Alexon still failed! Marshal Mencius got the news no later than Lu Xi a minute. At that time, he understood that it was impossible for him to win this battle again.

However, at this time, he could not say to the officers and men of the whole army that everyone would accept it when they saw it, and if it really didn't work, they would raise the white flag and surrender. To be honest, the situation has reached this point, and apart from fighting this battle, either repelling the opponent or having his head hung on the opponent's flagpole, Marshal Mencius can no longer find a way to end it decently.

"Headmaster, should we ......?"

Marshal Mencius turned his head to look at his lieutenant, who was speechless for a moment.

Fortunately, there was finally someone who could replace him, but he saw a herald riding a horned eagle landing near the camp. The other party ran closer and saw that it was not an ordinary herald, but Captain Ina, the adjutant of Lieutenant General Carl Ovant, who was fighting on Blue Dragon Island.

"Headmaster, the General's suggestion is no longer violated. Our troops should withdraw to the fortress of Olaheran and regroup. Stabilize your defenses with the power of the Sun God's Pupil. ”

"Heh, this kind of thing, really only Carl dares to say it!" Marshal Mencius sighed: "How is it over there?" ”

"Your Excellency Ovant said that before your main force retreats to the Oraheran Fortress, he will definitely be able to stabilize the defense line of Blue Dragon Island without losing it!"

"He's right. However, if I retreat at this time, it will only lead to a general rout of the whole army. ”

Isn't it now? Captain Ina looked at the front line suspiciously, and many of the 20,000 men placed on the front line had begun to retreat under the long-range fire of the platoon guns. Even a steel puppet with thick skin and flesh can't get close to the opponent under the volley of the guide gun. In his opinion, a complete collapse is only a matter of time. However, after watching it for another minute or two, he couldn't help but sigh again.

The army on the front line should have been unable to hold on, but what is really surprising is that they retreated without confusion, and defeated without crushing...... Well, that's not too exact, but it's true that a significant number of soldiers have completely lost their will to become deserters, only to be quickly driven back by the mages who oversaw the war. With a size of 20,000 people, the rout of this part of the population will certainly not have any decisive effect.

Soldiers were constantly knocked down by the pilot guns, and some people were scattered, but the main body of the army was still moving in an orderly manner, slowly moving to both sides of the battlefield.

Captain Ina knew that the former enemy commanders who commanded the front 20,000 men were Lieutenant General McTarron and Major General Sotze, both of whom could be regarded as qualified generals, but that was all. Although it is common for soldiers to gather and disperse, all of them who can really do this step are military god-level figures who can leave their names in history, and there are at least twenty Drake Eurentians between the two and this realm.

Everything can only show that this is an arrangement made by Marshal Mencius, as the commander of the whole army, in advance.

"So, what are you ......" Captain Ina opened his mouth to ask something, but then realized that even if the marshal had any other considerations, there was no need to talk to himself, an ordinary mid-level officer, and immediately stopped talking.

"Tell Carl that I'll at least find a safe retreat and let him keep an eye on the battle here."

"Understood!" Captain Ina was a decisive man, and after saluting, he hurried away.

Mencius didn't make it clear. With Carl Ovant's ability, he must be able to understand what he means. Moreover, he can be regarded as one of the military cores of the aristocratic coalition army, and he knows what kind of hole cards he has.

Now, it's up to Hadolph and his god fleet. Hopefully, everything will be as I judged. No, not hope...... Yes, it must be. I've tried it dozens of times, and it must be like this. Marshal Mencius thought.

As commander-in-chief, Marshal Mencius thoroughly examined all the battles and achievements of the Fourth Legion. That group of soldiers grew up a bit unreasonable, and after just a few months of training, they had never heard of what little Belenkas had given any heavy rewards, and they didn't even cut off a few heads, so they were inexplicably trained into a group of iron troops who forbade death and would not retreat. This may be because little Belencaster has some secret method for training and forging the body, which is understandable, Colorful Rose Island has not only produced great magicians, but also characters such as Nahibia, and it is not surprising that there are any secret books of soldiers. However, what really allowed the Fourth Legion to be undefeated in the Orgrimmar conquest was mainly the so-called guiding weapons.

Unlike the old-school magicians who gritted their teeth at this new thing, and always felt that "from now on, the civilized order and ethics of the world will be subverted by these stones", Marshal Mencius felt that since this kind of thing had appeared, it could not be changed. Since it is power, then it is necessary to find a way to master it.

Fortunately, there are many people in the Gate Valve faction who have the same idea as him, including recognized aristocratic leaders like Golder Wielambart.

So, one day, well, some time before the coup, he got a batch of guide guns from the Wilanbart family, probably more than nine hundred.

"It's all we've done in the last few years." The then President of the Bundestag, Turner Wielambat, said to Mencius.

The marshal believed that what the other party said was true. Otherwise, it wouldn't be a 942, not a whole number like a thousand.

"We would have considered building a stable workshop like NORINCO, but ...... You know, it's all done in secret, with a lack of reliable technical guidance and a lack of daring to hire people with great fanfare. There are only a few drawings that can't conjure up a factory of NORINCO's size. Now these are the results of more than two years of hard work by Wilambat and Dandy Lane, as well as all the alchemists and excellent blacksmiths of your Mentius family. Although the number is far from the most powerful enemy we have potentially, at least it can be regarded as having the same power of the same specification, and I hope you can use it well. ”

The power of the guide gun is certainly very strong, and Marshal Mencius was of course very happy to get such a weapon, but as a qualified military strategist...... Well, at least people who want to develop on the military side. He felt that he needed not only to master the tactics of this new weapon, but also to understand all its characteristics, especially its weaknesses.

It is very powerful and has a long range, but once it has passed a hundred paces, its accuracy cannot be guaranteed.

It turns out that this is the reason why the dwarves and the infantry of the Fourth Legion would line up the guide gunners in that kind of dense formation? Yes, only by ensuring the density when firing can its hit rate be ensured, naturally it cannot be used in a skirmish formation like an archer...... Although I heard that NORINCO has another model of guide gun that can ensure accuracy even from a long distance, it is said that it cannot be mass-produced, and it is supplied to the elves. Well, this kind of thing needs to be seriously investigated, but this is also a matter for later.

All in all, all the tactics of the guide gun revolve around the density of fire and the hit rate when firing. In order to ensure this, there are the so-called "Warhammer Phalanx" and "Belencaster Line" - outsiders' descriptions of the dwarven version of the "Plate Duck Formation" and the Lu Xi version of the queue to shoot formations.

So, is range also something to consider?

The bullet of the guide gun turns a hundred paces away, and even fifty paces away, its ballistic trajectory is very stable. And, unlike a crossbow, its trajectory is not even something that the shooter can control on his own. So, what if you put the enemy within a hundred and fire? Or even put the enemy within fifty or even thirty paces? The destructive power of the first round of guns can be more than the sum of several rounds of long-range shots, and the shock and morale blow to the enemy will increase in an order of magnitude, right?

At that moment, Marshal Mencius felt as if he felt the arrival of the Avenue of Military Law. For the first time, he also found the possibility of defeating the Fourth Legion.

Of course, how to shoot in the face in the face of the enemy's fire is a big technical problem.

Under the continuous shooting of the opponent, the comrades-in-arms around him kept falling, and their faces were splashed with the blood of their comrades, warm and fishy, but they had no way to think about it, let alone wipe it. I could become one of them at any time, but even so, I was still able to take an orderly step, maintain a neat queue, and move forward step by step. There were more and more enemy shots, and naturally the fire became more and more intensive, and of course, more and more comrades fell. However, you have to keep moving until you are only a few dozen meters away from the opponent, and you can even see the opponent's frightened expression, and then you raise your gun and fire a volley - Mencius thinks that this is the ideal performance of his own imaginary tactics, but probably only the undead can do it.

Hadol's divine fleet of 1,500 men, equipped with 900 guide guns and 600 charging infantry, were all carefully selected by Mencius, and Hadolph himself was the marshal's most proud student. But even so, the marshal did not think that they really had the strength to fight against the experienced guide gunners of the Fourth Army, not to mention that the other side had many more men and guns than himself.

Then, the only way to do this is to adopt new tactics.

Of course, Hadolph and his team of gods could not brave the rain of bullets and bullets to keep advancing and finally shoot in the face, but they could let the enemy get close on their own.

I, Kyle Mencius, am the Archmage, the contemporary wielder of the Ancient Lord's Banner! Use the power of the Elemental Lord to create small tunnels on the battlefield for the soldiers to hide in, and then create a large-scale group atmosphere curtain to completely cover their figures.

Of course, although ordinary atmospheric curtains can use the folded dislocation between the air currents to produce some kind of blinding effect to hide the human body, it cannot hide the smell of people. Not to mention the strength of the perception of excellence, even the well-trained hound can't hide it. Fortunately, the power of the brilliant artifact was not covered after all, it was just a group atmospheric barrier at the level of the blinding method, and after a period of operation, it turned into a shielding position that could completely cover all the breath, and even the power fluctuations and the existence of life.

Even a spellcaster who is proficient in prophecy, nay, even a druid master who knows the touch of nature, will not be able to detect their existence. The artifact spirit of the Ancient Elemental Battle Banner, who claimed to be the incarnation of the soul fragments of the four elemental lords after the fusion, was known as the existence of the "Dreadnought", and this was how it fed back to Marshal Mencius.

The marshal believed. Or rather, at this time, he can only believe.

Fortunately, the other party seems to have been fooled. The enemy in front of the gunners was forced to retreat, and they involuntarily accelerated the pace of their advance, and the neat array line was somewhat deformed.

The ordinary soldiers of the Fourth Legion probably felt that their morale could no longer be shaken. If it weren't for the fact that discipline was so strict that it hardly belonged to this era, perhaps without waiting for the officer's order, the whole army would have begun to charge spontaneously.

In a sense, they were right. McTaren and Zotai were able to maintain the defeat of the whole army without defeat, and they had done their best. At this time, if the other side is reckless, the collapse of the whole army will be inevitable.

However, once the opponent launches a charge, the formation will also be unable to maintain, and they will definitely enter the close-range strike range of the Divine Aircraft Team.

Yes, both sides are leading gunners, but the side that loses the opportunity to shoot is fired at close range by a well-formed opponent, and the blow can be imagined. What's more, they also lost their formation in the charge, and it was difficult for them to have much effect even if they wanted to counterattack.

Marshal Mencius had not seen a duel between the leading gunners, or rather, there was no precedent for such a thing in the whole world. However, after countless wargames and simulations with various magic and data, he felt that ninety percent of the time would turn out as he expected.

As long as it is placed within fifty meters, the opposing guide gunners should be in a state of confusion after two or three volleys, and at this time, the elite heavy infantry charge, if not all of them, will definitely inflict the heaviest blow on these trump cards of the Fourth Army.

In order to ensure sufficient lethality during the charge, in addition to the 600 elite stormtroopers equipped with teeth, the Divine Aircraft team also concentrated all 150 Gladiator Type 5 Assault Golems, which are the latest alchemy weapons of the Aprest Company. According to the big fat profiteer of the Aprest family, each one is made of demonic alloy and infused with all the alchemy achievements of the Aprest family for hundreds of years.

This is Marshal Mencius's killer weapon for Lu Xi. Whether he wanted to withdraw his troops to the fortress of Olaheran to regroup, or to fight for a chance to survive the future, he had to beat this arrogant and arrogant enemy hard before he could turn around.

Now, it's time. The opposing Gunner's guide gunner had almost entered the cordon of his own magic standard, and had entered the effective range of one hundred meters.

Colonel Ymir looked at the marshal.

"Wait......" Mencius took a deep breath.

The gunners continued and began to shoot. This time, not salvos, but scattered free fire. Their shots were disorganized, and their formations began to fall apart.

"Headmaster......

"Our gunners numbered less than a third of the enemy, and the first round had to guarantee the maximum striking effect. Yes, that's it, thirty meters more and you'll be ......."

However, before the marshal could give the order to fire, the first sound of artillery was like rolling thunder.

It was the enemy's artillery, and they had already opened fire first.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

The cannonballs fell into the convoy of divine planes shrouded in a masked position, and countless rising flames and shock waves connected together, tumbling and turning the scene into a sea of death.