"Fire!"
The Sirius Commander, dressed in a crimson military uniform, swung down the gleaming saber in his hand with a hoarse shout.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
The Type 77 Rifles urgently issued to Sirius with Evan's special approval, along with the Sirius-made Thor Rifles,
Fired scorching bullets from behind bunkers, trenches, rocks, sandbags, trees, and anything else that could serve as cover, spraying wildly down the slope.
This was the 120-kilometer-long Winterthur Mountain Range, the natural border between the Sirius Empire and the Sark Empire, and the land front where the Sark Empire had launched its full-scale offensive after the war began.
Their strategic objective was to reach the Domed Palace in Saint Cruz, the Sirius capital, before outside forces could intervene, and completely seize this "former Sea Hegemon" that had fallen from grace thirty years ago.
However, the defending Sirius Empire still held the advantage.
Behind the infantrymen fighting bravely, the artillerymen activated their mountain cannons, known as the "Kings of the Battlefield," and poured their firepower freely onto the Sark army charging forward in dense formations.
Rumble—!
Terrifying thunderous blasts swept across the entire battlefield.
Explosions of smoke, dust, and fire mixed with scorching shrapnel, sweeping in all directions like whirlwinds across the crater-riddled, uneven mountain terrain.
The attacking Sark army immediately rolled and crawled apart beside the shell craters like waves striking reefs, yet the piercing shrieks continued to rain down upon them with increasing density.
Naturally, since the Sark Empire had clamored for revenge, it would not simply endure the assault passively.
"Counterattack! Drop the bombs!"
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Small, fast airships that ignored the mountainous terrain entirely howled over the infantrymen's heads, dumping their massive loads of bombs onto the Sirius positions.
At the same time,
A group of large "Mechanical Spiders" made of bearings,