Chapter 686 07.685: “A huge shadow in the blue mist”

The day before the attack, Friday.

The central hive cluster was shrouded in a strange and thick fog, which pressed heavily on the ground and covered the mud in the no-man’s land.

Along the entire front line, the Kriegs who were preparing to launch an attack were on high alert, their eyes fixed on the fog, not missing any movement.

Such heavy fog was beneficial to the attack, but it delayed the attack by one day.

The Krieg would not launch a surprise attack without plan. Every link of this huge war machine must operate precisely, and any mistake could lead to total loss.

To prevent the enemy from taking advantage of the fog to launch a surprise attack, all fronts were on high alert.

Suddenly, a Krieg soldier discovered that a huge and blurry shadow was slowly emerging from the thick fog in front of him.

He subconsciously raised his head and tried to see the tall and huge shadow gradually emerging in front of him through the dark lenses of the gas mask.

Buzz! Boom!

The sound of explosive bombardment came from the flickering ball of light high up, and the beam of the thermal cannon hit the position of the Krieg 1118th Infantry Regiment at almost extremely close range, killing the soldier who was observing it, as well as any living thing within fifty meters of him.

The eerily silent battlefield was instantly broken by fierce gunfire.

Horatio walked out of the command post, still tightly holding a copy of the attack plan sent by the 1314th Infantry Regiment.

This was an offensive plan proposed by Farida, an amateur, and Louise, who had some experience, together with the staff. After reading it, he thought it was quite commendable and could be implemented.

Horatio and his staff were studying the plan carefully, and at the same time preparing the 1313th Infantry Regiment to cooperate in the battle.

At this moment, the sound of gunfire in the distance interrupted their discussion.

“what happened?”

Horatio walked quickly out of the command post, climbed onto the observation platform, pulled out a telescope, aimed it at the mask lens, and looked at the position of the 1118th Infantry Regiment.

Even through the thick fog, you can see flashes of explosions and lasers from time to time, but you can’t see clearly what the attack is because of the thick fog.

In mid-air, a beam of heat energy descended from the sky at an angle, shot into the trench, and then swept horizontally.

Higher up, the heavy logging rifles were like hanging beacons, emitting dazzling flames.

“What the hell is that…” Horatio muttered to himself, his eyes full of disbelief.

Phew!

The flares fired by the Krieg light artillery company landed on the position and slowly fell, with the parachutes barely visible in the fog.

Horatio quickly aimed the telescope at the flare. As the flare fell, the strong light illuminated a curved piece of armor in mid-air. On it was painted an emblem similar to a double-headed eagle, which looked like a family crest, but now it had been painted an eerie fluorescent blue to blend in with the mist.

Looking closely, Horatio was shocked. That wasn’t the mark of the Imperial Sky Eagle at all, it was clearly the blue bird that he was familiar with!
The flares continued to fall, illuminating a huge head and towering back.

[Knight…Mecha…Impossible…] Horatio was sure that he was not mistaken, but this conclusion was really unbelievable.

How could such a large mecha pass through the no-man’s land without being noticed by any sentinel? Did it fall from the sky?
Even if it fell from the sky, with such a large tonnage, the earth would at least shake a few times! How did it do that?
I saw the mecha slowly raise its towering shoulders.

Swish, swish, swish! A string of dense missiles instantly fired from the steel back and flew towards Krieg’s artillery position.

Puff puff puff!

Wherever the missile landed, flames shot up into the sky and the fire of death spread rapidly.

Boom!

A dazzling light made the earth tremble.

Even though Horatio was 1118 kilometers away from the position of the 30th Infantry Regiment, he was almost knocked down.

An open-air ammunition storage site was detonated by a raging fire. The flames that shot up into the sky instantly dispersed the surrounding thick fog and lifted half of the barrel of an earth-shaking cannon into the air dozens of meters high, before it slammed heavily into the mud.

On the battlefield, the Kriegs tried their best to fight back against this inexplicably appearing knight mecha, but with little success.

The heavy bolts would either ricochet or fail to penetrate the solid armor when they hit it, and the large-caliber artillery that managed to fire could only create a few harmless ripples on the blue ion shield in front of it.

The Knight Mech leaned forward slightly, aiming its thermal cannon at the bunker on the surface that was firing non-stop.

Swoosh! Puff! A beam of scorching heat shot out and hit the bunker, instantly melting the steel on the surface and piercing through the quick-concrete.

Horatio knew that with such firepower, there would be no survivors in the bunker. After sweeping the bunker, the Knight mecha aimed its thermal cannon at the Krieg soldiers in the trenches and began to fire wildly.

Anyone caught in the heat beam would instantly vanish into thin air.

Beside it, there are several servant mechas that only reach its waist. These servant mechas, like “hellhounds”, are agile and use automatic cannons and heavy machine guns to clear all living things they can see for their heretical masters.

The two automatic cannons fired almost non-stop, trampling trenches and corpses, and blasting into pulp any brave soldiers who tried to risk using cluster grenades to blow up the Knight’s mecha.

After wreaking havoc on the 1118th Infantry Regiment’s position, the Fallen Knight Mech was “satisfied” and slowly retreated into the thick fog, with the Servant Mech following behind to provide cover.

Buzz!!! A horn suddenly sounded from behind the Krieg’s position.

Horatio quickly turned the telescope over there, and first saw a shining flag, and then saw two knight mechas and several servants breaking through the thick fog.

When he saw that the flag still bore the symbol of the empire, his tense heart slowly relaxed.

It seems that these are the Freeblades that came to hunt down the Creedence family.

Most of the Freeblades are knights who failed to protect their own knight home world, or the survivors whose families were brutally massacred, and some knights who were burdened with heavy oaths.

They left their hometowns for various reasons, went to war everywhere, and became the knights that the imperial soldiers were most likely to see.

Although it is unclear whether these knights are here to wash away the shame and bloodbath and resolve the conflict with the Credens family, or to purge the scum among the knights.

Anyway, they set foot on the Carpathians specifically to fight against the Ceredens family.

But now it seems that they are a step too late.

By the time they reached the position of the 1118th Infantry Regiment, the attackers had already disappeared in the thick blue fog.

The Freeblades, who had not found their target, searched around the battlefield for traces of the enemy.

Suddenly, with a whoosh, the enemy’s heavy artillery landed on the position of the 1118th Infantry Regiment with a whistling sound.

The knight mecha dodged hurriedly. A few bullets hit the platinum shoulder armor. Some exploded, and some were bounced off, sliding to the ground and exploding. The fragments hit the polished mecha, making a clanging sound and scratching the paint surface.

The knights immediately adjusted their ion shields to block the incoming shells.

This is a protective energy shield in a specific direction, not an omnidirectional void shield.

The shell hit the ion shield and exploded in mid-air, but did not land on the Krieg position.

After searching for a while with ion shields, the Free Blade Knights still failed to find the enemy.

The two knight mechas and the attendant mechas had no choice but to withdraw from the position of the 1118th Infantry Regiment and retreat to the rear.
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The incomprehensible raid was over, and the Kriegs began to clean up the charred corpses on the battlefield.

There was silence on the battlefield, and Horatio, who was observing through a telescope, couldn’t help feeling sad.

“These damn mechas are like they were teleported here out of thin air… May their souls rest in peace on the Golden Throne.” He took a deep breath in a dull voice.

The raid was extremely costly, with thousands of soldiers killed.

The soldiers on standby in the trenches were swept by the thermal cannon along the trench trajectory, and all the people in the two trenches were killed.

Those knight attendant mechas, under the cover of the knight mechas, rushed into the logistics trenches and command trenches, wantonly destroyed supplies, and crazily fired at the command post of the 1118th Infantry Regiment with automatic cannons.

The regiment headquarters was destroyed and the original offensive plan was destroyed in the artillery fire.

These situations will then be sent to Thei and Lati through Melon’s psychic communication.

Horatio really wanted to know how the knights of the Creedence family who were underground destroying the Black Stone Obelisk managed to get to the surface.

Is there more than one Knight Mech? Or did the Chaos rebels use some evil magic? In any case, this is too dangerous!
“You mean… only the 1124th Infantry Regiment will attack Passchendaele tomorrow?” Horatio asked Staff Officer Clausewitz in disbelief, looking at the sand table in front of him.

“Yes. Although the remnants of the 1118th Infantry Regiment can still fight, the command center has fallen into chaos.

It is simply too late to formulate a new coordinated attack plan now.

We must start the full-scale offensive tomorrow. The offensive in the Passchendaele area cannot be cancelled, otherwise it will greatly increase the difficulty of our attack in the Ypres area. “

The staff officer looked solemn and stated the cruel reality:

“In order to reduce the resistance in the Ypres area, the 1124th Infantry Regiment must launch an attack alone at pm tomorrow. Even if it fails, the rebel regiment in the Passchendaele area must be pinned down and unable to move.”

(End of this chapter)