The Swordsman of Faerûn

Chapter 692
A great man once famously said that in many cases the outcome of a war is doomed before it begins.

Although many people may not have heard this sentence, it does not prevent those who have experienced wars from gaining similar experiences and lessons.But any experienced general understands the truth that the more adequate the preparations before the battle, the greater the chance of victory.

Therefore, when a human kingdom or city-state wants to launch a war, the preparations before the war will generally be cumbersome.

However, the army from Zhentil Castle broke this routine.Almost without making any pre-war preparations, they directly sent troops across the Tessa River, and drove straight along the northern road across the valley. pull.

These two cities once belonged to Far Mountain City and Shadow Valley, and they were also at the forefront of the tug-of-war between the two city-states and Zhentil Castle.

The leader of Zhentil Castle's army is an evil mage or priest named Tempus Blackthorne. His reputation is unknown to most people in Shadow Valley and even Zhentil Castle. The army of Zhentil Keep, the reason is that his master is a real god-Ban, the Lord of Darkness.

Bane in the mortal age may be a qualified king and commander, but as a god, he has forgotten the taboos that once belonged to mortal warfare, or he has not forgotten it, he just dismisses it.

How could God care about the life and death of ants!

The soldiers of Zhentil Fort marched very hard. Not to mention the lack of weapons and armor, at least the war machines used to siege cities and land were absolutely in short supply, and the supplies of food and grass were even more difficult to supply. If they were not After plundering in Yulas and Fuenla, he might even be on his way hungry.

However, the morale of the soldiers can still be maintained a little bit, at least following a real god to attack Shadow Valley, in the eyes of most mortals, this is a completely sure victory.

No matter how awesome your great sage in Shadow Valley is, you are just a mortal. No matter how crazy your silver-haired sister is, you are just another god’s lackey, and your god has fallen in full view. Look at you, these loaches in the river ditch How to turn over.

Well, the outcome has been decided!
In fact, the soldiers in Zhentil Castle knew that the supplies were insufficient and didn't worry about it, but it was because they all knew that Shadow Valley was famous for its abundance, and just plundering any farm or cottage would be enough to get a lot of food. Wait for grain rice and wheat as food.

However, when these mixed armies of humans and orcs rushed into the outskirts of Shadow Valley, ready to slaughter and plunder, they found that what awaited them were ruins all over the ground, and groups of monsters that hadn't dispersed.

This is a tragedy, and what makes Zhentil Castle people even more sad is that they had a fierce fight with the monsters, and then some of the monsters were incorporated, and they had to squeeze out part of the food they had left , distributed to those orcs and gnolls who surrendered.

Then more monsters chose to surrender to the Zhentil Fort people, which caused the army of Zhentil Fort to expand several times almost at once on the second day after entering the Valley of Shadows.

The god Bane and his servant Blackthorne who hid in the army were very satisfied with this, but he and he did not notice that the soldiers had begun to cut up and roast the corpses of dead monsters-the army's The logistics supply has completely collapsed.

However, the city walls and natural moat of Shadow Valley are enough to make this mob who has not made any preparations to attack the city helpless.

Of course, this was William's judgment. He and his men hid on the Watcher's Hill, secretly watching the battle below.Miluna's magic made William's eyes look like eagle eyes with a telescope, able to clearly see every detail in the distance.

In William's view, the army of Zhentil Castle is already a defeated army. If the people of Shadow Valley can't hold out for three to five days, they don't need to do anything to make Zhentil Castle The army was completely disintegrated.

As for the so-called gods, in William's view, that's all there is to it, and it's not like he hasn't killed him before.What's more, William also learned from Dove that Elminster did not lose his ability to cast spells because of the fall of the goddess of magic. Draw more power from the net, as long as he wants, he can become a new god of magic at any time.

It can be said that as long as the great sage of Shadow Valley is around, the saint Bane will not be able to turn around any troubles.

Of course, the above are all William's own judgments, based on the fact that the information he got from Dove is accurate enough.I have to say it again here, the silver-haired sisters are really nice in terms of messaging, even if the two silver hands are far apart, they only need to recite each other's real name to hear everything the other is currently saying .

At first, when William saw Dove talking to himself, he thought that there might be something wrong with this person, and then he realized that it was a humanoid bug.With such an inner ghost that works in real time, it is clear that the actions of William and his party hiding in the Watcher's Hill have not been hidden from the people of Shadow Valley Town.

However, the people of Shadow Valley did not pay attention to the small actions of William and others. Perhaps in their view, William, a group of big cats and kittens plus a team of less than [-] people, even if they were monsters, they would never be able to turn the corner. What storms come.

Then, the direction of the war in Shadow Valley completely stunned William. The leaders of this f*cking Shadow Valley grew up eating poop. Facing the menacing Zhentil Castle army, they did not carry out strict defenses like fortifying the walls and clearing the wilderness. Instead of defending, he ran out of the city wall in a big stab, wanting to engage in a raid and decisive battle with the invaders.

William was so dumbfounded by the lord of Shadow Valley, that he ran out to play a tactical raid even though he didn't defend the city properly, let's make a surprise raid, but they were worried that they wouldn't be able to withstand the Zhentil Castle's three consecutive crit attacks at the beginning. They set up traps and set up ambushes, leading the invading army to disperse, and then launched a seemingly fatal surprise attack, but they really killed a group of mobs, and their own losses were not too great. Army vs. wartime losses are much better.

But in William's view, this kind of petty tactical victory is precisely the biggest failure of the people of Shadow Valley.There is a saying on the battlefield that no matter how brilliant a tactical victory is, it cannot redeem a strategic failure.

Not to mention that Zhentil Castle's army was overcrowded and its logistics collapsed. The small tactical victory of the Shadow Valley people will not weaken the enemy's strength, but will help it.

The Army of the Shadow Valley at the front foot thought they had a plan to end the battle, then hastily cleaned the battlefield, and retreated with the wounded and a few corpses of the dead.More orcs and gnolls rushed into the battlefield impatiently. They almost ignored the soldiers of Shadow Valley fleeing normally, but chased after those retreating with the wounded and dead bodies.

Soon the corpses of the Shadow Valley people were abandoned first, and then became the loot and food that the monsters scrambled for, and then some wounded and soldiers who fell behind were also chased and surrounded by monsters, and finally became the belly of the beasts.This caused panic among the retreating Shadow Valley soldiers. They gradually changed from actively retreating to being forced to retreat, giving up the originally good tactical victory, but in the end they suffered a loss for both sides.

Let's talk about the food of the temporary army in Zhentil Castle, not only human corpses, even the corpses of orcs and gnolls who died in battle were cut up and shared by more orcs and gnolls.

Those monsters who are more particular about lighting a fire and roasting the meat before eating, and those who are impatient and not particular about eating it raw.This bloody scene not only frightened the Shadow Valley soldiers retreating back to the town, even William's subordinates and a group of onlookers on the battlefield turned pale with horror.

Both William and Dove cursed angrily, but William scolded the stupidity and idiots of the upper echelons of Shadow Valley, while Dove scolded the brutality and brutality of the monster army incorporated into Zhentil Castle.The two have different perspectives on the situation, so the people who scold them are also very different.

But Dove didn't seem to notice this. She looked at William angrily, and blamed: "William, what does the monster army in Zhentil Keep have to do with the soldiers of Shadow Valley? They are enough. Be brave, you see Charlotte and Lord Moglin have been fighting on the front line, what is wrong with them, but they are insulted by you. I think you are deliberately picky, and you are very narrow-minded."

William was hurt by Dove's ignorance, and he couldn't help but cursed: "Ignorant stupid woman! Don't talk nonsense if you have no brains! You and the group of idiots below have almost nothing Two! Both are so stupid!"

Phineya, who was watching the excitement next to her, suddenly interjected like a villain triumphantly: "That's right! A group of stupid assholes, they deserve to be unlucky!"

This woman was always scolded by William for being insane in the past, but today she is a little enlightened. William is definitely happy to hear about this, and he couldn't help asking with the thoughts of the school: "Feniya, what about you?" Where are those idiots so stupid? Ms. Dove, look, Phinea, the worst brain in my family, is much smarter than you!"

You can say something else, but Dove can’t agree with this. There is a sister-in-law like Misha’er who can’t hide her words. Now many people already know the details of Phineya, including Dove. Ya is a half savage who came out of the wilderness and belongs to the kind of stuff with a very poor brain.

She would like to see what kind of high opinion this Phinea has, and she dares to despise the decision makers of Shadow Valley.

Not wanting to, Phineya sneered, and said: "As long as William scolds a fool, I think she must have something stupid that should be scolded, and of course I have to scold along with her."

Well, it’s pure wishful thinking to expect Phineya to really see through the essence of the incident, and William didn’t take it personally, he summoned everyone, and then started to explain the analysis of the situation to everyone based on the current situation of the monster army in the distance. The Achilles heel of Tilburg's army, the advantages of Shadow Valley, and the strategy they should have adopted to defend against the enemy.

Through William's explanation, everyone finally understood that the seemingly formidable Zhentil Fort army at the foot of the mountain was so vulnerable. No wonder the lord of his family sat firmly on the Diaoyutai here, accustomed to watching the enemy come and go.

Dove's brain is smart enough, so she naturally understood what William said, even more deeply than all of William's subordinates, because she lived long enough and experienced too many similar incidents, and she passed them on William's analysis is the same, but most of them are exactly right.

Dove still wanted to get more out of William's mind, so she deliberately pretended to be stupid and said, "Even if Lord Moglin and Storm didn't think of this, it can't be said that they are stupid when they go out of the city to kill the enemy, right?"

William sighed. These silver-haired sisters are all people who have lived for hundreds of years. If such a life is placed in the world of his previous life, they will definitely become real monsters and ghosts, giants in the conspiracy world.But in this land of Faerun, look at this older girl who is simple and honest. Isn't the water and soil here not suitable for growing brains?

William half explained to Dove, and half explained to his subordinates: "Facing a superior number of enemies like Zhentil Castle, it is not impossible to attack the enemy, but the tactical purpose of the attack must be clear. Like this The mixed army with an absolute advantage in numbers, not to mention killing hundreds of orcs and gnolls, even if they killed ten times more, it would be just a superficial loss to the entire Zhentil Castle army, and it would be impossible to move at all. Not a single bit of muscle and bone.

The biggest weakness of the Zhentil Fort Legion is that the personnel are mixed, the supply is difficult to sustain, and the lack of food in the army will inevitably lead to the difficulty of stabilizing the army.If I were the general of Shadow Valley, the purpose of this attack is not to kill many enemies, but to hit the enemy's morale.As long as the operation is good, perhaps just a little trouble, it is enough to cause the entire Zhentil Castle army to disperse in advance. "

"As for the blind attack of the Shadow Valley people, the tactical purpose is unclear, and the pre-war planning was chaotic. They even helped the Zhentil Fort people solve the morale problem of the army. This is where the Shadow Valley people are really stupid. "William gritted his teeth a bit when he said this, even if he did not deal with the people of Shadow Valley, the two sides are already considered real enemies, but there is also some real heartache.

Without him, William now regards Shadow Valley as his own, and any current loss of Shadow Valley people will reduce his future gains.

Dove couldn't understand how the attack of Shadow Valley helped the army of Zhentil Castle to solve the problem of morale, including William's men, who were also at a loss. They couldn't help but gather around their lord, eagerly looking forward to The lord's explanation.

William said: "Only a small part of Zhentil Castle's legion is actually from Zhentil Castle. They are the real core of this legion. As long as the commander of Zhentil Castle is not stupid, he will never use them to consume. However, most of the members of this army are members of the original monster legion. They have long been accustomed to the status quo of Shadow Valley, and they have an inertial understanding of the defense of Shadow Valley Town. Generally, they are not willing to attack the city and fight for consumption.

However, the attack of Shadow Valley this time told all the monsters that there is something they want in Shadow Valley Town, and the people of Shadow Valley are very weak, and the only thing they need to overcome is the moat and the city wall. "

William gritted his teeth and said, "Look, it won't be long before the Zhentil Castle Legion will start attacking the city with ants, and that will be the beginning of the nightmare of the people of Shadow Valley."

At this time, a young man under William asked: "My lord, aren't those monsters afraid of death?"

William said hesitantly: "Of course they are afraid of death, but they are more afraid of being starved to death or being killed by other companions than being killed during the siege. And the commander of Zhentil Castle should also be happy to see When these mobs are consumed, this move can not only reduce the chaotic miscellaneous soldiers, weed out the weak and keep the strong. Moreover, their dead bodies can also be used as rations for the living soldiers, and by the way, they can also boost their morale. The benefits of siege, I can't think of any reason why the Zhentil Keepers wouldn't use it."

But Dove said: "Being killed and eaten by his companions, and being eaten to death in a siege battle, the ending is the same. I can't think of any difference between them?"

William didn't want to answer Dove's stupid question, but when he looked around, he found that his mother-in-law, children and subordinates all showed a stupid look of "me too". answer.

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