Chapter 159: Tactical Theory
A plan to recover Kareni?
As a battle-hardened commander-in-chief, he naturally had his own battle plan, otherwise he wouldn't have had to go through a lot of hard work, even sacrificing the entire Shadow Mage squadron in exchange for the lives of Bruno and the superior mages.
A mature battle plan involves two aspects.
The first aspect is the demand to contain the enemy, and the second aspect is self-preservation.
In short, it is to make two-handed preparations, fight to the death according to the original plan if you fight, and immediately stop and retreat according to the second plan if you can't fight, and leave yourself a way out at any time.
Foster's initial idea was to use the location to ambush the Kingdom army.
Even if the counterattack cannot be successful with the current strength, then at least take advantage of the position to maneuver with the enemy, and then send a small force to break through the city of Kareni, so that the front-line troops must immediately return to help even if they sacrifice the first two lines of defense.
When the time comes, the inside and the outside should be combined, and Careni can naturally be recovered.
The worst outcome of this is nothing more than the collapse of the forward defense line, and even the loss of most of the cities in the north, but as long as the important city of Kareni is kept, then there is a chance to counterattack at any time.
On the contrary, if the city of Kareni were to be lost, the North would be truly finished.
Therefore, in Foster's plan, even if he breaks his wrist with a strong man, he must take back control of Kareni.
After the victory of this ambush to the present, Foster began to take advantage of the geographical advantages to formulate a new ambush plan, this ambush plan does not seek to cripple the kingdom army, but must be able to beat the kingdom army, otherwise it is difficult to hold out for more than 10 days.
But just as he was thinking about a new ambush tactic, one of Vega's "guerrilla" tactics succeeded in attracting his attention, and he was sure that it was a new tactic, since he had never heard the word in his war career.
Other words.
This so-called guerrilla tactic was independently thought out by the young officer in front of him, who was in his teens?
For the first time, Foster was slightly angry, what right did a second lieutenant have to call an immature idea tactical.
Tactics are not child's play.
The real tactics must be made after countless inferences by the wise generals of the General Staff Department, and then at the same time to ensure that there are no theoretical errors, and then put them to the test in actual combat, and finally after they are confirmed to be correct, they can be crowned with the word tactics.
Foster admits that Vega is different.
But no matter how different it is, after all, he is just a genius child.
Although he is proud of his age, it does not mean that he can look at everything and casually label his personal ideas as "tactics", which puts the results of the painstaking reasoning and practice of the generals of the General Staff into place.
At this moment, Foster's accumulated favor for Vega collapsed in an instant.
However, based on the identity of the commander-in-chief, he could not immediately veto Vega, so he patiently motioned for Vega to continue, and he had even thought of things such as "the idea is good", "the theory is feasible", "the perspective is peculiar", and "I will consider it...... and other lines that are clearly complimented and actually perfunctory.
A wise commander will naturally not directly dismiss the ideas of his subordinates.
So Foster straightened his sitting posture, and then motioned to Vega to continue: "Ensign Vega is really talented, this guerrilla tactic must be a theoretical tactic that you think independently, I would like to hear about it." ”
"The lower officials are bold. ”
Vega coughed twice, and then said loudly: "This guerrilla tactic can be summed up as nothing more than the sixteen characters of 'the enemy advances and I retreat, the enemy is stationed and disturbs me, the enemy is tired and I fight, and the enemy retreats and I chase', fighting on their own with flexible squads as units, using long-range weapons such as crossbow arrows to achieve the main purpose of exhausting the enemy, destroying the enemy, and establishing superiority." ”
"The enemy advances and I retreat, and the enemy is stationed in me to disturb me?"
"The enemy is stationed and disturbs me, and the enemy is tired and I fight?"
These sixteen words lingered in Foster's ear canal for a long time, and as an excellent general, he immediately understood the power of these 16 words, especially the way Vega explained the combat of the squad.
Just think about it.
A thousand-strong force trying to move through an unfamiliar city with complex terrain would slow down in speed and agility, but a squad of 10 people had no worries about that.
Whether attacking or retreating.
In this complex terrain, it is completely like a fish in water, and it is basically impossible to be caught by the enemy, not to mention that they still occupy a favorable position on their side, and this tactic is simply tailored for the imperial army that is strong and weak.
Foster looked at Vega with a complicated gaze, and the word war genius could not help but come to his mind.
Even the senior generals of the General Staff couldn't think of this kind of tactic of turning decay into magic, but the young officer in front of him, who was more than 10 years old, had thought of such a miraculous tactic, which could not help but shock Foster.
A qualified general who is able to win in a close match.
And if you want to become an excellent general, you need to have the ability to turn defeat into victory and defeat the strong with the weak.
Foster considered himself a good general.
But there is indeed a kind of commander in this world who surpasses the existence of excellent generals, and they are better at turning decay into magic, and turning the impossible into possibility, and the title of this kind of person is called - God of War.
Vega is not the god of war he does not know.
But Foster knew that this tactic was theoretically advanced enough to kill all the so-called tactics in the textbooks, reaching the highest peak that many tactics could only look up to.
Foster looked at Vega with a complicated gaze: "Ensign Vega, I can't evaluate your tactics, but theoretically, as long as you use it properly, it's almost easy to delay time, or even ......."
Foster didn't say anything else.
Because his purpose is only to use the geographical advantage to delay time and at the same time teach the Kingdom Army a lesson, mainly relying on the return of front-line troops, but with this tactic implementation, he even has a delusion - I can win!
Defeat a kingdom army with 5 times the strength of 3,000 troops?
This kind of crazy idea will not be fantasized about as long as a normal general is changed, but Foster is obviously not a normal person, he is completely crazy: "Second Lieutenant Vega, I will give you 1 day to summarize your tactical theory into a report, and use your troops to verify your tactical theory with actual combat in two days." ”
"Commander, how do you think I managed to escape the central area?" Vega asked rhetorically, instead of taking the order.
This time Foster directly opened his half-squinted eyes: "Could it be?!Second Lieutenant, what do you mean by that...... This tactical theory has been verified in actual combat?"
Take a step forward.
Vega took out a video crystal: "Xia Guan Bucai, in the central area, he defeated a regiment and a battalion of the Kingdom Army with 800 remnants, and annihilated more than 1,000 elite troops of the enemy, forcing the Kingdom Army to turn from offensive to defensive. ”