BLU troops land during the day and at night on the second turn. On this night, an infantry battalion of the Red side launched a surprise attack on the Blue landing field, but the referee team judged that the surprise effect was not achieved, and the Blue landing force built a simple position on the beachhead line, and received strong support from its own gunboats, so the infantry battalion of the Red side lost more than half of it and returned in vain.

Weiss deliberately did not look at the face of the national character on the other side, but continued to use the strength of the acting school to make the opponent feel panicked. At this time, only the referee team and the front row spectators sitting on their side can see the turning point of the battle from their own arrangement.

The infantry battalion, which had lost more than half of its troops, was pulled directly back to Port Mulder to join the coastal defense forces in the port. According to historical data, there was an artillery fortress on the west bank of Mudgang at that time, and dozens of light and heavy artillery pieces produced by the Norman Empire were placed.

In the next round, during the day, the blue side suddenly exerted a force on the front line of the Antvar River. Weiss's feedback from the referee was that two forts, several trenches, and three positions were attacked by enemy infantry, and the defenders there suffered heavy casualties.

Judging by the casualties of the defenders, although none of the positions have yet been broken by the opponent, the blue side has invested powerful artillery and brave infantry. If Weiss hadn't deployed mobile forces behind the line, or had the first two rounds had been withdrawn in response to enemy landing forces, he would have been in a dilemma.

In the same round, the Blue landing force continued to increase its strength, and the size of the landed force, the referee team provided Weiss with an inaccurate "reconnaissance number": 3000-3500 men, 40-50 field guns, 200-300 horses. In the event of a loss of the opportunity for a surprise attack, if the goal is to quickly capture the port of Mud, the total size of the landing force should be more than 6,000 men, and the more troops, the greater the certainty.

Weiss hesitated for the rest of the round. If two mobile units were to be sent into battle, they would certainly have an immediate effect: on the one hand, they would build a strong defensive line to resist the enemy's attack, and on the other hand, they would make a sharp counterattack and drive the enemy landing force down the lake. However, this still failed to bring into play the ideal effect of "attacking halfway", especially in the situation where the enemy's support firepower was superior, even if it won a phased victory, the price paid would make the red side face the dilemma of being overstretched from time to time in the subsequent battles.

Before making a decision, Weiss clenched his fists and took a deep breath.

"A little nervous, huh?" Colonel Carlson came to Weiss. In this round, he had already asked the Norman cadets about the tactical arrangements, and with his knowledge and ability, of course, it was clear that Weiss was at a very important decision point.

"Sort of, indeed." Weiss responded, "Still, I've already thought about it. ”

The colonel nodded: "Then please!" ”

Slowly but surely, Weiss laid out his tactical arrangement: four infantry regiments were transferred from the mobile forces behind the Antvar line of the line of defense to launch a night attack on the enemy in front of him under the guidance of the defenders of the line. The direction of the night attack was the flank of the enemy's daytime attack line, and all four regiments crossed the river, the order and route of attack were the same as those of the boxer's uppercut, and the regiment that served as the fist finally smashed into the villages and towns 35 miles east of the Antwar River, where the blue troops were used to hoard front-line supplies and deploy baggage vehicles.

As for the Blue Landing Force, Weiss did not make any moves for the time being.

After hearing this, a trace of astonishment flashed in Colonel Carlcent's eyes. However, as the referee of the wargame, he could not make any explicit or implicit statement.

After this round, the referee team took a relatively long time to deduce the battle situation and calculate the battle damage. Through this detail, both sides of the wargame deduction and the on-site spectators perceived the change in the tempo of the battlefield.

The show is coming to a climax!

After summing up, Colonel Carlson announced the situation of a new round of confrontations: the tactical counterattack launched by the red side on the defense line of the Antval River achieved the tactical effect of a surprise attack at night, killing and wounding 4,000 officers and soldiers of the blue side that night, destroying 60 artillery pieces and 500 tons of baggage, forcing the blue front to move back 40 miles; The blue landing force rushed to Mud Harbor overnight, achieving the tactical effect of a surprise attack at night, breaking through the defenders' defensive positions and entering the port area, and fighting fiercely with the remnants of the defenders and the surface ships in the harbor for a night, but failed to capture the port due to the limitation of troops.

Coming so fast?

Weiss raised the corners of his mouth slightly, and the national character face on the opposite side was really a fierce man with a wide range of tactical thinking, and he rushed to attack the port without waiting for the landing force to gather enough manpower, and it was a night attack. Perhaps he was only a thousand men away from victory, but no matter how much he was missing, the result was the same......

In the next round, Weiss decisively sent his second mobile force, two of which were infantry regiments directly attacking the enemy forces attacking Port Mulder, and the remaining infantry regiments and artillery battalions stormed the enemy landing ground at any cost.

You're fierce, I'm fiercer than you!

At the end of the round, Weiss swept away the previous decline, raised his head, straightened his chest, and met the gaze from the other side of the sand table with confidence.

Seeing Weiss's momentum, the Norman student with the national character face showed a look of surprise on his face.

From start to finish, he and his opponent dominated the battle alone, and his companions became a special spectator watching the battle up close.

This is a fair and equal battle between the two of them!

The calculation time of the referee team is not much different from the round just now. The detractors and spectators quickly waited for news of the progress of the battle: the BLU landing force had been dealt a devastating blow, and all but a few had broken through into the nearby woods, all of which had been annihilated by the RED, and the battle for Port Mudd had come to an end. For this reversal victory, Red paid the price of 7,000 men.

In comparison, the Blue Side's strong assault on the Antwar River defense line and the attack on the southern shore of Walladen Lake are not worth mentioning at all!

Before Colonel Carlcent finished speaking, the Baston instructors and students who were watching the battle couldn't wait to high-five each other, as if the second-year "Strange Cow" who had high hopes had won them a brilliant victory.

In the two rounds before and after, Weiss's two hooks not only annihilated 10,000 officers and soldiers of the enemy, destroyed and captured many of the opponent's weapons and baggage, but also properly won the time for the national army to "arrive on the battlefield". Under the elimination of the other's strengths, the overall strength of the two sides in this battle is no longer as obvious as the obvious difference at the beginning.

Is victory still far away?

The answer is plausible. According to the objective of this war game, the blue side will win directly if they capture the red capital city of Ryan or annihilate the main force of the Faraine Kingdom army (80% of their total strength is effective), and the red side will win directly if they annihilate the main force of the federal army or drive them out of the country (the eviction will be valid after the 7th day of the battle). If neither side meets the conditions for outright victory, then from the 14th day of the campaign, the combat effectiveness of the Union forces will decrease at a rate of 2% per day and the supply efficiency will be 3% per day, and on the 22nd day of the campaign, as long as the Federalies fail to meet the victory conditions, the red side will be deemed victorious.

Red, who had won two important battles in quick succession, seemed to be one step away from an otherwise elusive victory. However, Weiss, who was on the red side, put away the confidence and calmness he had just shown, and dealt with the next battle with extra caution. Judging from the scene, the blue side still has 50,000 well-trained regular troops and superior surface forces, and after losing the hope of quick victory and clever victory, the "national face" is likely to adopt a pragmatic frontal push tactic, concentrate the main force to forcibly knock on the red side's defense line on the Antwar River, advance step by step to the city of Ryan, and finally take the city with a siege battle at any cost...... Time is enough, forces are enough, and of course, Red still has a chance to win, provided that it uses every opportunity to weaken the opponent and does not make mistakes.

The road ahead is difficult and dangerous, and there is a long way to go!

In the next few rounds, Weiss focused on defense, and transferred the mobile troops sent to annihilate the enemy landing force back to the capital city of Ryan to recuperate, and transferred the well-equipped capital garrison to reinforce the Antval River defense line. By the time this special unit, which was twice as strong as an ordinary infantry regiment in strength and defensive power, arrived at its destination, just in time for the blue forces to intensify their onslaught on the defensive line, Weiss's first mobile unit had already filled the battlefield, but the defender's strength was still growing tighter. The arrival of the capital garrison allowed his troops to hold out for at least one more round in the Antvar River line. However, with only half of the main force of the Falaine Kingdom, this crumbling defense line will definitely not be able to hold. At the critical moment, the first batch of 24 battalions of the National Army joined Weiss's battle sequence.

The total combat effectiveness of the more than 10,000 national troops is equivalent to that of two light infantry regiments. After much deliberation, Weiss placed them in the Loire Forest behind the Antewar River Line, where they set up defensive positions, stockpiled supplies, and received troops withdrawn from the front line.

On the 10th day after the start of the battle, the first round of the battle, the defense line of the Antvar River, which was heavily defended by the red side, was broken by the blue side, including thousands of soldiers and horses stationed in the two fortresses, and the red defenders with a total of nearly 20,000 troops began to retreat. From the Anteval River to the west, through the Rhois Forest, the Ryan Valley Plain, where the city of Ryan is located, is the only option to use the Rhois Forest as a reserve defense.

In response to the Nationalist Army, the Red troops who had withdrawn from the Antvar River defense line were pursued by the enemy, but they lost less than 20% of their men on the way to the Loire Forest, and in the first round of the 11th day, the referee announced that the Blue troops had once again landed on the northwest shore of Lake Walladen. If Weiss had sent all his troops to the Antval line and the Loire Forest, the rear would have been empty at this time, and the situation would have been even worse than when the Blue had landed for the first time.

Based on the enemy's input on all fronts, Weiss expected that their second landing would not exceed 6,000 troops, so he did not hesitate to replace the second mobile force resting in Ryan City with the second batch of 12 nationalists who joined the war group, and sent all of them to the lakeside to kill the enemy landing force.