One side of the cargo container had been lowered to serve as a bridge. Immediately afterward, accompanied by a rumbling roar, the Dwarf Steam Tanks started up one after another and drove down from above amid billowing black smoke.
This was their Great Zhou's first tank corps, consisting of twenty-four Dwarf Steam Tanks.
They had come here, naturally, not to fight. At this stage, there was no war on their continent.
They had come here to conduct a military exercise.
And the target of the exercise was the old-fashioned city before them, which was about to be demolished.
For the Steam Tank Corps, obtaining a proper live-combat exercise was rather difficult.
Factors from every angle meant that it was anything but convenient, and the cost was enormous as well.
Normally, they could only conduct various terrain-mobility and artillery exercises on artificial training grounds.
But now, this old city was going to be demolished no matter what, so it was the perfect chance for them to practice!
After the final confirmation was completed, the tank corps' exercise began immediately.
The Steam Tanks advanced in tactical echelons. Once they entered the range of their main guns, they opened fire one after another.
As a former border city of the Smith Kingdom, its walls had at least been thickened and raised to deal with the invasion of the Green-Skinned armies back then.
Yet those sturdy defensive walls were as fragile as thin paper before the Steam Tanks' main guns. Amid the booming cannon fire, an entire stretch of defensive wall collapsed in an instant.
Maintaining their tactical formation, the tank corps continued advancing. However, they did not choose to simply crush their way over the ruins and enter the city.
"Everyone, pay attention! Maintain formation. Do not advance rashly. Adopt an outer-perimeter sweeping