The riding and chopping simulator of the Lord of the Rings

Chapter 146 Preparing for the Battle

Soldiers, the major events of the country, the place of life and death, the way of survival, must be investigated.

Even if there is no research on Sun Wu's Art of War and the 36 strategies, Allen knows that there are too many preparations to be made to launch an active offensive war with his own country as the main body. This is different from passive defense. It is enough for the place to resist the invaders' attack, and it is different from the battle in Gushan. At that time, he looked at everything from the perspective of God. He knew the result, and he also knew what support he would have. What he needed to do Just try to minimize your own losses.

But this time it was completely different. Because of Allen's own reasons, the arrival of the Dongyi people completely deviated from the trajectory he knew, so the outcome of this war could only be won by his efforts.

Because of this, Allen feels that he needs to make a lot of preparations before the war. The first thing is to have a certain understanding of the enemy's current situation.

For this reason, Allen sent out all the scouting cavalry in his hands, as well as some children who could communicate with animals smoothly, and asked them to inquire about the specific strength of the Dongyi people in the east of Rovanian.

The ages of the children who graduated from Beorn Garden in recent years are very different, ranging from ten years old to all, but very few are over 20 years old. Up to now, only one person has graduated, and he is exactly 20 years old, and 15 years old. There are seven children at the age of three, and these eight children are the oldest among these children.

And it was these children who were sent out to investigate. The other children either did not graduate, or they were too young to endure the hardships of the wild. They could just do investigations near Wilderness Town.

As for these children, Allen also gave them the treatment of a regular army, with a salary much higher than that of ordinary soldiers, and gave them a flag with a green background full of birds and hounds, and gave them "animals" The title of "Friends of the People" and the hunting dog on the flag are all because there is a child named Alai who really can't communicate with the birds, but he found another way and became friends with many big dogs. He can command ten dogs smoothly by himself. Several large hounds participated in the hunt, and these hounds also helped him a lot in battle. Today, he is one of the children who went out to scout.

Allen's order to these scouts is that they only need to detect the location of the enemy's gathering point, and there is a rough number. If necessary, they must not get close to the Dongyi people. After all, they must act in a low-key manner in the enemy's base camp.

In addition to these, if the time is right, Allen also hopes that these scouts can go to that canyon to see, there are still hundreds of northern humans living there.

And following Allen's order, teams of scouts left Wilderness Town and scattered towards the east of Rovanian through the positions of Heidelberg and Long Lake Town.

At the same time, messengers carrying letters one after another also moved towards the north and east according to Allen's order.

As the saying goes, "the right is more helpful than the wrong", since Allen came to Middle-earth, he has firmly stood on the side of the free people, and has been committed to fighting against the minions of the dark forces. friendship.

Now, Allen wants to launch a war against the Dongyi people. In addition to gathering his own strength, he also needs the support of his allies. In the previous year, he had used Arnold's treasure, the Star of Elendil, to get it done. After leaving the Dunedain who lived secretly in Eriador, now he needs to ask his two allies, the King of the Lonely Mountain and the Woodland, to give him some help.

In his letter to Sorin II, Allen, in addition to explaining the harm caused to dwarves and humans by the Dongyi people's entrenched occupation in Varonian, also promised to use the wealth temporarily stored in the lonely mountain as a reward. Whether he likes or doesn't need treasure, Alan guarantees that if the dwarves want to retake Moria, or want to expel the half-orcs from Gundabad Mountain, then Alan will help him without hesitation. Allen already had some preliminary ideas about dealing with the Balrog of Moria.

As for the choice of Sorin II, King of the Lonely Mountain, Alan couldn't take care of it, but he still had enough confidence that Sorin would not refuse his request for help.

As for the letter to Thranduil, it did not force the woodland elves to send troops, but hoped that the woodland kingdom could first allocate some longbows, arrows, spears and even armor for their own use. Allen promised to do so in the future In the days to come, other materials or treasures were used to repay this part of the debt. Even if Thorin chose Alan to temporarily store the wealth in the lonely mountain, Wilderness Town still had a lot of gold, silver and jewels that could be used to pay Thranduil.

In addition to writing letters to his two allies, Allen also dispatched an additional Dunedan ranger to the valley to send a letter to Ms. Gillane. In the letter, Allen explained that the war is likely to It broke out in the autumn of 2945 in the third era. I hope that the last batch of supporting rangers can arrive before then, and it will be convenient for Allen to make more arrangements.

Yes, less than two months after Ms. Gillean returned to Rivendell, the first batch of Dúnedain rangers came to Wilderness Town under the leadership of Alan's "old acquaintance" Abinas. They are tall and strong fighters, and most of them have a "Dunedan Star" pinned on their left shoulders. However, judging from the costumes of these people, Allen feels that the living conditions of the homeless people at this time should not be considered very affluent.

Apart from the longbows and arrows on their backs and the long swords around their waists, these dozens of rangers seem to be relatively well maintained. Most of them are only equipped with simple leather armor and dull cloaks. The armor he has is not even comparable to the ones Allen prepares for his conscripts. After all, the simulators are produced according to the standard equipment.

Alan didn't know whether these rangers did this deliberately for the sake of keeping a low profile, or as he imagined, after hundreds of years of wandering, they really couldn't come up with better weapons and equipment, but Alan couldn't let these It is a great waste of combat power for elite fighters to go to the battlefield like this.

A large part of the weapons he asked Thranduil to allocate for himself was prepared for the five hundred Dunedan rangers, so that they could play a greater role on the battlefield. At the same time, Allen was going to exchange them from the simulator. Give these rangers some fine iron armor to increase their survivability on the battlefield.

In addition, Allen also arranged for Abinas to take his people to the horse herding village to choose horses. When these people came, only a small number of them rode horses, and the others walked.

During the communication with Abinas, Allen learned that these people have also undergone certain training on how to fight on horseback. Although the Kingdom of Arno is lonely, the training methods for knights have not been lost, and have been passed down from generation to generation. Come down, and there is no shortage of horses in Alan's horse herding village. The first generation of foals just passed their adult ceremony last year and have reached the point where they can be ridden, and the tow giant has trained them very well.

It's just that the number of half-breed horses that Alan instructed Tuoju to breed is not particularly large. There are a group of elf half-breed horses that have just grown up and are assigned to those female knight apprentices. , I am afraid that he will not be able to provide Alan with any help in this war.

Abinas has no objection to Alan's arrangement. Before he arrived, he was instructed by Ms. Gillean. As long as the request is not extremely excessive, he will definitely obey Alan's order, not to mention giving them horses even if it is Young horses are also something that makes people happy. Among their ethnic groups, they are not rich enough to have one horse per person.

In addition to the weapons, Alan also deliberately packed up most of the inns in the city for these Dunedan people to live in, and asked Jamila to arrange food and clothing for these people, but Abinas rejected Alan's offer. Arrangements, he told Allen that the current Dunedan people are not yet suitable for such a comfortable life.

So after choosing the horses, Abinas arranged for a few rangers to follow Alan as evidence to communicate with each other and receive other Dúnedain, while he himself brought enough supplies, tents and Alan's letter led the other Dunedan rangers towards Heidelberg through the old jungle road.

He needs to familiarize himself with the environment of the next battle, and the waters of the rushing river near Heidelberg are not calm, and Dongyi people show up nearby from time to time. It is also necessary to familiarize yourself with your enemies before the battle.

Seeing Abinas' persistence, Allen did not continue to stop the old ranger's decision, but wrote a letter, passing most of the information to Allen, but Allen did not send The command of the Dunedan ranger was handed over to Elaine. He felt that it might be better to let Abinas play freely. If possible, it would be good to effectively weaken the Dongyi people before the war.

After all, Allen has adopted a defensive strategy for the past two years, which made those Dongyi people even more arrogant. A few months ago, a team of dozens of people secretly crossed the rushing river and plunged into the black forest to the south, and from there head towards the direction of Iowia.

Fortunately, Allen had made arrangements before, and these Dongyi people directly met Woolf, the skin-changing man on patrol there. Needless to say, the Dongyi people have never tried to do this since then. Instead, he was driving a chariot, showing off his power on the plain opposite Heidelberg, stimulating the nerves of the young lord, Elaine.

Now Abinas is leading his people, and there will be some small-scale battles with the Dongyi people there. It should also be known that a fierce battle is inevitable, so let these Dunedan rangers do the small fights before the big battle, and they can also cover the light cavalry who enter the enemy's territory to investigate.

For these rangers, Allen only needs to receive the subsequent Dunedan people, and transport the weapons assigned to him by Thranduil to the vicinity of Heidelberg, and arm the Dunedan rangers who have already started guerrillas with the enemy. OK.

Due to the closer distance between the two parties, Thranduy's reply letter was sent to Allen before the dwarves. Along with the letter, there was a full list. The first half of the list was the supplies Thranduy provided to Allen. , a total of [-] elven longbows, [-] spears of woodland elves, and [-] sets of elven plate armor that shone faintly in the sun, and finally a large number of arrows.

The lower part of the list is the supplies that Thranduy hopes Aaron can provide him. In addition to various drinks, there are also cheese, honey, fruit, steel, various seasonings and some common In the letter, Thranduy stated that he really couldn't let his people get out of the Black Forest, but he would let the people guard the waters of the River Run at the edge of the Black Forest and provide Allen with a relatively stable rear. For this As a result, Allen was extremely satisfied.

But at the end of the letter, Thranduy asked Allen to send a large amount of wine to him in the near future. He needed it urgently, which made Allen guess something, maybe the life of the woodland elves is not easy.

In fact, since the arrival of the Dongyi people, the life of the woodland elves has also been greatly affected. Although it is indeed safer to stay in the Black Forest, and the vast Black Forest can basically provide these elves with basic survival materials .

However, the transactions between the Woodland Kingdom and most other forces were broken due to the looting of the Dongyi people. Part of the supplies can be resolved through transactions with Wilderness Town, but there are some things that Alan cannot solve.

For example, the wine produced in Dovinion has not appeared at the banquet in Thranduil for almost two years. In the inventory of the elf king, there are only a few barrels left that Allen paid back before. Debt, after all, after there was no food crisis, Allen stopped spending dinars to trade with the Woodland Kingdom, but replaced the traded goods with some other materials.

And most of the ordinary elves now drink the mead and beer traded by Allen here. The climate around Wilderness Town is still a little bit cold, which is not particularly suitable for growing grapes, so several years have passed, Allen Nor was it intended to store wine as its own cargo.

Although there are some merchants from Eriador who transport some wine and other supplies to the Woodland Kingdom, for the elves in the Black Forest, this is simply a drop in the bucket. In addition, they rely on land transportation for long distances. There is also the tariff increase by Allen, which makes the prices of these things very high, and not all elves can afford them.

The lack of various supplies due to the severance of trade has directly dropped the living standards of the elves. This is something Thranduil can't tolerate, and the letter of help sent by Allen is just for the elves. It is convenient to send it, and take this opportunity to use a large amount of weapons and equipment in stock to exchange a large amount of supplies and wine from Allen to improve the living standards of the Woodland Kingdom.

The [-] sets of plate armor were specially assigned to Alan by Thranduil. Although he was unwilling to directly send troops to assist Alan, he also hoped that his allies could win this war and bring the hateful things to war. The barbarians drove Rovanian out, and life in the Woodland Kingdom went back to what it used to be.

Allen didn't know what Thranduil was thinking, but he was a little embarrassed looking at the three hundred pairs of elven plate armor. You must know that elves generally have a height of two meters or more, and the size of these plate armors is really too big. There are almost no soldiers who are suitable for these armors.

And when these plate armors were built, they also had elves' skills in them. It would be too difficult for them to expect Allen's blacksmiths to transform them. Dwarves should be able to do it, but Allen only has a few dwarf blacksmiths. , and they all have their own responsibilities, so asking them to do these things is really not worth the candle.

Finally, after some thinking, Allen decided to temporarily lend these armors to those Dunedan rangers. Their height is about 1.9 meters to two meters, and they can barely use the armor of the elves on the ship. By the way, they can help Allen save The next dinar is used to arm his own conscripts. The weapons and equipment of the 3000 people are what Allen worries about the most.

As for Thorin's reply, it was delivered to Allen half a month later, and the dwarves could provide much more help than the elves.

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(End of this chapter)