Auster sincerely apologized to Mordias, "I have no experience in leading troops in war, and I made stupid ideas that caused you to take a detour."
Mordias said strangely, "Why do you say that? When the enemy advances, we retreat, when the enemy retreats, we pursue, when the enemy is tired, we attack, and when the enemy is stationed, we harass you. This is what you taught us."
It turned out that Mordias, seeing that the storming attack was ineffective, had already ordered his troops to shrink their strength, alternately cover, and retreat back while preserving their strength.
The regiment's heavy tanks could not go up steep mountains or drive into dense forests. Moreover, seeing that the rebels had been prepared for a long time, they were confused by mines and ambushes. They did not know how many troops the opponent had, and they were not sure. After destroying the Nanchuan camp, they turned around and retreated under the command of the commander.
Upon seeing this, Mordias continuously sent mobile troops to harass, and coupled with the bombs he had planted before, the corps was unable to assemble and repair smoothly. The forward troops pursued all the way to a place dozens of miles north of the camp, but were forced to stop due to lack of backup.
At this time, the situation is still grim, the rebels are short of strength, and the legion may return at any time. Whoever calls for reinforcements first will win the final victory. Auster immediately asked the cavalry to escort Mordias to the front line to continue pursuing the regiment. He returned to the destroyed camp and began to repair the destroyed communication circle.
With the blessing of Sashu, Oster had a thorough understanding of the structure of magic artifacts and props, and quickly restored most of the functions of the communicator. After receiving the news, Skar immediately ordered a support army from the headquarters to turn back north and join the Nanchuan troops. Under the unified leadership of the deputy gang leader, they intercepted the Kingdom Corps.
At this time, Oster accidentally discovered that the two crows that had been hovering in the sky displayed a parsable signal in the Sashu interface, indicating that they were disguised as magical creatures. Hurry and let the hunters shoot them down. It turns out they are all reconnaissance spies of the Kingdom Corps. He suddenly realized that there was such a usage. It seemed that in any world, intelligence warfare was an important part of war.
Oster remembered that Nanchuan used to be the seat of the Artists Guild, and there were many magic messenger summoners. After getting it out, I found that these things flew too slow, too low, and were very stupid. They were just living targets on the battlefield.
After thinking for a while, he used Sashu scanning to dismantle the magic messenger, imitated the structure of the Corps' magic eyeliner, transformed it into a communicator and installed it on the hunter's eagle talon. In this way, a frontline reconnaissance and communication network belonging to the rebels was established. When encountering the corps's magic eyeliner, the eagle could directly attack and bite it off, making the enemy blind and its eyesight as bright as a torch.
Late at night, the headquarters reinforcements finally arrived and joined forces with the Nanchuan troops. With the previous lessons, Auster knew that he was a fool in command, so he handed all the frontline command to Mordias. He continued to transform and build a magic communication network, and installed messengers on ground beasts to ensure that instructions could be transmitted to every front-line officer.
The dwarves were facing a formidable enemy, and the dwarves did not give in. They took over the command and immediately deployed their troops, taking advantage of their light equipment and familiarity with the terrain. They rushed in front of the regiment and attacked all the roads along the way, forcing them to drive onto the uneven mud fields and mountains, and stopped them. It marched towards the town to join the local guards.
With the cover of the nearby people and the intelligence support of the communication network, the rebel soldiers came and went with ease. As reinforcements continued to arrive, the firepower increased, and the encirclement of the corps was gradually completed. The Kingdom's regiment was forced to stretch its front line very long, and it was impossible to maintain its formation during the march. It was constantly being attacked by the rebels from all directions.
If the opponent chooses to defend on the spot and set up a volley of guns and artillery to counterattack, the rebels will immediately retreat. Once they set off again, the rebels, who were well aware of their movements, immediately concentrated their forces to cut them off and capture the remaining parts.
Seeing that time was dragging on for too long, losses were increasing, and reserves of gunpowder and magic power had been reduced to a minimum. The commander of the regiment was confused and issued a hasty order. He ordered the entire army to disperse and break out, abandon the damaged tanks, and attack from all sides. The direction forced a breakthrough and retreat. This caused the front lines to be completely stretched apart, and each of them was fighting.
The rebels who had arrived with reinforcements swarmed forward. After a wave of armor-piercing magic to greet them, the arrogant steam tanks lay down one after another, suffering heavy losses. However, after the smoke passed, only the soldiers of the regiment wearing fine Stormwind plate armor were seen, holding enchanted shields, forming a neat array, pushing forward under the firepower of volleys of guns and battle mages.
Compared with these professional soldiers who have experienced hundreds of battles, the rebel soldiers obviously lack training and equipment, and are no match at all in close combat. After the fierce battle, several gaps were torn open in the rebel defense line, and the position was stained red with blood. Mordias was forced to abandon the encirclement strategy and let the soldiers of the breakout corps go away.
Facts have proved that the regiment commander's instructions cannot be said to be completely wrong. These regular legions, which have fought in both north and south and fought against various forces, have strong resilience and adaptability.
Because the rebels have the advantage of intelligence and popular support, and have obtained sufficient magic weapons to attack fortresses, if they continue to stick to infantry and tank coordination and huddle together to be beaten passively, they may be eaten alive. However, after leaving the tanks that were inconvenient to move in the mountains and mud fields, the soldiers of the elite corps still had thick enchanted shields and strong combat qualities. They could advance on foot and use their close combat advantages to effectively kill the rebels and tear open the pocket formation defense line.
After a day and night of fighting in darkness, both sides suffered heavy losses.
This was the first large-scale conflict between the rebels and the Kingdom's regular troops near Montenegro. The rebels won first and then lost. Although the government army's attempt to annihilate the rebels' effective forces was shattered, the Nanchuan camp was completely burned and the ambush failed to achieve effective results. Most of the officers and soldiers still relied on their strong individual combat capabilities to break through and gradually withdrew back to the crossroads fortress;
The situation of the direct regiment was not much better. Although they successfully retreated before the supplies were exhausted, at least three-quarters of the tanks were abandoned on the road, along with hundreds of corpses of Stormwind soldiers. In addition to the wounded soldiers and the loss of source energy consumables, the troops sent by Sentinel Ridge to support Montenegro had not yet arrived, and more than half of them were lost on the way. According to the informant's information, the commander of the corps has been dismissed from his post and investigated.
After this battle, the Southern Rebels inflicted a large number of casualties and extreme shocks on the directly affiliated corps, shattering their myth of invincibility. These ace troops from Stormwind City, who came from the state capital, were armed to the teeth, always looked down on the local area and civilians, and claimed to be invincible, truly saw the power of the Mudlegs' unity. After that, he became more cautious and timid, not daring to attack nearby villages and counties easily and commit the same arrogant and evil acts as before.
In this battle, Captain Modias of Nanchuan performed extremely well. After returning to the headquarters, Skar promoted him and rewarded him with a general order. But the dwarf insisted that everything he did was taught by the deputy gang leader, and asked that the credit be transferred to Auster.
Previously, when Auster dismissed Barley's gang and wanted to appoint Mordias as captain, the dwarf thought he was just a circus ringmaster and had no experience in leading troops, so he initially planned to refuse. But Oster, who was still confident at the time, told him that there was no difficulty in fighting. A social animal could command thousands of troops with his front foot crossing his back foot. Mordias was extremely pleasantly surprised and asked Oster to give him some specific tactics.
This time Auster was in trouble. Before time travel, he lived in a country where he never picked up things on the road and never closed his house at night. He was also an otaku who had never been a soldier, and his military experience was limited to RTS strategy games. But Haikou had already boasted, and seeing the starry eyes of his fan, he had no choice but to pretend to be fat, and brought out the only familiar war history from his previous life, which was a great man's early tactics of commanding guerrilla warfare and counter-encirclement and suppression campaigns and told him;
Because it was written in the textbook, Auster could remember roughly it and briefly talked about it. Of course, in the end, I did not forget to warn Modias that the most critical point in the great man's thinking is that all theories must be consistent with reality and seek truth from facts.
Unexpectedly, Modias not only took notes very carefully, but also circulated them to all mid-level officers and asked them to recite the entire text. Because of Oster's high prestige, everyone was willing to learn and discuss; unexpectedly, it soon became effective.
But Oster knew very well that theory is one thing, and practical application is another - I don't know how high the level is. Those flexible and eclectic combat methods cannot be understood by simply listening to a few formulas. This Mordias may be a real genius in leading troops.
Therefore, when Skar wanted to transfer the award to Auster, he waved his hand and resolutely refused, "I didn't do anything, he came up with this all by himself. If you don't use such talents, you will lose yourself. "
Scar said strangely, "Didn't you single-handedly promote and teach Mordias? There is only such a dwarf officer in the entire rebel army. Why are you so humble?"
Auster sighed and said, "The little things I taught him were all based on other people's wisdom, not my own." Not to mention standing on the shoulders of giants, I was directly bringing the giants out to others. He couldn't bear to be a copycat and still put on a show of arrogance.
At this time, the rebel generals all believed that this was Oster's display of justice and talent, and their admiration for the deputy gang leader deepened. Skaar shook his head and sighed, "Can't you have some flaws in this person? You are simply a perfect person."
