The pace of war is never shifted by the will of the individual.

When there are still people in the bronze fortress in the rear, there are people speculating on herbs and driving up prices; Someone is digging into the corners of the empire, up and down; When someone falls into the gentle township, he only knows me and me every day, and he doesn't know where his home and country are—he has officially received the enemy four days before the front line of Broken Ridge!

Thousands of people are dying! The soldiers who fought so hard will not even have a chance to retreat.

However, every general knows very well that the offensive and defensive battles of the Bronze Fortress are not simply about defending the city walls, but a whole set of combat systems that operate around the fortress!

You see, this is a war in which humanity mobilizes 200,000 and the number of demons is in the millions—it has trench warfare! There is positional warfare! There are encounters! There are sniper battles! There is a war of annihilation!

It also has night battles! There's a surprise attack! There is an ambush! There is raiding! There is a dead guard!

The Bronze Fortress was only the strongest support point for the entire war, and it was also the part that appeared at the climax of the war. And the goal of the empire is to slaughter demons in 100,000, a million on this battlefield! Only by working hard to reduce the number of demons can we ensure the basic peace of the southern realm for five or ten years!

It doesn't make much sense to simply repel an attack!

In terms of cost, the materials consumed by the defense of the city that lasted for a hundred years were dozens of times that consumed by the concentrated outbreak of ten major wars! This is also how the empire can afford it, otherwise the country would have gone bankrupt long ago.

Moreover, the city walls with an average drop of less than fifty meters were not particularly high for a demon. It's strong enough, but don't treat that wall as an impassable moat!

In addition to the endless number of demons, there are also spider demons who can burrow into the ground and climb walls; There are berserkers and overseers who can jump directly onto the city walls; There are trolls who can throw boulders onto the walls; There are high demons who can teleport at will; There are also little devils who can fly short distances and magic winged dragons who are overwhelming...... There are many different types of demons, and although their attacks are swarms, they are three-dimensional strikes from the sky and the ground at the same time.

When thousands of demon ants attached to the city wall, the spider demon quickly climbed the city wall, and then a large number of demons suddenly flew from the sky to attack the city head...... The consequences are absolutely fatal!

At this time, the advantages of the vast battlefield are highlighted.

Through skillful tactics and a well-established command system, human armies can first delay and classify attacks against the influx of demons - discovering and prioritizing the annihilation of a certain demon species; Delaying the ground forces and allowing the demonic "air force" to storm the city alone without the cooperation of the ground forces is the specialty of the imperial commander!

All along, the demons' simple and crude command system has been their biggest shortcoming.

And those troops who are alone in the depths, desperately annihilating the spider demons; The troops responsible for sniping the army of demons...... Destined not to return.

Therefore, reducing the whole war to a simple siege war is just the idea of the war Xiaobai - Xiaobai always thinks about fewer deaths, but in the eyes of a marshal, if a soldier dies and consumes 100 gold coins and materials, he will not hesitate to choose the former. Because the empire can kill 100,000 soldiers, but it really can't take out 10 million gold coins in supplies!

Don't look at Felix Constance without hesitation to take out 1 million gold coins from the treasury...... He was ready to commit treason, and that was almost the last reserve. Therefore, at that time, the two imperial moths silently completed the transaction, and there was no bargaining process at all.

*****

Broken Ridge, Desperate Woods, Black Slope, Cliff of the End......

The series of ominous names marked on the map at the end of the shovel-shaped plain is the truest portrayal of the Hundred Years' War. There is no pretending to be "I come, I see, I conquer", and there is no brain-dead fool of "gentlemen, I like war".

On the battlefield, no one likes war.

Black Slope, a semi-trenched trench, now has twenty soldiers left...... Scarred and numb. They dragged the corpses like walking corpses and strengthened the fortifications.

A day ago, a regiment of four hundred men was stationed here.

The corpses of humans and the corpses of spider demons were pushed next to the ravines and used for heightening. It was a short truncated trench that used to be waist-high, but now people could no longer see the top of their heads when they stood in the trench, and three hundred and eighty soldiers and the same number of spider demon corpses were left here.

It's trench warfare without musket fire—trees are cut into two tips and plunged into the ground, and then pig's blood is poured into the trench to make it a simple and effective booby trap for spiders. Spiders are tempted by the smell of blood, crashing into sharp logs as they travel underground, and then jump out of the Legion in pain! Of course, this is just the ideal situation...... In fact, the legion itself was the bait.

It's a question of who kills first between the prey and the hunter.

Spider demons can walk on vertical walls, and their hideous claws are a source of fear for recruits. Although the Berserker Demon and the like are powerful, they still have a human form, which is not so scary. But the two-meter-tall giant spider, with its furry arthropods and hideous appearance, is even more terrifying than a nightmare! They can be a fatal blow to the morale of recruits!

As such, they are a priority target for the Legion, and only veterans can do it......

Since it was known that the vanguard of this demon tide was the Demon Spider, such "spider traps" were all over the Black Slope and the Woods of Despair, locking the exit of Shattered Ridge.

"Who can find grease? Can anyone find grease? A bearded man crouched on a pile of corpses and shouted, most of his face scratched by a spider! The bristles on his paws made his face look like it had been brushed with a wire brush, and he was drenched in blood and stained everywhere, and he couldn't see his true face at all.

The soldier crouching in the trench was silent, and no one answered his question. He seemed to know that this would be the case, spit out the blood foam in his mouth, and looked at the mountains of corpses with concern, "If you go to step on a horse, why do you want Lao Tzu to be the captain when you are dying...... With so many corpses, what can I do? ”

The corpse can't be burned directly, especially since the spider demon is full of disgusting liquid. Originally, they carried a lot of kerosene, but unfortunately it was all used up in the previous battle! Burning spiders works well......

Everyone knows that if you leave it alone, the corpse of a human will be resurrected by a demon into a demon......

Even if it is chopped, it is useless, and the corpse will become the military food of the subsequent demons. Those disgusting guys eat everything, carrion, corpses, animals and plants...... When you don't eat it, you eat the lowest demons. In short, the demons who rushed to the ground had no concept of logistics at all.

But the most important thing is not this...... It is a world of God and faith, and it takes seven days for the soul to leave the body and then go to the Kingdom of God. If they are resurrected as demons, they will be completely disqualified from going to the kingdom of God. It's okay to chop it up...... But those who have desecrated corpses will not be able to go to the kingdom of God!

Now "going to the kingdom of God after death" is the last thought of these people.

"Wait...... Let's meet the Majin. "Finally a soldier said something to make it less dead and silent." The body of the demons is different from other demons, they are like dried meat that has been drained of water, and I have burned it, and it is like a firewood burning it. Kill a few demons and we can use them as firewood! ”

Of course, don't think about the fact that those demons are also human transformations.

"Demons? Good idea, I hope we don't meet the Majin first......" The team commander spat at blood again, and stood up with the big sword stuck next to him. "Get ready to fight! Be...... What a demon! Many, many demons! ”

They thought about the demons, and then the demons appeared......

It's a pity that it's not a small team, but a lot of demons all over the mountains!

*****

"Into the trenches! Into the trenches! The squad commander shouted loudly, even if he was not very experienced, he could see that in a battle on flat ground, 20 people might not be able to stop even a single charge of the demons! Entering the trenches can hold out a little longer. In fact, without his orders, the remaining soldiers had already spontaneously lined up in the trenches, holding spears and turning into spear formations. Those with wounded legs leaned on others, and those with wounded arms held the tail end of their spears at the bottom of the pit!

Even if only the soldiers were either injured or disabled, they were still awe-inspiring when the spear array was erected.

The Majin saw the position in front of him and stopped after hesitating. It's not because Majin have a fear of it, it's because of their fighting habits...... When they encounter a position, they will first pile up a sufficient number and then rush up in one go!

The tactics are not very clever, but they solve most of the problems with this tactic.

The soldiers in the trenches were equally aware of this.

On a dividing line, the two sides took an eerie pause. On one side is a lone 20-person spear formation, and on the other side is more and more demons...... 100, 200, 300...... Gradually, the entire hill was already covered with copper-skinned demons!

The squad commander gritted his teeth and gripped the spear in his hand, feeling his comrades around him tremble slightly...... So did he.

How many seconds will you live? Will you be able to survive the first wave of charge?

"Roar!" A tall demon suddenly began to howl! Then the gathered demons bowed their heads in the direction of the position, raised their weapons, and began to run!

Here it comes!

"Lower the spear!"

"Roar!"

Seeing that the demon was about to collide with the spear array, "Boom! With a loud bang, a huge orange-yellow fireball suddenly exploded in the demon crowd! Then another fireball flew in, covering all the remaining demons!

The explosion shook the mountains! The waves of air rolled up by the fireball blew over the trenches, and the soldiers of the spear team couldn't help but bow their heads and hide in the trenches!

When they looked up again, they saw a gray-robed mage, riding a four-legged horse that they had never seen before, galloping from a distance all the way to the battlefield - around him, countless flaming demons...... It was as if purgatory had descended on earth.

Someone is right, demons, it's really easy to ignite.

"Is that you?" The team commander said in a lost voice when he saw the magician's face.

Shen Yan turned his head and looked at the bloodied man with a little familiar. He thought for a moment, "You're the bearded captain who caught deserters?" ”

The squad commander shook his head with a wry smile, remembering the smirk the person in front of him had given him.

"The captain is dead, I'm ...... Pimples. ”

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PS: War plots, I need to write slowly.