Chapter 1998: Unconcealed

Their troops will attack the French troops from above.

At this moment, the French troops had already marched into the mountainous terrain.

The French commander divided his troops into three regiments.

Leading the French troops this time was still Prince Soubise, and he was deeply aware of Ling Chen's tactical schemes and tricks.

He knew his troops were very likely already being targeted by Ling Chen's troops, so he decided not to put all his troops in one basket, as this would very likely result in the Longyan army smashing the entire basket.

Therefore, he divided his troops into three parts, letting them march while coordinating with each other.

Once they discovered the traces of the Longyan army, they would immediately stop and prepare for battle.

As expected, the Longyan army perfectly confirmed his thoughts; this time, the Longyan army's troops were right under his nose.

If they marched any further forward, their troops would plunge headlong into the ambush circle that the Longyan army had long since set up.

He took a deep breath and did not continue to advance.

"Have the reconnaissance squad scout out the specific movements of the Longyan army!"

Their troops set out quickly to scout out the situation of the Longyan army in this area.

But this time, it seemed as if they had no intention of hiding their strategic deployment at all, simply exposing their strategic deployment completely under Prince Soubise's nose.

Seeing these strategic deployments, Prince Soubise felt a deep sense of lingering fear; if it hadn't been discovered in time, their troops would have plunged into the Longyan army's ambush circle and would certainly have been annihilated by the Longyan army's artillery fire.

According to the information gathered, the artillery positions their troops had set up on both sides of the mountain range were extremely massive.

The Longyan army had actually crazily deployed hundreds of cannons!

Under such artillery fire, he and his troops would absolutely be wiped out in an instant.

But there were two things that Prince Soubise could not figure out.

If it were said that the deployment of artillery was difficult to hide and thus exposed, that would be normal, but why was the Longyan army's entire strategic layout exposed?

It didn't even require much investigation by their troops; such a layout was accurately and completely exposed.

This matter left them unable to understand, and not only that, but the things the Longyan army exposed were not limited to these.

It was their entire strategic intent that was exposed before them, without the slightest concealment.

Secondly, the trenches the Longyan army was building—this kind of trench used to block cavalry—they had actually built several lines of them.

In Prince Soubise's view, these were things that had absolutely no effect.

Prince Soubise looked at this detailed report, but his heart was filled with suspicion and uncertainty; he was very worried that this was a scheme and trick of the Longyan army.

And he was still inside the Longyan army's scheme and trick, completely unaware.

Prince Soubise rubbed the paper, which he had crumpled up, with one hand and finally made a decision.

No matter what schemes and tricks the Longyan were playing, this war was already inevitable, and he had to fight.

This piece of intelligence had reference value, yet it also had no reference value.

Prince Soubise felt the only thing to worry about was the artillery array the Longyan army had set up on the high ground.

In terms of attack range and attack capability, the Longyan cannons were something no other country's troops could match.

If they did not target such artillery and take out the Longyan army's positions, their subsequent operations would be very difficult.

To be safe and prevent such a situation, Prince Soubise decided to use cavalry troops to outflank from both sides to limit the power of the Longyan cannons.

And facing these trenches, he prepared to use infantry to push across.

Such trenches were only very effective for blocking cavalry troops; for their other troops, they did not have much effect.

After completing the integration and mobilization of his troops, his troops launched a rapid attack.

They moved directly toward the Longyan army's troops!

His deputy commander led the cavalry troops to outflank Ling Chen's Longyan army artillery array from both sides.

Under such an outflanking maneuver, it did indeed limit the performance of the Longyan army's artillery unit.

But the Longyan army did not care; for them, such a limitation was useless.

Ling Chen observed the situation on the battlefield and grinned.

The French troops naively thought those cannons were the greatest danger.

"Attack, our targets are in position."

"Yes!"

Just at this moment, bursts of gunfire rang out from the trenches dug into the high ground.

The French troops, who were marching in a crushing square formation, encountered the Longyan army's musket fire directly from the front.

The French soldiers in the square formation had no ability to react at all, and in this instant, they were quickly routed by the Longyan army's troops.

Large swaths of French soldiers were beaten to the point where they could not attack.

Although the Longyan troops were all equipped with muskets, they were using heavy lead bullet guns; such muskets were not lethal, but they had immense power.

Those who were hit would at the very least end up with a fracture.

Ling Chen could have chosen a more lethal musket attack, but he did not do so.

He just wanted the French soldiers to know the taste of pain worse than death!

To make the French government pay more money for their military actions.

Under such an attack, the French troops were simply unable to fight back.

Prince Soubise was even more astonished; he had never expected that the Longyan army would use trenches to hide and attack them.

Under the cover of the trenches, their infantry had no way to aim at the Longyan army's troops at such a distance.

They could only be beaten passively.

And the cavalry troops that could have dealt with this situation had all been sent out by him to attack the Longyan artillery positions on both sides.

Only at this moment did he discover that there were not many cannons that could be used at the Longyan artillery positions at all; in fact, it was the exact opposite.

What was there was only the Longyan army's ambush for them, and a small number of cannons.

Prince Soubise overlooked the roads on both sides of the highland; there was only narrow space, and although their Cavalry was sufficient in number, they could not march quickly.

They had no Method to advance quickly!

On such a narrow and long road, they could only be attacked by the Longyan Army at the other end!

Moreover, the Longyan Army had made sufficient preparations up there.

The French troops now wanted to retreat but had no Method, and they had no Method to advance either.

To salvage the disadvantage on the battlefield, Prince Soubise ordered his troops to use Cannon to suppress the Longyan Soldiers inside the trenches.

Open a path to allow his own Infantry to provide support to the French Cavalry.

The French troops brought out their Cannon; the force of thirty thousand men carried fifty Cannon.

The Cannon indeed launched a suppressive attack on the trenches of the Longyan Army.

However, the Longyan Soldiers hiding in the deep trenches could not be accurately hit by the French troops' Cannon.

Therefore, the casualties were not considered heavy.

Ling Chen saw the opponent's Cannon, and his eyes gradually darkened; for their Longyan Army,

such Cannon might be the only weapon capable of threatening them.

But it was merely capable of threatening them.

Ling Chen ordered in a deep voice: "Artillery Unit, attack!"

"Let the French also witness the power of our Cannon!"

"Yes!"