The Lord Legend Of The Raicarnated Lord
Strategizing

Chapter 68: Strategy

When Charade, Potterfang, Terman, Yuriy and Loze rushed over, they saw Reidy bringing some of the surrendered garrison troops out of the tent. Upon entering the large tent, they saw several maps, large and small, scattered all over the place as well as the table half of its surface was occupied by animal skin books marked with all sorts of symbols by Lorist.

"What are you doing?" Charade asked curiously as he approached. After looking at it for some time, he still could not understand what Lorist was trying to accomplish.

On the other hand, Potterfang instantly had a premonition of what was going on. "This looks like an army distribution and supply line …"

After hearing what Potterfang said, Charade looked back to the side and got a startling realization, "Are you planning to face Count Cobry?"

Lorist nodded and took out a small map and turned it around, “See, this is the area of influence Count. ”

He then drew a line outside the circle and said, “This is the path we are going to take and happened to pass through that area of influence. If we managed to travel up to 35 kilometers a day, we would need about 12 to 14 days to leave this area. However, we will only pass through the wilderness or places where the lashing forces have decimated and that will make it difficult for us to supply and do business.

"But if we take this route ..." Lorist drew another line that passed through the circle and continued, "It will only take 7 days and it is much more convenient for us to get resources along the way. However, the prerequisite of using this route is that we must defeat Count Cobry first. ”

"Then, have you thought about how you could achieve that?" Ask Charade.

"No. I just had the troops count and question them about the situation at hand. I do have some thoughts about that, but I am not sure how the count will respond to our actions, so I am not very confident if that is the best way, ” Lorist said as he shook his head. He then picked up a book and placed it on the table.

"You guys should join me in planning this as well. After all, I can only consider so many scenarios myself. Reidy, get me the Kirov War Chess set, ” Lorist said.

Kirov War Chess is a war game created by General Kirov of the Romon Empire about a hundred years ago. Lorist felt that it was very similar to modern chess in his world. However, the chess board is more similar to the monopoly game board than the traditional checkered ones.

"Count Cobry has a new city in development that mimics the capital model of Geldos City," said Lorist while pointing at the book he placed on the table before he placed two cavalry chess pieces and four infantry chess pieces on top of the book. “Currently, Geldos City has two cavalry companies and one garrison regiment defending it. It should be noted that one of the spear cavalry companies as well as the two companies in the garrison regiment had just been formed and lacked any real battle prowess. According to the surrendered troops, the tally only had one personal guard made up of troops with members who were at least Iron-ranked equipped with heavy armor to keep his safety. ”

After which, Lorist placed the dishes on the table and placed each of the cavalry pawns and infantry pawns on the plate. “Williamiles castle is maintained by cavalry companies and other garrison companies and the number of soldiers is almost 1000 in total. Although the allied noble forces that were currently in conflict with the count had around 4000 people, they were still gradually pushed into a corner by the counting forces and were currently passively defending themselves. A lot of useless. ”

Casually commenting on the allied noble forces, Lorist placed another cup on the table and placed the infantry chess piece inside. “Here is Burdock Bastide, which is located within the original count area and there is a company of garrison troops stationed there. Now, take a look at Geldos Town, Williamiles Castle, and Burdock Bastide. If you connect the three points to each other, you get the shape of a triangle. So, if one side is attacked, the other two sides will be able to return as quickly as possible. Unless our forces are far more than our troops, we will not be able to defeat the troops stationed at Williamiles Castle and Burdock Bastide to reach Geldos City.

“Fortunately for us, the company of pike cavalry and garrison regiments that were supposed to be stationed at Burdock Bastide have been annihilated by us and they have only one company of garrison troops sent there from Williamiles Castle stationed there. Considering that the spear cavalry of the rebel forces have also been annihilated by us, their forces have weakened quite a lot and no longer pose much of a threat to us. What I have in mind is that we take a chance when Burdock Bastide is only weakly defended by one garrison company and disguises ourselves as rebel forces and starts causing problems in the dominance of the tally to lure him to deploy his troops from the City of Geldos so that we can occupy the posthaste of the city. As long as we manage to get the City of Geldos and Burdock Bastide within our control, the tally foundation will be destroyed and there will be no way he can rise to power again. ”

“My lord, your plan sounds very reasonable. So why do you hesitate to do so? ”Task Potterfang.

“That's mainly because we still don't have enough soldiers to gain victory without incurring huge losses at the same time. If that was the case, not only would we lose control of the situation, we would also probably be attacked by others who prey on the convoy. That is why I am currently trying to come out in some way to minimize the losses that our troops will inflict. If only we could somehow get rid of the company of another spear cavalry .." Lorist said with a bitter laugh.

“But my lord, I think our troops are more than enough to handle the counties. Why do you say otherwise? "Ask Loze curiously.

“We must also consider the safety of the convoy and cannot send all our troops without leaving some behind. After doing some calculations, I found that we were only able to dispatch three pike infantry companies, one heavy armored cavalry company and a carroballista army as well as a knight brigade. We must leave one heavy armored cavalry company and two pike infantry companies to ensure the safety of the convoy. With the police forces having to keep organizing convoys and camp guard companies in charge of overseeing the prisoners of war, even if we have to withdraw some troops from those units, we will only have an additional 2,000 people given or taken. And the light cavalry scouts Yuriy had to leave one squad behind to patrol the surrounding area and could only set aside three squads to join our main attacking force and two more squads for the group who will ambush the City of Geldos.

“We should also consider how the tally will respond to our moves. If he heard that the guerrillas were coming to attack his dominance, then he would probably deploy all of his troops, which meant that he would send two companies of spear cavalry and a garrison regiment of Geldos City, respectively, a staggering 3000 people, to exterminate 'rebels. If we belong to the nobles who are allied with him, he can easily gather an army of around 5000 people. That's why I'm afraid we'll suffer great losses if we fight directly with his main troops, ” explained Lorist patiently.

"Who would have thought the rebels would be so cowardly and dare not take risks. That's why Knight Josk was disappointed and came with his men to join us. ”

Lorist then briefly told the rest about the history between Knight Josk and Count Corby. “I will truly appreciate a Gold ranked talent like Josk and definitely want him to join the ranks of the Norton Family Knights. That's why I was eager to clear the count to avenge the family merchant convoy while fulfilling Josk's wishes at the same time. That was also the main reason why I sat here reading the map and trying to formulate a plan that would trap the counting forces and avoid a direct confrontation with them. ”

“Knight Josk is truly a devoted man! It's nothing but good news if he wants to join us, we should definitely help him, ” Charade said sympathetically after hearing about Josk's experience. "But Lord Locke, you seem to have missed out on important information. ”

"What's that about?" Ask Lorist.

"Yesterday when Els was questioning the surrendered garrison troops, I heard one of the soldiers say that when they received news in the western mountains about the occupation of the camp, I heard one of the soldiers say that, the illegitimate son in command sent some of the spear cavalry back to Count Cobry to report the incident before ordering them to return to take the camp, taking the young captives with them. Given that it takes four days to travel from the western mountains to Burdock Bastide, Prince Cobry will only receive reports of camp occupation today and will still think that the rebel sweepers corps are in the process of retaking the camp. Lord Locke, what you missed was how the count would behave considering he just received news of the occupation today, ” Charade said.

"Huh?" Lorist's eyes instantly shone. "If I were Count Corby, after receiving the report and taking into account the less than ideal snow weather for the past two days, I would definitely be worried about the rebel corps. I will send them some reinforcements immediately and the fastest unit available to me is the spear cavalry company. It takes about 4 days to travel to this camp by horse from Geldos City, which means, the counting reinforcements will arrive in 3 to 4 days. We still have a chance to take their spear cavalry. ”

"That's right . Also, didn't Knight Josk mention that some of his men's family members were still in the abandoned fortress? We should go there openly to escort them back and spread the news of the death of the spear cavalry while we were inside. Even if they don't trust us, they will definitely send someone to check the situation themselves. We can then invite the people they sent to watch us defeat the incoming spear cavalry company and tell them that without the pike cavalry, the pike cavalry would be, the power of the count will effectively be reduced by half and there is no better chance of attacking the dominance of the tally as it is now. I believe that the rebels will definitely not incur any costs and send all the power they can muster to power in the tally. When the rebels throw dominance into chaos, we can then sneak in to conquer Burdock Bastide. Or, if the count decides to send its main troops there, we can keep the rebel forces keeping them busy and secretly send our elites to ambush Geldos City, ”.

"Good, that's exactly what we're going to do," said Lorist excitedly with both of his fists clasped. “Reidy, we don't have time to waste. Hurry up and invite Knight Josk over. ”

After giving Reidy the order, Lorist looked at Charade, Yuriy, Terman, Potterfang and Loze and suddenly felt that something was amiss. "Oh, you all came together at the same time. Is there anything I should know? "

The gang suddenly remembered why they had come to Lorist. Charade let out a bitter laugh and said, "My master, the reorganization plan that you have made is mostly executed smoothly. The only problem was the lack of war horses. The various units have already started to quarrel about the rest of the war horses we have now. ”

According to Charade, the convoy that originally only had more than 700 war horses. They obtained several dozen after attacking Viscount Mestre's castle as well. Coupled with the 2000 war horses obtained after eliminating the rebel corps, the total number of war horses they had was still less than 3000. Under Lorist's reorganization plan, a total of 4000 horses would be needed and that did not include the mounts required by the camp guards and police units. Right now, Terman, Yuriy, Potterfang and Loze had been arguing day and night about it and finally decided to go to Lorist to find a solution.

Lorist laughed out loud before continuing, “There is no need to fight about such a thing! Just hold it for now. Don't we have some people sending horses to our doorstep in four to five more days? How embarrassing it would be for you to argue about such a trivial matter. When we defeat Count Cobry's army, we'll have all the horses we want. ”

What Lorist was referring to was the reinforcements sent by the countdown. Given that each cavalry had two mounts, the convoy would definitely not be lacking by the time they defeated the reinforcements.

Afterwards, Josk enters the tent with Reidy and hears about the lack of horses. He said, "My master, if you would exchange weapons and equipment with the rebels in the western mountains, I estimate that you would be able to get around 600 war horses. ”

Lorist nodded and said, “That's good. I'll count on you for that. ”

Afterwards, he told Josk about the plan they had just gone through.

Shocked and delighted, Josk said, "My master, are you really going to exterminate Count Cobry?"

"That's right," Lorist said. "Since we have destroyed so many of his troops, we might as well complete the work thoroughly and uproot the foundation of his strength, lest he cause more trouble for us in the future. ”

"My master, be happy to be in your service," Josk said as he bowed deeply to Lorist.