the troops who have begun to rotate the front line have come down to rest, and it's time to have lunch, and the battle won't end in a while!"

Although Harold was a little dissatisfied with the proposal of a Terran officer, he also knew that this was indeed the case now, and Harold also nodded:

"Alright, let the children all come down, change into reserves, rest, and we'll continue the attack in the afternoon when the artillery is in place!"

So, the front line guns are firing, and the rear is beginning to bury the pot to cook, the supply of the coalition army is completely provided by the Terrans, which is also a kind of Lelouch cultural output, whether you want to or not, since it is the supply provided by the Terrans, then you have to eat the food of the Terrans, and the diet is also a kind of culture, and the first to fill the diet is also to pave the way for a possible merger in the future.

"It's eaten, it's eaten!"

A group of dwarven soldiers who had just retired sat breathlessly on their camp, holding their weapons and wiping their armor, and as a young dwarven logistician came over with a large cart pulling slow food, these resting dwarves were able to gasp for breath and relax slightly.

"What to eat?"

A dwarf asked curiously, and the young dwarf logistician said directly:

"A big bucket of rice plus three cans of braised pork per person, and a large pickled fish, enough broth tubes, plus a can of canned fruit!"

Hearing this, the morale of the dwarves has recovered a lot, they have already been hungry after vigorous exercise, not to mention any greasy, the most favorite food of hungry people is greasy things, which can quickly replenish the nutrition and strength of the body, the dwarf soldiers took out a large bowl from the cart, and then directly used the large bowl to fill the steaming white rice full of fluffy rice, and then one person took three cans of meat and a pickled fish directly on the rice, and retreated.

Open the canned meat directly, pour it directly on the rice, and send it to the mouth with the greasy soup and fatty roast meat, and then eat a bite of pickled fish from time to time, the unique pickled fish aroma and chewy taste, let the dwarves exclaim directly, the dwarves have very big bellies, and the large bowl of rice is enough to make an ordinary small family have all the rice needed for a meal, but here, it is only a dwarf for a meal.

The sound of munching spread across the coalition camp, and the elves ate more lightly, mainly fruits and vegetarian dishes, with some berries specially provided by the dwarves, while humans ate everything, including berries and vegetables, as well as rice and roast meat, but the amount was relatively even, not so much.

(End of chapter)