Volume 4: The Swan Song (Remastered) Chapter 47: Planning
Yu Bin is not an immortal, and it is impossible for him to make a plan that satisfies Kel'thugad out of nothing without the premise of detailed information on both sides of the enemy. Therefore, he did not hesitate to give up the dominance to the two lichs, believing that these two old monsters would definitely spare no effort to let Maltan fall into this pit in order to achieve their goal of seizing the source of the shadows.
However, unexpectedly, after discussing it with Les Frost for a while, Kel'thugad dropped the power to make this plan back into Yu Bin's hands.
"Little one! Your performances over the years have made me constantly refresh my opinion of you, so I wanted to see if you would continue to wow me this time. Any affection is precious to the undead, and I'd love to add a little new to my memory. Kel'thugad was obviously in a good mood, and was even willing to make a little innocuous joke with Yu Bin, "We are not just spectators of the idiot of Maltan Golden Coffin. Rice will explain all this to you, and I hope you will come up with a suitable plan as soon as possible. If you need help from the Psychic Academy, you can ask anyone to join except Dean Gardin. With their consent, of course. ”
Yu Bin saw that this was like a test for his subordinates by the leader in the real world, and Kel'thugad's request was to use Yu Bin's existing strength and the support of the Psychic Academy to make a plan, if this plan could satisfy him, then Yu Bin would be able to obtain a suitable enough identity in this operation, and obtain corresponding benefits from it.
Well, a reasonable request! Kel'thugad, a human-turned-lich, is indeed much better than the vampires of the Three Undead Empires who only know how to exploit and don't pay for it. It's no wonder that the small psychic academy is able to gather so many talents.
After leaving the room, Les explained to Yu Bin in detail what they had done in the revenge launched by Martan Golden Coffin, as Kel's request had been. Yu Bin had a feeling that Les, a famous lich in his previous life, was actually very kind to him, and this kindness was not even because of his teacher, Navik Frost. This made Yu Bin a little confused.
"I'm looking forward to what you can do for me!" After explaining clearly, Les drifted away, leaving Yu Bin alone and messy.
This kind of thing determines to a large extent the height that a power group can ultimately reach. And after Rice's introduction, Kel'thugad's background made Yu Bin once again refresh his understanding of this old lich.
He had already arranged some pawns by the Scrooge's side when Maltan destroyed Andohar. Even in the process of Maltan turning the whole of Andorjar into a paradise for the undead, the Cursed Cult established by Kel'thugad played an important role in it, and it was this cursed sect that spread a large number of undead plagues throughout the city of Andorhar, and the disaster came so violently that less than a few thousand people in the entire city of Andohar were finally able to escape.
And as more and more troops under Maltan's command, the Cursed Sect infiltrated it more and more, and until now, Maltan's every move is completely exposed under the nose of Kel'thugad, this old otaku who hides in the psychic academy and does not leave the door, can even be said to know the army under his command better than Maltan. Even two of the six hero-level forces under Maltan's command are members of the Cursed Sect.
This shows how tragic the miser was, and his every move could be said to be entirely a wedding dress for others, and it is no wonder that Kel'thugad did not look down on this new lich.
According to the latest information provided by Rice, Maltan obviously realized that the critical moment of life and death was coming, so he hid the most elite part of his army in the military fortress Radre Castle on the border between the Kingdom of Virgil and the Kingdom of Mynas, and Maltan himself became the magical advisor of the Kingdom of Madre, secretly corrupting the commander of Radre Castle and turning this military fortress belonging to the Kingdom of Mynas into his own nest.
Under the influence of magical hypnosis and the plague of the undead, the entire 70,000 soldiers of the Third Legion of the Kingdom of Minus stationed in the fortress have become puppets in the hands of Maltan, and at the slightest command from him, this insane human army will become his minions, stretching out the claws of death to his fellow citizens. In charge of assisting Maltan in defending Radre's Castle are two of his generals, the skeleton warrior Steyr and the undead warrior Enrique, two heroic combat powers.
The reason why this lich was able to turn an entire army of humans into his puppet so easily was actually thanks to the chaos and turmoil within the kingdom of Mynas.
The former king of the Minas Kingdom, Dinar Minas, continued to increase the tax burden in the country because he was devoted to pleasure, and because the Minas Kingdom was located on the front line of humans and the barbarians of the north, most of the land was barren, and the people's income was not high. In addition, it is also invaded by barbarians every year, so the strength of the kingdom is not as good as year by year.
Two years ago, the commoners, who could no longer handle the Dinar king's constant looting and raising taxes, finally launched a massive rebellion, and the nobles of the Minas Kingdom were deeply dissatisfied with the king who only knew how to hide in the palace, and finally sat back and watched the Dinar's rule be overthrown by the rebels, and the king of Minas was replaced by Laclaus, who used to be a butcher.
However, the fall of the dinar did not end the turmoil, and the irreparable division between the commoner Laclaus and the nobles of the Minus kingdom has made the human kingdom still in a state of incompatibility and internal division. It is precisely for this reason that Maltan was able to make trouble in Radre Castle with ease, turning this kingdom legion loyal to the noble forces into his puppets.
In addition to the base camp of Radre Castle, Martin also sent out his other subordinates to draw the attention of Dalaran and the kingdom of Virgil while continuing to expand his forces for him. Most of these subordinates are active on the border between the Kingdom of Virgil and other human countries, and the complex situation on the border is fanning the flames everywhere, giving the Kingdom of Virgil a headache.
As the expeditionary force won the defensive battle at Nanhai Town and began to prepare for the march into the Silver Pines Forest, Maltan immediately ordered his men who were fighting outside to attack Virgil at all costs, spreading panic as much as possible, and at the same time involving the main force of the kingdom's army, while he himself prepared to meet Dalaran at Radre Castle.
In Yu Bin's opinion, Maltan's strategy is not very bad, for a guy like him who has never had military experience, being able to do it to this extent is enough to be impressive.
As the largest supplier of gems in human countries, the Kingdom of Virgil has accumulated a lot of wealth over the years, otherwise Martan, a miser, would not have coveted the items used by the Kingdom of Virgil to hold celebrations, which eventually led to the death of people for money. A lot of wealth means that the people are rich, which allows the Kingdom of Virgil to have enough financial resources to develop the resources in the territory, but it also makes the commoners in the kingdom rarely willing to give up their rich lives to improve their strength. Therefore, the military strength of the Kingdom of Virgil can be said to be one of the lower of the twelve human nations, almost only higher than the Duchy of Nasol and the Dominion of Karasimis, and not even comparable to the Duchy of Giraldine.
In addition, the abundant mineral resources also led to the lack of arable land in the Kingdom of Virgil, and agricultural materials such as grain had to be imported from other countries all year round.
The weak military strength and poor logistics support capabilities make the Virgil Kingdom's combat effectiveness very low, and in peacetime, the other kingdoms do not care about this, and even hope that this small country will continue like this, as long as the Virgil Kingdom can provide enough military funds for the coalition forces in the camp war. And now, in the face of Maltan, a lich bent on revenge, the poor military strength of the Kingdom of Virgil is very worrying.
And the strategy used by Maltan also hit the weakness of the Virgil Kingdom, with his order, the four provinces owned by the Virgil Kingdom were lit almost everywhere, and the kingdom army of less than 200,000 had to be divided into several parts and rushed to the four provinces to rescue, and for a time there was no enough army to attack Radre Castle. In this way, the responsibility of besieging the castle of Radre will inevitably fall on the head of Dalaran.
Dalaran is not an independent kingdom, in fact, he is just an alliance of mages composed of several floating cities, let them provide thousands of mages, Dalaran may be able to do it, and even grit his teeth and take out one or two thousand people, but let them form an army of more than 100,000 people, Dalaran said that this is simply unrealistic! And it's impossible for a noble mage to be a big-headed soldier!
But if Dalaran did not besiege Maltan's undead army in Radre Castle, once he was released from the cage, the entire Virgil Kingdom would tremble under his iron hooves, and then the injured human civilians would not be a problem of tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands, but millions and tens of millions! Even Dalaran didn't dare to take this risk.
Yu Bin saw Martan's purpose at a glance, he just wanted to take advantage of the fact that the expeditionary force had not yet pacified the werewolf disaster, and the forces of the Bright Sect and Dalaran had not yet merged, and consumed Dalaran's power first, once the enemy of Dalaran was eliminated, even if the expeditionary force pacified the werewolf disaster and turned back to strike, he would have enough strength to resist. If he survives the war, the kingdom of Virgil, which has lost two powerful reinforcements, will no longer be able to stop his revenge.
On the one hand, they need to give priority to the material supply and military replenishment of the expeditionary force, on the other hand, because this is not a very large-scale war like a faction war, the number of armies of each country is still kept to a minimum, and there is no large-scale conscription of soldiers, and in addition to supporting the expeditionary force and satisfying the defense of their own country, it is difficult to come up with enough troops to help the Virgil Kingdom defend the territory.
This is the first time since Yu Bin was reborn to look at a war from this height, and he found that he had learned a lot from it, whether it was the expeditionary force or Arugao, Dalaran or Maltan, they all taught him a lesson invisibly. Arugao keenly grasped the logistical problems of the expeditionary force, and after the raid on Nanhai Town, the success of burning the supplies almost drove the expeditionary force into the sea. The expeditionary force led by Tibest also explained what it means to be resilient, and the cavalry troops of the Tirisfal Woodland did not hesitate to be encircled in order to relieve the pressure on Nanhai Town.
On the side of the Virgil Kingdom, Dalaran proved his qualifications as the guardian of the human race with practical actions, and despite criticism and criticism, he stubbornly guarded the stability of the Virgil Kingdom. As for Maltan, hehe, let's not talk about him, this guy can take a look at it except for this last hand, and the others can be said to have not even graduated from elementary school, and it is estimated that he has done much better than him if he changed any undead army commander.
With this valuable information, Yu Bin quickly sketched out the prototype of the plan in his heart. He summoned the past that had just been successfully advanced, and asked him to go with Alan to check the situation around Radre's Castle.
And he himself approached Gardin, the head of the Psychic Academy, hoping to obtain information about the activities of the Cursed Sect in the kingdom of Minas.
"No problem, Lord Kel'thugad has instructed me, and I will have the head of sect affairs in the Kingdom of Minus contact you. However, I think that this kingdom has only recently experienced the fall of the royal family, the crisis of power transfer, and the tension between the nobility and the new king is still not affecting the war at Ladre Castle at all. I suggest you focus more on the kingdom of Oberline. At least in my opinion, if there is anyone who can give the Kingdom of Virgil some help at this time, it is Gilinus Oberline. ”
"Thank you for the suggestion! However, contrary to you, it seems to me that the kingdom of Minus is the key to the outcome of this war. Yu Bin said.
Gardin shook his head indifferently, indicating that he was not optimistic about it.
"I don't think the Kingdom of Minas can help much." Lei Guang said on the way to accompany Yu Bin to find the head of the Cursed Sect's Minas Kingdom.
"Why?"
"Look! According to our understanding, the royal family of the Virgil Kingdom is similar to the overthrown Dinar Emperor of Minas, and they also like to enjoy it, but I am Laclaus, so I am unwilling to help this gang of moths! Besides, he, the emperor, has not subdued those nobles until now, how can he help the Virgil Kingdom? He was not afraid that he would send the army out to help on the front foot, and those nobles on the back foot would rob him of the throne? ”
"You're right! But you don't notice the two main points in that intelligence. First, the 70,000 soldiers in Ladre's castle belonged to the power of the aristocracy, and after removing these 70,000, the number of the aristocratic army was almost less than half that of the butcher king, and at this time they wished that Laclaus would send troops to fight Martan, lest these free-handed troops should aim their weapons at them. Second, it seems that the kingdom of Minas is still in a situation of antagonism between the aristocratic faction and the commoner faction, but last year's barbarian invasion, the kingdom of Minas did not suffer much damage, and even less than the loss during the reign of the king of Dinar. ”
Yu Bin patted Lei Guang's shoulder and said pointedly, "Also, don't forget what the other human kings call Laclaus the butcher. The conspirators of Minus! I don't believe that His Majesty has spent two years without dealing with the nobles in the country! ”