Li Tianhao, who returned to Kadum City again, was given a grand welcome. Wei Song and Muller went out of the city with many civil officials and generals to greet them, and even Xenas, who led the team to Heikum City, also made a special trip to come for a while. Everyone has been separated for a long time, and it is difficult to describe all kinds of parting feelings.

After entering Kadum City, Li Tianhao immediately began to inquire about the progress of combat preparations, and Wei Song concisely reported the situation. During Li Tianhao's absence, in addition to completing the training of newly recruited soldiers, Dils also launched a large-scale purge of Yaqi spies, to which Lorencis played a great role; At the same time, under the auspices of Wei Song, the development carried out on the west bank of the Namra River progressed rapidly, and the grain output in the Dils territory that year increased by more than 60 percent compared with the previous year.

Li Tianhao was very satisfied with this, originally he was most worried that the food supply would not be available, but now Wei Song solved this problem for him. The next question to discuss was to do it before the Yaquies were ready, so how should the stated goal of the battle plan for this attack be determined? Since the food supply was limited, it was naturally impossible for the army's offensive to continue indefinitely, and the territorial control area in the northern part of Yaki was mainly concentrated along the Nera River, and the narrow terrain was very conducive to entrenchment, and it was quite difficult to march on both sides of the Nara River at the same time.

According to the information gathered in the past, the nearest city north along the city of Highcomb is Balmer, but the two cities are quite deserted, especially after the Tyrsian army captured the city of Highcomb. Yaki even took all the villages around the two cities away, and the troops along the way would not be able to collect a grain of food. Besides, Balmer is a small town. It is also a heavily fortified city, and even if it is barely captured, it will not greatly improve the supply situation of the troops. This supply problem was also the reason why very few of Yaki's surrendered soldiers chose to return to their homeland in the first place.

If Balmer is stormed, not only will a lot of supplies and troops be wasted, but after Balmer is captured, the Dils rebels may only be able to march to the city of Giti to reach the limit. Then this war can only take Jiti as the end of the strategic goal.

Wei Song thinks that it is inappropriate, the resources of the righteous army are limited, so these war resources should be maximized, and now that the strength of the righteous army has been greatly strengthened, it is better to act separately from the regular advance. While advancing towards Balmer, the surprise forces crossed the Naura River, crossed the Corumbaton Bend directly, and attacked the fortress of Corumbaton and Naperthys on the north bank, which were rich in produce and food. As long as these two places are captured, Miujili and Jiti, who are caught in the middle, will not be attacked. The only problem was to pass through the area, where there were also villages without supplies, and even water was scarce. This comes with a lot of risk.

Wei Song looked at Li Tianhao's face with interest, as if he was testing whether Li Tianhao had the courage to take a risk. And Li Tianhao kept touching his chin while staring at the combat map, as if he was planning something in his flickering eyes.

Finally he spoke, "I don't think it's a good idea to attack Napertys. Although Mr. Wei's proposal was attractive, Naperthys should not be the target of our operation. ”

"Oh? Why is that? Wei Song glanced at him and asked.

"The reason is simple. The Yaki Army has begun to mobilize troops to strengthen the garrison. If I were the commander of the Yaki Army, I wouldn't have focused my defense on Balmer. It was too close to us, and it was relatively difficult to transport troops. What's more, we could avoid their key defenses and go straight to Naperthys, where they would be in a position to retreat. Therefore, it is safer to concentrate forces in the area west of the fortress of Kulubadon. It was relatively rich and could garrison more troops. And it can also cut off our army's attempts to bypass Balmer and Gitti and go straight to Napertis. If this is not arranged, Yaki only needs to slightly strengthen the defenses of Balmer and Giti to achieve twice the result with half the effort, and our army can only advance layer by layer, slowly crawling forward step by step. If we adopt this detour strategy, it is very likely that we will run headlong into the trap of the Yaki army, and then the surprise attack will not be successful, but we will be in a desperate situation due to lack of supplies. ”

Wei Song nodded and said, "That's right, there is indeed such a possibility. But if we don't make a detour, we will have to move forward along the Nara River step by step, and then our goal for this year will have to stop at Gitti. ”

"Not necessarily, sir. My intention was that since we were going to take a detour, why not take a bigger risk? Li Tianhao said and pushed a little harder on the map, and said: "We will not go to Napertys, which the Yaqui people can expect, but bypass the actual control area of the Yaji Army and directly attack Epsommilton in the north!" ”

Wei Song's eyes lit up: this plan is too bold! To sneak up on Epsommiton, which is behind enemy lines, it is necessary to bypass all areas of the sub-unit's actual control that may be detected in order to achieve suddenness. However, in doing so, it was necessary to enter areas controlled by barbarian tribes, which not only lacked food and water, but also had to face fearless barbarian warriors, who were said to be mostly cannibal tribes, and the hardships of the areas where they lived and their ferocity and fierceness made the Yaki army dare not provoke them, but on the contrary, they would often come to raid the people of Yaki, which is why Yaki was not developed in areas far from the west bank of the Namra River. Now Li Tianhao actually wants to sneak attack Epsommilton through the area controlled by the barbarian tribe, which is simply playing with his life rather than taking a risk.

Looking at Wei Song's surprised expression, Li Tianhao said, "Sir, don't worry, this time we have enough capital to make such a bold move." First of all, after our army has your joining, Mr. Wei, even without my direct command, it can be invincible, so you will command the infantry group to steadily advance towards Balmer; And we can lead our cavalry troops, lightly armed, attack Epsmilton as fast as possible, cut off the Yaki army from behind, and then we can flank the Yaggee army on both sides as long as we hold on to Epsmitton. ”

"That's not right!" Wei Song immediately objected: "First, as the commander-in-chief, he is so deeply in danger, if he makes a mistake, it will affect the overall situation; Second, even if the cavalry was lightly armed, it was impossible to carry enough food and grass, in which case the soldiers and horses would begin to starve before they reached Epsommiton, and even if they reached Epsommiton, they would have no combat effectiveness. ”

Li Tianhao said with a smile: "It is precisely because the cavalry can't do this that we can launch a surprise attack, and we use all the available camels in the territory to load grain and grass to move with the cavalry, which can alleviate some of this problem, and this risk is worth taking." Moreover, we have another move available to reduce the risk of such a move. ”

"A move? What move? Wei Song was puzzled by Li Tianhao's explanation.

Li Tianhao smiled and didn't answer, but swept his eyes to Mueller, who was standing aside silently, and Mueller immediately lowered his head. Alam beside Li Tianhao couldn't help but laugh when he saw it, and the rest of the generals all looked at the three people who looked at each other with strange expressions with confused eyes. (To be continued......)

PS: There is a new geolocation relationship in this chapter, please go to the comments to see the map indication