Take Taobao with you to another world

Chapter 469 Times have changed

Regardless of the factors that determine victory or defeat in a grand strategic war, in the ordinary course of combat victory or defeat is determined by the efficiency of killing.

In this regard, no one in Central Continent can match the Industrial Alliance.

And the mages of the ground council have also known the advantage of the alliance in this aspect through previous battles. Almost at the beginning of the attack by the alliance army, the protective barrier of the inner city was raised, and the protective wall flashed silver light above the city wall. , Large and small water mirrors floated in the sky. Under the watchful eyes of the mages, those downtown residents wielding kitchen knives, axes, saws, rakes, and even sticks swarmed towards the positions of the Industrial Alliance like moths.

They widened their eyes, held their breath, and finally saw how the Alliance man operated their steel weapons. It was so simple. They just stuffed some heavy cylinders into the iron pipes, and then pulled the mechanism, and the iron pipes on the iron frame vibrated. , then the mouth of the nozzle suddenly lit up, and something that could hardly be caught by the naked eye flew out, and threw it towards the crowd, like a heavy hammer hitting the ground, the fire flashed by, and amidst the loud thunder, the earth and grass blades accompanied the human beings. The broken body was thrown high.

Like raindrops falling on a pond, the Alliance's bombardment sent ripples of blood and fire across the vast plains.

The people were completely stunned. The attack method that they never thought of and the nightmare weapon caused hundreds of casualties in an instant. Gray smoke rose from where the shells landed, and people who were not affected by the shrapnel also collapsed. Next, the shock wave shattered their internal organs, and thick blood flowed from their mouths and noses. I don’t know how many people were overturned by the spreading shock wave. When they got up from the ground again in a daze, the sky and the earth had changed. color.

They didn't even understand what was happening until the cries of their companions reached their ears.Looking around in the heavy rain of blood and soil, the illusion caused by the "water of courage" that they drank before the expedition finally dissipated. Fear grew from the bottom of their hearts and overwhelmed the enthusiasm. In front of them, the second round of shelling had already begun ——

The mirror surface of the water mirror that reflected the horrors of the battlefield fluctuated and distorted. The mages who thought they had overestimated the Alliance raised their heads, and directly in front of their field of vision, dozens of black spots from the Alliance positions had approached.

During the almost indiscriminate explosion, the barriers of the inner city shone brightly, and the high-grade magic stones on the base of the magic circle quickly melted into sand. They only heard the sound but couldn't see the situation, and they wanted to ask someone to ask what happened. A high-level mage jumped down from the upper floor with a light body technique, grabbed the priceless magic stone statue, grabbed the worthless stone, and threw it in handfuls. Into the array.

"Hurry up!"

"Must hold on!"

They hurriedly urged, even though they were noble mages, they were as panicked as a rich man who rescued money from a fire.Why didn't they believe the information about the industrial alliance before?Because I heard that the development direction chosen by the ground country is to use mortal means to simulate the power of talent, I sneered at it. Even if the opponent is already approaching the city, they are still confident that they can survive this crisis. Unexpectedly, if they treat mortals as weeds, their enemies will also Harvest them like weeds!

The sneak attack at night has allowed them to do their best, but it has not hurt the foundation of the Alliance people-it is doubtful whether it has actually consumed the opponent's strength.Poisonous mist, poisonous insects, imitation beasts, assassinations, curses, and illusions are all easily dealt with by the alliance members, and now it's the turn of the mages to experience the full strength of their opponents.

However, the guard wall is flickering. Even though it has only withstood a wave of bombardment, it should have been colorless like air, and it is about to turn silver. The erratic light makes people have a terrible guess: Could it be that this was given by the upper city? Even the barrier above the core of the industry cannot withstand the attacks of those mortals from the Industrial Alliance?Obviously, as long as they input enough mana, the protection system, which is not afraid even if the spear of the sky falls from their heads, has not responded to their expectations, and is showing various signs of overload. Not only is the wall flickering, but the core magic circle is also glowing. The mana consumed at an astonishing speed transpired into a fog visible to the naked eye. Even so, there was another scream of panic from the tower and the city wall——

A more intensive bombardment than last time struck again, like a stormy sea, hitting this stubborn barrier hard!

A blazing flash lit up between the sky and the earth.

"Really stubborn." Someone said in the shelling position.

"Compared with our past opponents, they are indeed more stubborn." Another commander said, "But this is an opponent who can't run, and we have a lot of guns."

He glanced at the shell boxes piled up higher than human heads beside him, "There are enough."

The barrier above the inner city fluctuated like a dancing veil, and it was only a matter of time before it was completely shattered, and it was only a matter of time before one or two more bombardments at most.

All are aware of this.

Anzalu looked at the beautiful scenery through the narrow window. The narrow skylight fell on his face, making his eyes shine. People crowded around him, listening to the sounds from the inner city. The guards seem to have been dumbfounded, there is no other movement except nervous panting, so they can clearly hear the commotion coming from all over the city.

"They should have run away sooner," said someone in the dark.

"Earlier they couldn't listen."

This statement received a lot of approval.

Then someone asked: "After piercing through this layer of tortoise shell, the heavy artillery fell into the city. Will we be unlucky and be killed together?"

This is indeed a question worthy of consideration, and the workers of the alliance began to discuss it.Some people say that guns have no eyes, and accidental injury is inevitable if the strike range is large; some people are extremely confident in the quality of the alliance fighters and the tactical level of the commanders and fighters, and mention many of their legendary combat experiences, but sometimes it is inevitable to depend on luck; Some people said that even if all of them were extremely unlucky, it might not be impossible for these idiot nobles from the Mist Country to be buried together—then the topic returned to the daily insults to the Mist Country's rulers.

They scolded these noble wastes who thought they had no power, but never made any useful contribution to the world. The so-called great ideals were just repeating the delusions of all ambitious people throughout the ages. It is just to strengthen the enslavement of the people, and wants to become a parasite of the huge group of human beings forever.In particular, their so-called perfect order means that the rulers will always be the rulers, and the ruled will always be the ruled. People are not allowed to correct the order and use their own minds and hands to actively transform reality. Then what is the point of such a world in the same pool of stagnant water? the difference?

Unlike their alliances and magicians, that is the light of humanity~

Not to mention that this kind of delusion is based on a foundation that is almost equivalent to a trap. Even if the restart of the rift is doomed, any human being who knows about it will think that they have accelerated this process, and they will definitely go down in history. Leave your name on it, in a disgraceful manner.

Usually, when alliance workers criticize the ground council and criticize the stupidity of the country's ruling method, the guards outside the door either tell them to shut up, or use broken logic to argue with them, and then they are not surprised by these eloquence. The alliance members in turn educated them—after all, the reason why they were locked in this corner was because they had torn their skins with the ground council after being arrested. The noble mage wanted to humiliate them, but was broken by the alliance's mental attack. Defensively, they can only throw them here in annoyance.

And when the young people of these alliances were intensely conceiving their suicide note, there was an uneasy knocking sound outside the door.

"Hey!" A trembling voice asked, "If, if, we let you out and lift your shackles, you, can you let us escape these attacks and let us live with you?"

The small black room fell silent.

"You want to live too?" Ansalu asked.

"Of course!" said the person outside the door.

Like a sudden flash of lightning, the light coming in through the window from which only one hand can be stretched out suddenly increased again, and the guard outside the door almost screamed: "The wall, the wall is about to break—!!"

Anzalu jumped up from the ground, "Then what are you waiting for?!"

The others also staggered to their feet, and with the sound of the chains clashing, the door creaked open, and the air filled with gunpowder smoke rushed in.

On the coalition's position, Long Tianao looked at the crazily flickering protective wall on the inner city wall, and now everyone could see that it was at the end of its strength and was about to collapse.The residents of the lower city who suffered heavy casualties after only one round of shelling were still scattered and fled on the battlefield. The coalition forces of various countries finally played a meager role at this time, protecting the two wings of the alliance position.

Many terrified townspeople and remnants fled towards the battlefield. Their direction was right, but there were also many people who broke down and ran towards the city, even though Xu Jin's previous attack had already plowed a wide road. No Man's Land—a counterpoint to the thick green mist that still clung to the hillside behind them, the banks of the moat collapsed for a long time, but the bridges over the river were preserved, before they were even closed. From the beginning, this way back is like a sign, even though the protective barrier of the lower city is under fierce attack, the residents of the lower city still desperately want to go back.

Shelling on Union positions ceased.

The Union soldiers on the infantry position raised their guns and began to charge.

Takla looked at the ebbing crowd from the command position, suddenly raised his eyebrows, turned his eyes to one side, then turned back, and said a few words to the people around him, who showed a surprised expression on his face, and for a moment Then nodded again.

The command was conveyed, and the gunner on one artillery moved again, reloaded, locked the breech, and adjusted the angle of the steering machine, the movements were skillful and calm, and then there was another bang, and a shell hit the precarious barrier again .

I don't know how many pairs of eyes are chasing its trajectory, watching this high-speed projectile fly from one end of the battlefield to the other.

Amid the sound of the explosion, the wall above the inner city trembled again, then froze.

This stiffness is not proof of recovery.

Under the silent gazes of many soldiers and noble knights from various countries on the alliance position, under the hopeful eyes of the residents who threw themselves under the inner city wall, under the horrified sight of the inner city mages and their many apprentices and servants, this tenacious land The silver city wall that persisted until the last moment began to shatter like a crystal under heavy pressure.

The shattering of the wall and the dissipation of energy are actually silent, but people seem to hear the sound of clicking in their ears, and the cracks form a network of light, which disappears at the last flash.

The sky returned to calm, except for the gunpowder smoke scattered with the wind, it seemed that nothing had ever existed.

Amidst the cries resounding on the battlefield, the alliance positions fired again, crossed the city wall, and the landmark buildings in the inner city were hit one after another. Under the same artillery fire intensity, the defense mechanism of these mage towers was only hastily and weakly After lighting up for a moment, it was surrounded by flames and thick smoke from the explosion. Bricks and stones rolled down from the towers. These tall towers located in the four corners of the inner city and the center of the city trembled violently, tilted, and even broke under the rumbling gunfire. , A man in a robe jumped out of the tower amidst the thick smoke, and fell towards the city together with the spire representing power and authority.

Different from the dull aftermath of the explosion, the aftermath of the impact spread from the inner city to the outer battlefield, causing the horses to neigh uncomfortably, and the smoke and dust rose in clouds, which could be seen very clearly even in the surrounding towns.In fact, not only the citizens of the Mist Country in these cities and towns saw this war that subverted common sense, but in other directions of this vast plain, the generals of the reinforcements in the eastern part of the Mist Country, who gathered the remnants and returned to the defense, united with the Alliance people and went all the way. The formidable vanguard of the rebels all saw the process of this great city struggling towards its destruction from the high ground.

Union infantry began to advance into the city.Except for the bomb craters on the road and the damage to the buildings caused by the shelling, nothing could stop their footsteps. The people in the lower city who witnessed the breach of defense in the inner city had completely collapsed. Seeing the Union soldiers in gray-green uniforms, they were not hasty. To escape is to be paralyzed on the ground, without any will to fight.The Confederates passed them like barricades, stepped onto bridges, waded through dry water, and some determined guards on the walls threw their weapons to kill. After a round of rifle volleys, these weak resistances were also declared over.

Climbing up the gap opened by heavy artillery on the inner city wall, hundreds of Union soldiers jumped into the city to attack the last enemy.

At this time, the inner city is already like hell.

The collapse of the Mage Tower caused a large number of casualties. The architectural layout of the inner city showed a clear hierarchical order. Therefore, the closer the residences to the Mage Tower, the more gorgeous and numerous servants. The owners of these houses were not prepared for the collapse of the Mage Tower. When they finally realized that they were going to flee, thousands of bricks and stones had already been smashed down from their heads before they could take their belongings with them.The ruins covered the road out of the city, and the dust covered the sky and the sun. As if such disasters were not enough, colorful flames flowed out from the collapsed mage tower. It was the fire that was ignited after the spell-casting substances mixed with each other and touched the air. Difficult to put out - and no one wants to do it now - and more importantly, they are producing toxic fumes.

There were screams, pain and helpless calls for help everywhere. People scattered and fled in the smoke and dust. Even the beasts who rode knew that disaster was imminent. They ran all the way from the stables to the street and ran wildly. Crazy Horse turned his head, tore off the mask from his face, and said to the long line of people behind him, "Go this way!"

Some people followed blindly ignorantly, while others hesitated: "But that direction is not..."

Then their words were interrupted by a person next to him who also covered his face: "Go here to live!"

There are more and more people in this team, and the targeted actions are gradually being noticed by other people in the smoke. For some reason, the powerful mages have lost their tracks, and those who have lost their guidance and do not know where to flee follow them instinctively , found that not only was he not expelled, but also a wet cloth was covered from the front to cover his mouth and nose. While maintaining order, some people on the periphery of the team added the old, weak, women and children they encountered on the road to the team, trying their best to lead this increasingly bloated team. The huge team was advancing, and the people were breathing hard like this, walking deeply and shallowly, and walking, it seemed that there was a wind blowing from the opposite side, the pungent smell in the air was relieved, and a halo of light appeared in front of their eyes. Light--

——They followed the right person, this is indeed the right direction!

The overjoyed people tried to speed up their pace, the smoke became thinner and the light became bigger and bigger, like a wide gap, even they were not the first to come to this exit, in the still blurred vision, many people who moved quickly He trotted past them, and there were many jumping figures at the exit in front of him.Getting closer, getting closer, another strong wind blew from the opposite side, and the smoke dissipated a lot, not only the huge gap in the city wall, but also the figures of the Union soldiers who filed in from here clearly displayed in front of these fugitives.

The gas mask with a terrifying appearance showed the opponent's identity to everyone more shockingly than the military uniform.

Looking outside again, what they saw was the ruins of the outer city that had been almost razed to the ground. Even the moat was blocked by collapsed bridges and collapsed city walls. The robust alliance people crossed the puddles towards the gap that opened Gathering, this situation made many fugitives in the inner city suddenly unable to move an inch because of fear, but their leader still led the team to move on. Not only that, he also took off the cloth strips on his face, and any Observed by passing Alliance people.

But the Alliance people just looked at him, and then hurried past him and the team behind him. Under the urging and even driving of their fellow travelers, these inner city residents stumbled down the gap in the city wall, and followed the guide to cross. Bullet craters and puddles, while listening to the successive gunshots in the inner city-they had never heard of it, so it must be the means of the Alliance again, they couldn't believe that they escaped like this.

The leader's footsteps gradually revealed the slowness of injury and fatigue. He led the group of people for a while, finally stopped, and turned to face them.

"Anzalu!" someone in the crowd exclaimed.

The head of the Alliance Chamber of Commerce in the lower city, no wonder the soldiers of the Industrial Alliance did nothing to them!

"Gentlemen," said Ansalu in a hoarse voice, "the lower town is over."

The gunshots from the city became more and more intense, and there was a loud explosion from time to time, and several explosions after a while, rumbling and shaking people's eardrums.

"This country is about to change." Ansalu looked at them and continued, "The old life will never come back. You must start a new life."

His words were passed on, and silence followed.There were hundreds of people standing here, including men and women, but none of them could see the future. They looked at each other, and when someone showed a determined expression and took a step in front of the crowd, a burst of exclamation sounded. An indescribable feeling grabbed people's scalps, and all the people on the battlefield, in the inner city, and as spectators of the war couldn't help but look up to the sky.

They saw a huge beam of light penetrating the sky and the earth, growing slowly and quickly from the boundless blue sky, landing in the inner city.

This is the "ladder", the technological power from another world shakes human cognition in this way.

This is an unimaginable variable. For the first time, the alliance commanders and fighters on the artillery position showed solemn expressions. Long Tianao and Heman followed Takla into the communication office. The commanders and fighters who have entered the inner city can still contact the same headquarters by radio. They have already entered the center of the inner city, and found the group of mages who retreated here on the square in front of the collapsed central mage tower. It can be said that almost the entire ground council and its loyal followers have gathered here.The commander is not sure whether the appearance of this "ladder" is due to some operation of the ground council.

Takla said, "No."

He paused for a moment, looked up at the top of the tent in the communication office, and said, "Leave some people to guard the square, and stay until this time at most before evacuating. The rest of the people should take the people who can move in the inner city away now."

The sudden arrival of the sky ladder brought great hope to the members of the ground council in the inner city who were still standing firm. Seeing the alliance approaching step by step, they almost cried out loud. Having regained their confidence, they tried to organize a counterattack. But they are in the unobstructed square, but their opponents wear unrecognizable clothing and hide in the surrounding ruins and houses. Not only can they endure the poisonous smoke, but they also hold powerful weapons. After several fights, there are more people around the square. some corpses.

Obviously, even if the Heavenly Ladder descends, even if Tiancheng descends the Heavenly Spear now, it will be almost impossible to change the outcome of this war.

The high-ranking mages of the ground council looked at the ghost-like alliance soldiers outside the barrier with resentment. This time they really underestimated the enemy and were not prepared for war, which caused their great cause to suffer such a heavy loss. time, next time they must—

The magic circle on the square emitted a bright light, and the reception from the sky finally landed. In the vast white light, two figures who looked like gods came from it, and the mages and nobles of the ground council stepped forward to greet them happily.

This picture fell into the eyes of the commander of the alliance army who entered the city. He was still holding the walkie-talkie in his hand. The comrades next to him looked at it for a long time before asking in a low voice, "There are only two people?"

However, before the commander answered, the scene on the square changed again. The beam of light called the Sky Ladder was still in place, but the ground council seemed to have a conflict with the people who came down from the sky. Accepting things, so that almost all mages changed their faces, and some of their companions who were just frowning in front of them even started to yell, and even wanted to do something to those two people-then their hands were gone.

The broken limbs and blood that fell to the ground were like the last straw. The noble mages of the ground council suddenly rushed into the beam of light like crazy. They all squeezed into the range covered by the "ladder", like canned food, their faces were pressed against their faces, their bodies were pressed against their bodies, the magic circle on the ground lit up again, and the two people who came down from the sky slowly backed away, meeting with the people outside the square. The Union soldiers watched the expressions of these people change from anger and anxiety to empty happiness.

In this happiness, they merged together.

It literally melted, glued together into a huge mass of meat that almost filled the inside of the ladder, and the broken robes and various accessories fell like debris, and then this curious product began to rise.

This situation is even more shocking than the ladder itself. The alliance soldiers who can calmly look at the mountain of corpses and the sea of ​​blood can't even speak. Takla's voice came out of the walkie-talkie. With an unprecedented tone, this voice rang in the ears of all the living people in the inner city at the same time:

"Leave the inner city! Now, immediately!"