Chapter 501: True or False
Be rendered speechless.
It's Ian's current state, he and Rams are arguing, but it's impossible not to care about intelligence now, and in fact it's not a reason for the latter to be sarcastic.
"There's no reason not to say it."
At this time, Li Lingyi said calmly, at the beginning of the establishment of the coalition army, the six major families swore that they would never betray each other, at least during the coalition period, and at the same time, intelligence was naturally shared.
"Ah, I know." Rams obviously didn't really intend not to say it, but just to embarrass Ian by the way, and at this time, when the goal was achieved, he also told the information.
"Tywin's army includes the Lannisters, the Roses, and the private armies of various small families, and the total number is about fifty-two to fifty-five thousand."
"And among these 50,000 people, there are 10,000 hidden heavy cavalry, and Tywin intends to use these people to fight it out, and with the right timing, a collective charge can lead to the ultimate victory."
After Rams finished speaking, the faces of Li Lingyi and Ian became ugly.
10,000 heavy cavalry? This is no joke.
"How much does this cost...... Ian gasped, their Arryn family has not fought for many years, and it stands to reason that they have lived a rich and rich life, but let alone 10,000 heavy cavalry, they can't even form 3,000.
Li Lingyi was also unexpected, as Rams said, 10,000 heavy cavalry really only need to seize a perfect opportunity to launch a group charge to win the victory, and even wipe out the northern coalition army here!
"No, no...... We must not let their heavy cavalry charge! Ian muttered at this time, ignoring the two of them, and ran directly to the front line to start arranging the soldiers' formation, minimizing the horizontal columns and turning them into several columns.
In the face of cavalry charge, the best formation is undoubtedly to form a point, or use the "car formation" of the Chinese ancestors, but now there are no cars available, and Li Lingyi naturally can't deploy them.
As for other useful methods, such as Yue Fei's Iron Floating Tu against Yan Zongbi in the past, he used a special hook and sickle gun. Or Tian Dan during the Warring States period used the fire bull array to attack the opponent's cavalry, etc., which are all good methods, but they are not qualified to use them now.
The most implementable is the Western "gun array", and this formation is to put it bluntly, relying on disciplined soldiers to form an extremely dense "spearhead wall", with the tips of the spears to form a wall, any cavalry rushing over under such a dense spear tip is not spared.
Even if he's wearing one-piece armor all over, as long as his eyes are exposed, I'm sorry, there's definitely a spear head stabbing you in the eye!
Moreover, compared with the combination of guns and shields, the pure gun array can also maximize the space combination, and it will not only hit people in the first two rows, but the back can only wait for the front to die before going up.
Of course, this kind of easy-to-use formation is naturally not something that Li Lingyi can think of, in fact, Ian, who is now in front, is arranging a gun formation, and he is worthy of being a veteran general, the gun formation is very tight, and he can change directions, which is not something Li Lingyi can do.
"Don't do it again in the future about abusing the prisoners." At this time, Li Lingyi also said to Rams, although he felt that intelligence was important, but abusing the prisoners was not a good way, maybe it would be effective in the short term, but in the long run, the disadvantages far outweighed the benefits.
“…… I know. ”
For Li Lingyi, Rams didn't dare to be presumptuous.
After all, he understands that the Arryn family can't actually do anything with the Burton family, and the two families are just half a catty. But if you annoy the Flagless Family, the latter is not easy to deal with.
Especially now that the Flagless Family is still married to the Stark family, Rams will not dare to provoke it, otherwise the Bolton family will only end up in extinction under the joint attack of the two families.
So at this time, he agreed in a low voice, but a trace of unwillingness flashed in his eyes, and he slowly retreated.
Li Lingyi looked at Rams's back, his eyes full of suspicion.
This information...... Is it true......
That's right, what Li Lingyi suspected was the information from the interrogation that Rams said. There are undoubtedly doubts among them, first of all the three prisoners of war. All three of them died overnight, which is equivalent to death without proof, no matter what Rams says, others can only believe it.
The second is that he intuitively feels that there is something wrong with the Bolton family, and the 8,000 people of the Bolton family in the alliance of the six major families always give him a strange feeling, as if they are plotting something.
And the most important point is that Li Lingyi had asked Hawkeye to buy off a few of these people before, but unexpectedly, Hawkeye actually failed.
Nearly 100 people were secretly found, but all of them refused.
This is really a strange thing, you must know that the price offered by Hawkeye is not low, enough for a person to live a free life, but this still fails.
Are these soldiers loyal?
Li Lingyi didn't think so, in fact, Luth's old thing was not worth the desperate efforts of his soldiers for nothing. In his opinion, there are only two reasons for refusal.
Either these soldiers get more, or they have to refuse because they have something in someone else's hands.
Although it sounds a little incredible, Li Lingyi thinks that the latter is more likely, and he has no evidence now, so he can't easily assert it. But Hawkeye has already sent a large number of spies to investigate, and it is estimated that it will not take long to get the answer, and then it will be natural to know what the Bolton family is up to.
At this time, the two armies were facing each other from afar, and they were very cautious of each other, because they all knew that the opposite side was all the living forces, and no matter which side lost this battle, then the chance of turning the tables around was very small, or even none.
Compared with the Northern Alliance, the Southern Army was more nervous, after all, there were more than 10,000 soldiers led by Stannis behind them, and once they fell into the situation of being flanked by the front and rear, it would not be very comfortable.
So Old Tywin only had two choices, one was to inflict heavy damage on the Northern Coalition before Stannis came, and the other was to turn around and destroy Stannis in the back of his ass first.
It's just that no matter which point you choose, it's not easy to do.
At this time, in front of the Southern military camp, the generals of the Southern Army followed Tywin to observe the Northern Coalition on the opposite side.
"Father, should we attack first?" Jaime asked, "Otherwise, when Stannis arrives with his troops, we will have a hard time." ”
"Stannis?" Old Tywin smirked contemptuously, "That bastard thing is just a piece of rubbish. ”
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