[Kingsfort]
[Jiāng'àn Battery]
United Province Army Warrant Officer Kris Marlow cautiously walked along the narrow path between the ramp and the trench, bending his knees and waist, pressing down his sword belt, and holding his helmet, trying to avoid making any sound.
On his left was a long slope that gently connected to the open space around the battery.
On his right was a fearsome trench, nearly four meters deep and wide, with wooden stakes at the bottom, scattered with iron caltrops.
Warrant Officer Marlow stopped to observe, looking at the drastically different scenes on his two sides, feeling an ironic sense of humor surge in his heart.
Because beyond the gentle slope that even a cripple could easily ascend, lay the enemy's controlled area.
And the safe fortress was isolated from him by an insurmountable trench.
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