Chapter 291 Pre-war Deployment
The normal natural life span of the elves is only about 1,600 years old, but Elder Kelan has already reached this age.
According to human terms, Elder Kelan is considered auspicious by rounding it off. Every extra year he lives is setting a new record.
At this age and already suffering from Alzheimer's disease, even Slavin, the patriarch, would not dare to mess with him.
“Chief Slavin, I have a subordinate who is responsible for leading troops in combat. It is related to the next battle. Why not let him come in to discuss it together?”
Hearing this, Slavin didn't think much and nodded in agreement.
Only Zhou Xu and Zhuo Ge were allowed in, mainly because they were not completely sure of their purpose.
Now that this issue has been clarified, and an alliance has been reached to discuss the next battle, Slavin naturally does not mind letting the other party's generals come in to discuss together.
"Silk, come here too."
Li Ce arrived quickly. Seeing this, Slavin called Hilke over to discuss.
Obviously, on the prairie elves' side, Hilke is definitely not a simple patrol officer.
On the way here, Li Ce, who had roughly understood the situation, didn't waste any time. He took out the animal skin map he had brought with him and spread it out on the table.
“The location where we discovered the energy channel was here.”
Compared to Zhou Xu who occasionally visits the grassland, Li Ce is undoubtedly much more familiar with this grassland. .
“And our current location is here.”
He simply pointed out two points on the map, which immediately made Slavin and Silk frown.
As of now, Drogo and the others have no fixed place to live in this grassland. The hyena people have been defeated and are missing. Zhou Xu and his grassland village are on the outskirts of the grassland.
After going back and forth like this, the ones closest to the lizard people turned out to be their elves.
This situation really makes it impossible for them to stay out of it.
“Leave the task of gathering intelligence to us.”
Faced with this situation, Slavin not only did not shirk, but even took the initiative to take over the task on themselves.
You must know that in this situation, once the prairie elves' camp is exposed, it will definitely become the lizard people's primary target of attack.
It doesn’t take much brainpower to figure out this problem. Zhou Xu didn’t believe that Slavin would not think of it.
Under this premise, the other party still made such a decision, which actually made him change his mind slightly.
[From the current point of view, although this Slavin is easy to teach and a little arrogant at heart, he can actually get things done. He is not the kind of guy who just talks but can't do anything. 】
With Slavin taking the initiative to take over the matter, Zhou Xu certainly had no interest in competing with him.
As for Drogo and the others...
They are still covered in bruises and bruises at the moment. For them, it is business to recover from their injuries quickly and regain their strength.
In this way, the most suitable person to do this right now is really the prairie elf.
After briefly confirming the arrangements for the intelligence work, they roughly confirmed the ideas of the three parties. As for the further detailed arrangements, they naturally had to wait until the intelligence came back.
Without concrete information to support it, it's useless no matter how many plans you fantasize about here.
“Clan Chief Slavin, we have to make some arrangements in my village, so I won’t stay here any longer.”
Speaking of this, Zhou seemed to have thought of something again. The voice paused.
"Oh, by the way, I will leave a subordinate here. If you need anything, you can ask him to pass on the message."
After saying that, Zhou Xu had no intention of doing anything more here. Stay. But before leaving, he briefly reached a deal with Silk and took away the other party's two horses.
Now that they have become allies, Hilke is suspected to be a general from the grassland elves. Considering the subsequent cooperation, Zhou Xu naturally does not want to cause any unpleasantness with the other party.
Not to mention the one-for-two business, the loss is unjustifiable.
After leaving the elf camp, Zhou Xu walked a little way and soon saw Chitose lying on the grass and taking a nap, with one of their cavalry guarding him.
When Zhou Xu was determined to come here, while sending someone back to convey the order, he also asked the other party to bring Chitose directly.
If there is any emergency, let Li Ce take care of Chitose and then rush in directly.
“This is... Chitose?!”
Drogo, who lived in Prairie Village for a while last winter, naturally met Chitose.
But he did not expect that in less than a year, Chitose's body had changed so dramatically!
Especially this head, it grows a little too fast.
Now, no matter which angle you look at it, Chitose can already be called a beast.
“Let’s go, go back to the village!”
In response to Zhuo Ge’s question, Zhou Xu simply gave a positive answer and then gave the order to return to the village.
As for Drogo and the others, they followed them back to the prairie village without him even needing to speak.
After all, they have nowhere to go now.
"Call the doctor over and treat the wounds of Drogo and the others, and let the kitchen start cooking!"
As soon as the horse rode outside the village, Zhou Xu was already giving orders loudly.
Drogo's stomachs were wailing all the way, and he couldn't even think of not hearing them.
Drogo and the others were not pretentious during this period. It could even be said that they entered the village with familiar faces, and they felt a bit like going home.
Seeing that they were not unfamiliar at all, Zhou Xu ignored them and quickly called Ye Jinghong to make his own arrangements.
"This will definitely be a tough battle. The thirty regular soldiers in Prairie Village and the militiamen living here will definitely not be enough."
"Pass my order to station the troops stationed in Black Moon Ten Tengjia soldiers from the village were transferred directly. As for Tieshan Village, it is also in the border area. The troops cannot be mobilized easily. Let Zhou Chongshan come over to join the battle!"
"In addition, a recruitment order was issued! , start a new round of recruitment!”
A series of orders were quickly issued. Needless to say, there is no need to say more about troop deployment. As for the recruitment work, Zhou Xu actually has no intention of letting the recruited recruits go directly to the battlefield.
Once a war breaks out, soldiers who have not received formal training will not know how to cooperate, and will not be able to keep up with the actions of the regular army, and will most likely be held back.
Rather than dragging it to the battlefield and causing trouble for them, it would be better not to.
Under this premise, the reason why Zhou Xu wants to recruit troops is because he intends to use them as reserves and train them first.
If the battle can be ended in a short time, that would be great, but if it drags on into a long battle, he will be more confident with the reserves behind him.
Instead of finishing the battle in one wave, the regular army will be completely defeated, and the only choice is to drive the militiamen onto the battlefield.
Generally speaking, unless the opponent has also suffered heavy damage, there is basically no chance of fighting.
In the final analysis, the outcome of a battle still depends on the strength of the regular armies on both sides!
(End of this chapter)