Wizard From Afar

"In this battle, we will definitely lose!"

In the Eboden city wall tower, Loren Torino used this remark as the opening of the entire pre-war meeting .

The voice fell, and the whole war room was quiet.

For one minute, there was not even a single person at the map table, and the atmosphere was embarrassing to death.

The two mercenary group leaders did not dare to speak. The city defense commander and the Empire’s Legion commander looked at each other in blank dismay. Isaac didn’t know what had happened. The Corona consul was expressionless and the other kept smiling.

Lightly "pa!" With a slap, Lucien slapped his face directly, and the corners of his mouth twitched.

Using these words to make the final mobilization before the war, Lord Loren is absolutely unprecedented.

Fortunately, this was the last pre-war meeting, and the Corona Master blocked all the free nobles by virtue of his status as the Archon, and forbade them to participate.

Otherwise, if someone outside hears their commander's remarks, there will be ghosts if they are willing to stay and defend the city!

Of course, he is Lord Loren, Loren·Torino-who can believe a deserter’s nonsense, enter the glacier wasteland alone to find the giant dragon king city, and finally succeed; so what he does is not worthy of surprise .

"Please don’t get me wrong. This is by no means to say that we are impossible to stop the enemy’s forwards—of course, in a sense, it is indeed impossible to stop—nor does it mean that we cannot hold Eboden City... Uh, it is indeed impossible to hold; it is not to make everyone prepare for the retreat in advance, although you do need to prepare for the retreat in advance..."

"Please be straightforward." The darker Loren, Eckert Count quickly stood up and eased the atmosphere for him: "I thought...everyone present should understand your thoughts."

"In short...our and the enemy's The battle method must not be limited to regular city defense. Passive defense is based on undefinable solid walls and clear fields and massive destruction of enemies. Such battles will not have good results."

Loren had to explain. Said: "We need to turn passive into active, to lure the enemy into attacking the direction we want them to attack, so as to achieve the goal of defending Eboden City."

Looking at the faces of everyone present in confusion, black hair wizard Had to sigh.

"To be more specific, we want to use Eboden City's weak but equally complex city defense system to lure the enemy into deliberately attacking it, so as to delay their capture of the city. "

"We are not turning Eboden into a flesh-and-blood mill, but letting them take down Eboden City by little by little; lure the enemy into besieging the nodes that we deliberately use as bait, thereby lowering the entire front. And before we are about to cause serious casualties, give the bait to the enemy, or simply destroy it!"

"Like the Prince who rescued Princess in the Legendary story, every volume must Overcome a difficulty; we are the bad guys who set the trouble for Prince. All we have to do is to delay the time that Prince spends on each level; when it is best for him to see the Princess, both of them are already hunched over and are dying. !"

The commander of the city defense army looked surprised, and Corona's eyes lit up.

Only the Empire’s Legion commander frowned: "So, it’s not that Eboden will fall, but you are going to abandon Eboden?"

The voice fell, everyone’s His eyes turned directly to the calm black hair wizard.

Even Commander Legion was amazed by the answer he himself came up with.

Which commander in the world who defended the city, planned how to make the city fall before the battle?

Only Isaac remained stunned, as if waiting anxiously for something.

"Right, not right."

Facing everyone's eyes, the black hair wizard shook his head, leaned forward unconsciously, and held down the map on the table: "First of all Thank you everyone for finally understanding my plan. Secondly...you seem to have forgotten the most important thing."

"What is the purpose of this battle?"

In front of the map table , All faces were stunned.

So the Corona Master stepped up to announce the answer: "It is to hold the enemy as long as possible and buy time for the empire to gather troops and supplies."

" So." Loren "pa!" snapped his fingers and sighed lightly, then said: "We only have an army of less than 30,000, and if we spread it evenly to the entire Eboden city defense, it will probably only be barely enough. "

"In other words, once the enemy launches a full-scale offensive, the strength that seems to be quite sufficient will soon be stretched; and once it is caught in a battle for an important fortification or fortress, fight with the enemy. The head is over."

"I don't know if I can hold Eboden as much as possible in this tragic way; but even if I hold it...how many of these 30,000 people can survive?"

The long expressions of the two mercenary groups became solemn.

"But it's about the honor of the empire. Abandoning the city in front of the enemy is simply extraordinary shame and humiliation!" Commander Legion frowned: "You are a Byer, I always thought that byeers are for honor. Have the courage to sacrifice with dignity..."

"If the city is lost, you can still find a way to get it back...at worst perish together, rebuild one later; when a person is dead, what do you rely on to fight the next battle?" Loren stared at him coldly, and interrupted:

"Also, you seem to have misunderstood the difference between sacrifice and death. In order to win, the Byrners will never resist sacrifice; but the original is wasted for nothing. A life that can continue to fight is called deliberate courting death."

"I think...The Duke is right." Silver Blood, who had been silent just now, finally spoke: "Silver Blood Mercenary The group agrees with the Duke’s point of view and is willing to continue to serve the Duke and the Empire after this battle."

The "Black Blade" beside it was also nodded, twitching his throat silently.

Commander Legion finally stopped speaking.

"Tell us about your specific plan." Corona glanced at Isaac, who was almost impatient next to him, and said with a slight smile without losing the opportunity:

"If you want to lure the enemy, then you must have a specific goal."

black hair wizard nodded, right hand The index finger fumbled on the map of Eboden and stopped on the castle on the opposite bank of the Gem River: " This fortress is our first bait."

The dignified voice made everyone's expressions serious.

"Once the Azores fleet approaches, the first problem they have to face is the iron chain that lays up ahead of the coastline. If the chain blockade is to be lifted, they must break through the two fortresses. One."

"I arranged a large number of temporary fortifications around the ring fortress at the port, turning it into our battlefield completely, in order to lure the enemy to turn the main target to this lonely hanging on the opposite bank of the river. The ancient castle."

Loren whispered quietly: "As long as the castle does not fall in one day, let alone the enemy fleet, not even the Jewel River, even Eboden’s harbour cannot be approached, so they must come "

"The next battle will become a battle for the castle; once confined here, the width of the battlefield and the size of the castle itself will make the scale of the battle have to be reduced. In order to capture her, the enemy will definitely not stop the offensive in the ring fortress and let us lose sight of one another, but the real battlefield is still here."

"What's next?" The commander of the city defense army began. I am a little curious: "In the end, the enemy will take down the castle desperately."

"Yes, so we have to calculate the time, abandon the city and retreat." Loren said. "Finally opened up" expression, said with a slight smile: "We must destroy all city defense weapons and luggage, but not too much, otherwise the enemy will not be fooled."

"The castle has fallen, the enemy’s The army was finally able to launch a full-scale offensive smoothly-but they still have to face the ring fortress of the harbor, the tower under our feet, and the city wall of Eboden."

"They can still only come from one direction. Offensive; and the width and depth of the battlefield still determines the forces that the enemy can put in, and it is still very limited-then what will they do at this time?"

Lu Sien's eyes lit up: "They attacked the sluice?!"

"Very likely!"

Loren gave him a thumbs up: "Two possibilities-the first is from the castle to the inside Attack on the city wall and directly attack the inner city wall; this is not good for us, so we must first destroy the passage and lock the sluice."

"The second is to use the momentum of the current, Then catch a few battleships, hang chains and drag at the downstream outlet to destroy the sluice; this probability is also very high."

The finger of the black hair wizard moved away from the castle and followed the stone river. The channel moves upward: "And what we have to do is to get ahead of them and block the outlet from the upstream downwards-there is no need to block them all, as long as the enemy's battleship cannot enter."

"Destroyed houses, scuttled battleships, domestic garbage...anything will do, as long as the port of the Gem River can be blocked within a month, it will be a victory! "

"Then they understand that they have been fooled; then, they will understand that they have wasted a big half a month in such meaningless things. "Took a deep breath, smiling Loren closed his eyes:

" Then, they will find...winter is here. "

"The surface of the sea will soon start to freeze. "

"The first batch of reinforcements and supplies of the empire have also arrived in Eboden. This city is no longer a fragile port that can be easily captured. Military fortress. "

"They will launch an unprecedented assault, sacrificing and attrition with three to one, five to one, ten to one or even more troops to attack Eboden, and exchange it with a sea of ​​blood. Come in exchange for the port of Eboden! "

"And we have enough supplies to deal with them; if the city wall breaks, we withdraw into the inner city, use the fortress as a stronghold, and the underground passage as a network to delay the enemy's time to seize the city, and at the same time cause them A large number of killings;"

"Until the arrival of the severe winter, with the help of the imperial army, they withdrew from the city, leaving the Azores with a ruin and a frozen port for three months, waiting for the next spring, and then with this The enemy who has been hungry for a winter..."

"Decisive battle! "

Throwing and vocal words echoed in front of the map table.

The black hair wizard opened his eyes and stared at the Eboden map in front of him.

"How to lure the enemy into the bait? "

On the quiet map table, I only heard Commander Legion coldly said: "This is the key to the whole plan, right? "

"Yes, the success of the 1st Step can be said to be the top priority. "Loren nodded, calmly opened the mouth and said: "So I would like to trouble your 1,000 Legion soldiers to be stationed in the castle. "

"In this way, the enemy can not only realize the importance of this place, but also mistakenly believe that there are contradictions within the defending army-when the fighting is tight and the enemy starts to attack, two mercenary group to help you and make them more convinced of their own judgments. "

"As for how to fight the Azores..." The black hair wizard smiled and sighed, turning his eyes to Isaac, who was about to kill himself with his eyes: "It's our genius wizard Isaac ·Grantham, report to us his latest findings! "

The voice fell, and everyone turned their eyes to a certain "genius".

"You made me wait so long, right? ! "

With a vicious look, Isaac, with an exaggerated expression, squeezed Loren aside and stood at the map table; he coughed twice, then straightened his waist:

"Gentlemen, after six hours of careful research, I have read all Eboden's foreign trade and transaction records and found a lot of information about the Azores. "

"Yes, this is not the first time we have had contact with this race in the history of Eboden, although almost all of them are unilateral..."

" Six hours? "

Silver Blood frowned, with an unbelievable expression: "I don't know how much content is in those'records', but in six hours...you've read them all?" "

"Yes, after so many years, I can roughly understand your thoughts; in the eyes of mortals, after six hours, after reading 1,062 volumes, 576,000 Thousands of six hundred and sixty-six pages, four hundred and forty-four thousand, four hundred and fifty-six thousand one hundred and fifty-four words, is indeed impossible. "

"But I can, because I'm a genius...it only takes one day to read all the geniuses in the Imperial Family wizard Academy library. "

At the map table, everyone's expressions are more shocked than before.

Only Loren, Lucien and Corona are still used to it.

" Are there any other questions? If not, I will continue. "Isaac, who pretended to be plain, almost raised his tail with pride: "According to my careful search, I found some important information about the Azores Elf army. "

"For example...They are accustomed to wearing light armor to fight, and the weapons they use are mainly long knives and lances. They rarely wear shields or armor piercing weapons; long-range projection weapons. There are a lot of them, but like us, they also focus on bows and crossbows. "

"Oh, and the most important one--the Azorean elves have a very special tradition, which is to sound a flute-like'horn' before the start of the war to announce to the enemy The war begins. "

"The sound of this horn is said to be very similar to the sound of an eagle..." Came from the direction of the port;

Everyone was stunned.

Isaac looked at the crowd, silently nodded, and pointed out the window:

"Um... this is it. "