At 9:05 in the morning.
Bright Water Harbor, the temporary meeting place for the Knights.
Willy picked up an empty highland in Pure Water Harbor and held an interim meeting where all the knights had to attend.
Mude and Blaze, who are the chief commander of the Navy and deputy commander, also attended the meeting.
"This is a marching map drawn up by the regiment commander himself."
Willie smoothed the map spread on the desktop.
"I believe everyone has seen this map of advance thousands of times."
Some knights, including Raymond, Samuel and others, nodded.
After successfully landing in the Knights of Michael, the route of the raid on Muhavic Fortress was drafted by Su Cheng.
Before Muhavic Fortress is ready for adequate defense, the running of this raid route is the most difficult part of this "Northern Slalom" battle.
If you follow the march route formulated by Su Cheng, the total distance from Bishui Port to Muhavits Fortress is nearly 400 miles.
This raid battle with a total distance of 400 miles must be fast!
The sooner you arrive at the city of Muhavitz Fortress, the more beneficial it will be to the Muhavitz Fortress.
If it drags on for too long, it would be difficult to capture it if the defenders of the Fortress Muhavits learned that the Knights of Michael were attacking across the sea and were ready for sufficient defense.
Therefore, in order to speed up the route of raid, the march route formulated by Su Cheng bypassed all the cities along the way.
Simply put, it means not occupying a single city, avoiding all cities and taking directly to Muhavic Fortress.
Therefore - this transportation team needs a large number of horse-drawn carriages, responsible for carrying the daily food, fodder and other supplies required by the 80,000 army.
During the troops' raid, the caravans responsible for carrying baggage must follow them all the way, and all the supplies needed by the troops on a daily basis are provided by this transport team.
This way of march can prevent the supply line from being cut off by the enemy city behind, because this way of march has no supply line at all, and all the supplies are brought by your side throughout the journey.
This "Northern Great Slide" battle was planned for more than half a year, and a large number of carriages and pack horses were raised, but the number of carriages was still not abundant.
The number of carriages brought across the sea is only enough to carry 80,000 troops of 7 days of supplies.
In other words, they have to run these 400 miles in 7 days at the latest!
After 7 days, they will be out of food.
Within 7 days, run from Bishui Port to Muhavits Fortress and capture Muhavits Fortress.
Muhavitz Fortress must have stored a lot of supplies that cannot be burned immediately even if it is burned. As long as you take down Muhavitz Fortress, you don’t have to worry about supply issues anymore.
The task is very arduous. This raid battle is the most difficult part of the entire battle. In terms of the degree of difficulty, the Battle of Bishui Port in the early morning is nothing compared to this.
"Gary." Willie raised his head and asked at Gary, "How many other supplies are not loaded?"
Urge the baggage to be carried off the transport ship and loaded into the vehicle - Willy handed over this task to Gary.
"About half," Gary replied, "It will not be until 13:00 this afternoon that the baggage will be fully loaded."
"Is it 13:00 pm... Well, okay, I understand." Willie nodded, "Then--14:00 pm!"
Willie announced loudly to the knights in front of him.
"At 14:00 pm, the whole army began to launch a raid!"
Willy's order fell, and the expressions of the knights present became more and more serious.
"After launching a raid on the Fortress of Muhavit, you will be with the naval fleet in the Pure Water Harbor."
"I will leave some soldiers to help you guard the Port of Bishui."
"If the raid fails, Bishui Port is our only way to retreat to the Britannian Empire."
"But if the raid fails, the possibility of us being able to safely withdraw to Bishui Port is also very low."
"So don't relax your vigilance just because you think we still have a way out."
“I hope everyone can understand this and cheer up.”
Several knights with less experienced saliva swallowed.
"That's all I have to say. Let's disband and take a break. There must be many people like me, who didn't sleep all night last night, right?"
"Go to have a good sleep while there is still some time now."
"After 14:00 pm, we will not have a chance to have a good rest in the next few days."
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at the same time.
Somewhere in the Eighar Mountains where birds don't shit.
"Hey, El, call me here and let me go over the Eghar Mountains. Could it be that I just want to get me for transportation?"
Gabriel said to Elle who was lying on his back in a very dissatisfied tone.
At this time, Gabriel was walking on an extremely rugged mountain road with El on his back.
"Yes." Elle, who was carried behind Gabriel, smiled, "How can I walk through this mountain road that is not a human being at all? So I need someone as physically strong as you to carry me over."
After taking on this mission from Dominic, El asked Gabriel from Dominic.
Gabriel's injuries have almost healed, and it is no problem to participate in this surprise attack on the Avalon Fortress.
After the 2,000 elite troops in the army officially began to cross the Eighar Mountains, El would ask Gabriel to carry him over whenever he encountered a difficult road.
The two were as close as brothers. When they were young, they depended on each other in the slums outside the imperial capital. Faced with their brother's request, Gabriel naturally would not refuse.
But over time, Gabriel gradually realized something was wrong.
He felt like he had become El's "human-shaped transportation tool".
So I couldn't help asking El just now.
After hearing El personally admit that he did treat him as a means of transportation, Gabriel pretended to be angry:
"You bastard! Do you believe me and I throw you under the cliff!"
There was a steep wall at his feet, and Gabriel acted to throw El down.
"Okay OK!" El said immediately, "I just joked, using you as a transportation tool is only part of the reason! The main reason is to get your arm's strength!"
"Gabriel, you are very strong and brave. The sneak attack on the Avalon Fortress needs your help. If you act as the pioneer, your bravery will surely boost the morale of the troops, and the success rate of sneak attacks can also increase slightly."
"I'm not going to help much, I can't help much."
Gabriel interjected.
"There are so many powerful generals in the Knights of Michael. There are so many powerful generals that I can defeat. Last time I was the commander of the 2nd Army, Samuel."
Chapter completed!