Chapter 338: Divide the troops for support

Chapter 338: Divide the troops and provide support

If you think something is bad, then maybe it will develop even worse.

Eno frowned as he looked at the information sent back by the reconnaissance war mage who was responsible for the reconnaissance mission around the third advance team.

Their supply transport team for the third advance team was attacked and wiped out.

It was terrible.

What was worse was that the attack did not come from the humans who controlled the steel creations, but from the local humans who had been crushed by them.

What was even worse was that they came to a conclusion from the traces on the scene that the other party also held magic rifles like them, and the battlefield was almost a battlefield where only two teams of humans holding magic rifles would appear.

There were traces of burning flames everywhere, and the weapons and equipment of the infantry accompanying the team were swept away.

The commander-in-chief of the portal garrison sighed and looked at the report brought back by the scout mage. The messenger who shuttled through the forest was far slower than the mage who could fly quickly.

He didn't expect that he had organized a scout mage to fly in the air for several days without any news about the enemy, but instead brought him such bad news.

The other side consciously armed the local civilization troops.

Eno knew with his fingers that those guys were very bad at shooting, but the disadvantage of infantry weapons on both sides was quickly narrowed.

The two advance teams carried a total of 11,000 magic rifles, and 50% of the other side's seizure was enough to arm 15,000 people to assist the defense army.

The commander-in-chief looked up and saw that he was the only one sitting in the empty command meeting room, staring blankly at the air.

He had to increase the number of guards, but the commander-in-chief did not want to attract the enemy's attention because of the size of the additional troops, so that no matter how many supply troops were sent, they would be useless.

Only mages could be sent, as mages could provide considerable combat power and have multiple ways to escape when encountering an enemy that could not resist.

Putting war mages, a highly mobile combat force, into the guard team would not even increase the number of troops that could be observed by the naked eye.

In this case, the camp had to specially select some war mages to serve as guards.

Eno looked at the war zone map hanging in the conference hall, and his head began to hurt.

It was a map drawn by an elf painter with high-quality pen and ink. The light brown-yellow paper showed the exquisite scene of the entire mountainous area, with small hills connected to large hills and rivers running through it.

Spellcasters can freely control the movement and disappearance of ink on paper, and the active ink on the map will rise and fall as they think.

Two light-colored supply lines connect the defense nodes of the second and third vanguards, both of which are more than ten kilometers.

As the two vanguards in the middle of the assault spearhead were annihilated, the second and third vanguards on the two wings of the attack were too far apart and could no longer support each other.

It is impossible to find and determine what the enemy commander wants to do.

Since the fourth vanguard was confirmed to be eliminated, he has not caught the opponent's shadow, and the reconnaissance scouts sent out cannot enter the camp-as for why the mages were not sent, the mages cherish their lives and are unwilling to carry out such a highly dangerous reconnaissance mission.

The scout reported to him that during the day, he could still see soldiers standing guard on the distant city wall, but the next day, only a deserted camp remained.

The night was particularly dark that day, and there was no fire in the camp.

The enemy's main force seemed to have melted into the night overnight.

The special vehicle made of floating stone can maintain long-term hovering without touching the ground, so the scout could not even see the traces of the floating ship landing.

"Adjutant, organize the war wizards, I have a new mission order."

Eno sighed, and the plan suggested by the human wizard at the meeting to gather the troops emerged in his mind again.

He knew that the plan of these humans to gather and disperse their troops was to abandon all the undefended cities outside the domain with great courage and block the magic empire's offensive.

Eno regretted not withdrawing his troops a little. These two foreign camps might become their breakthrough points. He also vaguely realized that as time went on, the possibility of a successful retreat would only become smaller and smaller.

Attack, there are enemies waiting in the shadows. Retreat is equivalent to giving up the efforts of this advance team for half a year to return to the starting point.

The Imperial Parliament will not allow a war without benefits to exist.

Retreat, all their previous work will become sunk costs.

Eno began to think about how to write a report to the Imperial Parliament so that they would send more troops to him. During this period, he had to continue to stabilize and hold the existing front and wait for reinforcements...

He needed manpower, weapons, and supplies.

In any case, the supplies must be sent to the two advance team bases.

Even if he didn't understand war, he could realize the importance of supplies to an army in wartime.

"Sir, we only have 210 war mages in our camp."

The female elf adjutant paused, shook her ears slightly, and thought about the proposal of her commander.

"We have already selected 18 mages to form four reconnaissance teams. If we organize two more 20-man war mage teams, I'm afraid there won't be enough rotation operators for the arcane turrets..."

"Adjust the duty roster so that the war mages responsible for reconnaissance missions can continue to work."

Eno must select a group of mobile mage troops to serve as escorts on the premise that he has selected the mage reconnaissance troops.

The war mage is a universal brick, but in the end, he can only take money from one place to pay for another.

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The third advance team, seven kilometers away from the camp, in the forest.

The trees here were originally cut down, and a large number of houses were built on the dark brown ground with the help of the system. The dense and simple buildings make it clear at a glance that this is a temporary camp built for attacking.

"Sir, they are passing by."

The officer stared at the small black dots flying in the sky with their wings spread out, which were smaller than the seabirds he saw in his territory.

Three people in a team, the war mages spread their white wings and flew freely in the sky like birds. This reconnaissance team composed of mages did not stay over the camp for too long, and returned in a beautiful arc in the sky.

They wanted to confirm whether this camp was really built by humans who could control steel objects as they thought. The two steam machines placed in the center of the camp were the best proof... Show them the proof.

The officer retracted his envious gaze. He also wanted to fly freely in the sky like these mages.

"Sir, do you think they will believe our attack target..."

The officer looked at Chang Heng standing in the corner. Chang Heng shrugged, broke off a little bit of the dried meat in his hand and threw it on the ground to feed the hunting spider.

"They have no right not to believe."

Chang Heng took a bite of the dried meat in his hand and felt that too much salt was added when it was marinated.

"Those guys did a good job, they were brave, but their tactics were too crude. But they were still good at attracting the enemy's attention... saving us a lot of effort."

The intensity of reconnaissance here has increased a bit because of this. It is the first time for officers to see a reconnaissance unit composed of flying mages. The light-footed spellcasters fly across the sky and monitor the land like birds.

When the advance team launched an attack on the local civilization, they didn't even bother to conduct reconnaissance. It seems that they exerted sufficient pressure.

But the commander of the other side will soon realize that seeing is not necessarily believing.

On the battlefield, what you can see is not necessarily determined by you...

Chang Heng smiled, threw the dried meat strips in his hand on the ground, and a trace of coldness flashed in his eyes.

"I really hope they find out and go back to their commander to report us here... this good news."

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