Chapter 39: Disadvantages
The Knoyes family's army strategy adopted a risky approach, unconventionally mobilizing a large army in a colder winter than before, taking down Ankitan in the shortest possible time, and then making peace with the Empire to make the other side recognize the legitimacy of the king of the Maurice kingdom, and in exchange for Ian swearing allegiance to the other side as the king of Maurice. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Ian's entire battle plan was fast, and he completed his battle plan when the two Empire legions were transferred out of Maurice but Alain's army had not yet returned to Ankitan. This gap was the period when the Empire's control over the entire Morris region was at its weakest. The opportunity is once in a lifetime, and only at this time is that his military strength dominates the whole of Morris, and the enemy is divided between two places.
But it backfired, and Ian's adventurous battle plan has now completely failed. The city of Anjitan could not be taken for a long time, and the cold weather took the lives of the besieging army one after another, although they were well prepared for the cold before then. The most fatal point is that the logistics supply line in the direction of Lengxi has been cut off by the enemy, and now the 30,000-strong besieging army is about to face the dilemma of running out of ammunition and food.
"I'm curious how Alain managed to make a detour from one side of the map to the other. A day after the battle of Cold Creek, Ian, located just outside the city of Anjitan, received news that his supply line had been cut off.
The snow-covered roads were difficult to walk, so Ian and his vassals consulted and unanimously decided to transport food and supplies from the cold stream, which does not freeze all year round. However, there was still the castle of Count Leng Creek on the edge of Cold Creek that threatened the supply line, so the army of Count William, who had the worst fighting strength, arrived at Leng Creek to monitor the other side. However, because of the poor combat effectiveness of his own army, the other party was defeated without resistance, although in the end Earl William came to a counterattack.
"Because the opponent's team has the eldest son of Earl Leng Creek in it, the opponent is taking a hidden shortcut to attack. "The spy chief who came with the army did his best to answer his lord's questions, and as the head of intelligence, this intelligence gap undoubtedly left a stain on his career.
Looking at the battle map on the table, Ian fell silent, and the battle or retreat had now become a crucial turning point. Now there is little point in storming Anjitan City, a strong attack means a high casualty rate, and even if it succeeds in the end, Alain, who reconvened his vassals in Cold Creek, will definitely lead the army to intercept his exhausted self. The last hope now is to march to Cold Creek and defeat Alain before he fully assembles his army, and then even unconditional peace can be gained.
"Gather your vassals at once and get ready for battle. Ian, who had already rethought of his countermeasures, ordered.
Near Cold Creek Castle, the battle has ended all day, and a joyful and festive atmosphere fills the entire banks of the ice-free river. Although the time to celebrate the end of the war has not yet come, it is rare to regain the initiative in the middle of the war, and it can also be a celebration to boost the morale of the army.
After abandoning all the prisoners, Alain's troops marched rapidly, and it took a whole day to reach the vicinity of Leng Creek from a shortcut, and the success of the division allowed the Leng Creek army, which had been beaten since the battle, to regain its self-confidence.
The makeshift barracks was in a state of cheers, and the thin tent had no chance of blocking the cacophony from spreading.
"What's going on?" asked Delfield, who was awakened by the cacophony of cheers, puzzled, and didn't care if there was anyone nearby.
Dalefield's voice attracted the attention of Shilinya, who was reading carefully, and she was able to relax when she saw that the royal sister on the side had only woken up now, and she had been thinking for the worst.
"Our follow-up army has arrived at Cold Creek, and now they are celebrating with joy. Shilinya, who was staring at the paper, happily answered the other party's questions. Shirinya, who didn't know much about the state of the war, simply knew that she was in a disadvantage of imminent defeat, but now that we were able to cut off the enemy's supply lines, the importance of it was self-evident with the help of knowledge from our past lives. So when she heard the lively scene of the army outside, Shirinya thought about joining in.
"Why is the eldest lady here?, are your injuries healed?" Delphi, who reacted, asked the person sitting next to her with concern, after all, the scene of the other party's last blocking the explosion made her very worried, and her magic was overloaded, and almost all of her body suffered from fatal magic overload damage.
Relying on an enchantment protection spell to protect the entire squad from harm, such a record has spread among the army, and the soldiers in the army have always had an unimpressed attitude towards this sudden appearance of the lord lady, at most they just look at a more talented young mage, but now the image of the other party has completely changed, after all, they are comrades who have been born and died once together, and the other party's record in this battle is also very eye-catching.
"Alright. Gently closing the book in her hand, Shilinya got up to get a potion for the person in the bed to heal internal injuries in her body, "But Dale, you also have to take care of your body, you know?"
"I don't believe it. Although the other party didn't seem to have any major problems, the witnesses of the other party's injuries at that time refused to believe the other party's words at all: "Miss, your body is very weak now, you should have enough rest!"
"Got it. "The other party's advice, Shilinya can only fool the past at will, she can't tell her that she has a god behind her as a backer, right?
Treating patients is Shilinya's business, with a lot of alchemy knowledge and recipes provided by Newlegi, Shilinya also plans to create some highly effective healing potions to help the wounded recover their combat effectiveness as soon as possible. But contrary to his wishes, he couldn't make anything of himself without materials, except for some dispensable low-level healing potions that could only heal skin wounds.
In this raid battle, more than half of the cavalry troops were lost, and such losses will inevitably have a negative impact on the subsequent battles.
How will her father face the next battle, Shilinya feels worried, according to the current strength of the army, her own side is at an absolute disadvantage in numbers, although the opponent's army has a debuff of food shortage.
The potion is something that has been prepared for a long time, and these are just low-level physical recovery potions, which are more suitable for people like Dalefil who are exhausted and languishing.
When the hand holding the potion reached out to the other party, Dalefield immediately grabbed the other party's slender wrist, and a trace of magic flowed through Shilinya's whole body at the wrist, as if thousands of ants were crawling in the veins, and the feeling was very uncomfortable.
Body detection, a simple and basic detection spell, is mainly used to detect the physical condition of living things. Shirinya, an alchemist by training, is no stranger to this, and often used this spell to help diagnose patients when her mother was still alive. However, this spell will cause a rather strange and strong itch to the target, so it is sometimes used as a torture method by those prison torturers.
Shilinya endured the unbearable itching coming from her body, just hoping that Dale Fil would be able to end this probe quickly.
In just ten seconds, Shilinya felt that a year had passed, and finally the interruption of the spell made her breathe a sigh of relief: "What's the matter, I'm not lying, right?"
Puzzled, Delphi took the potion handed by the other party, raised his head and drank it down. Knowing how serious the other party's injuries were, she was very puzzled by this strange phenomenon and wanted to ask, but in the end she suppressed her curiosity, after all, this was a kind of privacy for the other party.
"It's okay. Delphi replied vaguely, and the scenes of the battle were constantly replayed in his mind, and finally froze on the image of the other party pushing the enemy all the way.
"Miss, are you really only at the level of an intermediate mage?" "Double-line one-way spellcasting, why would a spell-casting ability that only an expert-level mage be able to control could be mastered by a child of the other party's current level?
The other party's question made Shilinya hesitate, this is not because of the things she wants to hide from others to be mentioned by the other party, and more importantly, now she has thought of a way to strengthen the army.
"Sister Dale, how do I tell you to do it, do you want to learn it?" Shilinya, who had figured out what she should do, immediately asked for the other party's opinion, if she taught all the mages in the army to learn this technique, then she would definitely have a great chance of winning in the next battle, right?
"Huh?"