"Nope. Sauron greeted him, glanced at Richard, and said solemnly, "On the contrary, Your Excellency Richard, we have won the battle. ”

After a pause, Sauron said: "Not long ago, before dark, our troops successfully drove the people infiltrated by the Sika Kingdom Alliance to the plains near Gotha City, forming an encirclement.

The people of the Sika Kingdom found that something was wrong and wanted to break through, so the light cavalry that had been prepared long ago cooperated with the elite heavy cavalry, and immediately launched a charge, covering the opponent's defense line and fighting a beautiful battle of annihilation. Eventually, with the exception of a few remnants of more than 200 Sika who fled to the nearby forest, half of the rest were annihilated and half captured.

Now it can be said that the infiltration force of the Sika Kingdom has been basically cleaned up, and half of the remaining remnants are wounded, and they can't survive in the forest without medicine. ”

"That's a good thing. Richard nodded when he heard this, but he was slightly puzzled in his heart: if it was really a happy event, then there was no need to call him in such a hurry, right?

"General Sauron, is there anything else going on besides this?" asked Richard.

"Of course. Sauron seemed to give a definite answer, "Now that the army infiltrated by the Sika Kingdom has been solved and the tunnel has been found, then we can really concentrate all our energy, manpower, and material resources to fight a national war with the Sika Kingdom on the border." ”

"Come and see, Your Excellency Richard!" Sauron waved his hand to signal Richard to come to the sand table, picked up a wooden stick and quickly pointed, quickly stating the distribution of the two forces on the border.

After finishing speaking, Sauron's eyes were a little blazing and said: "Originally, I thought that His Excellency Richard came to the front line, and the most important thing was to exercise the role of supervision, but looking at His Excellency Richard's performance, he also has a strong ability in command, and he has a sensitivity far beyond me, and the previous authentic discovery is an example."

Many of my men have said that His Excellency Richard was either lucky to have discovered the tunnels, or that they had some kind of means unknown to us. I'm a pragmatic person, and I don't want to get into what is going on, just know that His Excellency Richard has the ability and is willing to play for the League.

In the next big battle, I sincerely hope that Your Excellency Richard will fully cooperate with me, formulate a complete battle plan, and strive to defeat the people of the Sika Kingdom, break through their border defenses, and teach them a lesson. ”

"Uh......" Richard hesitated, "General Sauron, you are serious, I think it is just luck to find the tunnel, don't look down on me." I don't have any experience commanding battles, so I might be able to help you with a battle plan, but ......"

"No, though, since His Excellency Richard has agreed, let's get started. Sauron said very dryly.

Richard was stunned: "Now?"

"Now, of course. "Every second counts. We are preparing, and the people of the Sika Kingdom are also preparing, and whoever prepares first will have an advantage. ”

"Okay......"

The development of the battle plan, just like that, began somewhat unexpectedly with Richard.

The rest of the time is the time when the battle plan is constantly refining and becoming more complex.

Speaking of which, the battle plan is drawn to a point, which is the processing of data, just like doing a calculation problem.

It's just that this question is very large, there are thousands of variables, and many numbers cannot be completely determined, and there can only be a probability interval.

To give you an example, half of the success of a war lies in logistics.

So how to ensure good logistics is very important.

First of all, you have to know where each army is in the defensive line, you need to know what the army is missing, then you have to know where you can get the supplies, and finally you have to know how to get the supplies where they are needed.

It's not just two points between two points, with the shortest straight line.

From the supply point to the army, there are mountains and rivers in between, and there may be bands of thieves.

Then you have to consider whether to use soldiers to escort you, where to send the soldiers from, or whether to let the nobles passing through the territory send private soldiers to assist, then you need an official order.

In addition to soldiers, capacity is also considered.

After all, with the transportation capabilities of this world, it is difficult to transport things to the required place at one time, or the things at one material point are simply not enough, and they have to be transported to other material points.

So how to optimize the route is to be considered.

It's just a kind of material, that's pretty simple, but the army can't just want a kind of material, the army needs weapons and equipment, food, clothes, medicine, and all kinds of sundries and many other things - so the difficulty of the problem increases exponentially.

After the logistics are handled, there can be no mistake in the real battle.

It is necessary to find out the location, number, morale, equipment, and combat effectiveness of each unit, and try to figure out these data of the opposing teams.

The data on your own side is relatively easy to obtain, while the other side has to rely on scouts and spies to get it. If you get it, you can't fully believe it, so you have to verify it from multiple parties and try to confirm that this is not a fake data deliberately revealed by the enemy.

In this way, the final "battle plan calculation problem" will have countless unknowns.

To launch an attack under such a premise, it is necessary to guess various situations encountered and come up with a preliminary plan.

For example, if the offensive is extremely smooth, how to expand the results, or whether there may be traps, you must retreat decisively.

For example, if the offensive is frustrated, how to turn the situation around, whether to give up the offensive or mobilize reserve forces to take it up.

Another example is how to defend and then counterattack if the enemy strikes first before attacking.

Problems, a large number of problems, are constantly thrown out waiting to be solved.

It is true that there are many things that need to be handled by the two high-ranking military officials, Richard and Sauron, for example, they do not need to calculate how much food and medicine a regiment takes, and they do not need to distinguish between real needs and those that are falsely reported by insatiable officers, and these will be verified and completed by the staff and civilian personnel.

But even then, the two need to have an understanding of the numerous data, know what is important, what is secondary, what can be ignored for the time being, and what must be satisfied. Preparations for battle cannot be perfect, and it is up to them to make a choice at this time.

For example, does a convoy transport iron ingots for repairing weapons or medicines?

Both cavalry regiments want to compete for the position of the vanguard, who will be the main attacker and who will prepare?

To sum it up in one sentence, that is, the two should take care of all kinds of things and try to get an optimal result.

It was undoubtedly tiring, and it was not a short time, and Richard was busy for almost two days and two nights at the warm invitation of Sauron.

Two days later, in the middle of the night, the combat preparations were basically ready, the battle plan was drawn up, and the battle orders were in place.

With a general attack order coming out of the command room, the national war between the Soma Alliance and the Sika Kingdom really kicked off.