In the face of Dinesse's new order, Li Xiaoyi made a difficulty, the rifle is good to say, there are already 1,000 musketeers to base up, according to the old method of bringing the new, find another 2,000 people, and train for half a day to make do with it, but the artillery is really not something that can be played for a while and a half, just the 100 artillery groups at hand, Li Xiaoyi is still playing drums in his heart, and then disperse the personnel, whether the cannon can be shot out is a problem.

At this time, the dried tofu also arrived, and with him came Xiao Honglu, and the Aragon trio went to find some undead.

As soon as Dried Tofu arrived at Minas Tirith, he was furious, "There are only three thousand soldiers left in the city, the armies of the various regions of Gondor have not been mobilized at all, that regent is just an idiot, he has no idea what kind of behemoth he is up against!" ”

"But Gondor has relied on this idiot to confront Sauron for so many years," looking at the angry appearance of Dried Tofu, Li Xiaoyi thought, of course he didn't say it, and it was useless to say it, because anyway, according to the rules of the Lord of the Rings, as long as Aragon came, Dinethor had to move obediently, and in fact, even though Dinethor was the regent, he still had no right to sit on the throne.

Xia Wei, Shang Xuan, Zhou Youwang...... All the way to Xuantong, they must all regret that they were not born in the Lord of the Rings world!

"It's okay, we've already selected musketeers and gunners from among the inhabitants of Minas Tirith, and this time the firepower will be even more powerful than when we were in the Valley of the Holy Helm!" Zheng Zha said heartlessly.

Dried tofu, "......"

Zheng Zha, if you say so, then Yaragon will not become a soy sauce player, how to highlight the people's skills in danger and save the people from the dire situation!

But no matter what Dry Tofu and Zheng Zha, Minas Tirith's firepower is really embarrassing, and Dinethor has purchased muskets and artillery with a lot of money, but unfortunately the time is too short, and no one can say how much of a role it can play, and Li Xiaoyi still remembers the performance of the musketeers in the Holy Helmet Valley.

In this way, the new 200 guns are very important, but what if there is no gunner, especially the gunner? Li Xiaoyi had no choice.

"If only we could direct it like in the game," because there was nothing to do, the game maniac without a girlfriend suddenly said.

"Direct command? How is it possible, so many gun positions, shouting from this end, not saying whether it can be heard or not, the sound has been transmitted to the other end for dozens of seconds, and there is no telegraph and telephone here. Military expert Cheng Xiao spoke.

"Wait," Li Xiaoyi raised his hand to signal not to make a sound, "Let me think, think about ......"

“…… Can he really command the gun emplacements directly? Let a robot operate the artillery? Cheng Xiao muttered quietly.

"Robots?" Li Xiaoyi suddenly laughed and said, "Hahaha, we are all stupid, we have entered the misunderstanding, who said that artillery must be operated by people!" ”

The next day, from the royal palace at the top of Minas Tirith, you can already see an army of 100,000 and a half orcs, lined up in a neat formation, with all kinds of siege equipment, overwhelmingly crossing the river, pressing towards Minas Tirith, exactly the same as when the strong orcs were in the Valley of the Holy Helmet, but there were more people, I don't know if Saruman didn't tell Sauron about the specific situation of the Valley of the Holy Helmet, or the commander of this battle felt indifferent.

Fortunately, this time there was a firearms unit, and the regent did not order Faramir to lead the cavalry into battle, in fact, because the firearms unit formed by the Middle-earth team had surpassed the regular troops in number and became the main force on the battlefield, and the World of the Ring had no experience in the use of firearms troops, so Dinethor simply asked Borromo and Faramir to cooperate with the Middle-earth team.

In this way, after many tactical deductions, Li Xiaoyi and Chu Xuan chose to rely on the city wall of Minas Tirith and powerful long-range firepower to set up a formation outside the city to fight against Sauron's army, because they now have a more powerful defense system than the city wall, that is, the trench!

In World War I, because of the large-scale application of machine guns and artillery, trenches were used on a large scale, so that trench warfare became simply synonymous with World War I, and its influence even lasted until the forties.

However, the fall of the Maginot Line did not mean the defeat of trench warfare, and even to some extent it was so successful that its enemies simply abandoned attempts at a frontal attack and opted for bypassing it.

Although time was limited, Li Xiaoyi could not conjure up a Maginot line in one day, but he could dig a position in front of Minas Tirith according to the requirements of trench warfare.

Using the manpower of Minas Tirith, Li Xiaoyi first dug a number of trenches in a company at the front of the position to slow down the enemy's advance, and the excavated soil was piled up into a half-man-high earthen wall in front of the trenches, increasing the difficulty of the opponent's advance, and the height was not enough to provide shelter.

Between each section of trench, there will also be a gap of a few meters wide, although it is convenient for the opponent to charge, but in fact, it will make their forces crowded together, which is convenient for artillery to kill, that is, the concept of fire kill zone, "use terrain or fire to limit local maneuver, and then concentrate fire for maximum damage!" ”

After that, there is the position of the musket unit, which is also a series of trenches, but this trench is reversed, if you look at it in modern times, you will find that this is the trench of the era of positional warfare.

The last is the artillery position, which solves the problem of gunners, Li Xiaoyi can rest assured that he can boldly use beyond shooting, and no longer worry about the artillery accidentally damaging his own position, although this kind of arrangement of artillery cannot fire shotguns, but Li Xiaoyi believes that with the 100,000 and a half orcs in front of him, it is impossible to break through the forward position!

On the contrary, the regular army and cavalry of Minas Tirith, which was most valued by dry tofu, were arranged by Li Xiaoyi on both sides of the position, and only undertook the task of shielding the main position, but because the density of the firearms troops was much smaller than that of the cold weapons soldiers, there were still three musket positions outside the regular army and cavalry of Minas Tirith, which was equivalent to being protected.

Especially for the cavalry, Li Xiaoyi also counted on them to carry out a pursuit battle after defeating the orcs to expand the results of the battle, of course, they had to protect it well.

Speaking of which, if Dinethor goes crazy, Li Xiaoyi will never watch Faramir send him to death, 1000 reward points not to mention, according to the dry tofu, after removing the more than 1,000 cavalry of Faramo, the defenders of Minas Tirith are only 3,000 people, which is a quarter of the strength of the entire Minas Tirith wasted out of thin air, or the cavalry with the strongest combat effectiveness!

As for saying that "although we are helpless, we really can't control this army, and now their supreme leader is still the regent", "the loss of this army will basically not have much impact on the war just chosen"? Is the "Mind Control" skill you recommend redeeming for a fun look at in the skill slot? (To be continued.) )