Don't Mess with That Dragon-Chapter 676 - 64: Firepower Attacks the City

This was an incomparably swift annihilation battle.

In terms of tactical level, speed of war conclusion, and scale of war, it was something rarely seen in a century in the southern region of the Central Earth World.

Simultaneously launched an attack on the Three Great Dukedoms, declaring war on three countries at once.

Marched dozens of miles in half a day, and precisely attacked the location of the garrisoned camps, with a magnificent scale that was unprecedented in a hundred years.

The enormous scale of the war instantly dragged the southern region, spanning over a thousand miles, into the flames of war,

and with a thunderous momentum, an unstoppable iron torrent crushed the weak defenses completely.

The defensive system that the Three Great Dukedoms painstakingly established in the south crumbled like paper in the face of the Blue Dragon Kingdom's legion's assault.

Under the Dragon Nest Legion's storm-like attack,

the defenses didn't hold for even a quarter of an hour before collapsing completely.

This was a war unexpected by everyone, yet anticipated by the Blue Dragon Kingdom's legion.

While the noble officers of the Three Great Dukedoms' southern defensive lines showed little vigilance against the southern Blue Dragon Beastman Kingdom, leisurely hunting and socializing outdoors, forging relationships, and boasting about the profits their caravans made from selling imported low-grade industrial products from the Blue Dragon Kingdom,

the low-ranking soldiers gazed at the withered yellow earth with worry, wondering if their households could survive such a disastrous year.

The armies on the defensive line were mostly comprised of farmers forcibly drafted from their homes. The already poor harvest suffered further due to natural disasters, and the king's conscription added layers of taxes to the burden on the general populace, while their family's main laborers were taken away. Even if they were fortunate enough to return home, they would likely face the skeletal remains of their family members.

The high-ranking noble lords who ruled over everything were preoccupied with feasts and gatherings, thinking of ways to scrape a profit from the army's vast supply needs, with no interest in addressing the concerns of the low-ranking soldiers.

For them, these lowly civilians were so abundant that tossing them a piece of black bread was enough to make these lowly creatures grateful.

Although the soldier's morale on the defensive line was low, the official Knight Legion's suppression meant there wasn't any fear of a mutiny.

However, this led the soldiers' inner thoughts to manifest as widespread lethargy.

The outcome was long anticipated.

No different from ordinary Middle World feudal countries,

unless it was an army composed of knights, wars between countries merely compared levels of incompetence.

At the king's command, local lords and nobility gathered knights, pulling a group of serfs wielding pitchforks from their manors to follow the knights.

If the leading knights won, they would swarm forward.

If they lost, they would escape quickly across the hills and fields.

Aside from the truly elite Knight Orders, about seventy to eighty percent of the armies in these Middle World feudal countries were used merely for appearances.

This is not surprising.

A group of pale, emaciated individuals who couldn't even fill their stomachs could hardly cope with the elite knights who trained day and night and wielded extraordinary powers.

Perhaps in the country, a formal standing army was much better than those armies composed of serfs, but they still paled in comparison to the Knight Legion.

Thus, an army defense line with the Knight Mage elite legion at its core, supplemented by a portion of the national standing army, and the rest composed of forcibly conscripted serfs, might have some effect against an enemy of similar level.

However,

the Dragon Nest Legion was not a feudal society-level army!

The Dragon Nest Legion, armed with various new technologies and powerful alchemy weapons, simply massacred ordinary serf soldiers with ease.

Unless they were equally elite, the number of soldiers had no effect in the face of the Dragon Nest Legion, armed with weapons of mass destruction.

Moreover,

under the vast resource support of the Blue Dragon Kingdom, in terms of individual combat power, any soldier from the Blue Dragon Kingdom was comparable in physical fitness to a knight.

Comparing the two sides' strengths,

the outcome of the war was obvious!

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Frandy Duchy,

Southern Heavy City,

Siller City.

The once southern stronghold was now mostly collapsed, with military camps, the City Lord's Mansion, City Hall, and other landmark buildings reduced to ashes in the previous attack.

The towering city wall had a massive breach caused by a collapse right in the middle.

The streets were deserted.

The city's residents either fled long ago, or stayed shut behind doors and windows, not daring to make a sound, or some shady gangs tried to loot, but were suppressed by the Dragon Nest Legion that took over the city.

Soldiers with dust-covered faces and hands bound behind them were led out of the military camp, one after another, walking past the broken streets under the watch of elite Dragon Nest Beastmen soldiers.

Every one of these soldiers had vacant eyes,

completely blank.

It seemed they hadn't recovered from the terrifying scenes earlier.

Half a day ago,

when the low-morale soldiers were on their regular patrol, and the noble lords were holding their regular gatherings in the camp, the distant sky suddenly turned a fiery red.

Wherever one looked, it was all a crimson color.

Streams of light, densely packed like a meteor shower, filled the entire sky as if flames had engulfed the heavens!

At that moment,

the patrolling soldiers stood dumbfounded, gazing at the sky, their minds blank.

Then,

those crimson streams of light, carrying terrifying power, plummeted with a boom, causing horrific explosions, the air expanded, soldiers were flung into the air, and roaring flames shot skyward, scorching the heavens.

Boom, boom, boom!

The densely packed artillery shells, like a violent storm, precisely covered the entire vast military camp.

Most soldiers were routed before they could react.

The magic defense arrays set up in the camp rose in an instant, creating visibly shimmering waves, but the streams of artillery had inscrutable demon-breaking runes inscribed on them.

Those defense magic arrays shattered and collapsed like glass in an instant.

The intense barrage left no time for anyone to react.

In no time, the core Knight Legion and Mage Army inside the camp were engulfed in a massive fiery storm, and the nearby garrison, composed of both regular army and peasant militia, suffered collateral damage. Occasionally, stray artillery shells went off course and landed in the soldier camps, causing extremely severe casualties.

The massive explosions caused intense tremors, making the entire city seem to shake.

The noble lords inside the city were steadying their wine glasses, preparing to find someone to ask what was happening.

They saw, from beyond the sky, even larger streams like falling meteors, radiating intense light and carrying piercing sonic booms, rushing towards them with pinpoint accuracy and striking the noble manors!

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ps: This morning, I thought I could make three updates today, but the reality is:

I cannot...