A special car slowly opened the hydraulic support on its side, and then the entire body was fixed in place.
The huge box behind it began to tilt upward, the hydraulic rods on both sides of the box slowly stretched, and the box gradually pointed diagonally towards the sky.
Then, with the sound of the motor, the box began to rotate to one side along with the steering wheel below, until it was aligned in one direction, and then it stopped steadily.
"Whoosh! Whoosh!" Along with the roar of the rocket engine, the rocket launcher shells in the box began to fly out one after another, dragging thick white smoke and rushing diagonally into the distance.
The surrounding dust was blown up by the rocket tail flame, and instantly engulfed the rocket launcher. Not far away, another rocket launcher was also covered by a cloud of dust.
Along with the roar on the launch site, white smoke rolled and shook the mountains. It was not until all the rockets were launched that the entire launch site returned to calm again.
In the distance, beside the ruins of the city wall of the Rock Empire, a group of soldiers who looked like beggars were working hard to find the bodies of their companions from the ruins.
In these days, the opponent used a powerful weapon to attack their defensive positions, turning the city wall and the buildings within the city wall into ruins and rubble.
The originally thick city wall is now only a fragment of ruins. The highest point is only a few meters, and it is no different from a sloping mound.
The houses that collapsed in the explosion were like ghosts with teeth and claws, making people shudder at the sight of them.
As soldiers of the Rock Empire, they have never seen such a terrifying enemy, and they have never thought of fighting such a terrifying opponent.
While bending down to lift a piece of broken bricks, a soldier from the Rock Empire, wearing a breastplate but no helmet, complained: "Those Crusaders from the Holy See! They damned retreated like that! How shameless are they!"
His words immediately resonated with many people, and one soldier immediately cursed: "Those bastards! They came here with arrogance, as if they were invincible! In the end, they ran away in such embarrassment with their tails between their legs!"
Soldiers' views are actually simple. They only need to identify who are their allies and who are trustworthy and reliable.
It is a pity that the Holy See's Holy Army troops who were frightened by the shelling and quickly retreated were obviously not trustworthy in the eyes of these soldiers of the Rock Empire.
A veteran picked up a stone, walked to the side with difficulty, threw the stone into a crater, and said to several young people: "Stop talking! Dig quickly! Wait a minute, those terrible explosions will happen again.
It’s coming.”
This war has completely exceeded their imagination, and they have become completely numb. The terrible explosions will come from time to time every day, blowing up the place and sending black smoke everywhere.
In such a situation, all courage and strength are of no use. The personal bravery of the soldiers has long been worthless, and all that is left is numb patience.
The reason why these soldiers have not collapsed is entirely because they regard the battle before them as a kind of baptism, a kind of self-salvation in which they taste suffering and accept punishment after blaspheming the gods.
"This... when will this end!" Another soldier picked up the stone and threw the heavy gravel into the huge crater.
While complaining, he grabbed two more small stones, walked back to the crater, and threw them away.
This huge crater was left by a 155 mm caliber howitzer shell. When it exploded, it collapsed the wall of a nearby building, turning that building into a dilapidated building.
The huge crater blocked traffic on this street, so the soldiers were ordered to fill the crater before the next bombardment began.
Stones of all sizes were thrown in, and soon the crater was filled with all kinds of debris and rocks. Although it was still uneven, as long as you were careful, you could walk through the crater.
"If those false gods...gods...attack now, I will definitely not dare to fight. I will just surrender." The soldier who was the first to insult the Vatican Holy Army who abandoned them and retreated alone continued to complain.
He was no longer afraid to talk about surrender. After all, this topic was no longer taboo. Some officers were talking about surrender, and several generals responsible for the defense of the city wall had also begun to talk about similar topics.
"Isn't it? How can we fight?" Hearing someone start to talk about surrender again, another soldier immediately became energetic and started to speak.
He had not read a book for a few days, and he really couldn't figure out how to stop those things falling from the sky from falling into the city, and then suddenly exploding, destroying everything around them.
It seemed that the mention of surrender gave him more energy to work. A soldier passed by holding a big stone and complained: "It's true that those gods attacked us with such terrible weapons and didn't even come to ask."
...If they came and asked, wouldn't we surrender directly..."
He seemed to have forgotten that it was they who rejected the gods' kindness, took the gods' kindness as a joke, and finally played tricks on the gods, causing the gods to finally give up their original plans.
Suddenly, a pessimistic soldier sat down on the broken bricks of a collapsed wall on the side of the road, and asked plaintively: "Could it be that... our previous resistance angered the gods, and they no longer allowed it?"
Do we surrender?"
"...You, what are you talking about? How could the gods not let us surrender... The gods, the gods must be...is..." A soldier who heard this question was obviously panicked and wanted to refute, but for a while he couldn't find it.
Appropriate words for rebuttal.
Soon, someone added for him: "Don't talk nonsense! I think it's just because we pissed off the gods and they want to punish us..."
A sense of fear spreads in everyone's hearts. Everyone is looking for various reasons to comfort themselves and dare not admit that they have been abandoned by the gods.
"Yes! Yes! Just punish us!" The veteran nodded and said in agreement.
Another soldier raised his head and looked at the sky, his voice full of frustration and sadness: "But...but when will this punishment end?"
Then, he saw a slender sword-like object in the sky, which suddenly opened the surrounding shell and released a dense black dot.
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I have something to do at home today and I have been busy all day, so I have to postpone the update. I'm sorry.
I'll give you two updates first, I'll see what happens tomorrow.
