The council finally decided to send a team of knights and five divisions of knights to fight with an army of more than 100,000 troops formed by the countries of Middle-earth, divided into five routes, and entered the Rhine Kingdom through a steam train to fight against the Cang Dynasty's army.

Although the name of the Knights of Conquest has the word "conquest" on it, it is only the name. It's not because they're part of a war agency.

They were subordinate to the forces of the Apostolic Council. This force is stationed in the border cities of the Holy Kingdom all year round, and often fights with strange things. It can be said that it is an elite unit, all of which have combat experience.

And for some reason, the council did not send out the Heavenly Punisher. Similarly, the Holy Armor Corps and the War Angel Legion were not released. These are also the main forces of the Holy Kingdom.

So do you need to do any actual combat drills? I don't understand how they do.

It was my first time on the battlefield. Unlike the last death dueling, on the battlefield, no matter who you are, you only have a knife and a shield, and your front and back may be enemies, and your arms may not be able to be used, it is just a contest of will, physical fitness and luck.

This is what I know from the fragments of the novel that depict war. Since there have been almost no battles between human kingdoms since the Age of Firearms, some of the experience of gun combat is based on years of dealing with some strange monsters in the border.

In the face of tens of thousands of enemies, no matter how strong you are, you are only one person. In the fight of 10,000 people, you are just a small wave, which only appears briefly in a sea after all, and then is swallowed endlessly. It's something I've never experienced before.

As the day of departure for the front line approached, I became more and more nervous, and I doubled my training every day.

Even, lately, I've been thinking about whether to believe in the spiritual religion and get protection from the spiritual master.

Fortunately, the butler and Mr. Reinhardt briefly joined the Knights of the Expedition through Ludwig's channel, and participated in the battle together in the Silver and White Knight IV of the Holy Kingdom's general military steam mecha. It reassured me a little.

With the butler and Mr. Reinhardt here, I won't die...

We set off on the armored train of the Holy Kingdom towards the Kingdom of the Rhine.

Because the Cang Dynasty troops infiltrated the Frankfurt Line to carry out sabotage operations, the railway was garrisoned by allied forces along the way, and simple fortifications and trenches were built on both sides of the railway.

And the artillery and accompanying guards on the armored train were also loaded with ammunition, and the army on the car was the same. Always ready to respond to enemy attacks.

Countless resources were carried onto the train along the way, and the pungent smell of red mercury made everyone feel the smoke of war. From time to time, the bodies of soldiers from both sides were found along the way, and steam trucks carried dead or seriously wounded soldiers to makeshift cemeteries and hospitals.

On one side of the cloud of war, I felt the tip of the iceberg of the cruelty of war.

As a young child, I watched truckloads of fallen soldiers being carried, and I didn't feel like I was vomiting as I wrote in the book. Isn't that a little weird?

Frankfurt, the oldest city of the Rhine Kingdom, existed as the capital of the kingdom until 1750 A.D. Built around 1343 A.D., it has been expanded and renovated by successive kings and has become almost a symbol of the Rhine Kingdom.

That all changed until the outbreak of the Civil War of the Two Kings in 1747.

When King Wilman the Lionheart defeated the Sun King Jaager, the former moved the capital to his hometown, Roland, now the capital of the Rhine Kingdom, in order to prove to the world that he was orthodox and to understand the influence of the remnants of the Sun King in a short period of time.

Due to the early age of the city and its breach, the walls are in the style of an old-fashioned prismatic fortress, and because it is not a capital, it is still a large city, a hub for national trade, finance and transportation, and there are seven gates in total.

I never thought that this place would one day face war, so it was not built according to defensive warfare for hundreds of years, and it can even be said that the city defense of Frankfork is now just an ornament or an exhibit. What's more, with the advent of the steam age, the role of the city wall became more and more helpful before the arrival of the Cang Dynasty.

Now, in the face of the invasion of the Cang Dynasty army, no one has the confidence that they will be able to hold this place in the defense of the city.

Although it had been rebuilt, it was still behind the times and the needs of the time, and the blocking of the gates only left the gates for passage did not reassure the defender commanders. The city walls, which had not been repaired for a long time, were only restored to a little defensive role after a few days of maintenance.

Artisans from the city and from nearby are hurrying to build a series of barricades, including barricades, for the defenders.

There was a lack of positions for fortress artillery and heavy artillery, and only small-caliber infantry guns could be pushed up the walls for support. As a result, the situation here was so critical that it had to be used as a logistical reserve, and the defenders had to go out of the city to ensure maximum security of Frankfork, the most important stronghold of the line.

Wait for more reinforcements to arrive, or wait for Frankfork to be completely rebuilt into a fortified city with some defensive capabilities.

Because to meet the enemy on the plains outside the city, countless field positions also need to be built. As the last bulwark to the Rhine Plain, this line of defense was the last hope for the Rhine Kingdom. If this place is breached, then the heavy cavalry of the Cang Dynasty, which has become famous in the world in just a few days, can gallop unhindered in the hinterland of the Rhine Kingdom, and the Rhine Kingdom may face the situation of extinction.

Although the kingdom had launched a general mobilization, any available laborers, even some women, were drafted in and sent to work on the defensive lines. Even the supporting coalition forces joined in the establishment of fortifications, however, in the face of tens of thousands of desperate Cang Dynasty troops, the hastily established second line of defense was still very thin.

On the fourth day of our arrival, the coalition scouts had already met the enemy scouts, and the two sides immediately began to fight, each with its own losses, and in general the Middle-earth troops lost a little more and received less information.

After all, the Cang Dynasty is a veteran who has experienced battles, and although these Middle-earth soldiers also have combat experience, they are obviously inferior to the former.

Early the next morning, the ground began to vibrate, and the distant horizon saw the figures of the Cang Dynasty army and the sky full of banners. Like a dark cloud of black oppression, low, slow and unstoppable, it came to us. It is not known when the large siege engines that are moving, a large number of siege engines, were completed.

In order to gain time to build a position, the high command decided to organize a field battle with the Cang Dynasty army five kilometers in front of the position in front of the city to delay time.

Soon, countless personnel under the command began to act, and the city of Frankfork was lively. Steam was overwhelming, and the pungent smell of red mercury was everywhere. Countless shouts, countless goodbyes take place here. The soldiers checked their guns and received ammunition supplies, the drivers began their pre-battle preparations, checking their armor and fuel reserves, and the chariots loaded with shells and marched forward with the infantry, followed by the Steam Knights and the Unified Knights.

The Middle-earth coalition army also held high the battle flag and slowly walked towards the Cangchao army.

When the war came, I could clearly feel my trembling, and of course, I was a little afraid of the nerve link that followed. The troops that arrived at their destination began to line up, arranged according to the command, and came to their assigned position. A number of barricades and barricades were placed in front of the formation.

The Cang Dynasty army saw that we were at the mercy, the siege equipment stopped moving, and the cavalry passed through the gap and began to appear in front of the position.

There was no rush for the two sides to start the battle, and the commanders were watching each other's formations to see what best for them to respond. The scouts exchanged fire was the most intense, using both guns and bows and arrows. Fight each other and spy on each other's enemies.

I gripped the slasher and shield in my hand, lowering my center of gravity slightly. I am more aware of the stress of war than at this moment, as if a heavy stone weighed on your chest, and at this time, you still have to breathe violently.

After the Battle of the Duchy of Turin, we learned that ordinary guns in Middle-earth did not seem to be enough to penetrate the armor of the enemy's heavy cavalry, and that the armor-piercing guns could only be fired once and then reloaded, which was too slow to fire continuously like the armies of the Daohuang Dynasty, forming a net of death to resist the enemy's advance.

Therefore, the Unified Knights and Steam Knights had to prepare for hand-to-hand combat with the heavy cavalry, slowing them down, and letting the chariots and infantry perform accurate long-range fire, gradually reducing the enemy's vital force.

I wonder if this armor can withstand the twenty-kilogram bayonet spear of the Cang Dynasty cavalry? If you can't resist it, will it be like a fallen leaf being pierced and thrown into the distance, becoming one of the victims of war? Thinking of this possibility of death, my palms sweated a little, and my breathing became heavier.

The butler and Mr. Reinhardt came behind me and leaned on my feet, which reassured me somewhat. I took a deep breath and looked at the heavy cavalry lined up in front of me. A little arrogant and ambitious in my chest, watch me kill one, kill ten to ten, kill him in the dark.

The troops behind him all raised their guns, the chariots began to calibrate, and the commander began to blow the whistle, signaling the soldiers not to shoot in advance, and everything was waiting for the command's order.

The faint steam made it all seem a little unnatural, like a dream.

The Cang Dynasty cavalry began to advance after they were in order, and rows of heavy cavalry put on their armor and raised their bayonets, each line separated by a certain distance, but even if they were scattered, it still made people tremble, and the horn sounded from a distance, and they began to charge.