Dronne Snowfield, a mountainous region, home to the Devil Race's commercial city-states.
This was the Devil Race's central nerve in the Central Lands. After a period of recuperation, this was where the auxiliary army would fight next.
Several days passed.
Then the offensive began.
Mountainous terrain was usually difficult to march through.
The auxiliary army was not Lynn's mountain force; it had been reorganized from prisoners of war.
Yet even so, a single auxiliary army was enough to make others feel as if they faced a formidable enemy.
As the commander of this operation, Wellington differed from the others: he absorbed Mikhail's theories of warfare more quickly.
In the mountains, Wellington inspected the territory with elegant severity. He was not angry, merely repeatedly stressing, "Positions must be chosen on the reverse slope of ridgelines!"
"Hide the main infantry force behind the slope, avoiding the first barrage of the French heavy artillery and concealing our troops. Place only a small number of warning posts on the front line!"
"Save the crossbow bolts and mountain guns for attacking the enemy artillery."
"This time, they're only an auxiliary army!"
"They have no elite force!"
"And while you may not be elite, you are still Third Order troops with some strength!"
"Dig the trenches properly!"
Wellington made every preparation needed to ensure all would go well.
Then he waited tensely for the next attack.
Count Liam Ashworth, meanwhile, followed the Tactics Manual.
The manual did not contain every kind of tactic. The tactics recorded within were merely those of World War I.
Lynn had not standardized tactics from World War II.
The most classic tactic of World War I was simple: artillery bombardment, then infantry charge.
The artillery division unleashed its power once more. More than a hundred 105-millimeter howitzers roared at the mountains,