"Uh-huh, that sounds like a thing." Ye Junwen listened to the sound of artillery coming from the right, and also nodded and said. Compared to before, the number of artillery sounds like an artillery battalion now. This time, Ye Junwen also designated artillery when he traded, so he brought a lot of it back. Of course, relatively speaking, there are very few guns, Ye Junwen didn't bring a gun back this time, he just brought some ammunition, and the rest of the space was used to fire artillery, a total of thirteen, and this time the artillery is all of one caliber, and the ammunition is easy to equip.

Not only the number of artillery has been formed, but Ye Junwen has also prepared a lot of ammunition this time, not only the quantity, but also the type. For example, the current fight is tactical incendiary bombs. However, the area of this kind of bomb burning thing is still very small, after all, no matter how large the range of ammunition is, it is not allowed to be sold, and the notorious white phosphorus bomb is even more forbidden weapons, and it is good that Ye Junwen can get this kind of ammunition.

The purpose of this kind of ammunition is not to burn people, and the kind that burns people is not allowed to be sold, but mainly for destroying the terrain. Now it's a good fit. The so-called arson to the bottom of the mountain prison is a matter on the earth, and no one will pay attention to any environmental protection issues here.

After a few shots, there were a lot of fire points in the woods in front of them, according to this situation, if it didn't rain, the whole forest would soon burn up, this kind of fire could not be extinguished by manpower, especially when there was no water source here.

Although they had only fired a few shots, the elves had already begun to have headaches. Yes, there was almost no loss of their personnel in these guns, that is, a few people were injured, but the panic caused by them was far greater than the actual effect. The soldiers didn't expect the other party to attack them from such a distance, and although they had heard that the other side had new weapons, they didn't feel terrified until they actually saw the effect.

How to deal with this, now that the two sides are separated by such a distance, the other party is attacking them, they can't be beaten passively all the time. So rush out? The problem is that the terrain here is favorable to them, if they go out, it will be the Great Plains, who knows who the Great Plains is beneficial to, their elven clan does not have cavalry, it is all woods terrain with cavalry is not a fool, then if they go out of the forest, the other party's cavalry troops will not defeat them?

Now they finally realized the feeling of aggrieved when the Duke of Seleto defended the city before, people just forced you to come out and fight, and if you don't come out, you will be beaten unilaterally, which is really a headache.

The captain of the elven army is named Osaith, a heroic female elven general, but her war experience is not very rich, and she has not had such a large-scale battle since she took over the supreme command of the elves, which is the first time she has experienced such a big battle. However, at the beginning, the conductor on the opposite side gave her such a problem.

"Osaith, are we going to take the initiative?" Another female general of the elven clan next to him came up and asked, although Osaith is the highest commander, but the elves do not use the name between superiors and subordinates, the elves are all a family, so they still call Osaith's name.

"The other side is obviously forcing us to take the initiative." Osaith thought for a moment and said, "This was planned by the enemy, and if we make a move, what awaits us will be a trap. ”

"Hmm." The other party obviously agreed with this statement, but quickly said, "But if we don't go out now, we can only be beaten passively, and it is obviously not possible to go on like this, what should we do?" ”

"At the moment...... Can only wait. Osaith thought for a while and said, "Although the distance of the opponent's weapon attack is very long, the damage caused is not very large, we have natural protection, and the opponent cannot aim at our position, so the threat is not very big at present, but the soldiers are more afraid." I think we should be patient for now and wait until the time ......."

"When?" The female general asked.

"It's raining." "I've heard that the opponent's musket can't be used when it's raining, because it needs to be ignited, so we should wait for the rain to rain and then launch a surprise attack when the opponent's weapon can't be used, so that we can defeat them." ”

"I see." The female general nodded, "I see, now we have to stabilize the mood of the soldiers." ”

There is nothing wrong with what Osaith said, after all, the muskets on this side of the Atlas are indeed unusable when it rains. Ye Junwen's previous battles with firearms were also used on sunny days, so Osaith felt that the opponent's musket also had this weakness when he hadn't seen the real thing.

Of course, even Ye Junwen couldn't think of this, he couldn't count that the other party could have such a misunderstanding, after a few rounds, Ye Junwen saw that the other party didn't move, and he was also very strange about what the other party was waiting for, he couldn't be beaten passively all the time, he had a plan for the other party to advance and retreat, but it was a headache if he didn't advance and retreat, was the other party really ready to consume their ammunition?

"I really don't believe it." Ye Junwen said that he would continue to blow up until the other party came out.

So the artillery fire continued for a day, and soon it was evening. And that night, Ye Junwen's artillery fire did not stop. Yes, it's different from last time, last time because it was to aim at the city wall, so the artillery fire couldn't be used casually at night, otherwise it would be a waste, but this time there was no target, they really couldn't see the enemy's position, they just blew up the tree, what else do you need to aim, just bomb it casually.

However, considering that the artillery unit still needs to determine the location with the naked eye in order to train the location of the landing point, and the soldiers on their side also need to rest, there is definitely no way to rest well if they have been bombing all night, so Ye Junwen said that the bombing will be done every two hours, just to remind the soldiers to change shifts.

After one night, the situation in the barracks on both sides was different, most of the soldiers on Ye Junwen's side did not rest well, after all, although there was an interval, it was still noisy to them once every two hours, and many soldiers slept for 2-3 hours at night, and they were indeed a little tired, but ...... They just didn't sleep well, and the elves were terrified.

There must be no way to sleep on the elven side, not to mention the sudden attack of the enemy, a round of bombardment every 2 hours, who knows if it will be blown up while asleep, so all the elves did not sleep and lasted all night.

The next day, Commander Osaith received bad news, and in one night, their troops were reduced by more than 5,500 men. This is not a joke, but in fact of the more than 5,000 people, less than 100 were killed by shells, and the rest of the attrition was due to deserters.

Yes, the elven soldiers ran away, a situation that even Orsaith did not expect. Orsaith couldn't figure out what was going on with these soldiers, was they scared away by the enemy's artillery? But this artillery looks very scary, the actual damage caused is very limited, so far there are a lot of wounded, but the real dead are less than 300 people, what is there to be afraid of?

Osaith didn't know how fragile these elven soldiers who hadn't experienced war for a long time were. In the past ten years of peace, the elven soldiers have forgotten the battlefield, the elven soldiers who have experienced the war before have basically retired, and the newly recruited soldiers are on the battlefield for the first time, and this kind of unseen situation, especially the scene of a companion being killed and burned to death by artillery, they are directly frightened.

Why did they come here to fight, can't they eat and drink well at home? These soldiers don't have the will to war, they don't know who they're fighting for, what they're fighting for, so what are they trying to do here? Coupled with the psychological pressure brought by this artillery, which could be killed at any time, these soldiers discussed with their comrades, let's go, and make a yarn.

This brings us to another drawback of the elven troops, that is, they don't have a warlord. Yes, the troops on the human side have a war team, once they find that their soldiers are going to run on the battlefield, the war team will immediately kill these deserters, unless the commander orders a retreat, otherwise the soldiers can only advance, either die in the hands of the enemy or in the hands of their own war team, that is all death, it is better to be a hero, of course they can only advance.

However, the elves advocate peace and equality, and they are all brothers and sisters, so how can their own people kill their own people. In their eyes, the existence of the Human Warlords is a complete barbaric act, a bad habit. The elves have never had a supervising team, but in the past, the elven troops had the belief in fighting, they knew that they were fighting for the race, and there were very few deserters, so they didn't need to supervise the war, but now it was not more than ten years ago, these young elves in the new era were not the elves at that time.

More than ten years of peaceful life have made them basically forget about war, and the elves are not the people who fight for the survival of the race, their country is very stable, and there is no problem of survival. In this case, they chose to run, there was no problem, no one would kill them anyway, at most they would be arrested, which was not a big crime on the elf side. They are noble and harmonious elves, and unlike the barbarians who cut people at every turn, they do not kill their own people.

So under the impression of this situation, in one night, deserters appeared in various units, and more than 5,000 soldiers fled directly from the battlefield, which was 50 times more effective than the enemy's artillery attack.

Hearing this report, Osaith also frowned, she didn't expect to encounter this situation, in this way, it seems that they can't afford to drag it out.

"Let's make it rain." Ossaith could only say in the end.