Through the fragmentary information collected one after another, the staff officers quickly analyzed what had happened this time: after Ryan and the others had killed many of the Dorasks before heading south, Kaodrogo, the most powerful Karatha, discovered the situation. After all, looting is the main source of income for the Dorasks, and they will never allow the sheep people who are their wanton looting to have the power to resist. So he decided to use a decisive battle to completely crush this revolt of the Lazarins.

Drogo Kao gathered the Kao of Karasa under the pretext of getting married, and then did not hold the wedding immediately after marrying his wife, as is customary, but directly took his wife and army that did not complete the wedding and tried to attack Raza directly. He declared at the gates of Pantos that he would conquer the Lazarins once and for all, celebrating his wedding with untold wealth and slaves.

Obviously, the rumors of the previous wedding were also spread by him. He hoped that the Lazarins would let their guard down as a result. It's a good thing Ryan didn't fall for this.

The Dolaskian cavalry had been a nightmare for the Lazarins before, but they had gained confidence after defeating the elite troops of a series of slave city-states. Everyone also knew that the great war with the Dorasks would inevitably break out, but they didn't know when.

After Ryan announced that a decisive battle would break out in a week, no soldier was afraid. Even many soldiers felt relieved, after all, they had been preparing for this war for a long time.

The war machine was in motion, and Ryan and his staff began to rehearse the process of war on the sand table, while the soldiers further reinforced the makeshift civil fortifications outside the core fortifications, deploying heavy weapons and erecting various obstacles.

Finally, with the smoke billowing in the distance, the Dolasks arrived. This unprecedentedly large army of more than 90,000 men was the best cavalry in the land. These cavalrymen were superior to any knight. Hussars were their main force. The warriors used scimitars, longbows, and whips called "Arak". It's just that by tradition, they don't wear armor, only a painted leather vest.

They plundered the surrounding peoples at will, and even the city-states with elite troops and well-fortified cities had to pay tribute every year to avoid their attacks.

Their opponents, Lazarin's army, numbering just over 16,000 men, were centered on the modern reinforced concrete fortress of Iron Gate Fort and surrounded by World War I-style defensive positions several kilometers deep, with trenches, barbed wire, and potato mines at the front of the positions. More than 400 steam machine guns and more than 150 small and medium-caliber steam cannons were arranged in the trenches and fortresses according to the science of calculation.

At the same time, the fortress was supported by more than a dozen steam gunboats in the deep water area near the river behind it, and more than 80 large-caliber steam train guns on a railway a few kilometers away on the south bank of the river with the mobile steam robotic unit.

"Do these cowardly sheep men think that they can stop us from our advance by their low fortresses and shallow moats? ”

After a brief speech, Drogo commanded the armies of the various small tribes to begin a tentative attack from all sides, while he himself led his headquarters to concentrate the assault once the others found a weak point in the defense.

"From now on, it's either death or victory. Think of the humiliation we have been subjected to over the centuries. All those who retreat will be shot directly as traitors, and there will be no mercy for cowards. Of course I would be on the front line, if I took a step backwards. You can just kill me. "In the trenches of Lazarin's army, priests with purple roses painted on steel helmets wielded sabers and made pre-battle speeches.

Soon, the tempting cavalry was entangled in the barbed wire, and their bows and arrows could hardly damage the troops in the fortifications. The Lazarins, who had hidden most of their firepower, began to shoot at the cavalry that had lost their speed with the spears of the wind in their hands. The battlefield was in a state of scorching.

However, because the Lazarin army did not burst out with all the firepower. Nearly an hour after the battle began, the cavalry had finally cleared several roads under the main fort after losing more than 5,000 men. The total casualties of Lazarin's army at this time did not exceed a hundred, but the Dothraki on the opposite side did not know this. They only felt that the door of victory was open to them, and that as soon as the large army arrived under the fortifications, the sheep men would let them slaughter as before.

With a few muffled horns, the 40,000 roaring warriors of the Dorasks finally moved. After uniting the other cavalry roaming around, they began to divide into small formations to form a continuous shock formation, charging towards the Iron Gate Fort.

But they didn't know that the cleared roads were actually fire traps that had been calculated long ago, and after most of the cavalry had entered these fire trap areas, Lane gave the order to open fire.

On the train guns on the railroad tracks on the south bank of the river, a brown-skinned artillery non-commissioned officer was silently praying.

"May the Most High Crystal bless us. After reading the prayer, he looked at the family photo posted next to the gun emplacement, on which there was a woman and two children in addition to him. They used to be slaves of Yuankai, but unfortunately they belonged to a different family from the slave owner. After Ryan's army breached the city of Yuankai, they were finally reunited after being freed.

Because he risked his life to help guide the rout to the hiding place when the Lazarin army entered the city, he received many rewards after the war: his wife was offered a job in a textile factory that everyone envied, and his two children were sent to school. In gratitude, he decided to join the army to defend the fruits of victory, because he could read and count. Therefore, after the knowledge of the Supreme Crystal Temple is given (that is, memory indoctrination in the cloak of mythology, because it is more convenient for those who master the basic knowledge to memorize and instill, so these people will have priority), they are assigned to be the commander of an artillery.

Just as he was reminiscing about the past, a sharp and short whistle sounded, and the carriage suddenly lit up with red lights.

"Fire was fired at the A3 area. Under his command, the gunner turned the steam valve sharply, and the 155mm caliber steam cannon on the carriage immediately burst out of a thick white mist, and a black shadow was projected into the distance, leaving a faint transparent trail in the air.

In an instant, the Dothraki cavalry that had gathered together to charge burst into waves of dirt mixed with stumps and severed arms. And then many blood-drenched gaps were revealed in the neat charging formation.

Although the brave Dothraki cavalry continued to charge forward in the face of artillery fire, the explosion affected the horses under their seats. The horses that had never experienced this before, jumped restlessly, making the charging line not as neat as it had been before.

At this moment, a short whistle sounded on the train, and the artillerymen wearing thick lint gloves quickly opened the bolts, and the operator on the other side of the gun cooperated with the water-filled probe rod to clean the chamber and cool down by the way. The loader then loaded a new shell into the chamber and closed the bolt. Thanks to the memory infusion device, it was possible to train so many closely coordinated artillery in just half a year.

After seeing from the side gauge that the steam pressure in the chamber of the gun had reached a predetermined value, the cannon roared again.