"Are they crazy?" After knocking down a rushing robber with a gold-plated and engraved rifle, the Viscount of Surrey asked Lawrence beside him while loading his double-barreled shotgun.
After the shelling just now, the group of people who had been ambushing them at the entrance of the valley immediately detonated the explosives placed at the entrance of the valley, blocking Lawrence and the others in the mountain pass.
At first, Lawrence and the others thought that this would be enough to block the mountain pass to avoid enemy attacks, which would help them buy time.
But what was unexpected was that just a few minutes later, a group of bandits howled over the newly collapsed valley mouth and rushed towards Lawrence and his team's position.
It is for this reason that Viscount Surrey thinks these people are crazy. Because the valley they are in now basically has a 70-degree slope. Except for some extraordinary people, ordinary people cannot rush down from the slope to launch an attack.
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Therefore, the only point in the entire valley that is convenient for large troops to attack is the passage at the entrance of the valley.
"The other party is definitely out of their minds." Lawrence said loudly, using his pistol to shoot left and right, knocking over several robbers who had climbed over from behind the low wall formed by the earth and rocks rolled down from the mountain after the explosion.
In his opinion, the tactical thinking of this group of bandits who first blocked the only passage through the explosion and then came over the ruins in scattered pieces was really watered down.
Of course, Lawrence and the others didn't know that the group of guys who came to attack had fallen into complete chaos because of the attack launched by the troops they had brought earlier.
The explosion just occurred because according to the plan, these attackers should use explosives to separate the rich people in the valley from the bodyguards outside the valley, and then eliminate the armed men before entering this valley and kidnapping the rich people as hostages, and wait until they get out.
Then extort money.
But what they didn't expect was that Lawrence and the others first withdrew everyone into the valley, and then formed a group to defend.
The soldiers under Lawrence himself also used shelling to make the bandits realize that their way back was cut off and that they were surrounded. As a result, they naturally changed their plans and made an all-out attack plan and began to attack the valley with all their strength.
But because the group of people ambushing at the entrance of the valley had already detonated the explosives at the entrance of the valley as originally planned and created a large pile of earth and rocks to block the entrance of the valley.
Therefore, these unlucky bandits could only struggle to climb up the pile of gravel and soil, and then rush down the slope to launch an attack.
As a result, their offensive formation cannot be guaranteed to be neat, let alone organize a suitable firepower network.
As a result, several assaults by this group of stragglers were easily beaten back by Lawrence and the other defenders, who used the temporary defensive line formed by horse-drawn carriages and debris as cover, leaving these attackers firmly blocked in the valley.
At the entrance, there is no way to go deep into the valley as planned, let alone kidnap the people inside and use them as hostages.
"It seems that the situation here is not as terrible as imagined." Viscount Surrey looked at the pile of rubble that was completely blocked at the entrance due to the series of explosions just now, and the robbers who had rolled over were scattered around.
The security guards breathed a sigh of relief after being knocked down easily, and then turned to look at Lawrence beside them and asked.
"Your Excellency, should we move the battle line forward, and then use the pile of ruins at the entrance of the valley to completely block the entrance of the valley?"
"Don't do that." Lawrence raised his hand to stop the Viscount's plan. "Although this ruins blocks the intersection, the slope is too small, and there are not many dangers to defend."
"If we build a defense line inside the valley, this pile of ruins can just help us divide and weaken the attackers. But if we move the defense line forward, it is actually equivalent to giving the opponent a good assembly point. In that case, we will
You will be put at a disadvantage.”
"More importantly, our main task now is to do a good job in defense, not to destroy many enemies." Lawrence said, using a dissociation technique to destroy the enchanted shield held by a super warrior who rushed over, and then used
Another bullet with the same enchantment shot the guy in the head.
"So in war, we need to be clear about our main goals, instead of confusing the primary and secondary goals on the battlefield just because we see some possible advantages for a while."
"Yes, I understand." After listening to Lawrence's words, Viscount Surrey showed a very serious expression.
As a hereditary nobleman, he did receive some military education inherited from his family, but it was limited to just talking about military affairs on paper. That's why such low-level mistakes occurred at this time.
"Don't be discouraged. You can't learn this knowledge just by reading books or listening to others. Only by experiencing war yourself can you understand what to do when encountering these things in actual combat."
Lawrence comforted the Viscount, who looked older than himself, and then turned back to contact the paper men and monster phantoms he had sent before, and carefully observed the situation on the surrounding mountains.
For Lawrence, things are very good at the entrance to the valley.
From the perspective of the group of gangsters, the terrain here makes it impossible for them to advance in a combat formation, not to mention that as long as they want to gather together, they may cause Lawrence's artillery to use mortars or grenades.
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Therefore, after receiving the order, the bandits who attacked with all their strength had to attack the group of defenders in the valley in a fragmented formation that was extremely tactically stupid.
The direct result of this was that during the battle, Lawrence and the other defenders discovered that the attacks of the gangsters were disorderly, and they looked like they were going to die in front of their own guns one by one.
So Lawrence naturally paid less attention to the enemy's attack core at the mouth of the valley, and then focused on the surrounding mountains.
And the reason why he did this was also very simple, because he found that the group of people at Taniguchi seemed to be just ordinary people who were good at using various weapons, with at most only a few low-level extraordinary beings as their minions.
You must know that these bandit groups are completely different from the regular army. If the regular army mainly determines its commanders based on their command ability after entering the industrial era, in order to maximize the overall combat effectiveness, then when those bandit groups choose their leaders,
It adopts the most primitive winner-takes-all approach.
This primitive method is not very conducive to the development of group strength, but considering that bandit groups usually attack in small groups, they do not act in large groups like the regular army.
Therefore, for bandit gangs, this method of selecting commanders from the classical agricultural era is the most suitable for them.
Therefore, when Lawrence began to notice that the group of thieves were being defeated by the attack, he did not realize that something was wrong. At the same time, he naturally relaxed his monitoring of this group of thieves who seemed unlikely to break through the defense line.
After all, through the paper figures he sent out for communication before, Lawrence knew that Bach was commanding the main force to chase the opponent's core group of people, making it impossible for the opponent to conduct unified command of the scattered personnel.
However, as the battle at the entrance of the valley continued, Lawrence slowly discovered an abnormality. That is, the number of extraordinary beings among the gangsters who came to attack now was too small, and the quality was also much inferior.
Therefore, he handed over the task of guarding the valley entrance to Viscount Surrey, which had become less important, and then focused his attention on the surrounding mountains.
Because he realized that the only chance for this group of bandits to win now was to rush into the valley and take hostages. Although the surrounding mountains could block the footsteps of ordinary people, they could not stop the attacks of some extraordinary beings.