Chapter 44: The Night Attack (I)
That night, General Elier stayed up all night, because tomorrow he was going to attack the camp of the Talon army with 100,000 soldiers from the Talmug fortress.
Despite the night attack, General Elier still did not dare to relax in any way, after all, this attack was too important, and if it failed, it would not only be the loss of the already small number of troops.
Even, the Talons will take the opportunity to break through the Tenio Fortress in one fell swoop, tearing a big hole in Erne's northern defense line and approaching the Talmug Fortress.
At that time, the entire Ernne will fall into a very passive scene because of this defeat, and the lightest result will be to abandon the entire northern large territory and retreat in the middle of the empire, without the ability to dominate the miracle.
If the consequences are more serious, Erne will even fall into the abyss of no return.
However, General Elier had no choice, and he knew very well that if the impasse was not broken, the outcome would only be worse.
No matter how powerful the generals in the world are, they dare not say that they are well aware of the changes on the battlefield, and many times they will also gamble.
It's just that unlike ordinary generals, they will strictly calculate the probability of success, and do not increase the probability of victory to make all kinds of plans.
And at this moment, General Elier is gambling, he is betting that Slok will not dare to bet!
In the evenings, General Elier has been studying the character of Marshal Slok of the Taron Empire and his way of doing things, which General Elier does before every battle.
He always believed that knowing himself and knowing the other side could not be defeated in a hundred battles, and it was this character that made him known as the "God of War".
Slok is a hereditary nobleman of the Taron Empire, and he even has a little royal blood on his body, but the age is a little old, so Slok only has the status of a marquis in Talon.
But unlike other hereditary nobles, Slok was determined to revitalize Tarun from an early age, and then repeatedly fought in the territory battles of the northern kingdoms, step by step from the lord of a city-state to the generalissimo of Talon.
Even this five-nation alliance was jointly promoted by Slok and Talen's hawkish forces, so Slok's strength should not be underestimated. Anyway, apart from being young, Slok doesn't seem to have any shortcomings.
The more she studied Slok as a person, the more convinced Elier became of her decision. This Slok is an ambitious man, he has a long-term vision, and his goal will certainly not be limited to the Tenio Fortress.
And Srock is a general with a very steady style of play, he will never fight a war that he is not sure of.
General Elier was able to see from his wars between the Borren Empire and the Falkland Empire that if he felt that a war was full of uncertainties, he would also use a winning style to defeat it.
During the encirclement and suppression of a border city-state in Borren, Slok obviously had several times the enemy's army, but because the other party opened the city gate and staged an empty city plan, he decisively retreated to the periphery, observed the follow-up movements of the enemy army, and even chose the follow-up evacuation route, as if he was afraid that the other party would have ambush troops.
It wasn't until the next day that all the enemy troops had been evacuated that he knew he had been fooled, but it was too late, and the other party had already fled to safety.
Although many political opponents later mocked him about this battle, Srock did not care at all, and even casually eliminated those who sarcastically mocked him one by one if he had the opportunity.
But it has to be admitted that General Slok's military talent is beyond doubt.
Studying this, General Elier had a bold idea.
He guessed that the purpose of Slok's alliance was to unite the northern nations against Erne first, and once Orne was defeated, General Slok would definitely lead Talen's army to turn their guns and swallow them in one fell swoop while the countries were damaged.
If this is to be achieved, Slok will inevitably have to keep a large number of troops, and he will never dare to go head-to-head with himself. Even though he knew that he would be able to win by gathering all his troops and fighting with himself, he would never pay a terrible price for a single victory.
"Hahaha, Slok, Slok, you have committed a taboo this time, if you talk about the pattern, I may not have as long-term vision as you, but I know that war has always come step by step.
If something goes wrong at any point in between, then all future expectations will be nothing more than a castle in the air.
You always look at the fruits in the distance, but ignore the stones under your feet, and sometimes you walk with your head up, and it hurts even more when you fall!"
Thinking of this, General Elier suddenly burst out laughing, he already had a great grasp of this battle.
"Report to the general, the replies from the various city-states have arrived, do you want to take a look now?", a soldier came to General Elier with four letters.
The words on the letter all conveyed the same meaning in the eyes of General Elier - everything was ready, only the east wind was owed.
"Haha, this last east wind has also arrived. You're still too young, and I might not be able to deal with you in a few years, but right now, you're not qualified. ”
Elaire thought to herself, but she didn't know how Srock would feel if she knew what he was thinking.
By dusk the next day, General Elier's army was ready.
Looking at the sunset on the horizon, General Elier knew that he was only a few hours away from sunset, and in the middle of the night, Tenio's predicament was relieved.
Erne Frontier, Talon Empire Camp.
At this moment, the camp was noisy, there were fires everywhere, and the front camp of this tower was in chaos.
"What's going on, what's wrong. General Slok came out of the tent and asked the surrounding generals.
"The Erne army took advantage of the darkness to attack our camp, and our army's forward position suffered heavy losses. A general said tremblingly.
"Night attack, how dare they, how many people are there?", Srock asked, puzzled.
"Look at the momentum, there are at least more than 300,000, which is comparable to the strength of our army. ", the general continued.
"Three hundred thousand, impossible, even if he Elier is empty, there are not so many people in the city-state of Tenio, you go with me to see. Srock listened to his subordinates in disbelief, so he hurried to the front line as he spoke.
General Slok, who came to the front line, was surprised to find that the momentum of the other party was really the feeling of hundreds of thousands of horses, and 300,000 was a conservative estimate.
I saw that Erne's army and Tarun's army were already fighting together in the canyon in front of them, and they did not fall behind at all, and even because it was a night attack, there was a faint feeling that they wanted to suppress Tarun's army.
At this time, even General Slok believed that Elier was leading an army of more than 300,000 troops, and the sound of the cavalry's iron hooves was deafening, and General Slok had never seen such a strong cavalry team.
But he still hadn't figured out where Elier had brought in so many men.
"Elaire, do you really have so many men or are you cheating on me?", Srock began to wonder.