The tracks of the steam cannon carriage ran over the mud, and the grass clippings and branches were pressed deep into the ruts by the tracks. The friction of the balls and the steel bearings that carried the weight of the gun carriage was the long sound of steel. Hundreds of artillery wagons, moving slowly across the land. The sound of steam, the footsteps of the legion, the sonorous sound of the heavy metal feet of the mechanical soldiers and the collision of rocks, merge into the repetition of this era of firearms and steam warfare.

While the other traversers were given priority to be sent to fight alone in small units, the main army followed by Ren Di attacked the city all the way. The main army where Ren Di was located laid down two power plants and a pistol along the way. Two cottage cities.

These areas are not unguarded by enemies, some are neutral. Guarded by horse bandits, or neutral worker mechs. When the great armies arrived, the Dilsi of these neutral areas often surrendered to Miyana on the lure of military might and money. and also stubbornly determined to fall or have fallen to the presence of Duke Hilary and Governor Venucci.

White and yellow cannon flames erupted from the muzzles, heavy shells fell into the target ground in a graceful arc, and the robots that were shelled instantly shattered into parts in the firelight, and the battle ended in just a few minutes. Miyana's army captured this power plant.

Ten minutes later, an airship slowly descended. Landing on the empty tarmac of this power plant. A large amount of supplies were brought down, including food, weapons, and parts for steel gun wagons.

As on Earth, modern armies rely on logistical supplies, and when Miana's army rumbles across the land, the morale of the troops needs to be replenished with materials, and the wear and tear of parts during the movement of the steel artillery carriages needs to be replaced. This is no different from the earth, the difference is that the transportation and supply lines on the earth, mainly railways and roads, are fixed on the earth, and there is no such thing as this world. In Van Si, material supplies relied on airships.

And most airships need a tarmac to land quickly. The apron is not a straight runway that occupies a huge ground area like an airport, but a steel roof that rises 40 meters high. The airship has a lot of buoyancy, and if there is no external force, it will only land on the ground if the precious helium of the airbag is released a little. However, this is not the case with a regularized airship landing. On the landing roof of the power plant's airship, a supply airship with a load of 700 tons hangs down from the sky and steel cables are wound around to form a thick noose. After the eight nooses were lowered, the crew on the tarmac was placed on a steel winch powered by a steam engine. As the winch was driven by the tremendous force of the steam engine, eight steel nooses pulled the sky down smoothly with absolute mechanical force. The huge airship in the sky came to a steady stop on the platform at the top of the steel edifice.

Hundreds of tons of supplies fell, damaged, badly worn parts were rammed into the airship. Ren Di slowly watched the airship rise again, and finally understood the reason why the neutral zone must be seized in every war on the land of Fanxi in the western part of the continent.

The power plant's shutdown platform was originally the product of trade with other regions. And now the small troops sent abroad are fighting to the death to seize the neutral zone, just for the sake of these empty ships to supply the high platform.

Without these supplies, the loss of an army of soldiers marching with 20 kilograms of armored guns is no fun, and if there are not enough parts to replace them, it is estimated that the steam gun carriage will be completed in less than 100 kilometers due to mechanical problems. If the joint gears of the mechanical infantry are replaced irregularly, and the shell is inlaid with anti-rust zinc from time to time, it is estimated that there will be electric sparks in less than half a month of fighting.

If there is a war on Earth, the commanders of both sides rack their brains around the logistics line, and the Van Si Legion of this world is fighting around these points that can be supplied. The main army did not stay long, but left a small number of remaining troops to hold on, and when Ren Di left, the airships of this neutral location landed at a high frequency of half an hour, and Giacomo was determined to maintain this neutral location. In order to be able to hold out for a while while the enemy captures.

The power plant, which had been left with numerous traces by shells and bullets, was welded with pieces of steel brought from the airship. Get glamorous.

As for Ren Di's main force, there was already a military supply airship with a length of 300 meters and a width of 150 flat airbags above. This 4,000-ton military airship has enough payload capacity to install a set of self-propelled landing equipment, and a section of their 60 sagging steel cables is connected to piling equipment. It can be fixed on the ground, and on the tarmac, the winch that pulls the steel cable by steam power is the drop power, which is on these heavy airships.

This World War I technology army has a different logistics system from Earth. The fans on the two wings around the huge airbag airship in the sky moved forward with the movement of the main army. The war had been going on for a month in Dilsi, and Miyana's army of servants here had exceeded 17,000 men, occupying four city-states, one of which already had two palace areas for elite scholars and high-ranking workers.

With the call-up of Miana's main army during this time, it also reached ninety-seven battle squads. The so-called combat squad is the smallest unit that can be directly commanded by Giacomo, ninety fire # spearmen are a combat squad, ten mechs are also a combat squad, ten steam gun carriages, thirty cavalry, etc. are all one combat unit.

This huge main army is led by supply airships and moves towards the city-state controlled by hostile forces. The zone of the march gradually rises into the area of the enemy-controlled city-state. Along the way, annihilate several enemy troops with a one-figure mantis arm as a car. Of course, these armies are dominated by low-value targets such as firefighters and cavalry. The enemy's real heavy equipment, heavy artillery, mechanical spiders, and elite units such as the Governor's Mecha Soldiers, who have grown two-legged tanks, have been inflicting heavy casualties on Miana's expatriate detachments in field battles.

Miana's small forces suffered in such skirmishes, and it was not uncommon to see these small forces running back to replenish their equipment and colonize soldiers in the areas of the city-states controlled by Miana. When the two sides are fighting for attrition, the cruelty of the war makes it easier for rookies to die at the bottom of the army.

This can be seen from the situation of the travelers in this world, one of Inoue's teams is very well preserved, and Andrew's colonial army is almost dead. Yet he himself commanded the army. As for Ren Di, who is mixed in the main army, it goes without saying.

As for the other traversers who are in a relatively low position, they are going head-to-head with their opponents on the battlefield. If you don't fight, the enemy will save you and kill you, and if you want to escape, your own military court will shoot you. There is no humanity to speak of. Many people died, and those who did not die also made the cruelty of war realistic.

A young Japanese with a tattoo on his arm, Ren Di often had a nonchalant ruffian on his face when he first met him. Ten days ago, when Ren Di saw him again, there was no longer a drag on his face. Messy hair, numbness and inexplicable melancholy in the eyes of war.

Everyone grows, and those who don't want to grow die in the war, and it is not romantic, but a loss, from the era of peace to the war-torn world. Those who survived the war years know how precious peace is.

Under the protection of the main force, the days of safe conquest passed quickly, and Ren Di began to lead the troops independently, with two small teams of artillery and three teams of mechanists. A total of five combat units. The degree of mechanization is extremely high.

The Battle of the Plains of Dilsey was carried out in its fourth month. Miana has already achieved the strategic initiative, but this strategic initiative is indeed related to the strategic node where Ren Di is located.

Ren Di had been staying for a month seven kilometers away from the big city-states controlled by the governor, and said that the city-states of this world should not be compared with the big cities on the earth that often have millions of people in a ten-kilometer area wide and wide. The city-states of this world cover an area of no more than one kilometer, an area of only three streets by the standards of 21st-century China.

The most visible sign of an ancient city on Earth is a ring of walls around it. And the city-state of this world is characterized by its towering chimneys, which are as huge as the Earth's thermal power plants, and different from the chimneys of the Earth's thermal power plants, the chimneys of this city-state are taller and made of pure metal.

The chimneys of small city-states are no more than fifty meters, those of large city-states are seventy meters, and those of prosperous city-states are more than one hundred meters. The city-state that Rendi now looks seven kilometers away is a thriving city-state, which is the administrative center of Hilary in the Great Plains of Dilsey.

Like the Empire State Building, the towering chimney is surrounded by a small area of size area, some areas are 50 meters high, with more than 20 floors, just like a department store, between the layers you can see clothing, hardware, fruits, food and other department stores, this is a commercial area, some areas are like a column building, at the top of the building, a super-large caliber rotary mortar can fire shells at an area of 400 meters away, this is a military area. There is also the Imperial Palace area, which has a large model of a medium and rotating celestial body as the surface of the building. and industrial areas that emit noisy gear rotation noise.

On the one hand, it is too easy to make steel in this world, and there is enough steel to build such a high-strength and compact building structure, and on the other hand, the large chimney in the center of the city-state uses direct current to supply energy to the city-state, and the direct current transmission distance is short. In the past, it was a constraint on the spread of electricity on the earth.

So many steel buildings, gathered together, look like a small hill of steel from a distance. It's spectacular and stunning. Surrounding the city-state stood tall turrets and other defensive structures, as well as airship landing buildings, ore refining plants, and futures exchanges where huge steam gears were precisely combined into mechanical computers.

A month ago, when the main force followed by Ren Di arrived at a neutral mine seven kilometers away from the city-state, it was stationed directly for five days, and a steam fortress with a height of 30 meters, a length and width of 100 meters, and the size of two office buildings put together, rose from the ground. Under the protection of the army, a large number of metal materials were airlifted by airships, and the fortress was built with steam equipment to automatically reload the fort batteries from the waste residue of the Copper Minerals. And this prosperous city-state.

The internal boiler of the steam fortress burns twenty-four hours a day. Powering the entire fortress. With the support of the fortress, a Pentagon-shaped steam fortress was built two kilometers away with a scientific research institute as the core, combined with the battery barracks, the flying platform, and the refinery and foundry that produced the mechanical corps cameras were built here, which became a solid front in twenty days. However, when all this was done, General Kalini stayed here, and Rendi was also left here. The main forces began to leave.

"Boom, boom, boom" continuous cannon sounds, after arriving in this world for so long, Ren Di has become accustomed to such loud noise. The gun carriage fired, and the powerful reverse thrust made the eight-ton gun carriage tremble. The cannonballs crossed a graceful arc and fell into the distant turret, where flames bloomed around the turret, and of course three bright cannonballs exploded in flames right in the middle of the turret, and the steel turret bent and moaned under the blast wave of flames.

Standing on the back basket of the robot, Ren Di nodded with satisfaction when he saw the results of his army, and at the same time looked in the other direction in the distance. In that direction, it was discovered that the enemy cavalry that had been shelled was rushing towards it.

"Retreat", after a round of artillery shots, Ren Di was determined to accept it when he saw it. The gun wagon's tracks spun and quickly retreated in the direction of its own fortress. The heavy artillery vehicles would never be able to outrun the brisk cavalry, but the cavalry would never be able to reach the 500-meter chase distance. Ten minutes later, the self-propelled artillery unit under the command of Ren Di withdrew to the vicinity of the fort. Under the protection of their own cavalry and infantry, and the fire support of the steam fortress, the cavalry had no chance after all.

Ren Di, who was pale on the tall mechanical soldiers, looked at the nine hundred cavalry galloping behind him, hesitating seven hundred meters away. Ren Di knew that the army under the command of General Kalini was harassing the enemy city-state from the other side.

Kalini's mission was to nail the enemy to the opposite of the city-state, and the task assigned by Kalini to Rendi was also formulated around this strategic goal. Every day, Ren Di would take his mechanized troops and move five kilometers to destroy the outer buildings of the city-state. If the cavalry is more than ten combat units on the opposite side, the cavalry of 300 meters will be withdrawn, and if it is less than 300 meters, the infantry in the rear will be signaled to come to support. Conduct a war of annihilation.

The number of important defensive structures and economic buildings around this prosperous city-state has become a piece of rubble. The enemy annihilated reached thirteen combat units, pinning down more than fifty combat units. The effect of this was that throughout the Plains of Dirsey, the harassing forces of Miyana had become outnumbered. The battle between the two sides was centered on the battlefield of the confrontation between the twin fortresses of Miana and the prosperous city-state.

According to the information known to Ren Di, Hilari's main force tried to solve the two forts several times, and approached within fifty kilometers of the two forts three times. However, the main field army commanded by Giacomo was stared at, and Hilari, who had already occupied a disadvantage at this time, did not dare to start the main battle, at least not to start the main battle in the disadvantaged area of the double fortress, which was easy to be flanked.