Duke looked at Carl and Alan at this time, and began to talk about his previous ideas.

"First of all, let's talk about the first point, that is, why the Hans Empire would trust our intelligence, and even set up an ambush in advance to ambush the Empire's Northern Legion. This is actually very solvable, that is, I believe that the Hans Empire must have its own eyeliner and spies in the Imperial Northern Legion, and once the Imperial Northern Legion army sets out, it will inevitably be detected by them. ”

"And the most important thing we trust the Hans Empire is the truth! Because the routes we provide are all real marching routes, once the spies and traitors of the Hans Empire confirm it, then the Hans Empire will basically believe the information we provide, and I believe that in the face of the fat meat of the Northern Legion of the Empire, they must be more interested than the Storm Army. As for the barbarians, it is the same, all the information is true, even the battle between the Hans Empire and the Northern Army of the Imperial Army is also real, they do not believe it. ”

Duke confidently explained the first question, the high level of false information is true and false, so that the opponent cannot figure out what is true and what is false. And the highest level of strategic planning is that everything is true, but the opponent is led by his own nose.

"As for the second point you mentioned, the conspiracy between the Hans Empire and the barbarians, I believe there must have been. Because it was originally only a war between the empire and the barbarians, but the Hans Empire also happened to send troops to prepare to take advantage of the fire to loot, the timing was too coincidental, and you also know that the army was dispatched, and the logistics could not be prepared in a day or two. Even our storm army of several thousand people was dispatched, and the logistical problems were prepared for more than a month, and tens of thousands of troops of the Hans Empire suddenly appeared on the border, I don't believe that this is a coincidence. ”

"But the core interests of their plans are basically impossible to exchange, because seriously speaking, the hatred between the Hans Empire and the barbarians is greater than that between the French Empire. The war between Hans and Fran can only be regarded as a division of interests within the human race, everyone wins or loses and there is still a way to live, even if the Fran Empire is destroyed, most of the lords can survive, even the Emperor Fran is no exception. If the country is destroyed by the barbarians, there will be no way for everyone to return, so the exchange of interests with the barbarians, the core interests are absolutely confidential!"

"Even if we take a step back and say, the Hans Empire really chose to share with the barbarians for the benefit of the Fran Empire. But it's still the same as before, our intelligence is all true, and they won't have any problems after comparison, even if the barbarians are stupid enough to say the plan to attack the Hans Empire on both sides, I believe they won't give up the attack, because the temptation of interests in this is too great, but choose to plan and directly join forces to attack the Northern Legion of the Empire, which is your third question. ”

After saying this, the expression on Duke's face suddenly became serious, because what he was going to say next was the key thing in today's meeting.

"Karl, the last question, and the most crucial one, is that neither the Hans Empire nor the barbarians will actually be manipulated by us. Among the four forces, we are the weakest of the Storm Army, and the only advantage is that we are in the shadows, and they will never know the purpose and ambition of the Storm Army. ”

"So the third point is that it doesn't matter whether the barbarians attack the Hans Empire or the Northern Legion of the Empire, that is, our Storm Army will directly attack the barbarians!"

"Attacking the barbarians?"

Alan and Carl exclaimed almost at the same time, they really didn't expect Duke's final plan to attack the barbarians directly, which was simply incredible. You must know that the Storm Army only has 3,000 people, and even the 1,000 logistics troops in the camp that are still in the camp are only 4,000 people.

Even if it is to wait for the arrival of the rotating 1,000 logistics troops, the strength that the storm army can show in the end is only 5,000 people. Just like 5,000 heavy infantry, if you want to enter the grassland, the number of attacking barbarians may be as high as tens of thousands, this is simply a fool's dream. If this was not said by the lord, both Alan and Carl would have thought that the person who thought this way was crazy.

"That's right, we are going to attack the barbarians, because the ultimate goal of this plan is to weaken the strength of the three sides, so that the entire northern border region will still maintain a balance of power, so that neither side has the ability to continue the war. If it is only the barbarians who make the Hans Empire and the Franse Empire consume, and the fishermen ultimately benefit, then the balance is still broken, do you think with the ambition of the barbarians, they will be satisfied with only defeating the armies of the two empires?"

Duke asked rhetorically, so that Alan and Carl stopped talking, they all knew in their hearts that according to Duke's plan before, then the barbarians would be fighting for the dragons and cranes, and the fishermen would benefit, and they could even watch the battle from the sidelines when the two empires were fighting, waiting for the two sides to consume.

Moreover, with the barbarian resources, once the military losses between the two great empires are serious, there is no doubt that they will choose to attack and plunder. At that time, the entire northern defense line will become dominated by the barbarians, and the situation may be even worse than now.

"But Lord Lord, our Storm Army is all heavy infantry, and it is too difficult to attack the cavalry-based barbarians on the grassland. ”

Alan said persuasively, he felt that the lord was too whimsical, and it was almost impossible to do.

"It's very difficult, but it's not to the point where we can't fight, precisely because of our heavy infantry, the barbarians' bows and arrows are difficult to shoot through our storm armor. And there is no absolute restraint between the cavalry and the infantry, as long as our storm army can line up to occupy the key position, and then take the barbarians by surprise, and I have prepared reinforcements specifically to deal with the barbarians!"

Infantry fighting cavalry, in fact, has appeared countless times in the history of world wars, and the heavy cavalry is the king in the field, basically the main thing can pay the price, and there is nothing that the phalanx cannot rush through. However, in real combat, there are many countries that will use heavy cavalry to forcibly break away from the infantry corps in good formations, because the cost of training one heavy cavalry may be more expensive than training ten infantry, but the casualty ratio of the infantry in the shock array is difficult to reach ten to one.

Therefore, in the early days of cold weapons, to deal with the cavalry charging formation, it was a dense formation, coupled with a three-meter-long weapon, so that the cavalry had no way to start, as long as it dragged for an hour, the war horse could not withstand it, and it was the time for the infantry to counterattack. Because the endurance of most animals is far from being comparable to that of humans, especially the delicate creatures such as war horses, the phalanx and the spear phalanx give the infantry the ability to shake the cavalry for the first time in the field.