Out of the cage

In the northern sky of the empire, an airship with the Iron Star symbol floated quietly in the sky.

This 300-meter-long airship is in the "stealth" state, and it looks like a white cloud from the outside. (Enma's "Camouflage" skill)

On the command platform, Enma was watching the deployment of the imperial army, holding a bowl of noodles with fried sauce in his hand. The chopsticks were stirring in the noodles. After the noodles were stuck to the noodles, Enma sucked them in.

After eating a bowl of noodles, Enma paused, and his fingertips radiated a "softening technique". The original ceramic properties changed, the hardness became softer, and the toughness became stronger, just like rubber, and the bottom of the entire bowl was turned out. up.

Enma licked off the peanut butter on the original chassis, wiped it with a napkin, turned it back, and sent it to the dishwasher beside it, oh, maybe it doesn't need to be washed anymore.

The contemporary hero is an "arcane boiler", which is fueled by the morale of the national spirit and driven by the "concept".

The super-large combat vehicle is the most powerful war unit, and it is also a spiritual totem (similar to the concept of the Yamato). On this vehicle, every driver can drive some Phenomena such as "material changes" and "supernatural repairs" that are unimaginable to the outside world.

Enma, as a hero unit, now uses the "conceptual power" on his body at will, allowing his body to undergo special strengthening.

Note: The last time he was in the Arcane world, Wei Keng had completed the "human immortal" system. At that time, that system could beat the dragon's ass, but now the times have changed. For hero units, this "system" is Just like the vision of Cambrian creatures, it is standard compared to Quaternary animals.

In the current fiery transformation, the "information" obtained by Enma from the industrial field every second is transformed into self-life force, which can be worth decades of hard work in the "meditation system". In "modern temples" like the Land Cruiser, it is basically normal for heroes to break rocks and penetrate steel plates with their bare hands.

Of course, if you wantonly destroy the land cruiser where you are, the recovery of the above-mentioned abilities of the heroes will be weakened. This is like, people can break their own fingers, but no one will go crazy.

When a hero unit explodes after a large airship falls from a height of several thousand meters, it is still able to "torn clothes, but the body is fine". In the past, the rebel army bombed the large cruiser of the Imperial Army several times, and there were still people surviving inside, and this was also the reason.

…After people occupy scarce resources, they always like to specialize themselves. …

Rich people in modern times would forget about it, hiding all kinds of cars in garages, beauties stepping on their feet and so on.

Under the imperial system in this world, hero units will be even more so. But at this time, during the great changes, the hero units that are growing will also be gradually affected when they come into contact with the "hero" culture.

During the Great Uprising in Swan City a year ago, among the two leaders, Ludis in the south of the empire, there has been no news for a long time.

Enma is still uncouth now, and there will be such funny operations as "turning the bottom of the bowl to lick the sauce" in daily life. Of course, Enma's "irregularity" is limited to daily life.

On the airship, Enma, wearing a boiler suit, stood on the map and whispered: "War is a struggle of life and death, and you must have a correct attitude. Correctness is the way of life."

...The angle of view came to the other side, another "chess player"...

In the imperial palace of the imperial capital, when the noble staff spread out the huge parchment map, the regent gazed at the magnificent mountains and rivers in the northern part of the empire.

On his map, there are no large red areas, just like there are no large "hungry areas" in the empire's governance area. The most basic way to whitewash peace is to turn "bad omens" into insignificance. And insignificant threats will not appear on the top-level general map. (So, don’t blame Jiang Gong for not being able to show off his operations, because the map he saw has a lot of room for manipulation.)

On the map of the Regent, with the Anglos landing, the main force of the Iron Star Rebel Army has been locked in a cage.

The Northern Rebellion of the Empire is about to be crushed.

Of course, these are no longer the focus of the regent's worries.

The regent watched with squinting eyes as Minlar's troops suddenly went northward regardless of the command. Of course, after learning that General Henry hurried northward alone, he nodded slightly.

...

Fifty years later, those two generations of Anglo-immigrant war historians who tended to be imperialists sighed at the fact that "Henry" went north alone, because if he wanted to go north with five units and gather them into a large force, it would be impossible. It will not cause a series of chain reactions to follow.

Of course, these are from the perspective of mortals. From the perspective of gods, one can know the complicated and bloated politics of the empire, making it impossible for Henry to lead his troops northward.

Henry went north without troops, which was the attitude of persuading Minlar.

If Henry brought a little bit of troops, it would be the attitude of joining forces with Minlar and fighting against the empire.

Henry would not make the regent suspicious, and did something that was a perfect score in politics but a fatal loophole in military affairs.

Of course, even if Henry led his troops northward, it would not be able to save the empire from being bloated in this war.

Because, Enma can completely adjust the deployment to fight the "Henry leaving" unit.

All in all, Enma's combat power is very subjective and active. As long as there are mistakes in the division of troops, the rigid combat force of the empire will be killed.

Such a "hopeless" empire, the gods are just watching from the sidelines.

…beneath clusters of flowers are rotting roots…

The regent knocked his hands and made a decision, while the attendants put away the parchment scroll map.

"During the period when Henry will be in charge of Minlar, in order to avoid long nights and dreams, the imperial capital first escorted Her Royal Highness Princess Xuelisi to the northern port."

When the regent made such a decision, a knight attendant at the court couldn't help raising doubts: "Now that the rebellious army in the north is still there, would it be a little unexpected for Her Royal Highness to leave at this time?"

The regent saw this knight attendant, and in his mind he had already labeled him as a faction that "opposes peace".

Narrator: Man, once he is either yes or no on an issue in politics, no matter how clever he was before, he begins to ignore a lot of fatal loopholes.

The Regent still gave a public response: "The imperial army has won a major victory near Swan City, and the rebels of the straw and mudbloods in the north have melted under the blow of the main force of the empire. Only some people in the south (urban faction) Party members) maintain a pessimistic view of the situation in the empire, but I believe that in the face of "iron fact", any sophistry is meaningless.

In addition, I can reveal a secret that Shirley (Her Royal Highness) will be equipped with three airships, three "Knight Chariots", and three "Energy Destroyers" to escort them to the Norwegian ice port in the north. "

In the eyes of the regent, such an imperial army guard is completely impossible to have accidents.

In the eyes of the regent, it would be a big surprise if Minlar won a complete victory in annihilating the rebels and then proposed to the princess while the princess was still in the country!

…For the flower growers in the imperial palace, as long as there are flowers, there is no need to think about the root system. …

So, on September 7th, when Enma licked the fried noodles and directed the various troops to quickly arrive at the front assembly point, it was confirmed that there was also a fighting force on the imperial capital and left towards the other way. .

At first, Enma thought that the strategic determination of the imperial capital was "first north and then south", but intelligence along the way showed that the multi-party forces of the empire did not use the Minlar Group to implement the "central flowering tactic".

The "weird" dispersion of the imperial army allowed Enma to confirm that this created an opportunity for Iron Star to annihilate.

Master Wei: "I brewed a barrel of wine, just enough to intoxicate a table. Now that half of the table has come, it's easier. The remaining half of the table has come, just knock it out with a stick."

...The battle of annihilation prepared by Iron Star, waiting for the best opponent...

Following Enma's order, the main force of the entire Northern Iron Star Army began to gather.

Iron Star dispatched three 1,000-ton "Mountain Giant Class" ships in this battle.

The "Mountain Giant Class" is 60 meters long and 30 meters high. Armed chariots that look like a small building are beginning to gather southward under the cover of night.

These "mountain giants" gathered to the north have seemingly thick armor, but they use key protection. There are a large number of partition structures on the outer shell. In these partition structures, the steam power of the boiler can control the filling of the water layer to the On the defensive side. As for the internal power stove, it is heavily protected by coal seams and water tanks.

The main attack weapon of the "Mountain Giant" is a dual-mounted 280mm main gun.

The siege warheads it carries can break open fortifications. Of course, the main purpose of Enma's establishment of this large unit is to provide logistics, and there is a welding maintenance system inside the huge car body.

The huge "hatch" at the tail of the mountain giant can swallow the "heavy knight" level land cruiser unit, and repair this residual blood unit whose material structure and conceptual structure were severely damaged in the shelling.

At the same time, a mechanical arm can be extended from the rear of the turret to provide a series of guarantees such as turret replacement, engine replacement, and track replacement for those "lightly armored units of more than 40 tons" on the field outside the "Giant" body.

Iron Star's heavy armor corps rushed directly to the Minlar Group.

Iron Star mobilized a total of three mountain giants, four airships, fifteen magic destroyers, fourteen heavy missile tanks (female, nine, male, five), and twenty-seven heavy infantry tanks.

Thousands of tons of armored vehicles crossed the river along the way, blocking the flow of the river. These rivers, which were originally 40 to 50 meters wide, were temporarily blocked by armored troops like steel dragons. The river was cut off by this "steel dam", and the water surface overflowed. The embankment was opened, and the width of the river temporarily expanded to 100 meters. The overflowing water flooded the forest along the way and filled the surrounding ponds with water.

For a long time, Enma has been accumulating troops, because Enma knows exactly his hero skills, and the larger the size of the army, the stronger the effect of skill assistance.

...On the northern land of the empire, the metal mountains are advancing like mudslides...

On September 8, the Minlar Group, due to the lack of strategic reconnaissance forces, did not know at this time that a large-scale enemy had appeared near the 60 kilometers on the left and right sides of the Imperial Army.

The industrialization of the empire was concentrated in the big cities, and the big cities carefully crafted steel structures, and the various construction factories were like incubation pools, using geometrically constructed steel and solutions to build giant units.

But this kind of industrialization is too arrogant and lacks the ability to survive in marginal areas, so that during the war, the light infantry platoons originally used by the empire to gain battlefield awareness, and the battalion-level steam trucks were used by the iron star's agricultural army. After being suppressed, they can only rely on the observation of the airship. However, the airship dare not fly away from the city under the constant monitoring of Iron Star's pesticide planes, otherwise the airbags will be blown out by the "strong wind".

The ground camouflage on Iron Star’s side is very good. During the three aerial observations during Minlar’s ​​pursuit, the main force of Iron Star was not found. Minlar’s ​​airship has a blurry view of Iron Star’s ground troops. The area where Iron Star is stationed is a huge slope and woods.

Worse was the imperial system, where only colonel-level officers were involved in intelligence analysis.

The map accuracy of Minlar's lieutenants is at the tourist map level.

Those school officers of the Imperial Military were at a loss when fighting Iron Star, and it was difficult for them to pay attention to these details on the map in the face of complicated and false news on the battlefield.

Even if a few people notice it. He will not say anything, just bring it up.

Now, under the high-spirited mood of Commander Minlar, those who are too cautious and worried are not suitable for the "team spirit" led by Commander Minlar.

Therefore, in the imperial chariot, these courteous imperial officers in neat uniforms would never show their "timidity and allergies" by taking the small problem of the map at this time.

…When a leader creates a “self-centered” system, it can only be right. …

Minlar's map shows that his troops are marching straight in. The map is surrounded by Xiaoxiao, and his front is unimpeded. In two days, he will advance to Misur Industrial City, the stronghold of the rebels.

For Minlar, at this time, the peasant army’s agricultural locomotives, single-turret chariots, and these mudblood minions are harassing more and more frequently. Such a "dog jumping over the wall" to block him makes him feel that he has caught the rebels their loopholes.

At ten o'clock in the morning, Minlar's armored division paused for a while. On the flagship tank, the intelligence staff of the empire spread out the map. Minlar himself was sketching the front row and rear rows of troops during the attack route. .

The reason for his suspension was that several telegrams were sent from the rear of the empire.

Facing the "questions" from the giants behind the empire, "pure soldier" Minlar had to suspend the army and wait for the arrival of General Henry.

...two imperial generals, before they were about to enter the encirclement, wasted precious energy on a "political topic"...

The trembling sound of the "buzzing" airflow landed on the periphery of the giant armored vehicle.

Five hill-like "heavy infantry" armored combat vehicles formed a protective circle, and Henry's 120-ton steam helicopter (refer to Soviet Mil V-12) crashed down.

General Henry walked down the gangway, and Minlar held the due reception ceremony for the general. Fifty soldiers and twenty-five pairs of soldiers drew out their swords and formed a sword arch, which were opened for the general one by one.

When Henry saw Minlar, he patted him on the shoulder and said, "Minlar, just leave without saying hello, you are worrying everyone."

Minlar wanted to explain, but Henry interrupted: "Needless to say, you continue to fight, and I will cooperate and assist you."

The two hero units didn't know that right above them, the "see-through drone" made of gold foil was floating above them, clearly photographing the meeting of the two "hero units".

…After the war, Enma expressed emotion: When you are seriously deploying, you never know how far your opponent can be absent-minded…

On the other side of the battlefield, Enma was already sitting on his energy destroyer command chariot. Three hundred meters in front of the chariot, a mountain giant-level vehicle was blocking it as a damage-resistant meat shield.

The interior of the car is divided into 18 work areas. Enma is in the center of the three-cubic-meter operating space. The magic spar interface is placed on the left, and there are hundreds of interfaces on it. In fact, Enma activated the "teleportation" hook (drilling holes in the plane, adding abilities to himself), and obtained a general perspective similar to "total war games".

Enma In this battle, the representatives of the Iron Star Emerging Officer Corps of the six elite teams, Bess, Kadang, Lina (female), Cruise, An Jiexin (female), Willie (old friend) Join in the newsletter

These young iron star generals were at different positions on the encirclement circle of the Minlar Group, and they were located on different iron star giant battle vehicles.

Enma confirmed that these "columns" had arrived at their positions on time. From the Blue Birch Bay to the Basalt Hills area, everything was clearly arranged for the Imperial Army. In the space and time of the battle, one's own side fully grasps the initiative rhythm.

Enma held up his palms, five fingers, and said to the combat school officers of various departments in the metal cockpit: "I have a 50% chance of winning this war, but I am 100% sure, and everyone will use this as the starting point. Yang Tianxia. But at this moment, I want to ask you a fundamental question, that is, who is our sword for?

A princess, and the honor and disgrace of being a knight, or the overall situation in which the high-ranking figures maintain the balance of power? "

Enma looked at Willy.

A student of Greve's, a fellow in the trenches since Swan City. Master Wei is sure that he has begun to show his aptitude for being a hero in recent days, and there is an unknown interfering force behind this.

Willie looked at Enma and said, "General, we draw our swords for a just cause."

En Ma stared at him, wanting to ask "what is justice", but the atmosphere at this time is not suitable for a discussion, because justice is too vast.

Enma turned to the platform, picked up the microphone, and informed the whole army at this time: "Everyone has it, draw your sword for the just cause! We are inseparable from oppression."

In the center of the ether world, the concept of the red iron star is presenting a mighty information field, eclipsing the photo of the sky empire griffin emblem.