Chapter 1565: Responding to the Encirclement

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 number and distribution of enemies around the marching column.

Judging from the results, the situation is not optimistic...

When Ezio took the enemy's distribution intelligence, jumped directly from the Twin Griffins, and used the skills of the Sky Knight to arrive at the base camp where a temporary military tent had been set up, he had already seen the first three enemies. Hours later.

There is no reason why it took so long, it's just because there are too many enemies and they are too widely distributed. During the investigation, Ezio also made 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. Some of the information that was sent back through the forum in advance was enough to make even the most determined warrior break into 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.

There may be some people who can be selected by Old Kawei Gong into the base camp with 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 was located stopped advancing and turned to a defensive posture.

Ezio's Twin Griffin is the fastest, and the Arcane Eye, which has been revised many times, has the best detection capabilities among all airships. 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 the half-orcs, but these thin half-orcs will 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 rock 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 close relatives of the surface dwarves living underground, the notorious gray dwarves.

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.

Gray dwarves are the uncivilized part of the entire dwarf race. 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 place, you do not just choose a location close to the mineral vein, 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, there are indeed not many people who can accept this as an entire ethnic group has such bad morals. 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 and filed out.

I don't know if these are temporarily dug underground caves 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 gray dwarves are indeed outstanding in their ability to dig holes. And it also pointed 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. The makeshift table jumped and became 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 is still the one who can defeat a strong 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 officers" in the lost land are far less authoritative than the staff officers in someone's home country who established a staff headquarters after World War II, and countries imitated their system. At this time, their status could only be regarded as the staff of the old Kawei Gong, the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces.

Such a person 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 wouldn't even say a word.

This group of young people may not all be from the Gwana Empire, but they are all recommended or discovered by the old Kawei Gong himself. They are 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 your ability.

Of course, it is impossible for such a person to really offend a powerful general. Even though this general is younger than them, he can't help but be able to fight!

Commanding a squadron under Ezio was one of the best places in their eyes. Because they were surrounded by a net, 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.

It is impossible to attack. The idea of ​​eating the scattered opponents one by one before the enemy completes the encirclement network is 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 kind of behavior needs to be repeated several times, and it must be completed within one day, in order to defeat an enemy that is several times larger than oneself and has the intention of encircling him. This is impossible in this era of cold weapons that walk on two legs.

Therefore, the Chinese army led by old Mr. Kawei actually had only two choices. One defends, the other breaks through.

Breakthroughs can be divided into two directions. One was to charge forward while the troops leaving in front joined up and tried to regain numerical superiority. The troops in front were only a day's journey away from him. If they slowed down with the forced march, it would not be impossible 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 Wind Emperor Mountain Range. But it is difficult to achieve this intention.

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 defensively. It was just a transit station at best, not a fortress.

As for climbing over the mountains and retreating to the south side of the mountains, that would be even more ridiculous. With most of the troops on the north side of the mountain, he, the commander-in-chief, wants to escape first? If this comes true, then I won’t have to lead troops to fight in the future.

So no matter how eloquent the young staff members were, there were actually only two options before old Mr. Kawei. First, rush forward; second, defend on the spot.

In addition to deciding the movements 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 troops are not ordered to turn back is because rather than disrupting the pace of all troops and letting them fall into the enemy's trap, it is better to trust the commander of each troop. The warning given earlier is enough, there is no need to give random orders and make everyone confused.

Although the enemy's layout is very similar to the previous defeat of the southern front of the Suritan Empire. Lure the enemy deep, then surround and annihilate them. But in the eyes of old Kawei Gong, 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 Suri 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 enemy's main target. Only then were they beaten until their eyes were filled with stars, and not many people could escape alive.

However, this time the army led by Old Kaweigong 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 what he has in his hands is not the regular army of the empire, the old Duke Kawei 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 definitely could not 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 they simply stopped running. Everyone defends on the spot and builds a position.

Instead of wasting energy on forced marches and engaging the enemy, hoping to defeat them 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, don't fight in the field with the enemy. When he is well prepared, Old Kaweigong is confident 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 opponent's encirclement network in advance. If the enemy is discovered only after it enters the field of view, it is really too late.

Now, there is still a chance!