The western suburbs of Tiandu City.

Sandbags were piled under the ruined houses, foxholes were dug in the yards, and behind the courtyard walls were wooden piles that reinforced the walls.

The residents who lived here had already moved out, and judging by the household items left behind in the house, they left in a rather hurry.

The Borneo soldiers hid behind the bunker, repeatedly checking their equipment and ammunition to pass the rest of the time.

Not a single person spoke.

There was silence in the night-shrouded battlefield, but anyone could see the wordless desolation.

Stationed here was the Borneo 700,000 troops, and the commander was Captain Piklivan, Gael's father.

As one of the conditions for his son to go to Mammoth University for undergraduate, Pickley took the initiative to ask Ying to take the lead and led his subordinates to the front line of the defense of Tiandu.

In Borneo, the first line of defense has always been a place where cannon fodder is waiting.

Although General Duvata allowed him to "act when the opportunity arises", he knew in his heart that even then he was unlucky.

I heard that the regiment's shells are capable of vaporizing entire positions in an instant, especially the kind of warheads that can split in mid-air.

Even in the corps of the alliance, there are many corps commanders who unfortunately received a box lunch in the first round of shelling, let alone him, a halfway monk.

But Pickerley has no regrets.

He has paved the way for his son to follow.

As long as that stinky boy is not too wasteful and does not waste his time in school, even if he dies, he will not have a chance to be a captain, and it will be more than enough to come back and be a commissioner.

Standing next to Captain Pickery, the adjutant held up his binoculars and looked at the airship in the distance, his face full of sadness.

"Special mother's ...... How do you get this thing down? ”

He didn't know what deal the commander and the general had made, only that the 155mm guns that the alliance had given them were of no use to that thing.

However, he also has no regrets standing here.

Not everyone picks up a gun to resist for the sake of profit, at least he himself is for the righteousness in his heart.

"The ghost knows, it's a big deal to fight with these dogs' big noses!"

Pickley cursed in a low voice, pinching the brim of the officer's cap with his index finger and staring at the five steel fortresses floating in the air.

Although he said that, he actually didn't have a clue how to fight with these big noses.

The disparity in strength between the two sides is too great!

It was an asymmetrical battle from the start.

Looking at the steel fortress that was getting closer and closer, Pickley only felt like torment every second.

He couldn't help but pray in his heart, hoping that this would end soon, or at least let him escape the torture that had been before this glory.

At this moment, the five airships suddenly threw down their anchor chains in unison.

The heavy anchor chain was thrown to the ground, and by inertia, it ploughed open the earth, kicking up a cloud of dust.

The adjutant holding the binoculars shrank his pupils sharply and exclaimed in a low voice.

"They're anchored!"

That's a sign before the shelling!

Pickley's heart also rose to his throat, and he removed the walkie-talkie hanging from his shoulder, ripped it open and shouted.

"All units are hidden!"

In fact, there is no need for his reminder at all.

The Borneo Army's communications equipment was only distributed to the hundred-man team, while the battle was fought in ten-man units.

It is precisely for this reason that the decision-making of junior officers is largely based not on orders from the rear, but on the actions of the enemy at the front.

As early as when the anchor chain was thrown down, the soldiers on the position had already quickly burrowed into the anti-artillery hole under the shouts of the ten-commander, and there was really no place to hide, so they found a foxhole or lay on their stomachs.

At the same time that the 700,000-strong squad was ready for the shelling, rows of dazzling fires flashed in the sky.

A rain of burning fire fell from the sky, lighting up the dark night sky in an instant!

As if to show off, the Southern Army loaded each cannon with tracer shells, trying to destroy the opponent's position, body and even spirit with that devastating firepower!

Rows of crumbling houses were blown away in an instant, and the shattered streets were littered with broken bricks and rubble.

Pickley hastily ducked into the bomb hole, but was still shaken by the roaring gunfire, and smashed into the dust by the falling slag.

And that's just the beginning!

At the same time that the first salvo ended, the Velantes artillery in the airship's gun bay quickly completed the loading of the second round of shells!

They will use cluster munitions to eliminate some of the "rats" and then drive the rest into their burrows.

Then came the work of incendiary bombs.

Oxygen on the surface is rapidly depleted, carbon dioxide is heavier than air, and phosphorus pentoxide, which is burned by white phosphorus, is much heavier than air.

Deadly gas will pour into the burrow, killing the last wave of rats.

This is far more direct than the "death pill......

The bridge of the Horn.

Leaning back in his chair, John looked at the earth outside the floor-to-ceiling window as he played with the medal in his hand, the corners of his mouth curled upward.

"Good fight."

"Unfortunately, it's useless."

Although he did not stand on the ground for a second, he did not see as clearly as his earthly brethren in heaven.

The rat people, the snake people, and the other chaotic survivors of the various races were not really weak, but had hibernate for a long time in the cold winter that lasted for half a century.

If they are given enough time to wake up, it is not without a chance to become a strong enemy of the Legion. And if the Alliance does pull them into their own chariots, the threat to the Legion will be even more unprecedented.

But it's a pity.

Now all they have is the courage to face the long night, and courage alone will not change anything.

In the face of absolute power, their dying throes mean nothing at all.

The playfulness on the corners of his mouth gradually turned cold, and John tapped the medal pinched on the arm of his chair, and then slowly raised his calloused right hand.

However, just as he was about to wave that hand down, he suddenly saw the medal attached to the armrest of the seat, floating upwards as if weightless.

It's not just medals.

And the mugs, notebooks, ballpoint pens and caps on the console, and all the officers who stood in the aisle without their seat belts...... Everything floated weightlessly.

It happened so suddenly that no one could react to what was really happening.

John froze in his chair.

Without waiting for a stunned expression to appear on his face, he suddenly felt the seat belt pressed on his shoulder like a withered hand, pulling him down hard.

And the officers who rose into the air all fell to the ceiling along with the weightless garbage and debris.

"Knock ——!"

A dull voice came from overhead, and John's face was full of panic as he looked at the world turned upside down in an instant.

What the hell is going on?!

Not only him, but everyone was so confused in their hearts.

At this moment, the voice of exclamation came from the communication channel.

"Damn!! We're falling! ”

Before the voice could finish, the roar of Captain Ryan was heard in his ears.

"Horn Trumpet!! What are you doing!!! ”

"I, I don't know!?"

John roared in horror, and the sound of fear was gone. He then quickly switched the communication channel and shouted at the walkie-talkie hanging over his shoulder.

"Turn on the buffer! Fast! ”

It was a device prepared for the preparation of phase guns.

Of all the weapons known, only the phase cannon is capable of having a lethal effect on the anti-gravity device of the steel airship.

Therefore, the equipment manufacturing bureau of Triumph City referred to the Alliance's modification of the Iron Heart, and designed a buffer airbag under the steel airships of the major legions.

In this way, even if it is attacked by phase guns, the airship will not crash due to its huge dead weight.

However, to John's horror, the airbags that were stretched down did not slow down the speed of the airship at all, and they were still falling downward with an acceleration of more than 1 G!

And so on –

Acceleration of 1 G or more?!

Looking at the constantly beating flight parameters on the holographic screen, John suddenly reacted.

Their fall was not due to the paralysis of the anti-gravity engine, or even their engine was still running intact!

It wasn't a phase cannon that hit them, it was something else!

Like an invisible hand, the thing grabbed their airship and dragged it to the ground with an acceleration close to 2G!

Their anti-gravity engines were useless in the face of that force, like wheels stuck in quicksand, and could only idle in vain, helpless against the rapidly falling height.

It's hopeless!

It's going to crash!

A hint of despair was written on John's face.

However, he was a battle-hardened soldier in the end, and he did not stay in his chair and sit still.

Gritting his teeth and unbuckling his seat belt, he raised his arm to protect his head, and then fell to the ceiling with less than 1G acceleration, and ate the "stuffy stick".

Fortunately, the ceiling of the bridge was not too high, and this fall knocked him into a lot of meat, but he did not faint.

The adjutant struggled to get up from the ground, then hurried up and helped John, who had just fallen, to his feet.

"Sir, you're alright—"

"Go to the escape pod ......" interrupted the adjutant's nonsense, and John grabbed his arm and gasped, "The escape pod...... It's the chemistry engine! I can escape! Fast! ”

The yelled adjutant nodded hurriedly, and under the escort of a group of officers who could still move, he limped towards the escape pod next to Cambridge.

Including the panicked Martin.

He was frightened by the force he had never seen before, but he was able to keep up with John and not be left behind in the bridge.

As for the hapless ghosts who fell unconscious or lost their mobility, as well as the crew in the power room and the artillerymen in the gun room, they had to live and die with the airship......

There is only one escape pod.

Although it can fit a lot of people, not everyone has the opportunity to climb it.

An orange-yellow flame shot out, drawing an awkward curve in the air, pushing the escape pod and flying far to the west.

At the same time as the Horn accelerated its fall, a familiar scene was also played out on the other four airships.

In the invisible dimension of human beings, the "invisible membrane" composed of "invisible gravitons" collapsed downward into a vertical and abstract well.

If it is allowed to continue to collapse downward, extending the depth of the "well" infinitely, and spreading the ripples of the folds continuously, the center of the wellhead will eventually give birth to a point of infinite density and attract all the matter around it, becoming an all-engulfing existence in the universe, inducing an even more terrifying catastrophe.

It is obvious that the nuclear fusion reactor of the "Heavenly Palace" does not have the power to distort the dimension, and the collapse of that membrane at this moment is just a trace of waves on the surface of the lake in the breeze, and all it can do is to make the gravitational force in a certain area rise sharply.

However, although that force is so small on an astronomical scale, like the light of a firefly is not comparable to the stars in the sky, it is enough to deal with a few airships.

An unseen hand grabbed them by the throat and dragged them from the sky above the clouds to the ground.

They're stuck in the well!

And it's not just them!

Together with the garbage running in low-earth orbit behind them, everything fell along the invisible wall of the well, towards the depths of the well!

The orbital wreckage that fell into the atmosphere drew a burning trajectory in the air, and it looked like a magnificent meteor shower from a distance!

The Willantes used their old weapons to forge a new shell for the core of the starship, but it was clear that they didn't really understand what the power that made steel soar through the sky was.

It was precisely because of this that even if they racked their brains at the moment, they couldn't figure out why their airship suddenly fell from the clouds.

Looking at the five fortresses that had fallen from the heavenly vault, Captain Ryan's eyes widened and his eyes were split, and his dead gray face was filled with despair.

"No !!"

The desperate roar didn't break free from gravity, and the steel fortresses eventually crashed into the muddy wilderness.

The fragile airbags were sliced through the angular steel, and the twisted steel let out an overwhelmed scream, crushing against the ammunition rack stuffed with incendiary grenades.

"Boom ——!!!"

The scorching pillar of fire soared into the sky, enveloping the dark smoke and gathering into a mushroom-like cloud in the air.

The blast wave swept across the plains, shattering sandbags piled in the middle of the dirt road and tearing down crooked courtyard walls.

The crew members who could not escape before the airship came up were killed instantly, and the next thing that suffered was the position of the Wilantes below the airship.

A steel bar more than ten meters long burned and rolled over the wilderness, like a windmill on fire.

A "Greyhound" reconnaissance car couldn't dodge it, and was hit by the speeding steel bar, and the whole car flew out like a spinning top!

And right next to the overturned reconnaissance vehicle, a speeding and fleeing truck was also swept to the ground by the blast wave of the explosion.

A whole group of Willantes were thrown out of the overturned wagon, and fell on a muddy ground.

They screamed and got up from the ground, but before they could lift their frightened faces, they were swallowed up by the oncoming flames!

The entire western outskirts of the capital was engulfed in a boiling sea of fire, and the ammunition exploded like fireworks.

The deafening explosion resounded throughout the wilderness, and even the Heavenly Palace, which was more than twenty kilometers away, could be heard clearly.

The soldiers of the 300,000th Regiment of the Southern Army froze, as did the soldiers of the 700,000th Troop of Borneo.

The people all stood up from the ground, stared at the center of the explosion in amazement, and lost their speech for a moment.

Including the players who are standing on the sidelines from a distance.

"Mommy......"

Looking at the burning sea of fire, the debt-ridden big eyes couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva, and muttered in his mouth.

"Those slugs in the swamp still have this ability?"

The construction site boy and the brick also swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and said with an incredulous face.

"This is probably the first time they've made a direct shot since the server opened."

The roller shampoo thought for a while and said.

"Not necessarily, I remember that the brothers of the Burning Corps also fought with them before?"

There was a sudden expression on the construction site's face.

"Oh yes...... Beacon Squad that. Damn, it's been a long time since this happened, and I forgot if you didn't say it. ”

"And Task Force Alpha." Laplace teased, "It's a bit weird to say, these guys are obviously quite distinctive, but their presence just can't be high." ”

At least compared to the corporations, the presence of the academy is much lower, and it is not even as good as the free state that ends up in a tiger every big move.

To this day, they don't know if the salesman of the Flint Group, who was mistakenly caught by a short-lived king, is okay.

Edge paddling grinned.

"It turns out that they are better suited to hiding behind the scenes and engaging in intrigue than frontal battlefields."

The good thing is that these people are teammates.

Debt eyes look at the edge of the paddling.

"What's next?"

"Next...... It's time to end this fight. ”

As he spoke, the edge stroke had already removed the charge from the belt.

Seeing this, the players on the side excitedly put on gas masks and loaded the LD-47 assault rifles in their hands.

Actually, it's over.

The positions of the Southern Corps were completely in disarray.

Although only two teams of 10,000 people were involved in the explosion, the impact of the airship's fall went far beyond the explosion itself.

After all, those five airships are not only the firepower of the Southern Legion, but also the faith of countless Velante soldiers!

And at this moment, they didn't even know what their opponent had done, and they watched as their faith fell from the sky and disintegrated in the burning flames.

Falling from the clouds were accompanied by the pride and courage in their hearts, as well as the invincible faith and determination.

It's not so much that they've lost the will to fight, it's that they don't know how to continue the war.

How the hell is this going to be fought?!

Whether it was the soldiers squatting in the trenches, or the Captain Ryan Wan, who was sitting in the command car, the same despair was written on their faces at the moment.

On the other hand, on the side of the alliance, 155-mm artillery and MLRS ambushed in the suburbs have been aimed at them.

Not only that, but there are also the 1st Mechanized Infantry Division of Jingallen Harbor and the 2nd Mechanized Infantry Division that has just arrived in Tiandu, as well as the 1st Armored Division of the Black Tiger Army and the 1st Armored Division of the Black Panther Army.

Including the Mole Brother's Skeleton Corps.

The strength of four divisions and a reinforced regiment had already surrounded the eastern front of the corps in a pincer shape, and nearly 15 troops of 10,000 men from Borneo were waiting on the frontal battlefield.

They didn't actually lose to the Academy.

But in the end, he lost to his own arrogance......

Before the edge of the water could be stroked to blow the trumpet, a loud horn sounded in the ruins in the distance, followed by the whistle of a mountain and a tsunami.

It was the position of the 700,000th Borneo troop.

Standing at the door of the anti-artillery hole, looking at the boiling flames in the distance, Captain Picliwan's face was imprinted with excitement.

Like most Brahmane officers of a reckless background, he drew his gun and stepped on the overturned sandbag.

"Brethren! It's time for revenge! !! with Lao Tzu ”

Including his guards!

All the Brahmans with guns gave a roar of charge and pounced on the positions of the Southern Corps under the cover of 155-mm howitzers and rocket artillery.

"Kill, ahhhh!!h

It's not just a 700,000-strong position!

The 71 and 720,000 troops stationed on both sides of the position also launched a charge!

Including the Skeleton Corps that are waiting for you!

An all-out offensive has begun!

The sudden sound of gunfire echoed in the night sky, accompanied by tracer lights flying wildly in the sky.

In the face of the onslaught of onslaught, the Conqueror X tank retreated as it opened fire, but it did not go far before the turret was blown away by a 60 megajoule shell.

The Willant soldiers, crouched behind machine-gun bunkers, pulled the trigger desperately, their faces illuminated by the flames of the guns imprinted with horror.

Before he could finish firing a shuttle of bullets, a rocket landed not far from him, sending him into the sky along with the position in front of him.

The airship that posed the greatest threat to artillery no longer exists.

The artillery of the Goblin Regiment is able to unleash their artillery fire to their heart's content!

And the propellers!

The severed arm that had been blown away by the rocket had just landed on the scorched ground when it was trampled by a group of soldiers who were not afraid of death.

The defense line of the Southern Corps is crumbling at a rate visible to the naked eye!

In the face of the attack of the Death Corps and the 700,000th Brigade, the 300,000 Brigade deployed at the forefront had been driven from the fields on the outskirts to the edge of the Yongliu River.

Including the reorganized 34th, 36th, and 370,000th teams!

At this moment, they were suffering a setback far beyond the one they had encountered in Akale County, and the tide of attack left them without even a chance to parry.

Inside the command vehicle.

Listening to the constant sad reports from the front and the cries for reinforcements, Captain Ryan's pupils were only a dull gray color, and there was no longer the arrogance and rebelliousness of half an hour ago.

It's over.

This war......

While he was still wallowing in defeat and despair, his lieutenant suddenly grabbed him by the shoulders and shook him violently.

"General! Retreat! Before the alliance is here! We still have a chance!! ”

Eighty percent of the sky is out of play, and Akale County is estimated to be lost, but it doesn't matter, at least the Lion City and even the entire Lion State are still in their hands!

They also have a servant army from the colony!

And a sufficient amount of ammunition and artillery!

As for the steel airship......

The loss of five airships was indeed heavy, but this was not all the wealth of the Southern Corps.

What's more, they don't just have the hole card of the airship!

They also have 902 mm guns!

And nuclear bombs!

And the "dead agent" under development!

As long as they don't admit this defeat, no one can stop them from winning the eventual victory.

Ryan, who was shaken awake by the adjutant and heard the word "retreat", finally had a hint of reaction on his stiff face.

Half of it was bitterness, and half of it was emotions that he couldn't put into words.

Eventually, though, he recognized the reality, picked up the communicator, and squeezed the word "retreat" out of his parched mouth.

At least, he can't fall into the hands of the Brahmen......

In fact, even if Ryan didn't give this order to retreat, the tens of thousands of troops on the front line were already on the verge of collapse.

Even if it is held on to the end, it is nothing more than the difference between "strategic transfer" and "a thousand miles".

At the same time, a certain scientific research ship more than twenty kilometers away from the battlefield.

Yang Kai, who was leaning on the chair, was looking at the burning flame with interest, with an undisguised sneer on his face.

“…… I don't know how many 10,000 people are on these five airships, and this gang of fuel can be burned, hehe. ”

At this moment, there was a sound of the door opening from behind him, and Jiang Xuezhou, who was wearing a protective suit, walked in with a tablet.

"Professor, the data you need has been collected, do you need to turn off the instrument?"

"Oh, save it in the database, I'll look at it later, I'm not free now." Yang Kai simply replied casually, and then turned his gaze back to the window.

But at this moment, he suddenly thought of something, and added a sentence later.

"By the way, don't turn off the camera function, finish recording it."

He'll have to send one to his allies when he's back.

"Yes."

Looking at the mentor whose heart eyes were smaller than a toothpick, Jiang Xuezhou made a helpless expression, then bowed slightly, turned around and exited the cockpit of the scientific research ship.

(End of chapter)