Frankfork City is buzzing again. Countless troops gathered from the training ground and set off for the front.

Leviathan I also arrived in Frankfork City.

Trains from the Holy Land transported them and their drivers to the front line, where they were replenished with ammunition and fuel at the forward bases.

As a result, many soldiers from other countries were able to see this new type of war machine. As if their ancestors had first encountered the Steam Knights, they looked at the Leviathans with incredible eyes.

The huge body and the barrels of the cannons were terrifying, and no one could not believe that they were steel monsters born purely for war.

In addition to this, a large number of steam armored knight units, steam chariot units and artillery units were also rushing to the front.

Even the Holy Nation's newest fleet of steam airships was mobilized, carrying the Legion of the Heavenly Punisher to Frankfork City.

The huge fleet covered the sky and the sun, and from afar, like a dark cloud, came from the black ground.

The Heavenly Punisher mech was slowly airdropped.

The steel body more than ten meters high, even if it was far away from the parking field in the suburbs, was quickly seen by the front-line troops. This time, no one would question the strength of the Holy Kingdom.

With such a large-scale mobilization of troops and materials, it is impossible to hide from the sight of the Cang Dynasty army.

They were also aware of the arrival of the steel behemoths.

In order to be able to resist attacks that may break out at any time in the future and to be wary of those steel behemoths, the Cang Dynasty began to increase its alertness, and more armor-piercing firearms were manufactured in the rear and transported to the defensive line.

They abandoned the forward positions that had been built only for early warning and delay, turning them into dead zones of mines and barbed wire, while the soldiers on the original positions retreated to the rear positions to strengthen their defenses.

In the Lokell hills, a new line of defense began to be built on the basis of the fortified artillery positions that had already been built, and this line of defense was constantly being consolidated, with more barbed wire, more trenches, and more barricades.

What will follow will be more blood and resources for the Middle-earth coalition.

The precious cavalry of the Cang Dynasty will not be as cost-effective as the last time, and they will act as a mobile force to assist the defenders in the hilly terrain. They are also a threat with specially made armor-piercing firearms, like small steam chariots.

At dawn, the war began with the roar of the new heavy artillery of the Middle-earth coalition forces. The Cang Dynasty clearly underestimated the speed and extent of Middle-earth's technological upgrades, even if it was located in a hilly area, where the heavy artillery of the coalition could still reach it.

Countless cannonballs and tracer rounds formed the Iron Curtain of Death. Thousands of small artillery pieces shelled the mine belts, and as the Heavenly Punisher marched, the painstaking death belts were quickly removed.

Of course, in order to be able to quickly clear the death zone, the coalition forces also paid a price, and those artillery and heavenly punishers could not be put into battle again for the time being.

As a result, the coalition's multi-legged armored machinery began to be put into the battlefield. The infantry and the armoured knights followed, but they did not achieve the infantry, and the infantry simply followed behind the armoured troops, using them as shields for a considerable distance in between.

Some of the cavalry units of the Cang Dynasty seized the opportunity, and it was still dawn, the natural light was still insufficient, and the bright area of the allied flares and searchlights had obvious holes.

The cavalry Cang Dynasty launched an attack on the infantry behind the armored force through a detour, and although such a surprise attack was quickly thwarted by the accompanying steam armored knights, it still caused some casualties and confusion among the infantry troops, which had to slow down the offensive of the Middle-earth coalition army.

The loss of infantry would lead to the possibility of the captured positions being taken again, and the armored forces would have to wait for the follow-up infantry to follow.

The undulating terrain of the hilly terrain did not cause the multi-legged machines to lose their mobility, and they began to press on the enemy's defenses, and the enemy's fortress artillery began to bombard, but the coalition's scattered lines prevented the cannons from inflicting the expected damage on the enemy.

But it still caused the coalition forces to suffer certain losses, constantly paralyzing many mechs, smoking and blazing, the crew members jumped out of it with flames burning all over their bodies, screaming and falling to the ground, and the infantry was thrown into the air by artillery fire, all of which challenged the nerves and will of the soldiers of the attacking force.

The artillery of the Cang Dynasty also began to shell, and the multi-legged machinery began to fire back according to the source of these shellings, and the battlefield immediately became chaotic.

The shelling was not something that the armored forces could withstand for the infantry, and the infantry began to disperse, some hid in the artillery pits, and some began to rush forward to assault.

The hoarse voices of the commanders filled the command headquarters, doing everything they could to regroup their troops.

The Cang Dynasty army was also in chaos, ordinary guns could not destroy the armor of the armored forces of the Middle-earth coalition army, in the face of the enemy's artillery fire, some recruits involuntarily kept hiding in the trenches trembling and did not dare to stick out their heads to shoot, and the veteran officer had to fiercely order the recruits to stand up and continue the battle.

The formation of the Middle-earth coalition army has been somewhat chaotic due to the fierce attack of the enemy, and the various units have become you have me, I have you, some infantry and steam armored knights have broken through the obstacles and entered the trenches of the Cang Dynasty army, while some troops are still suppressed by the enemy's fire and dare not move forward.

Some of the armored units have lost contact with the infantry units behind them, and some of the armored units are behind other infantry units. These are not controlled by the command in the rear. As a result, the frontline troops can only rely on themselves to adapt to the current changes in the war situation.

The people of the highest rank around became the temporary commanders of the nearby troops, the armored units served as shields, the infantry followed behind to shoot, and the sappers were always ready to clear the barricades.

The coalition forces attacked the entire line of the Cang Dynasty army.

The enemy's cavalry units once again pinpointed the gap exposed by the momentary confusion, and launched a surprise attack from the flank through a great detour, and the Iron Knights created by the Cang Dynasty through the captives surprised the coalition forces.

The two sides engaged in a fierce battle, the worst of which belonged to the infantry of the Middle-earth coalition, although they strictly followed the taught five-man formation, that is, two armored knights and three infantry, but the cavalry in the face of the enemy was still too vulnerable, and these were built to fight the cavalry of the Iron Knights, enough to inflict a one-sided slaughter on the infantry.

But they could not retreat from here, and due to the enemy's great detour tactics, the command was only five kilometers away from the place where the conflict took place. To do this, the command had to quickly dispatch reserves and demand that the troops there hold their positions, and those units had to crouch on the spot to set up temporary positions, overcome their fears and start firing at the enemy.

Bloody battles began to take place on every battlefield. When the attacking forces finally broke through the obstacles, the trenches became life-devouring maws. Bayonets against bayonets, hammers against hammers, guns and guns seem to have become ornaments, and in order not to hurt their own people, the two sides fight with cold weapons. Some of the soldiers on both sides were veterans of the Battle of the Rhine, and the new feud and the old feud were liquidated here and now.

The battle on the Cang Dynasty position was even bloodier, with huge Heavenly Punisher and multi-legged machinery using the ranged/weapons they carried to kill and injure the Cang Dynasty's army, but the fortress of the Cang Dynasty army was not an ornament, and the various types of artillery began to counterattack, and its power was obviously beyond the expectations of our commander.

The courage of the enemy and superb hand-to-hand combat also cost the coalition forces a great deal of money. Here tens of thousands of people began this bloody battle. The Heavenly Punisher who had been hit in the leg fell uncontrollably, the ground began to vibrate with its huge body, and the infantry units and steam armored knight units that entered the trenches to fight the enemy were red-eyed, and there were screams and wails everywhere.

While shocking each other, the two sides fought with each other. The light of fire was constantly generated in the dimly lit trenches, and the smoke of gunpowder filled the sky over the battlefield.

After all, the hilly terrain was only the forward position of the Cang Dynasty army's defense line behind the tightening of the defensive line, and there were not many strong fortresses and artillery in the first place, and the defenders here carried out their original purpose well, doing everything in their power to slow down the enemy's pace. They used all the resources at their disposal to drag the Middle-earth coalition forces here to the death, and it seemed that they had been waiting for a certain moment. Feeling that something was wrong, the command began to order the troops to begin a full-scale assault and begin an orderly evacuation of the wounded soldiers.

When the infantry units of the Middle-earth Coalition finally broke through the enemy's headquarters set up in the trenches, a sudden huge explosion came from below the position, and the churning ground killed thousands of coalition infantry and steam armored knights who had entered the trenches.

The huge shock wave struck in all directions, and some soldiers were blown away, falling to the ground without knowing whether they were alive or dead, and the shaking ground also caused many people to fall to the ground. Such an attack silenced the entire battlefield, and then the communications of the Middle-earth coalition suddenly boiled like a pot, and almost all the troops were using communication equipment. No one could have imagined that the enemy would have buried a huge amount of explosives under their positions, what kind of plan did this come up with?

The attack of the Middle-earth coalition forces was forced to stop, and a large number of engineering units were sent to rescue the survivors and rebuild a road for the army to travel in the already unrecognizable hilly area, but the huge explosion was followed by a series of small explosions, which caused the land to vibrate again, which surprised the unknown engineering troops, and had to stop their work and withdraw from the hilly area, waiting for the place to be completely quiet.

The big bang that took place on this day, known in history as the "Loud Noise of the Hills", will forever be recorded in the history of war, even if it has no reference value, but it bears too many lives. Once again, it proves that the war of hot weapons is far from the war of cold weapons. There is no glory, only the rapid loss of human life.

The land, which had just quieted down, was lively again, and for the follow-up attack, the sappers began their work, and some EOD units were the first to enter here, carefully carrying out EOD work to ensure the safety of the follow-up troops. Of course, the tight deadline also led to the rudimentary nature of the roads that were built. Sappers began digging earth to fill the pits created by the explosion, and began to build roads using iron and wooden planks.