Chapter 825: Run-in
In this case, the chief of Hai Ridong will not be able to be cautious, so he can only be careful and careful, and test and test.
The whole process can be called a model of wits and courage, and both sides racked their brains.
One side is trying to do everything possible to delay the time as much as possible, and at the same time withdraw its own soldiers, and if it can inflict a little more casualties on the other side, it will be even better.
The other side is thinking of taking the defense line at the lowest cost, and it is best to be able to completely annihilate the opponent.
It took two weeks for the Chieftain to take down all the key fortresses on the eastern side of the Broken Pulse Line.
At this time, Sophia had already been fighting fiercely at the front line for three weeks, and the soldiers of the Broken Pulse Defense Line had withdrawn safely one after another.
Originally, there were more than 80,000 soldiers stationed on the front line of the East Road Broken Pulse Defense Line, but by the time Sophie organized a retreat, there were less than 50,000 wounded and disabled.
They are the defenders, and they have a large amount of black powder, which is a sharp weapon to defend the city, and the right army of the broken blood cavalry has been on top from time to time, and they still have more than forty percent casualties, which shows how fierce the battle is this time.
Sophia streamlined the retreating Broken Pulse Defense Line soldiers, and all the old, weak, sick and disabled were sent to the rear for resettlement, leaving only about 25,000 strong, this is an out-and-out veteran of a hundred battles, although it is not as unparalleled as the Broken Blood Horse, in this world, it is also one of the best and among the best.
As long as they are given a few weeks to recuperate, they can become the mainstay of Sophia's command, and use them as a basis to form an army of 100,000 people, or the kind whose combat effectiveness is above the normal level.
The method is very simple, it is the most traditional one, one veteran with three or four recruits.
The veterans will train the recruits by hand, so that they will have a better chance of saving their lives on the battlefield.
As long as they have experienced a few more battles and survived them, they will naturally lose their recruit halo and become a qualified soldier.
These veterans of the Broken Pulse Defense Line all came here in the first place.
When the Hairidong chieftain took the Broken Pulse Defense Line and poured forward on a large scale, Sophiria was already thirty kilometers behind the Broken Pulse Defense Line, set up a position, and was ready to fight.
One hundred kilometers east of the Broken Pulse Defense Line, it was cleared by Sophia's strong wall, and all the personnel and materials suitable for the raiding of the Odin Orcs were all withdrawn together with the disabled soldiers who withdrew from the Broken Pulse Defense Line.
This is not a difficult task, this is either the grassland irrigated by the Broken Vein Mountains, or the Gobi Desert where the Manyu military leader has just entered a state of recovery.
The former inhabitants were semi-nomadic and semi-agrarian, and even if they had not been forced to retreat, when they heard that the Broken Pulse defense line had been breached, the inhabitants of this place had already spontaneously fled in the direction of the Byronic Alliance.
Many of them know how ferocious the Odin orcs in a state of war really are, because many of them are Odin orcs and semi-Odin orcs who fled from Odin's side.
Odin's orcs still hate them above the Byronic Alliance.
In their hands, it is absolutely impossible to survive or die.
The latter is relatively scarce in personnel, although the Manyu military has entered a state of recovery in the past ten years, but the fastest is still along the Jacob River, and the population is mainly concentrated there, especially the countess of Anjibena, and other places are still vast and sparsely populated.
Although the Eastern Route Army of the Western Odin Empire has won the Broken Pulse Defense Line, the situation seems to have become more awkward.
The chieftain leaders around Chief Hai Ridong got together and studied for a long time.
They have no more than two choices.
One is to completely abandon the east, leave a small part of the troops, rely on the broken line of defense, drag Sophia's forces here to death, and then move the main force of the Eastern Army of the Western Odin Empire to the east.
With Ulan Bari, they formed a flanking attack on the western side of the formation of the new royal court, and it is believed that even if they do not completely tear apart their defensive line, it will bring them great pressure.
The other option is to gather heavy forces and fight Sophia head-on, as long as she is completely defeated, the entire eastern side will no longer be able to organize effective resistance in a short time.
They will be allowed to drive straight into the Jacob River, and then they will be able to go down the river and attack Valesta, the base camp of the New Royal Court, and then flank the defense line of the New Royal Court.
"Compared to the second tactic, theoretically speaking, the first tactic is smarter and more secure.
Clench your fist and concentrate all your power to have the most power.
This is the truth that the most uneducated farmer also understands.
Victory, is a brilliant victory, all the Odin orcs will sweep down, eat half of the territory of the Byron Alliance, can be pushed all the way to the Jacob River, no one can stop their iron hooves.
Defeat is also a small defeat within the controllable range, they are the initiative of the attack, they can control the rhythm at will, and they have enough maneuver advantage.
But this is only the most rational choice, but the human factor often plays a more important role in it, especially when it comes to power struggles.
Ulan Bari is known as the lord of the Xiodin Empire, and since he ascended to the throne, he has been implementing centralized power, strengthening the rule and control of the Tiger royal court over the major tribes, allowing himself to have more rights and discourse to facilitate external expansion.
Facts have also proved that his decision was correct, and it was precisely because of his centralized power that he concentrated the powerful tribes represented by Skambari, Harichagai, and Ozhlehok around him for his own use.
In order to be able to unstoppably tear down the East Odin Empire, if it were not for the intervention of the living dead led by Naren Toya, he would have completed the great cause of unifying the Odin orcs.
There are gains and losses.
Ulaanbari's approach also violated the original vested interests within the Western Odin Empire, and it is not surprising that some people stood up against it, among which the commander of the right army, Chief Hai Ridong, was one of the leading figures.
To be more precise, the entire Right Army is a product of Ulaanbari and these old forces.
In normal times, there is nothing wrong with this compromise in Ulaanbazhi.
Eliminating these opposition, he had a more comprehensive and comfortable control over the main forces of the center and the left army.
But at such a critical moment, this drawback is undoubtedly exposed.
If the right army had chosen the first tactic and gone to support the left army, even if it had achieved a brilliant victory, it would have been Ulaanbari, not his Hai Ridong.
Therefore, I conclude that even if I know that the second tactic is not a wise choice, within two weeks, Hai Ridong will still lead his army out of the customs and fight a decisive battle with us. ”
This analysis was made by none other than Kelman, the chief of staff of the Eternal Night Army, who was now at the pre-war meeting held by Sophia, and they were also carefully planning how to fight this battle in the future.
"Your Excellency the Chief of Staff is speaking too absolutely. Lady Amelia frowned slightly, and said disapprovingly, "Their current every move will determine the future life and death of the Theodin Empire, maybe in view of the current tense situation, the chief of Hairidong will focus on the overall situation, and would rather complete the reputation of Ulaanbari than support the western route? ”
"If Chief Hai Ridong is such a reasonable person, he would not have sat in his current position, and the situation would not have developed to the current state, as early as when Ulaanbari completely broke through the Western Front, he would have led the Eastern Army to support, why bother to break through the Eastern Front?"
Chief of Staff Kelman analyzed the psychology of Chief Hai Ridong layer by layer, "This is not to rob the merit, I don't want to be crushed by Ulan Bari, especially in this case, when the Central Army of Ulaanba Ri has been resisted by the Undead Empire in addition to the accident, and his reputation has further declined, I believe that he will drag Ulaanbari behind, rather than helping the other party." ”
The Eternal Night Army, led by Kelman, has never been a simple plan, but also a plan.
In their eyes, an army like the Theodin Empire, where the Supreme Commander has supreme decision-making power, is easier to deal with.
As long as we can grasp the character of their supreme commander, we have already roughly grasped the trend of their future military operations.
"There is too much speculation in your speculation, which cannot be used as the basis for the next action, you must know that every decision we make now involves the life and death of thousands of people and the destruction of countless families. Amelia is still distrustful of Kelman's analysis.
"What is speculation? Everything I said has a definite basis, derived from the investigation of the past high-level of the Theodin Empire, and the summary of the past behavior and judgment of Chief Hai Ridong, so as to reach a conclusion, if this cannot be used as a basis for judgment, I really don't know what can be used as a basis for judgment, is it possible that the lady still wants to see the layout of Chief Hai Ridong?"
There are great differences and differences between the two sides in terms of communication and style of conduct, and it is good to say that in normal times, once such an important military meeting is reached, some unnecessary misunderstandings often arise.
Lady Amelia was the one who had dealt with the Lords of the Eternal Night the most, and she was still the same, as others could imagine.
Many Byronians could not stand the truthfulness and rigidity of the Eternal Nights.
The people of the eternal night are also not used to it, and the sloppiness and inefficiency of the Byronic people gathered under the banner of Sophilia are probably the Broken Pulse soldiers who are also professional soldiers.
Kelman was well aware of Amelia's influence on the lord's wife Sophia, so he ironically explained patiently: "Our military analysis itself has an element of gambling, and now it's just that the possibility I said is more likely, maybe the right army chiefs led by Hai Ridong suddenly and completely woke up, for the sake of the overall situation of the Theodin Empire, it is not necessary to go to support Ulaanbari, and now we just pick out the possibility that we think we can win the bet, and what kind of judgment to make still needs to be decided by Madame." ”
Sophia smiled and said: "Now it's just a military analysis, everyone can speak freely, Amelia doesn't need to be serious, the chief of staff's analysis is not unreasonable, I believe that when he said this, he had already obtained all the information that he could collect about the Theodin Empire, and it was better than using this as a basis." ”
"Maybe what the chief of staff said is correct, this is not my forte, I shouldn't intervene rashly, princess, chief of staff, you can continue. Amelia borrowed the slope to get off the donkey, and no longer dwelled on the issue.
Lady Amelia's role as Princess Sophia's number one confidant did not change with her resignation as regent of the Lancelot royal family.
During Sophia's birth of Anne in the Northern Fortress, she oversaw the military and political power of the princess's fiefdom as governor.
She has participated in all of Sophia's major decisions and governance, and is also the direct custodian of the princess's fiefdom, acting as her representative, to ensure that Sophia's policies are implemented in the first place and will not be artificially distorted.
As it turns out, Amelia has lived up to Sophia's trust.
Compared with the rapid development speed of the Eternal Night Military Leader, the development of the princess fiefdom in the past four or five years has been somewhat decent.
But compared to the rest of the Byron League, it has always been on the fast track.
Many Byronic people like to compare the plains of Asia Minor to a pearl of the continent of Assan, and the princess fief is now its essence.
It is an undeniable fact that the Eternal Night Commander is now temporarily implementing one collar and two systems for the princess's fief, and the princess's fief has become part of the Eternal Night Commandery.
Some good things that belong exclusively to the Eternal Night Army Lord, and the princess fief can enjoy it, which is naturally a normal thing.
In particular, some scientific research achievements in people's livelihood that are not highly confidential will be the first to be promoted here in addition to the Eternal Night Army.
In the minds of most Byronic people, the princess fief is still the inherent territory of the Lancelot royal family, and the Eternal Night Army, a new force that has just risen, just took the opportunity to cling to the royal family, and after a hundred years, when the royal blood flowing in their family's blood is strong enough.
The entire Eternal Night Warlord will become part of the royal family, and many families will use this expansion to annex territory.
Therefore, their rejection of the princess's fiefdom is far less strong than that of the Eternal Night Commander, and they are eager for all kinds of new things that flow out of here, even if the real source is the Eternal Night Commander.
In the end, the princess's fief took the strengths of the two families and became a link between the Byron Alliance and the Eternal Night Warlord for further trade, and the prosperity naturally soared at a high speed.
When Sophia raised the flag of regrouping in the east, Governor Amelia was naturally the first to raise the flag and responded, and once again became a general by Sophia's side.
But returning to Princess Sophia again, Amelia can clearly feel the change in Sophia.