At dawn, I climbed the slope and looked at the busy but orderly position in front of me, and my thoughts fluctuated.

This is not the first time he has been on the battlefield...... At the age of fifteen, he was already an excellent knight servant, charging with the lord, and when he became an adult, he was even more praised as the first knight in the Western Realm.

War should no longer be a stranger to him.

But here, he felt a very different atmosphere.

The nobles shouted before the war, rewarded them, and ate and drank heavily in order to raise the morale of their troops, so the freedfolk and mercenary camps were often immersed in a chaotic carnival, and the scene was no different from that of an open-air bazaar, except for the absence of alcohol. Whenever this happened, the knights would laugh at their men for being stupid donkeys, and a few slices of cheese bread would make them get carried away, not knowing that these things would cost them their lives.

At that time, Film. Sylt also thought so, believing that only the nobles knew how to fight, and that without the spur of the commanders, no amount of free people would be more than a puddle of loose sand.

It wasn't until Duke Ryan was overwhelmed by a gang of miners in the border town that he realized that the truth was a little different from what he thought.

It's just that he didn't continue to study further when he realized his wish for revenge, but focused all his energy on his wife Irene.

Two years later, Dawn Morning, who had decided to join the staff because of his father's conversation, found that the war had become something else entirely.

If he had been amazed by the discipline of the First Army during the march of the past month, the professionalism of the soldiers at this moment was enough to put the vast majority of nobles to shame.

There was no need for any agitation, everyone knew their task by heart: several trenches were dug at the bottom of the slope, topsoil was packed into cloth bags, and improvised low walls were piled up in front of the machine-gun positions. The trenches were interspersed with barbed wire and improvised wooden horses, making it almost as difficult to break through head-on as it was to capture the walls of a main city.

There were also several buffer zones behind the defensive line, and even if the machine-gun positions were breached, the battle would not be over, and the Tachira Witches were both protective of the artillery battalion's barrier and a reserve ready to support the front line.

The top of the slope at the rear was the heart of the First Army's assault - six fortress guns were raised high in the direction of the Devil's Outpost, and the artillerymen were correcting the firing parameters for the final preparations for the upcoming attack.

All this did not require the commanders to order one by one, and in just one day, the First Army transformed this place into a qualified battlefield.

Filmin had seen the power of new firearms in artillery drills, but it was always a foreign object - the operator of the weapon, and it would eventually fall to people.

And these soldiers composed of free people are the point that makes him sigh the most.

Such a well-disciplined and well-defined team is difficult for even a knight order formed by a large nobleman to do.

Although the changes in the people were already perceptible in Neverwinter, they were nothing compared to the impact of the scene in front of them.

"Now you know, right?" A familiar voice suddenly came from behind Dawn Chenguang, "The answer to the previous question." ”

Filin turned back and nodded to Sir Silt, "Yes, father. ”

Why did His Majesty announce that he would unify the Grey Keep in just a few months and march into Hermes and the Dawn Kingdom at the same time, the General Staff not only did not raise strong opposition, but instead formulated a bunch of seemingly incredible plans.

Because with such weapons and such warriors, there is no one on the continent who is his opponent, or rather...... Other hostile forces are nothing compared to it.

"It's a pity that Your Majesty has expressly forbade nobles to join the fighting troops," said Filin with a little regret, "I would rather try to fight side by side with these people than to sit in my study—"

"Personal prowess is no longer important, and the General Staff is the best place for you." Jazz laughed, "Besides, what if you fight an unknown enemy like the devil, what if you make a mistake?" I'm still waiting to hold my grandson. Didn't that good friend of Erin just gave birth to one recently, and you'll have to work harder. ”

"Father!" Fei Lin couldn't help but hold his forehead.

"Alright, alright, I won't say it," Sylter stroked his beard, "the sun is approaching the horizon, let's go back to the camp, the artillery battalion should be firing soon—I can't stand the sound of that thing." ”

"Yes," dawn dawn glanced at the position one last time, and then walked down the high ground with his father.

It's time for him to go to another battlefield and complete his duty.

……

At 5 p.m., the shelling officially began.

The six guns fired sequentially at a pre-adjusted angle of fire, tearing apart the silence of the fertile plain in an instant.

After more than 400 years, mankind once again set foot on this land and launched an attack on the devil.

There were two rounds of test firing to correct the error on paper, and when Sylvie gave feedback on the hit, the cannon sound became uniform.

The improved 152 mm Fortress gun was a little closer to its historical predecessors, and in order to increase the range, the chamber was enlarged and the shells were reloaded in sections, and the rate of fire was half a beat slower than that of the full gun. But driven by higher chamber pressures, these guns were enough to pose a lethal threat to stationary targets up to ten kilometers away.

The increase in range also brought an increase in dead weight and increased logistical pressure, and the final solution was to split the four guns and transport them to the worm carriers in Tachira.

No one can see the roar and fire of the warhead as it lands, and this is a new mode of warfare, and if it were not for the many shelling battles, it would be hard for soldiers to believe that they could destroy enemy strongholds and cities in a stress-free environment without looking at the enemy.

There are two main reasons for choosing to attack when the sun is setting: first, the observation of the magic eye does not rely on sunlight, and it can also guide the artillery to correct the firing point at night; The second is that the dinosaur cannot move at night, and the devil can only be beaten passively all night.

The fortress cannon fires every two minutes, and apart from the faint thunder of the skyline, the battlefield shrouded in night doesn't look much changed. But in Sylvie's eyes, the land ten kilometers away was a completely different look—

The explosion caused a wave of air that turned the ground in the strike area overturned, and most of the more than ten black stone towers had been blown to pieces, especially when the shells penetrated the fog storage towers, which caused a deflagration, which could instantly turn the black stone into an erupting volcano.

But all the while, she found no sign of the devil.

It wasn't until the next morning, when everyone thought the enemy had abandoned the outpost, that something happened.

A large group of devils suddenly appeared in the north of the position of the First Army, eight kilometers away from the northern slope of Wangbei!

At the same time, Sylvie also observed signs of activity of dozens of dinosaurs, enemies that had disappeared for days like clouds, swooping down on them.