After a month and a half of hurrying, William finally returned to the Thunder Lion's headquarters.

Originally, after returning from the Gap Rift, the first stop should have been the former Panda Town, now the Steel Feather Training Base, but after receiving a courier from Neil on the way, I realized that in the past month and a half, the situation has changed again.

To this day, it is still an unsolved mystery which nobleman this mysterious elite division belongs to. But the goal of this group of people has been thoroughly discovered: they are coming to the military research institute where the Thunder Lion is stationed.

It's no secret that Sean's Iron Wings and Thunder Lion are equipped with special equipment like [Impact Shield]. Especially in the several cavalry battles with the Kingdom of Dabiang, how much of a role the impact shield played, after the war, people who have a heart can easily learn about it by collecting a little intelligence, so it is natural that they will be able to make drawings of the equipment such as the impact shield.

In particular, after the end of the battle with Dabion, many nobles on the Ryan side joined forces to put pressure on Sean, asking Sean to share the secret of the impact shield. Originally, their abacus was a good game, it was nothing more than using seniority theory to bully a new nobleman like Sean, and this move in the past was a great threat to those new nobles, so they naturally had to bow their heads.

But who is Sean?

The direct sentence "If you want to fight, then let's just fight" choked those nobles and did not dare to continue to speak.

What happened after that was that Sean was forced to flee thousands of miles in the Sene region of the Ryan Kingdom, and at that time, those families naturally had the intention to fall into the well. It's just that the stones they threw down were too small. didn't even make much of a splash, and afterwards after learning that Sean was promoted to the Grand Duke, they also sent congratulatory gifts one after another. So Sean didn't bother to continue to entangle with them, and he didn't have the heart to deal with these rotten people at all.

Now. The two main legions of the Void Duchy - Clov's Cecilia Guards and Alfred's Thunder Lion are not in the country, and they were seconded to Wiles to deal with the Third Garrison of the former Dabion Kingdom, so the current Void Duchy is actually in a relatively weak stage in terms of military strength. However, this weakness is also relatively speaking, for the surrounding lords bordering the Void Principality, the Void Principality is still a hideous and huge monster.

However, neither William, nor Sean, nor Hela, did not expect that someone would seize the weakest moment in the Void Principality to show their fangs, which was indeed surprising to them. After all, the departure of the Thunder Lion and Cecilia Guards was not made much fanfare, but there was no concealment. Anyone who cares will be able to know with a little inquiry.

I have to say that the situation in the current Void Duchy has a lot to do with the reason why William and others are too conceited.

However, at this point, frustration or regret obviously does not help, and how to remedy it is the key to the problem.

There was no doubt that the total annihilation of this enemy force deep into the territory was undoubted, and it was not a difficult task for William. If Neil hadn't been dragged down by other things, I'm afraid that this enemy army would have been dealt with before William returned home. However, now Neil did not take action himself, but threw the mess to William, which also means that this enemy army is not enough to pose any real danger to the Void Duchy.

Of course, there is still some destructive power.

Take the area occupied by this enemy army. Within a radius of 500 miles, it was already under its control, which directly led to the destruction of two villages and a small town. But fortunately, at the moment when this enemy army laid a defensive stronghold. Neil had already ordered the evacuation of the surrounding residents, so the destruction of the town and village was only the looting of goods and food reserves. And the setting fire to the village and destroying the terrain has done little harm to the civilian grassroots.

But just a week ago. There was clearly a new movement in this army: they were trying to attack the Thunder Lion's station.

It was precisely because of this movement that Neil knew that their target was the military research institute of the Void Duchy.

It's just that Neil has already set up a plan at the Thunder Lion's station one step ahead of the other party: Rena rushed to the Thunder Lion to take charge of it herself, and at the same time moved to the Thunder Lion's station and stood by the First Cavalry Regiment and the entire steel wing. So these enemies who rashly broke into the Thunder Lion's station were naturally tantamount to throwing themselves into the net, and were caught off guard by Rena and Anno, and none of them could even escape afterwards.

The First Cavalry Regiment was trained by Rena, and the technique of tail rank pursuit and killing could not be more skilled.

However, it is a pity that the enemy only came with less than 100 people, obviously preparing to infiltrate secretly, but in the end, he underestimated the vigilance force of the military research institute and the arsenal, so it was finally discovered. However, this battle also completely exposed the strength of the other party: this group of sneak attackers who tried to infiltrate actually had several golden powerhouses in charge, if it weren't for Reina's presence, I was afraid that they would really succeed.

William's brows furrowed even tighter after reading this information, and these abnormal phenomena made him fully affirm that the enemy must have prepared a surprise army, otherwise he would not have tried to paralyze the nerves of William and the others with such fanfare. It's just that what the role and purpose of this strange army is, William is difficult to guess, but it is certain that those research materials in the Military Research Institute, as well as the Shock Shield II in the Ordnance Workshop, must be one of the established goals of these people.

By the time they arrived at the Thunder Lion's station, the Iron Wings, who had already received orders and had completed their assembly, had been waiting for a long time.

Anno still had the same smiling face, just standing at the front of the steel wings. Standing beside him was the Abbazar who is now the deputy head of the Iron Wing, a Northland barbarian with a completely different personality and thinking from his people, he is not only intelligent and studious, but also has a very good potential of his own, and after several instructions from William, he has now become the true commander of the Iron Wing.

It's just that the Northland barbarians are a group of guys who value love and righteousness, so before Anno officially abdicated, the nominal commander of Steel Wings was still Anno. However, there was Abazar to help. Anno was indeed much easier, and the shortcomings of the original steel wings that were not good at thinking and tactics were perfectly solved under the command of Abaza. It can be said that today's steel wings are truly a strong army that is not inferior to the Thunder Lion and Cecilia's Guard.

Because of the need to prevent surprise attacks, William did not dare to lead the entire steel wing to set off. He only brought 4,000 men.

This number was two thousand more than he had originally expected, mainly because Reina's First Cavalry Regiment was also stationed at the Thunder Lion station, so William would have this absolute advantage enough to pose a threat to the enemy army. Moreover, among the accompanying personnel, there is also Rottikabas, a newly promoted powerhouse of the Holy Domain, so there is no need to worry about it in terms of combat effectiveness.

Moreover, William's plans in terms of military strategy are also unmatched.

In addition to this apparent army, Rena and her 1st Cavalry Regiment are also on standby, but they are not personally seated in the Thunder Lion's station. Instead, he started with the army under William's command for about two days. This distance happens to be in the middle of the battlefield: about three days from Void City, about four days from the Thunder Lion's station, and about a day and a half shorter if you march quickly.

Therefore, whether it is the Thunder Lion station sending a call for help, or the Void City being attacked by enemy soldiers, Rena can rush to the aid as soon as possible.

And in the Void City, although there is no powerful army with such strength as the Thunder Lion and the Steel Wing, the Pitch Black Wings are not vegetarians, and the quasi-fourth-level combat power is there, and it is still a legion that focuses on defense. Not to mention the clergy of the Church of Snow and Winter, and Shefanio. The real combat power is much stronger than the Thunder Lion station. It's just that Shefanio and his clergy can't have time to support William, after all, they are not cavalry troops, and even rushing to the Thunder Lion will take more than half a day's journey. So in fact, the strategic value of Shephaneo is to prevent the Thunder Lion Garrison from being attacked.

It can be said that the battle plan arranged by William is already completely foolproof.

Whether it's the Lion of Thunder station. It's still a city of the void, and every aspect has been taken care of. Even William deliberately sold a flaw, just to lure the strange army whose whereabouts are still unknown. As for whether the other party will be fooled. William didn't dare to guarantee it, after all, the other party's level of strategy is really not low, and he is obviously good at grasping people's hearts, if it weren't for this, he wouldn't let the enemy invade here.

However, this also taught William and Neil that they should pay more attention to the grassroots people and no longer limit their vision to the nobility and the upper class.

The real party that leads the way is often the grassroots officials who have real power in the local area but do not receive special attention.

After a few days of non-stop travel, they finally arrived at the fortified stronghold that had been invaded and occupied by the enemy.

Obviously, the enemy army had already received the news, so when William and the others arrived, the other party had already launched a defensive formation relying on the town they occupied. As soon as William saw the layout of the entire town and the defensive formation of the enemy army, his eyes became gloomy: "The commander of the other party is a person like Stalin." ”

"Well, it's very similar to Stalin's style." Abaza scratched the back of his head, and his face also looked very ugly, "Our steel wings are originally good at this kind of warfare, although there are some differences from Lord Stalin's way of defending the city, assisting in defense, or holding on, but there are still many things in common. In this battle, there is no way to take this place except to storm it. ”

Hearing Abazar's question, William looked at him deeply, his eyes full of appreciation.

As the next Iron Wing Commander who has already been decided, Abazar has so far been very much in line with the standards of a good commander. And in terms of personal strength, Abazaar's potential is also great, although he is only a high-ranking silver now, but you must know that Abazar is only twenty years old now, and it is a sure thing to break through to the realm of high-level gold.

Outstanding personal strength and excellent command potential are destined for Abaza's future achievements.

If it weren't for the peculiarity of the Iron Wings legion, William would have wanted to transfer Abazar to the Wing of Judgment as commander. After all, there are not many candidates who can serve as the commander of the Wings of Judgment, but there are even fewer people who can bring out the true value of the Wings of Judgment; But no matter what you say. After all, there are still a lot of candidates for the legion of the Wings of Judgment, but how many years have passed since the establishment of the Iron Wings. But there is only one person, Abaza.

"If we attack, we will lose a lot." Slowly retracted his gaze. William's gaze fell back on the base of the defensive stronghold that had been established in the distance, "How's the reconnaissance going?" ”

Abazar handed over a piece of information to William, who glanced at it, and his brows couldn't help but wrinkle deeper: "It actually adopts a multi-level defensive formation structure. …… If the other party was not a famous general, I would never believe it. ”

The multi-level defensive formation structure is a defensive tactic that is very suitable for small spaces.

To put it simply, it is to arrange a ring of fortifications in a very limited terrain, but it is not a layout of large rings and small rings. Instead, several ring-shaped defensive arrays are arranged at the same time, so that no matter which defensive ring layer is attacked, it will face the attack of the other two rings of fortifications around it at the same time. And with the gradual in-depth advancement, the number of defensive areas that are stacked will gradually increase, and it is possible to face simultaneous attacks from the four rings and five rings.

It can be said that this is a defensive tactic that uses the terrain to the extreme.

With the scale of 2,000 men, with this defensive tactic, William estimated that he could exert at least 4,000 or even 5,000 men.

"No wonder the other party dares to use only two thousand people to go deep here, it seems that they have already prepared a qiē." William said in a deep voice. "The biggest problem at the moment is that we don't know what the other party's real goal is. …… If you can know, you can start a targeted tactic. It looks like our enemies are a wake-up call this time. ”

"That. What do we do next? "Anno is not good at thinking, but after so many years of traveling east and west with steel wings, he has learned a lot of things." Reinforcements, please? Mistress Rena doesn't seem to be very far away from us. ”

"This kind of defensive battle, unless the Crimson Knights are mobilized to come and fight together. Mere cavalry units are meaningless. William shook his head and continued. There is only one way to deal with this kind of defensive tactic, and that is to use force to break through skill. Of course, even if it is a strong pressure, there are multiple options, or to launch a simultaneous attack from multiple sides, forcing the opponent to not be able to look at each other, so that the threat will be greatly reduced. …… The other is to fight step by step regardless of the direct advance of a qiē. ”

"Step by step?" Rottikabas immediately lost his voice, "This ...... Too bloody, right? ”

Obviously, Rhoticabas immediately understood the meaning of William's words.

Under the scream of Rottikabas, Abazar understood the meaning of William's tactic after a little thought.

The multi-level defensive formation structure is a defensive tactic that makes the best use of the number of people, terrain, and fortifications. Basically, this tactic, in addition to specific terrain restrictions, is also limited in people's hearts, at least if it is not for all the people with the idea of death, this tactic can not play any value at all, so whether William adopts the former tactic or the latter tactic, the sacrifice is great.

The only difference is that the former tactic is less sacrificial than the latter.

Because the so-called step-by-step is a fighting tactic that fights for every inch of land.

In terms of the tactics of multi-level defensive formation construction, only the total annihilation of the zài army remains, and there are no other possibilities of zài. Therefore, the fight for every inch of land is naturally a constant struggle to see who can't bear it first, so even if it is a victory, it can only be said to be a miserable victory. However, if the former tactic were to be used, it would obviously not be enough to rely on 4,000 steel wings, and it would be easy to further expand the loss of steel wings.

And how much an elite army is worth, this is well known to any general.

Even William was reluctant to let the steel wings suffer too much loss, but the other party directly invested a full two thousand elite soldiers, and many golden powerhouses, and they all fought with the belief of death, this kind of plot was naturally great. It's just that William couldn't guess what the other party's plot was, so this qiē made William fall into a kind of passivity.

"It's only at times like this that I miss Hela." William sighed and smiled a little helplessly. "That guy's sense of smell in this area is much sharper than mine. This is exactly the horn-like scheme of an antelope. Only that guy can analyze it, and Neil and I are not material for this after all. ”

"Lord William. Give the order. Under Abaza's explanation, Anno also understood the bloodshed of the camp, but he didn't think about it and said, "If it weren't for Lord Sean and Lord William, we still don't know what we're doing." It is you who have given us the status we have today, and at this time the enemy has already hit our home, how can we continue to stay like this, even if we die, we will definitely make the enemy pay the same tragic price! ”

"Yes!"

"Lord William, give the order!"

"We are not afraid of death!"

"The barbarians of the Northland have never been afraid of anything!"

Time. The four thousand steel-winged soldiers immediately swelled in a crowd, and each of them let out a shout, oblivious to all the possible consequences of the step-by-step tactic. For them, if it weren't for Sean and William, they would still be just slaves today, and even have to live those days without food and clothing, how could they live a good life like now.

So for them, death or anything is not terrible at all, as long as they can sweep away all the enemies. Their value can be reflected.

"Lord William, give the order." Abazar also spoke, his gaze as resolute as Anno's, "It's just a tragic fight." In the war with Dabiang back then, didn't our steel wings be beaten twice until they were almost disbanded, and then they were also restored. …… Lord William. For us, war is already the same thing as eating and breathing. We don't fear death at all, so ...... Give it the order. ”

William glanced at Anno. Then he glanced at the Abazar again, and the entire steel wing.

The legion of Iron Wings is already a veteran legion of the Void Principality, and its formation history is even before the Thunder Lion and Cecilia Guard, and it is the first legion of the Void Principality. And in the past wars, the heavy losses of Steel Wing are not once or twice, basically the group of Northland barbarians who came out with Sean back then are basically dead, and now the soldiers of Steel Wing are generally between sixteen and twenty-five years old, and few are over thirty years old.

Like at this moment, the 4,000 steel-winged soldiers brought out by William can be regarded as members of the older generation, basically around twenty-three years old, and they have experienced a lot of wars, and they are real elite veterans. But after this battle, even if the enemy army can be completely annihilated, I am afraid that there will not be many people left in the end, after all, the threat of this tactic of multi-level defensive formation construction, William is very clear.

Stalin was the master of this tactic.

Stalin, who now specializes in defensive warfare, has collected many reports of various classic defensive battles on the continent through the realm of the void, and he has studied this aspect very deeply. If you talk purely about defensive warfare experts, even William is certainly inferior to Stalin. It's just that Stalin is only good at defensive warfare, and Stalin is much inferior in other aspects, so there is an internal consensus on Stalin's positioning, William and Hela.

"Let's go to war too." Rottikabas looked at William, then said in a deep voice.

"You be careful, in this environment, even if you make a move, I'm afraid it's easy to encounter accidents." William opened his mouth to remind, "Your status is quite special, and I can't directly order you to do anything, but anyway, I hope you can pay attention...... They. ”

"I know." Rottikabas nodded.

This time, William didn't say anything more, but slowly raised his right hand, looked coldly at the town in front of him, which had been completely converted into a large fortification base, and shouted in a deep voice: "Steel wings!" It's time to eat! ”

"Oh! It's time to eat! ”

The steel winged charge order, which has been famous for many years, sounded again in this land! (To be continued......)

PS: This plot is really not easy to write, and there have been some private factors that have plagued me recently, and the update speed may slow down. However, since you have decided to give up full attendance, the quality will definitely be improved and guaranteed, and the update will not be interrupted, so you can still rest assured.