What was Jean Charles's army doing?
Naturally, they were digging foxholes first.
Lothair found it irritating to watch, but then he spotted a weakness in the enemy's battlefield defenses and issued an order. "See that drainage ditch?"
"It's a depression. The enemy can't see it. Break through from there, and bring plenty of bomb javelins!"
Bombs used to be expensive to make, since they were entirely magic tools.
Now, bomb javelins were cheap. The only magic-tool component was the detonator.
They had no cannons, but they were human artillery!
Lothair really did have a sharp eye for battlefield tactics. That drainage ditch was indeed good cover, allowing troops to break through quickly.
They aimed their bomb javelins at the machine gunners and hurled them, setting off a series of loud explosions.
Explosions rang out one after another, taking down the machine-gun crews and gunners in turn.
The charge didn't look particularly dense. The troops came in scattered waves, yet together they formed a flood that seemed never-ending.
The Northern Territory Army fired the few automatic weapons they had, suppressing the enemy with gunfire.
Their enemies could withstand an astonishing number of bullets. Unless they kept firing at the same target, it was almost impossible to kill one.
The enemy was getting closer and closer.
The artillery teams at Yamengeli had already been ordered to retreat.
They headed for the River Crossing Point.
As for the regular troops, their division commander had assigned a suicide squad to slow the enemy's advance.
The rest began a swift retreat as well.
Lothair had originally planned a two-pronged attack, so his troops were surely charging along the front roughly ten kilometers outside Xinmenkeli, too.
Unlike the rabble they'd once been, the Northern Territory Army's regular troops were capable of slowing the enemy down.
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