The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 292: Decisive Battle (Free for a limited time starting tomorrow, you can come and take a look)
Through the fragmentary intelligence collected one after another, the staff quickly analyzed what happened this time: after Ryan and his men killed many Dorasks before they went south, Khal Drogo, the most powerful Ka LS, discovered this situation. After all, looting is the main source of income for the Dorasks, and they will never allow the sheep people who were originally their wanton looters to have the power to resist. So he decided to use a decisive battle to completely defeat the resistance of the Lazarin people.

Khal Drogo gathered khals from various khals under the pretext of getting married, and after marrying his wife, he did not hold a wedding immediately as was customary, but instead tried to attack Lhazar directly with his wife and army. He declared at the gate of Pentos that he would completely conquer the Lhazarin and celebrate his wedding with countless wealth and slaves.

Obviously, he was the one who spread the wedding rumors. He hoped that the Lazarins would relax their vigilance. Fortunately, Ryan didn't fall for it.

The Dorask cavalry, which came and went like the wind, had always been the nightmare of the Lazarins, but after defeating a series of elite troops from slave city-states, the Lazarins also built up their confidence. Everyone also knew that a war with the Dorask would inevitably break out, but they just didn't know when.

After Ryan announced that the decisive battle would break out within a week, no soldier felt afraid. Many soldiers even felt relieved, after all, they had been preparing for this war for quite some time.

The war machine started to operate. Ryan and his staff began to simulate the process of war on the sand table, while the soldiers further strengthened the temporary civil fortifications outside the core fortifications, deployed heavy weapons and set up various obstacles.

Finally, with the smoke and dust rolling in the distance, the Dorask people came. This unprecedentedly large army has more than 90,000 people. They are the best cavalry in this land. These cavalrymen are better than any knights in riding. Light cavalry is their main force. The warriors use scimitars called "arak", longbows and whips. However, due to tradition, they do not wear armor, but only a painted leather vest.

They plundered the surrounding peoples at will, and even city-states with elite troops and complete city defenses had to pay tribute every year to avoid their attacks.

The Lazarin army, their opponent, had only 16,000 people, with the Iron Gate Fort, a modern reinforced concrete fortress, as its core. Surrounding it were World War I-style defensive positions several kilometers deep, with trenches, barbed wire, and potato mines densely spread out at the front of the positions. In the trenches and fortresses, more than 400 steam machine guns and more than 150 small and medium-caliber steam cannons were arranged in accordance with computational science.

At the same time, the fortress also received fire support from more than a dozen steam gunboats in the deep water area near the river behind it and more than 80 large-caliber steam railway guns on a railway a few kilometers away from the south bank of the river together with the steam robot mobile force.

"Do these cowardly sheepmen think they can stop us with their low fortresses and shallow moats? Go ahead, kill them and plunder them."

After a brief speech, Drogo commanded the armies of various small tribes to launch tentative attacks from all directions, while he himself led his own troops to prepare for a concentrated assault after the others found the weaknesses in the defense.

"From now on, it's either death or victory. Think about the humiliation we have suffered in the past few hundred years. Anyone who retreats will be shot directly as a traitor, and there will be no mercy for cowards. Of course I will stand in the front line, and if I take a step back, you can just shoot me to death." In the trenches of the Lazarin army, priests with purple roses painted on their helmets waved their sabers and gave pre-war speeches.

Soon, the probing cavalrymen were entangled in the barbed wire, and their bows and arrows could hardly cause damage to the troops in the fortifications. The Lazarin army, which had hidden most of its firepower, began to use their wind spears to shoot at the cavalrymen who had lost their speed. The battlefield was in a state of anxiety.

However, since the Lazarin army did not unleash all its firepower, after almost an hour of fighting, the cavalry finally cleared several roads leading to the main fortress after losing more than 5,000 people. At this time, the total casualties of the Lazarin army did not exceed 100, but the Dothraki on the opposite side did not know this. They only felt that the door to victory was open to them, and as long as the large army arrived at the fortifications, these sheep people would let them slaughter them as before. With a few low horn sounds, the 40,000 roaring warriors of the Dorask army finally moved. After joining forces with other cavalry roaming around, they began to divide into small teams to form a continuous assault formation and charge towards the Iron Gate Fortress.

But they didn't know that the roads they cleared were actually fire traps that had been calculated long ago. After most of the cavalry entered these fire trap areas, Ryan gave the order to open fire.

On the railway gun on the tracks on the south bank of the river, a brown-skinned artillery sergeant was praying silently.

"May the Supreme Crystal bless us." After reciting the prayer, he looked at the family photo posted next to the gun position. In addition to him, there was a woman and two children in the photo. They were slaves in Yunkai before, but unfortunately they belonged to different families under the slave owner. After Llane's army broke through Yunkai City, they were finally reunited after gaining freedom.

Because he risked his life to help guide the fleeing soldiers to hide when the Lazarin army entered the city, he received many rewards after the war: his wife got a job in a textile factory that everyone envied, and his two children were sent to school. In gratitude, he decided to join the army to defend the fruits of victory, because he could read and count. So after the knowledge of the Supreme Crystal Temple was bestowed (it was a memory indoctrination in the guise of mythology, because it was easier for people who mastered the basic knowledge to memorize, so these people would have priority), he was assigned to be the commander of a cannon.

Just as he was recalling the past, a sharp and short whistle rang out and a red light suddenly lit up in the carriage.

"Open fire at area A3." Under his command, the gunner suddenly turned the steam valve, and the 155mm caliber steam cannon on the carriage immediately burst out a cloud of extremely thick white mist. A black shadow was projected into the distance, leaving a faint transparent track in the air.

In an instant, the Dothraki cavalry, who were charging together, splashed with waves of earth mixed with broken limbs and arms, and then revealed many bloody gaps in the neat charging formation.

Although the brave Dothraki cavalry still charged forward despite the bombardment, the explosion still affected their horses. The horses, which had never experienced such things, jumped restlessly, making the charging line no longer as neat as before.

At this time, a short whistle sounded again on the train. The artillerymen wearing thick leather and cotton gloves quickly opened the breech block. The operator on the other side of the artillery cooperated with the probe dipped in water to clean the barrel and cool it down. Then the loader loaded a new shell into the barrel and closed the breech block. Thanks to the memory infusion device, so many artillerymen with close coordination were trained in just half a year.

After seeing from the nearby instrument that the steam pressure in the barrel had reached the preset value, the cannon roared again.

(End of this chapter)