The sound of nearby artillery woke up Kimchi, who was sleeping soundly.

Throwing aside his military coat as a quilt, he hurriedly took the periscope used in the front command of the trenches to observe the situation on the ground.

Relieved to find that it was just a daily shelling, not covered by offensive firepower, he was still a little sleepy, and after straightening out his clothes to shake off the dust kicked up by the shells, he continued to put on his military coat and sleep.

Today is the fifth day of the Great Expedition of the Hussar Legion, and in the previous five days, Kimchi's mech was once again overloaded to defend against enemy attacks.

This time it's good, last time it was just parts wear, this time Kimchi's steam armored knight even the core engine burned out because of the accumulated temperature, and Kirsten's specially developed coolant failed to stop this process.

The core engine is already like this, let alone other places, and repairing it is no less than building a new Steam Armored Knight, so there is no way to repair it at all.

Now Kimchi has to fight like an infantry because he has lost his blocking mount and has not been replenished.

The Serbian Knight Brigade was tasked with holding its own steam armored Knight mecha storage base.

Because it was forged as its own forward command by the Kingdom Military Department, it was heavily attacked by the enemy's mortal auxiliaries.

Although the enemy's troops are very elite, the enemy's command is indeed easy to induce.

In the past five days, the Serbian Knight Brigade has repelled the Expeditionary Force's mortal auxiliaries for an unknown number of charges, and more than half of them have been killed and wounded, and the number of mechs left is only a dozen or so.

That's one-tenth of what it was when I first set off.

The artillery attack ceased after half an hour, and when the enemy's artillery and our artillery counterattacks were all suspended, the battlefield again became only the crackling of burning fire.

Ten minutes later, Kimchi, who continued to take a nap after waking up, recovered his energy, no longer rested, and began to take the guards to check this section of the defense line by himself and check for problems.

The Principality of Bolier's mortal auxiliaries are equipped with a large variety of alchemical cannons with the help of the Hussar Legion's weapons logistics department.

These cannons, aided by alchemy and the alchemy matrix, can easily blow up the trenches.

This unstable trench can easily lead to a total collapse in the face of the enemy's barrage, and soldiers who are hiding from the shelling are likely to be bought into a thick layer and buried alive to death.

In order to avoid this from happening, Kimchi relied on his rich experience and keen perception to investigate the trenches of this entire section of the defense line for which he was responsible.

As soon as there is a problem, he will arrange for the adjutant who follows him to direct the sappers to fix the problematic area.

It stands to reason that Hessehia should be by Kimchi's side, but the Spirit Lord came to the front, and the two men temporarily cooperated on the hidden power front line to fight against the winged cavalry legion.

Of course, in addition to the common enemy, there is more to guard against each other. The Spirit Lord had sensed that Hessehia was also a living meteorite, and Hecehia believed that the Spirit Lord was an extremely dangerous figure.

Neither of them will allow the other to leave their sight.

The infantry unit deployed to the Serbian Knight Brigade is currently only one battalion of troops, which means that more than 300 people have been killed or wounded in the past five days, not counting the casualties of the Knight Brigade itself.

The entire line of defense of the Kingdom has almost been broken up, and now it is barely maintained by the best wartime officer as the supreme commander of all units within five hundred meters of the vicinity.

Two days earlier, the Hussar Legion had split up a small group of troops to raid the defensive lines formed by ordinary soldiers on both sides of the Rothel Kingdom and the Spirit Kingdom, inflicting heavy losses on both sides.

Many of the defensive trenches near Kimchi are still dilapidated, and the defenders inside can only carry out simple positions that have been reshaped.

The defenders stationed there often had to fight the enemy while reinforcing the trenches, and some even built makeshift fortifications in foxholes.

After a morning of repairs, the soldiers at the forward observation post noticed unusual fluctuations in the enemy position, which was a harbinger of the next fire from the alchemy artillery, and immediately reported the intelligence to Kimchi's command.

Kimchi, who received the early warning, immediately ordered everyone to take shelter from enemy shelling. When Kimchi had just entered the bomb shelter tunnel of the headquarters, heavy shelling came over the heads of the defenders.

The devastating flames and smoke enveloped the defenses of the kingdom's army.

Of course, in this man-made weapon of destruction, all ordinary soldiers can do is to pray except to find good bunkers and fortifications.

And you can't pray to the Spirit Lord just yet, because the Spirit Lord is probably busy dealing with the Hussar Legion.

Whether the cannonballs fall to you or not depends on the fate of Xuanhu. Even alchemy cannonballs, as long as they are not all handmade, will still deviate due to distance.

This deviation is as unpredictable as the trajectory of an electron, and can only be approximated in a range.

Xu Jin barrage.

Kimchi quickly judged that the enemy was carrying out a barrage of Xu Jin, and along with the former, it would be another group attack by the mortal auxiliary army of the expeditionary force.

The best way to face the Xu Jin barrage is to wait for the enemy artillery on the opposite side to be unable to match the attack speed of the infantry.

But this is an elite group of troops trained by the Hussar Regiment, and their infantry and artillery coordination is almost perfect, and there are almost no flaws.

Moreover, these soldiers who do not want to die will not be afraid that their own artillery fire will explode in front of them.

The defenders either desperately strafed the enemy's infantry units in the machine-gun forts, or they could be destroyed by the enemy's reserve artillery.

Or just get ready for the close-quarters brutal battles that follow.

The barrage can destroy most mines, but there is no way to deal with the buried tri/nitrotoluene explosives.

When the enemy infantry approached, they were greeted by surviving mines and explosives, and then the soldiers in the trenches quickly changed from dodging shells to fighting when the explosives exploded.

After two or three minutes of the exchange of fire, the enemy had already advanced to more than ten meters in front of the position, and by this time the soldiers on both sides were already able to see the eyes of the people on the other side.

The bayonets of all the soldiers of the kingdom had long been secured on their guns.

The soldiers, who had already experienced several such battles, quickly emptied their magazines at their nearest enemy and began to prepare for hand-to-hand combat.

Because then, the soldiers in the front line have no time to reload, only the soldiers in the back will be able to continue shooting.

Kimchi temporarily retreated to the headquarters, away from the front-line trenches that had become dangerous.

During Hecexia's absence, he had to stay out of danger as much as possible to avoid activating his bloodline.

Originally, he intended to be a mortar in the rear, but was stopped by Hecehijah, who asked if the mortar was dangerous during the war.

Now Kimchi can only stay in the front command headquarters and direct the battle.

On the sixth day, Kimchi awoke again to the sound of artillery fire.

Yesterday's day's battle once again added to his defense zone the scrapping of a knight mecha and the casualties of a hundred or so soldiers.

The enemy on the opposite side seems to be less worried about their own supplies, and has been randomly firing at the rest of their soldiers since the withdrawal of the attacking troops yesterday.

Fortunately, most of the soldiers in his hands can be regarded as veterans, and they can barely rest in this kind of artillery sound, and their combat effectiveness has not been greatly affected.

It's still the same today, except that the trenches have become very difficult to repair yesterday when I fought. All the soldiers looked tired after a day and a night of fighting, and had no energy to repair the trenches.

To ensure the smooth running of the war ... Well, the knight is not called going smoothly, it is just able to hold on for one more day.

The staff and command were mobilized by Kimchi, and under his leadership, they rushed to repair the trenches in key areas with the remaining soldiers.

The battlefield of hidden forces has not seen results for a long time, and it is necessary to continue to hold on to ordinary battlefields. Fortunately, reinforcements from a regiment came at noon today, which relieved the pressure on Kimchi's side.

Although the Spirit Kingdom and the Rothil Kingdom are now in a temporary period of cooperation, they also need to deploy a large number of troops to guard each other's movements.

After experiencing the initial battle, the military department of the Rothel Kingdom understood that there was a big gap between themselves and the army of the Spirit Kingdom. So most of the troops at the front are piled up here.

As a result, there are very few kingdom troops that can actually be used to defend against the Great Expeditionary Force's mortal auxiliaries.

This is also because the military headquarters of the Kingdom of Rothil could not believe that the people of the Duchy of Bolier could be trained into a powerful elite soldier in just a few weeks or even less.

On the other side, because the spirit lord knew how strong these hussar legions were, they arranged enough troops on the front line to defend them.

The troops of the Rothel Kingdom could have taken advantage of the weakness of the Spirit Kingdom in the distribution of troops to regain the battlefield advantage. However, now on the hidden power front, the only thing that the Rohir Kingdom may be able to take is Hecehia and the Spirit Lord to contend with.

So they can only watch this first move, but they can't use it.

The time soon came to the tenth day after the start of the war.

The trenches no longer need to be inspected, there are holes everywhere, and there are sections that have collapsed or been blown into craters. Perhaps only Kimchi's front-line command is still somewhat complete.

A large part of the army remained in one battalion, and the strength of one regiment and one company that dared to increase the number of troops had been exhausted.

This is arguably the toughest battle Kimchi has ever fought. He had never felt so tired from any previous battle.

Even the battle on Kings Island is easier than that, because you at least have a hope.

There is a steady stream of mortal auxiliary troops on the opposite side, but his side is constantly attrition, and this kind of slow grinding is the most unbearable.

War is like this, and the more a war of attrition, the more it tests people's psychological and physical qualities.

People are in a state of long-term tension, and the first thing they can't stand is a decline in their sleep state, and at any time they may wake up instantly when they should rest.

There is also a poor psychological quality, the mood will become impatient, impatient with time, and feel unable to concentrate on one thing that should be focused on another.

This is the greatest torture for a commander. I want to focus on the battle, but I still have all sorts of things to deal with.

The supply line was blown to pieces by the enemy, and every day Kimchi kept an eye on the clock, waiting for the supplies to arrive while watching the time.

There were about three points in the enemy's attack, six in the morning, two in the afternoon, and seven in the evening.

These points in time have been summarized, but the arrival of supplies is not confirmed.

Therefore, all kinds of ammunition consumption need to be carefully calculated, and sometimes it is necessary to use more, and it is necessary to hurry forward to get to the front line before the enemy attacks or before it is depleted itself.

Where like in the previous battles, either supply is not a problem, or holding on to time is a certainty. But this is the first time that there is such a lack of everything.

The intensity of the battle had left the Serbian Knights Brigade with only six functioning steam armored knights.

Even though Ferlenvinoel had sent the technicians of the Steam Armored Knights, many of the precision parts inside the mechs recovered from the battlefield had been completely scrapped.

Fellavinor was arranging for the other brigades of the Knights to come and increase their troops, but because the front-line mobilization of supplies and troops took up too many means of transportation, Fellenvinell was not sure how long it would take for reinforcements to arrive.

Day 11.

Just yesterday the enemy launched a regimental charge. A total of ten regiments of troops came to storm the defensive sector for which Kimchi was responsible.

At the cost of half the death of the infantry and the scrapping of all the Steam Armored Knights, they held the land with great difficulty. This time, even Kimchi's leg was hit by a stray bullet, and a large hole was cut by shrapnel.

The trenches were already safe and could not be used as fortifications, so Kimchi directly asked everyone to retreat to the base where the Steam Armored Knights were stored.

Anyway, there is no base for the Steam Armored Knights, and it is empty if it is empty.

Around the base, Kimchi led his troops to urgently build fortifications, which did not need to be complicated, just provide some cover.

Holding on to the inside of the base is certainly the least casualty option, but it can easily expose your supply lines to the enemy.

Therefore, the mecha storage base can only be used as a fire support fortress, and the control of the outer positions still needs to be in the hands of the kingdom army.

A large number of steam pipes needed to be dismantled, as once concentrated by stray bullets, it was likely to cause steam leakage and burn nearby soldiers.

In order to ensure the energy supply of the mech's storage base, the steam used here is actually supplied by the mobile steam tower of the main headquarters five kilometers away.

Control of the pipes has become chaotic due to the fighting, and the General Command has to turn on all pipes to ensure that steam is delivered where needed.

As for what is not needed, it will be up to the soldiers of the area to solve it on their own.

On the thirteenth day, the enemy began a final general assault on this place, and on the same day it was also the arrival of a large number of troops from the front line of reinforcements from the kingdom of Rohir.

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The capital of the Dongying Kingdom, Tai'anjing.

This is a city with a history of more than 1,000 years, this is a city where the original buildings were built in the previous dynasties, and a large number of architectural styles are in line with the previous dynasties.

It can be said that it is a museum in today's world. However, everything is decided by people.

Today, it has paid the price for the careerists born within itself, and has been razed to the ground by the artillery fire and siege weapons of the Korean army, leaving only the ruins and ruins that still tell the glory of the past.

But the representatives of the past are also about to disappear from this world.

The army of the dynasty turned the capital of the Dongying Kingdom into a ruin, although it could make the enemy safe, but it also made the cavalry of the army of the dynasty, especially the heavy cavalry wearing talismans, unable to deploy.

The infantry became the main force in the ensuing battle, and began to advance slowly under the cover of the combat forces of the Heavenly Prison Division, sweeping away the enemy from the ruins.

The secret guards of the underworld followed the army of the dynasty to observe in the dark, looking for traces of the gods of the High Heaven Plain.

Soon, the soldiers and civilians of the Dongying Kingdom, who had been infected by the fungus and had a strong vitality, seemed to sense something, and crawled out of the rubble to attack the Korean army.

Such an attack may seem scary, but a military formation of well-trained soldiers is self-defeating. Indiscriminate attacks will only increase the number of kills of the Korean army in vain.

The gods of Takamagaha are silently observing the situation of the war through the delicate mirror of writing.

They had already spotted the Underworld's secret guards, but they didn't know who these people were, only that the defensive circle they had worked so hard to build had been cracked by a few men in black, which made them feel very frightened.

But in fact, it was only because the defensive arrays they used were recorded in the Heavenly Prison Division, and these underworld guards were tricky, not because of how powerful they were.

Now seeing that the army of the national dynasty is getting closer and closer to the hiding place of himself and others, except for a few main gods and several gods related to the war, the other gods are a little flustered.

The longer a person is bound to freedom, the more afraid he is of losing his freedom again, let alone being killed.

They were also human beings before, and they knew that they were now in a sea of blood feud with the army of the country, and it was impossible to alleviate it. And even if it is relieved, the gods will definitely be sealed again, so it is better to be killed.

When the Takamaga gods were panicking, Amaterasu suddenly patted the wooden table to stop all the whispers before speaking.

"Ladies and gentlemen, why can't I wait for the land of the Daohuang Dynasty to live? Why do we have to be trapped in this small land? ”