The coalition offensive was at a stalemate from the outset, and the fortified area, which had been being built intermittently for many years, had strong fortifications - there were no fortifications here until a few decades ago, and with the development of land warships in the Duchy of Belken, Field Marshal Rensted, who was then the chief of the General Staff, had the foresight to start the construction of a fortification group for the confrontation with the land warships. Huge polyhedral reinforced concrete barricades were placed in all suitable places for land warships, while low, sturdy underground fortifications were successively used as mutually supportive firing points - in this era when there was no burst fire, these fortifications were more used as hiding points and batteries. And because of the fortifications that blocked the infantry, the defending side was able to use the communication ditch to infiltrate the bottom of a huge land battleship and blow up such a battleship with alchemical gunpowder, although a lot of gunpowder would be used

Therefore, the offensive of the coalition forces has indeed reached a stalemate, and no one wants to lose valuable land warships, so they have to lose the cannon fodder, which is worthless in the eyes of the top brass - the infantry. The aristocratic officers, who drove the infantry to attack in small battle formations, had already learned not to deploy linear tactics in front of the defensive line, so that the Duchy of Belken could win with a light victory. The aristocratic officers of this world have normal minds and minds, and they are quite capable of absorbing reasonable military tactics. Therefore, it is impossible to do such a foolish thing as a horizontal advance in front of the enemy's fortifications. Moreover, the military revolution in this world has also entered the era of rear-loading fixed ammunition, basically all countries on the continent have included rear-loading guns in their equipment, and linear tactics have already begun to gradually withdraw from the battlefield, but due to inertia, the troops on the mainland are still accustomed to using horizontal formations to exert firepower in field battles -- only now most of them are using kneeling and lying positions to exchange fire.

Since the coalition forces did not want land warships to test how strong the fortress of the Duchy of Belken was. Then it's the turn of the Duchy of Belken to perform. General Lensted, a veteran of the Lensted family, who commanded the battle in the Duchy of Belken, had absolutely no idea of hiding the good things in the back. "Decisive forces must be invested at the beginning!" was the veteran's credo. So he ordered the floating battleships to be put into battle immediately. Three floating battleships formed in a horizontal line appeared on the battlefield, they initially used the hills as cover to hide their figures, and the coalition airships did not want to risk passing through the airship brigade defense line of the Duchy of Belken to test their firepower, so they did not find the floating battleships of the Duchy of Belken at first.

It was only as soon as the floating battleships appeared, that their bodies, which were far larger and thicker than airships, immediately attracted everyone's attention to their existence. For the first time, the soldiers and officers of the coalition saw why they had started the war, only they were immediately shocked by the artifacts in front of them.

At present, the floating battleship, which is named Nemesis class by the Duchy of Belken, is about 120 meters long and 40 meters wide - mainly the two unfolded platforms in the middle of the hull form the widest part. One up and down the two bridges, the bridge below is obviously much lower. The shape of the turret is the same as that of a new land battleship, with as many as ten twin turrets, two turrets at the front of the hull, two turrets on the left and right turrets and one turret at the stern, and then the same turret at the bottom of the symmetry. Twenty large pipes reveal a hideous beauty. These floating warships move much faster than airships, and their hulls do not have the large propellers necessary for airships, but instead navigate the sky by an unknown propulsion method. As soon as the floating battleship appeared, it was greeted with a huge cheer from the Duchy of Belken on the ground, and as for the coalition forces, the morale of the coalition began to be relatively low, and after the floating battleship began to fire, the infantry began to flee directly.

The land warships were powerless against the floating warships. Their main guns can't lift them at this angle at all, so they can't stop them from approaching from the air. The bolt-action small-caliber guns that can fight airships in the air are completely inadequate, and the shells that can penetrate lightly armored or even unarmored airships are not deterrent against floating warships with quite heavy armor at first glance, not to mention that most of them cannot reach this height at all. Therefore, the floating battleship put the land battleship into range without any resistance - at the speed of the land battleship, this is simply impossible to escape.

The guns of the turrets are also completely different, unlike the cylindrical shells commonly used by land warships at present, the conical warhead shells far surpass the previous guns in terms of range, trajectory and power, and they can easily and accurately hit those land warships. Then, in a series of explosions, the land warships were beaten like dead snakes on the ground. The floating battleship's shells easily pierced the land battleship's pitiful horizontal armor and ship deck, and then exploded inside the hull, and since the land battleship did not have such a concept of a watertight compartment at all, the shock wave of the explosion blew up the lower deck parts without hindrance, causing huge internal damage. The decks of these land warships bloomed from the inside like flowers, and the horrific bullet holes caused all the Allied soldiers who saw this to lose all fighting spirit, and the officers and men of the land warships had already abandoned their ships and fled, because they found that the speed of their warships was too fast to flee the battlefield

Twenty minutes after the floating battleships appeared, they turned around and returned to the rear of the Duchy of Belken, leaving behind them ten land battleships, four of which were completely undamaged, and the allied officers and men on them abandoned their ships in fear of the power of the floating battleships, and abandoned the battleships on the battlefield without any damage. Of course, there were also the infantry of the coalition army, who had lost a third of their time and then surrendered. This day's offensive was a black day for the coalition forces, gaining nothing and losing a formation, and successfully proving the excellent mobility and firepower of the floating battleship and the combat effectiveness that surpassed the years. In fact, what they didn't know was that the floating battleship was no longer able to fight, and after the continuous firing, the officers and men of Belken found that the turret of the floating battleship was malfunctioning, and not only the turret, but also the keel and the main body of the structure were damaged in different ways. The designers were too optimistic about the recoil estimates, and the power furnace also had a serious malfunction, and the reason why it did not fall to the ground was entirely because the fleet commander wisely ordered to stop the attack and return to the ground for repairs as quickly as possible.

The next day, the coalition forces began to retreat (to be continued......