. "Crazy, what a bunch of lunatics! But...ah, why don't I have such lunatics under my command?"

On the noisy and chaotic battlefield, Lieutenant General Daniel grinned and covered his forearm scratched by shrapnel, and sighed to the sky with grief. In front of him, the standard field defense system composed of fences and trenches was blown away by artillery fire, and the chaotic crowds were chaotic. There was no distinction between frontiers and rears. They were burning everywhere, fighting everywhere, and dying everywhere!

As a group of terrible iron cans riding iron cockroaches kept rushing and going in their stomachs, the elves that were dismantled from the headquarters were still unable to fully restore the collapsed command system. Even though Lieutenant General Daniel quickly issued the order, the position had become a mess, and the process of conveying the orders was quite time-consuming. The messenger could not find the troops, the troops could not find the officers, and the officers could not find their own troops, nor could they receive orders from their superiors. Even the magic communication lines, which were claimed to be advanced, were completely blocked by various spam information and system failures.

Even though the grassroots troops finally received the order, they were about to fight, and another new order came down. So, the elves scattered on various positions eventually turned around like a group of headless flies, almost entirely fighting based on instinct.

Even though some conscientious officers were still shouting at the top of their lungs, kicking the deserters to the battlefield, more soldiers were still lying in a daze between the trenches, hesitating and not knowing what to do. The decisive assault by Manuel, while destroying the command center of the Elf Army, also successfully "helped" General Daniel to commit the military taboo of not creating raiders, which made the Elf Army fail to pull out the cancer embedded in its body as soon as possible, and caused the subsequent ulcers and deterioration.

Seeing that the defensive position he had carefully constructed was like a paper toy, it was broken by his opponent with a poke. The iron cans riding iron cockroaches seemed to a group of undead little strongmen, after rushing into the position, they continued to destroy them everywhere. One fire point after another was still shooting was flooded and destroyed, and a group of newly gathered counterattack troops were dispersed and destroyed, and a pile of precious supplies burned after another. Daniel was so angry that he almost vomited blood.

As a famous general who is good at attacking fortresses and is known as the "City Breaking Hammer". Lieutenant General Daniel is actually very good at position defense. Although the construction was rushed this time and the construction materials were scarce. However, with his efforts and persistence, he still established a series of very practical field fortifications such as traps filled with wooden signs at the bottom, curved wavy trenches, tall fences coated with wet mud to prevent fire, chest walls that can be used to rely on shooting, and other practical field fortifications. In addition, such as castles, cat ear piercings, backward positions, side fire positions, and cross firepower, they are all available, and they can be said to be able to thrust hedgehogs all over the body.

In addition to the limited supplies he carried, he could not set up a few circles of barbed wire mesh with barbs. He had to use wooden Lu Ruo to reject Mai instead, Daniel thought that this defensive position, which was distributed in a staging, was quite perfect---"As long as the ammunition was sufficient, the Inca natives would never be able to conquer them even if they sent 100,000 troops to fight for a month!"

Unfortunately, the words were still heard. But the Incas did not take a month, and only exchanged fire for less than a quarter of an hour, so their positions were collapsed. No matter how perfect the fortifications were, it would be useless if there were no soldiers defending inside.

Here, Daniel's biggest mistake was that although he set up positions with the guiding ideology of lasting defense, he was allocating and arranging troops according to the habit of offensive field battles:

The most elite and most reliable part of the entire army is that it is composed of three thousand purebred elves. It is placed behind the front line as a supervisor and reserve team;

On the front floor, there are about 6,000 Marines with a relatively weak combat power. The members are mainly half-elves, but they are also mixed with some alien races such as dwarves;

Further to the periphery, there are more than 10,000 Mayans and Aztecs. Although these guys are not very combative, they are at least reliable;

At the forefront of the position, two thousand indigenous people who survived all the way were placed. For these guys who had no military qualities and were unreliable, the Elf Army only equipped them with more than one hundred broken guns. It was just for the sake of waste utilization. I hope they would consume some of the ammunition from the opponent. Then I just gave them a sound and remind them;

Finally, for some insignificant and protruding positions that are completely used to confuse the opponent's sight, they are handed over to the Inca traitors who have not yet escaped. Even if these most unreliable guys turn against each other, they will have no major impact on the entire defense system.

Judging from this military arrangement, the elf army under Daniel's control is a typical pyramid-shaped structure, from the most reliable to the most unreliable, from the most elite to the most fleshy. The level is very strict, and they control and restrain each other layer by layer.

This organizational structure is naturally mixed for an army. The advantage is that it can be controlled at least and can be easily controlled when fighting with the wind. But the disadvantage is that if the trusted troops at the top of the pyramid suffer too much loss and are not enough to deter the army at all levels below the pyramid, they may be unable to play and may even have a terrible backlash.

In order to avoid such a most dangerous situation, all generals who command such a special mixed force will usually push the most unreliable and stingy troops to the front line and use them as cannon fodder to consume. As for the most reliable and elite troops, they must be firmly held in their hands, mainly to intimidate the rest of the troops to fight desperately, and to invest in the battlefield at critical moments to decide the outcome as a supplement. Do not waste unnecessary waste unless it is absolutely necessary.

However, this approach can only be used in offensive operations. If you do this when conducting defensive wars, it will be a lot of fun.

Since the worst troops were arranged on the outermost periphery, although pretty good fortifications were built, the Inca traitors with poor psychological quality still shot themselves into their own way--it doesn't matter--but the violent rain of bullets like heavy rain also scared the armed men who had just touched the gun, and even most of the indigenous vassals. They fled from their respective posts, retreated into the anti-cannon hole, and trembled, and even left a warning post!

According to these guys' ideas, they would never come out to die before the artillery fire was over. Unexpectedly, the enemy's shelling was not over yet. The iron cockroaches waved six dark and shiny legs and crawled over their heads at an astonishing speed. The iron cans on the cockroach's back also thoughtfully took out a few burning grenades in the fire. They threw them into the anti-aircraft cannons that were crowded with people, which was considered a transit fee and a gift...

In this way, the Manuel Metro Cockroach Commando broke through the front line of the Elf Army without much resistance. The resulting wave of defeats also messed up the defense line behind...

After all, this is still attributed to Daniel's failure to adjust his mentality in time. Although he is very clear, the next thing he wants to fight is a defensive battle. As long as he drags it to a certain time, he may break out a way of life. However, in his subconscious, he still unconsciously put himself in the position of invasion or attack, which eventually led to such a big disaster.

The rapid collapse of the first line of defense is certainly frustrating, but it is not a bad news. The so-called elastic defense means not obsessing with the competition and loss of space, but taking preserving counterattack forces as the top priority, and defeating or annihilation of invading enemy forces as the key goal.

Unfortunately, in order to show his determination to fight here to facilitate command and operations, Daniel set up the headquarters forward---of course, to prevent artillery attacks, he laid several layers of cross logs on the top of the command center, and reinforced them with only a little cement, and could even withstand the direct hit of the Xiangrui main gun!

However, although this sturdy semi-underground command can withstand the long-range bombardment of artillery shells, it cannot withstand the crushing of sabers, spears, grenades, fire glue and even iron cockroaches!

As a result, the command center of the Elf Army was temporarily paralyzed during the outpost battle, and the situation inevitably took a sharp turn.

In this era of hot weapons not completely eliminating cold weapons, large-scale battles born in the wild are usually prelude to a series of flying beasts, reconnaissance magic, and mutual confrontation and confrontation between scout squads - that is, the so-called outpost battle.

Through the battle of outposts, the commanders of both sides can collect the latest information of the opponent and make on-site evaluation. Then they will correct them based on the calculation results of prophetic magic. For some miscalculations that are already on the edge of a cliff, this is also the last opportunity to adjust the deployment of troops and strategic goals at hand, and to save the mistakes when receiving the enemy - although this opportunity is usually wasted.

Then, the commanders of both sides issued the general attack order one after another, and the outcome was determined in one battle. In the era of "communication basically depends on yelling", once a fierce battle was invaded, the transmission of orders and the transmission of the battle situation would become extremely difficult, the messenger might be intercepted, and the signal might be interfered. Even if the above successfully conveyed the order, it would be difficult to ensure that the guy who should have accepted the order was still alive.

What's even more terrible is that if you unfortunately run a team with loose discipline, you have to prepare for your subordinates to lie to disobey, deliberately destroy communication tools, or even detain or assassinate the messenger...

Therefore, moving troops in the rain of bullets and adjusting tactics is more dangerous than dancing on the tip of a knife. If the commander has to change orders every day when the fierce battle is in full swing, then it will be not far from the collapse of the entire army... In fact, after the main forces of both sides fully catch up, the commanders of the two armies will basically lose control of the battle situation. Apart from time to timely investing in the reserve team or simply taking the lead in escaping, there is almost nothing else to do.

Therefore, before the official decisive battle begins, if the commanders of the attacking side are more cautious, they usually use light cavalry, light infantry, ranger and even thieves to fight a series of tentative outpost battles. Based on his understanding of Tkumsey's previous combat style, Daniel believed that in this positional battle that prevailed, this guy would also pursue stability, and based on such inference, he began to deploy the defense of the entire position.

But he never expected that his opponent would inexplicably act as a gambler when he had superior strength, which violated the military common sense of this era. He did not even conduct the minimum temptation and firepower reconnaissance. He attacked hard from the beginning!
Chapter completed!