Chapter 239: Guerrilla Warfare
Song Zheng met Garissus in a low tent.
At this moment, Garissus is no longer as energetic as he had seen in the royal capital of Lordaeron.
He was dressed in tattered chain mail, his gray hair was scattered, and his messy beard hadn't been taken care of in days.
"Marshal, we are troops from Dalaran to support." Song Zheng frowned slightly, he was still a few meters away from Garissus, and he could already smell the strong smell of wine.
"Dalaran?" Gathers's cloudy eyes brightened a little, and a smile finally appeared on his face.
Obviously, Dalaran can still bring a glimmer of hope in a difficult situation.
"Yes, we have come to support Lordaeron on the orders of Lord Antonidas, and then Lord Antonidas will personally lead the army." Ronin said in a deep voice, he could also see the decadence of Garisses' army, and he could only borrow the name of Antonidas to boost the opponent's confidence.
"Lord Antonidas will come in person? It's great that if the great legendary mage can come and help Lordaeron himself, then we have hope, please sit down, I'm too poor to be hospitable. Hearing this, Garissus was really excited, and even stood up and stretched out his hands to welcome the arrival of Luo Ning and Song Zheng.
"I don't know how many soldiers and horses the marshal has here now?" As soon as Song Zheng sat down, he asked, which was also the question he was most concerned about at present.
Only knowing the manpower in Gallissus' hands can he plan his next move.
"This ......," said Garry Thurston, hesitantly.
Song Zheng originally thought that he was embarrassed by the defeat, but after hesitating for a while, Garissus finally shook his head and said: "I don't know the specific number of people now, now there are routs coming to converge every day, and at the same time, they are constantly deserting away, and I don't know how many people there are." ”
"......" Song Zheng and Luo Ning couldn't help but look at each other.
Marshal Garissus didn't even know how many soldiers he had under him, which was a strange thing.
With Garissus's original strength, it should not be like this, it is estimated that the previous defeat gave him too much psychological shadow, as for hiding in this tent and drinking all day.
"I wonder what the marshal is going to do next?" Song Zheng sighed to himself, and could only ask Garissus what he was going to do.
"Now that the Undead Scourge is too powerful and in full swing, it is almost impossible to defeat them head-on, so I plan to build a strong fortress here with the help of the treacherous terrain to prevent those damned undead from approaching the royal capital." As he spoke, Gallisus pulled out a map from a corner and kept pointing and drawing on it, trying to illustrate the benefits of building a fortress in the area.
Song Zheng looked at the map and found that his current location should be the location of the game's undead fortress.
It is indeed a dangerous pass, and it is surrounded by high mountains on both sides, and if a fortress is built, it is indeed easy to defend and difficult to attack.
It's just that he is not very optimistic that he can use this fortress to stop the undead natural disaster.
"If a fortress is built here to stop the undead scourge, it will be equivalent to giving all the land in the east to the undead scourge and, more importantly, the population of the east...... Once the undead scourge captures Andorhar, it will be able to quickly double the number, and then no one will be able to resist them, and after occupying Andorhar, they can easily go south along the Sodoril River, and the south is already a scorched earth because of the war, there is no stronger army at all, it is estimated that it will fall in less than a month, and then it will be easy for those undead to attack Dalaran or King Lordaeron. Song Zheng said as he nodded lightly at the location of Andohar City.
Garry Thurston, who had been talking, fell silent.
The reason why Andorhar is prosperous is originally because it is located at the intersection of east, west, north and south, and the transportation is very convenient, and once it is lost, it naturally allows the undead disaster to easily spread to all parts of Lordaeron.
Garissus was obviously aware of this, but he had been avoiding it, either explicitly or implicitly, because he was afraid to go to Andohar to support him again.
"So what do you say you should do? Lord Baron, you don't want us to continue to Andorhar now, the army of millions of undead has already surrounded Andorhar, and if we go to support, we will only be consumed like we were in the original Daron County, unless Lord Antonidas can bring hundreds of thousands of reinforcements. Garissus said with some decadence.
Although Dalaran's strength is good, it is absolutely impossible to have hundreds of thousands of troops, even Lordaeron, the largest human kingdom, can only maintain about 200,000 troops.
"We don't have to go to Andohar immediately, but we must not blindly defend, we need to continue to attack, in order to contain part of the forces of the Undead Scourge, so that they can not attack Andorhar with all their might, I just came out of Andorhar before, that city is very strong, and the supplies are sufficient, it can definitely hold out for a long time, as long as we can ensure that Andorhar is still in our hands before the reinforcements from other human kingdoms arrive, then we have the hope of defeating the Undead Scourge." Song Zheng suggested.
In the face of that powerful undead natural disaster, since the course of history has long changed, he also has no good way, and all he can do at present is to persist in resisting in order to wait for reinforcements from other human kingdoms, if he can hold out until the reinforcements from Stormwind City arrive, it will be even better.
"Take the initiative to attack...... Wouldn't that be too dangerous? Gather hesitated.
Song Zheng immediately said: "It's not dangerous, I have personally experienced the battle in Dalong County, although the army of the undead scourge is strong, but there is a big weakness, that is, the mobility is too poor, although it has flexible air troops, but the power of those gargoyles is not strong, and the number is very scarce, the real main force of the undead disaster is still those skeletons and ghouls, and their speed is far inferior to our cavalry." ”
"But there are so many skeletons and ghouls that our cavalry will easily surround them once they charge, as was the case with the two cavalry teams I had before." Garissus looked annoyed.
"The cavalry does not necessarily need to charge, we can use the high mobility of the cavalry to conduct guerrilla warfare, first eliminate the lone undead troops on the periphery, and at the same time, it is best to be able to kill one or two gargoyle troops by besieging the city and sending reinforcements, which can also relieve a lot of pressure on the city of Andorhar, if we can mobilize the main force of the undead scourge because of this, it would be great." Song Zheng said.
This should also be the method adopted by Cheng Yuan, and his detour to the south is to avoid the main force of the undead disaster, in order to try to eliminate those scattered undead troops.
"Guerrilla warfare...... You can try it. After thinking for a moment, Garissus quickly nodded, although he was defeated, he still had a lot of research on military affairs after all, and immediately understood that Song Zheng's suggestion should be feasible.