"Then just disperse the sandstorm!" Princess Claire hurriedly picked up and said: "With such a big sandstorm, their mage strength should also be weakened a lot, as for their gun firepower, although we can't resist it, they also can't resist it, it's a big deal to fight the firepower intensity!"

"That's right, we are also an army armed with firearms, and we also have cannons to control, so we may not be afraid of them!"

"Let's go, Your Highness Princess, we are willing to fight under your command!"

"The princess is the embodiment of luck, and she must be able to lead us to victory!" said the others.

"Okay!" Seeing this, Princess Claire immediately ordered, "Let all the mages take action, and be sure to disperse this damn sandstorm!"

"Yes!" everyone immediately agreed, and then gave the order to the mage troops.

In a short time, thousands of mages took action, casting dispel magic and slowly dispel the vast sandstorm.

After a few minutes, the dust finally cleared, and everyone saw what was ahead.

Suddenly, everyone gasped.

I saw that more than 30 kilometers away from the flank of the army, it was originally a hilly area with slightly higher terrain, but now it was covered with a large army.

Mighty orcs, Lady Ox cavalry, arrayed in the front row, followed by cavemen and a large number of crazy iron dogs.

In the high parts of those hills, there are heavy artillery positions one by one, and some small peaks can only hold three or five cannons, while larger peaks may hold hundreds of cannons.

More than 1,500 250-millimeter guns are firing frantically in this direction.

A tall minotaur loader is holding a huge cannonball, constantly stuffing it into the barrel.

Each cannon had several loaders waiting, and after a shot, new shells were immediately stuffed in, almost incessantly bombarded.

In order to prevent the high temperature from exploding, there is also a special water mage next to each cannon to be responsible for cooling down, so that the cannon can continue to output.

In this case, almost every cannon can do four seconds, or even three seconds of one shot, which is a terrifying rate of fire.

The flying shells in the sky have not even fallen to the ground, and the second shell is out of the chamber again, so that the high altitude of the entire underground space is densely distributed with special trajectories drawn by flying shells, which is so beautiful and dangerous.

Due to the fact that the anti-imperialist alliance was particularly dense, it still maintained the habit of the cold weapon era and liked to charge in groups, which created great convenience for the export of artillery.

Every 300-kilogram shell that falls in a dense part of the crowd can easily take the lives of dozens or even hundreds of people.

This is also the result of the protective spells on their bodies, and if they didn't have the protective spells, I am afraid that hundreds of people would be killed in a single shot.

Anyway, on the way of the anti-imperialist alliance's charge, there were terrifying explosions everywhere, and there were terrifying scenes of flesh and blood flying everywhere, rushing all the way, and the ground was either a big pit or a corpse, and the whole ground was going to be dyed red.

That is, these people are all alchemy soldiers, and under the effect of the contract, they can't escape at all, so they can still maintain the momentum of continuing to charge.

Otherwise, such terrible casualties would have collapsed long ago.

However, although Emperor Shitian's bombardment was terrifying, there would always be all kinds of strange situations.

One of the most perverted is the quality of the shells.

In normal times, only two or three out of 100,000 shells will have problems, and they may detonate in advance, or they may not detonate at all, and they will become duds.

But today, the door is slanted all of a sudden, and on average, one out of ten shells will have an accident, and sometimes it will be detonated in advance in the sky, and as a result, the shnappel will destroy other shells flying nearby.

In addition, there is the problem of duds, especially shells that fall in the pile of people, and many times they do not explode at all.

And the most bizarre is the stall projectile, that is, the muzzle velocity of the shell suddenly decreases, resulting in a significant reduction in range.

The shell that was supposed to fall into the crowd only flew more than half of the range, and it fell directly to the ground and detonated, but the people hadn't run here yet, so the shell was considered a vain.

Under all sorts of mysterious and unexpected circumstances, Emperor Shakti's artillery output capacity has dropped by at least 30%.

And most importantly, these reduced outputs are usually valid outputs.

You must know that it is basically impossible to fire artillery from a distance of several tens of kilometers, and it is basically impossible to achieve 100 shots and 100 hits, even if the opponent has a large number of people, like a dense carpet, but after continuous bombing, there will be blank spaces, and then there will be a situation of empty shots.

And the shells that hit the open ground are obviously invalid output, and only the shells that really kill people are effective output.

Looking at the battlefield, there is a bit more ineffective output, and many shells fall in the gaps between the legions.

It should be in the crowd, but it is especially prone to all kinds of accidents.

Therefore, in this case, the army of the anti-imperialist coalition suffered heavy casualties, but it was still within an acceptable range.

Especially later, Princess Claire also learned well, and the front and rear armies of the division were outflanked from the left and right flanks, pulling the troops apart and scattering, thus effectively reducing casualties.

Seeing this situation, Emperor Shi Tian, who was hidden in the army, couldn't help but smile helplessly: "Sure enough, if the goddess of luck is her own mother, she can hand over shit luck! The effective lethality of the artillery is nearly half lower than our estimate, uncle, this is just a lipi!"

According to Emperor Shi Tian's estimation in advance, this raid should at least kill more than half of Princess Claire's army, and beat the other half to a demoralized and unintentional battle, and the next thing is to push and easily win.

But unexpectedly, Princess Claire's unfortunate value saved his army.

Emperor Shitian's crazy artillery bombardment finally killed all the right-wing troops close to him, but the right-wing troops were only about 50,000.

And when the right flank troops suffered heavy losses, Princess Claire also immediately learned her lesson and adjusted her troops, so that the middle army and the front army and the rear army were scattered.

In this way, the effect of the shelling is greatly reduced, and a single shot will kill a few people, and there is a possibility that the hit will be missed, and then no one will be killed.

So in the end, when the main army of the anti-imperialist coalition rushed up, only the front, middle and rear three legions had nearly 300,000 fresh troops, and there were 50,000 left-wing troops in the rear, which was a reserve without any losses.

On the other hand, on the side of Emperor Shi Tian, the main heavy lancers and cave man archers add up to only 100,000 people, although the number of crazy iron dogs is large, but they are melee troops, and they will be broken to pieces by other people's muskets when they rush up, which is almost the same as sending them to death.

Even the flying class of dog-headed aluminum bats has been greatly restricted, because Princess Claire's tens of thousands of wailing banshees are waiting for them in the sky.

These banshees are all equipped with alchemy guns, and they also have spell abilities, and the melee combat class of the dog-headed aluminum bat is fighting in the sky, hehe, almost the same as looking for death.

Under these circumstances, the anti-imperialist coalition naturally thought that they had a chance of victory.

The wild boar boy couldn't help but say excitedly: "Great, we have a great advantage, rush up and destroy them!"

"It's a pity that the heavy artillery units have all been killed, otherwise a fierce bombardment would have allowed them to die without a place to be buried!"

Emperor Shi Tian is not an idiot, as soon as the sandstorm dissipates, he found those poor heavy artillery pieces in the hands of the anti-imperialist alliance, and without any nonsense, he directly concentrated all the artillery on his side to bombard it.

It was precisely because of the waste of a large number of shells on the opponent's artillery that the army of the anti-imperialist coalition survived so much.

But it was definitely worth it, without the threat of heavy artillery, Emperor Shakti's army could be as stable as Mount Tai.

Although Princess Claire felt a little awkward in her heart, of course she couldn't openly disagree with the excitement of the crowd, so she immediately ordered: "Release the scroll, bless the troops with all kinds of spells, and be sure to kill all these guys!"

"Yes!" the crowd immediately agreed.

The next moment, the knights on the battlefield became excited, and the precious magic scrolls were torn apart, this time it was no longer just a protective spell, but also a spell that increased morale, a spell that increased stamina, and even a spell that increased damage.

These spells are useless when bombarded with artillery, so they are not used, and now, the forward troops are only two or three kilometers away from Emperor Shitian's army, and they can rush within their range in less than a minute, so it is necessary to bless these spells in advance, so as to increase the chances of victory in a short battle.

However, in the face of the enemy troops besieging from three sides, Emperor Shi Tian only pouted his lips with disdain, and said: "A group of fools, who have not even fought a few times in modern warfare, think that they can really fight against me?

With the order of Emperor Shakti, the troops on the front line also began, using spell scrolls for blessing.

Compared with the troops on the opposite side, Emperor Shi Tian's side was much more tyrantic, and the scrolls were constantly torn apart by the front-line commanders, and each commander tore more than a dozen sheets in a row before they stopped.

There are five or six types of protection spells alone, ranging from elemental resistance spells, to arrow piercing, and even spells to defend against shock waves.

Not only that, but there are even spells to resist toxins.

As for the spells that boost morale, the spells that increase strength, the spells that increase stamina, the spells that increase agility, the spells that increase long-range vision, and the spells that increase the lethality of ranged attacks, there is even more of a none.

The warriors on Emperor Shitian's side, with more than half of the additional blessings on their side alone, fully showed the characteristics of the local tyrants.

(End of chapter)