Chapter 739: Response
The two teams of men and horses who had already lined up the formation immediately rushed out from behind the hill as fast as they could, and everyone in the breakout force launched a defensive charm and put them in the front.
The artillery regiment, as the unit with the highest average combat power, naturally took on the task of attacking with all its might, and the two hundred and fifty-five artillerymen set up the spirit cannon on the ground as quickly as possible and began to accumulate strength.
The remaining 240 or so people began to draw ranged attack spells and chanted spells to increase the attack range.
The enemy officer also reacted at the moment of seeing the attack, and in a panic, he wanted to command everyone to defend.
However, no matter how fast his reaction speed was, it was a step too late after all, and his defense order had just been issued, and Ye Li's attack from their side had already arrived.
Less than half of the enemy forces reacted and unleashed a spell defense, while the rest began to scramble to draw spells.
"Boom, Boom, Boom ............"
A series of explosions resounded through the mountains and forests, and the attack of the Spirit Gathering Cannon instantly destroyed the opponent's defenses and fell into the Spirit Gathering Cannon Group, destroying nearly half of the opponent's Spirit Gathering Cannon Group.
The rest of the people hurriedly tried to defend, but with the chaos of the formation, they simply couldn't activate the defense spell at the same time to form a team defense.
After Ye Li's second round of artillery bombardment, the enemy's Gathering Spirit Artillery Regiment was completely dumb.
The other party also issued an escape order at this time, and he didn't have the slightest desire to fight, just wanted to escape from here quickly.
This time, the other party made the right choice, and instead of using signal fireworks, they chose to flee in all directions.
For this situation, Ye Li and they had no choice, the other party chose to flee in all directions without the slightest will to fight, except for encircling in advance, there was no way to guarantee that the enemy army would be killed.
After a battle, more than ninety percent of the enemy's soldiers died here, and the few remaining enemies seemed to be good at speed, and fled in panic.
After the two battles, although everyone felt a little tired, their faces were full of excitement.
For a long time, there were not many victories in the battles of the Farrant Empire, and they had a preconceived fear of the Jinde Empire's side.
But now this emotion was gradually dispelled from the hearts of the soldiers, and Ye Li, who had just arrived, immediately sent them a huge victory.
After two battles, the artillery regiment did not lose any strength, and everyone was still in good spirits.
As a breakout team that attracted the enemy's firepower, there were still 80 casualties, to be specific, 30 dead and about 50 wounded.
However, with such casualties, in exchange for the death of more than 800 people on the other side, no matter how you look at it, it is almost a complete victory.
When everyone looked at Ye Li, their eyes began to become extremely respectful.
"Everyone cleaned up the battlefield, and then we quickly retreated, and the breakout troops were very drained and needed to rest. ”
Ye Li gave an order, conveyed the order, and then everyone began to clean up the battlefield.
The corpses of their own family members could not be taken away, so they could only be buried on the spot, and in the two teams of the other party, there were still about forty intact spirit gathering cannons, more than thirty of which were at the level of the gestation period, and nearly ten were at the level of the primordial period.
Looking at these spirit cannons, Ye Li said: "The current formation of our artillery regiment is the most perfect, if you want to increase the number of spirit cannons, you must re-expand the team.
These Spirit Cannons will disrupt our combat deployment if we take them, and they are not suitable for our tactics in terms of mobility, so leave it to the Breakout Team.
You take each other's wagons and drag them back to the army for Your Majesty to distribute.
If we can get some more cannons back, the battle will be much easier. ”
After explaining the matter, the two teams quickly cleaned up the battlefield and quickly evacuated the area.
When the deserters of the opposing side found the other troops, and finally everyone came to check on them, they realized how great their losses were, and after the two troops were annihilated, their total number was only about 8,000.
At present, the enemy's encirclement does not dare to stretch so long, so it can only abandon the surrounding mountains and wilderness areas and deploy a large number of troops in the front.
After all, the shape of the Fulong Mountains is similar to that of a sock, and their previous main forces were deployed on top of the mouth of the sock, and the large number of men extending to the two wings around it was to increase the search area and prevent the Flangel Empire coalition forces from having room to hide.
Now the enemy has realized that they are undermanpowered, so they can only concentrate on the area of the front sock opening to blockade it, and then slow down the advance.
The original forty troops were reduced to ten, five in the front and five in the rear, each with about 800 men, doubling in strength.
However, because of the slowdown in their advancement, the threat to the coalition forces of the Flangel Empire has become smaller, at least giving them enough time to respond.
The people of the reconnaissance team soon noticed the changes in the enemy army, and Ye Li and them also returned to the hiding place of the large army and began to discuss countermeasures.
Ye Li felt that the opponent's change of formation did not have much impact on them at all, because the opponent had not figured out their tactics at all.
The last time they launched their tactics, they were the first team of people to annihilate the opponent, so Ye Li's tactics of quickly attacking from the flank were not passed on by the opponent's people at all.
Of course, the enemy's current change of formation did affect the play of this tactic on the one hand, after all, after the increase in numbers, the artillery regiment will be limited in what it can achieve.
Because the size of the artillery regiment was only 500 people, when it attacked the enemy army of about 400 people before, it was possible to destroy the opponent in one round, but now it is completely impossible.
They estimated that if they increased the number of the breakout team to 800 men, and added 300 men for the artillery regiment as defensive manpower, then if the tactics were successful, they should be able to exchange the cost of nearly 100 casualties for the opponent's casualties of four or five hundred.
However, after an attack, they must retreat immediately, otherwise they will have no hope when reinforcements arrive.
After carefully weighing the gains and losses, Edwin Lucas said, "Master Ye, do we still choose to continue this plan?"
Ye Li was silent for a long time, and said, "I think we should continue this plan, but we have to make a little more special arrangements to make use of our last chance."
We now have nearly 5,000 people here, and the other side has about 8,000 people, and we still have a certain amount of initiative.
As long as we weaken the enemy by about a thousand people, they will be relatively close to our manpower. ”