Chapter 358: Prologue (12) Meeting of the Kingdom Army

"Then, Your Excellency, your subordinates have taken their leave. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ”

With that, the herald placed the five fingers of his right hand together near his temple, performed a Kingdom military salute, and then turned and left the tent.

Then, the man who listened to his report, the President of the "United Kingdom", Richard Alphons, turned to face the generals gathered around the "strategic sand table", that is, Duke Edlaide, Edman Schulser, Bordeaux Lensmins, and Huang He, the four commanders of the four knights of the kingdom.

Of course, Bordeaux was the deputy commander, but when Richard, who was originally the commander-in-chief, was in charge of the whole army, he naturally took over the actual command.

In addition, there is also the sub-general who commands the various groups of armies of the Kingdom Army. They were all civilians, and their rank was lower than that of the Duke Four, but the army group was directly under the presidency of the king, and these generals did not have superior officers to convey instructions for them, so they were also among the members of the combat council that directly participated in the combat meeting.

This has always been the case in previous exercises and in the actual combat of this half month, but today it seems that there are some differences.

"So, everybody, let's get started. This, that......"

"Three hundred and forty-one!" reminded the secretary of the military aircraft, who was sitting in the corner of the camp and was in charge of recording, when he saw that the king was stuck. By the way, he is also a civilian.

"Yes!" Richard nodded as he was reminded, and picked up as well, "The three hundred and forty-first, and then I sincerely hope that the last combat meeting begins now. Although it is a bit inappropriate to say this at first, the sub-generals who are in command of the group army can go back and reorganize the army and prepare for retreat. This is also an important task, and I hope you will pay attention to it. ”

"Wait a minute!"

Alas, there are objections.

Richard sighed in his heart and looked at the sub-general who shouted, and the latter continued to protest: "Your Excellency means that this last battle will be completed by the Four Knights alone, right?"

"Not bad. ”

"This kind of thing is unacceptable to my subordinates and others!" said another lieutenant general.

One of the drawbacks of so-called democracy is trouble!

Whenever this happens, Richard can't help but wonder why he didn't establish a dictatorship in the first place, and now he can save himself the trouble of explaining.

However, the worst democracy is better than the best dictatorship, which is the conclusion of human history so far. And as someone who was born in a democratic country and was nurtured by it since childhood, even if you want to live a game of being a king, it is really too contrary to values to establish an authoritarian regime or something. If you're spoiled, will you ever be able to live back in the real world?

From this point of view, the current state is also good. The point of the explanation is to explain that blindly giving orders and making people understand the meaning of orders is, of course, the latter more efficient and secure.

Even in the midst of Richard's troubles, objections were still being raised.

"And, Your Excellency, we now have an overwhelming superiority in force. But if we only let the Four Knights attack, it will become 40,000 against 50,000, which is simply giving up our advantage!"

Since we want to explain, let's expose all the problems and then find them all.

Thinking like this, Richard spoke: "You are wrong, not forty thousand against fifty thousand, but less than one thousand two hundred against fifty thousand. ”

What the!

The royal army is a group brigade of 1,000 people, and ten brigades are 10,000 people to form a group division, excluding the 40,000 elites commanded by the four knights, and nearly 390,000 of the 430,000 troops formed at the beginning of the war, that is, 39 group divisions. Then, almost on average, an army group was formed for every five.

That is, there are a total of eight commanders-in-chief and deputy generals of the group army standing in the tent. Now, all eight of them were stunned by Richard's words.

Then, one of them tentatively asked, "Your Excellency's true intention is to complete the final battle only with nobles?"

"That's right. Any comments?"

None of the generals spoke, but all of them had disgruntled expressions on their faces.

Seeing this, Richard raised his hand and scratched his head and said helplessly: "If you don't say it, I understand, don't you just think, 'I plan to let the nobles monopolize the credit', right?" ”

Hearing this, all the lieutenant generals looked away.

"It's this kind of thinking of yours that has determined that you have not achieved any major feats since the beginning of the mountain warfare, you know?" continued Richard, whose words regained his attention, "What did you do when I let you march separately after the decisive battle on the Plains?"

Richard stretched out his hand and paddled on the sandpan mountain.

"By the time I put the whole army in order, you had brought in all your troops without exception. I know that you have no experience, and I have no experience, and it is basically the first time for everyone to know about war, and it is better to just talk about it on paper. However, if you don't have experience, you should always have wisdom, right? If you use your brain, you can know that there are simply not so many troops in the mountains. ”

"But, Your Excellency, you ......"

"I didn't stop you because I deliberately wanted more soldiers to try to adapt to mountain warfare! And the most important thing is that before you dragged your family and were beaten by other people with guerrilla warfare and couldn't take care of themselves, our main force, the Four Knights, had already beaten each other to the point where they couldn't take care of themselves! From that time on, you were no longer qualified to fight for merit! So, now you tell us, why do I want to invest only in the nobility here?"

"Because, can't it be opened?" replied tentatively one of the lieutenant generals.

"That's right! Open your eyes and show me the terrain in front of you!" Richard said excitedly, pointing his finger at the sand table repeatedly, "This is a pass area! You! That's you! You kid who just told me that we have an overwhelming superiority in forces, you can now give me a plan to spread our overwhelming superiority in forces here!"

"Uh...... Ahem. ”

"The most you can use here is an army of 1,000 men. In other words, once there is a battle, it is simply impossible to implement the four-around and one-one tactics that we have used all the way to the present. Then, you tell me that a few of the civilian soldiers under your command can defeat the elite-level 'Martial God Soldiers' one-on-one!"

Silence, except silence or silence, only silence.

"That's right! No! You can't! It would be most stupid to force your soldiers to fight one-on-one with a strong opponent without being able to rely on a large number of battles, and to evolve into a war of attrition in which only our side is attrition! Okay, now, tell me what kind of soldiers can launch a fierce offensive against each other one-on-one that our tactics require!"

"That, expensive, noble......"

"Then what are you still calling me here, what should you do!"

"Yes!"

After not daring to delay and shouting in unison, the eight lieutenant generals left the military tent one by one in despair.

Seeing their figures, Richard also touched his chin and pondered: "Sure enough, 'yes sir' is more flavorful." ”