"I can always remember that cold winter morning."

"There was thunder in the distance, and then rain began to fall in the sky, and the raindrops of magic fell on the edge of the Black Forest, tearing the town apart...... Rain of cannonballs......

—Excerpt from "Murch Alfred's War Diary"

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The sky is roaring.

The earth is trembling.

The artillery unit has always been the pride of the Deland Kingdom, so in the establishment of the artillery regiment of the Deland Kingdom, they will be specially equipped with a larger number of crystalline guns to achieve an advantage in the artillery battle.

Therefore, the number of crystallized cannons in an artillery regiment of the Deland army is often controlled at more than 50, and sometimes some special types of crystallized cannons are added according to the number of mages accompanying the army to suppress and strike at the enemy's artillery positions.

When more than 50 of Deran's "Earth Dragon Lizard" crystalline cannons were fired at the same time in a concentrated manner towards an area, the impact and destructive power brought by it can be imagined.

The Fifth Chasseur had already received news of the arrival of reinforcements from Deresa, and since the Chasseurs themselves were unable to construct artillery positions, and the follow-up support was already on the way, Alfred and other officers adopted a conservative but ingenious strategy for the possibility of a large-scale artillery bombardment at any time.

Based on the last vestiges of battlefield etiquette and morality between countries, as well as the sense of honor as a soldier of the plateau, the Fifth Chasseur evacuated all the residents of the Black Forest Town in advance, and then they spent a day and with the efforts of a large number of military mages, they constructed a false defensive position outside the Black Forest Town.

Only a handful of volunteers were left to keep an eye on the position, and the actual defensive position of the hunting regiment was set up in the northern part of the town of Black Forest, where there was a vast area of farmland, which was very suitable for the construction of the new fortifications that the Wattle military was currently proposing.

And this decision allowed the Fifth Chaser Regiment to successfully avoid this catastrophe.

The bombardment from the 13th Field Artillery Regiment of Teresa was so ferocious and brutal that within a few minutes of the bombardment began, Shuge felt that he was going to be deaf, and he had to plug his ears with earplugs with the others and wait quietly in the deepest part of the trench for the shelling to end.

Because of the fact that they had entered a state of magical silence in advance, the casters of the Deran Kingdom and the Law Council had no way to determine the specific position of the Fifth Chasseur Regiment, so they carried out a very thorough artillery coverage of the entire Black Forest Town and its surrounding areas according to the most basic judgment.

Even the trench where Xiuge was hiding now was also affected by the magic explosion.

The nearest cannonball landed not far away, and when the explosion occurred, Shug felt like he was almost jumping up, and the magic cloud that spread out from the explosion made him feel even more annoyed, and the other mages in the army behaved even more badly, and some of them even began to vomit violently because of the disturbed magic disturbance.

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Xiuge opened his mouth and cursed silently.

Now he suddenly felt a little absurd.

….

The world is absurd, and the war that is taking place is absurd......

myself, and the things I was worried about before, seem to be very absurd.

"Wouldn't they be surprised if the people of the Black Sun Society knew that I could be blown into pulp by a crystallized cannonball at any moment?"

In the continuous roar and vibration, Xiuge's expression became more and more distorted, he remembered the briefings he had seen before, and also thought of the weapons development ideas that had been put on the agenda of the countries, and he couldn't help but be amazed once again by the potential of humanity in terms of self-destruction.

"Should I lament the commonality of human beings in all planes, or should I lament that this is really a bullshit worldview that I wrote?"

In the midst of the crankiness, another round of shelling ended.

In this brief silence, Hug looked up at his side and across from him.

In this trench

There are still some special people on the side, and there are two in front of Xiuge, and both of them are still busy with their own affairs.

First of all, Verin, who was to the left of Hug, also with her ears plugged up, and in her hand held a copy of a document she had brought with her from Boldon, and she seemed to be reading it earnestly by the light of a dim lamp next to her.

Of course, Shug thought that it was very likely that Wei Lin didn't see anything, because with the help of the power of the "Walking Forest", his perception became very acute, so Xiug could feel Wei Lin's rather chaotic breathing and high heartbeat at the moment.

Obviously, under the continuous bombardment of artillery fire, she also had no way to stay calm all the time.

Professor Meyer, by contrast, was sitting across from him, really doing his own thing—he was writing something in his notebook, looking extremely pretentious, and the bombardment of the Detrian army seemed to have no way of affecting him at all.

In this case, in order to dispel his emotions, Hug could only choose to talk to his "advisors", but what he saw and heard on the battlefield these days made Bernhardt and other souls who were very familiar with the patterns of war in the past feel more confused than ever, and they did not expect that the current war would evolve into such a situation.

General Bernhardt sighed melancholy, "Now, only the bombardment of the Delands can give me a little familiarity."

"Times are changing, and it's inevitable."

Shuge sighed inwardly, and he said, "And I'm sure this is just the beginning, maybe the evolution of weapons will lead to a change in people's thinking."

"Oh? Are you saying that there will be some more terrifying weapons? Just like the kind you guys used before...... Heavy machine guns? That's the name, right?"

Shuge replied, and then he replied, "With your vision and experience, you must have seen the limitations of this weapon, right? Today's new firearms, while powerful, are very flexible, and they should actually be used for positional defense rather than offense."

"Indeed, it's too cumbersome and sluggish...... I've seen your previous methods of warfare, which are actually moving a position directly in someone's face, and once or twice once in a while might work, but if the enemy already knows about this weapon, then they have a myriad of ways to stop you from approaching...... When the time comes, the method of fighting in the form of improvised positions will undoubtedly be suicidal."

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"So, the weapons we use will continue to change."

At this moment, the whistling of crystalline cannonballs was heard in the sky again, and the roar and vibration once again covered the entire Black Forest Town.

Shug shrunk his head and said in his heart, "The Derangians have made innovations, and they are working hard to reduce the size of the crystallization cannons and use them for something else...... And this line of thinking applies to the kingdom of Wattel as well, you can imagine that we are now building a steel vehicle with a lot of magical rituals inscribed on it, and mounting a bulky Kalfan heavy machine gun or even a small crystalline cannon on it......

"Kid, you're a genius!"

As a seasoned leader, Bernhardt immediately imagined the picture that Shug had painted, and as if he had caught a glimpse of a miracle, he hurriedly awakened the will of the other Ernst families, and then excitedly discussed with them the feasibility of such an idea.

This discussion didn't make sense to Huge, because he knew that such a thing was bound to appear, but it probably wouldn't have the strange name "water tank" in this world.

Magic has given Vann so many possibilities to humanity, and what Hug envisions is nothing more than a fragment of the history and common sense of another world, and he has reason to believe that any ordinary thing, when added to magic, will take on a new trend beyond all expectations.

"Boom!"

A cannonball landed very, very close, and the violent shaking almost destroyed the solidification ritual that the mages had placed on the trenches, and in an astonishing explosion of magical power, a huge amount of earth flew into the air and then poured again

Down, even in the underground space where Xiuge and the others were hiding, a lot of floating soil fell down.

"Slept ......"

Wei Lin accidentally ate a mouthful of dust, which made her feel very uncomfortable, so Xiuge reluctantly took out the kettle and handed it over, Wei Lin did not refuse, picked up the kettle and poured two mouthfuls into her mouth, rinsing vigorously, and then washed away the strange smell of the mouthful.

War and battlefield can always bring great changes to people, and in the past, Siug would never have imagined that the female scholar he knew would one day huddle in the trench with her face covered in dust like the rest of the soldiers, or that she would take her water bottle so casually and use it.

Because the entire position was silent, there was no way for Verin to do anything else, so after returning the kettle to Xiuge, she picked up her revolver and began a routine inspection, her familiarity with firearms was very limited, so her fingers, which were usually able to flexibly imprint magic patterns and cast magic, were now a little clumsy.

There are many, many more people doing similar things.

In the face of the imminent threat of death, the soldiers were trying to relieve their pressure, either praying, whispering the military anthem of the Waters Kingdom, telling irrelevant jokes, or chatting about their homeland, family, or lovers.

Of course, there are also people who are writing letters, or writing suicide notes.

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This behavior has nothing to do with their current morale, as anyone facing this level of magical bombardment will have some fear for their future.

Taking advantage of the interval between the shelling, Hug greeted Mayer across from him: "Professor, what are you writing about? I think you've been writing for a long time!"

Meyer tucked the earbuds tightly, and when he saw that Shug seemed to be talking to himself, he took out the earplug in one of his ears.

So Xiuge asked again.

After hearing Huge's question clearly, Mayer generously handed over the notebook in his hand, and after Shuge reached out to take it, he moved the lamp on the side in his direction and flipped through it by the light.

Later, Siug discovered that Frey Meyer was actually fulfilling what he had said before leaving.

In this notebook, he carefully records all the details of the war, the fanaticism in Bolden***, the field hospital in Brownhill, the refugees who escaped from the city of Seren, the Black Sun Society, and the interference of those perverse monsters in the world, and now the development of the war and its impact on the world......

A lot of what has happened has been recorded by Meyer.

Schugg could see that Meyer was trying to make his writing as detailed as possible, he respected the authenticity of events, and when he commented on specific events, he tried to keep himself as objective and neutral as possible.

Wei Lin was also interested in what Hug was reading, so she leaned over a little and began to read with Shug in the dim light.

Both of them read at an astonishing speed, so it wasn't long before Professor Mayer's notebook was thoroughly read by the two.

As a scholar, Wei Lin has a very strong understanding and grasp of words, so she asked, "Professor, are you trying to learn and understand the war itself?"

"That's right."

Meyer nodded: "In human activities, war has always been an area that I have not had the opportunity to understand and contact, so I will take the initiative to ask to follow the hunting regiment to the front line, I hope to get some of the answers I want here."

Vilyn glanced at each other curiously, Meyer's face and body were also covered in dust, which made him look more like a sculpture.

So Wei Lin asked, "So, Professor, you want to learn and understand these things just out of curiosity?"

"It's human nature to be curious, and I'm no exception."

Meyer replied with a smile, "As a scholar who studies human beings and society, I think if you want to advance

To explore the nature of human society and the possible direction of its evolution in one step, it is necessary to go as far as possible into human activity itself...... What we are experiencing now, what we are witnessing, cannot be replaced by any books and documents, they are unique and convincing enough."

"And I think everything I've learned on this battlefield ......

The shelling came again, and in the deafening sound, Shuge and the others had to plug their ears again.

However, through the shape of Mayer's mouth, Hug vaguely recognized the second half of the sentence he was trying to say.

Meyer seems to be saying, "Everything I've learned on this battlefield will one day be put into practice."

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