8:20 p.m., west bank of the Moonfall River.
Splash!
After receiving the scouts' report, the Allied Forces' heavy artillery composite brigade arrived one after another and began setting up camp along the riverbank.
Meanwhile, large numbers of combat engineers jumped down from the accompanying transport vehicles. Under their officers' orders and covered by their own artillery vehicles, they carried heavy mines toward the pontoon bridge ahead, their faces filled with vigilance.
"Brigadier Yimir, do you think we still have any chance of winning this time?"
At the rear edge of the heavy artillery forces, Bayi, commander of the Fourth Artillery Regiment and a lieutenant colonel, watched the combat engineers busily laying mines in the distance through binoculars. A trace of worry could not help but cross his face.
Ever since Roxy, the legion commander, had made a mistake that forced the Kingdom to temporarily strip her of command and instead appoint Garl, heir to the Loken Family, he had felt deeply uneasy.
It was not that he looked down on Garl's military command ability. Besides mastering the Unique Formula known as Hand of the Forge, Garl himself was a military talent who had graduated from Ingrant Military Academy with an excellent evaluation.
He was someone whose strategic ability surpassed ninety percent of his peers.
Otherwise, after learning that they had intercepted signs suggesting the enemy might launch a general offensive, he would never have come up with such an unconventional tactic as laying mines.
But at the end of the day, the opponent they faced this time was no mediocrity, but an unprecedentedly terrifying commander.
Even Frank, who had been specially awarded the honorary professorship of tactics by Ingrant Military Academy, had died outright in battle because of that man's strategy.
Legion Commander Roxy, who had graduated from the First