Chapter Twenty-Three: The Plan and Two Fighting Cocks
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It was the first time for Laurent to hear such a statement, especially the words comprehensive national strength and war potential, and asked curiously: "Why did His Royal Highness say this?"
"That's because we humans have a population of more than 800 million, and this is still hundreds of years ago, and a quarter of them are young and strong men, which means that we have about 200 million qualified soldiers, and how many orcs and elves are there? There are more than 30 million steppe orcs, more than 20 million swamp orcs, and only a little more than 10 million elves, and the population of the three races together is only more than 70 million, not even half of our human beings. The family structure is similar to that of us humans, and the young and middle-aged people who can fight are only about 17 million to death, but in fact it is not up to it, even if there are so many, it is too much worse than the 200 million of our human beings, even if people are used to pile up, they can be pushed to death.
Moreover, we human beings occupy 80 percent of the continent's mineral production and more than 70 percent of the grain production, half of the animal husbandry, have the best metallurgical technology, ordnance manufacturing technology, and a large number of related qualified workers, vast land and strategic depth, which point do you say we will lose? If we really lose, then there is absolutely something wrong with the human race, and we deserve to be exterminated. ”
Laurent was a little overwhelmed by Ouyang Yu's series of numbers, he had never heard of these numbers, so he asked, "How does Your Highness know the number of orcs and elves?"
Ouyang Yu smiled mischievously and said, "Military secrets, no comment." ”
Laurent froze. But he couldn't force Ouyang Yu to say it, so he had to change the topic and say, "Then His Royal Highness the Grand Duke." What do you think we're going to do next against the elven army that's close at hand?"
"Fight!" Ouyang Yu said sonorously: "The elven army has been severely damaged by our army, and now is the most vain time, and the number has been greatly reduced. Our coalition forces are now four times outnumbered of them, and we should continue to attack them to prevent them from being in a state of lack of energy, and at the same time send a large number of light cavalry to attack the rear of the elven army, cut off their food routes so that they have nothing to eat, poison them to death by thirst in the river where they get water, and in a way that can be summed up as exhaustion, starvation, thirst, and trapping, and then launch a general attack when the time is almost right!"
"That's good!" Prince Terry didn't know when he also walked over, and applauded loudly after hearing Ouyang Yu's tactics. He saw that Laurent was chatting with Ouyang Yu and the two seemed to be very close and deliberately came over to intervene, Terry had long regarded Ouyang Yu as his future queen, where would other men be allowed to approach, and he was also his opponent.
"I think Catherine's tactics are very good, and they should be executed like this. Prince Terry smiled and sat down beside Prince Laurent and gave him a defiant look.
Prince Laurent frowned slightly in disgust, he already had some good feelings for Ouyang Yu in the conversation just now, so he naturally didn't want others to join him when he was talking with the beautiful woman, but he didn't want to lose his grace in front of Ouyang Yu. So he pretended not to see Prince Terry's provocation, and nodded politely in return, but in his heart he scolded Terry for being a big light bulb.
Prince Terry stared into Prince Laurent's eyes and said, "What do you think of His Royal Highness Catherine's tactics, Your Highness Laurent? There must be a different opinion, right?"
"No, Her Highness Catherine's tactics are very feasible and are the best option for the coalition forces at this stage. Prince Laurent said seriously with his chin on his back.
Prince Terry glanced at Prince Laurent in astonishment. I thought that this proud prince with high eyes would raise objections, but he didn't expect that he would agree to Ouyang Yu's plan in its entirety. Could it be that in addition to competing with himself for the dominance of the coalition forces, he also wants to compete with himself for the beauty in front of him?
Prince Terry, who has already made Prince Laurent his opponent. Now he has added the title of a rival in love to the other party, in order to fight this opponent and a rival in love and to show off in front of Ouyang Yu, according to his previous experience of hunting in the imperial capital, he began to talk about poetry and music, and the idle noble ladies and ladies in the imperial capital liked this tune the most.
Prince Laurent, who also wanted to have a good image of reconciliation in front of the beauty, also began to talk loudly with Prince Terry about poetry and music, the level of the two is not much different from half a catty to eight taels, but their understanding is different, in order to prove that their understanding is correct, the blushing neck of the fight almost fought.
"Ah....... Ouyang Yu listened to the argument between the two and wanted to sleep, and yawned very unladylikely, she was not interested in poetry and poetry at all.
Her yawn made Prince Terry and Prince Laurent react like fighting cocks, they wanted to please the strong women who were powerful, ruled a country, and held the power of life and death, rather than the aristocratic women who moaned without illness, and they immediately changed the topic and began to discuss the principles and experience of statecraft.
However, the set they talked about was still the old concept of aristocrats, which was completely different from Ouyang Yu's current people-oriented policy regardless of her background, she didn't listen to it at all, and she still lacked interest, which made the two feel very embarrassed.
Ouyang Yu barely cheered up and talked with the two fighting cocks for a while, and then left under the pretext of being unwell, leaving only the two who were still competing with each other.
The next day, Prince Terry summoned all the generals and saint-level warriors and mages for a pre-battle meeting, and told Ouyang Yu's tactics in public, at the meeting, Prince Laurent not only did not oppose but praised it, and Ouyang Yu's tactics naturally obtained all the staff in pass, and then prepared as quickly as possible, and two days later, the 400,000 troops of the coalition army poured out, ready to implement Ouyang Yu's plan.
"Woo......! knock! knock! knock......!"
The trumpet sounded, and the drums of war shook the sky.
The human army of 400,000 was divided into four large phalanxes on the left, center, right and back on the vast plain, and was slowly approaching the elven army camp.
The sound of 400,000 people marching forward in unison was like thunder, people roared and neighed, flags covered the sky, and movement could be heard dozens of kilometers away.
The armies of the two different races stopped about three kilometers apart, and the human side began to deploy troops to prepare for the attack, and the elves took the arrows and waited for the battle, and a fierce battle was about to break out. (To be continued......)