Regarding the order to line up and assemble, the herald shouted every five minutes. www.biquge.info In this way, the later refugees and the defeated soldiers can also be divided into two teams, and those who want to continue fighting can go to the open space outside the east gate to assemble.

After about half an hour, the scouts came back one after another. These scouts were Yishan's guards, and they met in the open space outside the west gate according to Yishan's instructions, and after dispersing the nearby refugees and routs, they returned to the castle together.

Maier compiles the information the scouts have brought back, draws conclusions, and tells them to everyone.

"The attack on Village Twenty-Nine was an unknown number of evil witches, as well as several bandits. The bandits are mainly concentrated in the west, and for unknown reasons they are at war with the Evil Witch, with heavy casualties on both sides. Now that the witch has taken control of most of the villages, she is looting the supplies in the villages. This should be an opportunity for us. ”

Now a force of several hundred men had been assembled in the open space outside the east gate, of which there were less than a hundred cavalry. The defenders of the castle were all infantry, but the Yu family still had more than a hundred cavalry, and Yishan's more than 300 guards were cavalry.

Mel was ready to gather these cavalry and use them to defeat the forces of the witches and bandits one by one. The infantry was responsible for recovering the village and destroying the remnants of the enemy army.

Now that Mel had five hundred cavalry at his disposal, the task of destroying the forces of the witches and bandits one by one was no problem for him. However, the number of infantry was too small, and even with the addition of Urlis's maid team, the total strength was less than fifteen hundred. The defenders of the castle were immobile, so that Mel had less than a thousand infantry left.

This level of strength is more than enough to wipe out the remnants of the enemy army, but it is somewhat difficult to recover the village. If these 1,000 people were scattered among more than 70 villages, each village would only be able to get a dozen people, and if the evil witch and the bandits gathered a force of a few dozen people to attack the village, they might not be able to hold this manpower.

"Uh...... Because of the lack of infantry, let's change the plan......"

Seeing that there was a hole in the battle plan, Maier looked embarrassed and couldn't help but be a little discouraged. Seeing this, Euris immediately comforted him and said, "It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter! This is your first time making a battle plan, and it's amazing to be able to do it to this extent! ”

"And !!"

Seeing that Euris took the opportunity to brush up on Maier's favorability, Yishan immediately used a louder voice to draw Maier's attention to her side.

"And it's a very feasible plan! Those villages are already burning, and it doesn't matter if you want them or not! I think...... I think we can abandon those villages and divide the infantry into several teams, and only be responsible for destroying the remnants of the enemy's army, so that the infantry will not be enough? ”

"But we don't know the number of enemies yet, and judging from the current intelligence alone, there are hundreds of bandits, and the evil witch has more than a thousand. If the number of enemies is larger, the infantry will still be broken individually. ”

While the two girls encourage Maiel, Maier finds fault with this plan.

"What's more, we only have one cavalry unit, and it will take a long time to break the enemy army one by one, and if the enemy in other areas takes advantage of this opportunity to escape with supplies, we have no choice."

"Then we can divide the cavalry into two or three teams?" Yu Mingli suggested.

"If the cavalry is too scattered, it may be broken individually, and we will lose valuable maneuver in vain. When we are left with only infantry, the enemy will be able to do whatever he wants in the territory. ”

You can't go wrong, you can't go wrong!

Mel clenched his fists, teeth clenched. Although he was a first-time commander, he knew the importance of every decision he made. If he misjudges, or gives the wrong order, someone will die for nothing. Therefore, he wanted to improve the plan as much as possible to reduce the losses of his own troops.

But Mel forgets that this is not a battle, but an encounter. Time is of the essence in skirmishes, and commanders need to be contingency far more than strategy. While he hesitated, the witches had already defeated the bandits once and for all, scavenging cartloads of supplies and preparing to transport them out.

It's almost time for the final step.

The Witch Commander's eyes gleamed with excitement as she looked at the moon rising into the sky.

Capture Nami Castle - this is the ultimate goal of the Witch. Nami Castle is not only a symbol of the 29 villages, but also has a large number of materials stored in the castle. On top of that, the castle coffers a lot of cash, which is what the witches want most.

Human beings are creatures that are never satisfied with being well fed and clothed. Once the time comes to have food and clothing to go by, they want more. And most of these things can be bought with money.

Seeing that the evil witches in the villages were no longer attacked, the chief witch thought that the forces of Nami Castle were exhausted, so he asked the evil witches to suspend the delivery of supplies and began to assemble near Nami Castle.

In preparation for this attack, the Great Witch promoted all the trainee witches in training to official witches, regardless of age, and sent them to the Twenty-Nine Villages to participate in the operation. With the exception of a dozen or so brigades used to protect the territory, all of the outer witches took part in the battle, so that the total number of witches participating in the direct attack exceeded 4,000.

In order to completely eradicate the bandits in the Twenty-Nine Village, the evil witch also sent hundreds of people to attack the bandits' lair. According to the battle plan, they will cooperate with the inner responders who are ambushed in the cottage, capture the cottage, kill the people who should be killed, rob the people who should rob, rob the materials that should be robbed, and finally burn the cottage.

Before the attack began, the witch hiding in the mountains was not just waiting for an opportunity. They built a lot of ladders and rudimentary rams, and these siege weapons were specially prepared for Nami Castle.

Before attacking Nami Castle, the witches practiced their skills in a small castle of a large clan. The walls of the castle were less than four meters high, and the gates were not very strong, and it didn't take long for the castle to be breached. The evil witches coveted the sons and daughters of the great clans, and after the city was broken, they burned and looted in the castle.

They killed women when they saw them, robbed men who looked okay, and some were brutalized on the spot, and the scene was chaotic. The shrine maiden was afraid that her subordinates would be ruined because of these petty profits, so she sent the "Black Guards" to maintain order. After the Blackguards killed a few witches who coveted men, the witches didn't dare to mess around again.

After this, the commander of the Witch Maiden personally led the main force of the Witch Maiden in the direction of Nami Castle. The rest of the evil witches gathered all the supplies according to the instructions of the chief witch of the shrine maiden, and took them away together when the main force returned from the defeat of Nami Castle.

Young men are also one of the most important items for the witches. In order to prevent the remaining evil witches from delaying the delivery of supplies because of these young men, the shrine maiden took all the young men away.

When the main force of the Witch Maiden arrives near Nami Castle, Mel and the others finally come up with a battle plan that satisfies everyone. At this moment, a defending officer hurried to the council chamber. His face was pale, his eyes were unsteady, and his steps were a little messy.

"No...... Oh no......" reported the defending officer in a trembling voice, "the enemy...... The enemy is coming in the direction of the castle......"

"What?"

Without waiting for Maier to react, Yu Mingli stood up suddenly.

"How many are there?!"

"From ...... Judging by the number of torches...... At least three thousand people ......"

Three thousand?!

This number surprised Meier. There are now a large number of refugees and routs outside the castle, and if the enemy attacks the castle now, it will definitely cause a huge panic. In the chaos people will step on each other, and in this way many people will definitely die.

And that's not even the scariest of all. In the event that the enemy drove the refugees near the city gates and then took advantage of the chaos to attack the city, the pressure on the defenders would be very great. Even if Maier used magic flares to illuminate the castle, they would still kill the refugees and the routs by mistake, and when the enemy fanned the flames, it would be troublesome for the refugees and the rout to join the siege team.

In fact, that's what the witch intended.

The Witch Maiden's commander sent a few hundred men and told them to drive the refugees in the direction of the city gates, and then took advantage of the chaos to attack. After the castle defenders shot many refugees and routs in a panic, the chief shrine maiden sent someone to shout at the crowd, "The people in the castle will sacrifice you for self-preservation!" If you want to stay alive, join us! Just take the castle! Take your possessions within! ”

Of course, this was to deceive the refugees and the routs, but many of them believed the words of the evil witch and joined the siege team. The castle defenders also heard the witch's shout, and they didn't know if anyone had joined the enemy, so they could only attack those outside the castle indiscriminately.

Fortunately, there was still a force of several hundred people standing by in the open space outside the east gate, and after discovering the evil witch's troops, they quietly went around to the rear of the evil witch and launched a surprise attack on them. The temporary commander of this unit is also an officer from other clans, his surname is Dan, his name is Yunhe, he is eighteen years old this year, he is the deputy of the temporary chief of Nami Castle who has been killed in battle, and he came up with the idea of sneaking around the rear to attack the evil witch.

The Witch in the rear was immediately thrown into disarray after being attacked, but the Witch's commander quickly withdrew his troops from the front line and came back to reinforce them. The morale of the soldiers under Dan Yunhe was not very high, and it was okay to fight a good fight, so it didn't take long for these soldiers to collapse.

Dan Yunhe led a dozen cavalry to charge and kill for a while, and when he saw that his side had no chance of winning, he immediately led his cavalry to retreat. The Witch had no cavalry, and no one could ride horses, so she could only watch the enemy's cavalry scatter and flee, and then take out her anger on the less mobile infantry.

After Danyunhe withdrew, he gathered some cavalry and led them towards a nearby village. He estimated that it would be impossible for the witch to carry all the supplies in the twenty-nine villages in half a night, so he was going to take these cavalry to harass the witches who were carrying the supplies.

The operation outside the castle did not have any substantial results, but it bought precious time for Nami Castle and the refugees and defeated troops outside the city. While the witch was dealing with the Danyun River, the refugees and the rout fled in all directions, running in the direction they thought were safe, and only stopped out of breath when they couldn't run.

The news of the dispersal of the refugees and the rout soon reached the council chamber, while Maier and the others were still struggling to figure out how to solve the problem. When the girls learned that the problem had been solved, they all showed incredible expressions.

Only Mel was calmer, as he remembered what Gray had said.

The battlefield is a place where God decides the victor. No matter how well prepared you are, no matter how many advantages you have, you can lose the battle for all sorts of strange reasons. The reason for the defeat may be due to the whim of a junior officer of the enemy army, or the luck of one of the enemy soldiers, and at the most exaggerated time, you don't even know how you lost, and the enemy doesn't know how he won.

Later generations will comment on the battle for a variety of reasons, they will laugh at the incompetence of the loser, they will praise the correct decision of the winner, the fault of the loser will be infinitely magnified, and the correct decision of the winner will be the same. But as everyone knows, in the vast majority of cases, what the winner did, the loser also did, but they still failed to win the battle.

There is no doubt that the situation has been completely reversed after the refugees and routs fled the castle. There are now more than a thousand defenders in the castle, of which more than 600 are elite troops. Although there were more than 2,000 witches on the besieging side, many of them were newcomers who had just left the witch training camp, and there were even children under the age of ten. Coupled with the fact that the witches had been fighting for half a night and were already exhausted, the only reason why they were able to maintain their morale was because they had not yet recovered from the excitement of the robbery.

Maier couldn't analyze so much, but he knew that now that the main forces of the witches were gathered outside the castle, he could annihilate them in one fell swoop.