Chapter 2 Three Road Encirclement
"The people we sent were smart people. I immediately found something wrong, and immediately agreed timidly, and then turned away. Later, they caught him when a soldier from the Rock Legion came out to rescue him, and interrogated him before finding out. It turned out that after Richard and the others fled back, Wales immediately sent people to carry out a great purge on the Rock Legion, killing all the officers who were originally loyal to His Majesty, and instead transferred to the Military Law Department and the Flame Legion as officers. In addition, Wales also sent people to the Rock Legion to announce that if we could destroy our Lightning Legion and enter Baisus again, all the soldiers would be rewarded and the officers would be promoted. If they failed, the family of the Rock Legion who was still in Balathan would be sold to slaves. So, now there is basically no one in the Rock Legion will follow us again." Del said with a melancholy face.
"This Wales! You can do such a vicious thing!" Anne said furiously after hearing this, "If I catch him, I will definitely cut him into pieces!"
"Oh, Your Highness, let's consider the crisis in front of us first. I have to say that this move of Wales has indeed had a great effect, completely shattering our hope of instigating the Rock Legion, and the soldiers of the Rock Legion have had to fight against us. Now, according to our spies' reward, the Rock Legion has left its base in the Red Mountains and entered the plains. It is currently encircling us." Diaz sighed.
"Encircling? They are going to surround us now?" Anne asked in amazement.
"Yes, the Stone Legion is now divided into three groups. The Right Army has about three divisions, with a population of about 26,000. Leaded by their deputy commander Stilvin, he attacked us from the north. He has now arrived at Haifa Town, just north of us, one hundred and fifty miles away. It is estimated that we will reach our current camp in two days."
"The Left Army also has three divisions, with a population of about 28,000. Leaded by another deputy commander of their army, Bore, he attacked us from the east. Now he has reached the town of Bening, a small town to the east. It is one hundred and eighty miles away from us, and it is estimated that it will arrive at our camp within three days."
"The Central Army, led by Winter himself, gathered three of the most elite divisions, with more than 30,000 people, and attacked us from the west. They probably wanted to cut off our retreat to Baissus. They are currently marching to the Zhishui Lake, about two hundred miles away from us, and are expected to arrive at the camp in three days." Diaz pointed to the map and said with a worried look on his face.
Everyone came over at this time. After looking for a while, Simon said, "It is estimated that these three enemy troops will surround our army from three directions in three directions. By then, their troops will be twice as strong as us, but it will be a fierce battle."
"General Del, do you think we can defeat the Rock Legion with our current strength?" Annie asked after staring at the map for a while.
"It's very difficult. The Rock Legion is the garrison to defend the capital. Its equipment and training are very good. It can be said that it is the elite force of our country. If they want to say that their weakness is that they have not participated in any major battles. But now their strength is about twice ours, and they are fighting on the plain without any danger. If we fight them head-on, the chance of failure is more than 70%. " Del sighed and said.
"I see that there are still many defensive facilities near the camp. We rely on these fortifications to kill and damage the enemy a lot, right?" Adams couldn't help but say.
"That would be surrounded by them, and they would not even have to fight, they would just surround us. In less than ten days, we would collapse due to food shortage." Del immediately rejected the suggestion.
"Legislative Commander, why don't we retreat to Linxi Town before the enemy sieges. Fighting in such an enemy-bound place is very unfavorable to us. At least we should break out of the enemy's encirclement." Diaz suggested.
"Your method seems feasible, but if the enemy chases us, our army is likely to go from an orderly retreat to a defeated entire army." Del still shook his head.
"This... Legion Commander, our First Division can stay and cut off the rear." Simon stood up and said.
"Then... let's just... for the time being..." Del hesitated for a moment. As he agreed, Annie asked quietly, "Are we going back before we start fighting?"
"Your Highness Princess, we are not escaping, we are retreating! The enemy is powerful. We are tactics..." When Del was about to explain, he heard Roger's cheerful voice sound: "I think we should not only not retreat, but also launch a large-scale attack. Now is a great opportunity to annihilate the enemy in one fell swoop!"
As soon as Roger said this, everyone in the tent was shocked. Fengseka, the leader of the magic group who had long been very hostile to Roger, immediately retorted: "Some generals who have experienced a long battle formation cannot come up with a good way to defeat the enemy. Is there any other way you, a slutty boy? Do you think this is in Hetante City? Can you arrange a magic circle calmly? You must know that the Rock Legion also has an elemental magic group. Even my magic group dare not say that it will defeat them."
Roger heard from his words that he was worried about his use of the "Storm of Destruction" to destroy 10,000 Is soldiers, including his son.
Roger sneered and said, "It is normal that you can't think of a clever plan to defeat the enemy in a hurry, because everyone dares not say that you can be very smart at any time. But if some people are stupid and cannot think of a solution, but want to stop others from thinking of a solution, they must make people wonder if he has ulterior motives and tries to secretly help the enemy." This was said without hesitation, and he pointed directly at Fengseka's secretly helping the enemy.
Roger is not the kind of person who obeys him, and he also knows that if he kills Fengseka's son, it will be useless to repair the relationship. Anyway, people have offended him, so they are not afraid of offending him a few more times. This also makes the people of the Lightning Army understand that they are not a person who is easy to mess with. Otherwise, half of the casualties in the Lightning Army were from their own hands, and I don't know how many people would cause trouble for them along the way.
Fengseka's face turned pale. He was almost sixty years old and was also a level 8 magician. In this Lightning Army, let alone the commander of the Legion, King Edward was polite when he saw him. Unexpectedly, he would be ridiculed and framed by Roger as accused of colluding with the enemy.
Chapter completed!