Chapter 403: Chapter 403 – Tars War – Barricading the Bridge (1/2)
Victor observed with the ‘slightest and most minimal’ frustration how the poorly organized defensive lines of the bridge were beginning to let so flying soldiers and diggers pass through.
So of his soldiers were still arriving, ‘marching’ from behind in unorganized and hasty formations that spoke of poor professional military training.
The delay in their positioning had been unfortunate, but not catastrophic… He had a plan.
The Yino soldiers had managed to establish what already seed like a solid foothold in Yano territory, and their nurical superiority would start showing tangible results if they allowed many more soldiers to cross.
‘Containnt within the bridge would have been easier, but that plan has failed thanks to our slow reaction,’ he admitted ntally while his Golden Eagle executed an evasive maneuver to avoid a spear of purple energy that crackled through the air where they had been monts before. ‘I’ll have to retrain the soldiers to react twice as fast when this is over…’
From his privileged aerial position, he could see exactly how the situation was developing. About 100 Yino ground soldiers had crossed, sufficient numbers to establish their own defensive formations, and now they were pressing toward the city.
The sight was troubling. These weren’t desperate raiders or undisciplined militia. These were trained soldiers executing a coordinated assault with the kind of precision that ca from extensive planning and practice.
‘If this continues like this, I won’t be able to hold the bridge for all the ti I promised.’
But not everything was lost. In fact, this was just the beginning…
Victor saw how the last troops from the rear guard arrived to close the half-moon formation.
When he realized that most of the soldiers from the earth elentals squadron had already gone underground, he gave the order, his voice cutting through the chaos of combat with the authority of soone accustod to being obeyed in life-or-death situations.
“Sector commanders! Implent Earth Containnt “Silver Platter” Protocol, now!”
The response was imdiate and coordinated. There was a reason why Victor had maintained calm…
He had his Gold 3 Qilin (the strongest besides his father’s) to control the ground, but he ended up just containing the flying tars with his elite squadron, and the reason was about to manifest.
The Yano soldiers had managed to create a periter just outside the bridge support. It was a solid defensive position that allowed them to control the flow of enemy combatants, preventing the few who arrived from being able to completely cross into the territory.
But what the enemy didn’t know was that this position had been deliberately allowed. Victor had been drawing them into exactly the position he wanted them to occupy.
“Underground units, proceed with Visible Excavation!” Victor ordered, observing how specialists in underground combat erged from hidden positions beneath the earth…
No, they weren’t erging…
The earth was sinking.
What followed was a demonstration of military-grade elental control from Yano that would have been pleasant to witness if it hadn’t been taking place in the middle of a deadly battle.
The tars with beasts specialized in earth elental control began generating an enormous hole just after the bridge support anchor. The weirdly geotrically perfect white support seed to surface just like Yano soldiers.
It wasn’t a random excavation, it was a perfectly circular crater on a massive scale.
The pit began to expand, gradually becoming a bowl with edges that grew upward. What had been flat terrain minutes before now transford into a defensive amphitheater, with enormous walls rising around the entrance to the city from the bridge.
The only part that hadn’t sunk was the one belonging to the bridge anchor, which was so rooted hundreds of ters below that this was barely a small notch in its support. But what that small difference generated was the “amphitheater’s scenario” where the Yino soldiers would dance for those of Yano.
Victor smiled with fierce satisfaction while observing how the very topography of the battlefield changed under his direction. This was why he had waited, why he had allowed the enemy to cross in significant numbers… to trap them in a killing ground of his own making.
“Earth and Water units, reinforce the periter walls!” he shouted, his voice carrying clearly across the battlefield. “Wood units, stabilize the foundations!”
The Yino attackers, who had been advancing with constant montum, suddenly found themselves in a completely different tactical situation.
What had been a direct advance toward the city had now beco a fairly deep jump from the bridge support to the bottom of the bowl and then an uphill advance against improvised but formidable fortifications for all those who couldn’t fly.
Chaos spread through Yino’s frontal formations as they realized what was happening and soldiers behind pushed them into the hole without stopping the advance. The physics of the situation were brutally simple, soldiers compressed into a smaller space beca easier targets for concentrated attacks from above.
The soldiers who had been pressing forward now had to reorganize to defend against attacks from 180 degrees instead of 120 degrees.
“We all must release the defense at the sa ti to support the excavators, it’s the only way to advance!” soone shouted from the enemy front lines, but it was already too late to stop the enemy tactic.
The few Yino excavators who had jumped first to escape into the city and create chaos before being intercepted had realized that the underground formation was already closed.
Yano had arrived a bit late, but their earth soldiers had ford a very wide circle and closed it little by little. By the ti Yino’s infiltrators managed to dig enough… they had already been intercepted and outnumbered.
Victor smiled thinking it had been a good idea to close containnt from behind and below before reaching position with most of the earth soldiers from the beginning. That way they ensured that Yino wouldn’t be too defensive and would instead try to advance faster.
Since creating a wall from behind had almost no utility…
He didn’t plan to defend but to attack, and his wall was his high-quality soldiers, whether underground, above it, or in the sky… They wouldn’t let these bastards pass to infect their ho.
With Yino stopped, Yano’s attackers redoubled their efforts.
An especially large fireball impacted the middle of the bridge, sending crystallized fragnts flying in all directions.
‘Perfect,’ he thought with satisfaction. ‘They’re starting to take damage again and panic.’
It had been sowhat frustrating to allow Yino to advance so much with the surprise factor. They had arrived a bit late to the initial defensive positions, and that had made the attackers think they could maintain constant advance, that they were gaining montum.
But now Victor would show them that just that dirty abyssal energy wouldn’t be enough to match the quality of Gold beasts against Silver ones, especially when the terrain favored the defenders.
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