The Magic Team first seized air superiority.
Then they attacked the ground targets they could see.
Without hesitation, the Punishment Brigade launched another assault.
The more than five thousand soldiers they'd had before had dwindled to around three thousand.
The 210mm Howitzer began its carpet bombing.
As usual, it swept through the city.
Several gaps appeared in the walls, which stood more than twenty meters high. Buildings collapsed, and no one could be seen on the walls.
But that didn't mean the enemy had no desire to resist. They simply didn't want to be blasted by artillery.
Among the ruins of Guanglan City,
there were still around eighteen thousand members of the resistance.
They now had five thousand single-shot shotguns and ten thousand military crossbows, along with enough equipment to arm five thousand armored swordsmen with shields.
The bombardment had cost them two thousand men.
Sheffield and Jean Charles were the commanders here.
It was still the two of them.
After Jean Charles had rekindled Sheffield's resolve to resist, he too had begun to think about fighting.
After carefully studying Olesian tactics, he had also begun to disperse the soldiers.
He had even started expanding on the bunker tactics.
He'd found a blind spot: knowledge that was common among Olesians.
Though it was kept secret,
it was entirely new to men like them.
That was the concept of interlocking machine-gun fire.
Building on that, Sheffield had adapted and combined the tactics of bunkers and reverse slopes.
They piled up earth magic at the front to defend against frontal bombardment.
At the same time, they angled the bunkers to provide flanking fire.
The same applied in the city.
The soldiers were all inside buildings, their fields of fire overlapping as they waited for Olesian soldiers to enter.
The first Punishment Brigade