Chương 333: 5.iii

Engagement with Djinn If sorcerous support is available do not directly engage. Let like counter like and conserve your forces for engagements that can benefit from their place on the battlefield and their lives not go wasted fruitlessly. If unexpected sorcery comes upon you, send up a Signal Griff with the flag for enemy Djinn so that support can be directed to counter and then with care fall back to your lines. Do not group up.

Scatter in as many directions as possible, move in packs no larger than ten men towards the back lines. If a captain should find himself in the dire situation that the enemy commands sorcery and his own army does not or the far more preferable situation that coordination with an allied power is close enough and direct support is called for engagement should never be directly to the front. The powers of a Djinn are many and their capabilities on the battlefield can humble the greatest warrior.

If you engage with sorcery you or your men will perish. Unauthorized use of content: if you find this story on Amazon, report the violation. Whether it is to the blessed mercy of quick death, the agony of a body twisted and crippled or one's form and very soul contorted beyond all recognition. Not all of your command will make it. In even the most favorable circumstances expect no less than a third of those you lead into battle against an enemy Djinn to be lost to you.

However, even the most mighty of the Djinn share at least one frailty with that of mortal men. Which is that of attention. This will be your only advantage. Surround and overwhelm them from all sides, press them with arrows, sling stones or spears, direct striking passes of war griffs to distract and then close and pin them with spears to every part of them that can be found. If the Djinn's nature shows spear, blade or talon is ineffective command cudgels or the butts of spears be used instead.

In such cases, have war griffs disengage or pummel and disrupt with wings instead of dive strikes, always aim to distract and redirect attention so victory might be attained through attrition. The only tactic for mortal men against Djinn is to overwhelm them with numbers. And if you lack the sorcery of an allied Djinn in this action? Make peace with the heavens of your imminent death and pray you can drag the elemental into it with you. - Conduct in War from the Magarskan handbook for officers.