Chapter 45: Cloune's Wishful Thinking
Han Lie, Langley, and Blowing Snow were deducing on the charts. According to the information brought back by the shooting fish, the strength www.biquge.info of Lu Renjia and the other three island lords dropped to the lowest point in this period. According to several calculations, the defenders of each island were less than fifty men.
When Crawn will attack, no one knows, however, it is not only Clun who has the right to attack. When Clouen had gathered his troops, the rear was empty.
Each island has a different backhand, even if there are few guards, it doesn't mean that it can be easily captured. When the shooting fish were scouting, they never went to their islands, but just watched from afar in the nearby waters.
The best way to do this is to determine where Cloune's army is, and then start an action to keep things moving. This is the idea of most of the island owners in the South Bay Sea United Alliance, but Han Lie has some different opinions. The reason why there is such a situation is that the overall strength of Clun is much stronger than the alliance of Han Lie and others. If you follow Clounn's pace, what are the odds of winning? Just like the previous two major battles, although the result was to defeat the invading fleet of Crowne, there were always one or two islands that were taken by the other side, and he gained nothing.
The current situation is even worse than when everyone first came to the waters of the South Bay, and Clouen has the absolute initiative and can fight wherever he wants.
Han Lie just wanted to break this situation, as long as he could act quickly and end the battle before the other side reacted and the additional reinforcements arrived, there was hope to break the deadlock.
"Owner, there should be a trap here." The information on the water fish is very detailed, and according to Han Lie's order, he is not afraid of being troublesome, and the other party's every move must be recorded.
The place Langley was referring to was rarely mentioned in the reports of the fish, and it was because of this that Langley's suspicions were aroused. It was a relatively flat place, but Lu Renjia's soldiers rarely passed through it, or rather, in the observation of the shooting fish, they did not once see a soldier passing there.
It wasn't a remote place, and if Han Lie led an army to attack, that place would be a good point of entry. Then it is obvious that there is a special arrangement of the enemy, that is, a trap. The reason why no one usually passes by there is because the soldiers know it and will not touch it easily. Just like on Han Lie's own island, the soldiers knew where they could walk and where they couldn't.
"Once you start attacking, you have to get around here." Han Lie made a good mark, so as not to forget it when he got it.
"The soldiers have been assembled!" It's late at night, and from this time on, you can arrive before dawn.
The moon in the sky shone softly, and in order to maintain their combat effectiveness, most of the soldiers rested in the cabins on the way to the enemy island. Shooting fish is better at underwater warfare, and this operation is more of a guard to guard during the voyage.
This operation is very important, and Chuixue is also in the fleet as Han Lie's deputy. This time, a total of two hundred and thirteen soldiers were brought with them, and there were less than fifty soldiers left on Guyun Island to defend.
The reason why Han Lie was in such a hurry to go on the expedition was not only that it was a good time, but also that there was another major reason. Warehouse, there will be no resources!
Well, after the mass recruitment, there has been a large-scale training of troops. Coupled with the basic daily consumption of so many soldiers, it is not surprising that the originally full warehouses have bottomed out.
This time, Han Lie's goal was not to capture the enemy's island, because even if he did, he would not be able to defend against the follow-up counterattack, unless he abandoned Guyun Island. Then, plundering the other party's resources as much as possible is the biggest purpose of this operation. In addition to this, one of the purposes is to consume as much of the enemy's living force as possible.
There was no word all the way, nothing happened, and Han Lie's fleet sailed quietly.
"It's still half an hour away from the other island!" The sky had turned white, the night had passed, and the soldiers on Han Lie's fleet were already ready for battle.
"They should have discovered us, right?" Han Lie's fleet consisted of fifteen ships, and it was understandable that it was discovered.
"No information has come in." Although the water fish did not continue to reconnoiter there because of the reason that he was in charge of vigilance, Han Lie sent another soldier to monitor it.
There is no information coming back yet, indicating that the other party has not made any special moves.
"The other party is likely to be less than fifty people, as long as you are careful of the traps, it shouldn't be too difficult." Fukiyuki had commanded the defenses of his own island, and knew that even if he had an absolute superiority in numbers, some special defenses would offset the gap. Therefore, I still retained a great sense of vigilance and did not say it too satisfactorily.
"Hopefully." Han Lie looked ahead and prayed that everything would go well.
In another part of the South Bay Sea, an island owner has fallen into despair.
Hundreds of ships gathered on the sea, and the flag of the goddess Clara fluttered in the wind. Clone mobilized all his forces and divided all the personnel into three states.
The first is that the great fleet of 1,300 men now led by Clone himself, with eight island owners following here. There is only one purpose that needs to be carried out, and that is to crush the past island by island! These 1,200 people are also the elite existence of Crowne's overall strength, and none of the soldiers have released more than 10 percent of their strength, and more than 30 percent of them have reached more than 20 percent.
To this end, Cloun studied for a long time and finally decided on a route. This remote island is just the first stop, and from there, there are many more islands to conquer.
The second type, the special support team, has a total of eight island owners, each commanding an average of about 120 soldiers. Their task is also very simple, that is, to support everywhere, like a brick, where there is a need, they will move it! They may provide joint support or act individually, in short, depending on the situation. And now, these eight island owners are still gathered on Crow Island, waiting for orders.
But the three, and the last, are the forces used to guard. When Cloun went on a large-scale offensive, he also took into account the possibility that an enemy would attack the relatively weak rear. The remaining seven island owners (Clough is still imprisoned on Guyun Island) are specially used to guard.
The positions of the seven island owners are also carefully planned, each island owner is responsible for three or four islands, and the power of guarding is the little strength left by the island owners who go out on the expedition, as well as the island owner's own soldiers. Of course, out of the need for attack, these remaining island owners were also drained of dozens of soldiers each. However, each of the seven island owners was able to command between one hundred and fifty and two hundred soldiers.
Their task is to choose according to the strength of the enemy when they come to attack. If you're completely fine, you don't need to ask for support. Once the support is not enough, the second type of special support team is on call, as long as the support arrives, drag the enemy.
Once Clouen's forces are fully mobilized, it is indeed an extremely strong force, especially the large fleet led by Clounn himself, regardless of consumption, it only took an hour to attack in front of the opponent's signal tower.
The man simply sent a message to his allies at the signal tower when the situation was irretrievable, and fled through the secret passage with the remnants of the army. Once you lose the island, you will lose your foothold, not to mention continue to develop, whether you can survive or not is a question. Fortunately, it is now time to unite against Crowne, and no ally can turn him away, but he can only get basic living security, and there is no hope of developing again.
Clun's victory in the first battle greatly boosted the morale of the goddess Clara's side, and she was full of confidence in this operation.
"From there?" As the news spread, the South Bay United Alliance exploded.
"It's really from here, it's really a big deal! Is this trying to catch us all? ”
"We can't sit still, the first battle is too fast, and we have to act before Clone reaches the second objective."
Similar discussions passed from tower to tower, and the common conclusion was that troops must be sent in at once to snipe Croun!
Han Lie didn't know what was happening at the moment, although the signal tower of Guyun Island had also received the news, but Han Lie was attacking Lu Renjia's island at this time, so he didn't care about it.
"Kill!" Fuxue led the soldiers to charge again, and it happened that Lu Renjia was the third type in Crawn's plan, that is, the island owner who specialized in defense.
Han Lie's miscalculation of the enemy's strength was wrong, and Lu Renjia had more than a hundred soldiers guarding the island. However, it would be a mistake to be wrong, Clouen took the first island of this operation in an hour, although the strength comparison between Han Lie and Lu Renjia was not exaggerated to the extent of Cloune, it did not mean that this could not be done.
A call for help has been sent to Crowe Island, and the special support team has been dispatched, but it is likely that it will be too late! As for asking for reinforcements from those two neighboring islands? Dozens of soldiers there, even if they came, would not be of use.
Han Lie is not only twice as numerous as Lu Renjia, but also has a big gap in strength. Those soldiers recruited in batches before were naturally slightly inferior to the other party, but after such a long time of actual combat training, they would not be too bad. After all, Lu Renjia is not like Han Lie before, he has abundant resources. Every time you raid the Dark Soldiers, it will consume a lot of resources to conduct actual combat training. Lu Renjia could only do it every two days at most, or once every three days, and the speed of the soldier's strength increase was naturally slower than Han Lie's.
And the veterans who originally followed Han Lie were above the other party in average strength, and in order to ensure Han Lie's victory in this battle, Qom was also in the attacking team.
Qom has not yet recovered to the period of subversion, there is no way, the rest of the injuries will depend on time to recover slowly. But he has been able to exert the power of some gold-level soldiers, and as the vanguard of the battlefield, it is Lu Renjia's extremely headache.
"It's over." Lu Renjia looked at the overwhelming enemy and knew that he couldn't hold out for long.
"Was it lucky, or was it prepared?" The area that Langley pointed out last night was the place where Lu Renjia had ambushed and had traps. Lu Renjia watched helplessly as the other party avoided that place, leaving less time for himself.
Lu Renjia came out of the signal tower and had already sent out all the information, and all that was left was to retreat. Each owner will leave a way back for himself, so as not to end up with the destruction of the island.