dognovel Chapter 356 The Battle of Trian City
Chapter 356 The Battle of Trian City
"Citizens of Trian! Our great city will never again grovel before the double-headed eagle! Stand up! Fight back against the invaders! Let them know that we are Trian people, the people President Alice built the great nation of Amelansi!"
Inside the city of Trian, the citizens of Trian erupted in jubilation as they watched the paratroopers jump down from the sky. Since the city fell last year, the citizens of Trian had never given up their resistance.
The paratroopers descended from the sky, and the Trian Citizens' Resistance Army, which had been organized before the airborne operation, began to receive them.
Generally speaking, paratroopers are quite vulnerable for a period of time after landing, needing to disarm and find their weapons... This is especially true when paratroopers are airdropped into cities, as the Imperial garrison is well aware.
The problem is that no citizen of Trian supports them now. When the paratroopers land in residential areas, citizens spontaneously help them move them into apartment buildings or places where the Imperial Army cannot find them. In fact, when necessary, citizens will even take up arms to fight against the Imperial Army.
After all, the Second Amendment to the Amelansi Constitution granted citizens the right to bear arms "to resist tyranny, aggression and criminals." Even though the Imperial Army confiscated weapons after occupying Trian, a considerable number of weapons remained in civilian hands. Now, various semi-automatic rifles, pistols, shotguns and hunting rifles, which had been hidden away, were unearthed from dusty corners, cleaned, and taken out of their hiding places by the civilian resistance army. The tricolor red star flag of the Amelansi People's Social Republic government, which Alice had declared to be established, flew high.
For Amelansi, this war was not only a war of retaliation against aggression, but also a revolutionary war and a revolutionary opportunity for Alice. The political instructors who guided the various northern resistance organizations were all staunch figures who had emerged from the revolution of proletarian consciousness. They marched from the Roman Peninsula, or from Colombia, or from Beijing, under the organization of the Central Committee of the Human Revolutionary Alliance, towards the various northern guerrilla forces and resistance organizations.
"Drown the invaders in the vast ocean of people's war!"
Gun barrels protruding from windows in the streets and alleys, unidentified explosive devices placed on the streets, but what is even more nerve-wracking is the battlefield revival of the ancient profession of magician.
From the time Alice established the industrial society until now, the original magicians have been replaced by a large number of industrial machines. However, even though magic is no longer the core of war in this world, various magical devices are still thriving. The Trian Academy of Magic, which stands in the third district of Trian, has actually been mass-producing modern magicians—magical engineers.
In the past, the expensive mage robes, made by hand using fine, deactivated magic crystal threads, have now been replaced by relatively inexpensive, mass-produced magical workwear thanks to industrialization. Since the invention of magical components, magical engineers have been superior to traditional mages who used natural magic crystal wands in casting spells. Precise magical circuits, calculated using mathematical science, can distribute the spellcasting burden of the mage to the greatest extent possible and can also combine and store multiple spells.
And now, the apprentice magic engineers at Trian Academy of Magic are putting their graduation project into practice—magical missiles.
"Magic Data Guidance Protocol Established!"
"Handshake successful!"
The advent of early information technology further revolutionized magic, adding a new "magic data transmission" to the current magic casting system. The magic data guidance protocol is used to digitize the transmission of an ancient spell developed by scholars of the continent's magic academy, allowing the caster to gain the vision of living beings—including inanimate objects such as cameras.
Guided by systems engineering theory, the students completed the spell for the so-called magic missile. The magic missile uses a high-energy active magic crystal as its core and is inscribed on the magic crystal with the simplest vision spell. It can provide low-resolution guidance capabilities. In addition, the spell also supports magic guidance and thermal imaging guidance.
"Self-check complete!"
"emission!"
For Amelansi, the cost of this missile is negligible. The range of the magic missile depends on the size of the high-energy active magic crystal—the magic crystal serves as the missile's propulsion fuel, warhead charge, and energy supply for the guidance array. There are no restrictions between them, and their proportions can be changed by rewriting the magic data parameters injected at launch.
In other words, range and power are directly proportional.
A crisp, magical booming sound rang out, and the missile flew out, leaving a trail of purple light. The guide connected his eyes with the missile's guidance array, almost like television guidance.
Immediately afterwards, the second and third missiles flew out. The magic circles engraved on them had been greatly improved. The modern magic crystal magic circle etching machine eliminated the heavy and inefficient manual magic circle engraving that could only be done by magicians and apprentices in the past.
"This is Trian Magic Academy, calling on the North City Citizens' Resistance Army! Missile launch! Repeat! Missile launch!"
"Roger that! This is the Carlos Street Defense Force in the north of the city! We've been badly attacked, and the target is an Imperial gunship!"
"Received, it'll be turned into scrap metal immediately!"
A trainee magic engineer's eyes gleamed as he vaguely discerned the direction of the missiles' flight through a vision connection—only one missile was linked to him, while the others were connected via magical signals—the principle being that they follow the lead missile and its emitted magical signals; if the lead missile explodes, the second missile takes over its role, until the entire batch of missiles explodes.
These missiles, trailing purple light, were particularly conspicuous across the battlefield—and soon, the “Carlos Street” defense force in the north of the city spotted them.
"Missile attack! Get down!"
The pilot of the Imperial Air Combat Gunship stared in horror at the purple light before him—he had pressed the button to launch the heat decoy—generally speaking, gunships in combat zones mainly encounter infrared man-portable air-to-air missiles.
But it didn't work! The pilot immediately pulled up, and the cumbersome gunboat was quickly hit. The gunboat driver behind him breathed a sigh of relief. Two beams of light flew by, but almost immediately, they began to return—no infrared missile could do that!
"Is it a radar missile?!"
The Imperial Army's "Heavy Hammer" light frontline gunships have infrared warning systems, but no active radar warning systems—the pilots assumed it must be Amelansi's new air-to-air missiles—but in reality, they were just rudimentary TV-guided missiles.
"Well done! Well done! They're all scrap metal! The resistance and paratroopers are advancing!"