THE FIGHT TO BE KING
CHAPTER 26: RESULTS OF WAR
On the night of the 6th day of the Trock Fortress attack, there were a lot of bodies around the Trock Fort.
Although there were some corpses from the Trock Fortress warriors, most of the corpses here were those from the Cavalry Kingdom.
These 6000 troops had indeed been trained, but in the end they were still an armed resident. The 4 days time was simply not enough to turn a resident into a warrior who could fight, therefore the defeat of this 4th princely army occurred.
His troops could already march and become more orderly, at least they would not escape like before.
The problem was that when they managed to climb up the city walls, they were immediately greeted by many enemy spears.
These troops were not strong men like Jerat, Limo or Falka. So they could not dodge the spear at all, this made them only able to be killed every time they climbed on top of the city wall.
Not to mention the arrow attacks, hot water and stone throws belonging to the enemy, while climbing the stairs, the new soldiers could not avoid the attack, which caused most of them to die immediately while on the stairs.
The result of today's war is Trock Fortress lost 100 troops while the 4th prince had to lose about 1200 troops.
Anyone could see that this was the 4th Prince's defeat, General Ritke could actually defeat over 10 times the enemy's army which was a great achievement on the battlefield.
Right now the other princes who were in the Royal Capital of Azeroth were definitely laughing at this result, they were most likely talking about the failure of the 4th prince.
The state of the entire camp became extremely bleak, in addition to the 1200 additional people who died today, hundreds of others were heavily injured.
The faces of all the soldiers became very bad, even some of them were already crying and afraid of death, they recalled their families who were already waiting for them to return. Even though it was now having dinner, most of the soldiers did not have the slightest bit of spirit to eat. Especially hearing the sound of screaming in pain from their heavily injured colleagues, this made them even more sad.
The 4th prince again gathered all his higher-ups in the main tent. Different from before, the entire tent had now become extremely silent.
The 4th Prince was just sitting on the main seat while lowering his head, he had not said anything since tens of minutes ago, everyone knew that the 4th prince must be very angry now.
After all he must not fail, as long as he fails to seize the Cavalry Kingdom then his chance of becoming the next king is reduced.
But now only to capture Trock Fortress, they have lost more than 2000 troops, and even then they still failed to seize Trock Fortress. If the 4th Prince were not angry now, it would be very strange.
Luin's entire body trembled in fear at this moment, he continued to break out in cold sweat as this defeat could be considered the result of his improper strategy.
Looking at the 4th prince who kept silent, Luin could not help but say with a trembling mouth "Prince, I know this defeat is my fault when making a strategy. But this defeat is not my fault entirely, if we the nobles of this Northern Province send 7000 of their elite troops, not armed residents then we cannot possibly kal-".
Before Luin could finish his words, the 4th prince took the glass beside him and threw the glass towards Luin's head.
"Shelf!".
Luin fell to the ground as a result of the glass toss, even blood fell on Luin's head.
The 4th Prince did not care at all about Luin being injured, he pointed towards Luin angrily "If these nobles in the Northern Province send their elite soldiers, he pointed towards Luin, then I don't need you! What do you think is the point of a strategist? What's the point of you being the academy's best graduate strategist? If you have a strong army, everyone can win without strategy, not only you can!".
Luin did not dare to fight back against the 4th prince, he just knelt down while shouting "Luin knows he is wrong, Luin hope the prince does not mind giving Luin a chance once more! This time, Luin will not fail!".
"Forget it!", shouted the 4th prince sitting in his chair furiously "I've lost 2000 troops to your foolish idea, if I give you another chance then I might lose 3000 troops. As long as that happened, the chance of seizing the Cavalry Kingdom must have disappeared! Luin, if you were not from the Marquis family then I would have killed you for this mistake! But that doesn't mean I won't kill you, if we fail to take the Cavalry Kingdom then you will have to pay for it with your life! My other brother and sister will not sit idly by my failure and use it to stop me from becoming the next king, therefore I must not fail to seize this Cavalry Kingdom!".
The entire person in the room went back to silence while the 4th prince sat down with a very heavy face, he thought of a way to reverse this defeat.
After a while, the 4th prince could only stare at the Nether "Do you have any ideas?".
Jerat shook his head with a bitter smile "Prince, Ritke is not a random person! To win though, I would most likely have to sacrifice another 2000 troops from these armed inhabitants".
Seeing that even Jerat does not have an idea, then there are only 1 more person who can according to the 4th prince.
He turned to look at Limo who was standing still like a rock behind him "General Limo, give me advice! Without your help, this war will only end in failure! General Limo must know what happens if I fail here, grandfather might not be angry but my chance of becoming the next king must be gone! So, can General Limo help us at least with his intelligence?".
"Prince, I am not unhelpful to you but your grandfather forbade me to help" Limo said firmly.
The 4th prince's face became disappointed to hear that, without Limo's help then he could not think of any other idea to win.
Now Limo suddenly said again "But that doesn't mean there's no chance for the prince to win even without my help, didn't Lord Myro tell us before the attack that our troops would lose? This proved that Myro had great intelligence, at least much more powerful than Luin who made this failed plan. Myro could see the failure behind Luin's plan before the war began, perhaps he could help the prince to make a plan for victory as well".
The desperate 4th prince shone back, at the same time everyone in the room was staring at Myro who was sitting at the very last position of this meeting table.