The other men could not help but shudder when they heard the word "artillery."
In their eyes, the failure of the First Northern Expedition had less to do with their mutual restraints or their failure to realize that Chen Cheng had joined forces with the Orc race than with the sudden arrival of artillery on the battlefield.
Although the secret spies dispatched by their respective nations had long revealed that artillery and firearms were no longer mysterious weapons, the firearms they had reproduced could only be called the most primitive black-powder weapons.
But when faced with artillery using genuine smokeless powder, TNT, and even RDX, they finally witnessed what it meant to be crushed by a generational gap.
No matter how powerful a Military Formation was, even one capable of resisting a Legendary Rank Forbidden Spell, under the frenzied bombardment of hundreds or thousands of large-caliber howitzers, the energy output threshold had long surpassed the power of a Legendary Forbidden Spell.
Once a gap was torn open in the Military Formation, the countless shells that followed would instantly turn the entire formation into an absolute forbidden zone of life.
It could be said that the first time artillery truly took to the battlefield, it immediately crushed their past military philosophy of forming formations.
"This is no longer such a major problem. The first time merely caught us unprepared. Dealing with their artillery units is still very simple.
"A bunch of mere mortals, without the protection of a Military Formation—so long as a unit charges in, the entire artillery position can be destroyed at once."
They were not fools either. After being beaten senseless the first time, they naturally came up with solutions immediately.
And before they could find an answer in terms of weapons and tactics, they would naturally seize