Chapter Eighty-Nine: Don't Listen to the Old Man
"Within a few minutes, I actually recruited all of them, and I really know the times."
"Identity? Elta? Lancasians? Or mercenaries from abroad? ”
"Elta, the remnants of the Eastern and Western Second Army recruited by the Commander of the Western Expeditionary Army."
"Yo, old friend of the people of Elta. What about deployment? ”
"At least a complete team of 1,000 people is stationed in the town of Three Bridges on the West Water Road in the city of Garcia, and the others are in the city of Garcia."
There was no need to torture to extract confessions, and as soon as the two soldiers of the Demon Spear Team who were pulled off their hoods took off their mouthballs, they shouted that they would say anything, only begging for mercy - they never dreamed that they would be caught by the aliens who scattered them and were caught near the hellish Cierta in their memories, which was simply a fairy ball......
"Three Bridges?" The staff officer waiting outside the makeshift interrogation room pulled out his phone and began to look at the map. "Good fellow, against our army?"
"I guess it's the results of the Ordnance Department's test of those two samples?"
"One of them was very poor, worse than the one made by the Red Dragons, and the only bright spot was the double tube. If the muzzle kinetic energy is even lower, it will not even reach the level of the 19th century. ”
"Come on, the gas gun was an elite weapon back then. And what about the other one? ”
The rifling is pulled randomly, the workmanship is poor, and the surface craftsmanship is rough, which is the "pertinent evaluation" of the slightly better magic powder rifled single-shot rifling rifle at the source of imitation. And one of its highlights is that relying on a powerful magic principle charge and a random rifling, the magic powder rifle can slightly reach a maximum range of 700 meters, but at that point, the trajectory of the warhead is almost immeasurable, and the destructive power can only be said to be slight. At the same time, the construction of the breech also made reloading extremely difficult. It is also understandable why the Lancas craftsmen brought by Ofemitsch insist on putting their swords on the muzzles of their guns - fighting street by street in the city where Ofel Mondrich relied is simply a hammer weapon, and there is no other way to get a shot and go forward with a magic powder rifle as a spear.
"In the future, it is necessary to avoid street battles in which soldiers and magic spear teams are simply fighting street by street, otherwise there is a great possibility that the rifled weapons of the magic spear team will penetrate the armor of our commanders and fighters at a very close range, and the losses caused by magical explosives used as tricks and mines can also be expected to be unbearable......" - "Chronicle of the Civil War in Elta", Vol. III, Final Conclusions and Guidance of the General Staff of the Elta Army on this matter (controversial).
The noisy front line suddenly became eerie.
On 3 September, the 1st Division of the 2nd Infantry Regiment of the Elta Army captured the small city of Mozaric in the southern part of the territory. The Western Expeditionary Army stationed here used scouts as bait to delay time and most of them fled northward, but the Elta army did not pursue them deeply.
On September 7, the majority of the 2nd Infantry Regiment of the Elta Army directly controlled the last route of the Western Expeditionary Army from the area directly under the old Elta Empire to the south, so that the Western Expeditionary Army of the Twin Moon Church stationed in Garcia was left with only two escape routes: the dangerous north and the downstream.
However, the Elta Army stopped there, leaving Offe Mondridge uneasy in his torment.
Yes, Elta and the Otherworldly behind them already know the last card in his hand - if the "empty ship" doesn't count, he has no ace in his hand with the face up.
It's not like they're out of the cracks on Three Bridges...... They just waited on the detour south. What are you waiting for? The means of exploration that the entire Western Expeditionary Army relied on to be proud of were like delicacies dripping with oil on meat skewers in front of the Otherworlders, and the Western Expeditionary Army and Eufe Mondridge, who had lost the Wyvern Scout Cavalry, were almost blind.
Now that the entire south gate of Garcia is exposed to the Elta army, Eufe Mondridge has to arrange all the remaining magic spear teams near the south gate with a warrant. However, the river and the road to the west are also beginning to be precarious, and with a slight stretch of the Elta, they will be able to join up with the volunteers gathered near Adri, and by that time the Twin Moons Church's original goal of marching into the Devil Powder will be in vain.
Until now, Ofemon Mondridge could only report truthfully to everything that had happened in Garcia City, including the Magician Rebellion. Now he has to keep his head down and ask for help from his political enemies who want to pick the fruit from the tree.
"This is not a disaster for one of my factions, this is the danger that the entire Bi-Moon Church will face to break the country!" Offey Mondrich was anxious enough to put something like this on paper. Because he knew that even the gods of the world could not easily escape by killing a few guards in such a capital, leaving almost no traces - although most of the people in the Western Expeditionary Army still think that it was the disappearance of the two soldiers themselves, and even that this matter was simply set up to cover up the vendetta, but Eufe Mondrich and Rucha, who had seen the steel-core warhead, Yourd and others obviously did not think so.
Eufael Mondrich prayed that on the other side of the messenger, the political enemies on board the empty ship would take his report seriously - but he was not optimistic about the safety of the empty ship as he transmitted the report in duplicate.
"What do you think of this report by Uffer Mondridge? Looking at the way he danced off his pants on the hot pan, it was hard to imagine that he was a famous family for several generations, right? The new commander of the Western Expeditionary Army, the priest Amibizero, mockingly shook off the piece of paper in his hand. He didn't even bother to prepare a reply, so he sent back the messenger of Ofy Mondridge - he really didn't bother to pay attention to this defeated man.
The garrison general's face turned pale. After Ofe Mondridge is a famous family, he naturally will not brag about it, because this is tantamount to shaking ink on his family flag. If he really seemed to be a nobleman, the "magic powder weapon force with amazing destructive power" he said would naturally not have much water. However, the enemy can kidnap the soldiers in the heavily guarded barracks at will, and they are still under the escort of the "gunners" who can instantaneously shoot magic powder.
All these factors add up to be too unbelievable, even the methods of the high-level mage group are just as unbelievable.
"Priest, no, Lord Overseer, this is a bit beyond my imagination." After pondering for a moment, the garrison general had to answer frankly.
"Hmph, there's a lot more to our imagination...... However, the statement of the kid Ofer Mondrich can only be said to be incompetent. When we set foot on Garcia and set foot on Elta, we will know how much of his words are moisture and how much of them are collaborators. ”
With that, the priest began to laugh out loud - in his eyes, the vanguard fleet of five empty ships was one of the strongest deterrents in the world, and with the follow-up fleet of high-level mages and the Forbidden Spell Research Society in the rear, this battle was almost a certainty.
The garrison general could only laugh helplessly. He had to admit that in the battle of Elta, it was now his close friend who had more say in the matter.
Suddenly, a long roaring sound of breaking the sky came from overhead, and in an instant, it drowned out the sound of the wind outside the empty ship and the laughter of the priests.
"Discover the target, a total of five, in line with the target information!" A crisp female voice echoed through the radio band, and then was overridden by new commands. "Look around and shoot begins!"
"It's been a hard work for our lesbians. However, this mission can add a nice logo to the cockpit, right? Presumably the little beauty will like it. ”
After a long-distance flight of nine hours that started late at night, we finally arrived at our destination here. The pilot leader of the J-16 attack aircraft fleet, who flew over the air group of ships, calmly scratched the flight map on the screen and looked down at the urine bag in his compensatory suit. The two J-16s under his command have the existence of female pilots who are rare in the whole army, which is unexpected
From the beginning of the preparations for takeoff, this flight lasted more than ten hours. During this period, there were four in-flight refueling trips, two fighters returned due to mechanical problems, and one was said to have struggled to land a single engine at a front-line airfield in the western part of the territory...... The main landing gear also broke one, but fortunately the pilot and weapon operator were safe and sound, but it really made the comrades sweat for it.
However, being able to leap down from under the clouds and see these wonders floating in the sky here will make it worth the rest of the pilots, right?
"What's that?" The priest only glanced at the Iron Eagle flying by outside the window, and he was amazed by the remnants of his retina. Immediately afterward, there was a loud bang and a tremor, and half of the sky was reddened by flames and flashes of light.
"The Bishop of Luna Kuz has been hit!"
"Mom! What is that?! ”
In the midst of the flames, the last of the five empty ships, the Bishop Ryunacuz, was letting out a twisted wail and began to fall wildly like a kite with a broken string. The huge double-layered dome cover she was proud of was vulnerable to the 250kg bomb, and the magicians who kept the circle running on the inner lining were killed at least half of them from the first bomb detonation.
To make matters worse, the Bishop Réucuz, the beautiful empty ship named in honor of the famous and virtuous bishop in the history of the Bilunar Church, had eaten eight of these bombs a few seconds earlier. After shattering the double dome, the remaining bombs began to gradually penetrate the top deck, the structural deck and the crew deck, blowing up the compartments and partitions that lined up in a row.
"I said that Ofe Mondrich would not say such a thing......" The garrison general's face was still pale, but it was noticeably more dividend-bearing than it had just been.
"What...... Is it? Imbizero, who stuck his head out of the window, defied the wind and looked at the Bishop Reunion as it crashed into the water from above, the fragile bottom of the ship shattered into sawdust. The heavy wreckage of the ship has long since sunk without a trace, the light broken wooden wall is still whirling in the water, and the whirlpool is helpless, still shouting, and the corpses that have long been helpless.