Aphenos has been getting more and more nervous lately, because he has analyzed from the intelligence that the time for Li Tianhao to enter the city of Basradic is imminent. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Chinese New Year's Eve, like his friend Harion, belongs to the younger generation of Arubanian generals, but the two have very different experiences.

Harion was three years younger than him, but he had taken the position of general early, but he had little chance to go to war, because he was a distant cousin of His Majesty the King in terms of genealogy, and his military career had been smooth from the beginning, so to speak, all of which were prepared for him. Of course, Harion is not incompetent, and Dikar is not enough to let a waste lead the army.

And Efinos' life was much more bumpy. Efinos showed his qualifications as a warrior at an early age, becoming a centurion at a young age. However, Efinos, who had been fighting all the way on his own, was very disgusted by others associating his promotion with his cousin Bilyuurdas, and he was also very disdainful of his cousin's various behaviors, so it was inevitable that there would be some complaints in his words, but he did not expect these words to reach the ears of Bilyuurdas, so he did not get promoted for a long time, and he established many feats on the northern border, and finally even General Shurya could not look at it, and forcibly promoted him to become a thousand-commander, Later, General Adrim promoted him to general. But even so, he did not escape the revenge of Bilyuurdas, and after being promoted to general, he was transferred to an idle position, and it was difficult to have the opportunity to perform meritorious service again. During the recent court struggle in Arubania, Ephenos was snubbed by both forces, because Pyruldas would not use him, but Sulla's party could not trust him because he was the nephew of Bilyuurdas, so Effinos became the lord of no one. This time, His Majesty personally promoted him to the rank of lieutenant of the commander of the defense of Basrady, and he was of course grateful to the King. However, the king revealed that he would choose between him and Harion to replace Bopos as long as he had made a meritorious service on the battlefield, and Ephenos felt a little embarrassed by this—he did not want to climb up on the shoulders of his superiors, but he could not disobey His Majesty. So unlike Harion, who was eager to try, Ephenos was thinking about how to build on his exploits while balancing the interests of his fellow ministers and superiors, and of course he didn't tell anyone about it.

Efinos was not satisfied with the soldiers under his command - if he had more time, he would have to strengthen the combat skills of these soldiers, which was not enough at the current level of training, and the level of each unit was uneven. The difficulty of getting these troops to win the battle-hardened Palchi army was understandable, and it was a source of tension for Efinos.

What should have come is still coming. The arrival of the first battle report gave everyone, including Efinos, a sigh of relief - about 20,000 Palci troops had landed in their own defense zone!

Efinos immediately began to adjust his deployment and prepare for the battle, but the next battle report left him confused: Palci's army did not attack him violently, but divided into several units to attack in all directions.

Palci's army will not rashly attack Basradis but will attack the area around Basara, which is as Adlerm expected, but the problem is that his and Harion's 80,000 troops have been stationed on the north and south sides of Basradic City, so Arubania's strategic intentions have been very clear, and it will be difficult for Palchi to attack the surrounding areas, but Palchi is still acting like this, so what is it for?

If he concentrates his forces to attack one of them, then there is no doubt that Palch will definitely lose, and the enemy general Li Tianhao should not make such a move that violates military common sense. Are they going to exhaust their troops and then fight themselves in a decisive battle? But then the Palchi army will also have a lot of losses, and if they don't get out of Palchi by then, they will be helpless, after all, they have an advantage in the number of troops. The most plausible explanation is that this is a ploy to lure the enemy, and Palch intends to find an opportunity to fight him.

After understanding this layer, Efinos also worked out his own countermeasures - no matter how many enemy attacks from several directions, his troops will only attack one of them in a group, and at the same time avoid a decisive battle with the enemy, grinding down the Palchi army bit by bit, and accumulating small victories into big victories.

Of course, the side effect of this is obvious, that is, it is almost impossible for Ephenos to save the people of any part of the country from the invasion of the Palci army. This would obviously have a bad effect on his reputation, but it was better to have a bad reputation than to lose the battle, and Ephenos made up his mind.

For the next ten days, Aphenos led his troops into a tug-of-war with the Palcian army, which fought like a geist. As a result, Ephenos's army encountered the enemy only four times, and all four times the Palci army fled without a fight, with almost no substantial losses on either side. However, the people in the defense area in charge of Efinos were different, large and small villages, towns, and even small towns were poisoned by the Palchi army, a large number of houses were burned, and all the materials and food that could be used were also looted, which made the people who suffered losses have to be displaced and become refugees, and complaints against Ephenos have also risen rapidly.

It's not that he doesn't want to win against his opponent, but that his opponent doesn't give him a chance to win at all - it's a protracted game between the two sides, and the final result of the struggle is who runs out of supplies first. What is certain is that the loser will be the Palchi Army. Because it was not as easy to transport food from the sea as it was in Arubania, and the supplies plundered from the people were not abundant enough (before the war, the Arubanian army had already collected most of the surplus grain in the hands of the people and stored it in stronger cities), when the time came, the Palchi army would either fight on their backs or obediently return home. At that time, Ephenos could have sent troops to cut off the Palch army from his fleet, and from there he would have created an opportunity to defeat the enemy. But there are two prerequisites for all this, one is that they must endure until the enemy runs out of food, and the other is that their main forces do not suffer heavy losses. For this reason, Efinos decided to resist the pressure and fight the Palci army to the end.

But at this time, bad news came from his wingman Harion's side - at the same time as Aphenos and Palch were fighting, Palch also divided his troops to do the same thing to Harion's defense area, the difference was that the number of enemy troops on Harion's side was smaller, so under several unsuccessful blows, Harion finally couldn't bear to launch an all-out attack on the landing site, the landing place where the Palchi army must be saved, and fell into the trap of the Palci army!