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Chapter 238

: If you don’t decide to strike

Although there is no day or night underground, normal rest is still required.

Just as most of Ictor's side went to sleep, the fortress defenders also began to seize the opportunity to prepare for field battle.

Colt's combat plan was very simple, he focused his full strength to attack one wing, forcing Ictor to mobilize the reserve team to defend, and then used cavalry to attack on the other wing and cut off the artillery.

At six o'clock in the morning, the two sides began to confront each other after the rest. Ictor was suppressed by three thousand zombies and internal snookers. Both wings were 480 rats and 500 werewolves slave soldiers.

Scattered soldiers unfolded in front of the formation, with 465 guards, 240 recruited ratmen and 1,000 wereggar slave soldiers as reserves to protect the artillery positions.

As the defensive side, Ictor does not need to use any radical formations, he only needs to play steadily enough to win.

In order to deal with Windsol's turtle shell formation, Colt also lined up his troops in a row. The central army consisted of 2,200 zombie swordsmen, 800 zombie shooters on the left wing, and 500 zombie shooters on the right wing, forming a front-line force. The remaining 700 zombie shooters are all used as reserve teams.

This unit consisting of zombies has no scattered soldiers, and all of them are line infantry. Due to the large-scale casualties of human officers, multiple infantry companies have to merge to a very bloated level, which is very unfavorable for command.

As the attacking party, Colt did not reveal his offensive intentions at the first time. Before the attack began, he first ordered the remaining artillery troops to launch a fire with Windsol.

This move indeed attracted the rat-man artillery to launch a large-scale counterattack. Fortunately, there were still a large number of earth-type mages left on the fortress defenders, and the artillery would not be wiped out in a short period of time.

As most of the artillery soldiers of the two armies set off fire, Colt ordered the troops to start moving forward, and the zombies moved forward in cheerful drum beats.

The momentum of more than 4,000 people was extremely huge. This was the largest battle Ictor had experienced so far. The total force invested by both sides had exceeded 10,000.

The orderly formation of the fortress defenders made the rat people feel solemn, and the recruiting spearmen encountered an army of equal levels as they were.

It was only at 6:08 in the morning that the zombies finally showed their offensive intentions less than 600 meters away from the Windsol infantry line.

Colt's left wing began to accelerate forward, and the central army also slightly raised its pace, and only the right wing still maintained its initial speed.

Soon, the entire army had already launched a diagonal attack formation.

From left to right, a slash is formed.

As the saying goes, "If you don't decide to strike in case of trouble", as a classic offensive formation, oblique strike can almost be suitable for most ancient battlefields.

In this way, the order of battle between the fortress defenders and the First Army will become the left wing, the central wing, and the right wing.

All 700 zombie shooter reserves also began to move to the left.

The strength of the central army and the right wing is obviously weaker, but their mission is only to prevent the left wing's offensive route from being encircled, and they will have to take on the battle later than the main force of the left wing, which can delay more time.

The main force of the left wing only needs to make a quick breakthrough with absolute military strength advantage and start detours as soon as possible to win.

Colt is quite confident in this tactic, even though he has lost in the first round of confrontation.

Yes, as the saying goes, an expert looks at the trick. Just from Ictor's defensive formation, Colt has already seen that his opponent is not simple.

If the opponent recklessly thinks that the left wing is the absolute main force of the fortress army and transfers the troops to this side to defend, Colt's reserve team can directly turn to the right wing. In this way, although the total offensive force is not as fierce as the left wing's slanting attack, it can attack the opponent's weakness.

But Ictor was very steady and he did not easily mobilize any reserve team.

This forced Colt to throw all the reserves to the left wing, trying to force the line through with a more fierce offensive.

But at this time, Ictor's reserve team had also begun to mobilize, with 240 recruiting ratmen, and a total of two companies were moving towards the right wing of the First Army. With the same departure, six 45mm cannons and six dimensional flamethrowers were also set off.

Such troops are enough to defend the attack of 1,500 people, not to mention that the fortress defenders cannot get the support of artillery at this time.

It only takes half an hour at most, their last artillery will be completely defeated, and the rat-man artillery that draws out will cause devastating changes in the battle situation.

Colt's only hope is to make progress on the left and mobilize Ictor's reserve team as much as possible, otherwise there will be only a dead end to wait for him.

Facing the left wing with heavy defensive pressure, Ictor also made all the stragglers turn to the right wing and start harassing.

The scattered soldiers' guns and bullets were densely hit in the zombie line. The 11.4mm projectile had considerable lethality. Most of the zombies within 200 meters would explode with bleeding holes, and they could directly smash their spines if they were lucky.

The zombie line continued to suffer casualties, but the fortress army was still advancing resolutely.

Less than 100 meters away from the straitors, the first row of zombies had accelerated to the fastest pace!

He came directly to fight in close combat with the stragglers!

This is a very reckless and effective method, and the hunters can only retreat helplessly. Fortunately, their legs are much better than zombies or something.

Ictor can only order the lost straits to be converted into reserve troops on the right wing to assist in defense with line formations (straits can be converted into line lines when necessary, only depending on training and professionalism).

At the same time, the main zombie force who fought off the stragglers still did not stop attacking. In fact, the order Colt gave them was to load shotguns and get close to the round, focusing on morale damage.

This kind of close-fitting attack seems to be able to cause a major blow to the enemy when approaching, but in fact, when the troops approach the opponent, they have already paid more casualties.

This tactic of being shot hard is only suitable for when the troops are superior, and it must be very good.

However, for the extraordinary body of zombies, the tactic of close fire can cause greater damage to creatures while gaining morale strikes, because their accuracy is actually very average at a long distance.

Once the situation develops into close range, the undead can easily gain greater advantages, so Colt did so.

Although the Rat Man under Ictor began to tilt his firepower towards the zombies as soon as possible, the results achieved were minimal. Most of the zombies could continue to fight after being hit by the torso, and even if they had broken hands and feet, they could still block the guns for their teammates.

The line infantry fired under tremendous pressure, and as the undead got closer, their attacks never had the effect they deserved.

Under normal circumstances, it should be extremely easy for the defense to deal with such a reckless army.
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