As soon as he received the order, the artillery captain hurriedly urged the four artillery soldiers to go to the logistics place to carry shells.

After the shells were transported, the artillery quickly loaded them from behind the artillery, then raised the muzzle and aimed at the skeleton mage in the distance.

With the command of the gunman, the artillery made another loud roar, and a live-fire shell was knocked out and flew towards the rear of the Immortal Army.

Bang! Bang!

All shells fell around the Skeleton Mage, with a deviation of more than five meters and failed to hit the target.

A large amount of snow and the sand and soil below were bombarded into the sky by shells, and then fell down, as if it was snowing.

Affected by this, the rotten corpse and dark horse under his crotch seemed to be frightened, and suddenly lifted his forelimbs and made a strange sound like a horse screaming.

Holding the reins tightly, the skeleton mage quickly comforted the rotten corpse and dark horse under him and calmed it down.

After the rotten corpse dark horse stabilized, the skeleton mage suddenly looked up at the Red Sand Fortress in front. The dark red pupil flames in his eyes were beating wildly, as if they were thinking about something.

Since the skeleton mage only has a skeleton left, he cannot judge his mood at this moment from the expression on his face.

Despite this, it can be roughly guessed that the skeleton mage must be surprised that the other party has a new weapon with such a long range.

This was obviously a serious threat to him.

I was clearly using spears, crossbows, catapults and large magic to defend the enemy last year, but why did I suddenly upgrade my weapons this year? Various new weapons and equipment I have never seen before.

Bang—bang—bang—

Just as the Skeleton Mage was thinking, a new round of cannon strikes came.

He couldn't be killed on the battlefield just like this. He quickly pulled the reins and controlled the rotten corpse and dark horse to turn around and run back.

Bang! Bang!

The shells fell on the snow, causing a large area of ​​snow and sand below.

The skeleton mage rode a rotten corpse and black horse, trying to avoid the place where the shells landed, and ran backwards in a tortuary, away from this area that was bombarded.

After all the shells landed, the skeleton mage pulled the reins hard, letting the rotten corpse dark horse stop, and then turned around.

Looking at the Red Sand Fortress in the distance, the two dark red pupil flames in his eyes were getting bigger and smaller, and were flashing riotically, as if they were stimulated by the other party's shelling behavior. They were very angry now.

But soon, a few light green light appeared around the skeleton mage, which quickly calmed down his emotions, and the pupil flame in his eyes returned to a normal beating frequency.

This forced calm is actually protecting the skeleton mage.

As undead with wisdom, they are destined to have too strong emotional fluctuations since their birth, otherwise the soul fire symbolizing self-consciousness in their bodies will easily be destroyed.

Once the soul fire is destroyed, the pupil flame in the skeleton mage's eyes will be extinguished, and he will lose his consciousness and become an ordinary skeleton soldier, who can only kill and not think.

After calming down, the Skeleton Mage immediately raised the pure ice staff in his hand and opened his mouth to issue an order.

A roar spread rapidly throughout the battlefield. When the immortal monsters received the order, they immediately stopped attacking and turned around and retreated.

Yes, the Skeleton Mage decided not to fight and withdraw his troops decisively.

Knowing that humans have brand new weapons, he believed that this wave of attack could be stopped early, and it was more important to bring back this news than to continue to destroy human forces.

In this way, the Skeleton Mage led the Immortal Army to retreat like a tide and soon disappeared on the distant snowy skyline.

Orr did not send the Sky Horse Knight to pursue or track the undead army.

Because I had tried it before, there was a large mysterious fog deep in the Mak Desert in winter, and the Immortal Army quickly disappeared when it entered.

A cavalryman once tried to fly down into the fog, but never came back.

No matter how loudly the teammates in the air shouted, they could not get any reply. They could only think that the Sky Horse Knight had died.

Since then, the then Knights Templar Commander explicitly prohibited anyone from entering the fog.

The battle ended early, and the soldiers on the city wall raised their bolt-moving rifles in their hands, and a burst of cheers broke out.

"Yeah! Repel them!"

"It seems that no one has sacrificed this time, right?"

"Yes! This time it's a big victory!"

In the past, soldiers would die in every battle. No wonder they were so excited this time. It was indeed a rare and easy victory.

Looking upstairs, Seus and Orl looked at each other, and did not show much joy because of this victory.

"I don't think the Skeleton Mage was scared away by the shelling just now."

Touching the stubble on his face, Seus narrowed his eyes and asked Orr.

"Captain Tofen, what do you think?"

"Perhaps I've seen the power of our new weapon, go back and report in advance and discuss countermeasures." Orr guessed.

"In other words, the battle we will face next time may be more difficult than this time." Sius said with a serious face.

Maybe, in the next wave of offensives, he will not be able to see the skeleton mage on the battlefield. He may hide somewhere and issue orders to the Immortal Army.

"Maybe." Orr shrugged his shoulders, "No matter what, we must be prepared for the next battle and protect the Red Sand Fortress with all our might."

"Well, you're right." Sius nodded in agreement.

...

In the following month, Dawn City and Red Sand Fortress successfully repelled several waves of immortal monsters and protected the safety of the people of the Morning Light Kingdom.

As Xius expected, the Skeleton Mage indeed hid and commanded the Immortal Army to launch an offensive somewhere.

In the past few days, Dawn City has ushered in two major events one after another.

The first big thing is that the large ships made by the dock are finally going to be launched.

The hull of this ship is like the King's battleship, which is made of steel and is much larger than that of the cement steamship, slightly smaller than that of the King's battleship.

Its function is the same as that of cement steamboats, and its main function is to transport goods, and its carrying capacity is several times that of cement steamboats.

Since the design drawings of the freight iron ship were left by Irving before his departure, steam power was used.

Let’s talk about large iron ships using internal combustion engines. At present, due to the limitation of oil supply, the fuel output of refineries is not high, so they can only give priority to the supply of military vehicles from the People’s Army.

Previously, after the launch of the King warship, due to the low steel production in Dawn City at that time and the need for steel in many places, the dock could only suspend the construction of new iron ships.

In order to form a transport fleet affiliated to Dawn City as soon as possible, Irving had to order the construction of cement steamships frantically.

To put it bluntly, cement steamships are just emergency plans for insufficient steel production.

Although there are many advantages of cement steamboats, there are two obvious disadvantages.

First, the autonomy is high, which limits the carrying capacity of the ship.
Chapter completed!