The enemy army began to charge, and the first to reach the fortress were numerous shells.

The shells instantly enveloped the entire front line in a blaze, and the occasional figure could be seen in the dirt that was raised.

The front-line troops have become accustomed to this, and many veterans have even counterattacked the enemy in artillery fortresses against enemy shelling.

A few minutes later, the enemy's steam-armored knights broke through the fortress, and the infantry of the Rothschild kingdom began to hide behind the fortifications and shoot.

Kimchi led a brigade of knights in front and the enemy's knights were tough, while they sneaked up on the flanks.

Normally, you can quickly repel the enemy according to this tactic, but this time it is different.

First of all, the Serbian knight brigade lost more than forty Alpha 1 units in the last battle, and now there are only more than twenty of them, including reinforcements from the rear.

The second is that the enemy's large forces are coming, the number of the enemy's steam armored knights is increasing, and the enemy's specialized anti-knight units are also coming to the front.

Wearing miniaturized steam armor, these soldiers can carry a larger weight, and larger anti-armor guns can be equipped on them for mobile shooting.

Serbian Steam Knights now have to deal with more enemy Knights.

Infantry now not only face the enemy's Steam Knights, but also the enemy's infantry units.

The battle became more difficult.

Quite a few Serbian knights eventually fell under the fire of the anti-armor guns of the enemy's anti-knight infantry units.

However, the enemy also paid a terrible price, but the infantry wearing light steam armor was still threatened by rifles, pistols and other light weapons.

Not to mention the aftermath of the battle of the Steam Armored Knights.

Flying sword fragments can hit these infantry hard, and they will need to work in tandem with the knights.

Kimchi keenly grasped the shortcomings of the enemy's unaccustomed combat style, and used the aftermath of the collision between himself and the enemy's knights to kill and injure the enemy's anti-knight infantry units.

These infantry units were not yet able to grasp the essentials of fighting in concert with the knights. In fact, to be honest, no one knows what to do to be able to fight with the knights.

After fighting with high intensity, he could no longer continue to command the entire battle of his troops, but once he stopped, the tide of battle would slip in a direction that was unfavorable to the kingdom's army.

The bloody battle lasted for several hours, and in the end, the army of the kingdom of Rothier suffered heavy casualties and had to abandon the position of a fortress.

And the enemy also lost the strength and energy to continue to storm the defensive line.

The remnants of the defenders retreated to the last fortress of the first line of defense, while the Spirit Kingdom forces pushed their large forces forward.

No sooner had Kimchi led the remaining knights to cover the infantry units into the fortifications of the fortress when a short artillery bombardment of the enemy followed.

The splashed monolith left a scratch on the back of Kimchi's mech, damaging some of the structure.

The shaking earth shook the entire fortress. The enemy, after a short shelling, quickly turned into a heavy fire cover.

The countries of Middle-earth can fight such a rich war, and other countries cannot afford to use this way of using cannonballs.

But there's a different feeling to be in the middle of an underground fortification to deal with the shelling, like hiding at home on a rainy day. As long as you get used to this environment, you can sleep more soundly here.

Regardless of the others, Kimchi felt comfortable now anyway, eating a big leba and gulping down hot borscht.

After eating, find a relatively comfortable place to rest, and the enemy shelling has become the best lullaby.

After a brief night of fire, at five o'clock in the morning the next day, the enemy attacked again.

This time, the air force of the Spirit Kingdom also participated in the war.

With their superiority in speed and agility, small propeller fighters quickly broke through the air defense of the Rothschild Kingdom and reached the sky above Kimchi's fortress.

Powerful aerial bombs screamed towards the fortress.

The flames were accompanied by crumbling clods of earth, and the violent shaking caused the electric lights in the underground fortifications to be shut down for a time. Dust or something is inevitable.

The air defense sirens began to sound wildly, the air defense positions in the ground positions began to spit tongues of fire, and the corresponding fire nets began to block the path of the Lingguo bomber formation.

In just over ten minutes, at least nine bombers were shot down, and at least dozens of aerial bombs fell into the fortresses on the ground.

A few minutes later, the enemy's bomber formations left the sky over the fortress, and the fortress commander began to order officers of all ranks to begin counting losses.

At least thirty soldiers were killed or wounded, four machine-gun pillboxes and three artillery turrets were destroyed.

There were also several caveats in the trench passages on the positions.

The sappers immediately carried out the urgent repair of the fortifications.

Half an hour later, the enemy's ground forces began to storm the fortress, and the fire cover with armored clusters began to charge.

Still the same, Kimchi led the Steam Armored Knights in front of him, and the defenders of the fortress began to flank and clear the enemy infantry units.

Eventually, due to the disparity in strength, the defenders retreated again to the second line of defense.

Reinforcements from the Kingdom of Rothier are now gathered on this line, turning it into a steel line to thwart the lightning offensive of the Spirit Kingdom.

Once the lightning offensive slows down, it can't be called a lightning offensive, and once the Rohil Kingdom has enough time to regroup its army and consolidate its defenses, then the armored spearhead of the Spirit Kingdom will be in a dilemma.

Time is always the most valuable strategic resource.

As the first line of defense was captured by the Lingguo army, the Lingguo's troops began to rush to the second line of defense non-stop.

Field artillery units began to rapidly build up positions, and then began to carry out tentative artillery bombardments on the positions of the kingdom of Rothsier.

The Lingguo armored troops, who arrived at the front line first, began to carry out emergency maintenance. When there were enough of them, they began to try to attack while the kingdom's most elite knightly forces were repairing.

Naturally, the troops of the Rothil Kingdom could not convince the enemy that they could only rely on the Serbian knight brigade to be able to form the first group of the current armored spearheads of the Spirit Kingdom.

Therefore, the kingdom's troops concentrated all the anti-armor forces on the defensive line, and at all costs wanted to retreat the enemy's tentative attack this time.

However, the enemy commander was quite cunning, and the tentative attack was not just aimed at a few points that could be weak points in the defense, but was tested along the entire line.

This temptation, which soon led to the effective anti-armor forces of the Rothil Kingdom, was seriously insufficient, and most of the people who arrived at the front line were light infantry, and the heavy equipment had not yet kept up.

This shows that the first wave of attacks in the Spirit Kingdom was very effective, and those captured anti-armor weapons are likely to be the standing reserves of the Rothel Kingdom.

Now the movement of weapons and the production of military industry in the rear of the kingdom of Rothier have not kept up with the changes at the front.

After this information was transmitted to the rear, it immediately attracted the attention of the spirit master.

The Hussar Legion had already begun to attempt a breakout battle, and the army that Spirit Kingdom had placed there was suffering heavy casualties and could collapse at any time.

Therefore, on the side of the Rothel Kingdom, there needs to be some breakthrough results.

Without anti-armor forces, it is impossible for only a relatively elite team of Steam Armored Knights to resist the armored spearhead of the Spirit Kingdom.

The only problem is time, which does not allow the attacking side to have too many chances to try.

While the Spirit Kingdom tested the lack of armor in the defense line of the Rohil Kingdom, it also let the Rohil Kingdom know some information.

At least the next step is likely to be a gamble, the Spirit Kingdom will bet on the concentration of anti-armor forces in the Rohil Kingdom, and then concentrate its own armored forces to break through the weaker places in the Rohil Kingdom.

And the Kingdom of Rothier is going to gamble on the direction of the Spirit Kingdom's attack, concentrating its own anti-armor forces and steam armored knight forces to break the Spirit Kingdom's armored spearhead, and finally forcing this battle to turn from a blitzkrieg into a war of attrition.

Then, in just a few hours, the intelligence officers and signal corps of both sides began a short but tragic struggle.

The intelligence war around what could well mean the decisive battle of the Battle of the Brest Fortress next was unprecedentedly intense.

In the end, the balance of victory still slipped in favor of the Spirit Kingdom.

The overlord of Middle-earth is still the overlord.

Today's intelligence warfare tests not only the quality of personnel, but also the strength of science and technology.

The intelligence agency of the Spirit Kingdom, which has the assistance of a mature differential machine, narrowly prevails, and finally gets to several locations where the anti-armor forces of the Kingdom of Rothil may be concentrated.

The only variable now is the Serbian knight brigade in the kingdom of Rohir. But in the next battle, this variable is likely not to be able to change the tide of the battle.

Lingguo at all costs concentrated two artillery divisions, a knight brigade, five armored divisions and ten infantry divisions before the attack, and these forces were to be divided into four forces to attack each of the four areas where there was no concentration of anti-armor forces.

There is only one Serbian knight brigade, and under the premise that the Spirit Country troops are ready to sacrifice one of their own knight brigades, even if the tired Kimchi fights hard, it is impossible for him to be able to rush to the other four places after solving the Spirit Country knight brigade.

As long as one of the four locations attacked by the Spirit Kingdom is breached, then this defense line is basically going to be declared a failure.

Follow-up troops will quickly open the gap, and attacking troops in other directions will also hold back the defenders in front of them, leaving them with no way to return to the gap.

The artillery began to roar, the earth trembled, and the smoke filled.

Four hours later, the corpses of the soldiers of the Rothschild Kingdom and the Spirit Kingdom were covered with trenches, and the wreckage of armored combat vehicles and the remains of the Steam Armored Knights were piled up on the defensive line covered in gunsmoke.

Once again, the main armored forces of the Spirit Kingdom won a narrow victory.

Although they attacked a location that was not indicated by intelligence to have a possible anti-armor force, this place was very close to the location where the kingdom's anti-armor forces were actually hidden.

As soon as the battle began, the troops of the Rothier Kingdom immediately noticed that the enemy's main direction of attack was near the place where they had assembled.

So he quickly mobilized his anti-armor forces to rush to the aid here.

The commander of the Spirit Kingdom was also very decisive, knowing that the battle was all about time, and once the army of the Rothil Kingdom really mobilized the anti-armor forces here before they broke through the defense line, then the operation would be a complete failure.

So, at the great risk of the troops under his command being broken up, he let the Overseers constantly press the troops in front of him to rush forward and keep rushing forward.

In the end, the commanders of the Spirit Kingdom troops were killed by stray bullets, and several battalions of troops were scattered, and at such a terrible price, the Spirit Kingdom troops were able to take this forward position before the Rothil Kingdom could mobilize its own anti-armor forces.

But this is not the end of the story, but the forward position is not yet able to cut a gap in the kingdom's defenses.

The follow-up troops continued to move forward to launch assaults.

Kimchi was leading his knight brigade at this time, trying his best to get rid of the entanglement of the Spirit Kingdom knight brigade.

But the Serbian Knight Brigade, which had only a dozen units left of the Alpha 1, had no way to break through the entanglement of the opposing Knight troops.

Kimchi had already killed more than twenty knights of the Spirit Kingdom, and even though one of his mecha's arms had been destroyed, he still did not see the end of the encirclement.

It's as if the enemy sent not just one brigade of knights, but several, or even dozens.

Of course, the commander of the enemy's knightly brigade is not feeling well now.

Although I have heard of Kimchi for a long time. Ayukasi's daimyō, but when he really encountered him, the commander understood what a unified knight was and what a real war machine was.

One Spirit Knight is now enough to take out several main battle tanks or Leviathans, regardless of that model.

Such a knight has been slain more than twenty times in front of this devil, and it only makes his mecha missing an arm. So what would have happened if the armored forces were in front of him?

Maybe in the complex terrain of the race, he has enough resources to be able to single-handedly pick up a division.

In order to stabilize his knight troops and not lose their morale because of this devil, the commander of the Spirit Kingdom Knight Brigade had no choice but to use the means of forced injection of reagents.

Make your soldiers "fearless" with specially concocted alchemy reagents.

To put it bluntly, it is a psychotropic drug that can make people lose their fear and reason for a short period of time, and become very belligerent and impulsive.

So when Kimchi's mecha lost half of its head, he had already killed more than thirty again.

Such a record was enough to turn the tide of the battle, and the knight brigade of the Spirit Kingdom collapsed. This psychotropic drug has a catalytic effect in today's unprecedented situation.

The morale of his own side collapsed much faster than the commander of the Spirit Knights Brigade had expected.

Having broken through the entanglement, the Serbian knight brigade, led by Kimchi, quickly rushed towards the place where the forward position had been taken away.

But time finally made them a step late, the general headquarters of this defense area had been broken through by the Spirit Kingdom troops, and most of the positions had fallen.

Although the mobilized anti-armor forces annihilated one and a half divisions of the armored forces of the Spirit Kingdom, they were still unable to turn the tide after all.

They and the Serbian knightly brigade that arrived here were only able to keep the gap from being widened.

But they can only manage one side, and the other side is collapsing at a speed that is visible to the naked eye.

If you want to support the other side, you can only pass through the troops of the Spirit Kingdom first. But if you can do that, why bother supporting the other side? It would be nice to just cut off the enemy's troops.

Therefore, after holding out for more than half an hour, the rear general command came with an order to retreat, and the front-line troops could only reluctantly start retreating.

Having lost this line of defense, the Brest Fortress was exposed to enemy fire.

That night, the enemy began shelling.

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After fighting all afternoon, Kimchi finally forced his way back to the storage base of the Brest Fortress with strong willpower.

The beating of the heart began to make my throat and eyes ache.

As soon as it stepped into the valve, the entire mech fell to the ground, and began to slide forward with the action of inertia, and finally stopped in front of a technician.

The frightened technician was pulled down by someone else, who then rushed to the rescue.

The large hoister dropped the fallen knight mecha, and in order to avoid any internal trauma, it caused secondary damage to Kimchi when it turned over.

So the technicians first used a cutter to remove the armor outside the cab and dragged Kimchi out of the cab.

The paramedics quickly took over Kimchi, who had been dragged out of the cab.

At this time, the exhausted Kimchi had already fallen asleep, dead and dead.

It was a few hours before he reopened his eyes, feeling a slight pain in the flickering light.

From time to time, a dull voice came telling Kimchi that the place was being shelled.

The paramedics soon noticed Kimchi, who had already recovered, and began to examine him.

In addition to three rib wounds, there was also a dislocated right arm.

The arm mech was also somewhat damaged, with parts at several connections wearing out and needing to be replaced.

Hessexia, who happened to arrive here, repaired his body, and by the way, replenished Margarita's blood to suppress the somewhat manic blood.

When all the treatment was over, Kimchi, who had been hungry for a long time, could finally eat. The logistics staff brought him borscht that had been boiled first, which was one of the duke's prerogatives.

Combined with the occasional shelling of the enemy, Kimchi finished eating and then lay down on the hospital bed again and began to rest.

Although having lost the first and second lines of defense, it is now dangerous to put the Brest Fortress directly facing the enemy. However, the heroic battle of the army of the Kingdom of Rothil still caused the troops of the Spirit Kingdom to pay more than expected.

Because of this situation, the next battle in the Spirit Kingdom needs to be revised again.

This is the second major change in the war plan, and the Spirit Lord is already considering mobilizing the alchemist forces and the hidden power.

But considering that these forces are now fighting against the Hussars and the Coalition in the Kingdom of Bolitawa and the South, respectively, this idea can only be thought of.