Handsome and with a poetic air, Leonard returned to his rented room with a newspaper in hand.
He leaned against the sofa, his legs dangling onto the coffee table, leisurely reading the newspaper in his hand.
After glancing at the headline, Leonard commented, "Massey is so weak."
The newspapers reported that Rembrandt captured the capital of the Masjid Kingdom in just two days.
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Moreover, it only took two days from the dispatch of troops to the capture of the capital!
The Pales Zoroaster inside him said, "Perhaps Lenburg is too strong."
Leonard put down his newspaper and said, "That's right. Now Mr. Gar is the president of Lenburg, and this small country is different from before." He then smiled and said, "I heard that the Kingdom of Rune and Lenburg are currently engaged in a series of negotiations. I wonder what the reaction of the nobles of the Kingdom of Rune is upon hearing this news?"
The government of Ruen, the Prime Minister's office.
Prime Minister Negan glanced at the men in front of him, including high-ranking nobles like Earl Hall and powerful officials like Emilius.
"You should have all seen the intelligence sent by MI9," Prime Minister Negan said. "Linburg has acquired new weapons again."
Moreover, it is highly mobile.
Emilius said, "In just two days, we have marched more than 200 kilometers in enemy-occupied territory. No, actually it was only one day and one night. We set out on the afternoon of the 5th and occupied the capital of Masjid on the afternoon of the 6th."
"Gentlemen, I think anyone with even a little military knowledge knows how incredible this speed is!"
In everyone's mind, only steam trains can currently achieve this speed.
The problem is that there is no direct railway from Remberg to the capital, Maximilian. Even if there were, after Maximilian destroyed it, steam trains would be of little use in transporting troops.
If soldiers march on foot, their speed can only be 30 to 50 kilometers per day in rain-free and snow-free conditions. They might be able to reach 100 kilometers per day during a forced march, but it is hard to say whether they will still be combat-ready after reaching their destination.
Prime Minister Negan said, "We are not here today to marvel at how fast the other side is moving, but to discuss how to deal with the current situation in the negotiations."
"If possible, we could try to buy a batch of the 'artillery vehicles' mentioned in the intelligence report, which might be helpful to the front lines in Winter Capital."
Count Hall shook his head and said, "Odis will definitely not sell to us."
,
This weapon has already achieved strategic significance, so how could it be easily sold to other countries?
Odis certainly knew that with such a developed manufacturing industry as Rune, they only needed to buy a batch to develop a similar weapon.
Prime Minister Negan looked at Earl Hall: "Don't you have some connection with him? I've also heard that Brandon and Vincent know him, and they seem to be quite familiar with each other."
Count Hall smiled and said, "We do know each other, but on the second day after they arrived in Backlund, they sent Ambassador Adonis of Remnburg with gifts and apologized for not being able to visit us in person."
Prime Minister Negan turned around: "This shows he values his friendship with you. Do you think there's a chance?"
"No," Earl Hall said with certainty. "Because Adonis said at the time that the president had to avoid suspicion because he had to negotiate with the Rune government, and that he would invite us to meet after the negotiations were over."
Prime Minister Negan leaned back in his chair, took a deep breath, and paused for a few seconds before saying, "Odis must have deliberately sent troops to Mascherano during the negotiations to demonstrate his strength."
Then he looked at Emilius: "Do you think Massi still has a chance to restore the country?"
Emilius pondered for a moment and then said, "The hope is slim. According to intelligence from MI9, Lenburg has systematically purged the extraordinary members of the Massey royal family and nobility."
"Although there are still many extraordinary beings in the army of Corridor, they dare not act alone for fear of being surrounded and killed by the extraordinary beings of Lenburg."
Emilius, who had a somewhat serious and rigid demeanor, paused for a moment and then said, "According to the intelligence we received earlier, Odis's extraordinary promotion system is quite radical, and it even gives the impression that he really wants to send those traits out."
"This gives the officials of Lenburg a great deal of motivation; perhaps they really have already laid an ambush outside the city of Corridor."
"If the officers of the Extraordinary Ones dare not move, the soldiers will be even less likely to move. I feel that they may not have the courage to try to retake the capital, especially since the offensive of the Feneport army has been very fierce."
"In the next day or two, the approximately 100,000-strong Ma Xi army may completely collapse, surrendering important cities like Corridor to Feneport."
Prime Minister Negan understood what the other party meant: "Lenberg will reignite the war with Fenneport!"
Emilius said cautiously, "This is just my personal opinion."
Everyone agrees that this view is correct. Whether MAXXI can truly merge into Remburg depends on whether Remburg can defeat Fenerbahce's army.
After a few seconds of silence in the office, Prime Minister Nigan said, "Since President Remenberg doesn't want to talk about it now, let's wait and see."
Everyone immediately understood that the Prime Minister meant that it wouldn't be too late to discuss things after the war on Mahathir's side had a result.
If Remberg wins, then the other side will essentially have the upper hand in the negotiations.
This is sufficient proof of Remnantburg's strength, and in the current international order, the demands of the strong are more easily met.
However, if Remnburg is defeated or the negotiations reach a stalemate, Odis may not be in much interest in the talks and may want to return home immediately. In that case, Remnburg might be able to make some concessions in the negotiations between the two countries.
Five days later, on a high mountain outside the city of Corridor in western Masjid.
Odis appeared here with Prince Sonia of the Kingdom of Rune. The two were invisible and would not attract the attention of the Feneport army.
In the past five days, many things have happened in Massey. First, just as Emilius had guessed, the 100,000 Massey troops stationed in Corridor lost much of their morale after learning that the capital had been captured by Remburg and that His Majesty the King had committed suicide.
However, to Emilius's surprise, they still tried to send three groups to retake the capital.
However, under the command of the evil spirit "Red Angel," these 30,000 people were swiftly and decisively dispersed, and most of the extraordinary among them were killed.
Those who managed to escape were almost all killed after being hunted down by the Extraordinary Ones of Lenburg for several days.
The Masik army in Corridor immediately broke into internal conflict, with some surrendering to Remburg, some to Fenerbahce, and others deserting in the chaos.
Fenneport, of course, would not miss this opportunity to seize Corridor and move hundreds of thousands of troops to the east of Corridor, preparing for a full-scale invasion of the plains of Massey.
Today is the day the "Red Angel" evil spirit has chosen for a decisive battle. Leading its existing 70 tanks and 3,500 "Extraordinary Puppets," it has arrived to prepare for a field battle with the enemy.
To be precise, the current situation is exactly what the "Red Angel" evil spirit wanted most. He did not stop the other side from transferring hundreds of thousands of people to the plains, but instead hoped that the other side would complete this step as soon as possible.
From the mountaintop, Odis and Prince Sunia could see that the camp of Feneport's army stretched for miles, and they were making their final preparations to attack the heart of Massi from three directions.
The two were in a very good position, with a great view of a great distance, even able to see Gothic, which was more than 100 kilometers away.
At this moment, the Remnburg army arrived. They appeared much smaller, but they possessed a different kind of grandeur.
The Remnburg army's formation appeared to have no infantry at all, with tanks leading the way and a large number of troop carriers following closely behind.
By this time, these troop carriers had been improved, with a machine gun turret added, giving them a certain level of combat capability.
Odis explained to Prince Sunia, "That's Lenburg's new equipment. It can easily advance about 200 kilometers a day, and it can attack continuously for three days without logistical support."
Prince Sunia was visibly taken aback; 600 kilometers could traverse most of the country!
He took a deep breath before asking, "Do these cars use some kind of mystical technology?"
"Yes," Odis smiled, "but I prefer to call it 'extraordinary technology.'"
Prince Sunia asked, "Could it be that every car has some extraordinary characteristic?"
"That's not it," Odis continued with a smile. "Has Your Highness ever considered why beings at the angelic level can respond to the prayers of believers all over the world?"
The somewhat old-fashioned prince said, "Of course, it is the extraordinary power of this gift."
"I have done relevant research," Odis said with a smile, "The general process is this: believers pray to angels, which is equivalent to sending an extraordinary signal."
"But if a believer is an ordinary person, his spirituality cannot send out a very strong 'extraordinary signal'."
"Then we have to look at the angels on the other end of the signal. The angels' names are like a special signal frequency band with mystical properties."
"This 'frequency' can open a special signal channel in the astral plane. When believers recite the name of the deity, they can use mystical connections to trigger the 'signal frequency' and allow angels to hear their prayers through the astral 'channel.'"
Prince Sunia listened quietly. Although he found Odis's words unfamiliar, he made sure to remember them and find an expert in mysticism to analyze them when he got back.
Odis said, "Theoretically speaking, this process can be replicated using the corresponding occult knowledge, such as setting up a signal transceiver high in the sky, so that signals can be transmitted over long distances in real time."
Prince Sunia was taken aback: "Similar to the function of a telegraph machine?"
"No, no, no," Odis said. "Imagine you sitting in Backlund and watching the war unfold here, and it's not recorded, it's happening in real time."
The prince nodded: "I understand."
But he paused for a moment and then said, "But some sealed artifacts seem to be able to do the same thing."
"Then imagine that every middle-class family in Backlund could see everything that's happening here?" Odis continued.
Prince Sunia finally understood: "There's no need to be limited by the number of extraordinary traits!"
He couldn't help but frown: "Negative effects, um, I mean, what are the drawbacks?"
"The downside is that its power is limited if used in war," Odis said. "For example, 'extraordinary technology' can solve the process of real-time signal transmission, but it cannot replicate extraordinary abilities."
"However, while it's possible to create weapons that produce effects like explosions, ice, and fire, abilities like 'imprisonment' and 'prohibition' cannot be copied."
Those are the special abilities that come with extraordinary traits.
Prince Sunia pondered for a moment: "Even if we can't replicate something too powerful, or the special abilities of each pathway, it's enough for ordinary people to deal with low-sequence extraordinary individuals."
Odis smiled and said, "Personally, I feel that 'extraordinary technology' can play a greater role outside of war."
"For example, by using 'extraordinary technology' to control ice and snow, we can create devices to store food, especially fresh food, which can be stored for several days without spoiling."
Prince Sunia smiled and shook his head: "Who would use something like this to store food?"
He paused for a moment and then said, "But for ordinary people, it would be quite nice to use something like this to make ice to cool off in the summer."
Odis did not correct the prince's opinion, who clearly had little life experience, but simply laughed and said, "Look, the war has begun."
On the plains below the mountain, after the Feneport army had completed its assembly, the Remburg army soldiers also disembarked from their troop carriers, neatly taking the semi-automatic rifles that were slung over their backs into their hands, or carrying steel plates specially prepared for this battle, and lined up in orderly ranks.
The tank formation split into two to make final preparations.
The two sides faced off for a few minutes. The commander of Fenneport's side was clearly unsure of himself, because once the army began to be equipped with rifles on a large scale, and had cannons and machine guns, the two sides rarely engaged in this kind of field battle.
This is more like a war that only existed in the era of cold weapons.
However, Remenberg had no intention of digging trenches at all. Firstly, Feneport's army did not have time to dig trenches, and secondly, they believed that their numbers were dozens of times that of the enemy and that they were in an offensive posture, so there was no need to dig trenches.
This resulted in this strange time synchronization.
Remburg launched the first offensive, with two tank phalanxes attacking from both sides, while more than 3,000 "extraordinary puppet" soldiers charged toward the center.
Fenneport's response was to use highly mobile cavalry to attack the tank formation from both flanks.
The infantry in the central region set up machine guns in the field, preparing to mow down the enemy.
Prince Sunia, perched atop the mountain, found it utterly comical to see dozens of tanks facing off against ten or twenty thousand cavalry.
So many people, just to destroy a few dozen metal shells.
Odis was so excited he almost rubbed his hands together; tanks were a cavalry's nightmare!
He originally invited Prince Sunia here today just to flex his muscles.
I never expected that Fenerbah would give me such a great opportunity!
The tanks launched their attack first, and while the two sides were still far apart, the tanks used their "Lingbo Cannons" to attack.
It was clear that Fennepot was deeply impressed by the Remnburg army's Spirit Wave Cannons, so he took precautions and placed a demigod in each of his two cavalry squares to defend against the enemy's Spirit Wave Cannons.
Therefore, the first salvo from the tanks had no effect, so the two tank formations stopped using their turrets and began to accelerate.
As both sides entered gun range, the first row of tanks and more than a dozen extraordinary machine guns fired simultaneously. Most of the attacks were blocked by the demigods, but the bullets that were not blocked immediately felled a group of cavalry!
For Fenneport's commander, this was still within acceptable limits, since cavalry suffered the greatest losses during charges.
Just as Feneport's demigod was about to attack the Remburg tank, the balance of the war suddenly shifted, and the Remburg demigod, who was hiding on the tank, made his move.
After the demigod Feneport was held back, the tank's extraordinary bullets poured down on the cavalry formation. For a moment, the mournful cries of the horses and the screams of the cavalry drowned out the tank's gunfire!
Many cavalrymen were killed by tanks, and many were even thrown into the air!
But what truly terrified the cavalry was that neither their rifles nor their sabers could harm the tanks, while the tanks could easily turn their guns around and bring down large numbers of cavalrymen.
The cavalry even possessed abilities that prohibited actions such as "Fire is prohibited here!" and "Movement is prohibited here!"
From the slightly flustered tone of the other party, it was clear that the extraordinary individuals were also somewhat panicked.
The extraordinary beings hiding inside the tanks also began to fight back against Fenneport's extraordinary beings.
However, there aren't many Extraordinary Beings in the tank, because in such a highly mobile and chaotic situation, Extraordinary Beings below Sequence 6 have a low survival rate. You only need to be careful with the Sequence 6 and Sequence 5 of the paid Nepot.
Soon a tank was destroyed by an extraordinary individual using a bomb from the bunker.
The extraordinary individual also failed to escape, as he lost an arm and had a large hole punched in his chest by an extraordinary machine gun while charging towards the tank. If he were an ordinary soldier, he would have been dead long ago.
The first round of fighting ended with the two cavalry formations suffering a combined loss of over a thousand men! Yet they had only managed to destroy one tank.
At this point, Fenneport's commander realized that the cavalry was severely lacking in weapons to deal with tanks.
The battle between the two demigods was also very intense, but it did not affect the battle of the ordinary soldiers.
The battle between the two armies in the central region also began, and every soldier in Feneport will never forget the scene of the Remnburg army's charge.
They run even faster than horses, and their running style looks somewhat bizarre. When they jump, their legs spread wide, and they can take a step that covers five or six meters!
The key is that each of their steps can be five or six meters long, and that's even with a load!
Soon, the "extraordinary puppet" at the front quickly set up its machine guns, and with the deadly "rat-a-tat-tat" sound, Feneport's entire machine gun position was within the enemy's firing range.
It was Fennepot's demigod who blocked all the machine gun attacks, while Sequence 5, along with the Extraordinary Ones, launched a flank attack to deal with the machine guns.
This kind of cooperation is unavoidable; a Sequence 5 can easily dodge machine gun shells and also easily take out a machine gun.
The problem is that the range of the machine gun is two or three kilometers, and at a higher position, it can even reach seven or eight kilometers without any problem.
However, the attack range of Sequence 5 enemies is mostly tens of meters, so only demigods can block their attacks.
"Lingbo Cannon" and machine gun.
To deal with the machine guns, without the aid of seals or the "Traveler" ability, Sequence 5 would have to charge to reach the enemy's makeshift artillery position.
As they charged in from the flank, the Extraordinary Ones from Remburg were already in position with their artillery, and a fierce battle ensued between the Extraordinary Ones of both sides.
At this moment, more than three thousand extraordinary puppet soldiers had also rushed into the firing range of Feneport's artillery.
The enemy also concentrated more than 500 artillery pieces to form three artillery positions, because the tanks and cavalry were far away from each other and were outside the range of the artillery.
So all three artillery positions opened fire on the more than three thousand "extraordinary puppet" soldiers. Then a strange scene unfolded: although shells rained down on the ground, not a single Lenburg soldier was hit. They had calculated the impact point of all the shells.
Then, using maneuvers such as turning, jumping, and rolling that are impossible for ordinary people, he miraculously avoided all the shells.
Prince Sunia, perched atop the mountain, could see clearly that the shells landed at different times because the bombardment came from three artillery positions, but the difference between the three waves of shells was at most one to three seconds.
But the "extraordinary puppet" soldiers used this slight error to successfully dodge the dense barrage of shells.
Because if the shelling is accumulated, a single round of shelling would consist of more than 500 shells, striking an area simultaneously. However, if the shells are considered as three waves, each wave consists of only a little over 100 shells, making it relatively easy to dodge them.
This maneuver left the Fenneport artillery completely stunned, or rather, given the speed of the Remnburg soldiers' charge, they had no chance to fire a second shot.
Soon, the "extraordinary puppet" soldiers entered the range of the machine gun, but the demigod Lenburg did not provide any cover. The soldiers in the first row took the simple steel shields they had been carrying from their backs and used them to block in front of them.
Despite the clanging sound of their weapons striking the steel plates, their charging speed remained as fast as ever.
But these steel shields weren't entirely impenetrable. Some extraordinary puppets had their arms knocked off, some had their heads smashed, and some had their legs broken, yet they still charged forward.
This left Fenneport's commander and machine gunners sweating profusely, as they had never seen such a simple, straightforward, and fearless charge.
On a nearby mountain peak, Odis spoke again: "My military commander told me before the battle that he was prepared to break the spirit of the Feneport soldiers in this battle."
Prince Sunia looked at the battlefield and said quietly, "After today, no one in Feneport will dare to fight the Lenburg army head-on."
He also noted that Odis used "" when describing his military commanders.
As the two men were talking, the Extraordinary Puppet had already rushed past the most dangerous two or three hundred meters. The Extraordinary Machine Gunner, who was hiding behind the steel plate, began to fight back, and Feneport's machine gun position collapsed as a result.
The demigod Feneport, who was in the infantry formation, was about to attack the "extraordinary puppet" when he was held back by the prepared demigod Lenburg. The two sides immediately engaged in fierce fighting and had no time to pay attention to the battle of the ordinary soldiers.
When the ordinary soldiers of Fenneport saw the ferocious Remnburg soldiers, their first thought was to run, and the officers immediately began shooting the deserters.
Only after the military gave loud orders did the soldiers begin firing volleys at the enemy.
But the "extraordinary puppet" soldiers at the forefront were no longer afraid of the rifle bullets. They grabbed the steel plates in their hands and threw them out. Many soldiers were cut in half by the steel plates before they could even react.
The semi-automatic rifles of the Remnburg soldiers were much faster than single-shot rifles. After several waves of Feneport soldiers fell, their rout began, and by then the officers' words had no effect.
The "Extraordinary Puppet" soldiers were very fast and caught up with the Fenneport soldiers almost immediately, and then a great melee began.
Prince Sunia, atop the mountain, witnessed three Fenerbah soldiers thrusting bayonets into the chest of the extraordinary puppet, pinning the Remberg soldier to the ground. The Remberg soldier raised his shorter, semi-automatic rifle to fire, but one of the Fenerbah soldiers pushed the muzzle of his rifle into the air.
The extraordinary puppet then put away his gun, turned around, grabbed the butt of the gun, and smashed it down! It shattered the heads of the three soldiers like clay pots.
The three Fenneport soldiers weren't without a chance to escape; they were simply dumbfounded. They had never seen a living corpse before and couldn't fathom how the Remburg soldiers had managed it. With three wounds to their chest and abdomen, how could they still be so resilient?
Some of the "extraordinary puppets" had run out of magazines, so they grabbed bodies on the ground or enemy rifles and used them to attack the Fennepot soldiers.
Prince Sunia also witnessed an "interrogator" using the "spiritual whip" on an extraordinary puppet, but it had no effect.
The "interrogator" then used his agility to approach one of the "extraordinary puppets" and plunged the dagger in his hand into the puppet's head.
The "Extraordinary Puppet" suddenly slowed down considerably, but then it opened its arms and hugged the "Interrogator" tightly. Several other "Extraordinary Puppets" around it quickly fired their guns in this direction and charged towards it.
The "interrogator" was shot twice, but was not seriously injured. He struggled and tore off one of the "extraordinary puppet's" arms.
Finally, they broke free.
The moment it took a step, the "extraordinary puppet" used its remaining arm to grab the "interrogator's" legs.
Make the "interrogator" fall to the ground.
The "interrogator" quickly kicked the broken "extraordinary puppet" away, but at that moment, several other "extraordinary puppets" had already come close and opened fire on the "interrogator".
The physique and reaction speed of a Sequence 7 are indeed remarkable. Although he was shot twice more, he broke through the enemy's fire blockade and rushed towards an "Extraordinary Puppet" to kill him and break out of the encirclement.
But the "extraordinary puppet" suddenly dropped his gun, opened an "extraordinary grenade," and charged toward the "interrogator."
Seeing that the surrounding "extraordinary puppets" were all making dodging movements, the "interrogator" knew that what his opponent was holding must be another extraordinary weapon, so he also quickly dodged. However, the "extraordinary puppet" relentlessly pursued him and threw the "extraordinary grenade" in the last second.
Boom!
The extraordinary grenade exploded less than a meter behind the "interrogator," who was immediately blasted away and seriously injured.
He struggled to his feet, wanting to continue his escape, but saw a dark gun muzzle. The "Extraordinary Puppet" had already calculated the landing point where the "Interrogator" would be blown away and was waiting there in advance.
Da da da da—
The "interrogator" had holes punched into his head.
Although the entire battlefield was in chaos, resistance gradually decreased, and eventually, Feneport's army could only flee.
Boom! Boom! At this moment, a series of violent explosions rang out from behind. At this time, in the distance of the infantry battlefield, the second round of combat between two cavalry formations and two tank formations began.
Having just exchanged blows, the Fenneport cavalry prepared to concentrate their extraordinary warriors and explosive charges to strike the enemy in the next engagement.
But they forgot that the tank's most powerful weapon was not its machine guns, but the Lingbo Cannon.
So in the second engagement, the tank formation, no longer suppressed by the demigods, unleashed a volley of fire.
The booming sounds were incessant, and huge clouds of smoke rose from the ground. The tremors could be felt even more than 100 kilometers away in Gothia. Large areas of forest and farmland were destroyed. However, the gunners tried to avoid villages, and the residents of the surrounding villages had already evacuated in advance. So although many houses collapsed, there were no civilian casualties.
But the Feneport cavalry were in a worse situation. Those in the front row could see the Spirit Wave Cannon shells like dazzling specks of light and instinctively reached out to shield their eyes, though this shielding was of little use.
Before the cavalrymen behind them knew what was happening, they were engulfed in intense flames. The cavalrymen at the center of the explosion were basically vaporized, and those outside the center were burned to charcoal in the flames.
The outermost layer also contained a violent shockwave.
If it's just a single shell, the shockwave has the greatest destructive power.
However, the simultaneous explosion of dozens of Lingbo cannon shells could engulf the entire cavalry formation in flames.
After firing their shells, the tanks immediately slowed down and landed, and the subsequent shockwave did not cause any damage to the tanks.
The tanks then re-levitated and continued their attack.
When the firelight subsided, what appeared before them was a giant crater with a radius of more than 20 kilometers and a depth of tens of meters.
Much of the soil and rocks thrown up by the explosion have now fallen to the ground, but it is still not enough to fill the huge crater.
If the pit isn't filled in, two small lakes will appear here in the next few years!
Inside the crater, some Extraordinary Beings who had been severely injured by the explosion, or those who had survived using sealed artifacts and their own abilities, were struggling to crawl out from the piles of dirt and charred bodies. After breathing the air that smelled of burnt flesh again, they looked at the giant crater they were in and the dark clouds that had formed in the sky due to the violent explosion, and suddenly felt as if they had died once.
At this moment, the Extraordinary Tanks arrived. They drove into the pit and worked in an orderly manner. The Extraordinary inside the tanks attacked the few enemy Sequence 5s, while the tanks used machine guns to attack the already seriously wounded Extraordinary.
The battle didn't last long; the gunfire and fighting sounds within the giant crater soon ceased.
Boom! Boom! At this moment, the Remnburg army's artillery positions launched a salvo, turning the town of Corridor behind Feneport's army into ruins. All the dug positions, bunkers, and other structures there were filled in by the artillery fire.
The fleeing Feneport army was pushed down row after row by the shockwave.
Prince Sunia, who was watching the battle from the mountaintop, had one thought: After this battle, Maximilian will officially be incorporated into Remberg!