Edge of the Apocalypse

Chapter 418: Inch Fire Initiation

A group of horses galloped in the wilderness, pointing in the direction of Storm City. Alan rode his warhorse and ran at the front of the group, followed by Regis and the others, followed by a hundred Inch Fire Warriors. As for the technical team, they were temporarily staying in Sur City. Only after Storm City had calmed down would Edward send them over.

"Why is Storm City surrounded?" Lucy rode up to Alan and asked.

She was just asking the people beside her what they were thinking. After hearing that Storm City had been attacked, Allen decided to set off immediately, but she didn't have time to explain the specific reason to everyone.

When Lucy asked, she said, "It was the private army of the other nobles. I thought Black Iron Castle had gone back on its word, but it was not."

According to Edward, the cause of the incident had to start at the end of the month. At that time, a group of merchants came from the inner sea of the empire and landed at Violet Harbor. They had sought out the Lily Chamber of Commerce to work together. However, after that, he found Storm City. The reason for that was because the Lily Chamber of Commerce had acted as an agent for the textile fabrics produced in Sur City. Once these fabrics were imported into the interior of the empire, they quietly became popular in the market. The foreign caravan was named after Alan returning to Earth, while Edward went to Storm City to take care of some government affairs.

Upon hearing that Edward was in Storm City, the merchant group went over and hoped to cooperate with Sur City for a long time. However, they did not show any sincerity. After contacting them, Edward heard them offer an abnormally low price and tactfully rejected them. After that, the representative of the caravan was so angry that he even put down the words of warning Edward to be careful of Yun Yun.

Edward naturally didn't care about the threat of lack of nutrition. The next morning, he returned to Sur City. However, the caravan was still in Storm City, and the caravan guards were stirring up trouble in the city. Roy, who was in charge of guarding Storm City, naturally wouldn't be polite to them and ordered the soldiers to arrest them all. The guards were released only after the caravan paid the required security deposit.

After that, the caravan left. However, not long after, a few armies arrived at the gates. Roy naturally wouldn't agree to ask Storm City to compensate for the loss of the caravan, so the troops stationed outside the city surrounded Storm City.

Finally, Edward said with certainty, "It's a trap, from beginning to end. The caravan, and even their guards, are just an excuse for the noble army behind them to besiege the city."

When Lucy heard this, she couldn't help but sigh, "What a standard aristocratic practice."

Two days later, they entered the borders of Storm City. On the grass outside the city, one could see a tent from afar. All kinds of flags were fluttering in the tent, but in terms of patterns, they could be divided into three types. One was the emblem of the Bauhinia flower, with a venomous snake circling beneath it. The second was a castle on a mountain peak with a golden sun hanging behind it. Finally, there was a unicorn running on the thorny ground.

These three flag emblems naturally represented different nobles. Alan silently remembered them and watched the battle from afar. At this moment, the three aristocratic armies were launching an attack on Storm City. Storm City used the two cannons on the city wall as firepower to suppress the enemy's attack, supplemented by a close-range firepower network formed by the firepower/rifle squad, using their superiority to suppress the enemy's attack.

On the other side of the steel mill and the weapons workshop, a row of temporary fortifications had been built. These temporary workers were naturally not as defensive as Storm City's high walls, so Roy arranged for the shooters with Origin Rifles to be on that side, plus the Mountain King's troops to be on guard. It wasn't much easier to take down the factory than to take down Storm City.

Together, the three noble private armies numbered more than two thousand. In terms of strength alone, it was naturally better than Storm City. But when it comes to quality, there is a big difference. After Allen captured Storm City, the army had been reorganized many times, and they were constantly adding and upgrading equipment. Their combat strength was no longer comparable to that of ordinary noble armies. josei

Especially the Mountain King, the Dark Blade, and the rifle squad that held Origin Energy rifles, all surpassed the standard of ordinary noble armies by a lot. Hence, although there were many soldiers in the three aristocratic armies, Roy used hard defensive tactics. With Bloy, Belmond, and the others as the fulcrum of the defense network, along with the three special squads and the original Knights and armies of Storm City, they firmly guarded the position within a hundred meters of Storm City.

Storm City was like a reef standing in the sea of rage. The enemy army surged wildly, but they were unable to push down this reef.

Out of the three armies, an army wearing the flag of a unicorn continued to charge into the factory. That army had the most troops, and half of them were cavalry. These cavalry took advantage of their mobile units and constantly organized their offensive to charge into the battlefield. One wave after another came to an end. After each attack, regardless of whether or not they obtained anything, they would spread out from both sides, giving the successive echelons the space to continue attacking.

Occasionally, the enemy would erupt with a powerful aura, and that was when the experts of the enemy army attacked. At this moment, Broyle's rough and tough aura would rise, and then a powerful collision of Origin Energy would appear on the battlefield. Bloy was very strong, becoming an important fulcrum on the defensive line of the factory. He was like an unyielding war god. As long as the Mountain King's army had him, everyone's aura would be like a rainbow.

After observing for a moment, Alan said to the officer behind him, "Captain, the war you want is right in front of you. Behave well."

"No problem, sir." Woody turned around and shouted at the soldiers of the Rear Position Fire Force, "Boys, it's time for us to perform. Let the villagers of these planets see how powerful our Sirius army is!"

The soldier raised his gun and responded with a loud boom.

Woody pointed at the two second lieutenants, waved his hand towards the battlefield, and quietly left with the Inch Fire Army.

The battlefield was filled with deadly battles. However, the noble alliance army suddenly discovered that an army that did not have a number or military flag had suddenly joined the battlefield from the left wing of the alliance army. The trajectory of their advance was clear, pointing straight at the private army with the unicorn flag emblem. Seeing this, the commander of the army did not care. Following his fingers, a group of knights and three hundred infantry left the group and charged towards Inch Fire.

Suddenly, an army of Inch Fire split into two groups, each under the leadership of a second lieutenant, covering and advancing towards each other. In the blink of an eye, they exchanged hands with the private army. Amongst the troops, Woody rushed to the front. He even bit a cigarette, his left blade and right pistol. As he charged towards the leader of the enemy troops, Woody's momentum exploded. Even if his LV18 combat strength didn't increase by any other equipment, it was still a real first-class combat strength on the battlefield.

The captain of the enemy army was no more than level 15, and Woody immediately ate his aura. Woody was so experienced that he waved his saber and swiftly grabbed the saber's legs. Saber light flashed, and the enemy cavalry immediately stumbled, causing the captain to fall off the horse. The opponent rolled and stood up with his sword in his hand. Woody had already arrived, and a saber in his hand was swung so tightly that it could not be breathed through, and the saber's momentum was like mercury pouring down from the ground. After blocking more than a dozen strikes, the captain was caught by Woody. The saber twisted and sent the opponent's sword flying. Then, he waved his left hand and shot out a bullet hole in his helmet.

Even to his death, the captain did not understand why Woody's pistol was so powerful that it pierced through the helmet made of two layers of fine steel. Naturally, he wouldn't know that the Origin Energy pistol in Woody's hand was an Origin Energy pistol.

There was no suspense in the following battles. The Inch Fire Army was armed to the teeth, and they had a set of Blazing Battle Weapons. The Fierce Fire Rifle in the hands of the warriors was astonishing in power. The terrifying sound became a soul-stirring song on the battlefield. Wherever the gunshots went, the enemy troops were harvested clean like straw.

The Inch Fire Army quickly ate the intercepting army and forcefully pierced through the enemy's rear. The two separate teams continued to widen the enemy's wounds with exquisite coordination. Its speed was so fast that by the time the commander of the unicorn army reacted, the rear of the army was no longer in formation. At this moment, he no longer cared about attacking the factory's position and ordered the cavalry to turn around, hoping to use their advantage to eat up the reinforcements.

However, when the cavalry turned around to charge, Woody chuckled and made a gesture. Instantly, the Inch Fire troops formed a clear-cut ladder-type firing formation. There were three rows in total, and the firing formation of more than 50 people faced the cavalry of more than 400 soldiers. With the military common sense of this era, even if these fifty people were to concentrate and fire, the cavalry could at most sacrifice a hundred or so people to disperse the enemy's firing formation in one fell swoop.

However, when he saw the rough rifle in the hands of the Inch Fire Army, the unicorn commander's heart was beating wildly, and he felt that something was missing. As Woody waved his saber, all of the Flame Fighting Rifles activated their magical energy patterns. The rifles lit up, and then a flame missile dragged its bright tail, leaving a shocking trajectory on the battlefield. It landed in a parabola among the cavalry.

Immediately, waves of continuous explosions erupted. This cavalry was like a head-on collision with a heavy artillery bombardment. The hundreds of cavalry in the front row were immediately sent flying by the explosion. Then the horses' bodies were blown down by the explosion, but before the bombardment was over, another wave of fireballs shot towards them.

The unicorn commander stood there in a daze for a few seconds, his eyes pierced by the dazzling flames. The cavalry that he was proud of had been killed and wounded by the two waves of bombardment from the other side. The speed of the battle damage was simply too fast. Two rounds of bombardment caused a blank space to appear on the battlefield. Before the commander could react, the barrage of the Fierce Flame Rifle resounded once again, and the remaining cavalry were being harvested by the barrage of bullets.

The commander couldn't help but make a gesture. The messenger beside him had a pale face as he raised his flag and continuously flapped the flag of retreat. If they didn't withdraw, the cavalry that they had built up with great difficulty would be completely crippled. The commander no longer dared to imagine how he would face his immediate superior after returning.

This was far from their original plan!