Jamie Warren, a land reform worker stationed in Aries Village, was facing a painful choice. The emperor's army surrounded Aries Village, drove all the new farmers out of the village, and gathered on the Yanggu Field. They asked everyone to stamp their handprints on the serf contract and become serfs again. Some people resisted and were killed, and the remaining people got the contract one by one. But even so, the soldiers did not give up. They pointed their guns at the surrounded farmers and raised a question.

"Say, who among you are the land reform workers sent by Elena?"

Jamie Warren asked himself that he did a good job in Aries Village and his popularity was also good. When everyone heard this question, they did not betray him immediately. However, the silence in the crowd made Jamie feel uneasy. He knew that although these new farmers could protect him for the time being, as long as the other party added a little more pressure, they would be exposed.

After all, most people do not sacrifice their lives and all their awareness for a noble cause.

This was during night school class, when Gastens came to give lectures to everyone. For some reason, Jamie was particularly impressed by this sentence. He watched the soldiers pick up guns, grabbed two people from the crowd, and shouted at all the serfs who were watching them.

"If we don't tell us who that staff member is, we will start killing people! If we don't say it, we will kill you all! Do you know? All the communists in Elena are killed. Any attempt to protect them will be considered communists, and they will be killed. Do you understand?"

The crowd was still silent, but Jamie knew that there was not much time left for him. He stood up before everyone took action.

"It's me."

"Oh?", the leading officer walked up, holding the back of a long knife, pressing Jamie's chin, forcing him to look away and look at him.

"Good, what's your name?"

"Jamie, Jamie Warren", Jamie Warren could feel the chill coming from the back of the knife, "Where are you?"

"Yo?", the officer smiled, "What's my name? You are a bastard, do you need to know?"

As he said, he tapped Jamie's face with the back of a knife, making red marks on his face. Jamie gritted her teeth, but the pain on her face made him unable to control his expression.

"You communists, all have the same faces." The officer was still pounding. Then, the pounding turned into a whip, "I'm fucking unrepentant!"

"Bang!"

With the last few words, the officer's command knife hit Jamie's face heavily, and it hurts fiercely. Jamie tried to open her mouth and found that his cheek bone seemed to be broken or cracked, and every movement of her mouth was painful.

"You fucking kneel down!"

The officer scolded and kicked Jamie down. But for some reason, Jamie might have been stimulated by the pain, and his stubbornness came up. He immediately got up and continued to stare at the officer.

"I have a fucking killing me!"

The officer did not speak, pulled out the saber and stabbed it into Jamie's stomach. The moment the saber entered his abdomen, Jamie's feeling turned out to be warm, and then it hurt.

"You all show me!"

The officer was still shouting, "Who the fuck follows Ailena, that's the end!"

"You...Elena...Gastens will give it to me..."

Jamie held the officer's knife tightly in both hands, and donated blood without regard for his fingers and fingertips. "...they... will avenge me..."

"Kill."

The officer waved calmly, and the soldier standing behind him came forward, raised his gun, and aimed at Jamie who was lying on the ground and bleeding.

"Bang bang bang bang--"

Coherent and dense gunfire came in from outside the village. The soldiers surrounding the villagers seemed to have been stung by hornets or something. They looked frightened with their guns and observed everywhere, as if they were hiding from an invisible enemy.

"Enemy attack!!!!!!"

A sharp warning sound rang out, and the officer took a last look at Jamie who was lying on the ground, smiling at him, and laughed.

"Why are you still standing there? Kill him!"

"Bang--"

After the dull gunfire, there was a more dense sound, another kind of gunfire. The gunfire was like a banana or tiles under the rainstorm, making a dense, with a strong and ominous sound. The officers and soldiers ignored the bodies on the ground, picked up their guns and began to line up.

"Let me hear it all! The enemy is Ailena's army, and it is our target this time. There are brothers from the Fourth Regiment outside to help us with it. We have two regiments, and we can definitely destroy them! Now, line up!!!"

The Fifth Regiment that occupied the village stood in a square formation, and all the soldiers' steam rifles remained to be activated. Ironically, most of them used the glory rifles produced by Elena.

The gunshots outside the village stopped shortly after the soldiers were arranged in formation. The officer thought for a few seconds and ordered his troops to start moving towards the Fourth Regiment. The Fourth Regiment also had a thousand people, some of which were veterans, and they should be able to hold on for a while. After this time, they could probably double-team inside and outside to eliminate the enemy here.

While moving forward in line, the officer also waited for an opportunity to set off a warning firework according to Prince Eliot's request. In this way, the troops around him who saw the fireworks would concentrate on him. If the enemy was too strong, he could also form a formation to protect himself and wait for reinforcements.

But things were different from what he imagined. His troops encountered snipers while advancing. The enemy tilted out heavy rain bullets from both sides of the road and knocked down the soldiers outside the range of his soldiers. At this time, the officers did not even find the enemy's location.

"Form a formation, form a formation to defend!!"

Although it was busy, the officer still issued orders according to the training requirements. However, his orders were destined to be unable to be implemented and implemented. The bullets fired around the road quickly destroyed the soldiers' formation. Everyone died and fled, and in a short while, they disappeared from the battlefield without a trace. Unfortunately, because they rode on horseback and had obvious targets, they were shot dead by the enemy in the second wave of attacks.

When the officer was shot and fell down from the moment he suddenly thought of the man he had just killed.

He said Gastens would avenge him.

Really, I've taken revenge.

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The battle of the enemy raided Aries Mountain was very smooth. With zero casualties, the Sharp Knife Group destroyed two enemy regiments and killed more than a thousand people. The remaining soldiers fled into the mountains. When Gastens and his troops drove away the enemy and entered Aries Village, they happened to see the farmers still gathered there. Not far from them, there were several corpses everywhere.

"What happened here?"

Gastens asked a question, and the farmers who knew that the person was Elena's troops came forward to explain, and in a few words, Gastens understood the whole story. He walked to Jamie's body and bowed.

"Sorry, I'm late."

After this, Gastens did not tore up the serf contracts of the farmers. He honestly told the farmers that it was the critical moment for Elena and they were not able to protect these farmers for the time being. The farmers could hold on to the contract and wait until they won the war before they came to terminate their serf contracts. And Gastens did not stop many serfs' requests to join the army. He asked these serfs to go directly to Elena, find the checkpoints set at the intersection and explain their purpose, which was also a second choice for these people. What surprised him was that although it was just a temporary serf contract, more than 60% of the new farmers refused to be serfs. Some of them took their families with their families, and some went straight to the Ailena Plain.

"Sir, we are no longer serfs, and we will never be serfs in our lives. We must join the army, so that if those people come, we can kill them!"

Before leaving Aries Village, a serf told Gastens that this was something he was moved. Gastens was a little moved, but he didn't have much time to move. He sent these people to the entrance of the village and took his team to leave Aries Village.

An environment like Aries Village is hard to come by. Prince Eliot's strategy is obviously more cautious, which also compressed Gastens's space. So Gastens decided to take the Sharp Knife Group to go back to find the production brigade, and then choose the right time and place to fight the enemy, and show Elena's momentum.

For the Sharp Knife Brigade, which has popularized the tactics of frigging, the terrain requirements are not as high as line-up shooting. Gastens and his officers quickly set the battle area at Black River Bay. It was the bed of an ancient river and the main road connecting the eastern part of Enspan Province. According to Prince Eliot's habit, some of his troops would advance along traffic roads, and some troops would advance simultaneously on non-road plains to take care of each other. However, the natural sagging terrain of Black River Bay determines that it is difficult for the surrounding troops to come for reinforcements. At the same time, the width of the Black River Bay is limited, and the enemy's queue-up shooting formation cannot be fully expanded, and the front width is not long, which reduces the danger of the production brigade. In addition, the river Bay is covered with long grass half a man high, which is more suitable for the production brigade to fight a beautiful ambush.

"This time, our goal is to eliminate the enemy's living forces as much as possible through a moderate-scale battle, create psychological shadows on them, reduce their psychological expectations, and even force them to make mistakes. Once they make mistakes, we can seize the opportunity and kill them!"

At the final preparation meeting, Gastens said. All the officers who attended the meeting applauded, and everyone had confidence and expectation on their faces.

A production brigade with such weapons is not something that the enemy's army can understand!

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For Gastens, his advanced weapons and tactics often have the best effect in the first time when using large-scale ambush warfare. He hopes to catch a big fish for the first time, but the one who finally enters his ambush circle is only the Second Division of the First Legion of the Western Theater Command, a second-line division that is loyal to His Majesty the Emperor, but has average combat effectiveness. The closest to the Second Division is the Sixth Division of the First Legion, and the two troops are tasked with occupying the city of Reedkos in front. The opportunity to walk the river was grabbed by the commander of the Second Division. For these troops, taking ready-made traffic roads is fast and easy, so it is naturally the first choice.

"Head, they entered the ambush circle!"

Ivan was excited as he watched the enemy's vanguard pass by him.

"Wait a little longer, when we looked at half of the people, we started."

While giving orders, Gastens stared at a scout who had just walked by not far from him. Perhaps it was because their previous attack on the Western Theater Command was too smooth, and Prince Eliot's troops increased their vigilance during the march. There were many scouts around the large army. However, these scouts did not seem to realize that there would be large-scale enemies in this half-man-high grass. Their understanding of the enemy was still stuck in the front, back and forth and above the river valley. They did not use much energy to observe the grass under their feet.

It is also thanks to this that Gastens successfully realized his tactical intentions. He waited for the enemy to walk halfway in front of him and issued an order to attack. For a moment, bullets like heavy rain poured onto the enemy's head, and the enemy's reaction was completely stunned, just like those who had never encountered steam machine guns in this era.

The brief battle lasted for more than ten minutes, and the attacked second division was dispersed. Seeing this, the production brigade immediately left the river and disappeared from the enemy's vision. Although he delayed for a while when he left the river, the enemy's reinforcements did not have time to arrive. They also formed a battle formation to reinforce, so their speed naturally could not be increased. Gastens led his production brigade to successfully and successfully completed the first medium-sized battle.

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"We have a lot of intelligence now." In the mobile command of the Three Guards Army, Elliot, who had just asked about the ambush, was studying Gastens, his old subordinate.

"Yes," Chief of Staff Vincent stood beside Prince Eliot as always, "a heavy weapon that can fire many bullets in a row, a steam rifle that is more advanced than the Brave type, and a combat habit of completely abandoning formation propulsion. What we want to fight against is an enemy that has never appeared before, with strong force and brand new tactics."

"You're right," Elliot nodded, "But this enemy is not invincible!"

Because it was the combat meeting after being ambushed, most of the generals participating in the meeting were silent. They listened to Prince Eliot's words and thought about their strategies against the enemy.

"Does they say there are few people?" someone asked.

"It's not just that." Elliot did not keep it in the silence. "There is indeed their biggest problem. Although the Second Division was disbanded in this ambush, more than half of it ran back afterwards, and the losses may be more than 2,000 people. This is still counted without any precautions. Next time we have experience in dealing with it, we can naturally reduce casualties and even take away the enemy's lives."

The generals nodded, and Elliot smiled reservedly, and pointed the long pole on the sand table.

"And, no matter how slippery they are, there is a place they can't escape."

The generals followed the prince's long pole and saw his purpose.
Chapter completed!