Chapter 282

"Soldiers, what a glorious day. I fight side by side with you in the name of emperor and Human Empire."

Eric's mind was not confused at the moment, but unprecedentedly calm and clear. Everything taught by Zhongsi college in the past appeared in his brain.

He knew what the soldiers wanted to hear,.

"Today, we are about to meet the Great World War I, which is a very critical one. If we fail to make up our mind to implement the firm will required for this great task, we will declare the fate of billions of compatriots. What awaits us will be a cursed dark life and endless life

The future woven by torture! Don't stop the trigger on the way to fight. Even if you let go of the enemy, it will only prolong such a sad moment of longevity in the eyes of the emperor, but his soul will never be forgiven! We are no different from evil spirits if we tolerate heresy. "

He paused as if he were absorbed in the evil worship in his speech.

Coincidentally, this pause also gives the audience time to chew what he just said. Some characteristics of Eric's strong belief can let the soldiers eliminate distractions and focus their thoughts on the goal.

Then, suddenly, the atmosphere of the speech changed.

Eric changed from a preaching priest to an officer who assigned tasks to his subordinates, telling them what they should know.

"It is true that there are thorns ahead. The danger of this battle is like crossing the lava sea and poison marsh on foot... I have been to Taran where the dust storm is strong enough to cut people to bone in a few seconds, but even this danger is not worth mentioning what we will encounter

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Strange as it was, these statements, which should have been disturbing, were made by him as if they were challenges that pure men were lucky to overcome.

"We made a lot of money."

He paused and then laughed, as if he expected the whole army to agree with his cold joke, but in fact there were few responders.

Then his words became cruel again.

"Without you, we made a lot of money. Soon we will be able to eliminate tens of thousands of rebels and heresies, but they will have nothing to do with us. More importantly, the signal we sent earlier has received a response. You can never think of anyone coming."

His words succeeded in arousing the interest of the soldiers, who seemed to see hope in despair.

"An astatic order is coming! As long as we stick to it, we can bathe hundreds of millions of lost souls in the glory of the emperor!"

Eric, you're a damn liar.

This is what he said to himself at the moment.

In fact, he never received a signal from the astatic order, nor any other signal. They were helpless from the beginning.

But he had to. The soldiers needed a hope.

He stopped again to let the soldiers digest what he had just said. Many people were very excited, and there were even cheers and shouts on the defense line.

The low morale finally began to be pulled back.

His goal was achieved.

"So today, we will fight heartily and kill ruthlessly for the sake of the emperor!"

The soldiers responded with a neat roar.

"For the emperor!!"

Just then, countless feet began to cross the sea of fire - the enemy launched an attack on the temporarily reinforced ancient castle.

In this poor visibility, it is difficult to judge the number of each other, but Eric estimates that there are at least 50000 people in the direction of the front door, and even more in other directions.

These heresies are mainly composed of armed civilians and so-called religious figures.

In Eric's eyes, they were more like a group of ignorant thugs than soldiers, which matched the fanatical thinking mode of the state religion.

He believes that today's disasters stem from people's blind faith. They follow those heretical theories without thinking and worship the dark forces as gods.

The priests of the state church should have eradicated this thinking and let them know their way back.

Obviously, this is not the case.

For some reason, people have encountered a crisis of faith, stood at the crossroads of epistemology, and abandoned the emperors they worshipped in the past.

Eric wondered, what is this for?

What can replace the concept of emperor?

There were a lot of problems that bothered Eric.

What kind of power or concept can overturn the supreme position of the emperor in the hearts of priests?

In addition to vicious subversive activities, what else do they want?

If they defeated the last armed forces of the Empire here, what will they do next?

How many enemies are there in that thick fog?

But soon, none of this was a problem.

The enemy leader drove a large crowd of believers, the tattooed heretics chanted, and the drums could be heard in the crowd.

There is no doubt that the enemy's commanders also intend to use the believers as cannon fodder to fill the trenches and gates.

The artillery had poured fire on the enemy line for 20 minutes. They had caused considerable casualties. The ground outside the trench was covered with craters and corpses. The lookout on the wall guided the artillery to bombard the most dense enemy group.

The trajectory was constantly adjusted, the shells fell into the enemy line, raised flames and debris, and threw the broken bodies into the air.

But they continue.

"Infantry company ready!"

Eric gave instructions to the soldiers guarding the gates and walls. His intention is to make light weapons as resistant as possible to these attacks, because he needs to save heavy weapons on more threatening targets.

The soldiers of the Imperial Army became confident again after the encouragement just now. Most of them aimed at the distant enemy with laser guns, and a few even took their swords out of their scabbard and waited for the other party to reach the gate.

Some of the cult followers have already stepped into the sea of fire, and they continue to flock to the bridge leading to the gate.

"Fire!"

When the whistling sound of the laser gun sounded, the bridge was immediately filled with corpses, and more figures fell directly into the ditch.

At the same time, the Rockets roared towards the high wall, and the enemy artillery tried to fight back.

The parapet is very important at this time. It can help the Star Army offset part of the enemy's quantitative advantage, so Eric wants to suppress the enemy's artillery position first, but he is worried about the problem of ammunition.

After leaving the command post, he found the temporary artillery commander in chief aruka near the old horse shed of the castle.

"Is there enough ammunition?"

The top commander of the front line asked nervously.

"Er... Strictly speaking, it's a little difficult. The petrified lizards have only two bases on average. Mortars are better, but they don't exceed five bases. There aren't many rockets. I'm trying to use those Hydras."

Mortars blared behind them, and Eric heard more rockets roaring towards the wall.

"Can your men locate the source of those rockets? You have to get rid of them before they blow up the wall."

Aruka nodded.

"I don't know how they deployed their artillery so quickly?"

The artillery commander muttered after giving instructions to his soldiers.

"Predict our retreat route in advance? Eavesdrop on our communications?"

Alec guessed.

"No way. The channel is confidential."

"That's our bad luck."

The commissar shrugged his shoulders.

"It's not the first time today."