XXXIX. Analysis
Link was a little disgusted that the warrior broke in without asking for instructions, but thinking of the urgency of the situation, he didn't say anything and hurriedly asked about the results of the sentry.
The warrior groaned a little, organized his words and said: "The Diye tribe in the south has also been breached, when we went, the Santarin Society was clearing the battlefield, we didn't dare to get too close and retreated, the other three tribes around were not breached, but they all sent scouts to the surrounding areas, and the scouts of the Santalin tribe exchanged information with us, and they were greatly shocked by our repulsion of the Santarim Society, and they may be preparing to form an alliance with us." The warrior said as he wiped the sweat from his forehead.
Link digested the warrior's information, and the relieved warrior continued: "The Scattered Bone Tribe has detected the location of the Santarin Society's camp, and they have captured a large number of captives who were the first to break through the tribe, and it seems that they are digging something. ”
The warrior stared at Nyata in astonishment, and the men were discussing tribal affairs, and the woman did not bow and leave, but listened with a swagger. Nyata noticed the warrior's expression and gave the warrior a blank look, which angered the warrior.
Without waiting for the warrior to teach Nyata a lesson, Link asked with some seriousness, "Will Santarin burn the oasis in the Diye tribe?"
The warrior was stunned for a moment, "We didn't dare to get too close, but we did see smoke coming from the oasis, and we don't know if it was deliberately burned or a fire caught in the battle." ”
Nodding, Link asked the warrior to go out and gather his clan to prepare for the assembly, he would arrive in a moment, the warrior nodded, glared at Nyata fiercely and withdrew.
Link looked at Niata, who was standing bored, and asked her to sit down, ready to discuss with her, "How do you think Santarin will solve the supply problem?"
"Magic. Without much thought, Niata blurted out that whether it was a small or medium-sized caravan or a large army, the larger the scale of supplies, the more food and water would be consumed, and it would be almost impossible to cross the desert with only the supplies she carried.
The method of attacking the desert tribe before the Santarin meeting is to build a series of military stations along the march route, the closer to the target tribe military station, the larger the scale of the military station, store food, water, forage, building materials and other military supplies in the military station, as well as garrison guards, ants move like using camel teams to store materials in the military station, resist the target tribe's attack on the military station, and wait until the materials in the military station are enough for the scale of the army to use back and forth, and then send the army to march along the military station.
It is impossible for the scout cavalry of the target tribe not to find the Santarinhui who is building a military station nearby, every time they find a military station, the desert tribe will attack wildly, once they fail to capture the military station, then the army of the Santarin will be able to drive straight in, even if they repel the first attack, it is useless, as long as the military station is still there, the army of the Santarinhui will continue to drive over. But this time, none of the nearby tribes found the Santarin Society's military station, but the Santarin Society dispatched a considerable army and suddenly appeared, and it could only use magical means.
"Shrinkage?Dimensional Bag?" said Niata with Link's encouraging eyes, both of whom were knowledgeable mage apprentices, and when the clansmen mentioned the sudden appearance of the Santarin Society, they would only say in awe and disgust, "Oh, it's magic." But the two understood that even magic could not conjure up piles of materials out of thin air.
Link groaned for a moment and shook his head, "What do you think of the number of people in the Santarin Society?"
Listening to Link's question, Niata was stunned for a moment and shook her head: "How could I know. ”
After silently calculating, Link thought thoughtfully: "There are less than fifty elite soldiers attacking us, plus thirty or so vassal cavalry who have obviously been attached for a long time, plus less than twenty spider-eating beast knights, two middle-level Bann priests, and one middle-level heavenly mage, this is almost all the strength that Santarin will attack us, as for those dozens of vassal infantry, it is obvious that they are the first prisoners of war to be defeated by the tribe, I don't know why they were brainwashed so quickly." ”
After a long pause, Link said: "We let go of the scouts of the Santarin Society before, they already know that our tribe has magic apprentices, so the strength invested must be more than attacking the Diye tribe, there are six tribes in this area, they attack one tribe first, and use prisoners of war as cannon fodder to attack two tribes at the same time, which means that they either have insufficient troops, or they can't withstand too many casualties of their elites, I tend to the former."
Niata looked at Link with some surprise, although her IQ and knowledge are not low, but her vision and the things she has come into contact with are too scarce, Niata didn't be able to observe and think about the power of the Santarin Society very calmly, she just felt that the other party was very strong, but she couldn't say what the specific situation of the other party was.
Ignoring Niata's expression, Link continued: "The actions of the Santarin Society are a bit hasty, either they urgently need a large number of captives as slaves, or they are not strong enough in this area, and they need to fight fast and slow before several tribes unite, it is likely to be both, then they will not leave a large number of people in their camp without moving, so they will not have more people in the camp than the forces that attack our tribe." ”
"That's about three hundred. Link said thoughtfully.
Niata nodded approvingly at this time: "Indeed, Santarin will be concerned that the casualties of the elite can only be due to lack of manpower. "Santarim has no good reputation in the desert, and is as ruthless to his enemies as he is to his own people, and it is impossible to waste time catching cannon fodder because he is afraid of casualties in the best of his ability.
"Will the three hundred people use shrinkage or dimensional bags?" Link asked seriously.
Looking at Link's serious expression, Niata wanted to answer, but opened her mouth and said, "How do I know." ”
Link shook his head and said: "More than three hundred people plus more mounts and cattle than people, it will take twelve days for camels to travel here from Tateishi Hirara, where supplies can be carried out, and the march of the brigade will only be slower, maybe more than fifteen days, and thirty days of supplies back and forth, and they still have to dig ruins here, I don't know how long they will stay, and the supplies they bring with them are not enough even if they use shrinkage and dimensional bags." ”
After a pause, Link continued: "Even if they use shrinkage and dimensional bags to form a convoy at any cost, the convoy without a strong military station to rely on will not be able to withstand the raids and monsters of all kinds of desert tribes. ”
Seeing what Niata wanted to say, Link said: "Even if they have captured a large number of supplies in the attack on the tribe, don't forget the loss in the battle and the large number of slaves captured, and their burning of the oasis shows that they don't care about supplies at all, otherwise they can rely on the oasis to get stable supplies." ”
Njata was also a little puzzled when she heard this, she didn't know what the hell the Santarin Society was doing, Link said with a smile at this time: "It can only be a portal, they transport supplies through the portal, it must be a large ruin that is worth their big fight, they are using the portal to transport large machinery to dig the ruins, and because they can increase their troops at any time and do not need to maintain too many troops here, attacking the tribe is not to get cannon fodder, but to obtain slave excavation ruins." ”
Link stood up and stretched, walked to the tent, turned back to Niata and said, "Ready, we're going to attack the Santarin Society at night." ”