"General, the 17th Army can't hold on any longer! The opponent's weapons are quite powerful! Much more powerful than Cyric's previous muskets! If they are defeated, our frontal defense line will be breached!"
The orc general wearing bright armor and a light-colored blouse said.
Facing the attack of the Yangmu Kingdom, the army of the Orc Gales Kingdom seems to be more passive than before. They have now had 4 legions completely defeated, and one main legion is crumbling.
The leading orc general remained silent. He was waiting for the exact news from the troops on both sides of his body. The counterattack must be successful in one blow, otherwise when the elves on the opposite side stabilize their position, the opponent's sharper firearms will be used.
Play a role.
After a while, a black war horse galloped from a distance. An officer wearing the same military uniform and armor tightened the reins, and the horse slowed down and stopped in front of the Chinese army curtain.
"General Mark reported that the enemy's regiments deployed at the front are moving towards the regiments in front of me, and the formation has been fully deployed!" Stopping the horse, the person who came immediately reported loudly.
Many staff generals began to discuss, and there was a buzzing noise in the large curtained tent. From time to time, someone pointed at the huge map hanging up, and they were deducing various possible battle plans for the enemy.
Behind many generals at the Chinese Army Command, a young general leaned on a chair, fiddling with a bloody K1 rifle in his hand, and brushed the dried blood on the rifle with his fingers. It looked like it was still there.
Very serious.
Suddenly, the young orc raised his head, a pair of bright eyes shining brightly on his unattractive face.
He wore better-looking armor, but it didn't exaggerate his mighty aura. Instead, it still made him look a bit different. He looked more like a student than a group of generals from the same race.
"Your Highness the Crown Prince!" The leading general, who had never issued an order, looked at the young orc, frowned, walked over, and asked, "What do you think?"
To be honest, he didn't like this frail Crown Prince very much, because his body was too weak and he didn't have the heroic temperament of the orcs at all.
However, the current king only has one son, so this orc, who looks more like a student, is still the hope for the future of the entire Kingdom of Galles.
"Me? If this battle was commanded by me, I would order the troops on both wings to remain on standby. After the opponent is completely overwhelmed, they will attack at the same time and destroy the enemy's follow-up artillery at all costs!" His Royal Highness the Crown Prince held the gun in his hand.
K1 Quick Gun leaned upright next to the chair he was sitting on, stood up and patted the unnecessary dust on his armor, walked to the map, pointed at both sides and said.
As he spoke, he stretched out his other hand and pressed it on the map: "After we win, we will take advantage of our army's strength, which is twice that of the enemy's, and use the simplest and crudest way to destroy the enemy's army that has lost its artillery."
"If you do this, our elite 17th Army will be doomed! And not only the 17th Army, but even the other two armies on their flanks may suffer heavy losses..." The leading general frowned and asked again
One sentence.
"Your Excellency General, we have recruited tens of thousands of troops, marched into the decisive battle area with prancing horses and swords, and originally sent them to die. What we want to achieve is victory! No matter how we send them to die, it will not show our strength.
Mercy." The crown prince said calmly: "What we can do is to use their death to win victory, instead of letting them close their eyes with failure."
The leading general was stunned for a moment, and then looked at His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, whom he had always disliked, and seemed to see another side of the Crown Prince hidden under his weak appearance.
Then he didn't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, but he actually reminded him: "Although what you said is true, Your Highness, as the crown prince, you still have to remain kind..."
In the past, he would not have said such a thing. But today, he said it, and he said it very sincerely.
"In fact, General... we are too backward. Not only do we not have a decent arms industry, we also do not have a qualified intelligence agency... We actually know nothing about new weapons." His Royal Highness the Crown Prince looked at the edge of the chair.
The captured K1 fast gun said with some sadness: "This is wrong, and it is also the reason why we suffered heavy losses this time and paid the price in blood! If we continue like this, we may soon be subjugated!"
Hearing the scolding of His Highness the Crown Prince, many generals lowered their heads in shame. Frankly speaking, their information was indeed too limited. They had not even heard of the news that the elves opposite had installed new weapons.
Because the two countries have been at war for a long time, it is almost impossible to send spies to each other.
After all, this is indeed an embarrassing problem: they look completely different from the elves, so spy infiltration is impossible.
As long as the opponent is not blind, you can tell whether the opponent is an orc or an elf at a glance, and the Yangmu Kingdom opposite has long been a "pure-blood country" that extremely rejects orcs.
In this world, there are countries that tolerate all races, and there are also countries that simply insist on their own race. The Kingdom of Wright does not exclude elves and dwarves, and even allows sinners to live there. However, the Kingdom of Yangmu is just the opposite. They almost only deal with humans and have been hostile to them for generations.
Orc tribe.
Of course, not all elves hate the orcs. Some elven kingdoms do have good relations with the orc kingdoms and have trade exchanges.
However, the Yangmu Kingdom's rejection of the orcs directly resulted in the orcs in the Gales Kingdom being unable to obtain first-hand information - if they wanted to know about the changes in the Yangmu Kingdom, they needed to inquire from other elven kingdoms.
But the efficiency of this kind of round-the-clock intelligence collection is obviously seriously lagging behind. Basically, the Kingdom of Gales can only get the trends and changes of the elves half a year ago...
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! It is precisely because of this that the Yangmu Kingdom took the lead and surprised the orcs with a new rifle that was secretly installed half a year ago.
The leading orc general also knew that they had lost a point in intelligence and were destined to be at a tactical disadvantage.
This directly led to the passivity on the frontal battlefield, and also made those damn elves unstoppable and cut into his central battlefield.
Obviously, the orcs are unable to stop the opponent's vanguard force, which is the spearhead. If the opponent has enough ammunition, it is only a matter of time before they defeat our own side.
This result has nothing to do with the bravery of the orcs. Bravery only delays the collapse, but cannot change the outcome of the battle.
Therefore, the only thing that can influence the outcome of this battle is the decision-making and judgment of the commander of the other side.
As the commander of the orcs, he must make the right choice and use more lives in exchange for the victory that must be in hand!
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At the Elf Central Army Headquarters, the old Elf Count Augustine Tural, who was riding on a war horse with his hair neatly combed behind his back, looked at the troops that were organizing an attack, with a contemptuous smile on his face.
Obviously, the orcs have run out of tricks! Their position is crumbling, and their blood has stained the earth red!
With his own 6,000 brand-new K1 guns, in his opinion, the outcome of this war is destined to belong to the elves.
Those damn orcs will lose the Seine Plain...and he, the most prominent head of the Augustine family in history, will become the first person in the family to be canonized as a marquis by the king.
He will become the new Prime Minister of the Yangmu Kingdom. And the King he will assist will have twice the territory of the current one!
In another year, the Yangmu Kingdom will have the strength to annex several surrounding small countries and become one of the largest powers after the Elf Kingdom.
Even when his troops once again destroyed a phalanx of the other side, he thought of the distant and unfamiliar word empire.
"Sir! On both sides of our army, the enemy's wolf cavalry have been moving frequently. Are we..." A general stopped beside Tural on horseback and wanted to remind him.
Tural actually had his own calculations, so he interrupted the other party: "When our army rushes to the center and splits the enemy's army, how big the waves will be on their two wings?"
In fact, he is not unaware of the dangers of the two wings, but in fact, the elves are not without their own problems.
On the one hand, after all, they were the first to attack, and the accumulated ammunition was actually not very sufficient. The forward troops defeated four orc legions in a row, and the consumption was naturally very alarming.
On the other hand, as he said, the sharp knife that his side was attacking at the Orcs was about to cut through the lean meat of the Orcs' central defense line. Once he defeated the Orcs in front of him, he could destroy the Orc artillery positions behind him.
Victory is already in your hands.
Instead of stopping now and splitting up the troops to find those orc wolf knights who don't know where they are, it would be better to defeat the enemy in front of them honestly and win directly, which would be more certain.
What's more, he doesn't care about the safety of both wings at all. At the beginning of this battle, he set up a very stable diamond formation, which was quite satisfactory.
Among the 11 legions of the elves participating in the battle, 4 legions equipped with new types of muskets were placed right in front, taking advantage of their firepower to maintain an offensive posture. They were the spearhead of the entire elves' attack.
There are two legions deployed on the left and right wings. Their task is to defend the flanks and resist the Wolf Knight troops that may be outflanked by the orcs.
The remaining three legions are deployed at the end and are used as battle reserves. If there is a problem with any of them, these troops can be mobilized to support. In addition, this army is also responsible for escorting ammunition, transporting supplies, guarding the back roads, etc.
Task.
It can be said that this formation is basically the safest formation.
