The terrifying explosion of the night rang out again one after another. Although the momentum was not as great as some of the demolition attacks and defenses that the Catholic coalition had seen before, the casualties and losses were definitely not small. Many of the soldiers who had just occupied some trenches were suddenly hit by about six or seven heavy lead bullets flying in the direction of the trenches. The deterrence brought by the horizontal directional blasting forced the massive offensive to end in a rout on a large scale.

If it weren't for the fact that there had been some preparations for this threat before, maybe the offensive and defensive postures of both sides would have completely changed hands because of the threat of this blasting attack. When such a demolition attack came again, the commander-in-chief in charge of the coalition forces began to realize the crux of the problem: under the new methods of warfare of this era, it was generally obvious that the superiority in defense had re-outrided the general superiority in the offensive for armies with adequate gunpowder and ammunition, and even in field conditions rather than against some specific fortifications, the effect of several times the superiority in strength or strength was greatly reduced. At the same time, there is also this problem in the attack: if the density of troops during the attack is not enough, the probability of achieving sufficient offensive pressure and breaking through the opponent's position will be greatly reduced, but if the attack is in a dense formation, then the risk of casualties in the face of many firearms threats from the defenders, including the blasting attack, will increase sharply, and may even reach the level of danger of turning around.

Of course, at this time, many coalition generals still had the expectation that the enemy, who was still on the defensive and had achieved some victories, would choose to switch to a full-scale counterattack or strategically break away from the previous field positions because they felt that the battle situation was favorable to them. If that were the case, the coalition side, which still had the advantage of more than 100,000 troops, would not have a chance to regain a decisive victory. However, when the sky was bright again, many people found that these strong eastern enemies who had temporarily turned to the defense did not give up their plans to defend on the spot because of the victory in the night, but only launched some local assaults the next night to expand their control, and the last glimmer of hope began to be dashed.

At this time, the reinforced Western Group also approached not too far from the battle site on the West River defense line, and the main force of the coalition army, which had failed to attack, had to point the spearhead of the attack at the reinforced Western Group. In this way, the great war once again began at a distance of only about 100 miles from the original battlefield.

Although the troops that went out to send reinforcements at this time also accompanied the enemy's retreat, allowing the coalition forces to concentrate about 100,000 mobile forces to attack one of the sides, there is no doubt that because of the close proximity of the two forces, the advantage of the forces that can be effectively used is getting weaker and weaker, and if the decisive battle is carried out under normal circumstances, there seems to be no possibility of victory, so the coalition forces at this time can only make a desperate gamble.

As soon as night fell, and the Western Group, a powerful eastern enemy on the march, had just built some of the simplest fortifications, a fierce attack began once again. If it had been in the past, even some of the elite main forces of the Catholic coalition at this time would not have been able to have such resilience. After encountering successive setbacks in the attack, asking the team to attack is likely to encounter mutiny. However, at this time, because of some nationalist consciousness brought about by the invasion of foreign civilizations, the original quality and training of the army were not very outstanding with the possibility of continuous combat.

In previous combat experience, the explosive attack was often the action carried out by the defending side after determining the scale of the opponent's attack. This time, however, shortly after the Coalition offensive began, a fierce and accurate blasting attack arrived. 200,000 catties of gunpowder threw 1 hundred thousand heavy shotguns out without any scruples, bringing about 40,000 casualties to the attacking coalition forces in a very short time, and this time the reinforcements finally did not defend conservatively at night, but launched a fierce attack after completely certainly weakening the opponent's superiority in strength. Because of the presence of aerial reconnaissance hot air balloons, the forces that have been reinforced and brought over by sea are also fundamentally different in terms of combat determination.

This decisive victory also completely dissipated the dark clouds of whether the eastern forces could survive in Tessie, and the successive defeats in the battles caused the Catholic coalition forces and the allied forces in Central and Eastern Europe to suffer more than 100,000 casualties since the uprising, but did not make decisive progress. The Catholic coalition in the west also suffered heavy casualties, and after this series of battles, although the rebel forces in Eastern Europe and Germania joined in at least 100,000 or more, the strength of the coalition in the whole of Western Europe, which was barely fighting, was still only 200,000 or 300,000 men.

However, after two rounds of troop reinforcement in the east and west, although they continued to suffer casualties of about 50,000 or 60,000 in the battle, the total strength of troops in Europe still reached a scale of nearly 200,000, and the number of troops that could effectively maneuver at any time after joining forces reached as many as 150,000. Although it is still at a disadvantage of about two to three in terms of the ratio of troops, it is not inferior at all in terms of field combat capability. With the Reconnaissance Hot Air Balloon bonus allowing at least the initiative in tactical reconnaissance in the plains, the defense of the West River stronghold and Paris was further consolidated, and the active attack and counterattack against the important mineral areas and remnant handicraft production areas in Western Europe were also quickly launched.

In this way, the initiative on the battlefield also completely changed hands after the decisive victory near the stronghold of the West River, although there was still an obvious lack of troops to completely control the entire Taixi to restore the previous situation, but there was not much problem in suppressing the remnants of the western Taixi forces.

After the military pressure on the periphery of the core fortress and stronghold was lifted, relying on the local collection and plunder, there was also a noticeable change in the storage of food and water, which seemed to be sufficient to support the arrival of a large army.

As the summer gradually passed, and when the early autumn of the ninth year of Chongzhen came, reinforcements of about 100,000 men were deployed in two directions using the waterways from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean. With about 50,000 troops, he attacked the hinterland of Eastern Europe again, and reinforced the western part of Europe all the way.

When the number of troops in the entire European region increased again to about three or four hundred thousand, the initiative of the Eastern forces in the Taixi region began to become very different.

(End of chapter)