I Created Scientific Magic-Chapter 380 - : 368 Steel Torrent, the Debut of the Armored Vehicle!
Chapter 380: 368 Steel Torrent, the Debut of the Armored Vehicle!
Just as the city gates opened, the fully armored knights charged at the command!
Boom, boom, boom!
Huge horse hooves pounded the ground, kicking up clouds of dust, as knights clad in iron armor and holding long spears surged into the wide-open city like a moving dark cloud.
“For the glory of the Lord!” “Kill those blasphemers!”
Rafters of roaring shouts, like those of wild beasts, rolled out loudly in the morning light, almost seeming to tear everything apart!
The leader was Gerk, clad in black armor, holding a large curved sword. Having observed the intense battlefield from the sidelines for a long time, he had already reached his limit of restraint. Once he received the command, his blood heated up.
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His large sword was already starving, eagerly wanting to chop off the heads of those blasphemers and please the great Moon Goddess with their wizards’ fresh blood!
However, contrary to their expectations, what emerged from the city gates were not the divine punishment army meant to meet them in collusion, nor were they ragged, panic-stricken citizens, but rather numerous two-meter-tall, oddly shaped iron boxes with thick long tubes attached to the front.
Were these the new contraptions concocted by those wizards?
Gerk frowned involuntarily, sensing something was off in his gut, but the cavalry’s charge could not be stopped. All they could do was charge, charge, and charge again!
“God is with us!”
Gerk shouted loudly, his body flickering with Divine Radiance, which then gathered on his long sword. He believed that the power bestowed upon him by God was enough to tear everything apart!
However, they hardly had a chance to get close because the thick gun barrels rapidly began to roar.
Facing the incoming cannonballs, Gerk finally understood that these iron boxes were actually movable cannons!
“Break them!” Gerk roared, swinging his long sword, which flickered with Divine Radiance, straight towards the incoming projectiles!
The next moment, sword and cannonball collided, and amidst roars and horses’ neighing, Gerk’s strike managed to split the cannon fire in two!
The knights behind him were not so fortunate, unable to withstand the incoming projectiles; dozens of knights screamed as their armor was pierced and their bodies were cleaved in two, their remains flung dozens of meters away.
Gerk’s eyes were blood red, his long sword swung again, sending a fierce sword aura crashing against the iron armor, creating a dent and causing the entire Alchemy Car to shake violently, yet it continued to advance inexorably, its large cannon firing once more with a deafening bang…
Accompanying the sounds of cannon fire were also bursts of machine gun fire…
In the past days, Lydia and her associates had made a total of five machine guns, three of which were taken to quell the chaos in the royal capital, leaving two mounted on the front of the armed Alchemy Cars.
These devices had little effect on the Archbishop so they weren’t used, but now they were in place on two Alchemy Cars at the forefront!
The scorching tongues of flame spewed from two machine guns, and the continuous barrage streaked through the sky like meteors.
Although Gerk could sever the cannons facing him, he couldn’t possibly block such dense fire, he had no choice but to redirect all the Divine Energy powering his longsword to defense.
But how could a mere second-tier protection Divine Art block the barrage of gunfire? It shattered in just a second under the impact of dozens of bullets, his armor of fine steel tore apart, and then came his robust body, covered with scars!
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Bright red blood splattered continuously, and Gerk’s body was soon mangled by the barrage, his face filled with intense frustration. His mangled body fell to the ground and was crushed by heavy wheels rolling over…
The machine guns and armored torrent were just the beginning; massive airships also appeared over the city walls, raining down White Phosphorus Fire, completely turning the tide of the battle!
The bishops, though slow to react, had now realized something was wrong. This neat formation, along with those odd yet powerful steel boxes, made them realize that this wasn’t a coordinated attack from inside and outside against the capital, but a counterattack by their enemies!
“How is this possible?” an Archbishop uttered in shock, a chill surging in his heart, the situation undoubtedly signaled Edwell’s defeat!
Yet they had distinctly felt the Divine Radiance of the Lord just moments ago. Those damned Wizards couldn’t possibly resist the Divine Power!
Even if the present bishops were unwilling to believe it, they couldn’t alter the reality. A colossal defeat was nearly in sight, and now even fleeing was a luxury!
Their two legs simply couldn’t outrun four wheels, and their greatswords and longswords only scraped minor sparks on the thick armor, let alone the airships hovering in the sky.
The battle quickly evolved into an outright massacre!
The pursuit lasted for half a day, from beneath the capital’s walls to tens of kilometers away, with blood staining the land red. The remaining thirty thousand surrendered, with over seventy thousand estimated casualties!
After the battle ended, Ham and others, exhausted from a night of fighting, could no longer hold on and collapsed into pools of blood, cheers echoing throughout the capital!
However, compared to the previous carefree battle, although they decisively defeated the Holy Army this time, the losses were unpredictable.
With the Divine Army charging directly into the capital and the continuous Divine Arts bombardments on the frontline, the casualties alone had already reached tens of thousands.
Most of these were the capital’s royal guards, who, unarmed with rifles and only able to engage in melee combat with swords, were completely routed.
Nearly a third of the capital suffered varying degrees of damage, with over a hundred certified Wizards and more than five hundred apprentices perishing on the battlefield…
Whether it was the extent of the casualties or the damage, Lynn sighed upon receiving the reports, and the reason for the Divine Army’s silent emergence in the capital had also been extracted from those captured.
It was a passage from the slums straight to the forest outside the city, secretly built by the Crown Prince, known to very few and recorded nowhere.
Having learned of this, Lynn immediately ordered the passage to be destroyed and buried to prevent another tragedy.
The pilots of the airships also had no moment’s rest, all dispatched out, some for recon and surveillance missions, others heading to the Mist Sea in search of the missing Aurora and others.
