Just when Chloe was puzzled by Vita's ambiguous words, the operation on the ground had reached a critical moment. The chariot units of the two mecha divisions had been pushed directly south of the forest, and if they continued at the current speed, they would be able to leave Sasharante's control in no more than two hours. At this time, the Marquis of Haines finally saw that the destination of this army was an abandoned fortress in the south of Ordis - his troops did not need to meet the anger of the regular army, and he was relieved.

However, in order to prevent the Duke of Kane from complaining about him later, the Marquis of Haynes felt that it would be better to fulfill his obligations as a member of the noble alliance. In the absence of Vorres, and at night when there was no preparation for battle before this, the Marquis of Haines did not send his main force, but directly transferred troops to the nearest place and sent his own garrison in the north of Sasharante, trying to block the troops of the regular army mainly by containment. However, the determination of the regular army was surprisingly tenacious - after being attacked in the direction of the flank, the soldiers of the destroyed regular army chariot unit crawled out of the already immobile chariot, and then directly grabbed their weapons and engaged the troops of the noble army head-on. Due to the ambiguity of the order given by Duke Haines, the noble army of Sasharante in the face of this situation was also a little at a loss, so they could only choose to retreat for the time being.

More crucially, the regular army units of Sasharante seem to have finally found an opportunity - although they have been firmly pinned down inside the fortress, they have spies and intelligence agents in ambush outside. Such a fanfare action, as well as the deployment between the noble army, naturally reached the officers of the noble army. Some of the wiser staff officers understood the intentions of the regular army after only a little thought, and then supported it with their own actions—apparently some of them thought that this force was tantamount to suicide, and that Aurelia's forces were already waiting for them further ahead; However, many more people are excited by this behavior and are willing to help in their own way. Unbeknownst to Heliga, this was the prestige that Olibat had accumulated over the previous months in the western part of the empire. This makes these regular army units, which are not in his sphere of influence, also prefer to do some cooperative actions in his interests. Therefore, the Marquis of Haines had to order the rest of the troops to be on standby, and to be on guard against the regular army units that suddenly rushed into the fortress as if they were going to do something.

In reality, however, the Marquis of Haines was happy to see such a thing happen. The reason is also simple: he exaggerated the reaction of the regular army, and he could shirk the blame afterwards. Using the security of Sasharante as an excuse to keep his elite troops and not to go head-to-head with the main force of the regular army is a manifestation of his way of doing things. Therefore, the Marquis of Haines used this as a reason to hold a large number of troops in place in order to delay time, and the local army was naturally no match for the main chariot units of the regular army, and was defeated early.

After taking another small fortress, the regular troops rested for a moment, and then marched in formation. And just as the Marquis of Haines was engaged in an invisible mouth cannon with the Duke of Kane for his own benefit, a large number of regular infantry units had also appeared at the junction of the northern part of the forest and the valley. Their only goal was to walk through the forest, so they didn't encounter any danger other than the road itself, which was very difficult to walk. According to the original plan, the infantry group should have arrived some time before the chariot troops, so the location that Helliga initially chose to take the next step was not the northern part of the valley, but the southwest of the valley to the entrance to the forest. However, the roar of engines in the air told Hailiga that the integrated chariots of the regular army were swaggering across the land of Sasharante, which must have meant that the infantry units were finding a different way, and the staff officers of the noble army easily thought of the idea of crossing the forest. It would take only about one-fifth of the route taken by the chariot troops to get out of the forest and up the valley road to the north, and there would be no obstacle along the way—so as long as the soldiers gritted their teeth and stamped their feet and marched for ten hours in a row, there was no other problem. Thinking of this, the Noble Coalition reconnaissance force then turned on the thermal detectors, preparing to force the infantry units back into the forest with a bombardment strike from the air as soon as they appeared. This is the best time to stop the attack, because once a large number of infantry enters the canyon, the narrow view and the dense fog in the tunnel will seriously interfere with the movement of the airship troops. Therefore, after consulting Brigadier General Volres, his airboat unit immediately began to search for the southern exit of the forest.

However, things weren't destined to go so well. Heliga's appearance here is also somewhat to guard against such a situation. If the aristocratic army's airboat units appeared, a large group of infantry consisting of only light infantry would become a living target, and there would be no way to fight back, which was obviously not a situation that the plan allowed. The operator on the airboat suddenly noticed an abnormal magic reaction somewhere on the ground, and just wanted to turn the lens of the aerial telescope to take a look, he received a "cordial response" from the other party.

A golden magic light flashed, the engine on the left side of the airship was directly shattered, and even the empty boat cabin was rubbed out of a hole, and the air pressure balance system of the airship was also destroyed. Just as the airship hurriedly tried to ask for the help of its comrades around it, another identical flash of light hit the airship in the lower abdomen - the airship that was directly penetrated instantly became fragile, turning into a pile of scrap metal in the air, and randomly turning into dust in the explosion.

......The commander of the aviation unit, who witnessed all this, was dumbfounded - he did not even see what was going on and was unprepared for such a scenario. However, a second and a third followed...... As the fourth airship was hit by the hatch, like a cone that had dropped an ice cream cone, it lost its balance and fell into the countryside - the colonel finally realized that something was wrong. While he sent out the communication and directed the troops to retreat, he anxiously opened the communication with Brigadier Voles—he had lost four airships in an instant, and he had not even seen the shadow of the enemy.

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"That'...... What is that? Just when the second monk of the aristocratic army's airboat unit was puzzled, the regular army large force that was near the southern exit of the forest at this time was also amazed by what had just happened. They weren't blind, and though the tall trees obscured most of their vision, they weren't blind to the sound of airship engines and deafening explosions, and the golden flames rising from somewhere on the ground, on a otherwise peaceful night. Several observers also took out their binoculars and carefully observed the situation in the air.

"Colonel...... The airboat force seems to have retreated. The observer said to the colonel officer of the unit as he adjusted the focal length of the telescope. At the same time as the airboat unit was observed, the colonel was very nervous, because everyone knew that the infantry unit, which had no anti-aircraft fire and no mechanized mobile tools, was helpless in the face of air supremacy. However, it took less than ten minutes for his nervousness to turn into confusion and then to something of granted.

"Keep going." He pretended to be calm and gave the order - in fact, he didn't know what was going on. He had never seen any such conventional weapon for air defense, and it had such a lethal power. But this did not prevent him from figuring out that it must be the credit of the helper that His Highness Oliebat had found.

As for what it is...... Is it magic that can't be known? Or is it the black technology of the Qiyao Church? He didn't want to know, and he didn't think he was qualified to know. He only knew that the threat above his head was gone, and his group of soldiers, who were already very tired, only needed to hold out for another three hours before they could enter the vicinity of the old fortress and rest under the cover of natural danger while waiting for the arrival of the follow-up chariot troops.

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"You hear it all...... Excellency. At the temporary headquarters of the Lamar State Noble Army, Aurelia also learned the news from the mouth of Voles - hearing this, Aurelia seemed to suddenly think that there was a person who seemed to fit all the characteristics of this incident perfectly.

The ability to conceal without knowing it, the power of destruction - when Voles relayed the golden beam that split the airship in an instant, Aurelia understood it almost instantly.

It's the boy who has a good relationship with His Highness Oliebat, the one who praises even the Flame Demon who is the strongest in the "Society". The one who is so feared by the associations. I didn't think of this from the beginning...... In the final analysis, it was because he was so low-key and secretive that he couldn't be discovered until the last moment.

Aurelia suddenly felt a little irritated - he had already received a communication from Sasharante a few hours earlier. Waking up from her dream, she quickly gathered her army and divided into three routes to sweep the regular army troops. A group of troops, led by her capable generals, searched the hilly terrain of the former regular army station, where they found a large number of noble captives - after a brief confirmation, they were members of the patrol that had previously "disappeared". There are traces of binding on their bodies, but there are no further wounds, suggesting that they do not appear to have been interrogated and tortured by regular army forces. However, although all of them have been untied, they are all lying in a room, and they can't wake up, so they can only be taken back first, and then see the situation. As for the surrounding area, after careful searching, no traces of the regular army were found, only a large amount of household garbage left behind by them, as well as scrap metal from various combat vehicles and mecha parts. A large amount of scrap metal and mech frames were found in a warehouse, which appeared to be the same as the patrol's mechs. The few mechs captured by the regular army were missing, and the aristocratic army, aware of this, decisively began to search further, and then found traces of the regular army's movement in the direction of the forest. After a brief tracking, the soldiers were abruptly halted by the explosion of several mines—Aurelia then instructed Volres' air force to scout and search the southern exit of the forest—convinced that the regular army must be targeting the western fort, which was therefore the only exit.

The second force, led by Brigadier General Voles himself, led part of the mechs to the north, bypassing Haidu Ordis, and following the coastline from the north to the vicinity of the fortress. Unlike the unarmed forest, which could barely be passed on foot, the noble army was stationed on a cliff that could not be crossed in any way, so the distance was very long, and Aurelia could only hope that Voles would get there sooner.

She herself led the main forces, distributed at the fork in the middle, waiting for the chariot troops to take the bait. However, the regular army was well prepared for this, and it was evident that their determination was sufficient. Aurelia's vanguard was wiped out by the explosion of mines, and the engineering troops who followed up had to lament the secrecy of the regular army's minefield laying - it seemed that they had put all their money on this strategic shift, and such a huge number of mines must be all their belongings.

Faced with this, Aurelia's troops moved extremely slowly - after waiting for almost five hours, she finally received information from the engineering unit: after detection, they had passed through the minefield. A hundred cels ahead will lead to the road near the valley. Aurelia let out a sigh of relief, and she stepped out of the makeshift headquarters and looked at her own car, which was parked in the open space outside, exuding a sense of quiet solemnity against the whitening oriental background—a pure golden mech.

Hundreds of vehicles have been destroyed on this mech, as well as the great sword in its hand. Aurelia knew, however, that it was nothing compared to today's opponents—the excitement of the battlefield was only brought about by the war itself; And now Aurelia couldn't help but be excited and trembling all over, because what she was going to challenge would be a glimmer of impossibility.

"Non-human forces and adversaries...... Just let me try it. She whispered softly.

At the same time, Heliga, who saw that the threat of the airship had been solved, also looked at his watch, and then took a deep breath - his figure also appeared in a canyon that had been prepared for a long time, quietly waiting for the arrival of the challengers.