THE FIGHT TO BE KING
CHAPTER 133: FORTRESS RULFES
Hearing that it was now time to discuss about the next plan of attack, the faces of everyone in the room became even more cautious, especially Ren. After all he was a strategist on the battlefield, therefore their next move depended heavily on him.
In this room there is now Falka who leads 1000 Mongol Cavalry, Lopen has 700 Praetorian Guard and Retya with 2000 new troops. Although there had been several casualties due to the war before arriving in Folk City, but the casualties were not much so that it did not have a major effect on Myro's forces.
Aclan still remained in Rorec City with the knights and Sorna, Myro did not let them help in keeping Myro territory. However, as long as Myro fights against the Orc-Goblin Kingdom, there is a possibility that the enemy will attack Myro's territory, namely Rorec City, Vendes City and Loth City. Therefore, it would not hurt to be careful and let Aclan stand guard there.
Myro looked at everyone while explaining "Now we have managed to capture Folk City, but we are still far from winning. No, the new war is beginning! The Orc-Goblin Kingdom will definitely not sit idly by seeing us take 1 city of theirs, most likely they will send another army here. So we have to move first before the enemy's reinforcements appear, we have to do something big to defeat them with 1 move".
"The problem is here, we have 2 choices as our next step. The 1st option is that we continue to move to take the city around until we reach the Capital of the Orc-Goblin Kingdom, as long as the capital is captured then the entire kingdom will also be defeated. But there is a big risk in this plan, we have limited power so it is very difficult to seize the Capital of the Orc-Goblin Kingdom which has a lot of elite troops".
"The 2nd option is to seize several cities until we are connected to the Northern Province. As long as we attack in the right city, we can get to the Northern Province and attack the 70,000 enemy troops that are there. With our cooperation attacking from behind and the Northern Border General, Herfu, we can definitely win against the enemy".
Everyone in the room became silent, they did not give an opinion but looked towards Ren first waiting for his opinion.
Ren opened the folding fan in his hand and covered half of his face "The 1st Plan is too risky, when we are charging towards the Capital of the Orc-Goblin Kingdom, he said, there is a possibility that 70,000 enemy troops in the Northern Province will return. As long as they return, we are the ones who are besieged by the enemy - the capital army at the front and the 70,000 enemy troops at the back".
"Because of that reason, I think the 2nd plan is much better. But this plan still has weaknesses, we must get the cooperation of General Herfu first. Without cooperation from him, our plan would only end up failing. I advise you to send a representative first to General Herfu, to see the answer first to this cooperation".
Lopen suddenly remembered something as a result of Ren's words just now "Master, I forgot to tell you! Some time ago, my brother gave me a message that General Herfu is sending troops towards us. Based on the information obtained from the headquarters, General Herfu sent his grandson directly as the leader of this army".
"Why did he send his granddaughter here?", asked Falka strangely, he did not understand about what was happening.
Different from Falka, the intelligent Ren immediately knew the purpose of General Herfu "Master, I think we can already start the 2nd plan! The purpose of General Herfu sending his grandson here is none other than to cooperate with master, I'm sure General Herfu must have thought of the same plan as us. He sent his granddaughter here to convince the master to cooperate according to his plan".
"I think we can start to form the 2nd plan now, and then it will be done when General Herfu's grandson arrives here" Myro said.
"Then, let me explain the outline of our situation so that the 2nd plan can be executed properly" Ren said, explaining "In order to surround 70,000 enemy troops from behind, we have to take 3 cities and 1 fortress again. There is no problem in the 3 cities that must be captured because the strength of the defense is the same as Folk City, they are only protected by wooden fences and the number of troops is not much. But the biggest problem was the border fortress that had been guarding the Orc-Goblin Kingdom from the Northern Province for many years".
"The fort was named Fort Rulfes, as the fortress that guarded the Orc-Goblin Kingdom from the Azeroth Kingdom since decades ago, this fortress has the best defense that is not inferior to the Capital of the Orc-Goblin Kingdom itself. The fort is protected by a stone city wall that has a height of about 7 meters, besides there are 5000 elite troops who have been fighting on the border for years, it is not easy to take this fort".
"Not to mention the possibility that the enemy kingdom will send a relief force guarding Fort Rulfes, how the enemy will not be so foolish as to let us encircle their 70,000 troops in the Northern Province".
After understanding the circumstances, Retya asked "Do we have to seize the Rulfes Fortress? Can't we just take another territory and lay siege to 70,000 enemy troops?".
"No way!", Ren said firmly "The Rulfes Fortress is the main link between the Orc-Goblin Kingdom and the Northern Province, there is no other way. As long as the Rulfes Fortress is not captured, the enemy will have a chance of escape when it is besieged by us through this fortress".
The faces of everyone in the room became heavy, they knew that the fight this time was difficult, even harder than against the previous 10,000 enemy troops.
The reason for this difficulty was that the enemy was aided by the city walls. Although in Fort Rulfes there were only 5000 troops, with the help of the city wall then they could fight 10,000 troops without any problems.
Seeing no one giving advice, Myro decided to speak first "Falka, don't you have any ideas? As a general who has led many battlefields, don't you have any plans?".
Falka smiled bitterly at Myro "Master's question, the main problem was not the wall protecting Rulfes Fortress, but there was something more disturbing that was snow! Our soldiers don't fight in the snow very often, so when fighting in snowy weather, our troops are definitely weakened. The Mongol cavalry could not move too fast in snowy weather because there was a possibility that horses would fall, and the Praetorian Guard or 2000 new soldiers also weakened due to the snow. It would be impossible to capture Fort Rulfes without the heavy casualties on our side with the power we have now, unless we get the help of a fairly strong additional force".