Cannonballs

The two armies advanced toward each other at a rapid pace, their distance quickly shrinking to less than five hundred meters!

At that distance, for the bloody slaughter about to erupt, the moment was already almost upon them!

Just as the suffocating pressure reached its peak!

"Wuu!! Hummm!!!"

A long, mournful horn suddenly sounded from behind the Carnford Army's formation. Its clear note spread across the entire battlefield, briefly overpowering even the deep beat of the Sauron Army's War Drums!

With the sounding of the horn, the entire Carnford Army, which had been steadily advancing, received the command like a precision machine. Accompanied by a deafening unified shout, it came to a thunderous halt!

Thousands of feet struck the ground simultaneously, producing a dull, tremendous boom. The rising dust formed a yellow haze.

Then, a scene that made Acton's pupils contract sharply unfolded!

He clearly saw the artillerymen beside the light Cannons pushed to the very front of the Carnford Army's formation begin their tense preparations for battle.

What shocked him even more was that more than a dozen two-man teams of soldiers suddenly charged out from the Goldspur formation!

They moved as swiftly as leopards. Each man carried a small, oddly constructed metal tube in his arms, sprinting toward preselected positions at the front of the formation.

"What... what the hell are those things?" Acton's heart jolted.

He recognized the several somewhat larger Eagle Cannons he had seen earlier. Though they had put him on guard, they were still within the bounds of his understanding.

But these newly appeared small Cannons were extraordinarily strange. They were only about half the length of an Eagle Cannon, with long, slender barrels. There were no complicated carriages or wheels beneath them, only a simple support structure at the rear.

He watched as