Mifflin was the first officer on Francis's side to see the annihilation of his Red Dragon.

When the last two red dragons crashed into the top of the mountain and blew themselves up, he couldn't react for a while.

Mifflin had been stationed in the city of Thanhausen, opposite the mountainous kingdom of Bischberg, so he had a wealth of research in mountain warfare.

Because of his meritorious service to Elizabeth's crusade against the evil god believers in the labyrinth a few years ago, he entered the Praetorian Guard from the city defense army, which is so enviable.

This time Francis needed the cooperation of officers who were familiar with mountain warfare, and this task fell to him.

At the beginning, the traverser Yamada Hakumitsu, who had finally run back from the demon side, formulated a strategy for Francis to mobilize the enemy by feints first, and then attack the enemy's empty direction in a big way.

Immediately afterward, Mifflin proposed a feint with the Central Mountains as the direction of attack, and applied for a plan to arrange the dragon to strengthen his momentum first.

According to the plan, these fifty red dragons will cooperate with him, and the red dragons will be responsible for clearing the opponent's defensive strongholds in the central mountain range, and then he will command the light infantry and light cavalry who are good at mountain combat to attack westward with great fanfare, creating the illusion that his main attack direction is the central mountain range.

The dragons, who are the strongest combat power, have been sent here, and he doesn't believe that the other party will not transfer a large army to rely on the mountains to defend.

It's just that now the dragon army has been wiped out, and this time he has lost a lot of money.

Luckily, he remembered to have his men send the matter back to HQ via a magic teleporter.

Francis was also stunned when he received the news, but after learning that the dragons of the Ru army had also suffered a lot of losses and were now flying back, everyone in the command was slightly relieved.

Francis stood in front of the huge sand table, and he turned his head and asked Eleanor, who was standing beside him, "How many dragons can we summon with our resources?"

Eleanor said, "Without the Strategic Reserve, we can still recruit about five to seven dragons today. ”

Francis looked at Yamada on the other side of the sand table and asked, "What do you suggest?"

Yamada Bomitsu's hands trembled slightly, and the news of the annihilation of the Red Dragons frightened him.

He thought for a moment and said, "Do we change our strategy, call back the troops sent to strengthen the defense, and wait for the other side to stretch the battle line and wait for our assault team to act." ”

Francis sighed in his heart, Yamada Hakumitsu's method might work if it was put in reality, but it couldn't be used in this game, and as soon as he shrunk those resource points, he would lose them.

"General Mifflin's mountain troops in the Central Mountains and General Kopa's cavalry in the Southern Plains have been deployed, and easy mobilization would cause unnecessary confusion," he said. ”

"Hmm...... Send a brigade of griffin cavalry to General Mifflin, and the feint of the Central Mountains proceeds as usual. ”

"General Copa's cavalry also began to launch a tentative assault on the southern plains, making the enemy think that the cavalry was going north in the south, bypassing the central mountain range, and flanking the valley exit with General Mifflin. ”

In a forest camp in the Central Mountains, a fidgety Mifflin was pacing back and forth, occasionally looking at the map hanging on the shelf.

Francis told him to wait for the order to continue the attack west after the arrival of the griffin brigade was soon sent via a magic teleporter.

Mifflin breathed a sigh of relief, he was afraid that the third prince would let him stick to the mountains.

In his opinion, fortification in such a mountainous area with complex terrain is simply a nightmare, and only by attacking and grasping the initiative on the battlefield can he win.

And he was frightened by the goblins that Charles had recruited in the previous game, and he didn't think his defense could stop these elusive guys.

On the map, Mifflin's finger runs a few lines.

He made up his mind, and then presented a new plan to headquarters.

Francis's reply was not long in coming, agreeing to his plan of sending several thousand-men to raid and harass the other valleys to the west.

Mifflin immediately began to assemble his team to prepare for the attack, after several logistics bases in the valley were disturbed by the attack of the other party's red dragons, and the threat from the sky had to be taken seriously.

He used the same method as the griffon knight to pin his men from the nearby trees, and when he saw something flying from the sky, he hid into the woods on both sides of the valley.

At the same time, at the eastern end of the southern plain, Kopa, the deputy commander of the cavalry regiment of the Philippine Guard, felt a little pain in his head.

According to the plan, his goal was first to launch a feint attack with Mifflin in the mountains, to move the enemy's main force to the north, and the final blow to the enemy came from the hidden assault corps behind him.

As soon as the time for the battle came, Kopa sent a large number of light cavalry scouts and griffon knights to the southern plains to reconnoitre.

Cavalry assaults are the most important thing to avoid reality and make up for nothing, so the intelligence work before the war must not be pulled down.

The results of the Griffin Knight's scouting made Copa want to cut people.

The enemy had built a fortress on the other side of the plain, which he expected, and he had built a fortress on this side of the plain as well.

Then he found that the enemy had built a fortress on the southern end of the central mountain range, and although he was a little surprised, he was not too surprised.

This fortress will threaten your troops passing through the plains from the northern flank, but if you have enough supplies and go further south to avoid it, that threat will not be a problem.

The biggest headache for him was that the southern part of the plain was dug out by the opponent's excavators, and all the soil dug out of these trenches was piled on the enemy side.

Naturally, these trenches did not cover the entire plain, and no one could dig a forty-kilometer-wide plain in five days.

These trenches are not designed to block the enemy's footsteps, but to lure the enemy to a better path, and thus control the enemy's direction.

Copa analyzed the distribution of the enemy's trenches and concluded that the enemy wanted to keep his advance route as far north as possible, and his logistical lines of communication under the threat of a fortress at the southern end of the mountain.

If he forced his way through the trench area, he believed that as long as his cavalry team stopped, the opponent's "Charles organ" would rain down.

Frightened by the terrifying firepower when he tried this weapon yesterday, he immediately offered to recruit fewer dragons and equip his cavalry with more "organs", and he was confident that he would be able to tear a hole in the enemy's line.

As a result, his suggestion was not heeded.

Francis's order for the cavalry to bypass the central mountain range and feint on the western side of the valley soon came.

Kopa stood in front of the map, calculating the time it would take for both sides to move.

The most troublesome part of the feint attack is to play the fake as the real thing, and to convince the enemy, you must first take it as real.

Copa and Mifflin communicated through a magic teleport, and Mifflin had planned to attack a little forward during the day today, and then march in the second half of the night to attack the western end of the valley at dawn.

In response, Kopa offered to send the first feint force to attack the enemy's fortress on the opposite side of the plain, and in the evening the feint main force of the feint force of one man and three horses quickly passed through the plain under the air cover of the griffin knights, and then bypassed the central mountain range and entered the woods west of the mountain range to force a march north, and would arrive at the western end of the valley by tomorrow morning.

The two communicated the details of the operation again, and finally decided on a plan.

Looking at the final plan, the two of them felt that this plan was indeed very real, and they felt that maybe the time would come to fake the show, and the strategic reserve would not pass through the southern plains, but through the valley to kill the enemy's castle, and finally win the victory.

In the camp in the mountains, Mifflin began to arrange for the march, he did not expect Kopa to arrive in time, the battlefield was too uncertain, and he had to be prepared for a tough battle to fight when he arrived at his destination.

Copa chose to let the main force set out in the evening for fear that the troops would be covered by "organ" fire during the march, and he was no exception, and the troops in the valley were stopped by that terrible fire, and they died even more miserably.

Mifflin studied the map carefully, and the valleys in the mountains crisscrossed the city, like the streets of the city, but there were many small valleys where not many people could walk.

While waiting for the Griffin Knights to arrive, Mifflin drew a line of marching routes on the map with his pen.

He decided to send more squads to disperse in the valleys on both sides of the "main road" to prevent enemy ambushes. After the arrival of the griffin knights, they will follow the main force from the air, clearing the hills on both sides of the valley and covering the main advance.

Suddenly, a herald stumbled in and knocked Mifflin into his arms as he was about to leave the tent.

"What's going on?" Mifflin asked, frowning, a hint of foreboding.