Chapter Seventy-One, In the Flick of a Finger, the Armies Are Wiped Out (II)
Chapter Seventy-One, In the Flick of a Finger, the Armies Are Wiped Out (II)
While the 30,000 troops of the Kingdom of Elbe were plunging into scorching purgatory on the arid and barren plains of Tellilia, more than a hundred kilometers away, near the Arnus hills, the long-range rocket artillery positions that had caused this tragedy were a noisy scene of crowds. %Le%Wen%.
In the eyes of the natives of the continent of Falmat, who were watching from afar, the steel monsters (rocket launchers) neatly arranged in the wilderness, the rows and rows of various thick black and hard metal cylinders (long-range rockets), the orange-red flames rising into the sky, the sharp whistling sound that tore through the air, and the violent shaking of the earth...... All this seems to be a legendary vision that came out of mythology, which makes them stunned.
When the rockets roared from the launcher, most of the "onlookers" present were shocked by the violent sound waves, and their ears were buzzing. Many people with poor psychological quality even stand unsteadily, sitting directly on the ground, and some even have water stains on their robes and skirts...... Then, watching the rockets from another world cut through the night sky of the continent of Falmat, most of the tens of thousands of indigenous people who have now migrated to the Arnous Hills were shocked into a trance, and some people couldn't help but bow down to these "steel monsters......
In the restaurant of the State Guesthouse not far away, a projector was set up, a data cable was connected, and a snow-white curtain was hung on the wall. Princess Jean Pinna, Countess Miu of Vermar and their maids-in-wait, as well as the Imperial opposition nobles who fled here, can clearly enjoy the two battlefield scenes captured by drones, due to the time and sequence, the first to be beaten is the 30,000 South Route Army Special Brigade led by King Duran - through the projector projection of the image, I saw that accompanied by a roar tearing through the air, countless slender metal objects dragged bright tongues of fire, like a torrential rain. The sky-high flames and flying dust quickly obscured the entire field of vision, while the shock wave formed by the explosion and the shrapnel that swept around were constantly harvesting the lives of everyone on the ground, setting off one bloody storm after another!
Before many of the Elbe soldiers could react, their bodies were torn apart by shrapnel. There were also people whose lower bodies were completely blown up, and their intestines flowed all over the ground, but they were not dead for a while, and they howled in a terrible way. Those who were lucky enough not to be injured also scurried around with their heads in their arms in the sound of the explosion, like headless flies, and left this flame hell with one mind. But there are still people who are hit by fragments, and they become fragmented and flesh flying.
- Watching this wave after wave of terrible meteor fires falling on the heads of the troops who were several days away, the audience present, whether they were good at military affairs or not, couldn't help but feel a chill - for them, this was also a blow that they could not resist at all!
It was only at this moment that most of the exiled nobles saw clearly the strength and invincibility of the Otherworlders, and reluctantly admitted their own weakness and uselessness.
However, those who are watching from afar can still sit in comfortable chairs and point out the picture of purgatory that is taking place in the distance while sipping black tea or wine. But those people in the Flame Purgatory are really bearing the test of blood and fire with their lives......
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Due to the limitation of ammunition, the actual duration of this long-range rocket artillery bombardment was not particularly long, and after only roaring for more than half an hour, the sound of the artillery had gradually subsided, but for the soldiers in it, this sudden disaster was already as long as a lifetime.
ββ¦β¦ Damn, this, is this ...... Is Thor angry? Or is the world going to be destroyed? β
After finally surviving the end of the rocket bombardment, the unkempt and colorful King Duran cursed as he trembled out of the cave where he had just been hiding, shook off the branches and dirt on his body, and looked around blankly, only to find that the scene around him was already miserable.
- The glow of the blazing fire illuminates the entire barracks at night, or the scorched earth that was once called the barracks. Around him, from near to far, there were corpses everywhere. Most of them were his Elbe soldiers, but there were also some reinforcements sent by the people and other princes who were forcibly conscripted along the way. Many of the corpses were scattered in the explosion, their intestines, blood and brains flowed all over the ground, and some of the corpses looked relatively intact and did not seem to have much damage on the surface, but they were bleeding from their mouths and noses, and even their eyes had burst out, and their deaths were also hideous...... There was a choking smell in the air, which contained the scorching smell of many corpses, which was really disgusting.
The ornate royal tent in which King Duran had slept before was now gone, leaving only a few pieces of charred wood, cloth, and animal skins on the ground, as well as a few scorched black limbs, and judging from the few pieces of armor and shields in them, it seemed that they once belonged to some of his favorite personal guardsβif they hadn't desperately rushed into the tent and erected Duran out, Duran would have been burned into charcoal by the fireball that fell from the sky...... The flags and emblems of the various legions also disappeared in the flames and smoke.
The air was filled with unbearable heat, smoke and scorching. And the hideous corpses around him are even more disgusting.
In addition to the scattered dead and the messy embers, there are also some living people left. As time passed, more and more surviving soldiers emerged from all over the place, slowly gathering together, while gazing blankly at the horrors of purgatory around them. Some had broken their hands or legs in the explosion and were unable to walk steadily, only crawling and squirming slowly between the corpses. Although some people were not injured much, their faces were pale, and they had to help others to stand firm, and some guys were so frightened by this catastrophe that they had seven souls and six souls, and they only knew that they were staring blankly at the corpses around them, and they couldn't even say anything - no way, the visual impact of the shelling just now was too terrifying, far beyond the limits of human imagination in the era of cold weapons, and not everyone could continue to maintain the ability to think rationally.
Even King Duran, who had been through a hundred battles and was accustomed to seeing life and death, was stunned for a moment before he struggled to find a stone to sit down and poured a little sweet wine from the flask at his waist to wash his wounds. The other surviving officers and soldiers also gathered together one after another by instinct, and then, by the flickering light of the fire around them, they barely recognized the embarrassed King Duran, so they hurried over and asked him what to do next.
But even King Duran was stunned in the face of the current miserable situation that was simply impossible to clean...... What's even worse is that before he could figure out what to do next, with a burst of tooth-aching screams, another round of rocket bombardment has fallen from the sky!
In an instant, except for a few who had been frightened silly, the rest of the surviving soldiers and officers were all scattered, and even the king sitting on the ground didn't bother to pull a hand. Duran gritted his teeth in anger and was about to get up to dodge, but he twisted his neck and fell to the ground, unable to move anymore, only to watch as the damn ghost exploded above his head......
However, compared to the previous purgatory-like meteor shower, the sound of the explosion this time was much weaker, and the lethality was almost non-existent. Instead, countless pieces of snow-white paper were scattered from the night sky with these slight explosions. King Duran curiously reached out and grabbed a piece of paper, and then, with the help of the fire burning around him, he saw the lines of ink on it, and then he was dumbfounded:
ββ¦β¦ In the past, we have done our best...... This shelling was only a slight punishment. If you are lucky enough to pick up a life, you still hope to do it yourself, leave quickly, and don't come to die again, otherwise you will inevitably turn into powder. Don't be preemptive...... Captain of the Infantry Brigade of Arnus City (the indigenous understanding of the city management of the Falmatt continent) Wang Qiu...... O gods! Isn't this a god's punishment, but a weapon of the otherworldly? β
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After more than half a day, a mixed convoy of jeeps, armored mine-protected vehicles, off-road pickups, etc., carried the earthlings rookie recruits and headhunter rabbit violent female warriors of the Arnus City Urban Management Brigade to this barren and scorched earth wilderness to clean up the battlefield. And a group of exiled nobles led by Princess Pingna, according to the "invitation" of Mayor Wang Meiling, who was not smiling, were also fortunate to follow the ride to "visit".
At this moment, the barracks, which had been bombarded by hundreds of rockets the night before, were left with only a terrible scorched earth and corpses. All the survivors who could still move, including King DurΓ‘n, had already turned around and fled, embarking on an even more arduous journey home.
Only a few seriously wounded, abandoned by their companions because of the difficulty of moving, were already dying, and crows and wild dogs began to gather around them. At this time, when they saw someone coming, they suddenly seemed to grasp a life-saving straw, and begged the other party to save their lives...... Luckily, it's not the same as the killings in Itarica. Here, in order to show their demeanor as "civilized people", according to the special instructions of Mayor Wang Meiling, these seriously wounded people in the Kingdom of Elbe were basically bandaged and first aided, and were loaded onto trucks and transported back to the Arnoos hills.
But despite this, seeing such a scene like a scorching purgatory around them, all the imperial nobles who had been exiled to the Arnus Hills were still very heavy--the people of the other world did not put a single soldier into battle to fight, and at such a long distance, they easily destroyed an army that could be called elite by any standard. So looking at the entire Falmatt continent, what other forces can resist their invasion?
Do you want to pray to the gods and use their divine powers to deal with these invaders? But that's not necessarily useful. In this world, the so-called indigenous humans are actually immigrants from another world who came to the continent of Falmat five thousand years ago through the "gate" on the top of the Arnus hills. Since the gods did not prevent their ancestors from coming from another world to multiply here, they will not be enemies of these Chinese now.
All of a sudden, the nobles and elders of the empire all felt a deep sense of powerlessness, confusion and panic. But, out of some of the most stubborn pride in their bones, they were reluctant to come to the worst conclusion...... But whether they want it or not, they can't help but acknowledge reality.
Looking at everyone's sinking faces, Princess Pinna resisted the urge to vomit, took a deep breath of the corpse-smelling air, and then announced loudly, "...... By now, you should all understand what kind of guys are coming from behind the 'door', right? Those ideas that are too vain, it is better to give up as soon as possible, and you must not try to plot against them! Because we are so weak compared to them! β
ββ¦β¦ Do we, then, bow down to these unknown people from other worlds, and obey them like slaves? β
A meaty-faced Imperial Elder muttered unwillingly, "...... How can our great empire bow its head and serve the aliens?! β
ββ¦β¦ What else can be done? Princess Pinna sighed, "...... As a weakling, you can only survive by obeying the strong! β