"Bang!"

The sound of a heavy object falling echoed through the chamber. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

A solemn middle-aged man, panting for breath, his face flushed, which made the rest of the people in the secret room worry about whether this guy would suddenly die.

Soon, though, the middle-aged man let everyone in the secret room know that their worries were unfounded. Although he still looked angry and angry, he still picked up the chair he had kicked out and set it up and sat down again.

"Is there no other way?" The middle-aged man said unwillingly.

This sentence attracted the attention of the other people in the secret room, and everyone's eyes couldn't help but look at the face of the gray-haired old man sitting on the left side of the long table.

Apollo. Beta, ranked ninth out of ten, is a legendary general who is very good at using the advantage of numbers.

Although he is slightly deficient in the overall strategic situation and his tactical literacy is relatively average, he is very good at making the most of the forces that can be used at hand, and almost accurately divides the labor to each soldier.

Basically, with the same size of troops, Apollo's tactical literacy was not so desperate, unlike William and Hela, who always created a sense of despair. But if Apollo has more troops than the opponent, even if it is only one percent more, he can make the opponent lose the war inexplicably, so let Apollo command the battle, at least more than one percent more troops than the enemy.

Of course, in terms of troops, the more the merrier, and the more troops you have, the faster Apollo will win the war.

"No way." Apollo saw that everyone's eyes were looking at him, but he was not timid at all, and said calmly, "Hela. Garcia, although she is only the best player behind me, has a much better strategic sense than me. If I want to be undefeated against her, I must at least half as many troops as her, so that I can deal with her follow-up tricks. …… If you want to win, you have to at least double as her. ”

Apollo glanced around at the many nobles present, and despite their ugly faces, he continued: "I have studied her battle report, and this is a famous general who is very good at building momentum. Maybe when the war first broke out, she didn't look like she was powerful, but as the war progressed, everyone on the battlefield would become her pawns...... Friend or foe. ”

Apollo placed special emphasis on the words "friend or foe."

Once she became her pawn, the script basically went according to her choreography, and it was only a matter of time before she won the game. Unless she can go directly behind enemy lines to subdue and take Hela away, as she did in the battle where Ryan and Dabion broke out in the war, then they can undermine her general momentum. Otherwise, once she succeeds in building momentum, no one will try to block her attack. …… Well, maybe the god of war can, but I can't anyway. ”

"If that's the case...... Although we lost the first battle, we still have close to 70,000 troops, which is 20,000 more than the opponent's vanguard troops......"

A nobleman sitting in the third place on the right side of the long table suddenly interjected to break the solemn atmosphere in the secret room, and his words undoubtedly made the eyes of all the noble lords present light up, and they felt a glimmer of hope.

"It's too late, if you join forces half a month earlier, instead of looking for a way to try to leave, then maybe there will be a fight." Apollo shook his head, "Now? …… Oh, Hela has built momentum. If you give me 70,000 troops, I can indeed annihilate their vanguard, but then I will have only ...... left at most 12,763 soldiers. Now that more than half of the lords and nobles in the country have chosen to remain neutral and do not intend to join this war, how many troops can you find for me after this war? ”

Speaking of this, Apollo glanced at all the nobles present, and these nobles who were inspected by Apollo's gaze couldn't help but bow their heads.

However, Apollo obviously didn't intend to listen to their answers, and continued to say to himself: "If I remember correctly, the main force of the Void Empire Expeditionary Force probably still has close to 100,000 troops. If the Thunder Lion led by Alfred on the Western Front is allowed to join the battlefield, then the strength of the army will swell to more than 130,000, can you find me 247,237 soldiers? Even if you remain undefeated, you will bring me 182,237 soldiers. ”

Alike.

This is a special talent that Apollo possesses.

For other generals, even if they are the top generals of the mainland at the level of ten generals, they naturally hope that the higher the combat quality of the legion they can command, the better, otherwise there will be no distinction between the fifth and sixth levels of the army.

But Apollo was an outlier.

For him, all he needed was a sufficient number of troops. Those so-called ace divisions and elite divisions, in Apollo's eyes, are nothing more than one person who can be used as three people or as two people. Therefore, if there is really no elite army with stronger combat power and military literacy, as long as he is given enough troops, he can still fight a beautiful battle.

It's just a pity that today's Duchy of Rumbell has nothing.

It is difficult for a good woman to have no rice to cook, which is the current situation of Apollo.

"Is there really no way?" A middle-aged man with a slightly haggard face spoke a little dejectedly.

He sat in the first seat of the secret room, and a year ago, he was in high spirits, but now he didn't look much better than Apollo, and even more inferior to Apollo in terms of spirit, and he looked like he was going to die at any time.

This man was Cecilia's uncle, the one who killed Cecilia's father, his own brother, and now the Grand Duke of the Duchy of Rembell.

Magellan. Rumbel.

He was once considered the hero most likely to recover the Duchy of Rembell, as his individual innate abilities were the strongest of all royal bloodlines. But in the end, the transfer of the position of Grand Duke was not given to him, which made him feel extremely humiliated, and because of this, the seeds of civil strife were planted. Especially after hearing that Cecilia activated the phoenix blood of the Rembell royal family, he was so shocked that he couldn't sleep for days on end.

Although from a moral point of view, Magellan was indeed a king-killer, a despicable villain.

But from the point of view of the Principality of Rembell, Magellan was a very qualified administrator. Under his leadership, although the entire Duchy of Rumbert still can't get rid of the puppet status, the entire Duchy has shown a thriving development posture, which alone is enough to prove his good political achievements. Otherwise, it would be impossible for the Duchy of Rembell to let so many people stay.

If Magellan was truly an incompetent, the first to abandon him would have been Apollo. Beta.

"If you want to defeat the Void Empire, unless the Saint Joles Empire sends troops to intervene, or you can find me twenty-four seven thousand two hundred and thirty-seven soldiers." Apollo shook his head, "In the current situation, even if I can annihilate the vanguard of the Void Empire Expeditionary Force, I can't stop the main force behind. So struggling is futile, pointless, and just unnecessary sacrifice and waste. ”

"Can't you even take command in person?" There was a protest.

Apollo needed far more troops than he usually commanded in battles, and for a reason.

Because Apollo could not personally go to the front line to be responsible for scheduling, he could only write all the plans into a plan and then let the front commander read the command according to different situations. This can easily lead to disorder in the command system, after all, it takes a completely different amount of time to check the content recorded in the plan to command, and Apollo to make corresponding arrangements immediately after just looking at the battle situation.

Previously the Duchy of Rumbell and the vanguard army of Klov had already fought.

At that time, the Duchy of Rumbell had as many as 100,000 troops, while Clov's army as the vanguard commander had only 60,000 troops.

At the beginning of the battle between the two sides, Clov was indeed very badly suppressed for a time, and even had to open two separate battlefields to share the military pressure of the Duchy of Rumbert. He even wondered if Apollo was in command himself, and if so, it was good news for them. It was only as the pressure outside the main battlefield was shared, and Klov soon discovered that the enemy commander was not Apollo, so after holding on to the pressure, Clov quickly launched a counterattack.

Of course, this is also thanks to the high morale and military quality of Cecilia's guards.

So the end result of the battle was that Clov lost about 18,000 soldiers - not counting the wounded, but the dead and incapacitated soldiers who could not return to the battlefield. On the other hand, the Duchy of Rumber left more than 27,000 corpses behind - in fact, the actual battle dead were about 20,000, and the remaining 7,000 people were all beheaded by Clov after surrendering.

In terms of the number of troops killed on both sides alone, the ratio of losses between the two sides was close to 1:1, which was also the lowest ratio since Clov led Cecilia's Guards in such a long battle. Because in previous wars, for every soldier lost by Clov, he could pull three, even four, or five more soldiers from the other side to accompany the funeral.

However, compared to Clov's unacceptable result, the Duchy of Rumbert was even more unacceptable.

With a force of 100,000, this is a collection of thirteen lords, plus the power of the Duchy and royal family, if it is commanded by Apollo himself, it is impossible to give Clov any chance to live. However, because the plan could not catch up with the changes, the commanders on the front line did not have the sharp sense of command and vision of Apollo, and as a result, the battle was finally pulled back by Clov, so the Principality of Lunbert was so furious.

"I'm in battle?" Apollo glanced at the other party with a smile, and then his eyes quickly showed a bit of mockery, "Yes." Then it will die faster. ”

"What do you mean?"

"What do I mean?" Apollo sneered disdainfully, "Why do you think we're meeting in this secret room?" Are you brainless? There are four super powerhouses in the Void Empire, even if only two of them come, believe it or not, as long as I appear on the front line, their super powerhouses will strike at me as soon as possible? …… What do you do to stop other people's super strong? ”

Faced with Apollo's taunt pointing at his face, the nobleman's face turned blue and white, but he didn't know how to refute it, so he could only snort a few times and then turn his head.

"Since there are two super strong people on the other side, why don't you send them directly? We don't have any power to resist at all. ”

"Who knows." Apollo shrugged his shoulders and said nothing more.

However, the atmosphere in the secret room is getting heavier and heavier.

Seeing that there could be no result from this discussion, Magellan immediately waved his hand and announced the dissolution, letting these grumpy noble lords leave on their own. As for himself, he sighed heavily, and then tilted his head, his eyes blank and still sitting in place, not knowing what he was thinking.

After a long time, he came back to his senses a little and realized that Apollo had not left: "General Apollo, is there something wrong?" ”

"There really is one thing." Apollo nodded. (To be continued.) )