In early June of 848, Lu Yuan, Ankenri's battle situation quietly changed. On the Western Front, Paul Zhong stopped all offensive temptations and turned to defense in the whole line. On the Eastern Front, Prince Eliot's guards and the First Corps of the Western Theater Command, which was still loyal to the emperor, also lost the intention to attack. As for Prince Wenfeng, after experiencing this period of growth, he was able to finally fight the defensive war.

Although he lost the Zidai Plain, he fought with his third adopted son Karim Ronin in the defense of Neusham. Overall, although the two battles on the East and West Lines in the early stage eliminated the troops equipped with new weapons, causing Ankenry to lose his will to attack, both Ronninger and Niglu also injured their vitality because of these two battles, and the rhythm of the attack gradually slowed down.

It was against this background that the Third Legion of the Western Theater Command had a total of 60,000 divisions, 70,000 divisions, the First Division of the Third Guards and the First Legion of the Western Theater Command had advanced to Enspan Province from both east and west. The great nobles of Enspan Province had almost escaped when Gastens promoted land reform. This time, most of the news were small and medium aristocrats, and those who could run were trying their best to escape. Even the Chief Executive of Enspan Province, Yaro Ross, went to Roswell for the excuse and left Enspan behind.

"The situation is very serious..."

In the combat command room of the Elena Production Brigade Department, Gastens looked at the sand table in front of him, his tone was not relaxed. Ivan Sink and a group of company commanders of the original production regiment stood beside him, looking at the sand table.

"From the exact news we have obtained so far, the forces sent by the east and west sides have exceeded 130,000, and the ratio of our forces has reached 13 to 1. Even if we add the new farmers mobilized for the second time in Enspan Province, the proportion is still around 6 to 1, and the gap in strength is huge."

Sink, who is in charge of intelligence, emphasized the gap in the forces between the two sides. "From the previous Battle of Fort Curtis and the Battle of Thorn Hills, our main force equipped with the Brave Rifle, the production brigade, can deal with at most about three divisions of enemies. No matter how many, it will lose its combat effectiveness."

"The situation of the sharp knife group is better, because of the existence of a large killer weapon like Luoshan. If a sharp knife group is used to defend on a suitable terrain, it can basically fight against two to three divisions, or even more, as long as the ammunition is replenished."

Belanchel Warren, the leader of the Sharp Knife, introduced the state of the Sharp Knife.

"Thus, it is already very difficult for all our forces to deal with all the enemies in the west or east. If two enemies attack at the same time..."

Binbo Bobluff was frowning. Although it was a military conference, because this incident and the subsequent response determined the future of Elena, almost all the minds of the people gathered in this small combat command.

"Can the factory produce more Luoshan type? That weapon is a powerful weapon to deal with group enemies."

Belancher threw the topic to Gulasco.

"I have done my best, but I also need to protect the Leiming Type 1 and the Brave Rifle. The three weapons are urgently needed now. Moreover, the production of the Luoshan Type 1 is relatively difficult. Now every one is one day, which is already the limit."

"We have almost fifty pieces of Luoshan type one, and the ammunition is sufficient. They all give the sharp knife team to build the sharp knife team into the core of our next tactics."

Gastenth expressed his thoughts, and he looked at Binbo Bobluff, "You have to pay some trouble in terms of public security. We may have to give up on continuous management in places outside the Eilena Plain. The information of the farmers and land that participated in the division of land will be transported back to Eilena and kept it. If we win in the future, we will follow the map and take these lands back to the peasant brothers."

"I understand." Binbo Bobluff nodded.

"The anti-reconnaissance work must continue, and the situation is now serious. Some fencemen may turn against each other before, so you should keep an eye on me and don't have any problems. In special times, there is no policy of policing. If you find that there is a problem, it may be the enemy's spies. Kill if you should, and don't hesitate." Gastens turned to Sink Warren again.

"Don't worry about this, there will be no problem." Sink Warren was full of confidence.

"Fluorite will continue to do it, focusing on the upcoming war. Then, when we win, we can publish this newspaper publicly. Look forward to it."

"must."

Daisy nodded, but her expression was still not relaxed. Although Gastens had already begun to arrange work and plan for response, he had not yet mentioned the most core combat ideas.

"Head", Ivan couldn't hold it in, "You haven't said anything about this battle yet."

"I know, I'll say it right away." Gastens nodded to everyone, and found that everyone was staring at him after Ivan asked the question, knowing that this question was the most concerned issue for everyone. He smiled and put forward his own ideas.

"We need to change our thinking in this battle. Before, we have been fighting positional wars. The two sides of the large-scale war set up their formations to approach each other, and then fired their hands and feet to decide the outcome. This combat method is OK and effective in the era of steam rifles. But for our Brave Rifles and Thunder, it is outdated." Gastens's words attracted everyone's attention. Everyone knows that now, only Gastens can find a strategy to deal with overwhelming enemies.

"So it's the strait tactic?" As the leader of the production group, Belancheer has studied the strait tactics more and understood it well. He boldly interjected, wanting to see if his thoughts are consistent with the leader's ideas.

"It can also be said," Gastens nodded at Belancheer, "but it is not a position-based straggler line like Elliot or Paul Zhong. That is not flexible enough. What I want to do is to give up the guerrilla warfare of the position, turn our soldiers and troops into daggers hidden in the sleeves of the assassin, find the right opportunity, launch an assault, achieve the goal, and retreat immediately. Don't give the enemy the opportunity to gather and form a formation."

"Give up the position..." Ivan thought for a while, "so we don't plan to guard the newly developed land in Enspan Province? Will that affect the new farmers' willingness to fight?"

"It's not that we don't guard, we just guard it in another way," Gastenth said seriously, "Land is dead, people are alive. As long as we can eliminate the enemy's living forces to the maximum extent and make them lose the ability to launch an attack, we can achieve the de facto independence of Enspan. Moreover, our new weapons now have the most suitable combat method, which is also a guerrilla warfare method of fast maneuvering and leaving after fighting. Only in this way can we concentrate our limited forces and cause a fatal blow to them in unexpected places of the enemy."

"But, we have never practiced the so-called guerrilla warfare you mentioned. If you start a war rashly and are not familiar with the tactics, will there be problems?"

Ivan raised his hand and asked, "Also, if we have Luoshan type, we don't have to be afraid of the enemy at all if we do position defense. Luoshan type has very powerful firepower output. If the enemy line up to shoot the tactics, we can slaughter the enemy."

"The biggest problem with positional warfare is that it is easy to be surrounded. Even if we have weapons like Luoshan, if we are surrounded and the enemy attacks without regard for sacrifice, a regiment of 1,000 people will not be able to defeat tens of thousands of people no matter what. You don't have that many bullets." Gastens had long thought about how to defend Enspan after his intentions were exposed, and he had a good idea. "If you use guerrilla warfare, your freedom will be all on our side. We have the final say when to fight, who to fight, and what level it will be. As long as you set up enough obstacles on the enemy's marching road to prevent them from attacking the Elena Plain, our core area, we can guarantee the victory of this anti-burial battle."

Although they still don’t understand what Gastens said, the people present had strong confidence in Gastens. They discussed guerrilla tactics for a long time before they roughly understood the essence of guerrilla tactics based on trust.

"This is an article I wrote, called "On Guerrilla Warfare". You can read it in the past two days. If you don't understand anything, come and ask me. From now on, Elena has entered the state of full-line combat readiness. If we win this battle, we can win the space for Elena's development in the next five years!"

Gastenth finally encouraged everyone and ended the meeting. The war was approaching, and Elena had a lot of things to prepare for, and everyone became nervous. With Elena's regular army with less than 15,000 people and the second-line new peasant army with less than 20,000 people, how should they fight against the attack of 130,000 people?

At this moment, although no one doubted the final victory of choosing the path, everyone was a little nervous in the face of this unprecedented enemy.

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On June 13, 848, Lu Yuan, the Third Corps of the Western Theater Command, Paul Zhong, who was loyal to the commander of the Western Theater Command, passed through the defense zone of the Fifth Corps and stepped onto the land of Enspan Province. In the eyes of those who did not know the inside story, the Third Corps, which was originally responsible for defending the thorny hills, returned to Ankenryin's territory, although it was a bit strange, it was not incomprehensible. However, in the eyes of those who knew the inside story or some military, when they saw the Third Corps marching lineup carefully entering Ankenryin's own territory, they would definitely be shocked.

When does the army of your own country need to be so careful when entering your own country's territory?

"Send two legions to fight a production brigade?" The commander of the Third Legion, Skye Ham, sat in his carriage, playing with the Rubik's Cube in his hand bored. This is a popular toy in the Republic of Negru. The Third Legion has been stationed in the Thorn Hills for a long time and has also come into contact with this interesting little thing.

"This production brigade is extraordinary." Chief of Staff Manny Casdill sat by the window of the carriage, looking at the view outside the window. "Gastense was once an acquaintance of Prince Eliot. The weapons used by the striking regiment established by the commander before were said to be provided by this place. If we can take down Elena, we can get the production capacity of that weapon, and will it not be invincible in the future?"

"That's true," Skye Hamm nodded. "I still like this easier task than fighting with those canned irons."

"This time our focus is not on Elena," Manny Casdill reminded, "With Elena's military strength, both us and the opposite side, the troops are enough to crush them. What we need to do is to coordinate interests with the opponent to ensure that we can get everything we want."

"I know that the design drawings and factories must be guaranteed to be obtained," Sky Hamm waved impatiently, "I said Little Manny, you don't have to say these things over and over again. The commander said before leaving, my ears were called in my ears. Now I finally came out, so you still have to say it?"

"It's good that the general knows it, I won't talk about it anymore."

Manny Casdill smiled and fell silent. The two looked at the view outside the window together. Shaoqing, Skye Hamm sighed.

“The view of peace is so good—”

"Bang bang bang--"

Almost before Skye's sigh was finished, a strange voice came from the front of the team. Although Skye Hamm had never heard this sound, he keenly realized that something must have happened ahead. He sat up straight, lifted the curtain of the carriage, and found his communications officer Daniel Uric.

"Go and ask, what's going on!"

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Just as the Third Legion's army entered Enspan Province, Gastenth, led the entire Sharp Knife regiment and all the top military leaders to ambush at an intersection that the vanguard troops of the Third Legion must pass through the forest. Although it is located on a plain, the forest is dense, which is convenient for hidden whereabouts and escape. Gastenth arranged his Sharp Knife regiment on both sides of the road, with more than 40 Luoshan-type steam machine guns. He placed twenty on each side, forming a triangle area in firepower and an absolute death zone.

"Time is tight, guerrilla warfare and ambush warfare. I will only demonstrate it to you once. After that, everyone will have to fight in a dispersed manner. You must learn this lesson well. Do you understand?"

Gastenth, with a camouflage hat made of branches on his head and a green camouflage on his face, lay at the front line of the road, and whispered to the officers beside him. Although it was extremely dangerous compared to the rear and could be in danger of life at any time, Gastenth's old team came from the suicide squad and did not care about this kind of thing.

"Boss, don't worry, we will definitely learn well!"

Ivan lay beside Gastenth, holding a small notebook in his hand. He nodded while recording with half a pencil. The other main generals were in similar condition as him, and everyone was memorizing it with their hearts. After all, this was the foundation of the battle to defend Elena next.

"Here's here!"

Someone saw the flags and teams appearing on the road. They were the troops of the First Division of the Third Legion. They were in combat marching formations. The soldiers on the front line and on both sides, and the steam backpacks were running at full capacity and could be stimulated at any time.

“When will I fight?”

Sink Warren whispered beside him, although he was responsible for intelligence work, he was also very curious about guerrilla warfare. After all, he persuaded him and followed Gastens to the front line.

"Wait a little longer, the Third Legion has 60,000 people, and the First Division has 10,000 people. We strive to kill one to two thousand of them. So, you see, when the two regiments passed, we fired."

Gastenth whispered the order, and the generals strictly implemented it. After a while, the person in charge of counting came up.

"Two groups have passed!"
Chapter completed!