Chapter 1566 Battle

When gray dwarves join the war, it actually just increases the number of enemies. But whether they are orcs or gray dwarves, in the eyes of the soldiers of the Gwana Empire, they are just a miscellaneous army.

With incomplete equipment and uneven quality, an enemy like this can already think highly of the opponent after just a few glances. This is not because the people of the empire think highly of themselves, but a real fact.

Although what the old Duke Kawei held was not a regular army carefully built by the empire, it was still an army that the imperial nobles relied on to maintain their power. And those noble gentlemen are all with him, so he doesn't have to worry about risking his life!

Because if you don’t dare to fight, you may never need to fight.

As for building a position on the spot, it is actually a matter of setting up a shield and spear to put some distance between you and the enemy so that you can shoot with long-range bows and arrows. While killing the enemy, you also reduce your own losses.

That's what fighting is all about. You can protect yourself and consume the enemy first. If someone gets mad, you can just charge forward and fight in close combat. This is why it is very advantageous to defend the city and engage in positional warfare.

Of course, it is impossible for Mr. Kawei to ask for a one-night city. That would be too unrealistic.

This kind of thing is not just impossible without prior preparation. Even if a simple camp like that was really set up, how useful it would be in front of people like gray dwarves who have extraordinary strength per capita.

People smashing rocks is just like eating and drinking water. Will they look at the wood?

What the old man really relies on is the airship force headed by the Twin Griffins. Attacks from the air to the ground are an attack method that most people have never encountered in the current era of Midi, and of course they have not thought about how to deal with it.

It would be great to expect those Homo sapiens who have lived almost all their lives in the underground world to understand what the "sky" is all about. How can we expect them to be able to skillfully deal with attacks from the sky, or even pose a threat in turn.

Although the airship legion of the Haider Empire is not in his hands, except for one or two airships assigned to each legion for reconnaissance, the remaining airship troops follow his own army.

Perhaps these airships are not all new, nor are they all military grade. But the magicians carried on it were more than enough to torture some gophers that came out of the ground.

Old Kaweigong did not let the airships float above the position, but let them rise high into the sky. In addition to using arcane eyes to provide vision for ground troops, it can also make enemies ignore dangers hidden in the sky.

At the same time, ground troops also began to deploy. In fact, it is just a matter of mobilizing targeted teams in the direction of suitable opponents.

For example, no matter how much the gray dwarves are looked down upon, they still belong to the heavily armored army. In this case, archers will not play a big role.

So in the direction where the gray dwarves were attacking, old Duke Kawei had people assemble equipment for siege.

Although there is no need to siege cities and strongholds on the road, demons and orcs have the habit of raising siege-level behemoths. These super-standard weapons are used to deal with monsters of the same level.

Although there are no monster-level enemies in front of me. But these siege weapons are definitely very useful when used against heavily armored gray dwarves.

As for the archer troops, they were mobilized in the direction where the orcs were attacking. The average armor rate of the orc troops is quite low. Many people even wear helmets and don't care that they are almost naked. It couldn't be easier to shoot this kind of opponent with a bow and arrow.

However, judging from the enemy's encirclement network, although the orcs and gray dwarves were united, they still acted separately. Just like before, most demons formed separate armies and would not join the orcs' troops. At most, they would act together.

The commander-in-chief is calm enough and has sufficient supplies. Therefore, even though the news that the enemy was surrounding them reached the ears of all the soldiers, not many people were afraid.

You must know that they are the last team to set off after crossing the Fengdi Mountain Range. Therefore, most of the supplies in the supply camp were brought out by them.

In addition to food, there are various weapons inside. In particular, there were enough missing arrows, so it was not a problem for the archers to shoot until their arms could not draw their bows.

Then would anyone still be afraid of enemies several times their own?

In the eyes of most people, this is a good time to make achievements! Even many young people around old Kawei Gong invited themselves to join the front-line troops and let the swords in their hands be stained with blood.

For such requests, the elderly are more direct. He directly pulled the guards to a position behind the front line and personally took charge in one direction.

This direction is where the gray dwarves mainly attack. Old Kawei Gong wanted to see with his own eyes the enemies they encountered for the first time, what kind of fighting methods they used, and more importantly, how high their combat effectiveness was.

He also met many dwarves when he was young and even made friends with them. But I have never encountered a gray dwarf.

As for other directions, either the orcs were the main ones, or some gray dwarf troops were accompanying them. The former is an old rival, and there will be no big problem even if it is left in the hands of other generals.

However, when they saw the enemy, they did not attack immediately. Instead, he stayed outside the reach of long-range weapons, far away from the prepared position of Old Kaweigong.

Faced with this situation, Old Kaweigong did not panic. Instead, he ordered his men to prepare military rations and distribute them to all the soldiers.

Although Midi is accustomed to eating breakfast and dinner, some people will also add an extra meal at noon if permitted. Soldiers happen to be just that.

Because according to actual combat verification results, there is a huge gap in combat effectiveness in the afternoon between soldiers who eat at noon and those who do not.

Then dividing the dry food that is easy to carry, whether to eat or not, and how much to eat is all controlled by the soldiers themselves, which is the best strategy on the battlefield.

As for whether they can eat it or not, it depends on the quality of the soldiers. Generally speaking, veterans are better than new recruits; well-trained people are better than poorly trained people. The ability to eat and the amount of food are sometimes also indicators of measuring the combat effectiveness of an army.

It's just that the enemy's actions made Old Kaweigong a little puzzled. Compared to themselves, don’t they lack time more? As long as the front troops turn back, all the people here will be in vain.

Or are they planning to coordinate their attack together? So we are waiting for the troops from other directions to arrive and position ourselves.

This is rarely seen in field battles, and they are almost always fought as soon as they meet. Unless the opponent wants to negotiate, a confrontation on the battlefield is likely to occur.

But the gray dwarves on the opposite side should not think that there is still room for negotiation now. This is a battle between camps and a battle for survival, which is different from the type of war between humans.

No matter what the other party's intentions were, such a confrontation and waiting made many young people in the team who could not hold back their composure jump out to ask for a fight. I plan to defeat the enemy in front of me first.

Of course, Old Kaweigong directly rejected such a request. Giving up the advantage to attack the enemy, facing gray dwarves all wearing heavy armor, it takes a lot of thinking.

However, the news sent back from the airship hiding in the sky let Old Kawei know the intentions of the gray dwarves. It's actually just a few pictures of war weapons being assembled, and it's a good illustration of what the gray dwarves are doing.

In short, this group of dwarfs who had tied themselves up like iron barrels had no intention of attacking their own positions foolishly. Even though the defenses were crude and vulnerable, the gray dwarves still seriously fought the battle as a positional war and carefully prepared war weapons.

Judging from the pictures sent back, huge steel crossbows, tall catapults that were completely incompatible with their height, and some weapons that were temporarily ineffective were being assembled.

Although gray dwarves are scornfully classified as an uncivilized dwarf race by humans, they are not mentally retarded people who only live a primitive life.

Although there is no beauty, the heavy armor on the gray dwarf looks like it is pieced together with some iron plates, but its sturdiness will definitely make its enemies distressed.

The same level of craftsmanship can of course be reflected in these war weapons. At least Old Kaweigong didn't believe that if the troops in his hands were hit by a catapult or an arrow from a siege crossbow, they could still look like nothing had happened.

Since the opponent wants to fight for technology, old Kaweigong doesn't want to stupidly use a catapult to attack the opponent. I don’t think it’s fired by a crossbow either.

Huge crossbows hurt each other. It's interesting to see who can shoot accurately, who has fewer soldiers, and who can't last until the end.

He directly ordered people to fire three consecutive red fireworks into the air.

Of course the gray dwarves also noticed such signals. However, seeing it is different from understanding the meaning behind the signal. Most gray dwarves are still focused on the work at hand.

If you want to live a good life, you have to remove some obstacles, and human beings are undoubtedly the biggest stumbling block. Therefore, the gray dwarves tried their best to prepare to destroy the enemy in front of them. Naturally, they ignore signals they don't understand.

When the airship formation lowered its altitude and entered the battlefield from the southeast of the gray dwarf army, these strange things from the sky really attracted the attention of many gray dwarves.

Even in terms of technical ability, gray dwarves are second to none in the underground world. But they have lived in the underground world for most of their lives. Even if they know about cutting-edge weapons like airships, few people have seen it with their own eyes.

So when there was an opportunity in front of them, they didn't set their sights on the airship. I hope you can see some clues, and the next step is to build it yourself.

However, when the airship appeared, it was not because the models were here for the catwalk. When the first spell fell from the sky, countless spells followed, killing the gray dwarves who looked like iron pots until they howled like ghosts.

This kind of blow from the sky immediately stunned the gray dwarves. The one thing that makes them better than the orcs is that none of the gray dwarves yell in panic and then run around in disorder.

The gray dwarves who were not affected were still standing where they were. But judging from the details of the military formation, we can still feel that they are emotionally shaken. It seems that the figure that was originally as strong as a stone is now constantly turbulent.

Continue to hold the position? Or send troops to make the enemy's already shaken mood move towards the stage of collapse?

Old Kaweigong was thinking.

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