I Will Be The Crowned King Chapter 424

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Looking at Ansen Bach, who was confident, and Louis Bernard, who seemed to have no objection to this, the expressions of more than half of the people present were dumbfounded.

Of course, it's not that everyone doesn't understand what he means. After all, perhaps most of the representatives of the parliament do not understand the military, but as colonists, at least they have experience in pioneering and reclamation. They are not unfamiliar with this; Supplies will never be enough. As long as there is an opportunity, of course, we must obtain supplies from the enemy as much as possible.

But the problem lies in the way the away game is against the home game at this time. In terms of the relationship between host and guest, the New World Legion is a local, and the jihadist army is the foreign invader.

The word "wonderful" appeared in the minds of many parliamentary representatives, but the power of the two people who were present did not dare to say it.

"I have a question."

Just when Anson seemed to be about to continue speaking, Reinhard Roland, who was sitting near the end of the long table, suddenly raised his right hand: "I have no doubts about Your Excellency's strategic deployment, yes, we should delay as much as possible. The enemy's attack avoids the worst."

"But is the idea of ​​'getting supplies in the hands of the enemy' a little too whimsical?" Reinhard frowned slightly: "Even if you don't consider whether this will increase the possibility of the army's exposure to targets, once the enemy thinks that transporting supplies on the road is too risky If it is high, it will inevitably increase the weight of shipping.”

"And right now we don't have any fleet that can match the enemy at all, and we can even say that we don't have a fleet at all; losing the opportunity to fight the enemy on land means losing the last advantage that can be fought, isn't it?"

The president of the New World Company stared at An Sen with a burning gaze, as if he was not affected by the atmosphere at all, and directly asked the question that everyone wanted to ask the most.

In the dead silence, An Sen did not answer the question immediately, silently observing the expressions of others.

The representatives of the Supreme Council were worried, and obviously had the same idea; the Storm Legion seemed very peaceful, or it could be said to be numb; the guards of Yangfan City or the former imperial rebel knights had different expressions, some solemn and some disdainful, But at least they all understood the purpose of doing this; the militia groups were a little excited, and they were quite happy that they did not have to confront the enemy head-on.

In short, after the Battle of Grey Pigeon Castle and the Battle of Black Reef Harbor, the Free Confederacy has changed from feeling no sense of the enemy to being fearful of the enemy.

The number of the enemy, the combat strength and the support they can get are far beyond the limit they can imagine, and they even no longer oppose their own retreat plan - there are many protests before - hearing that the enemy will only attack from the sea , you will be very happy not to face the pressure of the army on land, because at most warships will attack the port, and will not sail on dry land.

In the face of this situation, if there is no way to win a victory as soon as possible, even if it is only a small-scale, ineffective but somewhat meaningful victory, I am afraid that in the end, I can only be an otaku in Winter Torch City.

"You asked a very important question, and even made a good supplement to what I just said, Your Excellency Reinhard." The corners of Anson's mouth rose slightly:

"Forcing the enemy to increase the weight of the sea by harassment is also one of the goals of the whole plan."

"Oh?"

Reinhard opened his eyes slightly and perfectly fulfilled his responsibility as a trustee: "I would like to hear about it."

"The New World is wild and wild, and the population is concentrated. Except for the scattered farms and settlements, the countryside has no value to be occupied. This is obviously different from the Old World."

Anson glanced at the chief of staff next to him: "Once the enemy realizes that the tactics that have been applied in the past are not proportional to the pay and the harvest, they will inevitably adopt a more conservative strategy - and this is what we hope."

"Cough cough... In simple terms, it means that in the Old World, only controlling a central town or castle in an area does not mean that you have complete control of the area. You must also allocate part of your troops to sweep the surrounding area in order to get all the land. Resources and wealth." Carl coughed twice and explained to everyone:

"But the New World is the exact opposite. At least half of the population is concentrated in the largest towns and outskirts within the colony. Except for a few mines and farms that are rich in output, the vast territory has little meaning to occupy."

"If the Mujahideen is determined to completely control these areas, then they will have to deploy a large number of troops, scattered in a large number of colonies with only a few hundred or a few dozen people; at least half of the 150,000-strong army must be consumed in There are very few gains from this, and it may not be able to afford the cost of these military inputs."

"But if they don't, then all the Crusaders have in the New World are the 'points' represented by the large towns, the 'faces' represented by the vast wilderness, not really falling in a sense, only We gave up control and did not fall into the hands of the other party."

In order to explain more intuitively, Karl, who stood up, picked up his fork, clicked on the three fallen towns, and made a circle on the colonies to indicate:

"If we can force the enemy to give up control of the wilderness and sporadic settlements through harassment and use more efficient shipping, then the enemy's scope of activity can be limited to the area around the town of Black Reef Harbor, from Black Reef Harbor to Red Hand Bay. Most of the territory in the area is still under our actual control."

"Wonderful plan, and thanks to His Excellency Carl Bain for his explanation, but unfortunately still did not answer the question below." Reinhard continued:

"Even if the goal is achieved, is the idea of ​​feeding the enemy too exaggerated; it is very easy to expose the target of our army and cause the enemy to encircle and suppress it. In the later stage, the enemy will transfer all the transportation to the sea, how can we rely on the enemy for food - always Can't attack the town directly?"

"It's really what you said, Your Excellency Reinhard Roland."

Carl Bain smiled: "We are going to attack the already occupied towns and take the supplies back from the enemy."

Ok? !

Not to mention the representatives who did not understand the military, even the leaders of many militia regiments were stunned.

"To explain this, please allow me to tell you a very important fact-according to the information that our scouts and reconnaissance sentries have obtained from the prisoners' mouths, almost every legion of the Mujahideen fighting across the sea has been infected on a large scale, Malnutrition."

"It is for this reason that despite their size, it takes a long time for them to exert their full strength, and a lot of work is either handed over to auxiliary soldiers or oppressing the people who have not been evacuated from the colony; in other words, Even the control of towns is by no means tight.”

He looked around the audience and swept his eyes to everyone: "And thanks to the heroic efforts of all of you, we not only captured a large number of materials for the jihadist army, but also took thousands of prisoners."

"Using them and the intelligence they have, we can completely infiltrate the weakly defended Black Reef Port, attack or even smuggle the materials they looted and shipped from the mainland to supplement the lack of military supplies of the New World Corps."

"Even if the enemy turns to sea shipping, they must mobilize supplies nearby. The docks at Heijiao Port are much inferior to Yangfan City. A large amount of materials must first arrive at Yangfan City, and then be transferred from Yangfan City to Heijiao Port, and finally allocated to Jihad. The various legions of the army; the procedures are increasing, the sources of soldiers are complicated, and the control is seriously lacking... It is no exaggeration to say that there are opportunities everywhere."

"This... it was jointly formulated and planned by the commander-in-chief of Anson Bach and the staff. It was a flexible defense plan for the enemy!" Carl Bain said firmly:

"Excuse me, do you have any questions?!"

No one spoke, and Reinhard, who "suddenly realized", was stunned on the spot very realistically. After a long time, he bowed to An Sen and then took his seat.

"Since everyone has no opinion, this plan will be the next step of the New World Legion."

Louie, who was always silent, opened his mouth and said, leaning on the chair and getting up slowly; everyone present at the meeting stood up in a panic, and the room was filled with the harsh notes of the messy chairs colliding and rubbing.

"Next, we will seriously discuss the details of all aspects of the plan within the staff, the troops that need to be mobilized, logistics, and human and material resources in all aspects." Louis, who looked indifferent, looked into everyone's eyes:

"The final conclusion and the tasks you need to undertake will be communicated to you early tomorrow morning, do you understand?"

"clear-!!"

At the end of the meeting, just as everyone was leaving one after another, Louis, who was silent in the audience, stopped Anson who was the last to get up.

"Don't go yet." The young knight who was sitting still in the chair said without raising his head:

"Tell me exactly the real purpose of your plan."

The stunned Anson stopped, frowned, and turned to look at Louis with a puzzled expression:

"...Real purpose?"

"It's the ones you want to cover up, or you don't want to tell others." Louis glanced at him, and there was a bit of dissatisfaction in his azure blue eyes:

"Of course, if you want to explain it to the Sail City Legion in person, just treat it as if I didn't."

"They all found out?!"

Anson was a little surprised. It's not surprising to say that one or two high-level knights can see through. All of them... How did he beat Bernard Morwes?

"Of course not... I told them before the meeting that no matter what plan you propose, you are not allowed to explicitly object." The young knight snorted and couldn't help complaining:

"Otherwise, with the relationship between Clovis and the Empire, and your experience of defeating them before, how could this meeting be so smooth?!"

It turns out that it is no wonder that these imperial knights with a serious excess of self-awareness did not interrupt the whole process, but they were arranged in advance... In surprise, An Sen couldn't help but glance at Louis.

"I'm so grateful to the Marshal for taking care of me, I'm really grateful, I don't know how to repay!"

"If you are so fake, I will go and find the imperial knights in Sail City." Louis' face was obviously unhappy: "They really hope to have a debate with you, the great orator. Yes—of course, all."

"Ah, then it's not necessary!"

Anson calmly and skillfully raised his hands to surrender, and with a smile he took out an open letter from his arms and handed it to Louis: "This... is what I have to hide."

The young knight took the letterhead curiously and flipped through it, his eyes suddenly widened before he saw the second line, and the whole person was shocked: "He, they..."

"The officers within the Mujahideen Army hope to smuggle some materials from us at a high price." Anson nodded slightly: "This is a spy who has just obtained information about the arrival of the Fernando Corps at Black Reef Harbor, and successfully penetrated into the Mujahideen Army and obtained it. Case."

"Roughly speaking, there is a group of 'people of insight' within the Mujahideen Army. After the Battle of Black Reef Harbor, they fully realized that the war could not end before winter, and they won a lot of honor and land in the battles before and after. There is very little gold and silver, so I came up with the wonderful idea of ​​smuggling to earn extra money."

"But this kind of thing can't be leaked, especially if the bulk of the materials they intend to trade seems to be ammunition, and it can't be exposed; it must use a more reasonable method to become a 'reasonable loss' due to various accidents, such as Say..." Anson looked at Louis meaningfully.

"Ambushed by the enemy and...theft?" Louis' face was full of disbelief, and he stammered:

"This, this, this should be something that Major General Ludwig or some officers conspired in private, it should not be..."

"It's a knight commander under Boley Levent, his deputy and relative, and the descendants of the orthodox Levent family are behind this matter."

Anson smashed the young knight's final fantasy neatly: "It seems that in order to conquer the Black Reef Harbor, the Levant family has contributed a lot, and one of their wind knight talents died in your hands... The loss is so great, When it comes to rewards for meritorious deeds, Barry Levant doesn't offer much real money."

"As for the territory... With the church's headquarters, the Levant family and the church are inseparable. No one dares to divide the territory without the commander's word. In the eyes of the Levant family from the southern part of the empire, it should not be particularly attractive."

"In this case, of course, they can only work flexibly in other ways and get rich through labor."

Louis was completely speechless.

A seemingly vigorous, full of tragic, glorious, betrayal, loyalty, forged with consciousness and faith, an unprecedented scale holy war...

In the end, it turned out to be just a fig leaf for a group of people to profit and earn extra money?

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