As soon as he discovered the enemy's presence, Ezio had someone report to the marching base camp through the forum.
Under his command, the Twin Griffins quickly surveyed the surroundings of the marching column and the number and distribution of enemies.
Judging from the results, the situation is not optimistic... When Ezio jumped directly from the Twin Griffins with the enemy's distribution intelligence, and used the skills of the Sky Knight to reach the base camp where a temporary military tent had been set up,
It was already three hours after seeing the first enemy.
There is no reason why it took so long. It was because there were too many enemies and they were too widely distributed. During the investigation process, Ezio also received regular reports.
With every "investigation in progress" report and part of the investigation results being sent to Old Kaweigong, the mood of the officers in the base camp also became a little lower.
The reconnaissance means that the Twin Griffins have not yet seen the enemy's full picture. And some of the information sent back through the forum in advance is enough to make the most determined warrior break out in a cold sweat.
Faced with such a disadvantage, it is impossible for a person to be completely emotionless. The only difference is that this emotion will become an aid or resistance to action.
Some of the people who can be selected by Old Kawei Gong to join the base camp may have unique personalities, but no one will be easily defeated in their fighting spirit.
So everyone is waiting for exact information. Not only the Twin Griffins, but also the airships around the base camp have received the same order to detect the enemy's situation!
The army where the base camp is located stopped advancing and turned to a defensive posture. Ezio's Twin Griffins are the fastest, and the Arcane Eyes, which has been revised many times, has the highest reconnaissance capabilities among all airships.
the best.
Therefore, he was also the first person to bring back complete information and immediately projected it in the military tent of the base camp.
However, after looking at the distribution and number of enemies on the map, and even a few recent photos of the enemies, everyone's silence escalated into a lifeless atmosphere.
It is true that there are short individuals among half-orcs, but these thin half-orcs all have some special abilities to survive in this race that grows up in a harsh environment.
However, the man who was about the waist of a normal person and as strong as a stone was definitely not an orc, but another mainstream race in the Mysterious Land - dwarves.
But of course the dwarves on the surface cannot get together with demons and orcs. This group of dwarves must be the infamous gray dwarves who are close relatives of the surface dwarves living underground.
The uncivilized humans among humans are called barbarians, the uncivilized elves among the elves are the wood elves who belong to the World Tree, and the uncivilized goblins have no other names, but they are definitely the most unpopular homo sapiens creatures.
It can be seen from this that uncivilized ethnic groups are not necessarily synonymous with primitiveness and barbarism, but compared to their culturally prosperous kin, these uncivilized tribes appear to be relatively backward.
Being backward means that they may maintain some primitive bad habits. The gray dwarves are the uncivilized part of the entire dwarf tribe.
This group of short men with bad tempers does not mean that they deliberately live in the underground world; they simply occupy one vein after another and refuse to leave until all the resources are mined.
The dwarves on the surface know how to use trade to exchange things that each other needs with other races. Because of the need for trade, their contacts with other races are relatively gentle.
Therefore, when choosing a settlement location, you do not just choose a location close to the mineral veins, but there are more considerations.
However, the gray dwarves are more accustomed to obtaining their needs beyond various minerals through plunder.
Although robbery or all kinds of theft and deception are nothing new in the world, an entire ethnic group has such bad morals, and there are indeed not many people who can accept it.
Therefore, the gray dwarves were united by the human world and suppressed in the underground world, unable to make any big waves.
Such hatred now allows the gray dwarves to find the most appropriate time to break out! In addition to the numbing troops surrounding him, Ezio also found many locations and directly attacked the troops hiding underground.
File out.
I don't know if these are temporary underground caves dug to hide soldiers, or simply the entrances and exits to the underground world.
Or maybe there is indeed an underground world underneath this land, but these entrances and exits are newly dug.
All these prove that the gray dwarves are indeed outstanding in their ability to dig holes. They also point out a blind spot in airship reconnaissance - the underground.
When a group of young staff officers angrily criticized the highly-relied airship force for not discovering the enemy underground, Ezio was so angry that he laughed.
He slammed his fist on the marching table, causing the makeshift table to jump and become crooked.
Some people wanted to curse, but when they looked over, they were shocked to realize that the person in front of them was not an ordinary soldier sent out for investigation, but a man with the title of general.
In particular, he can still defeat a powerful airship alone without dying. This proves that he has at least one of the two items: good luck or strong strength.
Not to mention that Ezio himself has great martial arts skills and is not a small officer who can be called around by others. The "staff officer" in Myland is far inferior to someone's hometown. After the independent country established the staff headquarters in World War II, various countries imitated its system.
The staff officer is so authoritative.
At this time, their identity could only be regarded as the staff of the old Kawei Gong, the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces. Such people would not have the confidence to face the generals of the front-line troops.
If he was killed for offending the other party, maybe Old Kaweigong would not even say a word. These young people may not all be from the Gwana Empire, but they were all recommended, or Old Kawei
Wei Gong himself discovered a group of young people with flexible minds.
Their wish is to be assigned to the front line and lead a team to make achievements. Staying at the base camp as a staff officer is just a way to show their abilities.
Of course, it is impossible for such a person to really offend a powerful general. Even if the general is younger than them, he can't help but be beaten!
Commanding a squadron under Ezio was one of the best places in their eyes. Because they were trapped in a siege, they were a little emotional and quickly regained their composure after the silent warning given by such a person.
Everyone began to discuss various possible developments. Attacking was impossible. The idea of eating the scattered opponents one by one before the enemy completed the encirclement network was like treating soldiers as perpetual motion machines with unlimited physical strength.
March quickly to defeat the enemy, then march quickly to defeat the enemy again. This behavior needs to be repeated several times, and it must be completed within one day. In this way, we can defeat the enemy who is several times larger than us and has the intention of encircling us. In this
The cold weapon age of walking on two legs was impossible.
Therefore, the Chinese army led by old Mr. Kawei actually had only two choices. One was to defend, the other was to break through. There were two directions for breaking through.
One is to rush forward, and the troops that left in the front will join up, trying to regain the numerical advantage. The troops in front are only a day's journey away from them, and if they forcefully march to slow down their speed, they will not be unable to catch up.
Even if there are enemies blocking the way, there is still a chance to cooperate with the previous troops to launch a pincer attack and defeat the enemies.
The other direction is to retreat, to the supply camp, or even to the defense line south of the Fengdi Mountains.
But it is difficult to achieve this goal. Return to the supply camp, even if you don't consider the enemy to prevent your retreat, so what if you spend more than a day returning to the camp?
The supply camp was not well-organized in terms of defense. It was just a transit station at best, not a fortress.
As for climbing over the mountains and retreating to the south of the mountains, that would be even more ridiculous. With most of the troops on the north of the mountains, you, the commander-in-chief, want to escape first?
If this comes true, then he will no longer have to lead troops to fight in the future. So no matter how eloquent the young staff officers are, there are actually only two options in front of old Duke Kawei.
First, rush forward; second, defend on the spot. In addition to deciding the movement of the Chinese army, Old Kaweigong also quickly issued orders to other troops.
Everyone was given a warning and asked to conduct reconnaissance of their surroundings to confirm the enemy's situation.
The troops closest to them were ordered to turn around and join up with their own. The reason why all the troops were not ordered to turn back was because instead of disrupting the pace of all the troops and letting them fall into the enemy's trap, it was better to believe that every unit was in the enemy's trap.
The commander of the unit.
The warning given previously was enough, and there was no need to give random orders that would leave everyone at a loss. Although the enemy's layout was very similar to the previous defeat of the southern front of the Suritan Empire.
Lure the enemy deep and then encircle and annihilate them. But in the eyes of old Kaweigong, there is still a fundamental difference.
In the previous round of defeat, the coalition forces on the southern front actually relied on the main force of the two great Khans of the Suli Tang Empire to attack the enemy, while they themselves just took advantage.
Unexpectedly, King Khan's main force did not move, and his group of miscellaneous troops became the main targets of the enemy. Only then were they beaten until their eyes were filled with stars, and few survivors could escape.
However, this time the army led by Old Kawei Gong was a main battle legion with the Gwana Empire as its backbone.
The strength is not the same as that of the miscellaneous army that suffered a huge defeat. To put it simply, although the army in hand is not a regular army of the empire, old Kawei Gong still has the confidence to take on the enemy.
Even if not all of the people he recruited into the central army were strong enough to fight one against a hundred, they could never be underestimated by the enemy.
So he quickly determined his strategy. Taking into account the surrounding terrain results returned by the Twin Griffins' reconnaissance, there was no terrain conducive to defense, so he simply stopped running.
Everyone defends on the spot and builds a position. Instead of wasting energy on a forced march and then fighting the enemy, they hope to defeat the opponent quickly and then join up with other troops.
It is better to turn yourself into a bait-like existence, attract the enemy, and then let other troops cannibalize it from the outside.
In short, he did not engage in field battles with the enemy. When he was well prepared, Old Kaweigong had the confidence to deal with enemies several times his own.
Although the airship unit did not detect the enemy's hidden whereabouts, it was already a great achievement to be able to detect the enemy's encirclement network early.
If the enemy is discovered only after it enters the field of view, it will really be too late. Now, there is still a chance!