Except for the two younger war elephants, who almost lost their footing on the way over the embankment and onto the dry riverbed, everything was carried out according to the pre-battle deployment: ten hundred-man detachments poured out of the rest place and closed in from several directions towards the small riverbank position of the land-giving army.

Their battle formations may seem chaotic on the ground, but in reality they imply order. If someone can look down from the sky above the battlefield at this moment, they can find that the first batch of Golden Regiment soldiers who launched a charge are tightly grouped in units of 100 people, and the speed from the middle to the wings is constantly increasing, thus forming an approximate semicircle as a whole. Keep a distance between teams to prevent excessive losses in the event of shelling, and at the same time skillfully avoid being too far apart from each other...... You are my striker, and I am his flank, supporting each other, not forgetting to keep pace with the war elephants as we run, without hindering the beasts' wild run, nor standing in their way.

Without communicating with each other, and not looking back at the command of the flag order, with just a brief briefing before the battle, the soldiers completed the command will of the regiment commander, which can be seen in the combat quality of the soldiers of the "strongest mercenary group".

......

"Boom ......"

As expected, a puff of white smoke rose from a string of faint flashes of light on the opposite riverbank, and more than a dozen strange gunpowder weapons opened fire at the first moment when the soldiers of the Golden Regiment crossed the river embankment and launched a charge, and in the roar, more than a dozen iron balls flew towards the defenders with the sound of breaking through the air.

The continuous hours of shelling did bring a huge blow to the morale of the Riverbend Army, but at the same time gave the Golden Regiment a general understanding and impression of this weapon that made its first appearance. Thanks to the tactics of dispersion and batching, most of the shells fell on the river beach and slammed into small craters, because the ears of the war elephants had been blocked in advance, and the impact of the roar on these sensitive big guys was extremely limited...... The fire, sound, and impact caused a brief panic, but it did not stop the mercenaries from charging at all, but instead triggered the opportunity for the second group to enter the field.

"Up!"

Under the loud command of the regimental commander, the rhythm of the drums changed, and the five hundred archers who were ready to attack also climbed down the embankment, lined up and marched wildly.

After listening to the cannon fire for several hours, Strykran had already mastered the firing pattern of this weapon: a short gap after a salvo was the safest moment, and in these tens of seconds, the second platoon of archers could quickly press forward to the best firing position and provide long-range fire support to the first platoon.

The casualties that can be reduced by this amount of time are minimal, but any experienced commander should know that sometimes the difference between victory and defeat in battle is often the slightest difference in battle loss and morale. The lion fights the rabbit with all his strength, facing the legendary enemy who defeated the stranger, and he will not miss any opportunity to squeeze out the advantage and chance of victory.

Fifteen hundred soldiers and seven war elephants rumbled in their footsteps on the frozen bare riverbank, and the golden battle flags, gilded armor, and war elephants draped in golden blankets merged into two golden waves, surging mightily towards the small black patch of the land-giving army that had barely formed a defensive formation, huddled on the beach with its back to the river.

The second round of artillery rang out sparsely, but the results created were not as good as the first round, Stryclane observed the situation and couldn't find any point to lose, and while he was a little relieved, he felt a little regretful.

Perhaps, one more enemy should be put ashore before giving the order to charge?

After all, even if the enemy wins at the moment, the enemy will only lose 200 soldiers who crossed the river in the first batch, and this number is not a painful or a great victory.

He raised the lens again and looked at the enemy's position, wanting to record the response of this formidable enemy to this unsolvable situation.

As expected, the shieldmen rested their shields on the ground and leaned against each other to form a shield wall, while the second row of land-giving soldiers hiding behind the shields quickly removed the two large iron balls that had been hanging from their necks, cut the ropes with their knives, and ......

Then Strykran knew why the enemy had brought torches in broad daylight, and in the small circular field of view of the lens, he could clearly see that the soldiers in black were holding "iron balls", and they were close to the nearest torches and lit something, and then he turned around sharply and threw those round balls out!

Molotov cocktails!

Strykran realized in an instant what it was, but the battle on the front line was close to the hand-to-hand combat stage where the two armies collided, and he could no longer and could no longer remind the soldiers of this crucial discovery, and could only hope that the cold of winter and the soldiers' on-the-spot self-play could minimize the effect of the opponent's fire attack.

200 meters, 100 meters...... More recently, the Land-Giving Army archers on the docked ships had already fired the first round of arrows, causing double-digit casualties, and the archers of the Golden Regiment had already run to combat positions and braved the third round of artillery fire to launch a counterattack, the arrows densely crossed the friendly array, or pinned to the huge shields of the Land-giving Army, and fell alive in the back row to hit the unlucky ones who had just stepped off the pontoon, causing sporadic cries and screams.

As for the ten hundred-man teams that were the first to start charging, they also began to skillfully change their dynamic formations after approaching the land-giving army shield array on the water's edge.

This is a task that the "elite" of ordinary peasant soldiers can never accomplish, and this is an operation that can only be successfully completed when the majority of veterans of a hundred battles are in the array. Experienced and knowledgeable about how to maximize gains and minimize casualties can converge on the result: the first column of 1,000 infantry who were the first to enter the battle slowed down and slowly moved closer to the nearest war elephant, and after quietly charging side by side to following the war elephants, they changed from a narrow semicircle of lines to seven cone-shaped attacking formations with war elephants as the tips.

Fiercely plunged towards the shield array of the land-giving army!

In the heavy gasps and shouts of killing, the commanders of each team also clearly saw the balls flying over the shields in the opposing formation, but no one was at a loss and no one was panicked. The Golden Regiment went south and north to the north and did not know how many battles they fought, and the throwing weapons naturally could not be the first time to see, only for a moment, they made the same "incendiary bomb" judgment as the regiment commander according to the white smoke coming out of these balls, but they were pleasantly surprised to find that the other party's battlefield officer seemed to have a problem with the distance estimation, and issued the throwing order two seconds earlier, and the dozens of black big guys, just like this, fell to the front of their charging road one by one in front of the gaze of thousands of eyes, and not a single soldier was hit!

Hahaha!

In the violent running, no one had the lung capacity to laugh, but the mercenaries of the Golden Regiment who saw such a huge mistake on the enemy side were all shocked, and their morale shouted and began to sprint and accelerate!

If it was an incendiary bomb, why didn't it break and catch fire when it touched the ground? The officers at the front line were not all dazed by joy, and a few of them found anomalies, but the situation on the battlefield changed so quickly during the charging stage, they were only a few dozen meters away from the enemy's shield array, and those big round balls fell in front of their toes, so how could they have time to stop and think or study? They could only be pushed by the robes behind them, shouting and reminding their comrades while stepping over those round balls.

"Be careful to get around the incendiary bombs!Don't touch or step on-"

Before the words fell, they were completely drowned out by the nearby loud bang.

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