Jiang Lei gradually stationed his horse in the wind and snow, using Xue Mu to shield his figure, and began to observe the situation of the Roman soldiers with a telescope.
"General Jiang, how are you? Can the range of the Tiger Crouching Cannon shells effectively bombard the enemy's square formation?"
Jiang Lei heard the curious inquiries from the scouts beside him, gently put down his telescope and nodded to the scouts beside him with a faint smile.
"Although the problem is not big, it is just that it can only bombard the enemy troops in the outer square formation. The enemy formations on the next floor are already beyond the range of the artillery shells.
Dear brothers, please closely observe the movements of the enemy. I, the general, will go back and arrange the artillery positions first. Once the enemy's square formation changes, brothers, please inform me in time, so that the general can change the direction of the muzzle according to the change of the enemy's position.
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"We accept the order, please rest assured General Jiang. Once the enemy's formation changes, I and others will promptly notify the general to change the formation."
"It's time to work."
"I don't dare. General, please come back."
Jiang Lei raised his telescope and glanced at the position of the enemy's square formation. He nodded to the dozens of scouts on the side, turned his horse's head and rushed towards the rear.
"Brother Ke, Brother Xiong... brothers, I just carefully observed the location of the enemy's formation, and I already have a rough idea in my mind on how to arrange the artillery positions.
However, if there is no movement on our side, the enemy will definitely notice that something is wrong, so it is up to you brothers to lead your brothers to create some pressure on the Acrylic Army.
Once the artillery position is set up here, I will immediately send my own soldiers to notify my brothers to evacuate the artillery range."
Keyan and the others looked at each other and nodded with solemn expressions.
"Brother Jiang, don't worry. The matter of harassing the enemy will be left to us brothers. Although Xue Mu is blocking us, you still have to be careful and don't let the enemy counterattack."
"Brothers, don't worry. I will mobilize five hundred elite troops to defend on both sides of the artillery position. I will definitely not let the Roman enemy seize the opportunity."
"Then don't worry, see you later."
"Brother Jiang, bombard the son-of-a-bitch barbarian enemies like the Acrylic Army and avenge the Longwu Guards. After this battle is over, I will treat you to a drink."
"You must be careful. Once you encounter an enemy situation, you must withdraw from the battlefield immediately. Do not confront the enemy head-on. This will increase our losses in vain."
"Brother, I understand. Thanks to my help, some brothers have taken the lead."
"No problem, let's attack and kill them outside the enemy's phalanx first, create some pressure on them and take the first step."
Because the battle situation was urgent, Ke Yan, Jiang Lei and others exchanged explanations with each other and immediately rushed towards the formations of their respective soldiers and horses.
The snowfield, which had calmed down for less than a moment after burning incense, once again sounded the sound of horse hooves that made the Roman legions' hearts throb.
"Your Highness, the enemy dragon army has made another move. Unfortunately, the snow caused by the wind and snow has blocked 80% of our field of vision. We have no idea how many enemy troops have arrived."
"Lie down on the ground and listen. When we attacked the Merovingian city of the Frankish Kingdom, I saw those dragon scouts who could guess the number of the enemy's troops by listening to them on the ground.
We can also try and see if we can analyze anything."
"Your Highness, the general has seen the situation you mentioned. The general once curiously asked the dragon's scouts for advice, wanting to see how they could guess the number of enemy troops based on the sound of footsteps or horse hooves.
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It's a pity that those dragon scouts are very shrewd and don't reveal even a word to the general.
Just because Baron's scouts can do these eye-opening things doesn't mean that our scouts can also do this kind of thing.
The general suggested that we should honestly use the method we are most familiar with to identify the enemy's strength.
So as not to be self-defeating.”
During the unconfident conversation between Acrylic and Hasker, the sound of galloping horses could be heard from all directions around the Roman legion, giving people the illusion that all surrounding locations were filled with enemy troops.
"Your Highness, it seems that enemy cavalry has appeared in all four directions: east, west, north and south. Should we immediately send an order to shrink the formation?"
Acrylic held his helmet with a gloomy expression, frowned and pondered for a moment, then shook his head solemnly.
"You must not do this. The enemy cavalry has been running around the outside of our battle formation, but they have never launched an attack on our outer square formation. This shows that their strength may not be as large as we imagined.
I guess they deliberately created a huge momentum on the outside just to mislead us and want us to shrink our formation and take the opportunity to achieve their goals.
Don't forget that Dalong's soldiers and horses have weapons such as artillery. If our soldiers' formation is too dense, it will just take advantage of their wishes.
No matter how many soldiers and horses they come, we cannot change the formation casually and let the enemy dragon find the slightest opportunity.
You immediately ask the messengers to send a message to the generals of each formation, asking them to lead their soldiers and horses to stick to the formation and not move rashly. If we move here, we will really fall into the enemy's trick.
Tell them that as long as the enemy does not take the initiative to attack, they must firmly hold their position. Even if Xuemu blocks the enemy, they will not dare to attack our square formation at will.
No matter how powerful their cavalry is, their horses will eventually tire of running.
As soon as their horses are tired, we will immediately work together to cover their retreat to the east and retreat into our Roman territory as quickly as possible.
As long as we evacuate to an area where there is no wind and snow, our army can observe the specific number of enemy troops and no longer need to defend so passively.
I tell my brothers, don’t panic. The more panic you have, the prouder your enemy will be.
In this environment with unclear vision, we cannot take the initiative to defend, and they dare not take the initiative to attack.
Go quickly! Just pass my prince's original words to the generals."
"I will understand, Your Highness, please be more careful."
Just as Alec speculated, no matter how much the dragon created a nervous momentum, the enemy's behavior of still huddled behind the shield like a turtle made the dragon generals like Key Yan, Xiong Kaishan and others feel helpless.
"General Ke, these bastard Romans are too calm! We were almost within range of their archers, but they held back without firing arrows.
It seems like they want to play a trick on us: if the enemy can't move, I can't move!
What should we do next? Should we continue to attack? If the enemy troops are still hiding behind their shields like they are now, our war horses may not be able to bear it if they continue to attack."
"Since they don't move, let's try to attack first and order the strong archers in each department to release arrows as soon as they approach the enemy's battle formation.
Let's see the effect first. If the effect is good, continue firing arrows. If not, wait for General Chiang's artillery bombardment.
You can also inform General Xiong and the others later and ask them to act accordingly."
"Got the order!"
It took about a cup of tea to pass on Ke Yan's order, and suddenly there was the sound of arrows piercing the air amidst the sound of wind and snow.
Dense rain of arrows shot from all directions toward the center of the phalanx of Roman soldiers.
In the blink of an eye, screams were heard from the phalanx of Roman soldiers. However, the screams were so rare that they were almost obscured by the clanking sound of arrows hitting the shields.
"Give me the order to stop shooting arrows. I've wasted a lot of arrows with little effect. I can't do this anymore.
To crack open the turtle shells of these Romans, it seems that the artillery in Jiang Lei’s hand must be used.”
"It's an order."
"Come here, send someone immediately to ask General Jiang whether the artillery positions have been arranged..."
"Report to General Ke. I have been ordered to inform you generals that the artillery positions have now been set up. General Jiang asked the generals to immediately take their soldiers away from the Roman battle formation to avoid being accidentally injured by stray bullets later."
"That's great, Jiang Lei's artillery was really timely! I, the general, know about it, please go and notify General Xiong and the others right away."
"I have been ordered to resign from my humble position."
In the blink of an eye, the dragon cavalry, which had been wandering around the perimeter of the Roman phalanx, gradually moved away from the Roman battle formation.
Just when the Romans were still wondering why the earthquake on the ground had lessened again, the roaring sound of artillery struck their hearts hard.
In the midst of the snow, Jiang Lei waved the command flag in his hand frequently and shouted loudly at the gunners on both sides.
"There's no need to test-fire or calibrate the muzzle, just fire ten rapid rounds directly in front of you and hit those sons of bitches hard."