Victor stood on a three-meter-high cover, using a telescope to observe the frontline.

Galloping warhorses, muddy roads, ruby-colored streams, densely shaking long spears, and spring gunners emitting invigorating smoke...

Five hundred Leia spring gunners took turns shooting at the Black Champion, while the Black Champion also returned fire with lead bullets.

The whizzing lead bullets collided in the air or brushed past, penetrating the bodies of soldiers on the opposite side, shooting out a burst of blood arrows.

As the Battle Commander of the Black Crown Battle Group, having fought for five years, Victor could feel the Leia spring gunners' shooting was becoming increasingly slow.

Moreover, he faintly saw several spring gunners in the rear scattering and fleeing.

They exhausted the Holy Power.

This sentence appeared in Victor's mind: they exhausted the Holy Power.

Due to the Holy Alliance's spring gun, which adopted the newest alchemical dish spring box, modifications were made to both the King's Guard and Black Crown battle groups.

So even with more frequent firing than the Leia spring gunners, the Holy Alliance gunners could last longer.

These Leia spring gunners were about to collapse.

The sun turned the boat-shaped helm into a furnace, making Victor's head swell, making Victor hear the thumping of his own heart.

Similar to Leia's side, after Horn set strategic goals, the specific tactical executions were decided by the Battle Commanders themselves.

On the battlefield now, as soon as the spring artillery went silent, Victor knew the Shadow Crow soldiers had succeeded.

On the battlefield now, it was seven silver speckled large squares versus twenty-four black-gray-yellow small rectangles in confrontation and compression.

Two large formations of King's Guard, one large formation of King's Guard was still resting at the rear to regain morale.

In front of the Black Crown Battle Group were two large formations composed of ordinary soldiers, Great Swordsmen, and Longbowmen.

The rain of arrows fell like summer storms, wave after wave, clattering against helmets or breastplates.

As for the Chongxin Battle Group, hundreds of Heavy Armor Knights and Vassal Knights were in repeated impact, even dismounting to attack.

Separated by nearly three hundred meters, there was a ponderous advancing large formation.

Behind it was a large formation whose morale had been shattered and was being repaired.

At the very rear, two large formations were completely routed by concentrated fire from almost twenty six-pound cannons on Grey Robe Hill, totaling 5,000 infantry.

As for the two sides of the battlefield, it was still a direct confrontation between the Holy Alliance cavalry and Leia cavalry.

However, the Holy Alliance cavalry had long shown a decline, even dispatching scout Rangers and Beastman Cavalry to engage.

After all, in terms of cavalry quantity and quality, the Holy Alliance was inferior to Leia, which was the outright suppression Leia imposed on the Holy Alliance in cavalry.

Just as the Holy Alliance could outright suppress Leia infantry, relying on the Holy Gun strategy and Jeanne, only slightly reducing the disadvantage.

On the Holy Alliance's side, the Wild Wolf Battle Group's first and second lines of six regiments were stopping their retreat, advancing instead.

The Chongxin Battle Group, being closest to the Grey Robe Hill artillery position, suffered the heaviest losses, with two regiments broken and reformed.

Currently, they were slowly retreating, but the speed was increasingly slowing.

As for the Black Champion, they had long stopped attacking, nailed like a spike in place, engaging with the opposing five hundred surrendered gunners.

On the three earth mounds behind, because many knights bypassed the mounds, disrupting and cutting off the transport route of spring cartridge trucks, the frequency of spring artillery bombardment was constantly decreasing.

The Kolman-led Black Snake Bay Mage Corps was at the rear; using mortars and the abilities of the Mage Corps, protecting the transport trucks of spring cartridges was not a problem.

According to the message conveyed by the gendarme, the transport of spring cartridges could soon be restored.

"Oh—"

"Die, traitors!"

Swarming long spearmen approached the Leia spring gunners, thrusting their spears into their thin bodies.

From the front row, a large number of spring gunners began to flee, while two infantry formations at the rear hurriedly closed in. 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮

All battlefield information concentrated in his mind, Kolman finally made up his mind: "Second and Fifth regiments, immediately push the artillery wagon, support the Wild Wolf Battle Group!"

Moments later, the right wing of the Black Champion's two regiments, pushing the artillery wagon, went to support the Wild Wolf Battle Group.

The third regiment of Noble Knights, rushing to rescue the Square Banner Knights, saw two transverse arrays ahead.

But unlike before, these two regiments had six Falcon cannons arranged front and back.

"Praise Holy Thunder!"

As if Thunder God from Norn mythology had descended onto the battlefield, the rumbling sound of thunder chariot wheels pressed down on all the Leia Knights coming to support.

Each crack of thunder raised dust and gravel, leaping and rolling iron balls performing irregular movements, crushing one thick horse hoof after another.

The mournful neigh of warhorses was never so frequent, and the wing-like charging knight formation was cut off by billows of smoke.

In the end, they transformed from a "V" shape into a jagged "www" shape.

Among them, the high-tier Knights had to be extremely cautious, fearing being too conspicuous and getting sniped by the Guerrilla Hunters in the orchard trees.

The shrapnel dark mist hung in the air, as bodies and severed limbs tumbled through the sky.

The supporting Knights completely lost confidence, and their morale plummeted to zero. Mid-charge, they broke into small squads in allegiance to their lords and scattered across the battlefield.

The Square Banner Knights, previously bitten by the Wild Wolf Soldiers and intercepted by the Sacred Gun Armored Knights, despaired.

Some chose to plunge into the orchard to seek a sliver of survival, but more of those Square Banner Knights, with heads held high, dismounted their horses.

Kneeling on one knee, they raised their family's swallowtail flags—after all, the Holy Alliance was known for keeping its word, willing to exchange ransom for ordinary Knights instead of officers and war criminals.

Before the Saintess Bank completed the currency sovereignty of the Holy Alliance, Horn needed enough gold pound foreign exchange.

"Remove the armor, drop the weapons, and head into the orchard!" Volovitz yelled at the surrendering Knights obstructing the road, "Hold onto your flags, you will use them to notify your families for ransom later!"

After a few steps, Volovitz met Kolman and his troops coming to support.

"Lord Kolman."

"Enough talk, Wild Wolf, does Lord Jeska have any orders requiring our assistance?"

"Lord Kolman, you may return to flank the enemy phalanx; our two corps on the left wing will provide support, and the vanguard and right wing will pursue the advancing King's Guard."

"Good luck." Kolman thumped his chest and called for the two corps to follow him away.

Watching Kolman's departing figure, Volovitz did not continue the attack.

His corps had suffered over a quarter of its force and needed to rotate with the reserve at the back.

......

"Beautiful!" Thierry couldn't help but clap his hands, "A classic oblique attack strategy, even more standard than in the military books."

Abazi was fervently jotting down notes in his notebook, while Venice stood aside, almost pursing his lips into a single line.

These Holy Alliance people were unbelievably cunning; they knew too well how to manipulate psychology.

If the Grey Robe Hill battery hadn't appeared, the Leia infantry might have continued to retreat upon encountering these battles.

But they deliberately released a Grey Robe Hill, and after the Grey Robe Hill battery appeared, they fell into a disadvantage.

This undoubtedly gave the Leia infantry a hint—the battery was about to bring them victory.

Clearly, they could have taken out the battery from the start, yet they waited, until the Leia infantry saw the battery as a decisive factor, and then they took it out.

Seeing the decisive factor gone, the Leia infantry's morale visibly plummeted.

The biggest blow to morale isn't having no hope, but giving hope and then ruthlessly extinguishing it.

The Leia's actual decisive cards were the Decreed Front, the Blood Knights, and the Great Knight yet to appear!

That was the reassurance the Leia infantry relied on, how could you forget?

"Psychological warfare is also a facet of war." Bernardo walked to Venice's side, "What's on your mind now?"

Venice blushed.

Abazi quickly pulled Venice away to prevent him from any humiliation or impulsive actions.

Thierry remained fully engrossed in the battlefield.

The tide of battle was reversing; as time passed, the battery was taken down, and the prior drugged Leia Soldiers were already demoralized.

As for the Holy Alliance Army, they had just begun consuming the national Pharmacist Sessi's low-efficiency, low-side-effect battlefield potions.

Despite being low in side effects, Thierry still noticed the soldiers' faces turning green and purple.

But who could claim that there was no side effect at all from the potions?

The situation had already turned around!

Thierry looked at Horn on the hillock, admiringly.

How wonderful would it be if this Horn were a Falan?

In terms of talent and character, Grandiva was like a mere child next to the Holy Grandson; how great it would be if he were the bishop of the Falan!

Seeing Horn's face, Thierry was confused.

Why did the Holy Grandson still have such a serious expression? Even more tense than when things were most dangerous just earlier?

Could it be that the greatest generals are like this? The smoother things go, the more they drive themselves hard?

But victory was already within reach!