King of The Wall

2021-10-15

Chapter 679 Abandon Fantasy!

The repeated disobedience caused the morale of both soldiers and generals to drop to the extreme. Captain Strickland did not dare to challenge the patience of the people present, and continued to speak without pause.

"The enemy's idea of cracking our army's anvil and hammer tactics is to 'break the anvil of the infantry', so our countermeasures are naturally divided into two routes: first, strengthen the infantry. Block anvil, so that it is not afraid of shelling; second, give up the anvil hammer tactic and find another way..."

"The enemy has only two or three days to go to Highgarden, and then switch to other tactics and start again. How to arrange it in time?" Randyll not even think is coldly snorted, interrupting Strickland's speech with unabashed opposition, "even more how, cavalry can deal with firearms, this is a consensus we have already reached. The commander will find another way. I'm curious as to what other solutions can be found."

"Yes, after some discussions with Mrs. Clinton, I also agree with Mr. Randyll's point of view: to completely throw away the previous plan is to give up our biggest The advantage of cavalry is too late." Strickland sighed for a long time, nodded recognized, "So, we finally discussed the result: a compromise. Under the premise of focusing on strengthening the anvil of infantry, in the details Make a slight targeted adjustment on the above, and strive to make good use of the 'back-hand advantage' exchanged for 'morale disadvantage', and turn the tide against the trend!"

The morale disadvantage for the back-hand advantage?
To be able to say that you are so sober and refined that you can't fight back again and again, the emotional intelligence and skills required are extraordinary, and the requirement for the thickness of the skin is even more breakthrough. But before everyone could sneer, the Captain-General of the Golden Company had already raised the volume after a slight pause.

"I know someone must have been calling me shameless, but I still have to explain the last sentence I said." Strickland held his chest out, the golden armor, which was already a little dull, was in the oil lamp. Shining again under the light of the stern, "Our army has suffered repeated setbacks, it is true, but the opponent's trump card has almost been exhausted... and we still retain our vitality, we can gather here for battle meetings, and we can still calmly and calmly. Thinking about how to deal with the enemy's various powerful weapons and strange tricks - this is the back-hand advantage in exchange for morale!"

"Indeed, I can't say with certainty: this exchange will definitely Good deal. But what I'm sure of is: if we keep arguing about things like 'Whether we can win in the morning with good morale', 'Does it make sense to continue fighting now that morale is down'...then the tent The middle and low-level noble Knights outside may have a chance to surrender, but the heads of me and you who are qualified to enter this tent to discuss matters will definitely be inserted by the moat of Highgarden soon!"

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The remarks of Captain-General of the Golden Company seem to be incoherent in emotional output, but in fact it contains two parts of positive motivation and negative vigilance, although it sounds like The struggle of things have reached a dead end has succeeded in loosening the dead atmosphere in the big tent - people who are sober enough to begin to realize that "morale advantage for second hand advantage" sounds absurd but has some truth, and even if People who can't think of or don't recognize this layer also have to admit that they have no way out but to resist.

Such a remark is certainly not something that a mercenary group leader can say, but the "Hand of the King" who realized that oneself was too cautious and made a cowardly mistake in the morning, but could never admit it in public. ” by Jon Connington. As for Strickland, who was used as a microphone, his inner feelings at the moment were a little bit of a laugh.

He is a mercenary, the master who uses people's money to relieve people's disasters, how can he be confused into the core command circle of the coalition forces? After two consecutive defeats, not only did he not run away, but he took the initiative to speak at the post-war summary meeting, inspiring a group of hereditary lords to cheer up and continue fighting!

This is an extremely unreasonable thing for both the mercenary profession and his personal character.

It wasn't that he suddenly became loyal, benevolent, and steadfast, but that he now belongs...on Clinton's pirate ship and can't get off.

The Golden Corps have suffered unprecedented losses, and at this moment they have lost all their money. They have fallen into the enemy's hands on the entire Westeros Eastern Sea coast, including King's Landing, and the Hightower, which holds the Port of Oldtown When the family is not very cooperative, he has nowhere to run.

Either there is nothing left, or you will complete the class leap in World War I, seal your wife and son, and live forever!
The opening remarks are over, now it's time to get to the point.

"During the morning battle, the infantry forward led by Lord Rowan encountered flat fire from enemy artillery. Defeated." Strickland breathlessly gave a brief description of the battle this morning, and began to introduce the effective information provided by the parties, "but Lord Rowan and his staff discovered during the artillery bombardment that hiding behind a certain slope of terrain can effectively combat this kind of situation. Bounce attack. But this is difficult in practice: on the flat Reach plain, there are very few soil slopes, and even if there are, they are sparse and unable to form a coherent front. Once they are separated to avoid, it will cause the command company to interrupt the order and be ineffective. It can easily lead to collapse.”

“After summarizing the information and lessons provided by Mr. Rowan, I can easily think of a solution-that is, take the initiative to find a soil slope In denser areas, man-made bunkers are constructed with sand and stones between the soil slopes, so that our army can calmly mobilize and deploy troops behind this long strip structure connected by soil slopes and bunkers. Instead of being passively beaten a few arrows away."

With Strickland's sensible opening remarks as a foreshadowing, Randyll Tarly is not good at venting his emotions, he thought for a while. The proposal put forward by the spokesperson quickly raised reasonable doubts: "It will take time to build such a barrier, and with its existence, our army will not be able to launch a charge as quickly as usual."

"This The barrier doesn't need to be too high, as long as it can block the bouncing shells. If the requirements are reduced to this level, it will probably take less than half a day to complete the construction. As for that kid Igor, switch tactics and use projectile again, I can't help... There is no need for a solution. After all, we are mentally prepared to deal with a certain amount of damage when dealing with shells falling from the sky."

He paused, tapped his fingers on the table, and was Thinking about how to answer Randyll's next question, Jon Connington stepped in to help him out.

"A barrier can't affect an infantry charge as much as it can provide protection." Hand of the King's wrinkled face was resolute and calm, and he took a wisp of it. The gray-red hair was brushed back to prevent it from affecting oneself's speech, "Even the worst prediction is to delay the charge for one minute... But the issue I'm considering here is not the charge that is initiated. Will it be delayed, but: Why do we charge?"

This sentence is not in Clinton's speech to Strickland, it is a semi-improvisation speech, since it has an accidental nature, it is natural attracted the attention of the generals.

"Our original goal for this war was: do it quickly, annihilate the main force of the West Expedition Force led by Igor in the first battle, and give the little Queen enough psychological shock, and then Judging by the situation, it is time to pursue the Crownlands with victory, or to negotiate temporarily, rip the soil and fight for a long time with the advantage of Reach's size and population. However, Night's Watch announced this to us with face after face: the black shirt army Winning the Others and overpowering the North Riverlands won't depend on luck, their Lord Commander is by no means a soft persimmon. With the enemy's battle strength and vigilance higher than we imagined, we should abandon our illusions and recognize Be realistic and adjust your strategic goals appropriately. My personal suggestion here is: do the minimum expected results, that is - stop the opponent from continuing to advance towards Highgarden and repel it."

"This Of course, it is not that I have pessimistically judged that annihilating the enemy has become impossible, but I emphasize that: in the case of a disadvantage, we should give priority to defeating the opponent's strategic intention, and then calmly consider whether we can destroy the strong enemy once and for all. Specifically, the question of charging is: if the enemy continues to keep advancing successively without revealing any weak spots, why do we have to charge instead of waiting for them to call the door? , it's not us!"

After pouring out what he was thinking about, Clinton was a little excited, and the wisps of hair that had been lifted swayed down again.

"I can even imagine the progress of the battle tomorrow - Igor found that the artillery flat fire was ineffective for our army, so he ordered to continue to advance in succession, approaching the distance beyond the two arrows, only to be in the naked eye. Stop where it can be seen, and use the range advantage of the artillery to ruthlessly continue to project strikes, bullying us that we have no equal countermeasures, and trying to use the method of destroying morale to force us to charge first or retreat due to internal problems."

"What we have to do is to hold back - to hold the line under the fire, and block in front of Igor like a mountain, to see if there is more gunpowder on the opposite side or more of us! As long as we can hold back this In the end, no matter if he couldn't bear his temper and launched the attack first, or realized that he couldn't do anything and started to retreat, there are the main flank cavalry forces, and the initiative is in our hands!"

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The tent was quiet. Most people intuitively felt that this trick seemed reliable, but they had doubts about whether it could effectively contain the Queen's army. After a rustling whisper, countless eyes slowly converged on— —Neither King Aegon nor Tyrell Duke, but on Randyll Tarly, who was still on the bar.

If this old gangster who can fight well and has a straight temper also approves this plan of the Captain-General of the Golden Company, then it is very likely to be feasible and have a high win rate.

Under the gaze of more than a dozen lines of sight, Jiao Ling count's brows arched deeply, flattened, arched again, and finally nodded indistinctly...just when everyone put this down When the nomination was regarded as recognition and approval, he suddenly raised a new question: "Except for the construction of a bunker, isn't this going according to the original plan? Isn't it a compromise, where are the details of the tactics adjusted?"

"It's about the deployment of troops. After a day of confrontation and reconnaissance, we also have a general understanding of the formation Igor laid by the river - the semicircular shape is like an iron pot on the ground. Attacks from either direction will encounter nearly equal defensive counterattacks. The most troublesome thing is that it is impossible to start a siege with a front of 80,000 people only in the south of Mander. Even if people are placed next to each other, they can only invest half of them at the same time. Engage with it."

"My thought was, instead of having the rest of the crew watching the show or waiting for the rotation, why not open up a new direction of attack? Igor put an iron on Mander's side. The pot is facing me convexly, do we have to foolishly project all our power on the side he envisions? Several warships are parked by the river outside Highgarden, and they are sent east to the battlefield overnight, and they are mobilized. 10,000 to 20,000 people crossed the Mander north to ambush to the other side of the West Expedition Force. If the Night's Watch knew that it was lost and was ready to retreat to New Barrel, the surprise troops could effectively restrain their speed across the river and give the large troops an organized pursuit. And if the decisive battle on the frontal battlefield breaks out, they can also cross the river from the north bank by boat at the most critical moment, go out as a surprise soldier, attack from the front of Igor's 'iron pot', and give him a fiercely attack from all sides! ”

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(end of this chapter)