As for the Ansu Duchy, which had seized a corner of Holy Shield Mountain and a stretch of plain, it had only suffered a minor setback, and its casualties weren't excessive.
After learning its lesson from that encounter with Heat Weapons, Lothair's tactics began to undergo a comprehensive overhaul. The army studied various advanced tactics and developed a system of its own.
William addressed the officers of the Louis Empire who were studying these tactics, bringing up what should have been the greatest advantage of vampires: "Gentlemen, for certain special reasons, we became vampires. Before that, we weren't vampires."
"Our greatest tactical principle was that war was the glory of the nobility, while ordinary soldiers were there to support them."
"On that basis, His Majesty Lothair's tactics are as follows." He pointed his teaching stick at the simple diagrams on the blackboard.
"We need to learn to make greater use of ordinary troops. They're the backbone of our defense."
"You've already made extensive use of them."
"But we also need elite forces—that is, Battle Qi Warriors and mages. The enemy makes extensive use of them, and so do you and we."
"But how to use them is another major challenge. Take that fool Ulysses, for example. He had over nine thousand men, yet they never got to show their full fighting strength."
"Everyone, we need to concentrate our mages and Qi Warriors and deploy them together. We also need to use them as surprise forces on the battlefield."
"We also need to train them more rigorously."
"For example, His Majesty Lothair has them undergo special training in marksmanship." William picked up a special rifle, one captured from the Ansu Duchy.
Ansu's rifles were good, and their cartridges were easy to copy.
William aimed at a target more than six hundred