Sword of Dawn

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"When did the Iron River Knights leave?" She immediately looked at the mage who came to report the news, and spoke quickly, "Why didn't you find out immediately?!"

As the highest-ranking commander in the border area, it is unacceptable for Andersa that there is an imperial knights suddenly out of control and acting without control under her nose—even if the Iron River Knights are not directly under her troops, but directly The "special army" loyal to the royal family, but now she is in charge of the defense line of Winter Wolf Castle!

"I'm not sure, I've been away for at least an hour..." The mage's face was extremely embarrassing, "Earl Moglock cut off the magic communication around the garrison, and some soldiers who were active near the Iron River Knights garrison were also captured by some kind of magical illusion prepared in advance. If it wasn’t for a small number of soldiers who seemed to be abandoned in the Knights’ garrison and ran to the nearest outpost on foot to warn, I’m afraid the news wouldn’t come out…”

"This is a premeditated crazy move..." Andersa felt a chill in her heart, and at the same time, the thoughts in her mind were already running like lightning, and then she suddenly looked at her adjutant, "The Winter Wolf Knights immediately assembled outside the west gate, The battle griffin and the regiment's mage troops are on standby. Send a message to Aldernan, the highest emergency level, the content is 'The Iron River Knights are out of control and have gone to attack Cecil's defense line, there is a high risk of war'. The entire line of Winter Wolf Castle has entered First-level combat readiness, all troops are on standby—inform the Earl of Winterhold to let the Black Banner Mage Group move to the defense line of Winterwolf Castle."

The adjutant listened to the order without saying a word, and immediately returned the order with a military salute: "Yes, general!!"

Above the towering magic communication tower of Winter Wolf Castle, the huge floating ring assembled by crystal and guiding metal began to rotate slowly. Powerful magic power surged above the tower, and emergency communications passed through the amplifying array and the ring. The shape antenna is sent far away, and Aldernan will soon receive the information of the great changes on the border. Before that, the entire northwest defense line of the empire will enter the confrontation state first, so as to be ready to face at any time... an unexpected event war outside.

And on the plains to the west of Winter Wolf Castle, an elite force with extremely strong maneuverability and combat effectiveness has already assembled.

Wearing armor and holding a long sword, Andersa glanced back at the majestic walls of Winter Wolf Fortress—this fortress stood quietly in the dim light of the early morning, and the cold wind from the north beat its mottled and thick walls. On the city wall, a large number of soldiers and battle mages are busy arranging defenses. The magic crystal has been activated, and the enchanted armor plate and shield booster array are shimmering in her sight. The sight of coming.

Andersa had imagined what Winterwolf would look like after the war broke out, but she never imagined it would happen in this form.

The sound of flapping wings sounded from the sky, and a large number of battle griffins flew from the south of the city, and began to circle and dance over the knights. The city gates opened on both sides, and one after another, black-painted magical vehicles drove out in a row. Drive to the dark plains ahead.

Those magic cars are filled with battle mages—the powerful offensive ability of mages and the high mobility and high protection brought by magic cars can complement each other. Crystals and magic circles, and these were originally things that could only be used in fixed positions such as city walls and bunkers. Now the emergence of new technologies makes it possible for these things to move with the army, and all of this makes the traditional mage troops It has been greatly improved in combat effectiveness.

After the battle mage troops have high-speed mobility and stronger protection capabilities, the Typhon army also has more new tactics, such as using a mechanized mage troop as the vanguard to conduct rapid investigation and position destruction. On the other hand, the Knights as the vanguard followed behind the mage, using a longer period of power storage and a more stable charging environment to launch more destructive "heat energy cones"-these are so bold that they completely violate tradition and even common sense. Tactics have been proven to have surprising effects in several simulation exercises.

Andersa shook her head, shaking all the distracting thoughts out of her mind, then raised her long sword and pointed it forward.

The whole army marches forward.

The cold wind began to howl in the early morning of winter. Even if the high-ranking knights were not afraid of the cold, Andersa seemed to feel that the winter chill was soaking into her body little by little. She thought about what she had done in the emergency. The arrangement and the plan for several situations are constantly looking for fatal loopholes or places that cannot be considered. At the same time, she is also thinking about the possibility of redemption in the current situation.

The Knights of the Iron River are going to start a war, which is already in sight, and if that powerful legion really succeeds in crossing the line and attacking the Cecilian fortress, then their goal will definitely be achieved ——Andersa is well aware of the strength of the Iron River Knights. Even if they go deep alone, even if they have to face the magic cannons and steel walls of the Cecilians, Moglock and his knights can still guarantee that The Cecilian line of defense caused enormous damage, but what happened after that?

The Cecilians will quickly realize that no matter how powerful the Knights of the Iron River are, they cannot be the opponent of the entire Changfeng defense system - it is likely that only one battle known as the "Iron Throne" is needed The fortress can completely destroy the helpless Knights.

Many people will die on both sides, and the current peace situation between the two empires has lasted too short to cultivate a stable "friendly relationship". The hawks of the two countries still have great influence. Will not pass up this opportunity.

Now, the only chance to stop this is to stop the out-of-control Iron River Knights, even if they have crossed the military demarcation line, or even reached the foot of the Cecilian wall, it doesn't matter, as long as the two sides do not officially exchange fire, this matter It's still on the negotiating table - the only key is how to stop Earl Moglock and his knights.

In fact, Andersa still can't believe that the head of the Knights who still had a cordial conversation with her during the day has fallen into an out-of-control madness like the God of War priests. However, at this moment, she must make some judgments that discard her personal feelings: If they catch up to the Iron River Knights, then... it may be unrealistic to stop them with words.

Crazy people are the hardest to stop - because they don't know the price.

So instead of sending out a quick squad of messengers, she brought an entire elite order of knights herself.

Andersa tightly clenched the hilt of the saber in her hand. In the cold winter wind, her eyes fell on the direction of Kamanda intersection that was gradually being illuminated by the dawn light.

She showed an inexplicable wry smile—the last time she marched in this direction was to start a war.

……

The huge magic power from the direction of the eastern plain instantly triggered the alarm of the border detection system, and the shrill bell rang through the No. 22 border camp in the early hours of the morning. Waking up in an instant, the commanders and soldiers stationed in the camp were even a little dazed about what was about to happen.

"Super-scale magic power fluctuations have been detected!" The soldier in charge of the monitoring system shouted loudly, his eyes widened, staring at the data sent back by the magic power monitoring device, "coming from the southeast direction... is approaching rapidly!"

An observer quickly left the monitoring room and rushed to a high platform near the wall. In the gradually brightening sky at dawn, he turned on the composite filter of the lookout device and put his eyes on the lens polished by artificial crystal.

A distorted, scorching, and large-scale energy cloud has formed in the distance, and it is "flying" towards the camp close to the ground, and under the energy cloud, a large and faintly flickering cloud can be seen. The shield and the flag gun just exposed the tip - the black flag with red stripes undulates on the edge of the horizon, like a strange fish jumping on the water.

"Visual thermal energy cone!" The observer shouted loudly, "The cone has been formed!

"Observed the enemy's logo... Typhon people! It's Typhon's Iron River Knights!!"

The commander stationed at the camp was stunned after hearing this information.

Typhon?Sudden attack?at this time?

Are those Typhons crazy?Is there even a shred of logic behind this matter? !

A subordinate shouted from the side: "Sir! Please order!"

The commander quickly looked up at the distance, and then gave an order without hesitation: "Overload the shield - No. [-] to No. [-] turrets charge and aim, everyone goes up to the fence, and the enemy shoots directly after entering the firing identification zone. You, go and inform Changfeng Fortress, the Typhons are at war!!"

"Yes, sir!"

The soldiers moved quickly, and the commander of the camp squeezed his fist hard. When he looked to the southeast again, the veteran who had experienced the battle of the Rock Fortress and the divine disaster on the Holy Spirit Plain had only a resolute look on his face.

The thermal energy cone has been formed, and the Typhonian knights have begun to charge. At this time, it is impossible to do any communication, confirmation and reporting work. He and the soldiers are responsible.

There is a weirdness behind this incident, the commander has indeed noticed this, the actions of the Typhon people are completely illogical, it is completely stupid to let an ace knights attack the defense line like suicide without the cooperation of mages Behavior, even if the ace knights can tear open the camp, what will happen next?Can they still penetrate the entire long wind line of defense?

But at this moment, no one can explain this strangeness—the enemy has come.

Surging energy surged between the crystal and the metal. The fixed magic cannon adjusted its angle through the precise rotation of the gears and bearings. The muzzle was high, pointing at the charging knights in the distance. After a very short delay , the explosion sound of the cannonball accelerating and rushing out of the guide rail suddenly exploded, and the light blue light stream completely tore through the last bit of darkness of this winter dawn.

The magic crystal cannonball surrounded by the light blue air mass roared in the air, drawing a long arc, and in the direction where the cannonball fell, the Knights rode their horses and charged on the plain, and the turbulent magic power filled the queue, making the whole The array presents a strange state that seems to be real and illusory - the whistling sound from the air did not deceive the ears of this extraordinary army, but during the entire charge, not a single knight looked up distractedly.

In this way, the shells fell impartially into the attack array of the Knights of the Iron River, and then, deafening explosions exploded on the plain.

Boom boom boom!

The huge explosion cloud was engulfed by the shock wave and rose, and dense ripples suddenly surged on the surface of the shield covering the Knights, and some areas of the shield surface began to be stained with white noise like interference patterns——by manpower After all, the propped up shield couldn't be compared with the shield of the castle fortress. Even if it could resist the power of "Skyfire" for a short time, it obviously couldn't last for a long time.

And how much "Skyfire" does the Cecilian have?

Just ten seconds later, the sharp whistling sound that approached rapidly from high altitude again gave the answer.

Explosions began to ring out one after another, and as the distance shortened, the camp's small artillery also began to fire. Large and small shock waves and explosion clouds raged over the joint shield of the Knights in turn, relying on the shield supported by a large number of extraordinary people. Finally, gaps and extreme overloads began to appear—at the edge of the battle formation, knights began to fall off their horses one after another due to magic backlash or shock injuries.

But they still charged forward silently, as if they were unaware of the pain that happened to their bodies.

The thermal energy cone began to descend and gradually synchronized with the spears of the formed knights. The camp commander watched this scene happen, and he knew that the first wave of impact would definitely not be stopped.

"Get ready for the shock—"

In the next second, the camp's shield collided violently with the massive confining plasma.

A tooth-piercing scream filled the shield, dense and bright sparks burst out from the shield generators and magic power capacitors all over the wall, and large swathes of white noise appeared on the front of the camp shield , and in the eyes of the camp commander, those Typhon knights had already started to change formations before the thermal energy cone arrived. While letting the high-energy cloud group hit the shield by itself, they dispersed into more than ten waves of echelons, Start besieging shield nodes everywhere.

Cecil's soldiers on the city wall began to fight back with ray guns, lightning generators and various individual weapons, but the camp commander knew that this place could not be defended.

Just as the energy barrier propped up by the Typhon Knights is no match for the castle shield, this mere frontier camp... is not Changfeng Fortress after all.

The humming sound before the shield disintegrated reached his ears.

"How long until the Iron Throne arrives?"

"Sir, the Monty Serpent has arrived from Border Station No. 17!"

"Everyone—light up the blade!" The commander gritted his teeth, reached out and pulled out the melting sword from his waist, "For our country!"

Chapter 0976 Deflagration Point

Fire, gunpowder smoke, the smell of blood, the air was burned and disintegrated by arcane energy, and rock and steel fell apart.

Frontier Camp 22 has been razed to the ground.

Silent sculptures of knights in black armor stood amidst the devastated ruins. Corpses from both sides of the war lay criss-crossed on the battlefield. The breath is sent far away.

Among the black-armored knights who could still stand, some people's armor was torn, revealing the same tattered body below—flesh and blood torn by scorching blades or rays trembled in the cold wind, and abnormal growths squirmed out from the edges. The granulation and the viscous and strange growth matter should be a sight that would frighten ordinary humans, but the knights seemed to be ignorant of this, and just waited silently for orders.

The leader of the Knights, Earl Moglock, stood on a stone at the edge of the battlefield, silently looking at the results he had just achieved—in his muddy and restless mind with fragmented memories, he vaguely felt that he seemed to have done something. A very terrible thing, but soon the thought was replaced by more feverish thoughts.

He began to contemplate the next battle plan, and began to think about how to expand the results at hand. Apart from this, he was also a little surprised—surprised by the unexpected casualties caused by this camp to the Knights of the Iron River.He never thought that the extremely powerful Iron River Knights would cause nearly a quarter of the battle damage just to capture a border stronghold. The enemy... is just a group of ordinary people.

This stronghold even has only one wall.

This caused some strange feelings to appear in Earl Moglock's heart—even when his mind was constantly roaring, and various indescribable roars and whispers were constantly pouring out, he also tasted some kind of feeling from that feeling. ……alert.He also seemed to know where the vigilance came from, it came from the human part of his "loyalty to Typhon": he saw the threat from those ordinary people with strong fighting power, the threat to his own motherland.

However, soon, even this sober thought disappeared, and some kind of irritability from the depths of his soul was agitating him. He felt that he still had a mission to fulfill, and that he had a higher priority of loyalty than the motherland and the monarch. This goal of allegiance requires him to do something bigger...

Or, lead your team into a more sublime destruction.

Earl Moglock raised his head, and he saw the Paramel Heights appearing in his sight. He knew that there was an astronomical facility that was very important to the Cecilians on that highland, and the information showed that the facility had just been completed. Although there is an army stationed nearby, it should not be able to withstand the remaining combat power of the Iron River Knights, and inside the facility... it seems that there are only a group of weak researchers, and two or three old mages who are strong but already old ...

That should be enough to further irritate the Cecilians—and, apparently, attacking an academic facility is far less difficult than attacking Longwind Keep.

He raised his hand, and the knights who were resting nearby and still had plenty of combat power immediately stood up as if they had received telepathy and gathered around him.

After a simple rectification, the knights of the Iron River Knights reorganized their team and left the No. 22 border camp that had lost its value.They came to a gentle slope, and here Lord Moglock cleared his throat (he always wanted to clear his throat, because he felt that there was always something moving in his throat), and wanted to issue the next attack. Order.

However, at this moment, a strange, tooth-piercing buzz suddenly came from nowhere, attracting the attention of the Typhon nobleman.

He didn't even raise his head, he relied on experience and the nerve reflex in his bones to complete the judgment - it was the magic weapon of the Cecils attacking, and the Knights hadn't finished accumulating energy yet, and the soldiers lacked the joint shield They could not resist the weapons of the Cecils - after this moment of judgment, he immediately ordered everyone to disperse and lie down, preparing to avoid the continuous shelling that followed.

However, just as the knights had time to move their bodies, a dazzling white light beam containing terrifying magic power swept across the sky, sweeping from a very far away, everything the light beam passed was wiped out, rocks and steel exploded or melted instantly , and the fragile flesh and blood gasified on the spot, and the entire knight group was submerged in the deadly white light like a sand castle swept by huge waves. Zhong also howled terribly.

In Earl Moglock's rapidly dissipating chaotic consciousness, he had no memory, no thought, and no time to sigh.

The speed of the rainbow light rays is obviously not comparable to that of ordinary shells—even well-trained knights cannot escape the torrent of energy that looks like death staring.

A few kilometers away, an armored train covered with heavy steel is cruising at a low speed. Above the arsenal compartment at the rear of the train, the rainbow cannon with a streamlined shell and a large focusing crystal is cooling down little by little. The covering structure at the rear of the compartment plays a role in the mechanism It raised up to the sides, revealing the dark red heat conduction grid inside. With the hissing sound of air pressure, a large amount of steam spewed out in all directions.

The technology of the rainbow light cannon has been improving. Even the most difficult problem of heat dissipation, a breakthrough was made after the technicians found a cooling duct from the Gondor era and solved the mystery. Although there are still problems such as heat dissipation structure volume There are various problems such as large size and additional cooling time after continuous shooting, but at least now these powerful energy turrets can finally be installed on land vehicles such as armored trains.

In the tactical section in the center of the train, Maryland was standing in front of the podium, watching the hillside position after the rainbow ray was shot through the screen from the external monitor.

It's like hell there now, but it doesn't mean that all the enemies have been wiped out. The Knights of the Iron River are a powerful army, and those cunning Typhons should not let such an elite army come alone like this Shocking the entire line of defense - this is almost letting one's trump card die, and without sufficient support, a knight order fighting alone will even lose half its combat effectiveness.

Therefore, there must be a larger-scale action behind this attack. Although we don't know what conspiracy the Typhon people are planning, but to be on the safe side, it's best to shoot in that direction a few more times.

By the way, use secondary guns to make a base number for possible hiding and ambush areas around the target point.

General Maryland was a cautious man.

The main and secondary guns of the Iron Throne Python began to fire freely. The deafening roar slightly penetrated the barrier of the carriage and reverberated in the command center. Amidst these familiar roars, Maryland frowned. Wrinkled tightly.

He couldn't figure out why the Typhons wanted to go to war.

But it doesn't matter if you don't understand—the situation here has been urgently communicated to the imperial capital, and the army in Changfeng Fortress has completed preparations and assembly according to the plan. A large number of troops of the Legion were ready for a violent counterattack.Cecil's warriors never let up, all prepared for the war, now the war just came inexplicably and suddenly, but now that those Typhons are here...don't go.

Next, it might be the turn of Winter Wolf Castle to shed some blood.

……

The Knights of the Winter Wolf stopped after crossing the boundary line of the Fort of the Treaty, while the faster Griffin scouts and several mechanized mage squads continued to advance west.

It was Andersa's plan - she had to prepare for the worst.

If the vanguard can catch up with the Knights of the Iron River, they can come forward to delay, harass, and delay those out-of-control knights, and the Winter Wolf Knights in the rear can take advantage of this opportunity to recharge their energy and launch attacks on those out-of-control knights ——This is the only way she can think of to stop those out-of-control knights after seeing those mutated God of War priests.Although regular knights cannot use legion attacks of the level of "heat cones", Andersa is still fully confident that he can intercept Earl Moglock and his knights under the premise of numerical superiority and tactical cooperation. .

But if the vanguard fails to catch up with the target, if the target succeeds in carrying out their dire plan...

Then the Knights of the Winter Wolf will have more time and space to quickly withdraw to the territory of Typhon, fill the defense line of the Winter Wolf Castle, and get ready.

Be prepared for the wrath of the Cecilians to fight back.

Of course, even now, Andersa still has a little bit of hope in her heart—she hopes that Earl Moglock is not as irreparable as those mutated God of War priests, and that the soldiers of the Iron River Knights can still be relatives. She intercepted it with gentle means, because she never wanted to point her sword at the Typhons unless it was absolutely necessary...

A bright magic light bullet suddenly rose in the distance, interrupting all of Andesa's thoughts.

Three reds.

The young wolf general looked uglier than ever as he watched the magic light bullet lift into the air.

This matter is no longer something that can be resolved at the negotiating table.

In the next one-hundredth of a second, Andersa threw away all the thoughts that were destined to be impossible to realize in her mind, accepted the cold fact, turned around and raised her long sword——

"Return to Winter Wolf Castle!"

……

The urgent report from the border was transmitted through the magic network nodes in various places, and it crossed thousands of rivers and mountains in an instant. When the terrifying torrent of the rainbow light cannon swept across the land, a special magic network terminal in the highest government affairs hall had already rang buzzing.

As the passive side, the capital of the Cecil Empire received the news even faster than the Typhons who "actively started the war".

The clerk in charge of this magic net terminal was a young girl. She quickly ran to the desk, connected the device, and became stunned in the next few seconds.

The girl who had just been transferred to this office for less than a week didn't seem to have realized what she heard, but the next moment, Hetty, who happened to be passing by the corridor next to her, had already opened the door and came in.

"What's going on?" Hetty looked at the young clerk standing blankly beside the magic net terminal, "Why do you look dull?"

"Grand Consul Hetty..." The young clerk blinked, and she finally realized, "The Changfeng defense line has been attacked! The Typhons are at war!!"

Hetty's eyes widened instantly: "What did you say?!"

In the next second, she quickly ordered with a serious face: "Immediately summon Typhon's resident ambassador—and besides, prepare for meeting room No. [-]!"

Cecil City's government agencies are like a magic engine that suddenly entered overload mode, and it started to operate in the blink of an eye.

In the shortest possible time, an emergency meeting was organized. Half of the people involved in the meeting were not present, but the magic web communication allowed all the participants to sit together face to face.

Hetty had already explained the situation quickly, and the explosive news caused even the ice-cold Duchess Victoria to show a look of astonishment.

"Is the line between us and Typhon still open?" Duke Baldwin, who was connected through the magic net, said anxiously first, "What did their ambassador say?"

"The Typhons didn't cut off the line. I have already sent an urgent message to Aldernan—but due to delays in forwarding and manual transcription, I haven't received a reply from Aldernan yet," Hetty also said quickly Said, "As for their ambassador to the imperial capital - I summoned him urgently just now, but he seems to be ignorant of this matter, and he was more surprised than me when he heard the news."