If not for the disaster caused by the All-Ending Cult, perhaps the battle that would bring the Cecil Army to the forefront would have been delayed for a long time. But there were no ifs. Since the All-Ending Cult had caused a man-made disaster in the Holy Spirit Plains, then the Steel Army from the south would definitely step onto the stage.
This Steel Army was still young. Their tactical thinking and training still needed to be honed, and the battlefield in the Holy Spirit Plains was the best training ground for them.
At dawn, the First Corps, which had been moving stealthily, came into contact with the Crystal Cluster Army's first line of defense in the small plains south of Maple City. This unavoidable encounter was the starting point of the entire battle. With the three cannon bombardments from the Gorgon River as the beginning, the tanks of the Corps gathered into a vanguard and launched a fierce attack on the Crystal Cluster Army's defense line.
The steel-gray giant eagle flew under the clouds, reflecting the scene of the battlefield in the eyes of the riders. Sonia Frostleaf looked down at the scene of the Crystal Cluster Army attacking the vanguard and took in the fighting style of the Cecil Army. She saw the tanks with strong shields and powerful cannons gathering into an offensive formation, attacking the weak points of the Crystal Cluster Army's defense line with the greatest firepower. At the same time, they kept pushing forward. Although the Crystal Cluster Army was not afraid of death, it was impossible for them to maintain their defense line in the face of such concentrated bombardments. Whether it was the strengthened flesh or the fortifications formed by the walls and magic shields, all of them quickly collapsed under the concentrated bombardments.
After opening such a gap, the attack formation formed by the tanks would begin to accelerate and quickly split into several small vanguards as they moved forward, and began to rely on the continuous advance and bombardments to further tear a gap in the defense line. At the same time, the infantry that attacked together with the tanks would enter the battlefield and begin to further cut and infiltrate the enemy's position with their 'core tanks' as the center. They would be responsible for destroying enemies that might threaten the tanks at close range, or pointing out the location of the enemy's fortifications and guiding the tanks to fire until the end of the operation.
Throughout the entire process, the long-range magic cannons on the rear of the Crystal Cluster Army would continuously fire. The bombardments covered the rear of the Crystal Cluster Army's defense line, and it almost completely eliminated the possibility of the enemy reinforcing the defense line. A large number of Crystal Cluster Infected that were urgently gathered were blocked a few kilometers away. They kept dying under the bombardments until the entire defense line disappeared, and their originally safe 'rear' became the new front line …
Such an attack would consume a large number of physical cannons (even energy weapons would burn through a lot of focus crystals). However, the Cecil Kingdom's stockpile of weapons should be able to last until the end of the war. Sonia knew that the Southern Territory had been preparing for this war since last year (in fact, they had been preparing for this war since the establishment of the Duchy, but their initial enemy might not be the crystallized monsters). Factories, production lines, and thousands of workers worked day and night to produce cannons and weapon crystals. They worked day and night to assemble cannons and chariot chassis. The metals from the Eastern Region, the magic materials from the Royal Family, and the Southern Territory's own stockpile of resources had all been converted into these things that pierced through the air and exploded on the battlefield.
And until today, until this moment, the factories in the southern border were still producing, and new production lines were increasing day by day. Every day, countless resources were sent along the Gorgon River, along the Kingdom Avenue, and along the temporary roads in the war zone by mechanical ships or magic vehicles to the front line.
The entire southern border seemed to have become a huge machine, and all the resources were integrated into the hopper of this machine. In the rumbling of gears and levers, their weapons and equipment were even increasing as the war went on.
Gwen Cecil called this state the 'wartime system'.
"A cluster of magic power has been observed in the C12 area in the northwest. It's the enemy's reinforcements." Sonia Frostleaf controlled the giant eagle to fly through the clouds. When the ground tilted and the altitude dropped, she sent back the latest observation to the rear and left the area before the intersecting lightning net from the ground covered her. "Call for naval artillery support."
"This is the Pathfinder. Roger. Artillery will arrive in one minute."
In the beginning, the Cecil Army's tactics were actually not so brilliant.
They had indeed built a brand-new and powerful army, but this army was also a completely new thing to them. Gwen Cecil had designed a series of supporting tactics and training plans for it, but from the commanders to the soldiers, it was difficult to understand the content out of thin air. They could only carry out the training mechanically, and with their absolute trust in the lord, they recorded the techniques that were not supported by any actual combat evidence. And at the beginning of this war, almost no commander had successfully implemented the training content.
Sonia had seen the tanks swarm into the enemy's formation while the infantrymen who were supposed to attack together were left far behind. She had also seen the platoons nervously and exaggeratedly describe the situation at the frontline, causing the commanders at the rear to misjudge the size of the enemy. Not only did this waste the firepower support, but it also messed up the original attack plan.
If not for the powerful advanced weapons and equipment, and if not for the Crystal Cluster Army being at a loss when facing the Southern Army, the army of the Cecil Dukedom would not have been able to advance so quickly.
In the command vehicle, Gwen was understanding the situation of the entire front line through the magic network communication. Just a moment ago, a company had unexpectedly withdrawn from the battle.
They had received the wrong command and entered the enemy's encirclement. Although they eventually broke out, seven of the twelve tanks were destroyed, and the casualties were severe. They could only retreat and rest.
The reserve company took over the vacancy of the fourth company and continued to dismantle the giants' defense line.
The battlefield of the Saint Spirit Plains was the best stage for actual combat, and the army of the Cecil Dukedom would receive the best training here. Even now, the soldiers and commanders were still familiarizing themselves with the things they had learned on the training ground. They were not doing well now, but in Gwen's eyes, they were improving rapidly.
This should be attributed to the literacy rate of the soldiers.
More than eighty percent of the soldiers had the basic ability to write and calculate. This was enough to allow them to have better logical thinking, allowing them to quickly accumulate relatively complex battlefield experience and understand the various orders of their superiors.
On the other hand, the tactics that Gwen came up with were more or less bound by the inherent experience of Earth and might not necessarily adapt to the actual situation of this world. In this regard, the commanders of the army clearly had to learn to adapt to local conditions and learn to take the initiative to adjust. This also relied on the higher cultural level of the soldiers and the professionalism of the officer class.
After this war ended, the Cecil Army might not be a battle-hardened army, but at the very least, it would be a qualified modern army that could properly use their advanced equipment.
The Cecil Tribe was currently advancing towards the north at an astonishing speed, as though they were a wild beast that had lost control.
This' advance 'could even be described as a' charge '.
When Hilton woke up in shock and listened to the subordinate in charge of commanding the southern defense line report the situation, the first line of defense set up by the God Bastard Army in the plains had disappeared. It was not broken through, but completely disappeared in the telepathic connection.
It was as if it had been burned to ashes and blown away by a gust of wind.
A priest of the End of All Things who had completely transformed into the form of a God Bastard lowered his head, nervously and slightly frightened as he reported, "They have broken through the Cypress Manor and are now attacking our second line of defense. A large scale warship has appeared on the Gorgon River. There are six brigades … No, nine brigades have just lost contact!"
Hilton's eyes widened. "How did they get so close? Why didn't anyone discover it before? "
The dark priests were silent, but Hilton himself did not expect to get an answer from them. The attack of the Cecil Army was an established fact, and it was meaningless to study their previous route.
"They are coming for Maple. Damn it. How can they be so fast!" He cursed in a low voice, and finally, for the first time, he felt terrified of the power of the Cecil Army.
He was indeed afraid of the Pioneer who came back from the dead, afraid of his power to unify the south in a year. But that should have been in the past!
The End of All Things had built a powerful God Bastard Army, and this powerful army could even overturn the entire Ansu Kingdom in a month. It should have been incomparably powerful, and in the process of fighting the royal family and the noble army in the east, this army had indeed shown its power. But … what was going on now?
"Quickly gather the shifters in the plains and reinforce the second line of defense. Also, have the army in the south pull back and block the retreat of the Cecil Army. Attack them from behind!"
After a brief moment of astonishment, Hilton forcibly suppressed the shock in his heart and began to use the best plan he could think of to deal with the attack of the Cecil Army. He noticed one thing, and that was that the Cecil Army directly broke into the Maple Plains through some kind of secret march. This meant that the God Bastard Army stationed in the south was still intact. Then, as long as they could block the Cecil Army in the north, the God Bastard Army in the south could launch an attack from the enemy's rear.
Even if Korod was here, he should not be able to come up with a better plan.
However, not long after his order was issued, a giant-like priest trembled slightly and said, "Your Excellency. Our second line of defense … has disappeared. Enemy. Enemy."
This priest could not even complete his sentence, but Hilton did not need to hear any more information from him.
He could hear the faint sound of an explosion!
A magical wind billowed out of thin air, and Hilton's figure was quickly shrouded by a cluster of twisting black vines. In the next second, he reached the southern walls of Maple through the network of vines set up all over the city.
He saw a great cloud of dust rising from the southern plains. Many oddly shaped metal vehicles were rolling over the scorched earth towards him. The God Bastards that patrolled the plains were incessantly destroyed by explosions and flashes, and the explosions and flashes that were clearly magical effects were launched by those metal vehicles.
As described in the previous report, those were the Cecil Army from the south.
The guards of Maple City moved at once. Countless towering Divine Abominations walked up the city walls and held up the line of defense. The runic bricks on the walls of Maple City glowed brightly as a blurry magical barrier began to form in the air. As one of the most important cities in the middle of the Holy Spirit Flatlands, Maple also had a city-level shield system. However, it was not a heavy fortress like Firmrock Fortress, and its shield could not be activated for long periods of time. It would only be activated temporarily when the city was under threat.
Hilton watched as the mana in the air gradually condensed into a barrier. But before the barrier completely closed, he suddenly saw a flash of light in the distant dust.
A strange-looking object wrapped in a pale-green magical airflow cut through the air and flew straight towards him. It passed through the Maple Barrier that had yet to close and fell straight towards the city walls.
A giant of divine sin, transformed from an Eastern Extraordinaire, stretched out his hand and curiously caught the flying object. The force of the object was so great that the commander-level giant almost flew out on the spot. The giant stumbled back and stepped on the wall, creating a series of terrible pits before he could stand firm. Then, he curiously held the obelisk-like metal lump in front of him and asked, "What is this? Apart from this layer of air, there doesn't seem to be any magical anti-— "
"Idiot!!" Hilton bellowed in rage after being stunned. Under normal circumstances, catching a weapon thrown by the enemy with one's bare hands was a symbol of great strength and skill. But was the object thrown by Cecil's people something that could be caught so easily?
The Everything-End-All Society already had experience: when fighting against Cecil's people, no matter what they throw at you, even if it's a pumpkin pie, you must never catch it!
Almost everything they throw at you will explode!
But before he could say anything, the 'metal obelisk' in the giant's hand had already exploded.
The mechanical device had activated the preset runic mechanism. Now, it had a magical reaction.
The massive flash of the explosion completely engulfed the reckless giant commander. Countless shattered crystals and metal splattered in all directions. Hilton raised his shield at once, blocking the shards that could have hurt him. When the explosion dissipated, he only saw a broken leg where the giant once stood.
The next moment, the city shield of Maple City finally closed.
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