The two teams that had already arranged themselves in battle formation immediately rushed out from behind the hill at the fastest speed. All the members of the breakout force activated their defensive spells and took the front position.
As the unit with the highest average combat power, the artillery regiment naturally took on the task of all-out attack. Two hundred and fifty-five artillerymen set up the soul-gathering cannon on the ground as quickly as possible and began to accumulate power.
The remaining two hundred and forty-odd people began to draw talismans for long-range attacks and chanted spells to increase the attack distance.
The enemy officer reacted the moment he saw the attack, and in panic he wanted to command everyone to defend.
However, no matter how fast his reaction was, he was still a step too late. His defense order had just been issued when Ye Li and his team's attack arrived.
Only less than half of the enemy troops reacted and released talismans for defense, while the rest began to draw talismans in a hurry.
“Boom boom boom…”
A series of explosions resounded throughout the mountains and forests. The attack of the Soul Gathering Cannon instantly destroyed the opponent's defense and fell into the Soul Gathering Cannon group, destroying nearly half of the opponent's Soul Gathering Cannon group.
The remaining people tried to defend in a hurry, but due to the chaos in their formation, they were unable to activate defensive spells at the same time to form a team defense.
After Ye Li and his men's second round of bombardment, the enemy's Soul Gathering Artillery Regiment was completely silenced.
The other party also issued an escape order at this time. They had no intention of fighting and only wanted to escape from here quickly.
This time the other party made the right choice. They did not use signal fireworks, but chose to flee in all directions.
Ye Li and his men had no way to deal with this situation. The enemy chose to flee in all directions without any will to fight. Apart from surrounding them in advance, there was no other way to guarantee that all the enemy troops would be killed.
After a battle, more than 90% of the enemy soldiers died here. The few remaining enemies seemed to be good at speed and fled here in panic.
After two rounds of fighting, although everyone felt a little tired, their faces were full of excitement.
The Farant Empire had rarely won any battles, and they had a preconceived fear of the Jinde Empire.
But now this emotion was gradually dispelled from the soldiers' hearts. Ye Li, who had just arrived, immediately brought them a huge victory.
After two battles, the artillery regiment suffered no casualties and everyone was still in high spirits.
As a breakout team that attracted the enemy's firepower, there were still eighty casualties, specifically thirty deaths and fifty injuries.
However, with such a number of casualties in exchange for the deaths of more than 800 of the other side, it was almost a complete victory no matter how you looked at it.
When everyone looked at Ye Li, their eyes began to become filled with respect.
"Everyone, clean up the battlefield, and then we will retreat quickly. The breakout troops have consumed a lot of energy and need to rest."
Ye Li gave an order and passed it down, and then everyone began to clean up the battlefield.
Since they could not take the bodies of their own family members away, they could only bury them on the spot. However, the two opposing teams still had about forty intact Soul Gathering Cannons left, about thirty of which were at the Nurturing Stage level, and nearly ten were at the Yuan Tai Stage level.
Looking at these soul gathering cannons, Ye Li said: "The current formation of our artillery regiment is the most perfect. If we want to increase the number of soul gathering cannons, we must expand the team again.
If we take these soul-gathering cannons away, it will disrupt our battle deployment, and their mobility is not suitable for our tactics, so let's leave them to the breakout team.
You take away the enemy's carriages, and then drag them back to the main force so that His Majesty and the others can distribute them.
If we can take back more Soul Gathering Cannons, the subsequent battles will become much easier."
After explaining the situation, the two teams quickly cleaned up the battlefield and evacuated the area.
When the enemy's deserters found other troops and everyone came to check, they realized how great their losses were. After two troops were annihilated, their total number was only about 8,000.
The enemy's encirclement now dares not be extended that far and can only abandon the surrounding mountainous areas that are farther away and deploy a large number of troops on the front.
After all, the shape of the Fulong Mountains is similar to a sock, and their main forces were previously deployed above the sock mouth. The large number of manpower extending to both wings was to increase the search area and leave no room for the Farant Empire coalition forces to hide.
The enemy now realized that they were short of manpower, so they could only concentrate on the front area to blockade the front socks and slow down their advance. The original 40 troops were reduced to 10, five in the front and five in the back, each with about 800 people, doubling their strength.
However, because their advancement speed slowed down, the threat to the Frant Empire coalition forces actually became smaller, which at least gave them enough time to respond.
The reconnaissance team quickly detected the changes in the enemy forces. Ye Li and his team returned to where the main force was hiding and began to discuss countermeasures.
Ye Li felt that the opponent's change of formation had no significant impact on them, because the opponent had not figured out their tactics at all.
The last time they launched this tactic, they wiped out the enemy's first team, so Ye Li and his team's tactic of a quick side attack was not communicated to the enemy at all.
Of course, the enemy's current change in formation does affect the implementation of this tactic. After all, with the increase in the number of people, the results that the artillery regiment can achieve will become limited.
Because the artillery regiment has only 500 people, when they raided the enemy force of 400 people before, they were able to defeat the enemy in one round, but now it is completely impossible.
They estimated that if they increased the number of people in the breakout team to 800, and added 300 more people to the artillery regiment as defenders, then if the tactics were successful, they should be able to incur 400 to 500 casualties on the other side at the cost of nearly 100 casualties.
However, after an attack, they must retreat immediately, otherwise they will have no hope when the enemy's reinforcements arrive.
After carefully weighing the pros and cons, Edwin Lucas said, "Master Ye, should we continue with this plan?"
Ye Li was silent for a while, and said: "I think we should continue with this plan, but we need to make some more special arrangements to make use of our last chance.
We now have nearly 5,000 people here, while the other side has about 8,000 people, and we still have a certain degree of initiative.
If we can reduce the enemy's strength by about a thousand, they will be close to ours."