War airships fall from the sky.

In the snowflakes, through the large gas lamps erected on the slopes around the valley, you can see that there is a large flat land in the middle of the valley. Under the illumination of the light, the flat ground was swarthy and shining with the cold light peculiar to metal.

Joe held his breath.

This is a flat land about three miles long and two miles wide!

Such a huge area is actually paved with metal!

What is especially amazing is that in this cold season, the snow is falling continuously, and the snowflakes are still seven or eight feet high from this metal clearing, and they are evaporated by a stream of heat emitted from the ground, and no snow can accumulate in this metal area.

On the slopes around the valley, beside each of the giant gas lamps, a flat field was built of cement, on which were clubs of watchtowers.

A large group of soldiers, dressed in dark gray uniforms, winter coats, steel helmets, and cashmere visors, armed with guns and swords at their waists, stood like cedars in the snow.

Salian took the lead, leaping out of the pod door and falling hundreds of feet above the ground.

Joe and a large group of officers followed, jumping off the airship.

After a short while, the war airship let out a shrill whistling and broke through the clouds again, returned to the sky, and disappeared without a trace.

In the valley, in the blizzard, a large group of Imperial Army generals wearing dark gray generals' uniforms and overcoats on the outside lined up in a neat line and greeted Salian's side.

Among these generals, Joe saw several familiar figures—several grade directors of the first year of the military university, class teachers, a group of tutors of the integrated command section, etc.

Joe's homeroom teacher, One-Eyed Major General Ostrom, the head of the first grade of the Integrated Command Section, also mixed in with the crowd.

Seeing Joe beside Salian, a fierce light suddenly flashed in Oslon's one-eye, and he took out his pocket watch with his backhand and looked at the time, then looked at Joe, and stretched out his hand to point to the pocket watch in his hand.

It's 8:40 p.m.

It's long past the time for Joe to return to the military university for leave!

Joe smiled dryly at Ostrom and spread his hands helplessly.

What can he say?

If it weren't for that Bavarian guy making trouble, he would have gone back to school by now!

Huh?

Not right either!

Even if Bavaria doesn't make trouble, and Salian has to drag Joe to the Rann Corridor to test new weapons, what can he do, a small major? Can he refuse Salian's orders? Obviously impossible!

Ostrom saw Joe's movements, and his eyes widened fiercely.

However, among the hundreds of generals present, there were more than 20 generals, and there were 40 or 50 lieutenant generals, but the number of major generals was slightly less...... In front of these high-powered military bigwigs, where is the room for him to attack Hlstrom?

Salian waved his hand: "So, all ready?" Let's go! ”

A tall, dark-skinned admiral nodded heavily, and he took a folder from the hand of a major general behind him and handed it to Salian solemnly.

Salian flipped through the folder, signed his name on a document on it, and then pulled out a small seal and slammed it on it.

The black-faced general took the folder back, took a serious look at the signature on it, and the deep-seated seal lines, and nodded. He raised his right hand and swung it vigorously towards a swarthy building at the end of the valley.

'Whew'!

'Click'!

The metal floor of the valley shook slightly, and on the swarthy metal ground, countless tiny dark blue electric lights exploded, turning into flea-like electric sparks that burst out in all directions.

Joe's eyes widened, and he, Mr. Signes, and the others beside him, all held their breath, staring blankly at the slowly cracking metal floor in front of them.

The wind erupted from the ground, and large expanses of hot water vapor rushed up with a loud noise, breaking the cold wind and snow above the valley.

Laplachi's shrill laugh rang in Joe's head: "What a fuss mortal oh ......"

Joe didn't have time to talk to Laprahi, his eyes widened, his pupils glowing red, and he stared with all his strength at the faster and faster crack on the ground.

Gradually, the metal floor of the entire valley slid open, revealing a large crater three miles long and two miles wide, and I don't know how deep.

In this large square pit, there are crystal glass lamps the size of human heads hanging on the walls of the pit. Stripes of dazzling electric light danced in the lamp, bursting out with a more intense light than a gas lamp, illuminating the entire crater.

A muffled sound of metal sliding came from the bottom of the crater.

The ground was trembling, and the air around him was filled with the disembodied electric element, and Joe waved his fingers, and large sparks erupted between his fingers, making a 'crackling' sound.

Beneath the pit, a huge metal platform rises.

Dozens of Hydra guards stood silently around the metal platform like evil spirits from the night, dressed in black leather tight-fitting soft armor and carrying long knives on their backs.

On this huge metal platform, a magnificent, incredible creation, like a sleeping beast, crawls quietly.

It is nearly two miles long and more than a mile wide, and is shaped like a thick and fat ray.

The whole body is made of metal, the body surface is smooth and smooth like a mirror, and under the blue-black shell, the fine lines that are processed by unknown means shine with a mysterious and strange light.

"Well, efficiency, efficiency, honorable generals! The Rann Corridor is ready and just waiting for us. Salian clapped his palms vigorously, staring feverishly at this extraordinary metal artifact: "Aha, every time I see it, I always have a feeling of first love...... It's a pity that the cost of falling in love with it is too great. ”

One of the admirals standing beside Salian muttered in a low voice: "Your Highness, it's already the end of the year...... This time, in order to dispatch it......"

Salian waved his hand and shouted excitedly: "At this time, don't talk to me about financial deficits, military spending holes and other frustrating words, okay?" That's something that only the Minister of War and the Prime Minister of the Reich should worry about......"

"As Imperial soldiers, our responsibility is to find the enemy, or create the enemy, and then use all means to kill our enemy!" Salian whistled, slapped Joe's arm with his backhand, told him 'keep up,' and trotted all the way to the creature that had risen to the ground.

Joe followed Salian in small steps, and he was shocked and said, "Your Highness, what is this?" ”

Salian stared at the creature without squinting and exclaimed, "Who knows what its real name is?" But since the Empire discovered it, mastered it, and restarted it, the Empire called it the 'Celestial Chariot'. ”

"Pretty cheesy name, isn't it? But, it's really great! Salian said with heartfelt emotion: "It's really great! ”

'Whew'!

On one side of the Celestial Chariot, an outer armor plate dozens of feet wide fell, falling heavily to the ground, turning into a steep gangway.

Salian led more than a hundred Imperial generals and ran up the gangway in small steps.

Behind them were the attachés of the generals like Mr. Sterns, and the group of Hydra guards.

Walking up the gangway, the lights in front of you are bright, illuminating a huge space.

About a full-fledged soldier of the Imperial Army, one by one, with a small horse, sitting upright in the corner of the side. Seeing Salian and the others marching in, the soldiers stood up at the same time and saluted with a 'boom'.

Salian and the others saluted the soldiers in return, and the leading officer on the side gave a loud order, and the soldiers sat down in a neat manner.

In addition to these soldiers, the huge space was filled with huge wooden boxes.

Salian led the people to the nearest wooden box, and without using a crowbar, he directly used his fingers to pick out the spikes on the box, and opened the lid of the box, revealing a swarthy door inside...... Mortar.

Joe raised an eyebrow, in the private vault of the headquarters of the Imperial Bank, he had flipped through the drawings of the mortar.

This mortar in front of you is about one hundred and twenty millicalibers!

"Dear generals, this is one of the new ordnance that we tested on the front line of the Rhine Corridor this time." Salian triumphantly slapped the big black creature that emitted a cold glow of steel.

"Imperial Type 79 120 caliber mortar...... The battle weighs seven hundred pounds! Salian smirked, "Dear generals, the battle weighs seven hundred pounds...... Any slightly stronger Imperial soldier can carry it freely across the battlefield! ”

"Range, four miles (metric: 6437M)!" Salian smiled at a group of generals with glowing eyes, fire-breathing, and bulging veins on their foreheads.

Before today's official departure, the indicators of these new ordnance were all completely secret, and no one in the empire knew the specific performance of these ordnance except for Salian and a few henchmen.

"And the new type of shells it distributes, the destructive power of each shell is equivalent to the old 300 millicaliber mortar shells!" Salian's eyebrows fluttered, and he once again said a statistic that made the generals present almost crazy.

With a negligible weight of only 700 pounds, a soldier can carry it all over the ground!

The firing range is comparable to that of the current large-caliber field artillery, and it has also reached the level of four miles.

In today's Medland battlefields, this range can even be said to be too extravagant.

With such a light weight and such a large range, it has the same destructive power as today's 300 millimeter heavy mortars...... Such a new artillery, it is 'God'! It is the 'Juggernaut'! It's the most terrifying 'soul harvester' on the battlefield!

"Think about it, the terrible weight of the three-hundred-millicaliber mortar, that kind of big guy ......" Salian pursed his lips in disgust: "It's outdated, outdated, and completely useless...... Dear generals, the Imperial Army no longer needs inferior goods that weigh tens of thousands of pounds, have a range of no more than three or four miles, and have little power! ”

"We've got it, something better!"

Salian smiled triumphantly, his eyebrows fluttering and boasting, "Of course, this is not all we brought to the Rann Corridor this time. ”