Lu Mingfei Development Program

Chapter 531 The Battlefield of East and West
There was a sudden knocking sound from behind the door that was locked by Rundstedt. The two knights who came to pick up the car, including Heifetz who was being pursued by Cesare, had already discovered that something was wrong.

The door they had lowered to avoid Rundstedt was locked, and the latter's sudden "runaway" scared them. But César knew that Rundstedt's connection with the Seraph was extremely stable, and he just wanted to use the excuse of going crazy to kill the two knights who were not conducive to his plan.

On the contrary, the one who is good at using rampage is Xizel himself...

Now Rundstedt's plan to silence the witnesses has failed because of César's sudden visit. It is also possible that the two knights were too good at escaping, so he did not have time to kill them immediately.

César remained silent, thinking in his mind how to get back to Marston quickly. But unfortunately, the train had already entered a railway he had never seen before, and he could not get back to Marston in a short time.

Moreover, he had not yet asked why Rundstedt rebelled? Why did he want to assassinate the Pope? Although before coming here, he persuaded himself countless times that the man had forgotten him and his sister, and he should also forget him.

...But if possible, he still wanted to stop Rundstedt.

"Don't you want to know why I betrayed my country?" Rundstedt suddenly said, "Come with me, I'll show you the reason."

He walked past Césaire and headed for the carriage he had come from. Without hesitation, the latter turned and followed him.

This is also a carriage specially used for Seraphim. There is an open steel coffin in it, which was used by Rundstedt when he was in hibernation. The two knights who opened the coffin were undoubtedly the ones who received the carriage. They may have released Rundstedt, the traitor, out of curiosity about Seraphim.

Rundstedt stopped in front of an iron coffin and gently stroked the cold coffin. This boy, who was about the same age as César, only showed the gentleness of a teenager at this time.

Xizel thought that the person in the coffin might be an important person to him, so important that he had to take him along even if it meant treason.

The iron coffin was opened by Rundstedt. Unexpectedly, there was not a ferocious Seraph armor inside, but a beautiful girl in a white dress who looked like she was asleep.

Xizel was stunned for a moment, and suddenly understood why the devil-like existence in his heart said with emotion that this was a story about love after knowing about Rundstedt's affairs.

He seemed to know the girl. When the Seraph Armor was reactivated in Florence, the girl seemed to have been following Rundstedt. Of course, because he and Rundstedt were in a competitive relationship at that time, he knew only so much.

"Tilan, you should still remember her." Rundstedt said softly, "When everyone thought you were executed for rebellion, I became the leader of the Blazing Knights. At that time, I proposed to Tilan."

Xizel was not surprised by this. The fact that the famous knight king in the West had a fiancée would probably break the hearts of many girls. But he did not find it strange because they looked so well-matched.

"You two are a perfect match..." He said softly, "Is she the one you want to use the witch to save?"

"It seems that you do know a lot from Dasmond, but I still wonder why he knows that I am plotting to murder the Pope." Rundstedt said dimly.

He looked into the coffin with a gentle expression: "It was the Seraph that destroyed Tiran. You should be thankful that you were expelled from the Knights. Otherwise, if it were you, you would have been devoured by the Seraph even faster than she was."

Xizel remained silent but did not deny that he had seen too many boys and girls die because of Seraphim.

"I roughly know why you came to look for me." Rundstedt closed the iron coffin in front of him and looked back at César. "You don't want the Pope to die. It was he who saved you from the death penalty for the rebellion three years ago."

The latter was silent for a long time before he slowly said: "...After all, he is my father."

Cesare Borgia fell silent again. Everyone in the School of Mechanics at Marston Royal College knew that this boy from Florence was an illegitimate child, but he had a noble surname like Borgia.

This is one of the major families that control Florence. The current Pope has the surname Borgia.

But no one would associate an illegitimate child who was expelled from Florence with the Pope, who symbolizes the only spokesperson of God on earth. After all, there are many people with the surname Borgia. The surname of Daxia is Chu, but it is not the case that all people with the surname Chu are royal family.

Likewise, the Borgia surname is not without its declining branches.

"You actually still consider him as a family member?" Rundstedt looked at him in surprise. "But I see that his attitude towards you is not like that of his own child at all."

Xizel said softly: "Because my relationship with him is more like a transaction. He saved me from the death penalty in Florence, and now I am just returning the favor."

"It seems that I can't use words to make you leave." Rundstedt stood up and walked to the next car. "But before you try to stop me with force, I have something to show you. That is the hidden cargo of this train."

He said quietly, "It is something that can change the world, and it must not be seen by others."

Xi Zeer's heart moved. He was able to find the location of this train not by analyzing Heifetz's movement trajectory, but because he had a feeling that there was something on this train that could never be unlocked that was attracting him.

He boarded the train not only to find Rundstedt, but also to find that thing. However, after boarding the train, he could feel the existence of those things, but he could not find their specific location.

As the leader of the Seraph Knights, Rundstedt, who is most likely responsible for guarding those things, might know where those things are.

Rundstedt led the way again and walked into the next carriage. César immediately chased after him, but when he stepped into the next carriage, he did not see Rundstedt.

He turned his head suddenly, and the violent vibration forced him to hold on to the pipes on the carriage to keep himself steady.

"I'm sorry, César, there is no cargo that must not be seen." Rundstedt destroyed the connecting rod between the carriages. He and the carriage behind him were moving away quickly. "Go back, return to your stable life, and don't step into this dirty world again."

The lack of power caused the carriage where César was to shake violently, and he suddenly felt that the thing that guided him was leaving him. The thing that Rundstedt used to deceive him did exist, and it was in the carriage where he was!

"Come back! You can't handle those things alone!" He shouted forward into the wind. Rundstedt heard his words, but didn't understand the meaning. He just responded loudly: "Cesare, just like I let you go, let me go! I just want to do what you couldn't do!"

Xizel was stunned. He fled with his loved ones, no matter how dangerous the road was, no matter how many people came to stop him, he just wanted to fight his way out... Isn't this exactly what he did in Florence three years ago?
……

The Stein heavy machine raised dust, and César looked at the seemingly endless grassland in front of him and stopped the car. The car he borrowed from the academy had been lost on the way, and the one he was using now was provided by the mechanics on the remaining half of the train.

The mechanics who were hiding somewhere appeared after all the noises disappeared, and were surprised to find that their proud Midgard Python train had broken into two halves. Like Rundstedt, they were also surprised when they saw César.

As a former rookie of the Blazing Knights, who was only one succession ceremony away from the title of Knight King, César was no stranger to the Minerva Agency. Some of them even provided him with supplies during the rebellion he started three years ago.

César did not explain why he was here, and quickly explained that Rundstedt had rebelled.

As for how they dealt with it afterwards, it had nothing to do with him. He asked for the fastest car and chased in the direction where Rundstedt disappeared. Then, of course, he lost him.

That mysterious feeling could only provide him with a general direction. If he had enough time, he could follow his intuition and search carefully, but Rundstedt obviously would not give him that time.

However, although he lost the train, César was not completely lost.

He climbed up the small slope in front of him and looked towards the sea. There, huge ships from the east were spewing flames... He came to the battlefield where the Papal States and the Xia Kingdom were fighting.

……

After the bombardment, it was close combat. The Blazing Iron Cavalry wearing golden ribbons galloped on the battlefield, and the Cross Guards riding Stein heavy machines were providing them with support.

The Xia army arrived very slowly this time, and because they exposed their whereabouts early, they lost the initiative. Thanks to this, the Papal States and the Western countries were able to fully prepare.

In addition to sending out twelve divisions of the Crusader Guards and the renowned Seraphim Knights of the West, the Papal States' army also sent out some knights from the armored knight orders of various countries to join the fight. Although their numbers and armor performance were not as good as those of the Seraphim Knights, they were still a force that should not be underestimated.

The Orientals do not have mobile armor, but they cannot be careless.

The huge ships on the coast were emitting flames of red mercury bombs. This kind of bomb, which required almost no skill, was the most effective way to deal with mobile armor.

In the past, the secret armored troops of the Papal States did not have smooth sailing on the battlefield of Ceylon. One armored troop that was ordered to infiltrate the capital of Ceylon was hit by a red mercury bomb, and only one person survived.

The bright flames seemed brighter than the sun, and Lin's troops immediately used mountain-breaking crossbows to snipe the knights who had lost their ability to move.

The Xia Kingdom has four units: Wind, Forest, Fire and Mountain. The Wind Unit is a highly mobile and heavily armored cavalry unit. It is now riding on its steeds and charging towards the Cross Guards riding on Stein heavy machine guns.

The forest troops were proficient in using cold weapons such as the mountain-breaking crossbow, which had considerable lethality even in the mechanical age. The fire troops, as the name implies, brought the best fire guns and heavy artillery, and immediately took over the responsibility of fire cover after the heavy ships responsible for fire cover left.

The mountain troops were somewhat special, they were an infantry death squad. Today, when armored knights had become the main force on the battlefield, it was ridiculous for such a troop to use its flesh to fight against mobile armor.

But the fact is that no one dares to underestimate them. They can really fight against mobile armor with their human bodies, at the cost of multiple lives. But next to their corpses, there are always a lot of damaged mobile armors.

But the strange thing is that the mountain troops that should have followed the wind troops have not shown up yet. And the armored troops of the Papal States have already entered the battlefield.

The Blazing Iron Cavalry were supposed to be on standby in the Jinlunga Passage, as they were the last barrier to this passage. However, the armored knights from the Western countries sent armored knights to fight together, which greatly relieved their pressure and allowed them to start galloping on the battlefield.

However, the Seraphic Cavalry was like punching the air.

The Forest Unit and the Fire Unit were conducting sniping and fire cover from a long distance, while the Wind Unit, which was supposed to charge, bypassed them and continued to fight with the Cross Guards. The rear of the Xia army was thus exposed to these armored knights.

The leader of the armored knights' intuition told them that something was wrong, but they didn't have time to think about it because the black shadow had already appeared in front of them.

It was the mountain troops. This death squad had actually been there all along, crawling in the shadows. Although the sun of a new day illuminated the battlefield, there were still many places in the Xia Kingdom's positions that were in shadows that could not be observed by the naked eye.

These people wore special uniforms and hid behind obstacles, so the fire on the battlefield could not illuminate them. On the Papal States' positions, the naked eye could not observe their existence, and telescopes would be interfered with by the complex battle situation.

The Seraphic Cavalry Squad immediately gathered together back to back. They had studied the mountain troops' combat methods and knew what methods should be used to inflict the greatest damage to them.

However, the situation in front of them surprised them. The black shadow that was almost as tall as the Blazing Sky Iron Cavalry was not a soldier from the mountain unit, but a man in mobile armor with a ferocious ghost face and emitting steam and holding a two-meter-long sword.

The Oni Warriors entered the arena, and these new armors that were good at agility disrupted the defense of the Blazing Sky Cavalry. The Blazing Sky Cavalry began to defend in horror, but found that their reaction speed was not as fast as the opponent.

The heavy mobile armor fell to the ground, and the mountain troops following the Onimusha immediately took out the fire guns called can openers, leaving deep holes in the bodies of the Blazing Sky Iron Cavalry. The mountain troops were not hiding in the shadows of the positions, but behind the Onimusha.

"The coordinated combat of mobile armor and infantry." Chu Shunhua exclaimed, "Unfortunately, this tactic does not seem to be perfect, but it can also play an unexpected role when used for the first time."

He turned around and looked at the guests behind him who were looking at the battlefield with him: "Everyone, do you think Da Xia can win this game today?"

(End of this chapter)