I Will Be The Crowned King Chapter 390

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East of Sail City, from Black Reef Harbor to Grey Pigeon Fort.

From tidal flat ports surrounded by hills to wild valleys covered with forests, thousands of figures are lining the road in long and narrow queues: heavily armed soldiers, cavalry with their heads held high, overwhelmed carriages, shoulders The people pushed by the hand...like a river made of silt, moving forward slowly but firmly.

After receiving the news that Louis Bernard was defeated and the 20,000 army was annihilated, Anson immediately issued an order to the troops to speed up the march and advance towards Grey Pigeon Castle without any delay.

He directly asked the Black Reef Port and the Red Hand Bay area to directly intercept the materials and manpower originally sent to Grey Pigeon Fort, and put them all into the baggage team to reduce the burden on the soldiers.

Thousands of young people, who were assembled under the call of Louis Bernard, eager to fight **** battles with the Old World on the battlefield, were directly disarmed in this way, and turned into an honorable man who carried a large bag.

The reason why he didn't drop all the baggage and march without stopping, as he had rescued Carindia this time, was not because of his confidence in the military talents of Louis or Ludwig—in every sense—but because he really couldn't. .

Compared with the time in Hantu, because of the poor infrastructure and the harsh geographical environment, the intelligence that can be obtained at the first time is significantly reduced, and the cost of internal information and personnel and material transmission is also ridiculously high.

Up to now, the only information that can be completely convinced is that Louis suffered a fiasco, and Alexei entered the city of sailing. Louis was actively contacting the liberal forces in the surrounding colonies, waiting for an opportunity to counterattack, while Ludwig, who had won a great victory, had already begun to besiege Yangfan. city.

As for the situation of Yangfan City, how much power can the liberals around Yangfan City gather, whether Gray Pigeon Castle has fallen or is under siege... The rest is just a bunch of contradictory gossip that cannot be distinguished from the truth.

The overlapping fog of war, coupled with the fact that there are less than 3,000 Storm Legion under his command, the main force is the newly formed Shooting Army? Of course, Ansen did not dare to act rashly, discarding the baggage and rushing to the battlefield - that is no different from giving away the head. .

"The more critical point is that this time, Major General Ludwig seemed to be surprisingly decisive; before, he never dared to take risks when the back road was cut off, and he tended to go all out for the unknown combat strength, with almost no troops. Provocation by an enemy equal to himself."

Holding a map provided by the newspaper, Anson, who was marching on foot, said to Carl who was beside him: "There are two possibilities... Either he got the information on our side from some channel, or the Jihad Legion appeared. Accident."

"Accident?" Carl wiped the sweat from his forehead, frowned in exhaustion, and kept breathing heavily: "You mean that our old boss didn't take the initiative to attack, but was forced to do it?"

He is not a talented person who can chop bullets with a knife, nor is he different from a Blasphemy Mage who has successfully ascended the ranks. He is just a mortal body of flesh and blood, and he is forced to walk because of the psychological shadow of a certain boss about horse riding... Marching on foot Chief of Staff, this is probably the only one in the entire Clovis Royal Army.

"Just saying it's possible."

Anson shook his head, his expression a little helpless: "We still have too little information about the Mujahideen Army, except for the basic composition... Of course, fortunately, the reverse is the same; if the fake Romain and Carlin Jacques The clergy's information is correct, and the local knowledge of us is still at the time when the rebellion just ended."

That being said, Major General Ludwig, who is more stable than himself, can really make up his mind, which still surprised Anson a little; although this small change is not enough to break his perfect plan , but some details have to be adjusted slightly.

Sure enough, everyone can make progress. Just like Louis will not always be so honest, Karl will also become more and more tacit with himself, and Major General Ludwig will naturally step out of his comfort zone sooner or later and become a decisive leader. …

Well, Miss Sophia Franz is an exception, she's been so good from start to finish...good-hearted, unwavering trust in her own loyalty!

The divergent thinking Anson couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth, causing Carl next to him to frown even more - this bastard, what nasty idea is he thinking of?

"All in all, we can't easily give up the baggage now, let alone enter the colony of Yangfan City to confront Major General Ludwig without obtaining all the information - not only can we not relieve the situation of the siege of Yangfan City, but also let us ourselves I also lost the initiative." Putting away the map, Anson patted his chief of staff on the shoulder:

"Since he can't capture Sail City for a while, and Louis Bernard has assembled the forces of all the liberals around the colony, Ludwig and his jihadists have been confined to a very small area. , there is no choice but to continue gnawing on the hard bone of Yangfan City."

And this is also the choice that Ludwig, or in other words, many officers will make.

From the Battle of Thundercastle to the "decisive battle" outside the sailing city during the colonial rebellion, Anson probably summed up the enemies he has encountered and a common feature of all allies, that is, obsession with decisive battles.

Their brain circuits for war are probably the same logic: first find an area on the battlefield that is beneficial to them or is very important to the enemy, and then formulate the fastest marching route to get here, and put all the main force into this area, In the end, either take the initiative or force the enemy to overwhelm all of their strength, and have a vigorous duel with themselves.

This is true in at least four-fifths of the wars one encounters, either passively or actively.

Anson has also summed up the reasons for this situation to some extent, which can basically be explained in two words: organizational ability and logistical level.

Because a top-down command system is too expensive—mainly because it is too expensive to train qualified full-time officers—it has to be at the division level to be able to fight independently; it relies on animal power and rough infrastructure to build it up. logistics, and it is impossible to support the military's experience in the front line for many months.

Therefore, the most efficient and cost-effective war mode for a force and a country is to gather all the troops to kill the enemy's door, and have a vigorous decisive battle with the opponent, and a winner will be lost.

The pinnacle of this concept is probably the "big corps model" that Major General Ludwig Franz had in mind: several corps formed a super corps of hundreds of thousands of people, with explosively concentrated power, reaching the enemy like a mountain. On the face, it will be completely annihilated.

"And this time it won't be any different from before."

Facing Carl's question, Anson said in a very convincing tone: "What Ludwig desires is a decisive battle, or a decisive battle that is in line with his ideas, and the situation is at least in his favor; as long as we Given the bait, he will take the initiative to come to the door."

"I only have one question." The chief of staff couldn't help interrupting:

"Not to mention what bait you will use to get our old boss to take the bait, how can you be sure that Yangfan City has not fallen - if he has already captured the city, isn't it all over?!"

"Attack? Impossible, absolutely impossible!"

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An Sen categorically vetoed: "With Alexei defending the city, Yangfan City will never fall. I have confidence in him!"

"And we received the big rout of the grass forest four days ago... Counting the time when the news came, Ludwig had to lead his army to return, build a siege position, design a tactical plan, and then officially enter the battle... No In ten to fifteen days, he will never be able to take down Yangfan City."

"You must know that it is Yangfan City. With a fairly complete defense system, Yangfan City can be captured so easily, it means that the army sent by the Clovis Royal Family Army this time is not an ordinary luxury; The relationship between the Ci family, and their fearless personality, do you think this is possible?"

"That's true." Carl nodded in agreement.

"Yeah." Anson's confident mouth rose: "I said it long ago, Alexei is a very trustworthy person, and the important mission is entrusted to him, and nothing will go wrong."

"No, no, you misunderstood. What I mean is that the cowards of the Wang Family Army will definitely not send elites to the new world." Carl shook his head:

"As for Alexei... The ring of order is on the top, I can assure you that there is one in the entire army. What everyone fears the most is never the enemy being too strong, but the 'trust' of your commander-in-chief!"

Anson: "…"

"Did he really say that?"

Inside the Weed Forest stronghold, Louis Bernard frowned slightly as he looked at Jason Fruhoff, who had rushed over from Grey Pigeon Castle.

"It's absolutely true." The cavalry company commander nodded, and then suddenly showed an expression that was very familiar to the young knight and must be sincere:

"With Alexei here, please don't worry too much about the safety of Yangfan City. The most important thing now is to convince Ludwig that the once-in-lifetime opportunity to wipe out all the resistance forces of the Free Confederacy in one breath is about to appear in front of him. His main force lured away from Sail City."

"In order to achieve this goal, Louis, you must immediately mobilize all the troops, immediately go south from the grass forest, and assume a posture of rescuing Sail City. On the premise of ensuring that the enemy has information, then quickly turn around and head north. I will leave Grey Pigeon Castle as soon as possible. Go to the wild grass forest area to meet you."

"In the end, we will go south together and take the initiative to fight Ludwig; in order to avoid being attacked by the city of sailing, Ludwig will definitely stop the siege and go to the place where I had a decisive battle with Bernard to 'welcome' us. ."

"Of course, it doesn't matter if he doesn't want to stop or try to seize the time, so we can flank his jihadist army on both sides, and establish a counter-siege encirclement outside the siege position to confront him, which can also stop his siege plan."

After finishing speaking, the cavalry major, who had regained his normal expression at the speed of light, hurriedly gave a military salute, and did not forget to add in a low voice: "These are the original words of Brigadier General Anson Bach, I... just repeat them."

"Okay, I understand." The young knight nodded slightly: "It's really hard for you to send information back and forth in person, please go to the tent and have a good rest."

Jason didn't say much, turned and left decisively.

Looking at the back of the cavalry major, the gloomy Louis picked up another piece of information on the table. It was a letter of help from Yangfan City. The person who wrote the letter was Alexei, who was forced to enter the city. Dukasky.

According to the Clovis officer, the situation in Sail City is already extremely critical... The enemy has broken through the outer defense line and the city walls, and is encroaching on the entire city along the streets and communities bit by bit; the army is still second, causing Civilian casualties were severe.

And this siege method not only failed to unite the defenders and the citizens, but the contradictions began to become more prominent. After all, one of the two sides was a traitor and the other was a deserter. They belonged to the same camp and despised each other. Dimensional anti-thieves"... The three parties can face the crisis regardless of their past suspicions and unite with sincerity.

Of course, Louis knows this all too well. In fact, his mission as the governor of Sail City most of the time is to eliminate the contradictions between the parties, and strive to maintain at least a superficial balance, so as to avoid a civil war similar to the split between the loyalists and the liberals. resulting in a **** tragedy.

But now, because of his departure and the outbreak of the war, the contradictions that were barely able to be covered up have completely erupted... If he didn't rush to Yangfan City in time to find a way to resolve the crisis, no one knows what will happen next.

So Anson Bach, does he know that?

Does he really care about the survival of Yangfan City, or at least the lives of his subordinates?

Will he deliberately sacrifice some of the "dispensable" victims in his eyes for the sake of his plan?

Question after question that he would never have thought of before emerged in Louis's mind. Now he is no longer alone, no longer just a dispensable existence; tens of thousands, even millions, of life and death depend on him. On a certain decision of oneself; one misstep, there may be thousands of victims.

"Anson Bach, let me trust you again..."

The young knight muttering to himself put down the two letters in his hand, he sighed softly, then picked up the saber that he had put on the table, and strode out of the tent.

On the ground, thousands of militiamen assembled from various places around Sail City were waiting for their commander; a variety of muskets, wooden sticks with bayonets, unidentifiable clothing...

It was just such a group of people who formed an orderly queue in the cobweb-like position, forming the last army of Sail City, which was also formed by Louis Bernard himself.

Coming to the only side of the entire army under the flag of the 13-star ring on a blue background, the young knights facing the entire army burst into countless rhetoric and impassioned words.

But when it came time to say something, it just turned into a long cry with a sharp blade unsheathed, and a hoarse roar:

"Set off-!!"

Chapter end