If it weren't for the catastrophe that would have been unleashed by the end of all things, perhaps the war that brought Cecil's legion to the fore would have been delayed for a long time - but if nothing ifs, and the end of all things would have set off a man-made natural disaster on the plains of the Holy Spirit, then the Iron Legion from the south would have taken the stage.

This Iron Legion is still immature, and it still needs to be honed in terms of tactics, ideology, and soldier training, and the battlefield of the Holy Spirit Plains is their best training ground.

At dawn, the 1st Corps, which had maintained a stealthy and rapid march, made contact with the first blockade line of the Crystal Cluster Corps in the small plains south of Red Maple City, and this inevitable encounter was the starting point of the whole battle, which began with three naval artillery bombardments from the Gorgon River, and the chariot units of the Corps gathered into a sharp attack on the Crystal Cluster line.

The iron-gray eagle swept under the clouds, reflecting the scene of the battlefield into the eyes of the riders, and Sonia Frostleaf looked down on the front of the Legion's attack, taking in the Cecil's fighting methods - she saw the tanks with strong shields and powerful artillery tools gathered into an offensive array, and attacked the weak points of the Crystal Legion's defensive line with maximum firepower, while constantly pushing forward, although the Crystal Cluster Legion was not afraid of death in the face of a sudden attack, it was impossible to maintain the line in the face of this concentrated artillery bombardment- Whether it was the flesh and blood after strengthening, or the strong fortifications formed by the city walls and magic shields, they all quickly collapsed under concentrated artillery fire.

After opening one such gap, the offensive array formed by the tanks will begin to accelerate, and quickly disperse into several small arrows on the way, and begin to rely on continuous advance and artillery bombardment to further tear open the breach in the defensive line, and at the same time, the infantry attacking with the tank units will also enter the battlefield and begin to further cut and penetrate the enemy position with their respective "core tanks" as the center, and they will be responsible for destroying the enemy at close range that may threaten the tank, or indicating the direction of the enemy's fortifications to guide the tank shelling, Until the end of the operation.

And throughout this process, the long-range magic cannon located on the high ground in the rear will maintain a near-non-stop artillery bombardment - the shelling covers the rear of the Crystal Cluster Legion's defensive line, it almost completely extinguishes the possibility of the enemy reinforcing the defensive line, and a large number of Crystal Cluster infected people who have been urgently called up are blocked for several kilometers, and they continue to die under artillery fire until the entire line of defense is gone, until their originally safe "rear" becomes a new front line......

Such an attack would consume a staggering number of physical shells (even energy weapons would burn a lot of focused crystals), but Cecil's weapons reserves should be enough to last until the end of the war - Sonia knows that the entire South has been preparing for this war since last year (in fact, they may have been preparing for war since the establishment of the principality, but their initial enemies may not have been crystallized monsters), factories, production lines, thousands of workers, They worked day and night to produce cannonballs and weapon crystals, to assemble artillery tools and chariot chassis, to metal from the East, to magical materials from the royal family, and to the vast resources of the South's own reserves, almost all of which were transformed into these things that whizzed through the air and exploded on the battlefield—

And to this day, until this moment, the factories in the south are still producing non-stop, and even new production lines are being added day by day, and every day countless supplies are sent to the front line by mechanical ships or magic vehicles along the Gorgon River, along the Kingdom Road, and along the temporary roads in the war zone.

The entire southern realm seemed to have turned into a huge machine, all the resources were integrated into the feed hopper of this machine, the gears and levers were roaring, and their weapons and equipment were even more and more fighting.

Gawain Cecil called this state of affairs a "wartime system."

"Northwest C12 area observed a swarm of mana, enemy reinforcements," Sonia Frostleaf steered the giant eagle through the clouds, and in a frightening glance at the slope of the earth and the reduction in height, she sent back the latest observations to the rear, and broke away from the area before a cross-lightning net from the ground enveloped herself, "Call for naval artillery support. ”

"This is the Trailblazer, received, arrived in a minute after the shelling."

In the beginning, Cecil's tactics were not so clever.

They did create a new and powerful army, but it was also a completely new thing for them, and Gawain Cecil designed a series of supporting tactics and training programs for it, but it was difficult for the commanders and soldiers to understand them in a vacuum—they could only perform training mechanically, and with absolute trust in the lord, they recorded skills that were not supported by any actual evidence, and in the early days of this war, Hardly any commander has successfully implemented those training elements.

Sonia has seen the tanks rush into the enemy line while the infantry who should have coordinated the attack are left far behind (in fact, the fact that no soldier is crushed by their own tanks is already the effectiveness of the previous mechanical training), and she has also seen the battle squad nervously and exaggeratedly describe the situation on the front line, causing the commander in the rear to misjudge the size of the enemy, wasting fire support and confusing the original attack plan.

If it weren't for the fact that those advanced weapons and equipment were strong enough, and if it weren't for the fact that the Crystal Cluster Legion was at a loss in the face of the southern army, the army of the Duchy of Cecil would not have advanced so quickly.

In the command car, Gao Wenzheng was learning about the situation of the entire front through the magic network communication, and just now, a company withdrew from the battle due to an accident.

They misguided their instructions and entered the enemy's encirclement during the march, and although they finally broke through, seven of the twelve tanks were damaged, and they suffered heavy casualties, so they had to withdraw and repair.

The reserve company took up the vacancy of the fourth company and continued to dismantle the defense line of the giants.

The battlefield of the Plains of the Holy Spirit is the best stage for actual combat, and the legions of the Duchy of Cecil will get the best experience here, and until now, the soldiers and commanders are still grinding in and becoming proficient in what they have learned in the training ground, they are not good enough now, but in Gawain's opinion, they are making rapid progress.

This should be attributed to the literacy rate of the soldiers.

More than eighty percent of the soldiers have basic writing and calculation skills, which is enough for them to have better logical thinking, enough for them to quickly accumulate relatively complex battlefield experience, and understand various instructions from their superiors.

On the other hand, the tactics conceived by Gawain are more or less constrained by the inherent experience of the earth and may not necessarily adapt to the realities of the world, and in this regard, it is clear that the commanders of the regiment must learn to adapt to local conditions and learn to take the initiative to adapt - this also depends on the high level of education of the soldiers and the professionalism of the non-commissioned officer class.

After this war, Cecil's legion may not be a hundred battle divisions, but at least it is a qualified modern legion that can properly use their advanced equipment.

The Cecil were advancing north, at an alarming speed, like an out-of-control beast.

This "push" can even be described as a "charge".

By the time Heaton woke up in astonishment to the men in charge of the southern defenses, the first line of defense set up by the Legion of Evil in the Plains had vanished—not breached, but telepathically vanished entirely.

It was as if it had been burned to ashes, and a gust of wind blew it clean.

A priest of the end of all things, who had completely transformed into a god's evil form, lowered his head and reported nervously and slightly frightened: "They have broken through the line of the Hinoki Manor and are now attacking our second line of defense...... Large-scale warships appeared on the Gorgon River...... There are six brigades...... No, the nine brigades have just lost contact again!! ”

Heaton glared, "How did they get so close?!" Why hasn't anyone found out before?! ”

The Dark Priests were silent, but Heaton himself didn't expect an answer from the mouths of the Cecil - the Cecil's attack was a given, and there was no point in studying their previous course of action.

"They're coming for the red maple...... Damn it...... How could they be so fast!! He cursed under his breath, finally feeling a sense of horror in his heart for the power of the Cecil for the first time.

He had indeed feared the pioneer who had risen from the dead, and he had feared the power of the South to unite within a year...... But that should have been in the past tense!

The Society of the End of All Things has created a powerful army of gods, this powerful army can even subvert the entire Ansu Kingdom in a month, it should be extremely powerful, in the process of fighting the royal family and the noble army in the east, this army has indeed shown its strength, but ...... Now what's going on?

"Quickly gather the transformers of the Plains, strengthen the second line of defense, and let the legions in the south shrink and retreat, and block the back of the Cecils - attack them from behind!"

After a brief moment of stunned, Heaton forced down the shock in his heart and began to respond to the Cecil's attack with the best plan he could think of—he noticed that the Cecil had broken straight into the Red Maple Plains through some kind of covert march, which meant that the army of the gods stationed south of them was still intact...... Then as long as the Cecil can be held back in the north, the Legion of the Gods in the south can attack from the rear of the enemy.

Even if that Korod was here, he shouldn't have come up with a better solution.

However, shortly after his order was given, a priest in the form of a giant trembled slightly, and said, "Your Excellency...... Our second line of defense...... It's gone...... Enemy...... Enemy ......"

The priest couldn't even finish his sentence, but Heaton didn't need to hear any more information from the other party—

He heard a faint explosion!

The wind of magic rolled up out of thin air, and Heaton's figure was quickly enveloped in a cloud of twisted black vines, and in the next second, he reached the southern wall of Red Maple through the network of vines set up throughout the city.

He saw a grand cloud of smoke rising from the southern plains, and many strangely shaped metal vehicles were crushing the scorched earth towards it, and the god-transformers who were wandering and patrolling the plains were constantly being destroyed by explosions and flashes of what were clearly magical effects.

As described in the previous intelligence, those were Cecil's legions from the south.

The guards of Red Maple City acted at the first time, countless tall gods and giants walked up to the city wall and supported the defense line, the rune stone bricks on the red maple city wall emitted a bright light, and a vague magic barrier began to quickly form in the air - as one of the important cities in the middle of the Holy Spirit Plains, Red Maple also has a city-level shield system, but it is not a heavy fortress like a rock fortress after all, its shield device cannot be maintained for a long time, and only when the city is threatened, the shield will be temporarily raised.

Heaton watched as the mana in the air gradually condensed into a barrier, but before the shield could be completely closed, he suddenly saw a flash of light in the smoke and dust in the distance—

A grotesque thing sliced through the air with a pale cyan mana current, and it flew through the barrier of red maple that had not yet been closed, and fell straight towards the city wall.

A godly giant transformed from an Eastern transcendent reached out and grabbed the flying thing curiously—the force of the thing was so great that the mighty commander-level giant was almost taken out on the spot after holding it, and the giant retreated again and again, stepping on a series of terrible pits in the city wall before barely standing still, and then curiously raised the obelisk-like metal bump in front of him: "What is this?" Except for this layer of air mass, there doesn't seem to be any magic in it......"

"Idiot!!" Heaton was stunned and then roared angrily - under normal circumstances, grabbing a weapon thrown by an enemy on the battlefield with his bare hands has always been regarded as a symbol of great strength and skill, but can the Cecil catch what he throws at will?

The Society for the End of All Things has long had an experience: when fighting the Cecil, no matter what they throw at you, even a pumpkin pie, you must not reach out and grab it!

Almost everything they throw will blow up!

However, before he could warn, the "metal bump" in the giant's hand had already exploded.

The mechanism activated the preset rune trap - and now, it has a magical response.

The massive flash of the explosion completely enveloped the reckless Titan Commander, countless shattered crystals and metal scattered in all directions, and Heaton immediately propped up his shield, blocking all the fragments that might have injured him, and when the explosion dissipated, he saw only a broken calf where the giant had stood.

The next moment, Red Maple City's city shield finally closed.