The tactic the Expeditionary Army was using was called the Iron Cone.
Well, it could also be called an all-in rush.
Players generally had one problem: in games that required tactics and strategy, as long as there were fewer than twenty of them, they would follow any player with a little prestige who stepped forward and gave orders that looked somewhat useful.
Even if a troublemaker emerged among those twenty, the players could vote collectively to kick the bad apple out.
But once their numbers exceeded twenty, or even reached a hundred, their cohesion would quickly deteriorate, and the commander's authority would come into question.
A hundred-player team would often splinter into several cliques, each fighting independently and even bickering with the others.
Put simply, the Iron Cone tactic concentrated all available firepower into a sharp point that drove straight into the enemy's core.
It was simple and brutal, requiring no complicated coordination. Everyone merely had to charge toward the same target.
The Han-Tang Warriors led the charge, bringing the heavy infantry players from the other battle groups with them, while the skirmisher players stayed behind and covered their advance with flintlocks.
Farther back, Lin Ruoyu led two thousand NPCs, who formed defensive arrays with shield wagons and supported the heavy infantry at the front with Six-Pounder Field Guns, Crouching Tiger Cannons, and flintlocks.
The four-wheeled shield wagons were cumbersome, but fortunately, the land around Hegrande was flat. Four men sheltered behind each wagon and slowly pushed it forward, barely keeping pace with the players' charge.
Cannons thundered and gunsmoke billowed. The whole battlefield resembled a cauldron of molten iron, chaotic and searing hot.
Clack, clack, clack...
With support from the rear, the Han-Tang Warriors advanced with heavy footsteps until they reached the Cheval de Frise line outside the Bohemian