In the following weeks, after several battles, Mordias led his troops to take the initiative and won successive victories, luring out the main forces of the government troops huddled in the barracks and fortresses and annihilating them one by one.
In view of the shortcoming that the special ability of harvesting puppets can only be activated for a few minutes at a time, all the tactics formulated by Mordias are centered on how to maximize the effect of this invincible moment.
First, a horse-drawn cart is used to drag the puppets with camouflage magic to the expected combat location. After the enemy is lured to the ambush point, they suddenly launch an attack. Three axes are activated throughout the process, beating the enemy until they cannot lift their heads. And after effectively destroying the opponent's tanks and casters, they will never stop fighting and retreat before time runs out.
Because the information was strictly blocked, the officers and soldiers were still unclear about how many harvest puppets there were, and how long the shields, cannons, and thrusters would last. They thought they were permanent effects. The older veterans and officers all recalled the scene thirty years ago when the Alliance Army was ravaged by the Death Knights of the Orc Rebel Army; and the only light-forged war mech that could fight them had already been taken back by the Titans, and it was unknown where it was thrown in the north. The warehouse was gathering dust and rust.
Rumors that the rebels had mastered the technology of the Demon Legion spread like wildfire, and panic quickly spread among the officers and soldiers. The officers and soldiers, especially the battle mages, who were afraid of being killed, fled in panic as soon as they saw the puppet appear. In the end, Mordias used straw and wood to make a robot look like it and was able to push back the enemy. The semi-finished product is showing off.
After the road was opened, the rebel branch strongholds that had been separated in various places were restored to communication, and the militiamen who had been forced to disarm and hide during the previous siege also rushed back to report. The number of harvest puppets has also been replenished, and they have been continuously shipped from the armory. Subtracting the dozen or so that were lying dormant due to malfunctions and energy exhaustion, the number has increased instead of falling, and has reached more than fifty.
After the multiple rebel forces converged, they pushed back all the way and recaptured many villages and towns. In just a few weeks, the base areas in the eastern and southern parts of Heishan County returned to the level of the rebels' heyday, and the military front was directed at Heishan Town, the central town where the county government is located.
At this time, the town was in panic. The rich were packing up their belongings and taking their servants with them to escape north. Progressives and various guilds who had been persecuted and moved underground were planning to launch riots to meet the rebels.
There was also chaos in the city hall. According to intelligence from informants planted behind enemy lines, due to repeated misfortunes, both the county guards and the regular regiments, as well as middle- and high-level officers, suffered heavy losses. Therefore, Lieutenant General Huntington, who had been imprisoned and was about to be escorted to Sentinel Ridge, was temporarily released to take command of the Commander's Corps again.
This man is an old rival of Mordias. In the last battle of Nanchuan, the two armies fought fiercely for one day and two nights. Both sides suffered heavy losses and lost countless soldiers and equipment. Huntington was dismissed from his post and imprisoned for underestimating the enemy and arbitrarily mobilizing troops, and the Nanchuan camp that Modias had worked so hard to manage was completely burned. This time the enemies met, they were extremely jealous;
As a veteran who has fought with the alliance all over the world, Huntington is obviously much more experienced than those county guard captains who only know how to fake power and whose experience is limited to public security warfare. In the North, he had also monitored the omnic army many times, which was more terrifying than the reaper golems, and knew how to deal with magic immune shields.
Immediately ordered to remove the battle mages and rune cannons and replace them with solid artillery shells and heavy crossbows. The troops lined up in a group formation to coordinate with infantry and tanks. At the same time, the troops were reduced and focused on attacking rebel posts and camps. Since the quality of personnel and weapons and equipment of the regular regiments were still far superior to those of the rebels, the battle line was quickly pushed back and ended in a stalemate near the railway station.
However, on the rebel side, although Mordias' experience is inferior, genius is genius. After personally going to the front lines and risking repeated observations, we finally came up with the solution. Immediately mobilize the troops to stride forward and retreat, and directly give them to the enemy wherever they attack, and never engage in positional warfare with the opponent; in this way, you can gain space to surround the enemy's protruding points, and concentrate superior forces to defeat them one by one.
Relying on the Eye of the Beast communication network previously established by Oster and the broad support of the masses in the war zone, the rebel troops came and went like the wind and were commanded like an arm. Coupled with the steady flow of accurate intelligence provided by informants behind enemy lines, the officers and soldiers were completely blind, deaf and passively beaten.
After several more battles, Huntington's outstretched fist had all the fingers broken off. It seemed that he had "recovered" a lot of territory. However, not only could he not defend his attack points, he was still being beaten. The troops were annihilated in their organized form, and finally had to retreat in despair to the original front, and even retreated a lot; even the warehouses near the station and the state railway were lost, leaving only a few areas such as the Crossroads Fortress and the central town of Black Mountain. Still in the hands of the army.
Near the railway station, after the rebels captured the largest arsenal in the government, the soldiers who rushed in discovered a mountain of sealed barrels inside;
Most ordinary warriors were farmers and had no idea what that was. Finally came a knowledgeable platoon leader who was a repairman. With just one glance, he recognized the Kirin Tor purple eye mark uniformly painted on it. He immediately made an emergency call to the magic communication headquarters. The first sentence he said was, "Guild Leader , we made a fortune!"
After Oster and others arrived, what they saw was a whole warehouse of magic powder; highly toxic black blood, the blood of the magic industry.
Technicians wearing anti-curse masks and protective clothing conducted an appraisal and confirmed that these were all high-quality source mineral powders around level 8. The magic contained in them was enough to operate the entire Black Mountain Town for a month. Oster was happily twisting and jumping, it was the Chinese New Year; with vital energy, the youth version of the Harvest Puppet could continue to be mass-produced, and it would not be a problem to build another hundred or ten units.
Skar, who was recovering from a serious injury and was using a cane, was a little worried. Oster asked him what was wrong, and after thinking for a while, Skar said;
"These are not ordinary materials. High-quality magic powder with a purity of more than 85% can be used for heavy-duty magic tools and super-large forbidden spells. They are first-level strategic materials for the kingdom and are not something that the county government has the right to mobilize or hoard. Lenovo Before arriving at the county government, they levied excessive taxes on the people, did not hesitate to arouse public dissatisfaction, and grabbed a large amount of money from various channels, which seemed to be used to purchase these things; but what do they want to do?"
Oster didn't understand it very well and didn't pay much attention to it. He thought maybe Skarl was overthinking it. If there were a few more warehouses like this, the problem of harvesting puppets without having to dispatch them would be solved.
Just like a dream come true, during the next battle, the rebels seized magic powder from several warehouses. Not only were the warehouses huge, but they were also more densely distributed as they went north.
At the same time, due to successive victories and the seizure of a large number of high-level magic materials and equipment, the number of harvest puppets has expanded to more than 200, and there is sufficient energy. The confidence of the entire rebel army has blindly expanded;
Even according to the alliance army rating, the current rebel puppet army must be at the elite level or even at the mid-to-low epic level. It is one of the best military forces in the Western Wilderness. Not to mention taking over Black Mountain County, they can almost directly attack the state garrison at Sentinel Ridge.
