Volume 1 The Storm Chapter 36 The Difficult Battle (Part II)

"Did you get a reply!?" The officer asked anxiously.

"Yes, yes, sir! They said the first train would arrive in twenty minutes! The Signal Soldier replied.

"Okay." The officer said, and then said to one of the heralds, "Let the last reserve go to the front and tell them to protect Her Highness at all costs!" ”

The last of the mobilized reserves made their way to the front of the second wall, armed with heavy weapons in the hope of relieving Her Highness the Princess.

By this time, two-thirds of the positions on the entire city wall had been lost. Some of the troops barely maintained their positions by relying on the firing fortresses and artillery fortresses behind the city walls, preventing the beast tide from breaking through the defenses. The wounded were no longer able to retreat to the rear, and the passage to the rear had been blocked to prevent the beast tide from breaking through the defenses.

Some of the lightly wounded returned to the fight after a brief medical treatment, while some of the seriously wounded died with the monsters that rushed at them, holding explosive packs.

Some of the men's bayonets had been broken, so they had to pick up the weapons of their dead teammates and continue fighting; Some of them were mutilated, still screaming and fighting.

The artillery units in the rear were already exhausted and fainted, and some of the artillery needed to be repaired and cooled, so the support was becoming less and less, and the pressure on the front line was increasing. The battle was fierce.

Now, there are no reserves left to send to the front, and one can only pray that the front-line troops will be able to hold out for twenty minutes.

Kimchi brake lever under the plate, the huge kinetic energy makes the entire train and the track rub sparks, like a train running on flames. Pull open the steam valve, releasing the excess steam, and the whining sound pierces the blizzard into the distance.

Soon, they broke through the area covered by a blizzard.

The railway station behind the fortress could already be heard, and they had interception nets ready to slow down the train. The fire brigade is also ready to cool down the overheated steam-powered engine.

The train entered the train station with an unpleasant and piercing sound, and several columns of water rushed into the train, producing a large amount of water vapor that made it impossible to imagine that it was a snow and ice place.

The train stopped, and groups of Holy Land soldiers were driven off the train, and after urgently gathering on the platform, they began to follow the guides sent by the army of the Kingdom of Rothier to the front line.

The armor of the steam armored knights was removed from the train, the technicians checked the condition of the armor, and the logistics staff began to load the armor with fuel and ammunition. The driver is injected with a black water dilution and a special costume is put on.

Kimchi came out of the cab, and no one dared to make any comments about his behavior just now.

"Prepare a steam catapult device and a steam lance." He said to the head of logistics and technology. The latter did not hesitate under the invisible coercion of Kimchi and began to arrange work.

The steam catapult device connected to the train's steam engine, and the logistics staff installed Kimchi's integrated knight armor to the catapult device. Technicians began to debug the ejection parameters and record all this, preparing a report.

This is a powerful ejection device developed by the Institute of Secret Research, which uses a steam power device to compress gas and then release it instantaneously, and the resulting huge force can launch the armor of the integrated knight into the air.

It was the first time it was put into use, and everyone was a little nervous, but not Kimchi.

The steam spear was mounted to the right hand of the armor, and a pipe was connected to the armor's red mercury engine. Several compressed gas canisters were loaded into the magazines of the spears.

It also uses the tremendous force generated when the compressed air is released instantaneously to propel the spear forward and stab forward. This weapon can effectively pierce the steel skins of the giant wolfbeasts and kill them.

Kimchi climbed the armor to enter the cab with the help of a temporary ladder. The Unified Knight's armor began to slowly activate.

"Prepare for ejection."

"Yes! Get ready to eject! All personnel retreat! ”

Everyone left the platform, and the soldiers who had not yet left the train waited on the train.

"Catapult."

"Yes! Catapult! ”

In an instant, a large amount of gas is ejected from the back of the ejection mechanism, and the armor of the Combined Knight accelerates upward, and finally leaves the bracket and is ejected into the air.

The gushing gas enveloped almost the entire platform.

Aishuur manipulated Kimchi's body to adjust the posture of the unified knight in the air, and began to head towards the second wall.

More than a dozen snow wolf knights formed a circle to protect Felian Vinoer, who had fainted due to exhaustion. They struggled to maintain their formation in the midst of the beast tide.

Fortunately, these monsters don't have much intelligence, they only know how to blindly fight forward, and they can survive until now.

Soldiers on the periphery had launched several charges in an attempt to relieve the trapped troops, but with little success. Even because of the heavy casualties, he almost failed to maintain the defensive line.

At this moment, a dark shadow fell from the sky, growing larger and larger.

At first, no one paid attention to it, and the black smoke hung over the sky so that the fighting defenders could not make out what it was.

Eventually, the defenders found out that it was a Steam Knight armor!

The mech began to slow down with a large amount of steam, and soon discarded the two clean fuel canisters.

Carrying a huge amount of potential energy, the shockwave generated by the moment the unified knight landed, destroying a circle of monsters.

I saw the unified knight rushing out of the smoke, holding a combined shotgun in his left hand and a steam spear in his right hand, and instantly attacked, opened his bow left and right, and killed a passage in the beast tide.

The soldiers in the rear immediately gathered heavy weapons and barely maintained the forcibly opened passage with fire and flesh and blood.

The dozen or so snow wolf knights saw this sudden situation, and immediately dragged their tired bodies to escort Her Royal Highness the princess to the unified knights.

The latter immediately emptied the magazine of the shotgun and threw it away, placed the steam spear in front, and in his left hand held the armor of the Snow Wolf Knight of Her Royal Highness the Princess, and returned the same way to bring her to safety.

Those snow wolf knights saw that their mission had been accomplished, and after all, they did not have the strength to break free from the beast tide and were swallowed up.

Kimchi's addition did not turn the tide of battle, and although he successfully rescued Felenvinoer, the armor of the unified knight also received a lot of damage, and the steam spear also paused a little.

However, the unified knight is not an ordinary steam armored knight after all, let alone the knight who controls Kimchi's body by Aishuur?

In conjunction with the defenders, they firmly guarded the last passage to the rear. Dozens of snow wolf knights and Kimchi stood dead in the front to block the onslaught of the beast tide, and the shooting fortresses on both sides shot desperately.

The infantry units behind them gathered the last artillery to support them in the back.

After losing almost all of the Snow Wolf Knights and needing the infantry to put on armor and be at the forefront, reinforcements from the Holy Kingdom finally arrived.

Some infantry units quickly joined the firing forts on either side and carried several heavy machine guns, some infantry units pushed their guns forward, and some infantry units wore light steam armor and carried heavy shields and small steam spears.

These troops are all troops used by the Holy Kingdom to deal with strange things, and after knowing the information about the giant wolf beast faced by the Rothil Kingdom, they quickly arranged their battle strategy.

The line of defense was finally steady. The advantages of the Holy Kingdom's powerful technology shocked these Rothel soldiers.

This is the gap between economic and scientific strength.

Not only the semi-automatic rifles used by the infantry, but also the powerful steam bows and crossbows and light steam armor that were more powerful than those of the kingdom, as well as the special alchemical armor on their bodies. These are things that cannot be achieved by the Kingdom.

With the addition of follow-up troops, the combined forces of Rothchild and the Holy Kingdom even began a counteroffensive. The beast tide does not fill as fast as it can be eliminated by the coalition forces, and begins to retreat.

The Knights of the Unification arrived at the front shortly after, and the monsters erupted in their ferocity.

Despite the hardships of the battle, the coalition forces are steadily regaining lost ground.

The blizzard on the periphery gradually stopped, and more and more trains arrived at the fortress carrying troops and supplies from the Holy Kingdom. Things are starting to get better.

After the black water was consumed by the body, Eschuur lost control of Kimchi's body, and Kimchi fainted while returning to consciousness due to great pain and exhaustion, and was escorted back to the rear with Ferlian Vinoer.

I woke up in the early hours of the next morning, and because of my special status, I was placed in a separate infirmary.

With the help of the nurse, I dressed up in my white and gold Stylus uniform and went to the infirmary, where I met Ferlenvinoer, who had also just woken up, and was wearing Rothschild's dark green uniform.

“。。。 Thank you for saving me. She said after a moment of silence, which made me a little embarrassed. After all, I didn't save her, and besides, my original intention was not to save her.

"No thanks, we're comrades-in-arms."

“。。。 Yes, we are comrades-in-arms. So can I go to the front line with you to fight. ”

With the fact that she almost died herself, Fellianvinoel would surely be prevented from going to a dangerous battlefield by Rothschild's officers. But if she goes with me, then they don't have any reason to stop her anymore.

What a brave and responsible person.

Anyway, I also need to follow what the steward said, and take the lead in buying people's hearts. So I readily agreed.

Together, we went to the combat readiness room, and after entering the wheelhouse, we rushed to the front with a support unit.

Relying on the brief tacit understanding we had at the Battle of the Rhine, we led this coalition to fight the beast tide.

The observers finally got good news, and the beast tide could see the end. Morale was boosted.

The muted fortress guns began to spit lethal shells again after reloading their barrels, and the light steam-armored chariots came to the city walls, and the onboard fire shredded the monsters in front of them.

From the time the sun breaks through the night until the sun is about to set, the beast tide has finally been strangled, and those monsters have turned from the ocean into a river. The hard battle is finally over.

Rested troops began to replace our positions. The logistics troops were finally able to reach the city walls, and they immediately began to collect the corpses and treat the wounded. The hospital in the rear was expanded three times after the arrival of reinforcements and could accommodate more wounded for more surgeries.

Finally able to rest, Felianvinoll and I returned to the rear, emerging from our scarred, blood-stained armor.

We looked at each other and suddenly smiled at each other for no apparent reason.

This may be the so-called comradeship.

It's nice to have someone by your side to fend off an attack in a moment of life and death.