Chapter 59: Analysis of Friend or Foe

The sun has just been on the mountain, and the halo is cast into the sea, like a river of broken gold.

"Urgent! Dothraki cavalry appeared near the Northwest Fortress of Moza. ”

A large number of Dothraki cavalry have appeared near the city of Yuankai, and the knights of Laurent have sent me to inform Your Majesty. ”

In the process of suppressing the rebellion, the Fourth Legion was attacked by a large number of Dothraki cavalry and was defeated, and the Knights of Laurent will set out for the Fourth Legion to meet the city of Yuankai. ”

The messengers rushed back and forth in the Great Pyramid, bringing bad news one after another.

"Got it, go down and rest. Ma Shen waved his hand, and several maids appeared to take the tired messenger down to rest.

Yu Guang glanced at the messenger who limped away, and Viscount Luo Kun waved his cuffs: "Your Majesty, please command." ”

The discussion had already been discussed, and the ministers also held their breath and stood aside, waiting for Ma Shen's orders.

After so many months of getting along, they found that their king had two states: the everyday state and the serious state.

When the king is in a normal state, the king will tell them incomprehensible jokes and exchange the emotional life of his courtiers, which is a relatively easy state to get along with, but when the king is in a serious state, no one can guess what is in his heart, for example, no one would have thought that the king would kill the envoy of Dzekokao that night.

Of course, this is still because of the limitations of the ministers' vision, if there are earthlings or Zhou Shijie who is far away in Harrenhal here, he will definitely blurt out: Isn't that schizophrenia.

In fact, there are two sides to everyone.

In the face of the restrained ministers, Ma Shen did not answer immediately, but stretched out his hand to pick up the black soldier chess pieces representing the Fourth Legion and placed them on the position representing Yuankai City, and the chess pieces collided with the stone tabletop with a crisp sound.

After waiting for a moment, he looked at the black chess piece representing the Fourth Legion and thought for a while, and then picked up the black soldier from the position of Yuankai City and placed it on the edge of the stone table.

The ministers who were sitting or standing couldn't help but have some slight changes in their faces when they saw this scene: "Your Majesty, the Fourth Legion may not be as bad as you think. ”

"Prepare for the worst. Ma Shen looked down at the red chess pieces representing the enemy on the table, and replied in a flat tone, "Yuankai City is several days away from us, and we don't know what the situation of the Fourth Legion is, nor do we know the specific battle process, but just from the word rout, it can be seen that the Fourth Legion has probably lost its combat effectiveness. ”

Bad news came one after another, first a messenger broke through the pursuit of the Dothraki at the cost of more than 30 lives: Located northeast of Meereen, the First Legion garrisoned by the First Legion of Jefengton Fort (the mainland of Stormwind City is located in the narrow Stormwind Bay (formerly Slave Bay), fortunately, after the expansion of time at this end, the Stormwind Kingdom gradually grew from the appearance of a narrow small snake to a well-fed snake, with strategic depth of land, in other words, at least a place that can be used as a fortress to defend against foreign enemies), was surrounded two days ago, according to the message written in the letter by the commander of the First Legion Unsullied, Green Scorpion, where at least more than 20,000 Dothraki cavalry gathered.

Not long after, news came from the city of Moza, located to the northwest and garrisoned by the Third Army, that there were traces of Dothraki nearby, not many in number, but there were at least thousands of Dothraki cavalry.

And just now, two messengers arrived almost at the same time, one by land and the other by boat, bringing two bad news respectively, one was that the Fourth Legion was raided and broken by the Dothraki in the suppression of the recent rebellion that captured the city, and the other was that the Dothraki also appeared near the city of Yuankai, and the Fifth Legion led by the knight of Lorent did not interrupt the defense of the city, but wanted to take the initiative to attack and occupy a favorable position.

"The 1st Army, the 2nd Army, the 3rd Army, the 5th Army, the 6th Army. Ma Shen's gaze flashed quickly over the pawn representing the Stormwind Kingdom legion.

Each regiment is 8,000 men.

The northeastern fortress garrisoned by the First Army: Fort Jerfengton, which had been surrounded by at least 20,000 more Slavic cavalry two days earlier, needed reinforcements.

The Second Legion was stationed in Stormwind, the capital of the kingdom, and could not be easily mobilized in order to avoid civil unrest.

The northwestern fortress garrisoned by the Third Army: Moza City, where several thousand Dothraki cavalry appeared two days ago, and they needed to hold their positions and not be taken advantage of by the Dothrakis.

The Fourth Army was dispersed.

The Fifth Legion is stationed in Yuankai, because there is Jafengton Fort in the front, so there are not many Dothraki people who appear near Yuankai, these Dothraki should have bypassed Jefengtonburg, the number is not too much, and the plan of the Laurent knights to take the initiative to attack is good.

As for the Astapor garrisoned by the Sixth Legion, because Astapo is surrounded by mountains, it is very unfavorable for the attack of the Dothraki cavalry, and it is relatively safe, as long as there are enough soldiers to defend the city.

That is to say, excluding the Fourth Legion, the entire Stormwind Kingdom can only mobilize the Fifth Legion and the Sixth Legion, and there are only about 10,000 soldiers except for the soldiers defending the city.

This is its own regular battle legion, and the Dothraki besieging the Stormwind Kingdom have been preliminarily estimated at 30,000 to 40,000 so far, and their mobility and combat effectiveness are extremely strong, and it is uncertain whether more Dothraki will come to join this "feast" in the future.

However, the disadvantages of the Stormwind Kingdom are obvious, and the advantages are also obvious, the first is that the medical conditions of the Dothraki army are extremely poor, and the death of Drogokao is a good example, which also means that the Dothraki army has a very large proportion of casualties, considering that they have very little armor, it is unknown how long such an army can fight on the battlefield.

The second is their arrogance, taking "bravery" as pride, many people will compare the Dothraki and the Mongols in the same position, but in fact they are at most compared with the Mongols in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, otherwise the Dothraki would not have been wandering on the steppes, and the attitude of the countries of the Eastern Continent towards the Dothraki would not be more disgusted than fearful.

The pride of the Dothraki made them disdain the tactics of exhaustion, and they thought that the methods of riding and shooting, dividing the formation to achieve encirclement, and burning food in the rear were insults to them, just as they thought that fighting in heavy armor would affect their scimitar, so they would normally rush towards the enemy like a sea, and destroy the enemy in one wave with great bravery.

This kind of wave effect is indeed significant, the vast majority of the army will be destroyed if they are rushed several times on the steppe, and those who can not be destroyed are elite soldiers, so many Slavic cavalry don't mind rushing a few more times, and it is their greatest glory to crush these elite soldiers.

The third is the fearlessness of the Unsullied, such as in the famous Battle of Kohor, where only 3,000 Unsullied resisted the attack of more than 50,000 elite soldiers led by a Dothrakkao.

At that time, although the Unsullied had a city to defend, they chose to go out of the city to fight, the Unsullied lost 2400 battles, and none of the remaining 600 people retreated, which shows how terrifying the combat power of the Unsullied is, which is absolutely beyond the reach of other infantry, and the Dothraki people look down on the infantry and disdain to take the tactics of flanking and easily win, as a result, 18 frontal charges did not win, and Kao was also killed, with a battle loss of 12000+.

And last but not least, the fourth point is that the Stormwind Kingdom has 200 Knights of Light who wield the power of nature, 25 Praetorian Guards associated with parasites, three dragons (minors), and the Champion Knight, King of the Stormwind Kingdom, Ma Shen.