Chapter 8 The number of enemy troops
Hearing the number 'twenty-six thousand,' Zhao Yu thought that it was not bad! He had never seen more than two thousand people before, let alone thought of living in the same place with this number of people.
remembers that the Vortex Town where he lived since he was a child, the total population is only a few tens of thousands.
"Ah, 26,000 troops! That's actually good!" Shen Jun didn't sit down again after he stood up before. He may have lamented the sheer number of troops on his side, and even one leg began to kick forward.
It makes him look like he's dancing, it's funny!
"More than 20,000 soldiers and horses are indeed enough......! What I'm worried about is ......" Shen Mengting looked at Shen Jun casually, and then focused her gaze on a certain point.
This point is placed on a table in the center of the room, and it shows a simulated miniature of the surroundings.
Just now, Ma Liming had already planted several small red flags at the location of the Yokoga military camp on Saran's side. This means that the current strength of their Saran country is also the key living force to resist the ravages of the enemy's iron cavalry.
But......
"What about Sauron?" Shen Mengting unconsciously set her eyes on the camp where the Sauron Empire had set up.
It may be that there is a deep fear of the Sauron soldiers, and even when they first came up with this simulated abbreviated barracks, they expanded it very large. Compared to a little comparison, it is more than twice as large as the simulation of the Yokoga military camp in Saran.
However, Shen Mengting also knew that it was not a mess, and when she went to explore the local camp, she found that the enemy did leave a lot of space to build a camp, which showed that Sauron would send a very large number of invaders.
"This is not good!" Shen Mengting shook her head slowly.
"What is Marshal Shen worried about?" Ma Liming quickly shrank his neck and asked when he saw this.
"I'm worried! How many soldiers and horses does the enemy have?" Shen Mengting looked directly at the 'Sauron military camp' in front of her again, "At the beginning, we only received a general number, that is, an army of 30,000! But how many troops are exactly? What is the composition of the troops? There are only swordsmen and archers? Or are there any magicians and blood shamans mixed in? Of course! I also want to know a little more! How many soldiers and horses did Sauron use in yesterday's sneak attack? 5,000 or 4,000? Or three thousand?"
Shen Mengting asked too many questions, it was like a wave that kept rolling to the shore. This made everyone in the room feel a little scratched.
"Would you like to know this?" asked Malimmindo.
"Of course! If it is clear how many cavalry the enemy has used to sneak attack, then you can roughly estimate the overall strength of the enemy. "Also, I estimate that the next attack of the enemy may be overwhelming. So I still want to know. How many Sauron soldiers and horses are there in this Sauron barracks?"
Shen Mengting can be regarded as asking the key, which is also the problem they have been ignoring just now.
"Ahh......h Let me answer you!" Chen Tianhao suddenly stood up at this moment. He hadn't said anything since then, and sat almost silently on his stomach.
"Well, let's ask this assassin general to tell us how many soldiers and horses the enemy has at present!" Ma Liming took a few steps back, deliberately moving his position for Chen Tianhao.
Shen Mengting naturally didn't understand her intentions, she also stood to the side, almost completely vacating the position in front of the side of the desktop.
After Chen Tianhao nodded at the two marshals, he also came to the table with a simulated miniature of the surrounding environment. After standing still, he bowed half-bowed to the other three sides except for the back position.
When Zhao Yu saw this assassin's appearance, he felt that he was about to bow.
"I went to the enemy's camp last night to investigate, and I almost know the specific number of enemies!" Chen Tianhao looked at everyone.
"Ahh
Shen Jun finally sat down again at this moment, his actions just now were almost not noticeable, this was where he was annoyed, "Yes! It won't just be visually measured?
Chen Tianhao looked at the two playful people, and couldn't help but let out a deep sigh, "Of course not!
Qian Hao almost stumbled off his chair when he heard this, "Ahh......h Personally asked?"
Following Qian Hao's question, even Shen Mengting's eyes showed a little doubt.
"Yes, I did observe outside the barracks at first! But I knew that I couldn't understand the facts from observations alone, so I sneaked into the barracks. Then ......" Chen Tianhao was suddenly silent, and anyone with a discerning eye could see that he was in Dior, Qian Hao and Shen Jun's appetite.
And the fact is just as Chen Tianhao said, when he went to spy on the local military camp last night, he sneaked into the house of a middle-level officer of Sauron, and disarmed him to become his prisoner!
The order was received in the evening, and Shen Mengting personally came to dictate. The meaning of this marshal is that the enemy will inevitably expose some problems soon after withdrawing troops. So she hoped that Chen Tianhao would go to the barracks to take a look.
Chen Tianhao naturally didn't refuse anything, he also hoped that he could make some military merits, so that he could stay in this Saran country for a long time.
So, he quietly left the Yokoga camp and ran to the camp in Sauron.
"Then what?" Shen Mengting asked anxiously, which made Chen Tianhao suddenly come back to his senses.
Since the generalissimo has come to ask questions, Chen Tianhao naturally does not dare to continue to slack off. After he straightened his body, he let out the words completely. However, there is also a slight cough in it.
"I infiltrated one of their mid-level officers' houses, and then forced them to tell the enemy's total strength by force!"
"Oh, is that so?" Shen Mengting rolled her eyes slightly. But soon, she rushed to Chen Tianhao's location again, "Then aren't you very dangerous!"
"There is no way to do danger! In order to spy on the enemy, this is what must be done!"
"So how many troops did Sauron dispatch this time?" Vice Marshal Ma Liming took a few steps forward, he was almost about to stand side by side with Chen Tianhao, and his body was swaying inadvertently.
"Sauron has sent more than 30,000 troops this time! no more, no less, indeed a whole 30,000!"
As soon as Chen Tianhao released this answer, everyone seemed to be discouraged. Because this answer is not a surprise, and it is even more boring than knowing the general numbers.
"What's wrong? Are you all unimpressed?" Chen Tianhao actually pursed his lips and laughed. However, even though he is smiling, he still has a straight face because he usually shows people with a smile.
Shen Mengting didn't say anything else, she just shrugged her shoulders and waved her hands. Maybe for her, she really thinks that Chen Tianhao ran away in vain last night.
"You can at least figure out the specific number of swordsmen and archers like Ma Liming and then come back!" Shen Mengting complained in her heart.
However, her complaints disappeared after a few seconds.
Chen Tianhao straightened his body, which was already very straight, and he also stroked the hilt of the thin sword tied around his waist by the way, "But if you think that I ran away for nothing this time, then you are very wrong!"
Shen Mengting leaned forward a little when she heard this, "Oh, Chen Tianhao, how do you say that?"
"I asked about yesterday's sneak attack!"
Not only Shen Mengting, but the rest of them all tightened their fronts. Ma Liming was about to paste his whole body over, and Wang Bin also stood up excitedly.
"What information? Tell me about it!" Shen Mengting let out an interested look.
"The middle-level officer of Sauron who I forced to question is also a close confidant of the enemy marshal......! xxx!"
"It doesn't matter what his name is, the key is what he knows?" Shen Mengting looked very anxious.
"I remember what he said: the reason why their Marshal Lian suddenly used a cavalry to carry out a sneak attack on the Saran military camp was that he felt that Saran's soldiers were vulnerable, and that they could be completely defeated by using a few random forces. That's what their marshal thought. But ......"
But our spirit of resistance was beyond his imagination, and there was even a sudden wave of reinforcements. So his sneak attack was declared a failure!" Shen Mengting followed the speaker's heart and continued to say the whole thing.
"That's pretty much what it means!" Chen Tianhao stretched his neck sharply, "I heard that after their Marshal Lian returned to the camp, he called a meeting of all the middle and upper-level officers, and then established a policy of using all his strength in the future!"
"That's really the case!" Shen Mengting clenched her hand into a fist, "It seems that we will indeed face all the pressure of the enemy in the future!"
"Yes, yes, and the Saurons are already planning their invasion in the future, but either way, this time they will release all the troops in the camp and attack us!"
"That's for sure!"
"Then General Chen Tianhao, how many soldiers and horses did they use in their sneak attack yesterday?" Although Ma Liming asked the doubts in his heart, his eyes were still scattered around, because he was still thinking about what kind of form the Sauron soldiers would attack here again.
"They used a total of 4,000 troops yesterday, and they were all cavalry. The other side just hopes to make a surprise attack and defeat us all. But the reality is that it backfired!"
"Four thousand?" Shen Mengting's eyes slanted to the side, "It seems to be this kind of number!"
She had estimated that the number of enemy troops was roughly between three thousand and five thousand, and it seemed that her estimate was relatively accurate.
But at the moment, in her heart, there is more of that incalculable sense of sorrow. Judging from the current estimation of the strength of the two sides, the enemy only used 4,000 soldiers and horses, which is less than she had calculated before. Then, the enemy almost lost 14,000 of our soldiers. In the end, it was with 15,000 new reinforcements that he finally defeated the other party.
So the overall battle can be seen like this: with 29,000 Saran soldiers, against only 4,000 Sauron cavalry.
"Actually, these 4,000 cavalry were driven into battle like spears! But at a certain point in time!" Chen Tianhao said again. He also lowered his head slightly, and even his eyes rolled upward, "It should be said that in the afternoon, their marshal suddenly issued an order, that is, urgently gather the elite cavalry in the camp, and then come to a terrible raid!"
Shen Mengting thought about this information in her mind, and soon came up with an answer, "Ah! It seems that he ...... It was because he saw us who went to their camp to spy on intelligence, that he came to raid on a whim!"
The 'he' in Shen Mengting's mouth naturally refers to Lian Yunpo, the generalissimo of the Sauron Empire. This ambitious man is now arguably Saran's greatest threat.
At the same time, Shen Mengting also felt a little regretful in her heart, she really felt that it was too hasty and abrupt to cross the border to the enemy's barracks without permission. And perhaps the enemy is also seizing on this trick and carrying out a terrible sneak attack.
Chen Tianhao had already seen Shen Mengting's current remorse, and he tried to steer the topic in other directions a little, "After the failed sneak attack, I also heard that the Sauron people no longer dare to look down on the Saran soldiers!"
As soon as Chen Tianhao's words fell, everyone followed for a short period of silence. They were all thinking about one thing, and that was that as a Saran, at least this battle was a fight to show their dignity.
"By the way, I've heard about their casualties on Sauron's side?"
Hearing a crucial piece of information, Shen Mengting followed with a glaring and asked. In fact, this is also the crux of the whole incident! On the battlefield, the casualty ratio has always been the most important item, and it cannot be ignored in a vacuum.
"How many casualties did they have?"
"There are more than 2,000 casualties! I heard that their marshal is very dissatisfied! I think that there should not be so many casualties in dealing with Saran!" Chen Tianhao glanced slightly.
"Ha! This breath! He can't stand the death of more than 2,000 people, does he think that no one will die in a war?" Qian Hao laughed, and gouged out his ears with his hands.
"He is the world's famous general of the Sauron Empire, and he has arrogant capital!" Shen Mengting shook her head and hugged her hands.
"No matter how famous a general in the world is, he shouldn't underestimate the enemy, right?" Shen Jun didn't forget to add, "Oh! That's right! It seems that the characteristic of their Sauron Kingdom is that they like to underestimate the enemy!
"But what's the use of being invincible in the world? It's not that we've been defeated!" Qian Hao shook his body, and even his sitting posture changed to a crooked appearance.
"But, Qian Hao, are we all wondering if we really have to defeat them?"
Qian Hao didn't seem to understand Shen Mengting's words, "Huh?
She was right! We had seven times the strength of our side, and we did not have a complete victory. You can see how terrifying the soldiers of Sauron are!" Ma Liming's tone was quite serious. Of course, there are also excessive worries in the middle.
"I might as well put it this way! With nearly 30,000 troops, we will face off against more than 4,000 enemies! However, our casualties are more than twice that of the other side. More than 2,000 people have died, but we have 5,000 dead! And don't forget, we still have doctors on our side to treat them, otherwise the casualties will be even greater!"
Shen Mengting has already clarified all kinds of powers.
After Shen Mengting's words, most people's faces seemed to be shone with a veil of unease. Everyone stopped talking, and some even lowered their heads.
For example, Shen Jun, who had been giggling and laughing just now, is now patting his head with remorse.
"Okay! Don't think about it anymore!" In the end, this silence was broken by Shen Mengting. She also clapped her hands competently, and the sound of clapping was like thunder, "Some things are not a way to be sad." As I've been emphasizing, there are challenges that await us in the future!"
With that, she raised her head slightly. So far, the enemy Sauron has twenty-eight thousand soldiers!
And then Lin Mingyuan's regent's addition, he has also clearly told the number of enemies, "So what we will face in the future, there are 28,000 Sauron soldiers!"