When Ryan brought his core team into Northampulia, the poor Northern Autonomous Prefecture was already full of war.

The villages bordering the Empire in the south have already been gone and nine out of ten, but the puppet weapons deployed by the Northern Hunter along the way have had a fierce exchange of fire with the Northern Army of the Empire.

On the way to the suburbs of Khaliarsk, all Ryan and others saw were a messy abandoned battlefield.

A large number of scrapped puppet weapons were left untie. Judging from the remains on the battlefield alone, the losses suffered by the regular army seemed to be relatively minor.

However, the blood on the ground, some mecha soldiers and tank components that were not available for recovery, and even the destroyed armored vehicles still showed Ryan and his group a scale of the war.

Luo Sai paused with his staff unhappily, "Hmph! The smell of blood and fire, judging from the freshness, we should be very close to the main battlefield, be mentally prepared."

During the Civil War last year, Squad 7 did not participate in the frontal battlefield. Even during the operation of the Nord Plateau, they only fought with a small number of defenders and Niedhog who were watching the tower.

Now this war scene like a hell scroll made Alisa feel very uncomfortable.

The smell of blood floating in the air was mixed with the smell of earth. As we gradually approached the main battlefield, we could occasionally see the broken limbs and broken arms left on the ground, making everything make Alisa's face paler.

“Is this…a real war?”

Ryan took Alisa's shoulder and leaned her into her arms, sighing softly, "Not the fairy tale like you imagined playing house, right? But these are extremely real scenes."

"During the Civil War, the places you experienced were either behind the battlefield or partial divisions far away from the main battlefield. Open your eyes and look at it. This is the battlefield without any concealment, and the frontline of the war called the life meat grinder."

"Vomit~"

Alisa, who was already feeling very uncomfortable, looked even more ugly after hearing Ryan's description, and she covered her mouth and made a dry retching sound.

Lisha glared at Ryan with a angrily glance, pulled Alissa aside, gently stroked her back and comforted her quietly.

Ryan looked at Alisa who was retching worriedly, and shook her head helplessly, "If you don't see the cruelty of the battlefield with your own eyes, how can you truly realize the value of life? That's why I said you were too idealistic before..."

Regarding the performance of Class 7 on the Nord Plateau during the Civil War, Ryan has heard from Sheron, who stayed at the RF Haidu branch this time. None of Niedhog in the surveillance tower died, and these students just knocked the hunters out to the ground.

The first time that Reen destroyed the Republic's airship at the Closebell battlefield was the real killing. Except for Fei, a hunter-born and the agent Miriam, the others were probably similar.

‘It’s too naive…and this innocence is easily exploited by some people with ulterior motives.’

...

As Ryan predicted, the war was set in the tone from the beginning.

Even though the hunters of the North laid a lot of puppet weapons on the marching route of the Northern Army of the Imperial Army, under the impact of the steel torrent formed by five mecha divisions, they were attacked to the suburbs of Halyask for only one day.

For Lufas, the real problem has just begun here.

The capital of this old grand priest was built like a fortress, and the ancient facilities such as the moat were still preserved, and there were also a large number of modern air defense turrets on the city walls.

There were even many small holes built in the city walls, and the black city defense muzzles extended from the windows of these turrets. The whole city was like a hedgehog armed to its teeth.

Lufas launched a tentative attack when he led his army to arrive, but it was difficult for the attacks from heaven or underground to break through Haliask's solid defense in a short period of time.

If you get too close, you will even be attacked by the opponent's super-long range of city defense artillery. There is no doubt that this weapon with a range and firepower that exceeds the Imperial military specifications was produced by association.

Lufas was not anxious about this. While arranging the Northern Army to camp and build a defense line, he surrounded the entire Haliske, while sending half of his troops to continue to sweep away other large and small towns in Northampulia.

Obviously, the hunters of the North also knew the situation in their own autonomous prefecture and planned to shrink their troops to defend Haliske.

They were ready to drag the war into a protracted war with the help of the technical support provided by association and the large amount of food accumulated in the city of Khalisque.

This time, the Empire sent five regular army mecha divisions and the second flight fleet, with a total force of 150,000.

Although the supply line is unobstructed, if Northampulia cannot be taken down for a long time, the opposition at home and abroad will become stronger and stronger. Kalwade may take the opportunity to take advantage of the troubled waters.

The purpose of the hunters of the North is here. They plan to defend the capital Haliyask, and drag it to the empire and withdraw their troops voluntarily.

As for the destroyed villages and towns... Northampulia was already poor anyway, and now it is a typical barefoot person who is not afraid of wearing shoes. At worst, it can be rebuilt after the war.

As the commander-in-chief of the Northern Army, Lufas naturally would not allow this situation to happen. One of the important purposes of his leadership of this war was to prove himself.

On September 1, after the Knight of the Grey arrived at the front line, Lufas immediately recruited him into the command center to discuss countermeasures, nothing more than planning to implement the beheading tactic.

On a small hill in the eastern suburb of Halisque, Alisa, who was in charge of observation and reconnaissance, put down the telescope in her hand and turned back to Ryan and others.

"I discovered traces of the Intelligence Agency and TMP, and I saw Major Miriam and Major Rector, and more than a dozen TMP special off-road vehicles were also parked at the gate of the camp."

"really……"

Ryan retracted his gaze toward the city of Haliask. The city's defense was indeed arranged in a solid manner. The various types of puppet weapons in the city made people feel numb when they saw it, and the number was at least 20,000.

"It's been a huge sum of money to get involved in association this time. He is willing to invest such a large number of puppet weapons to assist Northampulia. It seems that there is indeed something on this land worth fighting for by both sides."

"Swoosh."

At this time, Lixia suddenly appeared beside Ryan, and Ryan turned his head and asked seriously, "How? Have you discovered anything?"

Lixia nodded solemnly and said, "The Intelligence Agency does not seem to plan to stay in the camp outside Halisque for a long time. After Major Rector finished the military discussion, he quietly left in an inconspicuous guide car, but Miriam was kept."

"Hmph~" A smile appeared on the corner of Ryan's mouth. "Does Reen notice something strange? You have installed the tracker?"

"Well, it hit the car chassis, Major Rector didn't notice it."

"very good……"

Before Ryan could finish speaking, Alisa suddenly shouted in a low voice, "Reinhart, Rosey said there is something going on, come and take a look."

Ryan hurriedly took Lisha to the height of the back of the hillside. Alisa and Rosey were squatting on the ground and looking in the direction of Haliyask.

"Then." Alisa pointed at the location of the Haliyask City Hall in the distance. "Rosai just said that he felt a slight vein shaking in that direction. Could it be..."

Ryan touched his chin with interest, "It's almost impossible to get along with him, and the association has also taken action. Can Luosai sense their whereabouts?"
Chapter completed!