[[[CP|W:855|H:447|A:L]]] "Bang! Bang! Bang! ”

On the high ground south of the city, in front of the city of Ishbal.

Directly behind the Estes troops, the well-equipped and well-ammunition artillery units of the Amessus Storians repeatedly poured shells into the city day and night.

Tens of kilograms of shells, shells filled with explosives and anti-personnel shrapnel indiscriminately shelled buildings in the city.

It's been two weeks, two whole weeks. It's been two weeks since the war of annihilation in Ishbal began. Two weeks passed, and the artillery units of the enemy army, which were supposed to be the rear fire support units, which should have theoretically withdrawn from the battle and let the infantry into the city for a surprise attack, did not cease fire for a long time.

For two weeks, the headquarters was located on the high ground south of the city, and the artillery unit of the Amestolis Army was located

They were still busy firing artillery shells into the city, destroying the buildings in the southern part of the city one by one with continuous shelling and firepower, and destroying and uprooting the fire points, fortifications and barricades built by the rebels in the city one by one.

Thanks to the detailed shooting coordinates and city coordinates provided by Estes, the house structure map and the city map provided by Estes, the artillery of the Amestories Army was as accurate as if it had long eyes.

Originally, moving the artillery positions to the high ground was conducive to improving the firing range, increasing the accuracy and accuracy of firing, and allowing the artillery to improve the observability of firing and improve the quality of firing.

With the detailed coordinate map, the artillerymen, who deal with the coordinates, rulers, and arithmetic every day, are even more like fish in water, standing on the top of the hill and correcting the shooting target with the naked eye, and at the same time, comparing the accurate map provided by Estes, and destroying the enemy's key bunkers and firepower points in the city that have long been marked by Estes.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! ”

During the entire war of annihilation in Ishbar, the factories and heavy equipment of the country of Amestolius were the highest priority to support here, so each zone of annihilation was assigned to an artillery unit that belonged to this zone of annihilation.

Because recently the infantry of several other districts had begun to break through the city, a large number of artillery units became useless, and Estes was cheapened for nothing.

After five days of shelling, seeing that other units had broken through into the city, the various units could not sit still, and they ordered the artillery units to cease fire, the infantry units to assault, and the national alchemists to take the city. A real street fight in the city began.

For more than a week, the only areas where the infantry units were ordered to stand by and the artillery units to suppress the city were the 1st and 12th districts that Estes was responsible for.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! ”

For two whole weeks, the artillery units belonging to the 12th and 1st districts, which were under the responsibility of the Estes unit, did not stop firing.

From morning to night, from day to night, the thunderous sound of cannons was endless. There was no stopping at all.

Because the infantry in other areas had already broken through to the point where the artillery in the city was useless, Estes also asked his superiors for instructions to strengthen the spare artillery units to his own area.

Now, in the direction of the southern part of Esdes's responsibility, facing the city of Ishbal, there are pitch-black barrels piled up with brass-colored shells everywhere.

Two weeks of non-stop firing, I don't know how many cannons were broken, and how many barrels were scrapped. However, the war of annihilation in Ishbal, supported by the national arsenal, had an unimaginable logistical supply guarantee.

The artillery was broken, pulled down and replaced with a new one, the barrel was spent, we still had a backup, the shells were gone, and we still had a mountain of shells piled up in the munitions storehouse.

Now there are not enough soldiers and men in Ishbal, and there is no weapons and ammunition that may be exhausted.

There are so many ammunition piled up in the rear that they simply can't be finished.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! ”

As Estes said before, the Ishbals had no chance of winning a battle with the Amsteristorians.

The armourys and weapons and ammunition of the Amestorius army are much better than theirs.

The organization and order of the troops were also much stronger than those of the Ishbal rebels, and the two sides were not on the same level from the beginning.

Just when the soldiers in other areas who had already broken into the city were about to destroy the enemy's bunker fortifications with their flesh and blood.

The soldiers in the area in charge of Estes only need to send capable personnel to reconnoiter the enemy's situation, and then use walkie-talkies to report the firing coordinates to the rear artillery.

For two weeks, Estes obtained accurate maps of the coordinates of the urban area and coordinates of the enemy's fortifications, as well as top-down shooting correction observations from high places on the terrain and a superior field of view.

The Ishbal fortifications and fortifications in the 1st and 12th sectors were subjected to heavy artillery bombardment.

But all the strongholds and defensive fire points and fortifications were given an average of white-haired shells.

Estes was so meticulous in his work that he even detected the thickness of the walls of the fortifications, the presence of tunnels underground, and the load-bearing walls of the house structure, which made the artillerymen on the high ground south of the city very happy.

A large-scale annihilation area city simulation sand table is placed in the artillery headquarters for the artillerymen's reference at any time.

The artillery unit under Estes was very close to the city, and because he knew that the Ishbars had no artillery, the artillery position was only three kilometers away from the city in order to completely crush the enemy and improve the accuracy of fire.

The accuracy of artillery fire at such a distance is very high. It's on high ground overlooking the city.

Such terrain is simply too suitable for artillery.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! ”

Shells whizzed into the city, destroying houses one by one. Dealing with the stubborn hiding points and fire points fortified barricades that are relatively hidden between several buildings, the artillery team under Estes has the same method as Estes.

- Blow up the surrounding buildings before shooting at the enemy fortifications.

The houses of the Ishbars were primitive stone or loess houses, with no reinforced concrete and concrete, and the field artillery of the Amestoli Army could clean up any target that they wanted to destroy.

"There seems to be an observation point on a tall building on the thirteenth coordinate, requesting artillery support."

The Amerstories military, who was in charge of reconnaissance outside the city, radio-contacted artillery and asked them to destroy suspicious targets

"Bang! Bang! Bang! ”

The artillery will destroy the targets that the infantry needs to destroy.

After two weeks of reconnaissance and artillery bombardment, and continuous and repeated training in reconnaissance and artillery bombardment, the soldiers under Estes have a good grasp of the number of ways to call accurate artillery fire when fighting alone.

In the past two weeks, the artillery unit dug up by Estes and Estes have become more and more closely coordinated.

While the artillery of the other annihilation areas was still on the sidelines, Estes was digging up the artillery of other areas.

In contrast, Estes's men quickly assembled a large group of artillery units with excellent technology and infantry and knew how to work closely together.

For two weeks, the Ishbal firepower and defenses in Sector 1 had been largely wiped out by intense and incessant artillery fire.

The rebels in the area were unable to reach the Amestories outside the city because they did not have heavy firepower, and they could not defend themselves against the precise shelling of the artillery units, and their will tended to collapse.

The Ishbal rebels were not a very organized force in the first place, but a ragtag group between the militia and the volunteers, who had been tormented by two weeks of intense shelling, and fled to friendly neighboring areas.

In two weeks, Estes' infantry had actually wiped out more than a third of the enemy in the area and driven out a third without paying a single casualty.

The people of Ishbal in the city had no secrets from Estes.

Every one of them where they can hide, Estes knows. There is simply nowhere to hide.

Over the course of two weeks, more than 90 percent of the houses in the area under Estes' responsibility were damaged by artillery fire of various ranges. The artillery on the high ground seemed to be taking a roll call and destroying every building in the city that was still intact.

There were heavy casualties in the inner part of the city, and most of them had taken refuge in other areas to escape the seemingly endless shelling.

It is ironic that when Estes's troops were squatting at home to train and integrate, the officers who could no longer resist the attack laughed at Estes for his stupidity and inability to grasp the fighters and military exploits.

Now, after two weeks of training, Estes's troops are about to launch a frontal attack on the enemy forces in the city after running in with the artillery units, and the troops in other areas who broke through the city early have suffered heavy casualties.

Although there are alchemists to support them, there are not many alchemists who are suitable for combat, and those who have received formal combat training are even more limited.

The fortifications of the Ishbals in the city were mostly intact due to the short time of the bombardment, and the capture of these fortifications caused great casualties to the army of Amestoris.

The situation now is such that in eight of the twelve areas except the core area, the regional infantry units that are in a hurry to assault suffer heavy losses.

Among the remaining four areas, except for the first sector in charge of Estes, the eighth district in charge of the flame alchemist Mastan in charge of annihilation, the eleventh district in charge of the annihilation of the iron-blooded alchemist Colonel Gran, and the sixth district in charge of the annihilation by Major Kinbri, because of their strong personal ability, they saved the crisis of the rout of the troops.

But even so, the casualties are still not small.

Only Aspdes' first sector has not yet suffered any casualties.

But soon, with the end of the unit's training, Estes's troops were about to go into battle.