Chapter 153: Lorlist's Strategy

"It's all a group of white-eyed wolves...... "Looking at the backs of His Royal Highness and Kris Ya with the twenty-six old students and knights who had taken refuge in him, Shi Fatzi was very unhappy and muttered again.

Lorist smiled and patted Shi Fatzi on the shoulder: "Let's go, let's go back, we have to discuss a lot of things at night, and time is very tight......"

"Huh?" Shi Fat Man was stunned, and hurriedly chased two steps to Lorlist's side and walked together: "No, Locke, what is your idea? Now there is still more than a month before winter, and it will take two or three months until Egret Lake is frozen, so there is a lot of time, why do you say that time is very tight?"

Lorist stopped, turned his head to look at Shi Fatzi and said softly, "Do you think I will really let the convoy wait until Egret Lake freezes?"

"Huh?" Seeing Lorist turn around and leave, the fat man was anxious: "You can make it clear......"

"There are a lot of people, let's talk about it when we go back. ”

Arriving at a side tent next to the big tent, Lorist instructed Reddy: "Go and get Boderfinger, Rod Wells, and Farea." Marek, El, Pat, Telman, Yuri, and Dores were approached and asked to recruit the guards to be guarded. ”

Although Injerek is a gold-level swordsman, he is only a personal servant of Lorlist, because he is afraid of death and surrenders to Lorlist, and he also signed a ten-year slave agreement. This time Lorist originally wanted him to become a family knight, but he didn't want to, he said that he was old and didn't like to fight and kill, and his granddaughter Jawis had a big belly under Shi Fatzi's hard work, and he just wanted to wait to hug his grandson now.

The older Ingrek saw it very openly, and was not ashamed to be Lorlist's servant as a golden swordsman, but felt that it was better and more free. Even Bodfinger and the others looked up to him because he was Lorlist's personal servant, and greeted him very affectionately and respectfully when they met. Especially when Lorist is not in the team, Injerek is even more free and no one is in charge, and he feels that it is better to live like this.

Several family knights summoned by Lorist arrived one after another, but Rod Wells had drunk a little too much, but he was still sober. Once everyone was seated, Lorist asked Reddy to serve everyone a cup of tea, which explained why everyone had been called to the meeting.

"Fifteen or twenty days later, I'm going to let the convoy and the displaced people enter the Duchy of Madras and return to the North......lands as soon as possible."

Everyone in the big tent was taken aback, and Shi Fatzi was the first to shout: "My lord, how can you pass the border? The Iron Guard Legion has blocked the border, and it is impossible for our convoy to attack the fortress and castle in Liechda if we want to attack it......

"Who said they were going to capture the fortress castle in Liechita?" asked Lorist rhetorically.

"But, but we won't be able to pass through this fortress castle without capturing it......" Fat Shi and the people in the big tent looked at Lorist strangely.

"Hehe......" Lorist laughed, shook his head, "what are you guys thinking?What is our goal? Isn't it just to return to the Northland with the convoy and the outcasts? Why are we going to capture the fortress and castle in Liechidan? Occupy that place to herd sheep? You have all forgotten that we are not going to occupy the Duchy of Madras, we are just passing through, so we don't need to think about the back road, it doesn't matter to us whether this fortress castle is occupied or not. ”

Lorist moved the bracket on which the map was hung, and now it contained an enlarged map of the fortress of Liechdana and the surrounding terrain.

Pointing on the map with a stick, Lorist said, "You see, now this fortress castle and the barracks on the bread hill echo left and right, blocking the open space and avenue in the middle of the five hundred meters. If we take Bread Hill, how will the Iron Guards in the fortress react? They will surely think that this is a precursor to a major attack, and they will not dare to act rashly except by holding on to the fortress and the castle.

Then let's take a look at the fortified castle after we have occupied the Bread Hill, and the crossbows of the garrison in the fortress citadel are condescending, with a range of three hundred meters, covering the avenue below the hillside. But do we need to take the main road? Near the two hundred meters of open space next to the bread hill, we only need a hundred meters wide to ensure the passage of convoys and displaced people. The Iron Guard Legion claims to be the best in the world in terms of defensive capabilities, but we don't fight siege warfare with them, and if he wants to come out, I'd love to know what ...... his field ability ranks."

"Your Excellency is right!" Bodfinger slapped his forehead and suddenly realized: "Yes, the convoy and the displaced people can pass, if it is the army of His Royal Highness, he must occupy the fortress castle in order to let the army continue to move forward, so as to ensure the smooth flow of logistics and baggage transportation channels." We're just passing by, we don't need to think about the back at all, and if there's a roadblock in front, let's just bypass?"

"It's all to blame on the treacherous Second Highness, who took us into the ditch, and he repeatedly said that we would have to take the fortress and castle in order to allow the convoy and the displaced people to enter the Duchy of Madras, and we all followed his train of thought. Shi Fatzi stood up and went to the front of the map, looked at it carefully and smiled: "Haha, that Grand Duke of Madras also treats us as an army, that's why it's arranged like this." If we go around the fortress and castle of Liechda as the adults say, there will be a flat river ahead. ”

The atmosphere in the camp tent suddenly became warm, it turned out that it could still be done like this, everyone used to sit in the city of sorrow and sorrow to find themselves, and they didn't expect this at all.

Lorist waved his hand to silence everyone, and then tapped the map with a thin wooden stick: "This bread gang is what we want to attack, if we capture the bread gang, then the convoy and the homeless people can set off." It is known that a large group of Iron Guards soldiers was stationed on the bread post, and a large battalion was set up under the bread post. According to the information inquired, there were nearly seven or eight thousand Iron Guard soldiers in the battalion, and all they had to do was to rotate with the soldiers stationed at the posts.

Topographically, this bread post is not suitable for garrison, because there is a lack of water above, and if we capture the large battalion below, it will be equivalent to locking up the access to the laid-off posts, and within two or three days, a large group of iron guards stationed above will collapse without a fight due to thirst. Either surrender to us, or desperately attack the barracks below......

So the real key point is in the barracks below the bread gang, you see, if you attack from the front, you must brave the crossbow arrows and other long-range attacks on the bread gang to rush to the front, first conquer the position on the bread gang before attacking the rear barracks, and it is not easy to capture the front of the bread gang position, because the back barracks will continue to provide troops to the front position. So a frontal attack is not a good idea, and we can't afford casualties.

You still remember the fishing method I mentioned, in fact, my purpose was not to fish, but to use these fishing boats to build a pontoon bridge, so that the family forces could cross the Egret Lake overnight, and then follow this path to attack the military camp behind the bread hill, as long as the military camp was captured, we were half successful.

Then we will follow this blocked road from the fortress of Liechdana to the city of Venades, all the way north, by surprise, and capture the city of Venades, even if we can't capture it, it doesn't matter, the main thing is this point, the Sith Castle on the main road to the province of Sidgrad, as long as we occupy this castle, we can block the army of the Seamount of Madras in his lair, and the two provinces outside can be free to come and go. ”

After Lorist finished talking about his strategy, everyone became excited, this was a very successful plan, as long as the plan was guaranteed to go smoothly, the Duchy of Madras would be a smooth way for the convoy and the displaced people to travel north.

"The first point of this battle is to smuggle across Bailu Lake, and the second point is to be fast, to fight slowly with fast, we must decide the victory or defeat on the battlefield before the enemy can react, as long as the initiative is in our hands, we can fight as we want. "Lorist reminds everyone of the key points of the strategy.

Shi Fatzi calculated: "My lord, our troops may not be enough, the Iron Guard Legion has a total of 28,000 people, 18,000 people are arranged in the fortress castle of Liechdana, and 10,000 people are arranged in the bread gang. Our convoy is only more than 20,000 points armed, and even if we capture the Bread Hill barracks, we still have to escort the convoy and the displaced people across the border to prevent the Iron Guard Corps in the fortress from attacking, and we do not have the extra forces to capture the city of Vannades......"

"It's okay, next I have to reorganize the army, expand the family armament, and borrow troops from the Second Highness. Lorist motioned for everyone to stop the discussion first: "Everyone, calm down, and then we will reorganize the existing convoy." First, all the squads are the same, the full strength is 100 people, five squads are a squadron, five squadrons are a battalion, five brigades form a corps, and later five corps will form a corps.

Now there is more than one brigade of scout light cavalry, Yuri, you are in charge, see how many squadrons can be formed, I will let Jim help you, you will be the captain of the first scout light cavalry group, and the extra squadron will be managed by Jim. Also, you pick out the light cavalry who is good at bows and arrows and give them to Pete, who came with me this time, and let him lead a squadron of archers. “

Yuri stood up and said, "Yes, my lord, I see. ”

"The key to this battle plan is still on you, Yuri, your burden is heavy, you must let your scout light cavalry cover the entire battlefield, so that the enemy does not know what is happening and becomes blind and deaf. Lorist said.

"Rest assured, my lord, our scout hussars will not let you down. Yuri patted his chest in reassurance.

Lorris nodded and waved him to sit down. Then he said to Telman, "Your Order now has more than a squadron?"

"My lord, plus the squire grooms, these are close to two squadrons. Telman replied.

Lorist thought for a moment and said, "Your knight formation is different from other family arms, you can take care of it yourself." A knight with two squires, a servant and a groom remained the same. The establishment of a brigade is based on this, and it is enough for a squadron of five hundred silver knights to charge into battle with a thousand attendants, and the servants and grooms are responsible for logistics and baggage. ”

"Yes, sir. ”

"Borg, you have two and a half battalions of ironclad lancers now?" asked Lorlist.

"My lord, minus the personnel in charge of logistics, there should be two brigades, if you reorganize according to the establishment you just made, you can make up two more squadrons, our original establishment is one hundred and twenty people and one squad. Boderfinger replied.

"In that case, you hand over the ironclad lancers to Ross to be in charge, and all the logistics personnel will return to the main camp. Rose, you expand the ironclad spear cavalry into three brigades of 7,500 men, and give you five days to complete it. This time, the ironclad spear cavalry will be the main force of the attack. ”

Rod Wells was very excited, stood up and saluted solemnly: "My lord, please rest assured, I will definitely be able to complete the task." ”

"Farea, you have four brigades of spearmen with ten thousand men?" Lorist looked at Farea.

"Eleven thousand three hundred and fifty-eight, my lordship. "Farea gave a very precise number of people.

Lorist nodded appreciatively: "You hand over the spearmen to the Borg, Borg, you are responsible for forming the Heavy Armor Corps, the five brigades are full of 12,500 people, and it will be completed in five days." ”

"Yes, sir. Farrea and Bodfinger replied in unison.

"By the way, all the troops I just mentioned have been replaced with the standard equipment of the White Lion Legion, and the good things don't need to be transported back to the family territory, and those that can be used can be equipped as soon as possible, which can also reduce the casualties of our family's armed forces. As for the equipment to be replaced, it will be handed over to Faria and Malek, and the two of you will be responsible for recruiting 25,000 soldiers from among the displaced people to form a garrison corps, which will be temporarily divided into two corps, with the first corps with Farea as the commander and the commander of the corps. The Second Corps was headed by Marek and his deputy commander. The formation work will be completed within 15 days.

In accordance with the usual practice, priority is given to young and strong refugees with family members, and the main task is to maintain order and security vigilance when the convoy and the displaced people travel north, do you understand?" said Lorlist, looking at Farrea and Malek.

"Yes, sir. ”

"Yes, my lord. Farrea and Malek stood up.

Lorist looked at Dorus again: "How is your fleet doing?" ”

Dorus hurriedly stood up and saluted: "My lord, the total number of chariots is now six hundred and twenty-seven. In addition to the original twelve crossbow chariots, there are a total of twenty-seven crossbows captured some time ago, and I have changed all of them to be used on chariots. It's just that these crossbows are bulkier, not as flexible and convenient as the twelve crossbows, and the rate of fire is slow, and the operators need more personnel. ”

"This time, the White Lion Legion also has seventy-eight intact siege vehicle crossbows in its equipment, which you can use to modify and use on chariots, and by the way, expand your chariot fleet into a brigade. ”

The only difference between the siege vehicle crossbow and the garrison vehicle is that there is an additional device that can lift the vehicle at a large elevation angle, so that it is easy to fire the crossbow arrows from below the city to the top of the city. The establishment of the White Lion Legion's crossbow brigade is 240 units, but it was damaged a lot during the civil war in the empire and could not be replenished, so it is fortunate that there are 78 siege ballistae left intact.

Dorres was overjoyed, his biggest concern was that there were too few crossbows, and his fleet could not be expanded, and the problem was solved.

"How many people are there in the craftsman's battalion of the main camp now?" Lorist asked Shi Fatzi.

Shi Fatzi was very distressed: "It is estimated that there are one or two thousand people who can do carpentry, but I don't know if I can build ships." ”

"It doesn't matter, what we're going to build now is a small boat, and it is estimated that it won't be too difficult, just ask those carpenters to nail a long box of wood, and scrape a thick layer of green cement in the middle for fear of leakage. We're just using it for temporary fishing and pontoons, and we don't need to be durable and beautiful. By the way, Schredt, you also have to organize the families of the convoy and the women among the displaced people to weave fishing nets, and we must also play the whole scene, so as not to be suspicious of the enemy and strengthen the vigilance of the lakeshore. Lorist comforted Fat Shi.

"I see, tomorrow I'll have someone cut down wood to make boats and weave fishing nets. Shi Fatzi said.

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