Volume Two: The Iron-Blooded Baron Chapter 174 A Great Victory (15)
Balian saw the expression on Bess's face, smiled slightly, and then called Bess's name, "Brother Bess, come and explain to everyone."
"Okay, sir!" Bess nodded and said, "Since your Majesty asked me to explain to you, I will explain it to you. But before I explain, I have to ask you a question first. Can we annihilate all these people?"
Help the pirates?”
After Bess's question was posed, everyone thought for a while, and then Rothschild was the first to answer: "Yes! Absolutely."
After Losier finished speaking, Balin replied: "Yes, there is definitely no problem. The plan drawn up by your Excellency includes burying wooden piles and arranging ship-blocking ropes at the junction of Forest Lake and Karl River. However, our reconnaissance team finally
Without realizing it, the pirates boarded the boat and fled directly out of the forest lake and along the Karl River.
If you really want to stop them, just stop their boat at the mouth of the lake, and we can fire rockets to burn them to death."
Hearing what Balin said, several people who participated in formulating the battle plan also nodded in realization. It seemed that Balian had really let these pirates leave on purpose.
Bess looked at everyone, smiled and said to Balian: "Sir, it seems that everyone knows that you deliberately let these pirates go."
Balian also smiled and nodded, and then said: "Yes, now that you all understand, I will explain the reason myself. Otherwise, you may still think there is a problem with Brother Bess's explanation."
"Hehe!" Hearing what Balian said, everyone laughed.
"It would be a good thing if we quietly wiped out all these five hundred pirates, but it would take at least a week for most of the pirates to know the situation, and it would take at least another week for them to respond.
By then, I'm afraid that the city of Amundine will be breached. You also know the weak combat effectiveness of the directly-affiliated county soldiers. You can expect them to face more than a thousand powerful Toba pirates and defend more than half of the city.
More than a month is undoubtedly a joke.
If the city of Amundine is captured, the pirates' strategic goal of attacking the directly-administered county will also be completed. When they find that the team sent to wipe out Fort Nolandenburg has been completely wiped out, you think that more than a thousand people will be victorious.
What will the returning pirates do?"
Balian's question was like a blow to the head, making everyone who was still immersed in the joy of defeating the invading pirates realize that the other side of their victory turned out to be a big crisis.
"Count Escalade, who is dragging the pirates, will definitely attack Fort Nolandon with the help of the despicable knight Sog from Bangshui Town. With the failure of the wild dogs like Asedan in front, he wants to use another trick.
It will be difficult to defeat them." Barrett said in a deep voice.
Bess, Eomer, Rohirr and others also nodded in approval.
Balian continued: "Yes, we defeated the pirates of Asedan and only a few dozen of them escaped. Although it was a great victory, our own battle losses were not small. According to the situation you reported.
Look, the militia regiment suffered about fifty soldiers, the infantry regiment suffered about ten soldiers, and the reconnaissance team suffered half of its soldiers.
Although we won, we also sacrificed the lives of nearly a hundred brothers. Not counting the injured brothers, they will not be able to recover their combat effectiveness in a short period of time. Can you tell me, can we still withstand the attack of the main force of the pirates now?
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"No." Everyone replied in unison.
"So, I want Arthedain to take the remaining defeated troops and bring the news of their defeat. In this way, Earl Keled, who is besieging Amondine, will temporarily give up attacking the city of Amondine.
If the city of Amondine is not breached and the highest officer of the direct county is present, the leading knights from all over the country can gather and gather near the city of Amon to fight the pirates and drive them back before winter comes."
Balian continued.
After Balian finished speaking, Eomer asked: "My lord, what if the pirate leader, Earl Elade, chooses to give up attacking the city of Amondin after meeting Arthedain, and instead attacks us directly?"
"No!" Balian replied categorically, "Absolutely not, because doing so would not only be time-consuming and labor-intensive, but would also affect the pirates' overall strategic plan."
Having said this, Balian pulled out the sword from his waist, drew a simple sketch of the location on the ground, then pointed at the map and explained to everyone: "Look, if the main force of pirates led by Escalade turns around,
To attack us, they have two ways to choose. The first way is for the brigade to follow the land route, which will take more than three days and pass through many villages, towns, and castles to attack us. They will also face potential dangers such as nighttime sneak attacks and ambushes.
The first route, as long as the pirate leader named Escalade is not a fool, he will definitely not take this route, but which route will he take? I think he will definitely turn around and return to Bangshui Town, and then take a boat
Then pass through the Karl River and enter the forest lake.
Fighting on the water, this group of pirates is invincible. They don't have to worry about being ambushed or sneak attacked, and they will be faster and save energy.
However, by giving up the richer and easier-to-break city of Amundine, we instead diverted a lot of our strength to attack the barren and difficult-to-defeat Fort Nolandenburg. Do you think that Escalade guy would do this?"
"Hahaha, of course not." Everyone answered with laughter after hearing Balian's question.
Balian continued to smile and said: "Yes, definitely not. Not only will it not happen, Count Escalade will also think of using the city of Amundine as bait to lure many leading knights, including me, there.
If he waits for an opportunity to eliminate us, he will not only be able to make up for the failure of attacking Fort Nolandenburg, but he will also be able to eliminate more enemies at the same place and attack the city of Amundine.
With Asedan, a living person, telling the story of the war, Escalade must know that if we want to break Fort Nolanden, we must take more lives. They must have a deep understanding of what we are good at defending the city.
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Since it is difficult to break through the castle where our Nolandenburg soldiers are stationed, it is better to let us come out and fight with them in the field. The pirates will definitely think that without our high city and thick wall, although our combat effectiveness is okay, we will definitely not be able to go up.
The opponent of the main force of pirates with thousands of people.
Moreover, if Viscount Merry finds that the pirates are no longer so urgent in attacking the city and the siege is not so strict, he will definitely send a messenger to ask us, the leading knights, to go to the city of Amundine to rescue him.
Although I am not a vassal of Viscount Merry, he is a county guard appointed by the monarch. Not only that we are under his jurisdiction, part of the money, food and salary of our Norlandenburg Infantry Regiment is also provided by Viscount Merry, and Viscount Merry and
The Earl David behind him is also an important supporter for me and many knights who lead the army directly under the county. In public and private matters, we all have to lead troops to rescue Viscount Merri, and this is exactly what this guy Escalade wants.