THE FIGHT TO BE KING
CHAPTER 22: WHAT IS MOST IMPORTANT TO A STRATEGIST
With the determination of the battle plan tomorrow, everyone in the room returned to their respective army tents.
Although the 4th prince invited Myro to the meeting, in the end everyone regarded Myro as nothing. More precisely they still underestimated Myro who was only a son of a Baron, after all the person who had the lowest position in the room was the son of a powerful Earl in the Northern Province. It was not strange that the people underestimated Myro's opinion, so this reason also made Myro decide not to talk much at the meeting.
As for Firhel, a woman who led the logistics force then Myro was sure this woman must have another background. At least this woman must have a close relationship with the 4th prince be it his friend or his woman, otherwise he could not get such an important position from the prince.
While on his way back, Myro couldn't help but ask Ren who was following behind him "Ren, what do you think the plan was? I felt that man's ocean plan was good enough, yet I had previously found that you shook your head in disapproval. Do you think Luin's plan is wrong?".
Falka who was at the side was staring at Ren curious, he did not have the intelligence to make a good strategy so he was very interested to hear Ren's opinion.
Ren who from earlier quietly opened the folding fan in his hand, he covered his mouth using the folding fan "I must admit that this plan is quite good, this plan is quite good, at least this proves that Luin actually studied in the academy and got grades with his own intelligence, not using the money or power of his father who is a Marquis. If he never learned, he could not possibly make a good enough strategy for a beginner like this. But he made a big mistake!".
"Huge mistake?", asked Myro carefully because he could not find fault with the strategy of the human sea "What great mistake? Why can't I find him out of the plan?".
Ren stepped forward to Myro, after which he turned to face Myro directly, as Ren stood in front of him then Myro had to stop stepping forward.
"Master, the book and the battlefield are different!", Ren said firmly "Luin made a strategy based only on the book he read, but he did not look directly into the actual battlefield. The human ocean strategy is very good, at least we have an army of 5 times the number of enemies which is a favorable situation to use this strategy if based on the book, but the problem is that Luin forgets something that is not explained in the book that our troops are not trained soldiers but armed residents!".
"The population is different from the elite forces, we win in quantity but lose in quality! Therefore, we are just like the waves trying to destroy the sand castle! Even so, the palace we destroyed was not a sand castle but an iron palace!".
Whether Myro or Falka is a little confused about Ren's explanation, of course Ren can also see all that.
If it was someone else, then Ren would not bother to explain even more that spent his time and energy. But this person in front of him was his master, so Ren again said "Master, do you know what is most important to a strategist?".
"Study?", answered Myro doubtfully.
"Learning is important, but there's one thing that's even clearer: learning about human feelings, not just a strategy!" said Ren, who closed the folding fan in his hand "We must understand the feelings of our enemies, our troops, and our comrades in order to win the battlefield. These residents were not trained soldiers, when finding the death of their comrades then these residents must have been frightened. Can a resident who goes to the fields every day or works in the city have the courage to attack the walls of the enemy city after seeing their comrades die with their own eyes? As long as the warrior does not dare to advance, how can we win?".
Myro slowly understood, he was planning to say something but Ren immediately stopped him "Master must have understood tomorrow more clearly about what I'm telling you now!".
Myro and Falka could only stare at each other, then Falka sighed "Miss Ren is indeed very frightening, indeed, as a mercenary who has been on the battlefield a lot then I understand that everything Miss Ren said is true. But when I heard Luin's explanation at the beginning, I felt that the human ocean strategy plan was a very good plan, even so when I heard Miss Ren's explanation then I realized that Luin's plan had many weaknesses!".
Myro nodded, he had previously thought that Luin's plan had no loopholes, but who would have thought that Ren could figure out all the gaps in Luin's plan so easily. It seems that Ren who explained that he was a strategist at the beginning met Myro is not a lie at all.
They returned to the tent before explaining all the plans tomorrow to Mother Myro and Ferbas, then everyone went back to sleep in their respective tents for the war tomorrow.
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The next day, all the troops cleared the tents quickly when the sun had not yet risen. They all started breakfast and left, the 4th prince was only given 3 months to seize the entire Cavalry Kingdom, therefore he was not interested in wasting much time here.
Tens of thousands of soldiers began to gather and then moved quickly towards the Cavalry Kingdom, they passed through several noble cities in the middle of the road, among which was Aras City. Even so, Myro did not care about Aras City at all because he no longer had any relationship with this city.
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They arrived in front of Trock Fortress by noon, they had already set off before sunrise so there was no problem to arrive here around noon.
With the advice of Jerat, the troops did not immediately attack but rest and eat first before starting to march again after 2 hours.
The 7000 combined army of nobles immediately marched while the noble children only stood to the side, these noble children simply did not have the courage to lead the battlefield directly so they only watched their troops ready to attack.
Myro's army did not participate in this battle, the cavalry were not suitable to attack the city walls and neither the 4th prince nor Luin understood that which prevented them from bringing Myro's army in this attack.
The 4th Prince stood in front of the entire combined army of nobles and elites of this kingdom, he pointed towards the black-coloured fortress behind him before shouting "The time has come, my brave soldiers! Let's show this Cavalry Kingdom, the power of the northern tigers of Azeroth Kingdom! We will bring victory back to the Kingdom of Azeroth and bring back glory!".
"Aaaaa!", cried the soldiers excitedly, they had dreamed of bringing back victory and were welcomed back to the Kingdom of Azeroth without thinking about the risk of death on this battlefield.