章 211: Chapter 89: Forcible Attack

Although it was a frontal assault, a frontal assault did not mean recklessly charging head-on.

Before attacking the bastion, Winters arranged for soldiers to return to the watch post beside the bastion, lighting torches to signal for reinforcement from the bastion.

Those remaining were ambushed between the bastion and the watch post, ready to ambush the defending troops coming out of the bastion at the right moment to seize the gate.

On this continent, no one understood siege tactics better than officers who graduated from the Senas Army Officers Academy, for it was in siege after siege during the sovereign wars that the elite forces of the Empire were decimated by the Senas allied forces.

Thus, siege warfare was the most important subject at the military academy. With the assistance of fortress works, even the most cowardly and weak civilians could replace three elite enemies.