The artillery opened fire, followed immediately by the machine guns. The tanks charged without pause, firing without pause.
Shells exploded amid the crowd, violently severing the marching One-shaped long snake formation. Flesh and blood flew everywhere, corpses were blasted several meters away, and those struck directly by the shells were torn to pieces.
Countless machine guns opened fire, riddling every standing soldier in the unit like a honeycomb.
The combat troops immediately spread out. This twenty-thousand-man support force had mages; they wanted to create swamps to stop the tanks, while also trying to destroy them.
But they had only just raised fortresses to block the artillery and machine-gun fire when the other soldiers began frantically digging foxholes.
The earth trembled, beginning to pulse with a rhythm. That was abnormal. It was not the sound of tanks.
It was horses.
"Cavalry! It's cavalry!"
Just as the tank formation steadily crushed through the obstacles ahead, a completely different roar came from behind, one brimming with savage power—it was thousands of heavily armored warhorses accelerating at once!
They began at a walk, then a trot, before their speed rose ever faster into a terrifying full charge!
The thunderous momentum of heavily armored warhorses galloping at full force was far more primal and soul-shaking than the roar of tank engines. Beneath the densely packed iron hooves, rolling like thunder, the earth shook violently as though it were a huge drum being beaten madly.
They did not advance abreast of the tanks. Instead, they violently surged ahead through the passage reserved at the side and rear of the tank formation! Amid the torrent of steel, an even sharper, swifter arrow of steel suddenly split away!
Hooves pounded the ground, sending mud, snow, and bloody water flying. These heavily armored cavalrymen were astonishingly fast. They swiftly