Although the players had indeed not acted recklessly and had carried out the battle methodically according to the command center's arrangements, they still lost.
Or rather, they had nearly lost?
At first, the fighting aboveground had gone very smoothly. After two rounds of artillery bombardment had scoured the area, there were not many Chaos monsters left alive. Even though some sneaky Demons that had suddenly sprung up had caught quite a few people off guard, the players did not care, because they were not afraid of dying.
Since most of them had died around here once before, and Greenskin players' spores were buried underground everywhere—so much so that anyone who took an excavator down a few meters could probably dig up plenty of Greenskins' green "flesh cocoons"—the dead players soon crawled back out of the ground nearby. Then, after eagerly searching around for a rifle or borrowing one from another Greenskin, they threw themselves back into the fight.
The battle aboveground soon came to an end. Those few Chaos monsters and sneaky Demons naturally failed to cause any real trouble.
After that, aside from leaving behind a hundred-man guild reserve force and the elite of the Greenskin First Battle Company to stand guard aboveground, Gao Lanlan assigned the remaining players into groups of one hundred to enter the mines and tunnels to encircle and purge the enemy.
Things went smoothly at first. The players did not have to expend much effort to sweep away most of the enemies in the mine shafts.
After all, whether they were Chaos cultists or Chaos priests with psychic powers, the C-14 Spike Rifles in the Greenskin players' hands could always easily go "rat-a-tat-tat" and tear them to pieces.
There was no question that the mutated powers of those Chaos priests could not stand up