Chapter 705: All beings are equal Maxim, saving the dying and the wounded Gatlin

Early March of the Silver Era 1474.

On the southeast coast of the Beast Paradise, River Bay City, the capital of the Solomon Empire.

Rumble.
Twenty kilometers away from the coastal defense artillery, on the distant sea, the unique white steam of the dreadnought lingered, and five steel battleships launched the [Demon Slaying Order] to pour endless artillery fire on the top of the city.

However, it was blocked by the barriers of the Kingdom of God and the Code of Solomon. The flames and shrapnel spread wildly on the invisible iron wall, but it was never able to break through the Kingdom of a demigod.

The commander did not give up and continued to order the artillery to continue firing.

The family residents in the city have long been accustomed to the continuous sound of artillery fire over the past month. They can distinguish whether it is the 305mm 45-caliber main gun or the 76mm caliber rapid-fire gun by pricking up their ears.

Gulfstream City is not only the administrative and military center of the Solomon Empire, but is also located almost exactly in the middle of the long strip of empire territory.

As long as we break through here, we can dismember the entire Solomon Empire and start to besiege and kill the scattered clan cities.

Both humans and their families naturally stockpiled heavy troops here, leaving no blind spots on sea or land, striving to quickly accumulate strength and use a decisive battle to completely determine the future direction of the entire material world.

It is also destined to be the last world-class war before the advent of the Luoyan era.

Therefore, during the entire month of February, the old gods and the incarnations of the priesthood have been desperately trying to recruit people all over the world.

Byron not only wanted to drive them back into the sea, but also wanted to kill as many living beings as possible among the clan members to reduce the pressure when facing the world-destroying flood in the future.

He allowed Lucifer to continue to mobilize reinforcements from other clans.

At the same time, they took the opportunity to send out a commerce raiding fleet and a dreadnought fleet, with three Night Demon Dukes: Admiral [Holy Wall of the Sun] Bruch, Vice Admiral [Apostle of the Storm] Beretania, and Vice Admiral [Lord of the Construct] Little Hans as fleet commanders.

On the Sea of ​​Monsters, they fought fiercely with the reinforcements coming from the Corridor of Truth, and engaged in several large-scale naval battles.

They often used their elite fleets to break through the territorial waters of the Solomon Empire and the blockade formed by sea monsters and alchemical warships, launching artillery attacks on the coast day and night.

Destroy coastal ports, cut off sea transportation lines, and turn the Solomon Empire into an isolated island on land. The longer it takes, the weaker they will become.

The First Empire where the Sun Never Sets has a complete industrial system, as well as the support of massive amounts of crude oil that have just been transported back from the Brain-Eating Demon World. No matter how many shells they produce, it will only be a drop in the bucket.

The captains fully implement the Emperor’s philosophy: “If you are poor, use tactics. If you are rich, bomb, bomb, bomb!”

On this day, the Solomon Empire, which had been besieged for a long time, finally responded.

The city gates were wide open, and a large number of soldiers and their families, carrying muskets and sabers, ignored the artillery bombardment to which they were already accustomed, and poured out of Lucifer’s Kingdom of the Seven Hills City, disappearing through a space crack.

The high-ranking Old Gods, led by the Emperor of the Solomon Empire [Arrogant Morning Star] Lucifer and the Enemy Saint Belia, also regrouped and quietly came to the land front only 200 kilometers away from the capital.

——The gateway to the royal capital Baystream City, the strategic location of Creo Plains sandwiched between the mountain roads.

Lucifer, whose face had grown feathers after being expelled from the human race, looked around at the gods and generals on the front line and spoke expressionlessly:

“Everyone, our opponent, the North Sea Empire, is a maritime power, and its strongest military is the navy.

The only blood beast legion we can fight against, the sea monster legion, was completely killed in the civil war, and the number of legendary warships has also been unbalanced. During this period of time, their dreadnought fleet and commerce raiding fleet have been showing off their strength in the Sea of ​​Monsters.

I have called a halt to the reinforcements from the Corridor of Truth’s whale oil alchemy warships, and ordered them to cooperate with the Beast Paradise battlefield and seek opportunities to attack the Desert Empire’s Sun City to contain the naval forces.

Help us create an opportunity to launch a counterattack and open up the situation inland of the Beast Paradise.”

“Counterattack?”

The generals at the front looked at each other in bewilderment.

In the past month, the expected eruption of the Ring of Fire Mountains did not happen at all. They were made clowns in vain and had to hide in defense most of the time since then.

There were dreadnought fleets and commerce raiding fleets on the eastern sea front, and a large number of indigenous peoples on the western land front, and the war never stopped for even a single day.

Many middle-level and grassroots military officers are in a state of panic.

Although due to the powerful mystical personal dependence, the clans cannot escape the clutches of the old gods, they can’t help but wonder, how can they, the clans, fight back against the British Empire?
When [Sleeping God] Kraken heard Lucifer say that the number of legendary warships was unbalanced, a divine light flashed in his gray eyes. He thought of the treasure hidden in his own kingdom of God and sighed deeply in his heart:
‘If it weren’t for the [Ring of the Nibelung] released by the Wild Hunt god Woden, which made me lose my mind and pursue power, I would have escaped to the next world in advance, just like I escaped from the Brain Eater Empire in the mythological era.

How could he end up being a pawn of the world’s will?’

But this was His last trump card, and there was no reason to use it to explain the victory of the Solomon Empire.

Lucifer did not tell his irrelevant subordinates the detailed plan.

After the backstabbing incident with the [Love Elf] Salome, he saw everyone as a traitor and would never trust any of his followers again.

He only has limited trust in a few old gods who hold the helm in the hands of the world’s will and the sea of ​​​​source.

Just casually ordered:
“That’s right, we will launch a counterattack soon, let’s go down and prepare.”

In fact, Lucifer was much more anxious than Byron.

In their last battle, they killed [God of Funeral] Gris, [The Clown of Life and Death], and the [Seven Deadly Sins] that they had finally gathered together.

There are only four demigods left: [Enemy Son] Belia, [Arrogant Morning Star] Lucifer, [Mother of Monsters] Echidna, and [Sleeping God] Kraken.

On the other hand, on the side of the First British Empire, those who took action last time included Byron, Catherine, Violet, Cleopatra, Amita, and their old friend Nova.

Nova retrieved her trunk and used a Noah’s Ark to make up for the shortcomings, which together were equivalent to six demigods.

The top-level combat power of the sixth order is already clearly unbalanced. Even with the support of the Blood Angel Jeanne from the Twilight Church, the Old Gods are still at a disadvantage.

Otherwise they wouldn’t have been beaten passively.

Especially Gris, who was eaten alive by the [Sick Girl] Alice, it can be said that he was using his own life to aid the enemy.

They must restore the balance of combat power, or even put the upper hand before Alice digests this demigod and replaces him!
The most immediate way is to break through from the upper level of the old gods, promote several incarnations of the priesthood, and help them restore their demigod strength.

Lucifer waited until the generals of his clan went out to prepare for the counterattack before he looked at the executors of the plan, [Mother of Monsters] Echidna, her two children, [Thousand-Faced Serpent] Hydra, and [Mother of a Hundred-Headed Dragons] Tiamat.

There is also the Jackal God Anu, whose true form has already awakened but was once blasted by Byron in the Kingdom of Horus.

These are the three old gods who are most likely to recover their strength in a short period of time.

The first two are the most outstanding among Echidna’s countless monster children, and are highly consistent with the “Book of Beast Families (Volumes 1 and 2)” and the indigenous totem god tribe.

The latter is a pure god of death. As long as there is a large-scale death of living beings, it can become nourishment for him, and the effect is best on intelligent creatures.

To the old gods, the material world itself is a mouse’s rice jar; as long as there are sacrifices, everything is there.

The plan was not new. It was the same plan that Tiamat used to start the blood sacrifice through a war. She would extract the [Blood Codex] of the corresponding totem gods and their followers to replenish herself, and leave the souls to the jackal god.

Prepare to follow the example of the Byron family who just made a breakthrough and create three demigods at the same time.

During this month of chaotic fighting, the strength of the three of them has been growing rapidly.

But the scale is not enough!
We must take the initiative and start a decisive battle involving millions of people.

Lucifer’s eyes were cold:

“It makes no difference whether it’s the enemy’s vitality or the vitality of my clan, all I want is death.

Everyone, let’s turn this Creo Plain, the gateway to Gulfstream City, into a Creo meat grinder!”

He nodded to Echidna, who played the most crucial role among the gods:
“Lady Echidna, teach them a lesson.”

“give it to me.”

The order was given, and hundreds of thousands of family soldiers distributed along the eight-kilometer-deep front line began to move and start a counterattack.

The main battlefield.

The fifth-order totem god [Earthquake Dragon King], the proxy commander supported by the Sun Empire, saw the gate of the opposite military camp wide open.

A group of family members, driving a large number of strange-looking servant troops, rushed out on their own initiative.

There was nothing wrong with their tactics. In this era, whether it was the clans or the indigenous people, the only way to break through the enemy’s positions was a large-scale army group charge.

But it’s different from before.

There are not only all kinds of normal monsters here, but also weird and evil spirits who have been inspired by the status of the [World Monarch] and joined their camp.

The scale is much larger than the previous month.

There are also many strange and bizarre creatures made up of different species, with lion heads, elephant bodies, snake tails, eagle wings, dragon scales, etc. mixed together in a mess.

It was as if the Creator accidentally knocked over the reagent bottle when creating them.

In fact, the situation is indeed similar to what was speculated.

These are all creations of the demigod authority of Echidna, the mother of monsters [Life Editor, Blood Beast Lair]:

“It can use biological materials to create all kinds of monsters. Except for the inability to create intelligent creatures that are born with reason and humanity, it can create all other creatures. It can also allow any creature to undergo a second pregnancy, decompose and reorganize into a new species, and obtain the advantageous genetic codes of various creatures.”

A six-meter-deep pit was dug on the ground behind the old god’s position. The scarlet flesh and soil at the bottom of the pit together formed a strange organ like a cystic uterus.

Many flesh and blood roots extended from it and spread from underground towards the battlefield.

Various monsters emerged one after another and joined the army on the front line.

“Hoo Hoo Hoo”

“fire!”

boom! boom! boom! boom!
“The Musketeers are ready to fight me!”

As the army of the First British Empire changed its equipment, the agents of the Totem God Tribe also upgraded their equipment and picked up a lot of top equipment from the countries of the Silver Continent for free.

After the battle started, the battlefield was suddenly filled with smoke and blood.

There are both the clan side and the human indigenous side.

There were countless pinkish filaments in the air that were invisible to the naked eye and were sucking away the food from the roots underground.

Whenever someone dies on either side of the enemy or our side, all of their essence is immediately “collected” and transferred to Tiamat and Hydra, whose bodies are half-buried in their nests of flesh and blood.

This was after they got the Blood Angel Jeanne, a demigod who holds the power of Blood Crown, Abundant Collection, to join them, and they further improved the plan on the original basis.

Echidna is the main character, with Joan of Arc as the auxiliary character.

There is no one in this world who knows how to “drain the marrow from the bones” better than the Night Demon.

While cooperating with all her strength, Jeanne secretly glanced at the nest made of mud and flesh.

“No wonder the [Four Basic Elements: Earth] can’t be found anywhere, it turns out it has long since fallen into the hands of this group of followers.

It was only recently assigned to the Mother of Monsters.

It can be roughly determined that the basic ability of the priesthood of Earth is ‘Nurture’. “

As soon as Byron gathered the four basic elements of [water], [fire], and [wind], he tried to sense where the last [earth] was.

It is confirmed that like the previous [Fire] and [Wind], there should be an owner. However, the spirituality of the owner affects the accuracy of the sensing, and we can only be sure that it is in the Corridor of Truth.

So Jeanne was asked to gather intelligence through the “grandmother of the northern continent” Elsa, but before she could find the information, she saw the target with her own eyes in this Zoo.

The original owner of the priesthood most likely did not have a good ending.

Looking down from the sky at this time, you can see that the clan left no room for maneuver as soon as they came on, launching fierce attacks from the front, left wing, and right wing at the same time.

The strategic purpose is simple.

Not only did they want to break through the indigenous lines at all costs, they also wanted to devour these indigenous warriors and use [Fallen Legion, Mark of the Beast] and [Life Editing, Blood Beast Lair] to digest them into their own strength.

One is responsible for a total of 666 elite troops, and the other is responsible for the large-scale regular army.

By obtaining a large amount of resources and population, you can quickly increase your military strength and become stronger and stronger.

“Not good. Are these Families crazy?”

“Chief, we can’t hold on any longer.”

Although the natives had received intelligence support from the Imperial Army Department and knew that the clans were about to launch an attack, they were still caught off guard by their flood-like and fearless offensive.

Especially those giant monsters created by the mother of monsters. They were huge in size, with thick skin and flesh. They could even withstand the solid bullets fired by field artillery and rush into the indigenous lines, killing the natives.

Following closely behind was a group of Centaurs.

They were wearing the military uniforms of the Pyrenean Empire, with their lower bodies stitched together with the horses that were galloping like the wind.

This invincible army was originally stationed in the capital of the Pyrenees Empire.

After joining Lucifer, a considerable number of elite soldiers became the emperor’s personal guards. Their Ladder of Glory sequence was seamlessly connected to the [Code of Solomon], and they were top-notch in both combat effectiveness and military quality.

After being transformed by the Mother of Monsters, he became a trump card in the hands of the Solomon Empire.

At this time, everyone had a bolt-action rifle or a pump-action rifle.

The clan’s alchemy skills are not bad. Enough time has passed, enough for them to imitate a batch of usable modern firearms.

The status of the world’s will also helped them withstand the backlash of Violet’s “patent rights”, preventing them from dying suddenly when they plagiarized.

Although there is a problem of excessive tolerance in parts, making each of these guns almost unique like a rare object, they are still very sharp for use in assault battles.

boom! boom! boom!
The Centaur Guards’ marksmanship was much better than that of the natives. In less than half a day, they had torn seven or eight gaps in the natives’ defense line.

He rushed to the front of the battle and switched to a saber, using his superb saber skills to cut off the head of the indigenous warrior.

“kill–!”

The clan attacked on three fronts. If one place was breached, the others would be impossible to defend.

Large groups of indigenous warriors fell in pools of blood and became nourishment for the three incarnations of the priesthood.

The Earthquake Dragon King was so angry that his eyes were about to burst, but he suddenly remembered Byron’s instructions to him, so he gritted his teeth and roared:
“Retreat. I will cover the rear, and the rest of you should retreat to the second line of defense in an orderly manner.”

At this time, Byron was guarding the second line of defense.

After receiving the intelligence, he immediately led the army to dig trenches and set up fire positions behind the front line, preparing to give a big gift to the clan that took the initiative to attack.

When [Divine Vision] was released, one could see that on a battle line about 30 kilometers long and several kilometers deep, the natives were rapidly evacuating in the front, and the clansmen were chasing them closely after defeating the rear guard troops.

You chased me and I soon reached the range of the second line of defense.

Lucifer and the old gods are not fools.

The combination of the thick-skinned meat shield and the swift Centaur cavalry in the clan is very reasonable. Bolt-action rifles and shotguns will appear particularly weak in such a combination.

They would be hit on the head after firing only a few shots, which was far less effective than the old-style musketeers who used battle line tactics.

The family members also think so.

However, just as the clan troops, arranged in dense formations, stepped into the 1500-meter red line, unprecedentedly dense gunfire suddenly rang out.

Not like before: “Bang! Bang! Bang!”

But it was the one that had never appeared on the battlefield: “Da da da da da da.”

The iron-like team in the front row “melted” in an instant, and the subsequent troops who were still charging, not knowing what had happened, also fell down one after another like dominoes.

However, on the second line of defense, a dazzling chain of fire was sprayed out every 100 meters. The cross-fire was like a pair of large scissors 2000 meters long, cutting towards the torrent of flesh and blood with a “click”.

Even a big tree that can be hugged by two people can be easily cut in half by the fire chain, let alone a mere flesh and blood body.

No matter how fast the horses and men run, they can’t beat the crossfire that leaves no blind spots. No matter how thick the monster’s skin is, it can’t withstand the 600 rounds of bullets fired per minute.

The Royal Navy has dreadnoughts, the Air Force has ornithopters and airships, and finally the Army can’t just be given a pair of new boots and sent away, right?

The secret weapon that Byron prepared for the army is the heavy machine gun that can easily crush the human wave tactics (Chapter 688)!

And not just one, but two:

“All beings are equal Maxim, and Gatlin saves the dying and the wounded!”

The Maxim Heavy Machine Gun is the world’s first automatic weapon powered by gunpowder gas. It was invented by Violet’s gunsmith apprentice Hiram Stevens.

The caliber is 11.43 mm, the gun weighs 27.2 kg, it adopts short-recoil automatic mode and water-cooled barrel.

The magazine has a capacity of 333 rounds and is fed by a 6.4-meter-long canvas belt. The theoretical rate of fire is 600 rounds per minute. It can fire single or continuous shots, and can also be adjusted to a slow rate of fire of 100 rounds per minute through a rate of fire regulator.

The firing rate of the [Gatling Gun] can reach about 600 rounds per minute, and it adopts a multi-barrel hand-cranked design.

The inventor, Richard Gatling, was not a professional gunsmith, but a surgeon from the Hospital Sequence of the Holy Lance School. Studying guns was purely his hobby.

While saving lives during the Civil War in the Corridor of Truth, he couldn’t bear to see the tragic condition of soldiers getting injured on the battlefield, so he decided to develop a new type of firearm.

It has 10 gun barrels that rotate and fire continuously. Only one soldier is needed to operate it to unleash the firepower of 10 soldiers. In this way, the number of soldiers needed to go to the battlefield can be reduced tenfold.

The two men also have something in common. They are both “good men” and “good doctors” who are committed to reducing the involvement and casualties of their own soldiers. Together, they cured His Majesty Saint Byron’s fear of insufficient firepower.

(End of this chapter)