Fellernor stood on the observation platform outside the headquarters, holding a telescope and looking at the first defensive circle of the fortress not far away.

Smoke was already rising from there, and the ruined walls showed the fierceness of the battle. The autonomous mechic army of the South Loya Empire has set up its own temporary docks and heavy artillery positions on the beachhead.

The fortress sent three death squads to carry out sabotage operations, but to little avail. There were so many enemy troops that it was not enough to see the people close to the fortress.

For the ensuing battle, none of the troops could leave their posts to support the 1st Defensive Circle, so only the Snow Wolf Knights, who were the mobile force, and the infantry of a battalion stationed at the logistics base from the rear could be used as support forces.

"Your Highness, I don't really recommend that you go to support the First Defense Circle." The Supreme Commander of the Supreme Lighthouse Fortress, Admiral Zhukov, said, "Your presence has boosted the morale of the soldiers on the front, but if you go to support, it will be demoralizing if you are encircled." ”

"I see what you mean, Admiral Zhukov." Fellernor turned her head, "I know you don't want to get involved in the politics/struggles of the kingdom, and you don't want me to be in danger or innocent soldiers to die because of our struggles. ”

"But you need to know that if I don't come forward, there are some people who won't give it their all. Reinforcements from the Holy Kingdom are still two days away, and before that, the only forces that can support it are our own three divisions of infantry and a brigade of steam armored knights. Felenvianoer said solemnly.

"You know how critical the situation is now, the first defensive circle is still full of elite veterans, and half of their positions have been lost. We must not lose the first defensive circle, otherwise the enemy's firepower will be enough to wipe out our forces that are destroying the enemy's docks and artillery. ”

“。。。 Well, it is indeed as you say. Admiral Zhukov shook his head and sighed, "I will send my personal guard to the First Circle of Defense with your Snow Wolf Knights." ”

"Thank you." Felianvinoel bowed and left the observation deck.

The Snow Wolf Knights and Admiral Zhukov's personal guards, a total of a hundred steam-armored knights, converged and began to prepare for battle.

Ignite the steam engine, fill it with red mercury fuel, check the power transmission pipes, load ammunition, turn on the internal motors and controls, wipe down the viewing windows and viewing lenses, adjust the radio communication device, and put on the driving suit.

Half an hour later, everyone was ready to go to the First Circle of Defense.

The remnants of the First Ring of Defense formed a defensive line against the enemy who had already taken the walls, relying on the design fortresses and artillery fortresses behind the walls. Unlike strange objects, slain cyborg soldiers will remain with their remains. The remains were used by the defenders to form improvised fortifications and barricades.

Enemy tanks could not climb the walls, so they had to use their machine guns to attack them, and the mechinfantry constantly climbed the walls using hooks and ladders that had been erected.

The defenders tried to form assault teams to destroy their hooks and ladders to climb the walls. However, it didn't take long for the blast to be repaired by the enemy at great cost.

No matter how much a poor person burns the paper money of a rich man, he cannot outperform the rich man in wealth, because the rich man makes more money every minute than the poor burn every minute.

The defenders could only hold their ground as long as they could, waiting for their reinforcements to arrive.

The Snow Wolf Knights soon arrived at the First Defensive Circle, and Fellianvinoer communicated with the officers who had come to greet them.

"Your Highness, this is the current situation." Major General Hosovsky, the Supreme Commander of the First Defensive Circle, said, pointing to the city defense map of the First Defensive Circle, which had been altered.

"So, we just need to hold on to one passage?" Ferlian Vinolle asked.

"It's not like that, the enemy is launching a fluctuating offensive on the whole line, but the attack on the defensive position of the only passage to the second defensive ring is a little more violent."

"In other words, we must withstand the enemy's attack on all fronts?"

"Yes, Your Highness, we must do this now, otherwise the defense line will collapse because one formation point is breached." Khossovsky said helplessly.

He was a graduate of the Royal Military Academy of the Kingdom of Rothier, but now he couldn't use any tactics.

“。。。 Understood, we will go to the unsupportable position. ”

With the support of the Snow Wolf Knights, the defensive line began to stabilize, and the enemy could only drain the defenders' physical strength and will through refueling tactics.

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The battle again passed for several hours, during which time casualties were gradually increasing due to the depletion of the defenders' supplies and physical strength, and many of the wounded could not be transported to the rear and could only be placed in the rear passages.

The enemy built more and more hooks and ladders, and even began to assemble small drawbridges, carried infantry guns to the walls and began shelling the firing fortresses.

The ground was littered with flesh and corpses and the smoking, smoking, remains of broken machinery.

Zakhwagi was a major here, and by this time his troops had lost more than half of their troops, and they were seriously understocked, so they had to concentrate the remaining ammunition in the hands of the troops' sharpshooters and let them use them.

The soldiers without bullets clung to the sapper shovels, ready to fight the mech-soldiers.

Zakhwagki's face was covered in blood and soot, and exhaustion made him squint uncontrollably, but he had to stay on the front line and direct the battle.

The tradition of the army of the Kingdom of Rothier is to lead by example, no matter how high the rank, you need to go to the front line to direct the battle.

"Second company, second company, let your people take down that infantry gun on the opposite side for me! Galifra, bring three men to deal with the cyborg over there, and bring the artillery! Zakhwagi roared.

"Yes, sir!" After speaking, several of the signal soldiers ran to their target of the order.

Soon, the artillery on the opposite side of the enemy, which was adjusting the firing parameters, lost its controller, and several commandos rushed forward and pushed the artillery back.

"Gerasim, get me this thing out of here!" Zakhwagki said, and immediately reloaded the empty rifle, he was one of the sharpshooters of the unit, and he didn't know how many cyborg soldiers he had killed.

After a flurry of Gerasim and a few soldiers, they finally understood how to use this infantry gun. Perhaps it was to enable those humanoid robotic soldiers to use this cannon, the principle of its construction could be understood.

The principle of the artillery of the South Loya Empire is similar to that of Middle-earth, except that the South Loya is better in terms of performance.

This is all because the materials used in South Loya are more powerful.

Gerasim began to shoot back at the enemy with captured shells.

Two hours later, Zakhwagi passed out completely, and he was carried by soldiers behind the ruined walls of the fortress. There was originally a battalion of soldiers, but now there are only a few dozen people left.

Everybody hung up the lottery.

Of the four shooting forts that originally belonged to them, three had been taken away, and only one was still in their hands, which was held on.

The enemy set up six artillery positions on the city walls and constantly shelled the defenders.

Ferlenville arrived with a dozen snow wolf knights and a company of infantry.

"Who's the commander here?" Felenville asked over the speaker.

"I... I am, Your Highness! Zakhwagi regained consciousness incredulously and said as he lay down.

"How's it going here?"

"Report to Your Highness, this is the last position, the enemy has set up six artillery positions in front of us." The adjutant who took care of Zakhwagi replied.

"How many people will be able to continue fighting?"

"Seventy-six more, Your Highness."

"Alright, you hold here, and we'll go destroy the enemy's artillery positions."

"Yes, Your Highness!"

The remaining soldiers re-established their defenses, the remaining four heavy machine guns were secured in fortified corners, and the rest of the soldiers scavenged for supplies as much as they could.

The Snow Wolf Knights rushed forward, and the huge kinetic energy directly hit the mechanical soldiers in front, and the infantry in the rear, some of them directly charged while strafing with machine guns, creating a gap for the Snow Wolf Knights to attack.

Gerasim carried the few explosives left of his battalion and followed the assault force behind.

After some fighting, the scarred snow wolf knights finally carved out a passage and headed towards the enemy's artillery position.

Just as they were destroying the fourth artillery position, suddenly, a cyborg the same height as the Steam Armored Knight descended from the sky and came to them.

It wields two knives, its slender mechanics predict its incredible speed, and the delicate sighting instruments on its head represent greater reaction speed.

It came like lightning in front of a snow wolf knight.

The latter subconsciously raised the giant axe in his hand to block, and in just a few seconds, countless scratches appeared on the snow wolf knight's body.

Eventually, the cyborg slammed a knife into the chest armor, stabbing a point like an afterimage, piercing through the latest type of Montroe alchemy in the kingdom of Rothschild, killing the driver inside.

This shocked everyone.

The Montroe alloy is made with the addition of Rothschild's specialty ice steel rock, and the alloy synthesized by using a special alchemy matrix is equivalent to making three Snow Wolf Knight standard types in one chest armor.

The hardness of this alloy is comparable to that of the ultra-limited alloy forged in the volcanic blast furnaces of the Holy Country.

But right here, impaled by a cyborg from the South Loya Empire in a matter of seconds.

The robot didn't wait for everyone to come to their senses, it immediately headed for the rest of its targets.

Faced with this situation, the Snow Wolf Knights had to gather together, using their numbers to counter the enemy's speed, and the infantry immediately retreated.

It's just that with the arrival of this robot, more troops seem to have given up attacking their original targets and moved closer to this side.

At first, the defenders did not notice anything unusual, and it was not until ten minutes later that Major General Hossovsky, who was in charge of the overall situation of the 1st Defense Circle, realized that something was wrong.

He immediately mobilized and led a group of commandos to rescue the besieged Ferlian Vinoel and her men.