Chapter 365: The Scheme of Extinction
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Even Lei Wen, who has always been known for his madness, had his heart beat faster when he thought of this tactic.
If it can succeed, it can indeed open up the deadlock.
But once it fails, the result will be...
The whole army is wiped out!
Do you want to bet once?
"Hu..."
Take a deep breath and vent it for a long time, Lei Wen calmed himself down.
No matter what tactics are, before you actually meet Blue Fort, you will just talk on paper.
I did not stay in Winter Spring Valley for long, leaving a small number of auxiliary troops to garrison. Three days later, Lei Wen and Jonah led their troops to set off.
It's not that Raven didn't know how to be polite to Jonah and his Gaoling Army. In fact, this was the common decision between the two.
Spring is coming soon.
When the temperature rises and the frozen soil melts, the roads in the Principal of Aivol will become extremely muddy. Under that circumstances, march is simply asking for trouble.
The distance is not long.
1On February 27, 200, Lei Wen finally led the Eagle Army to the outskirts of Blue Fort. "Is this Blue Castle..." Riding on the horse, Lei Wen looked at the towering city wall and his brows were tightly clamped.
Even though I had learned about the scale of Blue Castle in detail in the intelligence, I had to be shocked by the capital of the Principal of Aivol when I saw it with my own eyes.
It was a grand star-shaped city with a regular hexagonal shape, with 6 city walls with a height of 9 meters, and the length of each city wall is more than 3,000 meters.
Every 50 meters, there is a bed crossbow—there are as many as 60 bed crossbows on each city wall!
There is a conspicuous and prominent prism at the corners of each two city walls, which is enough to allow the people above to attack the enemy under the city with condescending and blind spots.
Hailan River flows in from the city wall on the northeast side and out from the city wall on the southwest side.
And the blue city wall was shining brightly under the sunlight, like a blue beast!
"Oh my God..."
Eric lifted up his face in surprise and rubbed his little eyes red.
In his previous imagination, no matter how big the Blue Castle is, it will be almost the same as Meng'en City at most.
But now it seems that the size of Blue Castle is three times that of Mengen City!
Even if the Eagle Army and Jonah's army are all pressed down, they may not be able to occupy the walls of Blue Castle!
A strong attack?
How many lives will it take to fill such a towering city wall?
"..."
Count Jonah remained silent, but his face became extremely gloomy.
He thought of a history.
More than 550 years ago.
At that time, the Duchy of Aivol was established, and the high walls of the two northern and southern defense lines had not been built, but were attacked by the Insa Empire.
The total 200,000 Insa elites were in a stalemate with Aivol under Blue Castle for a full year!
During the period, Insa used up all kinds of tactics, but they all returned in vain.
In the end, he had to leave 70,000 bodies and retreat in a hurry, giving up his plan to annex Evor.
It was also after that that the Principality of Aivol was truly recognized by many human regimes on the mainland.
Jona once doubted the authenticity of this history, because at that time the grand duke of the Principal of Evor was a tyrant who usurped his nephew's position, "Evor II".
This person is known for his political shrewdness, greedy character and military incompetence.
Even though he had the merit and prestige of repelling Insa's 200,000 troops, he was still overthrown by his ministers in his later years, allowing Aivol to enter a long tyrant rule, and various families took turns to take over.
It was not until about 150 years ago that the Grand Duke returned to the Ivor family.
How could such a leader withstand the 200,000 Insa elites?
Jona now fully understands it.
Blue Castle is indeed not a city that can be easily compromised.
Not to mention that his infantry army has not arrived yet, even if it arrives, it will be around 40,000 people with Lei Wen's men.
What they faced was a total of 320,000 troops occupying a strong city!
Just then, a horn sounded, and it was Lei Wen who was going to hold a military meeting.
"Send the order and set up camp." Jonah retracted his mind: "Jinmans, come with me!"
"Yes, Master!"
Gimmans is a viscount--to be precise, a court viscount serving Jonah.
Although he had a title, his fiefdom had long been lost. The "Hopkins" family, who served Jonah for generations, was both an in-house minister and a housekeeper.
When sending troops out, Jinmans became Jonah's adjutant.
He is very proud of this, so he strives to be perfect in both posture and expression.
The armor on the body is spotless, and the right hand is placed on the chest at any time. The chest is as straight as a rooster, and the pace is even more stable, with a typical aristocratic pace.
This is nothing in normal times, but in the military camp, it seems like an opera actor.
The worst thing is his expression.
On a bulldog-like face, there was a stiff face as if it was dead, with only half open eyes, and everyone seemed to be beating him for three or five hundred gold coins.
He followed Jonah to the tent that Lei Wen had just tied down with him.
There are many people carrying things outside, which looks a bit messy, so Lei Wen just glanced at him and didn't care much about it.
"Baron Raven, I think it's time to formulate a specific strategy for the future." Earl Jonah said straight to the point:
"You have also seen that Blue Castle cannot be defeated by a strong attack, so we must find a way to get the Aivor people out of the city to fight us!"
Levin did not respond immediately, but looked at it To others.
The officers present basically agreed and nodded in agreement.
After all, siege is not that simple.
Calculated with 60 bed crossbows on one city wall, even if these bed crossbows have limited attack range, basically every point on the battlefield may encounter at least 6 bed crossbows at the same time.
In this case, it takes huge losses to transport siege equipment to the edge of the city wall.
And with the previous lessons, this time the Aivor people may have dealt with it more carefully. With their manpower and material resources, they can create a trencher that is several times higher than Lei Wen's side.
Hundreds or thousands of aircraft are possible.
Hundreds of thousands of huge rocks were thrown down, and the damage caused...
"Baron Raven, the Count is asking for your opinion." Jinmans said slightly dissatisfied. .
Raven did not look at him, but said to Jonah: "Count Jonah, since you have proposed this direction, you must have made a decision in your mind, right?"
"That's right." Jonah Nodded: "Compared with Evor, our advantage lies in mobility."
"Blue Castle is indestructible, so let's start in other directions!"
As he said, he made an appointment Take the Earl and stand up and point to the map:
"The county of Evergil where Blue Fort is located is the core of the Principality of Evergil. With it as the center, Henting County in the northwest and Boland County in the southwest , and the Cluke County in the southeast, together form the richest Aivol Plain in the entire principality. ”
"The economy is the most developed and the population is the most dense."
"For us, away battles are a disadvantage, but also an advantage."
"The enemy's enemy forces are basically allocated. We can completely break the troops into pieces, take the Aivor region as the core, and carry out sweeps from the outside to the inside. "
" Burn down houses, plunder food, and drive refugees to the Blue Fort!" "In this way, either Blue Fort will open the door to welcome the refugees and consume huge amounts of food in the city; or you will keep the refugees out of the city and watch them starve to death!"
"Either the Blue Fort can't hold on to food consumption, or it's so exciting that it can't sit still anymore-
In either case, the Aivor people have to open the door and fight us in a decisive battle!
And this is exactly the effect we want to achieve! ”
After saying this, the entire tent quieted down, and the officer's eyes were filled with glory.
This is indeed a very effective method.
Moreover, leading the army out to rob, can also generate a lot of revenue, which can be said to be both public and private!
Lancha closed his eyes in despair.
Riskically, this is indeed the best way the Eagle Army can take at present.
As an Aivor, he was powerless and could only watch his hometown fall into a sea of hell!
If I had known, I shouldn't have surrendered.
It was better to die at that time than to suffer here now. "I don't agree with this tactic."
What?
Is it because I told the truth?
Lan Cha opened his eyes and saw an unexpected scene.
The rest of the officers, including Eric, had a lot of surprise on their faces, and Earl Jonah frowned, and the undisguised disgust appeared on the face of Jinmans behind him.
Everyone's eyes were condensed on Lei Wen's face. "What did you say?" Jinmans asked. "I said, I don't agree with this plan." Lei Wen calmly retelled his words.
"But, why!?" Jinmans' tone became more and more serious:
"Baron Raven, although you are the commander-in-chief of this military operation, do you have any problems with my Earl's plan? If not, why not use it?" "You must know that denying others will not increase your majesty!"
"Shut up!" Eric Teng stood up: "Mr. Jinmans, please pay attention to your attitude towards speaking!"
Lei Wen smiled in his heart, Eric was really thick and thin.
Jinmans was obviously a viscount, but he called him "Mr.
The constipated expression of Jinmans's lung tube was poked into his lungs even more shows that Eric pointed to his key points.
"Okay, since it's a military meeting, of course it's free to speak. Our Eagle Army has never had a tradition of not letting people speak." The words were taught a lesson, but Raven smiled at Eric with a smile. Nodded, then turned to Earl Jonah, completely ignoring Jinmans: "It's not that your plan is not good enough, it's just that there are some things that you didn't think about."
Although it was just now Jinmans was talking, and Earl Jonah felt unhappy, otherwise he would have stopped him long ago, so he just nodded and signaled Raven to continue.
"The benefits of this method have been mentioned by Count Jonah, so I will talk about its disadvantages." Lei Wen looked away and glanced at the audience:
"Indeed, Count Jonah did this very well. It is possible to force the Aivor people to fight us in a decisive battle, but there is a question. Have you ever thought about it? "
"So far, why have we been able to win repeatedly?" "
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The officers looked at each other and then spoke.
Some people say it is because the Eagle Army has stronger quality, some people say that the Wind King's troops were unexpected, and some people say that the Eagle Army has better equipment.
Of course, there is also the praise and praise of Lei Wen's military capabilities.
Hearing these contents one by one, Lei Wen nodded: "Yes, but not all."
"Let me use a question first Let's answer my previous question.
Why can the enemy have fled in the last two battles since entering Aivor, especially the Battle of Thorn Ridge, without any effective resistance? "
"Because we dare to fight, they are afraid to fight. ”
”Because they have a way out. "
"Now that our troops are at the city, we will destroy their current homeland. Will they still collapse at once like before? "
"There are 320,000 troops in the city. If we count them, we will count them 160,000 soldiers - 4 times our number. Everyone is brave and fearless in the death of an army of this size. All of them have become heroic soldiers on Thorn Ridge, can we still win? ”
As soon as the three words "Brai Thorn Ridge" were released, the officers of the Eagle Army were silent.
They were all people who experienced that war. At that time, how the soldiers led by Fowler persisted and refused to surrender, leaving an indelible impression on them.
Questions arose in my heart - Yes, how should they win in the face of an army of more than 100,000?
"It's so cowardly, Baron Raven." Jinmans couldn't feel that feeling, and Yu Han disdained: "I don't know what you saw on Thorn Ridge, but that must be just yours. "
"The majority of the Evor's army are just serfs raised, and a group of sheep in armor are just sheep, while our Cairns' army is a fearless pack of wolves, It's a lion, and it's still armed to the teeth! ”
"I don't even understand this principle. Have you won one victory after another by luck since you entered Ever? "
This time, before Eric could speak, Raven's His face sank first: "Hyna!" "Yes!" The hyna had been holding her anger for a long time and immediately walked towards Jinmans when she heard the order.
A glimmer flashed in Count Jonah's eyes: "Baron Raven, what do you mean?"
"Military meeting, I can tolerate discussions on opinions." Lei Wen said in a long voice: "But I cannot allow attacks and insults to my personality!" Jonah breathed stutteringly .
Jinmans shouted loudly, "I am the viscount, you have no right to deal with me!"
"This is the army! I am the leader of this army!" Lei Wen did not make any move Let:
"According to military discipline, those who roar in the military camp and insult Shangguan will be whipped 30 times and executed immediately!"
The hyena stepped forward and grabbed Jinmans' shoulder and dragged it outward.
Earl of Jonah sinks his eyelids.
Although he was not happy, he would not turn against Lei Wen because of this, not to mention that Jinmans was indeed absent from the first.
The sound of the whip whipping on the flesh sounded, and each stroke seemed to hit Count Jonah's face, causing his cheeks to tremble constantly.
The 30 whip was quickly finished, and the hyena walked in first, and Jinmans limped in, looking at Lei Wen with a gaze full of resentment.
"Mr. Jinmans." Lei Wen said lightly: "I have already fought. Even if this matter has been revealed, your previous words were apart from insulting me. , and there are many mistakes that I must point out. "
Gimmans is about to burst into anger.
Is there not enough physical humiliation, and will I humiliate me mentally?
But the whip marks on his back were now painful and itchy, and they were swollen and pressed against his armor, making it difficult for him to breathe. Earl Jonah had no intention of standing up for him, so he could only suppress his anger:
"Then please let Baron Leiwen talk!"
He wanted to see what kind of flowers Leiwen could tell.
Leiwen smiled faintly: "Mr. Jinmans seems to look down on serfs."
"Do you know how many serfs are there in my officers here?"
Jinmans felt a slight shock, and then he found that most of the officers present were looking at him with a sneering expression.
Levin asked again: "Do you know why I was able to win the Battle of Iron Birch at a disadvantage of 1:7 in the field and defeat Count Palmer and Marquis of Faraday?" br>
This sentence immediately attracted Count Jonah's curiosity.
The battle was so fierce that it could be seen from the remains of the battlefield that he was really curious.
Levin said: "Because at that time, the Marquis of Faraday was in Tiehua County, doing the things planned by Count Jonah without planning."
"Tiehua County is just a relatively barren county in the Principal of Aivol, with a small population, and most of them are serfs that Mr. Jinmans despised."
"But they, in one month During the time, he killed and intercepted one-third of the logistics troops of the Faraday and Palmer coalition, killed thousands of soldiers, forcing Palmer to fight me! "
" Serfs are also humans. They will be angry, resist, and will stab you at critical moments!"
At this point, Lei Wen's expression became more sincere, looking at Jonah and said, "Now, our troops are in power. It is far less than the coalition forces of Palmer and Faraday, and the land you plan to clean up and the population above are several times or even ten times more than Tiehua County. "
"If the Principal of Aivol Instead of going out for a decisive battle as you planned, it drags on. How many troops do you think we have to invest in the logistics force to ensure that nothing happens? And how long can we last in a harsh environment where everyone is an enemy ? ”
Count Jonah fell into deep thought.
He is now increasingly understanding why Raven can advance rapidly and win repeatedly in the Principality of Aivol.
Because Aivol's people are not Raven's enemies.
Jona also witnessed this, and the lively scene in Boland City is a clear evidence.
The army cannot drive away refugees, and it is impossible to cover everything. At that time, many people will definitely scatter into the countryside.
The locals are much more familiar with the terrain than those of them.
Jona alone can think of evil ways to poison, introduce dead places, block roads, etc.
Jona couldn't help but shudder when he thought of the road to logistics supply, where these hatred and unscrupulous Avengers were everywhere.
The sound of armor collision sounded behind him. It was obvious that Jinmans wanted to say something, but Jonah immediately raised his hand and looked at Lei Wen and said seriously: "Then, Lei Wen Baron, how are you going to fight against the enemy? ”
Lei Wen thought for a while and responded, "I do have an idea, but more information is needed at the moment."
"Next, I will send someone to infiltrate into Blue Castle, inquire carefully, and get enough Information, I will discuss with the Earl again."
Jona nodded slowly and stood up: "Since that's the case, I won't ask more."
"But I still hope Baron Raven, remember. "
"War... is always full of surprises."
Lei Wen raised his eyebrows slightly. Earl Jonah was not only talking about this war, but also refers to the war that took place outside the province directly under the imperial government.
These two wars, although thousands of miles apart, influence each other.
If this side has not made any breakthroughs for a long time and the front battlefield changes, then...
Lei Wen closed his eyes and suppressed the thoughts that were surging in his heart:
"Secret meeting ! ”
Next, Raven called William again and asked him and Ernada to use the same trick again to go to the Blue Castle to inquire about information.
Their faces have been remembered, and the upper route is difficult to follow, but this time, Lei Wen did not intend to let them spy on the attitude of the nobles, but with a brand new purpose.
"What do you want information about such things?" William was very puzzled. "Hey, this is so disgusting, you might as well do it alone?" Ernada frowned and wanted to refuse.
Bang, bang.
Two purses fell into their palms.
Ernardalen was still in place, and William was still frowning.
Then another purse fell into William's hands. "Please ensure that the task is completed!" William immediately smiled, pulled Ernada and walked out.
As a result, just after leaving the camp, William let out a wail!
A smug smile appeared on the corner of Lei Wen's mouth - the last purse was filled with copper coins.
When you go out, you always have to have some change!
But Lei Wen's good mood did not last long.
As Jonah said, war is always full of surprises.
And this accident, one after another.
...
(This chapter ends)