For the wilderness race troops currently hiding around Pine Valley, their main task is to harass the defending troops in Pine Valley as much as possible before launching a general attack.
However, considering the advantages of artillery on the side of the civilized race, these troops can only be dispersed as much as possible to avoid being overwhelmed by the defenders' artillery.
From another perspective, there are certain risks for the wilderness race's army to do this, because it is difficult to stop the opponent's attack with such a scattered arrangement.
If the defenders of Pine Valley saw this opportunity to launch a counterattack, it would be difficult for these small groups of troops scattered in various places to withstand the assault launched by the civilized race, and they might be directly destroyed by a single blow.
What they didn't know was that the defenders of Pine Valley did have such a plan.
Since Nora was able to continuously inform the headquarters of the specific locations of the wilderness race army garrison points even after entering the night, so the headquarters initially asked if they could take this opportunity to launch a counterattack.
But after just a few brief discussions, the officers present gave up this tactic. Because they quickly thought that with the quality of the Pine Valley defenders and their almost zero vision, it would be okay to let them go a little deeper into the jungle.
It makes no difference to die.
And if you just enter the outskirts of the mountain forest, the current shooting method of shooting across an open space is enough.
Even out of the thought of preparing for the decisive battle later, Nola's original plan to direct the artillery to indirectly target and shoot the nodes of the wilderness races was rejected.
Because at this time, once the artillery under the command of Nora accurately hits the gathering points of the wilderness races, the headquarters is worried that the other party will realize this problem and find a way to solve it later. Therefore, it was decided to save this skill until the decisive battle in the early morning.
time to use.
However, because of Nora, the defenders of Pine Valley can also receive timely early warning. In this case, the fortifications on the front line and the defenders in the trenches can naturally choose to take advantage of the enemy's bluff to surrender
Those soldiers rested in shifts to avoid being exhausted before the decisive battle broke out.
"It seems that our plan is being implemented very well." Just behind the noisy gnoll and goblin troops in front, a female dark elf raised a carved brass-cased telescope made by a gray dwarf in her hand and looked at the position of the Pine Valley defenders.
said.
Because humans had built trenches and bunkers in advance to obscure the view, she couldn't see that most of the defenders were resting.
Therefore, after hearing the sporadic but continuous gunshots from the front line, it was natural to think that the previously planned harassment plan had been successful.
"It does look like that." Another gray dwarf standing not far away from her said, also holding a telescope.
In the eyes of this dwarf, it is obvious that the legions of civilized races can only stay on the defense line and endure the harassment of their own army without being able to fight back. If this situation continues for several hours, it will inevitably greatly weaken the strength of the defense line.
"The first step is basically proceeding according to the previously planned plan." After putting down the telescope in his hand, the dark elf lowered his head and said to the gray dwarf.
"But those defensive lines are obviously not something we can easily cross, so we need to look at your artillery next. I hope we don't fail because of you gray dwarves."
"Don't worry, we won't fail. But you bean sprouts need to worry about whether your commandos can break in after we open a gap." The gray dwarf said decisively.
Although it is said that gray dwarves and feuding men cooperate with the dark elves because of the gods, naturally neither party is convinced by the other. Therefore, even if the two sides find an opportunity on the front line of such a war, they must despise each other.
Time passed slowly in the confrontation between the two sides. During this period, although the movements on both sides seemed very loud, the casualties in the battle were not large because both sides could basically not see each other.
Especially under Nora's continuous investigation, the defenders, who should have been more tired, took advantage of this time to recharge their batteries.
Finally, when it was close to 4 o'clock in the morning, the shooting sound gradually quieted down. At first glance, it seemed that after half a night of tossing, the wilderness race side could no longer hold on and was preparing to withdraw its troops.
But at this time, Nora, who was patrolling in the sky as before, saw something extra, and then alerted the Pine Valley headquarters.
"The opponent's artillery has entered the previously constructed firing position." The content of Nora's report simultaneously appeared in Lawrence's mind and on the piece of paper in front of Shu Mei at the headquarters.
"Now it has been determined that the enemy's heavy weapons are six fire dragon cannons belonging to the gray dwarves. At the same time, a varying number of dark elf repeating ballistas are also deployed near the fire dragon cannons."
"In addition, except for the frontline troops of the wilderness race that are in direct contact with our front line, most of the remaining troops are gathering at several points. According to the speed of their current actions, if there are no accidents, the opponent will
Complete the team and launch the attack within 20 minutes."
"What should we do next?" As the supreme commander of Pine Valley Transfer Station, Colonel Taylor stood in the headquarters tent and asked his officers.
Because this place was just a transit station before, the ability to coordinate the transfer of various materials was mainly considered when choosing a commander in this area. Therefore, when facing a full-scale attack by the wilderness race but unable to summon reinforcements for a while,
The colonel looked a little flustered.
Fortunately, the panic turned into panic, but his heart was still full of courage. So after the initial panic was over, he quickly summoned his officers to formulate a combat plan through discussion.
Fortunately, many of the officers stationed in this area are front-line officers with rich experience, so these officers quickly put all the armed forces in the valley into a state of war preparation.
After receiving the real-time situation reported by Nora, these officers still had a short but intense discussion and then made a decision.
"I think we should launch an attack immediately and use artillery to strike first before the enemy is ready for a full-scale attack." After the discussion, Major Louis stood up and shared the results of the discussion.
"Is this the result of your discussion?" After Colonel Taylor glanced at the officers sitting on both sides of the table and received a definite reply, he nodded resolutely.
"If that's the case, let's contact the artillery position and fire, but before that, we first pass the data provided to us by the puppet of Colonel August to the artillery position."
A few minutes later, a large amount of data was transmitted to each artillery position. Then these artillery positions began to adjust the parameters of their artillery to align with the target. When all the artillery were adjusted, Colonel Louis, who received this information, raised a signal
The gun walked out of the tent, then raised the gun to the sky and pulled the trigger.
Three bullets flew out from the muzzle of the signal gun, and then exploded at a height of more than thirty meters, causing the blood-red light to envelope the entire Pine Valley and surrounding areas, dyeing everything
red.
After seeing this signal, the artillery positions located in various places in Pine Valley quickly began to fire artillery shells at the predetermined targets as quickly as possible.
According to the plan, these artillery pieces used the artillery positions of the wilderness races and the gathering points of the opponent's elite races as the main attack direction. In particular, the location of the six fire dragon cannons received special attention. After a few seconds, several
Ten flames emerged from the forest.
"1, 2, 3, 4 - the first batch of artillery shells all hit." Just after the first round of artillery firing, Nora immediately passed back the statistics of the impact of the first round of artillery.