So-called large-scale army warfare meant that none of your every move could be concealed from the enemy.
The operation was practically laid bare, because there were simply too many people.
At most, there could only be a gap of a few days.
For the Central Lands Allied Army's counteroffensive campaign, thirty thousand elite troops were divided into twenty thousand elites and ten thousand reserves, accompanied by fifty thousand auxiliary troops.
They believed their opponent had only sixty thousand men, while the Devil Race's army of fifty thousand was being pinned down in the mountainous flank.
They launched a ferocious assault.
On the first day, all the elites went in at once. Against Heat Weapons, the elites all had defensive means, and they were no longer charging in the dense formations of the past. They could dig trenches, raise Earth Wall Magic, cast fortress magic, and even use Active Defense to detonate bombs.
The mages covered the knights' charge. The knights charged with guns and swords, clad in armor.
With a small force deployed forward, the Northern Alliance's auxiliary army defended through interlocking machine-gun fire, mortar and artillery bombardments, as well as barbed wire and Landmines.
On the first day, the sixty thousand men retreated twenty kilometers in an orderly fashion. They fought the enemy elites without stubbornly locking horns, instead resisting layer by layer.
As the knights charged, they stepped on Landmines. Anti-personnel mines exposed their weakness—the Battle Qi lords could not withstand them.
Machine guns often had to fire dozens of rounds before they could break a Magic shield. Bolt-action rifles became useless sticks, while machine guns became the main source of killing power. Mortars and artillery bombarded fiercely, draining the mages' defensive mana until they could no longer help the knights withstand the bombardment. Artillery accounted for ninety