Blue Sword

"Why hasn't there been any progress in the situation?" Emperor Otto asked coldly.

The Dukes looked at each other.

"The city of Verona has recently shipped a batch of Toronus heavy-duty smoothbore mortars." The Duke of Bavaria said, "Due to the collapse of many trenches, our offensive posture has also been curbed to a certain extent."

"Then don't go through the trench! If it collapses, won't you go around it?" The emperor waved his hand impatiently.

"If you don't go through the trenches and just cross the open area, wouldn't that make you a target for mortars?" The Duke of Franconia sneered, "How about this, send His Majesty's two giant dragons out, one dragon and one breath, first The mortar positions will be destroyed, and then we will attack across the board."

"Their mortar camp is set up too close to the city. The conspiracy in this is self-evident, Conrad." The Duke of Bavaria said, "At that time, the defenders only need to expand the anti-magic magnetic field and pull it out from the city. The arrival of anti-aircraft guns can threaten the safety of the dragon. After all, no one knows what the layout of the city is now."

"Then if the city is full of nuclear bombs, we won't attack Verona?" the Duke of Franconia said sarcastically.

"The nuclear bomb production line will not recover so quickly." Duke Rudolf of the Wolf family said.

"But every time it is delayed by one day, the Holy See will have more powerful weapons shipped off the production line!" The emperor hit the desk in front of him angrily, "Our advantage is being lost! We must speed up the siege!"

The Dukes said nothing.

Of course, in the face of the Templars' artillery fire blocking the door, everyone is not really helpless. All the major families can do is put together a team of demigods to charge the battle.

Powered armor can't withstand the bombardment of artillery fire, so demigods don't have these worries. As long as you take action quickly enough, use some spiritual loss to open up the field, and destroy the mortar position in an instant.

However, what the Duke of Franconia said is what everyone is really worried about - no one knows what the situation is in the city.

For example, what if the city is densely packed with mortars?

When the time comes, we will launch a saturation-style all-out bombardment against the demigods who have just captured the mortar positions outside the city...

It is true that the demigod's domain is almost equivalent to a small world, and mortars will probably not be able to break through this layer of defense.

However, demigods cannot open the field endlessly. Now the upper limit of the level is Lv.15. The demigod will die after a few seconds of opening the field. And with the industrial strength of the Holy See, it is difficult to say how many weapons will be ambushed in the city. .

Therefore, no matter whether there are targeted traps in the city, no one wants their family's demigods to go to the battlefield... If they really do, why don't you, Emperor, send your own family's demigods to the battlefield?

As if he had seen through the resistance of the dukes, Hedwig, the acid dragon present, stood up and said:

"How about this."

"Please convince your knights that we will continue our attack for two more days."

"If we don't leave the city of Verona within two days, please ask a demigod from each family, and I and the Dragon of Utopia will lead the charge."

The Dukes couldn't refute His Excellency the Acid Dragon's words. Since the royal Saxon family takes the lead in sending out two demigods, and each major family only needs to send one to the battlefield, it would be really cowardly to push back and forth.

"So be it." Emperor Otto waved his hands impatiently and drove the Dukes out.

As a result, the siege battle suddenly became fierce the next day. Groups of soldiers, led by power armor knights, rushed forward in groups along the trenches.

The emperor's camp also brought in light mortars, which fired at the Templar artillery array across the trenches. For a moment, artillery fire was interlaced in the sky above the position, and bullets rained down below, as if a huge meat grinder was rumbling into action.

"Chief Aske!" The Cangqing Sword mercenary group was also in today's siege sequence, and they heard a familiar voice coming from behind.

Everyone turned around and saw that they were actually the swordsmen of the Richard Turner Swordsmen Corps.

"Ah, you are here too." Asik looked at Nuremberg and Hans, "Where is the old man?"

Nuremberg and Hans:…………

After many days, they heard the title of "old man" again, and their expressions were quite complicated.

"The teacher is resting in the back now." Nuremberg replied, "The situation on the defenders' side is unclear. It's better for us to find out the situation first."

"Speaking of which, Chief, you are already Level 10!" Hans said in shock.

The swordsmen behind him rushed forward one after another, slapping Asker's ass in an attempt to look familiar in front of the chief.

"Okay, okay." Ask asked everyone to be quiet, "In that case, everyone can follow me into the battle."

"Following the chief into battle, that's definitely no problem!" the swordsmen boasted.

"We just arrived this morning, so what is the current situation on the battlefield on the opposite side?" Nuremberg was not as blindly optimistic as the swordsmen, and just asked Asker seriously about the enemy's situation.

"Oh, the Templars moved a 160mm Toronus heavy smoothbore mortar to block the door." Asker said, "Our mission is to pass through the range of artillery fire and attack their mortar position."

Swordsmen:………………

Wait! Chief, we all understand what you said before and after you. What does the sentence in the middle mean? Through the range of artillery fire?

Ask pulled out the dragon bone sword, drew a crude battlefield map on the ground, and continued to explain to the swordsmen:

"The opponent's heavy mortar is located here, about 800 meters away from the trench exit. The depth of the entire trench area is 17 kilometers, and the entrance is here."

"Yeah." The swordsmen nodded.

"The effective range of Toronus is about 10 kilometers. If extended-range bombs are used, the maximum range is 15 kilometers. Moreover, they have to give priority to suppressing the empire's mobile mortar positions, so you don't need to be afraid. At least we are before entering the trenches. safe."

"The entrance to the trench is located in the north of the battlefield, backed by the foothills of the Alps. The height of the terrain decreases from north to south, making it highly concealed. In addition, there are a large number of covering objects on the top of the trench, so even if you enter the range of Toronus, you don't need to worry about it. Being monitored and sniped by the artillery position on the opposite side. Just don’t be too unlucky and get hit by randomly falling artillery shells.”

"Understood." The swordsmen said in unison.

"If you are really unlucky and a cannonball falls from above your head, you can just blast it before it explodes." Sidrifa added.

"I see." The swordsmen couldn't help but nod, and then they realized that the person who just spoke was not the chief, but the Northland girl in the chief's team.

"Shut up!" Asik hit her on the head, "Did you explode it in advance? You were just lucky enough to freeze the fuse and firing pin inside the shell! Why did you forget to fold your arm? "

Swordsmen:………………

"This guy is a negative example. Don't imitate her." Ask turned around and said to the swordsmen with dull expressions.

God exploded the cannonball in advance! We can’t learn even if we want to! The swordsmen complained silently in their hearts.