On the ground, the soldier held up a short steel stub tilted at a uniform angle, and with a loud bang.

"Boom!" -- the sound was like the sound of high-pressure gas spewing out at the opening of champagne amplified a hundredfold. This row of small artillery guns did not pursue precise strikes, but rather adopted a uniformly covering firing style. In an instant, dense artillery shells covered the area in front like rain, iron and fire intertwined to form a sea of fire that mercilessly enveloped the huge cavalry group that was charging head-on. And at this time, the soldiers hiding behind the rocky ledge had long been on standby, and when they saw that the enemy cavalry suddenly had to decelerate at a distance of twenty to thirty meters from themselves from the catapult strikes, they shot a round of flanking fire under the command of their commander.

The stormy fire strikes were like thunderbolts, bursting out the most ferocious firepower at just the right moment. Renyu roughly estimated that after the initial round of firepower output, at least one-third of the cavalry had suffered heavy injuries, and at least half of them had already died on the battlefield. Such huge casualties in a short period of time would definitely make any troop in this world lose the courage to continue fighting.

The battle was commanded by Andrew, who had a very different commanding specialty than Shinzan. Andrew's strength was the coordination of the various branches of the army. By coordinating the tempo of fire between the bombardiers and infantry, he was able to deliver the heaviest fire when the enemy was at its peak. Johnson, Jack, the two white men had the same fighting style, but Andrew was better at timing battles. Renyu envied Andrew's commanding ability,While commanding his own artillery squad.

　　Renyu picked up a loudhailer and shouted a series of data to the "Longbow" robotic soldiers that had crouched down behind him. These robotic soldiers had an artificial intelligence that could make Earth scientists enviously blow themselves up in place. Renyu had studied them for some time before realizing that the brains of these stupid-looking robotic soldiers were actually created by magic.

　　"Stabbing ......" like a pressure cooker deflating, these crouched down mechanical people are a little bit five meters tall heard Renyu burst out of the data, the ghostly blue eyes began to flash, the arm on the barrel of the gun in accordance with Renyu's orders or up or left and right to fine-tune the azimuth angle.

　　The dull sound of artillery rang out, a round of twenty-five kilogram shells, across a distance of one hundred and fifty meters fell on the preset fire belt of Andrew's troops, the effect of heavy mortars on the cavalry was devastating.

　　After three rounds of rapid-fire cannons, the "Longbow" robots stood up under Ren Di's order and ran towards another battlefield two hundred meters away, the three-meter-tall robotic soldiers seemed to walk slowly but because of their large strides, their walking speed was no less than that of a human's trot.

　　Upon arriving at the second zone that required fire support, these Mechanical Soldiers crouched in formation, and ten seconds later the artillery positions composed of Mechanical Soldiers once again resounded with the dull sound of heavy artillery shells, and several large craters of death were blasted out of the clusters of cloaked swordsmen on the opposite side of the road.

　　Compared to the heavy steam-tracked gun carriages of two months ago, they were a little weaker in range, shell power, and persistence. But the mechanical power had been greatly strengthened. In less than twenty minutes of fighting, the longbow artillery, which made up less than forty percent of the Vanguard's establishment, struck seventy percent of the artillery kills on the entire battlefield.

　　Twenty minutes later, in front of a poker-faced Andrew, Renyu gave a military salute. Andrew nodded to Renyu, and with no stupid teammates to drag him down, the elite's intelligence seemed to have returned, now that Renyu couldn't see Andrew's intentions again.

　　"His urbanity is back ......," Renyu thought in his heart, while his mouth said, "Ensign Andrews, the fire support operation is over, should we pursue now?" There was no wait for the out-of-control sneering answer. On the contrary Andrew very calmly and patiently explained to Renyu, "In fifteen days, Giacomo will arrive with the combined corps of Mina and Pailata, our mission will soon be completed, there is no need to risk the loss of our living forces for any other redundant operations."

　　Renyu nodded and said, "All at your disposal."

　　After Renyu leaves, a white traveler (Johnson) comes up to Andrew and asks quietly, “What's this monkey trying to plot?”

　　Andrew looked at Johnson somewhat speechlessly. After so many days of calm thinking, Andrew sort of came to a realization, "Under this militaristic regime, Renyu, a person who grew up in a dictatorship is very well adapted to it, and he himself has not been mixed into the real decision-making circle, so for the time being, he can't do anything about him."

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　　But there's a problem, one can't give those two childish white teammates, "The system of Mina inside this game world is now evil and centralized. There's no way one can screw that cunning yellow monkey on behalf of freedom in this system." If they did say that, those two white travelers would probably be negative about Mina's supreme order.

　　Little by little, time passed, and as if sensing the approaching steps of Mina's main army, Fleeglo's strikes on the vanguard were more violent than ever. The most violent one was a vast offensive consisting of thirty-five combat units.

　　This attack was defended by the combined forces of Andrews, Niiyama, and Renyu. Opposite Randi dropped four formations of steam cannons totaling forty guns. They suppressed the firepower of Miana's vanguard.

　　Under the bombardment of heavy artillery, the rocky fortifications were incredibly fragile. At this time of crisis, Andrew handed over the three groups of “Longbow” mechanized soldiers under his command to Renyu. Since then, all the artillery groups of the vanguard were back in Renyu's hands. The situation changed back to Ren Di being in charge of fire support and Andrew being in charge of frontline combat command.

　　As two groups of one hundred and sixty-seven bombardiers and fifty longbow cyborgs circled the retreating line of engagement fire and attacked down the rugged hillside in a roundabout way toward the Fleeglo artillery position. Duke Silari, mounted on his steed, lifted his telescope to see the longbowed mechanized soldiers walking up the hillside.

　　After so many days of engagement, Fleeglo had some understanding of the Longbow Mechanical Soldiers. But it couldn't be replicated because only the Mina city-state bordering Alim in the entire Vinci continent had the technology to build Mechanical Corps.

　　Steam cannons had twice the range of a longbow, so there was a distance of two hundred meters where you had to brave the cannon fire.

　　"Boom!" A huge sound exploded from forty meters behind Renyu, the rocks on the hillside rolled down and hit the metal thighs of a longbowed mechanical soldier, knocking the metal legs out of electric sparks, the mechanical soldier lost his balance and rolled down.

This kind of loss is inevitable, but still within Renyu's tolerance. From the hillside, Renyu could see the distribution of the opponent's artillery, Renyu who hid on the back of the mechanic soldier was not discovered by the enemy, Duke Silari who had been focusing on Mina's artillery could only see the steel mechanic soldiers walking on the front side. It was impossible to tell which mechanized soldiers were standing behind them.

　　The Longbow robots maneuvered too fast and were very spread out. Despite Fleeglo's artillery's best efforts to intercept them, they still couldn't stop the army coming down the hill. But the Longbow droids were also disconnected from the infantry behind them.

　　Duke Silari takes off the white gloves holding the reins, raises his saber, and leads five combat squads of cloaked swordsmen, running up the hill. Facing this kind of chaos, Renyu looked back at the infantry behind him, but the nearest one was sixty meters away, this kind of mistake Andrew would not make, but Renyu forgot that soldiers should cover each other in the tense battle.

　　Renyu looked around at where the Longbow Mechanical Troopers stood, and with an embarrassed look on his face, he tangled for a moment and reported a few elevation figures to the Longbow Mechanical Troopers carrying him.

　　Surprisingly, the cyborg soldier carrying Renyu questioned Renyu with a red glint in his eye. Using jumping electrical code to Renyu, he asked, "Is it crouching."

　　Renyu didn't have time to think too much about the AI's kind reminder and just emphasized two words again, "Immediately, execute." The cyborg soldier that Renyu was sitting down passed it on to the surrounding longbow cyborg soldiers through the electric code.

　　The longbow cyborg removed the heavy cannonball from his back with one hand and, without crouching, shoved it into the barrel in his arm. Two pendulums on the barrel dangling down in line with gravity in a semi-circular protractor indicated the elevation angle of the mechanic soldier's arm holding the barrel aloft. Dozens of Mechanicus soldiers stood thus, deterring the muzzles of their cannons from being aimed at the cloaked soldiers surging up towards the crest of the hill. Firing a cannon while marching was taboo in the Mina Longbow Mechanical Soldiers' combat regulations. If it wasn't for Renyu's mandatory order, the Mechanical Soldiers wouldn't have done so.

　　The swordsmen charging up the hill looked in horror at the barrels of the mechanical soldiers, their bodies leaning forward as if they were about to plop down on the slope. However the forward leaning Mechanical Soldiers did not fall, the barrels of their left arms fired in unison, and the tremendous recoil sent the Mechanical Soldiers backwards, their bodies held just right by the recoil.

　　However, this round of direct artillery fire brought disaster to hundreds of armored soldiers ninety meters away, and this round of fire had an error of twenty meters in the point of impact due to the violent shaking. But the troops bombarded by the direct fire still suffered huge casualties. The explosion caused the surrounding rocks to be blown away and fall, causing the swordsmen who were crawling upwards on their backs to clutch their heads in trembling. At the sight of the mechanized soldiers continuing to stuff shells into the barrels as if they were going to have another round, the routing trend occurred. The originally brave swordsmen pushed and shoved each other as they ran down the hillside in a heap.

　　Renyu was almost shaken down by the recoil of the artillery, and only stabilized his body after he grabbed the robotic soldier.Renyu watched the robotic soldier he commanded, leaning forward while firing freely. He felt like he was drawing a bit of a blank, this wasn't a Terminator shooting set.

　　"Maneuverability, firepower, armor ......," Renyu's mouth suddenly chanted out these three words. "This is a tank."