A strange shrill whistling sound was faintly heard, and after a moment's delay Welsh heard a loud thunderous sound on the southern plains.

It was a sound that had never been seen in previous battles, a movement that the Crystal Giants had never made.

He raised his head and looked in the direction where the loud noise had come from, but he could only faintly see a huge cloud of smoke rising into the air, and near the area where the smoke was rising, the army of crystal clusters seemed to be in chaos.

The Cecils are said to have created magical weapons that can strike from more than a dozen kilometers away, projecting powerful explosive devices into precise locations, and the high-pitched whistling sound is the most distinctive feature of the "heavenly fire" before it descends.

Reinforcements are entering the battlefield – but they are still far away.

All the barriers of light had been shattered, particles of light escaping from the air fluttered down on the walls, and with the scattering of light particles, arcs of electricity from the Crystal Legion began to strafe the walls that had lost all protection, knights with broken armor stepped forward with huge shields to fill the gaps in the walls, and bloodied soldiers manipulated all the trebuchets - with or without magic - to begin this final counterattack.

The light of the great sun pierced through the clouds, casting a brilliant glow, and the morning glow pouring down from the clouds gilded the ancient royal capital, and everything - blood-stained banners, cracked armor, glittering spears, huge trebuchets and ballistas, and the frenzy of crystals that surrounded the royal capital, all glittered in this sunlight.

"Our reinforcements have already begun to attack!!" On the city wall, a bloodied knight held high the royal flag of Ansu, waving it vigorously and shouting, "Hold on to the last ......"

A sharp crystal spike flew from the edge of the wall, piercing the knight's chest, and on the battlement, a hideous, swollen monster continued to climb upward.

The Welsh sword swung over, and the invisible shockwave cut off the monster's body, and he took the falling royal flag and held it high: "Hold the line!" ”

"Hold the line!!"

"Hold the line!!"

More and more whistling sounds came from afar, and more shock clouds began to appear at the end of the southern plains, but the battlefield of this siege was so vast that the boundless crystal monsters covered almost the entire area of the San Sunil plain, that even if reinforcements arrived on the battlefield, it could take hours to advance near the walls, and the irrational crystal cluster army would not stop attacking in the process.

Gawain and Byron are also well aware of this.

The armored griffon swept through the sky, bringing the latest intelligence on the royal defense line, the bridge of the Trailblazer - which is also the command center of this operation, Byron is analyzing the situation on the front line: "...... The Great Shield of Saint Sunil had collapsed, as had the barrier of light that Sonia had observed, and now they were relying on the enchanted walls and knights and soldiers to maintain their defenses. The most densely populated area of the enemy was near the eastern wall of the royal capital, but it was outside the range of the Trailblazer's main guns. ”

Gawain looked at the battle map in front of him, but the bird's-eye image of the satellite came to his mind: "Bombing an offensive route between directly south of St. Sunil and the Gorgon River, from which the ground forces entered, and then built artillery positions south of the eastern wall, the combination of the fire of the fleet and the ground forces could separate those monsters, as long as they could withstand their counterattack, the battlefield would be controlled." ”

"But those monsters can fight back very violently...... After all, they have now lost even the most basic concept of 'stop loss', and they will not stop until they die. ”

"That's exactly what we're aiming at - to reduce the number of Crystal Clusters near St. Sunil in the shortest possible time, and if their numerical superiority in the area is lost, their threat to the royal capital will be rapidly reduced - the walls of St. Sunil are self-healing, and as long as the damage it takes is slower than its repair rate, it will be safe," Gawain said unhurriedly, "and as for whether the ground forces can withstand the pressure before then...... You should believe in the power of the armored cluster, when the superiority in firepower is sufficient, the number will be meaningless - and I will also personally command the ground forces, don't worry. ”

“…… I see, I'll make sure there's fire support here, and make sure your way is clear. ”

Ten minutes later, Gawain left the bridge and prepared to go ashore.

He walked to the side of the Pioneer and Amber's figure appeared beside him, "Hey, hey, you're really leading the charge—"

Gao Wentou didn't reply: "What, there's a problem?" ”

"Don't forget how you died in your last life, today's scene is too similar to the situation described in the story on the day you died in battle, don't you have a psychological shadow," Amber continued to BB, "Or is it false that you claimed to have a psychological shadow about this before......

Gawain finally glanced back at Amber and said casually, "Then the main purpose of you coming here is to wait for me to die and then perform to dig a grave on the spot?" ”

“…… That's not it, I'm still your guard in name......"

"Then don't talk nonsense, keep up quietly - this kind of battlefield needs a scout like you who is sharp and good at saving your life."

"Oh-you don't want to die, I'll go back and explain it to Hetirebecca and the others if you're dead......"

"Shut up."

When the steel tracks began to crush the ground, and the chariot troops drove towards the battlefield with mechanical tremors, Gawain's mood had completely calmed down.

Amber wasn't beside him, but he could sense that the half-elf's aura was wandering within a hundred meters of the vicinity—she was shuttling between the present world and the shadow realm, observing the surrounding environment, observing the shadow realm for any remnants of energy left by the activities of the crystal giants, to confirm the possible movement of the enemy.

Sky, armored griffons and eagle knights are scouting the entire battlefield, guiding ground forces while providing fire guidance to fleets on the Gorgon River.

On the Gorgon River, the battleship led by the Pioneer is fine-tuning its main guns and is about to launch the next round of fire support.

Gao Wen, who was sitting in the command car, exhaled slightly.

Amber was wrong about one thing—seven hundred years ago, when his body was killed in battle, how could it be the same as it is today.

……

Amid the roar of artillery fire, the ground forces advanced to a high ground southeast of St. Sunil as planned, and in the face of the superior firepower of the tank clusters, the advantage that the Crystal Cluster Legion had built up by relying on its sheer numbers was wiped out as Gawain had said - the Crystal Cluster monsters were instinctively driven to launch a continuous counterattack, but in the end they were buried in the blackened battlefield by overwhelming shells and incendiary flames, while a long-range artillery position was quickly established and began to suppress the area southeast of St. Sunil.

With artillery support extending from the Gorgon River, combined with the highland firing points established by the ground forces, Cecil's legion sliced diagonally into the battlefield like a blazing saber, tearing through the Crystal Legion's position and beginning to bleed the destructive monster that had gone out of control.

Wales noticed subtle changes on the battlefield.

Faster than he expected, the Crystal Cluster Legion's attack on the royal capital weakened.

The soldiers in the battle may not have time to take care of the overall changes in the battlefield, and the knights with limited abilities can only pay attention to the walls they are responsible for, but Wales, who is always aware of all the conditions of the entire defense line, has not missed the slight change in the situation - the attack density from the Crystal Cluster Legion is decreasing, and the enchanted wall barriers in parts of the southern wall are no longer constantly disintegrating, and even turned into a state of repair and damage.

The number of those monsters is decreasing, and the focus of their attacks is gradually shifting.

Wales looked to the plains to the south, but he couldn't see the exact location of Cecil's legions—all he could see was a continuous stream of smoke and explosions, not too far from the walls, but still out of sight of the attackers.

The only thing that is certain is that the power of those explosions is really amazing, and the landslides are devastating, without exaggeration.

In this way, the Cecil used their powerful long-range forces to complete the cutting of the battlefield, and judging from the signs of battle in the distance, they must have made a very bold transfer and advance in the process of carrying out this cutting.

It is true that the reinforcements are still far away, but their strength has already crossed the barrier of space and projected onto the defense line of the royal capital.

In the sky, Cecil's armored griffons and giant eagles swept across the battlefield for the third time, and the actions of those flying units were clearly tied to the battle on the ground.

Wales had a lot of information about the Southlands in their minds—about the magic forces they used, about the weapons the Kingdom Army had procured in the South, about the details of the Southern-unification war.

There are many things that cannot be seen from the intelligence, and the truth behind the information can only be realized if you have been exposed to it in person, even from a distance.

Wales had thought for a long time about everything about the South, but the military intelligence involved in it had always been full of mysteries, and he did his best to use his talent for intelligence analysis to sketch out a part of that legion, but he was never able to complete the final summary due to a lack of key information, and at this moment, after seeing something with his own eyes, the fog in his mind suddenly cleared.

“…… It seems that this is how they fight...... Superior ranged weapons, dense attack, quick transfer, long range interspersed ...... At the same time, this also requires the cooperation of the large army and the high-speed transmission of information...... It shouldn't be communication, it's too demanding...... Is it the "magic web communication" mentioned by the Archduke Victoria? They must have established a more efficient command system to control the large number of units scattered throughout the battlefield...... What will it be like? ”

Wales's gaze looked into the distance, and he found that he really had too many things to understand, he couldn't understand how the Cecil people managed to maintain such large-scale long-range communications, how their command system worked, how their logistics, equipment, and the quality of their troops were built, and after finding that he had so many things that he couldn't even imagine, the new king of Ansu laughed instead.

The "factory reform" carried out in the city of Saint-Sunil was only a poor imitation after all, and the town management plan tried in the Westland and the fiefdom directly under the royal family only scratched the surface, and the reform activities that had been vigorously tossed for more than half a year last year finally came to nothing, and it was the shortcomings of the reformers themselves and the stubborn obstruction of the old school that led to the miscarriage of all this, but in the end, the new era came.

"Your Majesty, the enemy's offensive is weakening," Bai Dewen?? Duke Franklin's slightly tired voice came from the side, the Duke of the West's eyes were bloodshot, but his tone was still calm and powerful, "The Cecilians have occupied the high ground south of the eastern wall, and the attack of those crystalline monsters has been stopped. ”

Wales nodded slightly: "St. Sunil survived." ”

"Yes, the king survived." The Duke of the Westside said.

"I should be ready to meet Duke Cecil."

Bai Dewen?? Franklin looked at Wales quietly, his bloodshot eyes showing no doubt, he seemed to have guessed some clues from the new king's actions these days, but in the end he said nothing.