Pioneer Lord: Starting From Daily Intelligence-Chapter 405 - 170: The Surefire Strategy – Blitzkrieg_2

Then execute a fast attack and rapid withdrawal. After crushing the enemy forces with lightning speed, quickly retreat into the city for rest, awaiting the next opportunity.

Oerstein said confidently, "I have named this tactic ’Blitzkrieg.’ Although strategically we are on the defensive side, with the Green Dragon Legion on the offensive, tactically we must seize the initiative in attack!"

Blitzkrieg, not the lightning war, is a summary of the Empire’s military tactical theory.

Oerstein is very confident about this, proud of his origins from the Flame Sun Knight Order. As is well known, armies led by the Flame Sun Knight Order are undeniably fierce forces, possessing a certain degree of cunning, leadership capability, and strategic insight, ensuring victory over their opponents before the battle even truly begins.

And an important guarantee for implementing this tactic is the city’s gates and walls are impregnable, even with an open gate, the enemy can’t break through.

This relies on the advanced engineering level and military defense facilities of the dwarves.

Heisen City and Heisen Castle’s gates are not as ordinary people imagine them, simple and bare gates, easy to enter and exit.

On the contrary, each gate is a complete defense work complex, dubbed the Vauban Defense Works by the dwarves, invented by the legendary dwarf Vauban, with castles, ramparts, and towers standing in a dense network, interlocking like teeth and lips.

Specifically, it is very similar to the eastern walled city; that is, every gate can be seen as a small city by itself, constructed in front of the main city gate, with the same height as the main city and integrated with the city’s walls, forming a walled city.

If the main gate faces south, one must first attack through the small gate of the walled city, which never faces south, but either west or east of the walled city. Once the monster breaks into the walled city, they need to change direction to continue attacking the main gate of the large city but will suffer heavy attacks from the defenders on the surrounding walls during the siege.

When the defenders are dwarves, they prefer to open the gates to tempt the enemy to battle them below the gates with their dwarf shield array while their firearms soldiers strike from the walled city, attacking those swarming towards the main gate from the rear.

The more fortified the city, the more effective this tactic is due to the high walls and deep moats. It’s almost impossible to fill them, even if the Green Dragon’s fangs exhaust themselves, they cannot fill the Black Water River and Brionne River.

The 16-meter-high city walls are like an insurmountable heaven’s moat!

With 16-meter-high city walls, essentially equivalent to the height of a five-story building, looking down from such heights would make anyone with acrophobia unsteady; falling from this height would mean saying goodbye to this world.

The monsters rushing their attack without carefully prepared siege equipment would not even manage to reach halfway up the walls with ladders. Standard bamboo and wooden ladders are only approximately 3-5 meters tall, while dwarven steel ladders are only 3-10 meters. Relying on simple wood cannot construct a 16-meter straight ladder; complex apparatus and professional siege weapons are needed to build a 16-meter cloud ladder or siege tower to allow monsters to ascend the walls.

However, preparing such advanced siege weaponry would greatly delight the defenders. With city gates open, the defenders would constantly harass night and day, preventing the monster’s camps from establishing at the foot of the walls, forcing them to retreat to encamp several miles away just to stabilize their formation.

Therefore, with the gates wide open, it’s not only Oerstein’s preparation for the attack tactic but also a bait and trap deliberately set for the monsters to incite their assault on the walled city.

Once the Blitzkrieg tactic was made clear, Su Li asked with concern, "How many troops can we deploy for the decisive battle?" 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝘦𝓌𝑒𝑏𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝘭.𝒸𝘰𝑚

"Regarding the defensive and offensive forces, how do you plan to deploy them?"

Oerstein promptly introduced in detail, "Our offensive in this battle is entirely led by Elite Knight Legion, including the Corona Knight Order, Red Night Knight Order, Sun of Vengeance Half-Lion Griffin Knight Order, and the Territory’s Elite Knights, totalling 1100 people."

The distribution of the Territory’s Elite Knights is quite complicated, far exceeding 1100 people, while at other times barely reaching half that number.

The primary reason lies in how one views the Corona Knight Order. After defeating Khorne’s Chosen One in Hesse Territory and gaining fame, they attracted a large number of Sun Goddess believers.

For instance, dozens of Flame Sun Knight Order members active only within the Border Prince’s Territory have come to Hesse Territory, but they prefer to join the Corona Knight Order.

Although the Corona Knight Order is a subsidiary legion to the Flame Sun Knight Order, it still is entirely part of the Flame Sun Knight Order’s organization, the direct bloodline of the regular army! It can be understood as a designation like "Martial Power Army Vanguard Second Battalion."

Thus, they completely possess all the characteristics of the Flame Sun Knight Order. This knight order is extremely wealthy, with most of the Fire Rabbit meat sold in Hesse Territory bought by them.

Even the Storm Dragon Head Eel Su Li just fished out got immediately reserved by them, priced at 3 Golden Crowns per pound—even a smaller Storm Dragon Head Eel can be sold for nearly 100 Golden Crowns, while the one Su Li painstakingly caught goes for a remarkable 300 Golden Crowns, an extravagant price conventional nobles hesitate to pay.

And this significant investment has resulted in their strength continually expanding under various territorial opportunities while absorbing scattered Flame Sun Knight Order members. Their number of elite-level knights now exceeds 200, making them the undisputed first knight order in the territory.