As Levola had expected, the Lightning Legion managed to bypass the Maro Legion, which had collected them on the Elamite border, and reached the rear of this sizable legion. Originally, they should have been faster, but in order to cover up the traces left by the wheels of the artillery, they were delayed for some time.

According to the reports of the scouts sent out, the Maro Legion was stationed not far ahead, and this reserve legion, which had been left in the rear to maneuver to support other legions, did not know that they had been exposed to the eyes of the enemy. The Maro Legion, which did not have any habit of concealment, could see clearly the group of white tents in the camp, even from miles away.

As the Lightning Legion got closer, Marlowe's scouts finally spotted the Legion and headed for the camp with puffs of dust. It was as if a stone had hit a hornet's nest, and the originally quiet camp instantly became noisy, and the soldiers who had been resting in the tent quickly put on their armor and got out of the tent and found their ten-captain near them.

And these centurions, after gathering all his men, led the team to find their centurions. Marlo's discipline and quality were instantly evident, and although the whole camp was a little panicked by the enemy attack, everything was going on in an orderly manner in the panic, the soldiers knew what they were going to do, and the commanders knew that they needed to go there.

"It's slow. Glock rode his horse and looked at the Maro soldiers who had assembled in front of them, forming a neat phalanx, and said, "If we do it, it will be at least half as long as they are." But...... This should be considered fast among the Central Plains countries. ”

In the face of a sudden enemy attack, the rapid assembly of troops is the most important thing, and the advantage of being one minute earlier is to complete the assembly one minute earlier. For the training of this kind of thing, the legion of Thunder Cliff has always valued it the most. According to the training manual given by Mo Yan, the troops would suddenly assemble at least three or four times a day to train the soldiers' rapid reaction ability.

At first, all the Salts were incomprehensible to this sudden assembly and then disbandment, and even thought that their trainer was a torturous bastard. At this time, some people saw the speed of the Maro people's gathering, and they understood the importance of rapid assembly, and looking at the Maro people who had assembled in a panic, they could raise their chin and proudly say, "You guys are weak." ”

A surprise attack is the best thing to do if possible, and the unsuspecting Maro Legion only needs a cavalry charge to make them panic and unable to assemble properly, and then it will be easier to defeat this legion. However, there were very few soldiers in the legion who could ride horses, and there were few places in the mountainous terrain of Elamite where they could ride horses.

And most of the Lightning Legion is equipped with pack horses, not the kind of war horses that can charge quickly. The combination of slow-moving artillery and the small, short-legged gray dwarves also needed to be protected, and the combination of these problems only made Refora abandon the method of surprise attack and move forward in a regular battle formation.

The tall and strong Salt warriors, with shields and spears, walked at the head of the procession, followed by a group of gray dwarves with flintlock pistols, and in the center of the rear of the formation were pack-drawn cannons and wooden wagons for loading cannonballs.

"They've stopped?" a bearded man in Marlo's position, riding on a shiny black warhorse, frowned as he looked at the Lightning Legion that had stopped in the distance. This is not the same as normal combat, where both sides will not stop their ranks until at least where their bows and arrows can reach, adjusting to each other's formation.

For a long time before the army went to war, both sides were constantly adjusting their formations in this way, until one side made a mistake in strategy, and it was when the soldiers were fighting. Now that the other party has stopped at such a distance, this makes the bearded man have some bad premonitions.

"Looks like they're armed with Thunder Bluff's artillery. A military mage wearing a ** division robe beside the bearded man handed a secret letter about the description of the artillery to the bearded man and said, "And that's why we were sent here, have you sent those long staff to the soldiers in the front? If not...... Even if you survive the attack of waiting, what awaits you will be the Emperor's guillotine. ”

This young mage came directly from Maro City some time ago, and at the same time, he also came with a batch of magical equipment. The mage, who didn't even bother to tell him by name, as if he was the master of the legion, didn't pay any attention to the beard, and after he arrived, he changed the phalanx of the legion at will, and distributed a staff of magical energy to all the small phalanxes at the forefront.

If it weren't for the fact that this mage had Caesar's handwritten order in his hand, the bearded man wouldn't care if this arrogant bastard was a ** master or not, and directly grabbed him, poured him with forbidden potions, and threw him into the wilderness. As the commander of the most elite legion in this operation, the bearded man was no ordinary nobleman.

"Seventy degrees in elevation! Ten degrees in translation. Standing on the pedestal of a carriage, a bearded gray dwarf estimated the distance with the instrument in his hand, and commanded the twenty cannons below in a loud voice. As the Gunnery Commander of the Lightning Legion, he is responsible for commanding all artillery in all Legions.

Following the order of the bearded gray dwarf, the gray dwarf below the high platform busily turned the wheels of the cannon with scales, raising the firing port of the cannon to the designated position, and the shells with metal shells were loaded into the breech. The gray dwarves with red cheeks of excitement stared at the raised left hand of the gunner, waiting for the order to fire.

"Fire!" watched the slowly advancing Maro phalanx enter the intended point of shelling, and the bearded gray dwarf roared loudly with a powerful wave of his left hand. The gray dwarves below, who seemed to have been waiting for several years, quickly knocked the long magic crystal in their hands on the magic circle of the cannon body, instantly activating the magic array without energy, and transmitting the magic energy to the magic circle at the bottom of the cannonball in the cannon chamber.

The sound of twenty guns firing at the same time was deafening, and even the Salts who had already heard such a sound felt subconsciously weak. Not to mention the Maro, who had never heard such a loud noise, and in an instant they felt their legs go limp, and they stopped the slowly marching phalanx, which was the position of the gray dwarves to predict the shelling.

Twenty shining cannonballs streaked through the perfect parabola in mid-air, and pierced towards Maro's phalanx with a whistling force, and the power of the magic crystal black powder contained in them would make these Maro people understand what the art of explosion was!

"What!" Nadal watched as a pale blue shield appeared above the Maro phalanx, and the cannonball that was supposed to fall into the Maro phalanx and bring great damage was stopped by this sudden appearance of the magical shield. The loud explosions and flames frightened the Maro below, but they didn't do any damage.

"The magic shield can actually take it out of the city!" Kira looked at the pale blue shield that shook from the explosion in disbelief. Every big city has a magic shield, which is the most important part of the city's defense, but the magic array system required by the magic shield is extremely complex, and the whole system is also extremely large.

It has always been built only in large cities, and even small cities that are not important will not be shielded by anyone. The dark blue shield on the Maro phalanx now, although it is dozens of times smaller and much dimmer than the city shield in terms of area and light, is a real complete shield.

"Is that how those things are used?" the bearded man looked at the shield above his head, and a small carriage beside him was the overall core of the entire magic energy system. Relying on the resonance with the magical staff in front of the array, it formed a shield that was enough to block the shelling.

"His Majesty the Emperor is very interested in the technology of Thunder Cliff. The ** division beside the legion commander showed a contemptuous smile and said: "But in my opinion, it is just some heretical technology, the mainstream technology in this world will only be magic, and the so-called gunpowder technology is just a joke." The Legion Shield technology I've invented will render their weapons useless!"

Thunder Bluff's artillery is no secret, and the Maro people with their ears and ears already understand the principle. While they couldn't get their hands on the recipe for black powder, or the gray dwarves who were willing to provide them with it, that didn't stop them from developing protective measures.

Marlo, a country with a long history, has many genius spellcasters. And this ** division who came to the legion is one of them, Caesar trusts him more than any mage, and he does have such strength and talent. Born into a family of mages, he not only has an extremely superior mage lineage, but at an early age he was instilled with dangerous wisdom through magic, which gave him a high level that no one else had.

At a young age, he became a ** teacher, making him a star of the entire Marlo. While this has made him brilliant, it has also made him strange and arrogant, and even other mages are nothing more than fools who know how to play tricks in his eyes.

(To be continued)