Industrial Revolution of the Mage Lords

Chapter 450 Spear of Glory
The city lord personally inspected the battlefield to supervise the battle, which naturally made the grassroots soldiers and junior officers extremely excited. They each stayed in their own combat areas, only turning around to salute and trying their best to puff out their chests when Harvey passed by.

"Do you think this is also a... actual combat exercise?" Pierce had been holding it in all the way and finally couldn't help but ask.

Harvey smiled and asked, "Don't you think so? Logically speaking, our army rarely confronts these extraordinary knights who have awakened their bloodline talents head-on, let alone on such a large scale."

After mastering powerful magical weapons that were beyond his time, Harvey clearly discovered that there were some signs of arrogance in his army - quick decisions, invincibility, and overwhelming strength seemed to have become the exclusive synonyms of the Northern Army. No wonder they were so arrogant.

When necessary, they still need to be allowed to encounter tough enemies, so that when they face foreign enemies invading from the north in the future, they will not make irreparable mistakes due to underestimating the enemy and advancing rashly.

"Compared to defending city walls, our army is better at... and should be better at, positional warfare!"

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Milo Mendes, the commander of the Glorious Spear, rode his horse to the edge of the camp with a sullen face and looked into the distance at the enemy positions outside the city.

"Lord Mendes, the enemy has indeed sent their flying equipment towards us," the personal guard reported, riding closer. "But after noticing we deployed our Alchemical Demon-Breaking Crossbow, they decisively turned and fled."

Mendes scoffed and said slowly, "The Mage Lord must have alchemists working for him. They know full well that the Demon-Breaking Crossbow can also strike at distances of hundreds of meters, even enemies in the sky won't be spared."

In the past, they had also made great achievements in using the Demon-Breaking Crossbow to kill high-level mages who cast flying spells.

If the situation was not urgent and they needed quick support, with a sufficient number of combat priests, the Spear of Light could even suppress those floating magic weapons and allow high-level priests to gain control of the air.

The accompanying deputy whispered, "Our base is separated from the riverbank by a dense, high forest. Their long-range magic weapons can't reach us... But strangely, they've voluntarily abandoned the towering city walls they've already occupied and deployed a defensive formation outside the city... Without even knights, how can they confront us head-on?"

"Lance of Annihilation..." Mendes snorted coldly. He waved his hand and had his attendant bring up a strange silver metal pipe that had accidentally broken into two pieces. He weighed it in his hand and said, "This northern lord, in conjunction with the Alchemy Exploration Society, provided the Federation with this new magical weapon. It has made the Blackrock City mage warband invincible when facing the demon warriors."

As the source of weapons research and development and manufacturing, these pagans in the north naturally possess magical weapons of equal power.

The Legion Commander pointed to the shields carried by each Knight of the Judgment Army and said, "We have already made effective countermeasures. These protective shields, forged in Isengard, are infused with glowstone powder on each side, effectively defending against attacks from the Lance of Annihilation!"

"Glowstone powder? Glowstone that can be used to create a magic-forbidden artifact to restrain spellcasters?"

Mendes nodded. "Yes, the Holy City's Conclave has essentially cracked the secrets of the Spear of Annihilation. While the most important magic bow and arrows remain unreplicable, they do know how to defend against and counter the attack."

Glowstone is mined only in the holy city of Goreth and the nearby mining district of Isengard, and the output is not very high... Therefore, each shield is only the size of a breastplate, but it is sufficient to protect the head and chest, the most vulnerable areas of the Inquisition Knights. Even if other parts of the body are injured, the power of the bloodline will not significantly affect the combat capability. By destroying the enemy's greatest source of strength, once the Inquisition Knights launch a charge, the enemy's defeat is inevitable.

Mendes looked at the enemy positions outside the city gate in the distance and laughed in his heart: If these pagans were not so arrogant, and had not attacked the Spear of Light when they were tired and just arrived outside the Golden City, and had used the long-range magic weapons and floating aircraft to launch an all-out attack on them, there might still be a chance of winning.

But they chose to give up defending the city walls and took the initiative to go out of the city and form a battle formation in an attempt to confront the Judgement Army head-on.

What a bunch of guys who don't know how to live or die.

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After listening to the information provided by the soldiers on the airship, Pierce frowned in confusion: "Shield? Are they planning to use this thing to resist our magic guns and cannons?"

Harvey interrupted, "How big a shield? A heavily armored knight is already the maximum a warhorse can bear. If they have to carry a massive shield on their backs, unless they ride on magical beasts like the demon soldiers, the horses will be unable to move at all."

Tommy was also confused, but he answered honestly: "It's a small hand shield, the size of a washbasin, barely enough to cover the head and face... Honestly, I think they're crazy."

"Are you sure there are no combat priests or healing priests among the Judgment Army?"

"It is basically certain that the priests and the ministers cannot wear such heavy armor. They, like the spellcasters, are as thin as bamboo poles and can be blown down by the wind..." Tommy realized his mistake as soon as he said this, and hurriedly bowed to the city lord to apologize under the angry glare of Commander Pierce.

Harvey waved his hand, not wanting to bother with him. "It's probably a protective shield made by the church. It's either been cast with some defensive magic, or mixed with some magical minerals to make the shield stronger. In short, it's useless."

The penetrating power of the magic gun's bullets cannot be resisted by mere defensive magic and enchanted metal, unless these thousands of knights of the Judgment Army can all receive the high-level treatment that Duke Ralph himself receives and have the cardinal of the church personally make defensive talismans for them.

"Even if the bullets can't penetrate, the shield can only protect the head and face at most. Once the hail of bullets from the magic machine guns covers them like water... hehe, the worst that will happen to these Judgment Knights is that they will have a relatively intact head."

What they really have to worry about now is that the enemy's more than 3,000 elite extraordinary knights do not intend to use conventional cavalry group charge tactics, but instead adopt ranger-style dispersed and flexible assault tactics. In this way, their greatest firepower, which relies on artillery, will lose the opportunity to be used. The machine gun bunkers are not completely without blind spots. The enemy can completely avoid these heavy firepower points by charging regardless of casualties.

At that time, the soldiers would have to hold their positions under tremendous pressure under the interspersed charges of the Extraordinary Knights.

This is also a "compulsory test question" that Harvey gave to the officers and soldiers under his command, and it is a test that they must face and endure.

(End of this chapter)