Chapter 363 Strategic Deployment Meeting

"I've been thinking about how to deal with the Frontier Ranger Regiment of the Grand Duke of Fisabrun stationed in the King of Windbri, if they defend the city, it will be undesirable for us, at most they will turn the royal city into a ruin, no one can resist our family's ability to attack the fortifications, even the Grand Duke of Fisabrun is in vain, we will bury him and this border ranger army in the Royal City of Windbri, so that the royal city will become a place where their entire army will be destroyed. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Unfortunately, this is only the ideal battle situation we hope for, and the battle-hardened Grand Duke of Fisabrun is an old fox with an extremely keen sense of smell on the battlefield, and if something goes wrong, he will be thousands of miles away, and it is difficult for us to catch his whereabouts. I estimate that the Grand Duke of Fisabrun will not hesitate to abandon the city of Windsbury, emptied of all his belongings, food and grass, and retreated with the young and strong, leaving us with the old and the sick, even if we occupy the city of Windsbury, what we get is a mess.

The Grand Guild of Fisabrun continued to retreat in great strides, taking with them all the supplies and personnel he thought were worth taking. As we occupy the province of Winston and continue our march to the southern province, the Grand Duke of Fisabrun will have plenty of room to fight us. He will use the mobility of the Frontier Rangers to attack our logistical transport everywhere, sever the connection and support between all the strategic points we occupy, and use the siege to drain our supplies and morale, and drag this war on, knowing that we are too exhausted to withstand the tremendous attrition and damage of the day after day. ”

It was a large conference room, and after three consecutive days of New Year's celebrations, all the people involved, the high knights of the family and the knights of the arche, gathered here to listen to Lorist explain his plans and arrangements for the upcoming raid of the Iberian Kingdom.

Today is January 3, 1778 in the Guelinthian calendar, and Lorist has officially activated the chariot of the Norton family, with the target of the Iberian kingdom, the main enemy, the frontier rangers of the Fisabrun family.

"Based on the aggregation of various intelligences, we estimate that the total strength of the Fisabrun family is about 240,000. Of course, it is impossible for the Grand Duke of Fisabrun to devote all his forces to war with us. His large and small Jinchuan regions need troops to garrison, and the Eastern Wilderness Province is his family's nest, and it is impossible to give up, plus the defensive forces of Makinohara Province, it is estimated that the troops that Grand Duke Fisabrun has invested in Winston Province and Southern Province are about 120,000 to 150,000. Perhaps, he will also recruit troops from the grass barbarian tribe on the steppe, and there will be tens of thousands of grass barbarian horsemen to serve the Fisabrun family in the future......

We didn't care how many troops the enemy had, but this time we were dealing with a different enemy than we had encountered before. The main thing is that the enemy's mobility exceeds that of our family forces. When we attack the Southern Province, as the rear of the Winston Province, we must fortify everywhere to protect the transportation channels of our logistics supplies, which is the key to our successful occupation of the Southern Province to cut off the support of the Fisabrun family from the Central Four Duchy.

The lion fights the rabbit, all with all his strength. In our original strategy plan, we concentrated the Rock Legion and the Flying Tiger Legion, plus the Pegasus Legion of the Philim family, and pushed it over with a strong military advantage, expelled the frontier ranger regiment of the Fisabrun family from Winston Province, and then the Rock Legion and the Pegasus Legion marched into the southern province, and the Pegasus Legion swept away the bandits and horse bandits in the southern province, while the Rock Legion chose dangerous terrain and traffic arteries to establish defensive fortress checkpoints, dig ditches and even trenches, and implement the strategy of chain cages in the southern province, completely dividing and compressing the mobile guerrilla space of the frontier ranger regiment of the Fisaburun family。

The mission of the Flying Tigers is to clear the large number of rangers attacking in Winston Province, protect the supplies and supplies transported to the Southern Province in the rear, and find an opportunity to occupy the most important checkpoint fortress city on the border between Winston Province and Makinobara Province, and cut off the communication link between the two provinces. As for the cavalry hunting regiments stationed in the eastern region of the Northlands, they are responsible for raiding and harassing Makinoha Province, and I don't expect the newly formed cavalry hunting regiments to suppress the forces deployed by the Fisabrun family in Makinoha Province, but I am happy to see the flames of war burn into the territory of the Fisabrun family, and make Makinobara Province also a battlefield so that it can involve the enemy's troop movements.

This plan of attack, on the bright side, is sound and stable, and we are confident enough to accomplish our goal. But the shortcomings are also obvious, with our superior forces and strong combat power, Grand Duke Fisabrun will only seek field battles or city defense battles with us when his brain is kicked by a donkey. Therefore, it is very difficult for us to gather the enemy or inflict heavy casualties on the enemy. We anticipate that the greatest possibility for the old fox of the Grand Duke of Fisabrun is to cede Winston Province, retain his forces, and exchange space for the initiative on the battlefield.

After all, the more territory we occupy, the more dispersed our forces become, the more places we are stationed, and the Border Rangers are much more mobile than our clan forces, which will leave us on the side of the passive defense. The Grand Duke of Fisabrun, on the other hand, can use their mobility to gather forces at any time to fight more and less, and at a certain time, it will put our garrison troops at a disadvantage in terms of strength. If the Grand Duke of Fisabrun were to break up his Frontier Ranger Regiment and cruise Winston Province on the size of a corps, not only would our troops stationed in key locations be trapped, but even the transportation of logistical supplies would be in danger. ”

Lorist tapped the large map of Winston Province hanging on the wall with a small slender wooden stick: "This is the strategy plan we originally formulated, and it is also the main reason why we have arranged the Flying Tiger Legion in Winston Province. In order to ensure the safety of the transportation channel. However, because of the Viscount Edith's contribution, I saw an opportunity to annihilate the frontier ranger regiment that the Grand Duke of Fisabrun had placed in Winston Province.

If the frontier rangers in King Windbry can be annihilated and the city of Pietro can be captured, then Winston will no longer have to worry about being harassed and attacked by a large number of rangers. As we can see from the map, Winston Province is bordered by the steep Misburn Mountains and stretches to the Southern Province, except for Pietro City, which is a major transportation gateway city connected to the Makinoha Province. The Pitsbur Mountains cannot be crossed by the army, as long as we can annihilate this frontier ranger regiment, not only can we cut off one of the arms of the Grand Duke of Fisabrun, but also the province of Winston can become our safe rear.

According to the intelligence reported by the agents arranged by the Voliber Intelligence Investigation Agency in the royal city of Windbrie and the information brought to us by Viscount Edith. We can conclude that the Grand Duke of Fisabrun is also consciously making arrangements to meet our attack. At present, the Grand Duke of Fisabrun has purged the nobles in the royal city, and then extended his hand to the traditional territorial nobles of Winston Province, and twenty-three territorial nobles have been wiped out by the Frontier Rangers. ”

Lorist pointed to Viscount Edith, who was sitting next to him, and motioned for him to stand up and continue.

Viscount Edith was a little excited, he didn't expect that the four of them would be able to participate in such a confidential strategic arrangement meeting of the Norton family, which was a great trust in them. At the same time, he also learned that the four major families had already turned their attention to the Iberian Kingdom, and at this moment, he was secretly glad in his heart that the four of them had joined early.

"Your Highness and Ladies and Gentlemen, as far as I know, the Grand Duke of Fisabrun issued an order to all the nobles of the traditional realms of Winston more than two months ago, demanding allegiance to him, transferring the family domains of all men, and reducing the titles and domains of most of the nobles of the realm, on the grounds that the civil war between some lords had caused the kingdom of Iberia to be in turmoil. This was met with resentment and resistance from most of the lords. But unexpectedly, the Grand Duke of Fei Brunn had already prepared, and the border ranger regiment under his command quickly attacked, destroying twenty-three nobles who rebelled against him within two months.

The order to move the feudal feud was given to the four nobles of ours, who were powerless to resist and had to endure the winter wheat harvest, to the new family territory in the southern province with their families and a garrison of no more than a thousand men before May, and everything in the original family domain was handed over to the messenger sent by the Grand Duke of Fisabrun. This is the four of us who have been cornered, and it is the real reason why we have come to serve the Norton family.

I received an emissary from the Grand Duke of Fisabrun, who revealed in my hospitality that the Grand Duke of Fisablebrunn had begun to abandon Winston Province after learning that the four Northland families had destroyed the Duchy of Madras, and that he had used it as a battlefield for the four Northland families. Ideally, the two chain bridges from the Northland to Winston and Makinohara would be blocked, or even destroyed. This only requires deploying forces to defend against the enemy from the small mountain range of Hindersen. In view of the strong family armed strength of the Norton family, the Grand Duke of Fisabrun decided to clear the entire fortified wall of Winston Province, and use the vast area and the super mobility of his family's border ranger regiment and the armed forces of the four major families of the Northland who will invade in the future to have a good guerrilla fight.

The envoy also said that the Grand Duke of Fisabrun was going to move all the young men of Winston Province to the Eastern Wilderness Province and Jinchuan Province to fill the shortage of manpower in the family territory, and concentrate the rest in the royal city of Windbri and a few fortified towns, so that those places could become a logistics base for the attack and supply of the border rangers, so the envoy suggested that it was better for me to obey the Grand Duke's orders and move to the Southern Province. After completing the arrangement of Winston Province, the Grand Duke of Fisabrun will suppress bandits in the Southern Province and greatly strengthen commercial trade with the four central principalities......"

When he had finished speaking, Viscount Edith nodded to everyone before sitting down.

"You all hear it, Grand Duke Fisabrun is not a fuel-efficient lamp. When we are calculating Him, He is also calculating us. Winston was originally the most populous province of the former Cresson Empire, with a population of more than 1.5 million. It's a pity that the years of imperial civil wars, and the later conquest of the second prince, of course, we also pushed behind, and in the past ten years, we have absorbed nearly three or four hundred thousand immigrants from Winston Province......"

Some of the people in the room laughed as Lorist said this, for the Northlands had not been very upright in absorbing the exiles from Winston Province in those years.

Lorist also smiled and continued: "We estimate that the current population of Winston Province is about more than 400,000, and this part is basically the people of those traditional territory nobles in addition to the 60,000 or 70,000 people in the royal city of Windbrie. Like Viscount Edith, vigorously develop the commerce and production of the family domain, at present there are nearly 30,000 people in his family territory, and the Viscount Schindler, Baron Claus and Baron Wede in the three territories add up to nearly 40,000 people, which is the blessing of the commercial development of Walker Town, which is thanks to Viscount Edith's Walker Town, and the second is that they have gathered a lot of displaced people to open up wasteland and farm during the war. There are not many traditional territorial nobles like them in Winston......

The Grand Duke of Fisabrun is now fighting the idea of these traditional nobles, and obeying his orders to move to the southern provinces will also be beneficial for him to sweep away the bandits and bandits in the southern provinces in the future. Of course, these lords were mainly killed by bandits, which also reduced the trouble of the Grand Duke in the future, and was forcibly removed from Winston Province, and few of the nobles of the realm would have a good opinion of the Fisabrun family.

Archduke Fisabrun wanted to move the young men of Winston Province to fill the shortage of manpower in his family's domain, and he could not succeed. Baron Bodfinger, Baron Malek......"

The two new nobles named by Loris stood up.

"The Rock Legion led by the two of you will set out for Walker Town, Viscount Edith's original territory, in three days, and I will have the four of them assist you, including Viscount Edith, Viscount Schindler, Baron Claus, and Baron Weed. It was winter, and the roads were closed by heavy snow, and Grand Duke Fisabrun and his Frontier Rangers stationed in the royal city could never have imagined that we would be able to move at this time. Your task is to transfer the subjects of Viscount Edith and all four of his former realms to the Northlands, and then take the guise of their subjects to raise the banner of rebellion against the Grand Duke of Fisabrun after the harvest of the winter wheat after the March rainy season.

Viscount Edith and the four of them can make up a standing force of five or six thousand, plus the selection of young and strong people from the people can also form a force of 20,000. In order to destroy this rebellious army of lords, the Archduke of Fisabrun, the frontier ranger regiment stationed in the royal city, will definitely go out of their nests. As long as they leave the royal city, then we can encircle and annihilate them in Walker Town, and then we can go to the royal city of Windbrie and easily receive them. ”

"Yes, Your Highness. Boderfinger and Malek sat down.

"The most important key to this arrangement is not to attract the attention and suspicion of the scouts of the Frontier Rangers, which requires the cooperation of you, Viscount Edith. ”

"Your Highness, please rest assured, I will guarantee that there will be no mistakes. Viscount Edith said.

Lorist nodded: "If there is no rainy season in March after winter, I even want to directly send troops to besiege the royal city of Windbrie, trapping the Grand Duke of Fisabrun and his border rangers in the city." Unfortunately, in such weather, our family soldiers were reluctant to carry out siege warfare, and there was no way to transport catapults there. When the rainy season comes, we are even more unfavorable outside the city, which is prone to large-scale epidemics......

So I want to lure this frontier ranger regiment out and lure it into the encirclement for field battles. Count Philim, your Pegasus Legion and my Flying Tiger Legion will be ready to set off after the rainy season, sneak to the vicinity of Walker Town, and wait until the time is right to join in, understand?"

Count Philim stood up: "Don't worry, Your Highness. ”

"After annihilating this Frontier Ranger Legion, you will directly march with the Rock Legion into the Southern Province and close the communication arteries between the Fisabrun family and the Central Four Duchyes as soon as possible. If the four principalities in the middle of the country and the Fisabrun clan come together to attack, then the clan legions of Count Shaheen and the Flying Tiger Legion will come to the aid of the Lord, and we must take the strategic place of the southern province into our hands, which is the biggest key to destroying or forcing the Fisabulun family to submit to us. Lorist said viciously.

...... (To be continued.) )