The king on the Great Wall

They are in the south of the Queen's Army, and they are looking towards it from the bottom edge of the trapezoid. From this perspective and height, it is difficult to see that it is an isosceles trapezoid with the naked eye. Fortunately, this does not affect the observer's discovery. The formation consists of several square formations with a scale of thousands of people, and the trapezoidal two-loin cloth forms a simple oblique formation.

"The formation of the Night's Watch is quite strange... I don't know whether to say it's unprecedented or extremely conservative, but I can see that it should be defensive." While slowly twisting the lens barrel to adjust the observation, he announced his findings, "And the horizontal direction is facing us? Tsk, it seems that it is not a simple horizontal formation, but it is a bit troublesome now."

The two young men of the Tyrell family changed their colors when they heard the words, and they also picked up the lens to observe. Seeing that the situation was as Dickon Tully said, goosebumps immediately arose.

"Why... it seems to be a formation to prevent our existence?" Loras Tyrell couldn't hide the commotion in his tone, and he finally realized that there was a reason why the night watchman on the opposite side was invincible, " If he just stayed where he was and continued to bombard, we wouldn't be able to charge into such a heavy infantry phalanx that was waiting in full force!"

Garlan Tyrell frowned for a moment, unable to refute this judgment, he could only comfort him: "Don't panic, if he sticks to his position, we can't do anything to him, but he also can't approach High Court, and Now that the grain road has been cut off by our army, time is on the side of the river bend!"

"Master Rowan may not last long under such artillery fire. I suggest ordering the entire army to prepare for battle." Dickon Tarly said, always remembering the few things his father Randall Tarly asked him to pay attention to. The main point, "Iger may not underestimate the enemy and be lured into the encirclement, but no matter whether the Queen's Army is chasing or marching slowly westward in formation, there will inevitably be flaws in the movement.

Garland nodded: "The enemy's formation is too narrow, and [-] cavalry cannot be deployed at one time. Forcibly entering them is easy to collide with each other. We will divide the troops into three groups, charge in turn, and maintain pressure. Winning is just a matter of time." Sooner or later."

"Hey...Lord Rowan's striker is loose!" Loras exclaimed and reminded the other two.

They turned their eyes back to the battlefield, and as expected, under the gaze of the three of them, the infantry striker of the Hewan Army, which was shaped like a long snake, started from the center and broke into fragments as if torn apart towards the two sides. Section by section, they moved and shifted nearby, hiding behind the nearest gentle slope or mound, leaving only the flag bearer on the top of the slope... What was originally a long solid line turned into an intermittent dotted line.Any commander in this era can judge with his big toe that as long as he sends troops to attack at this moment, he can easily tear apart the enemy's formation and win a big victory!

"This is to show the enemy weakness!" Although the timing was earlier than agreed, and the form was not quite right, Garlan Tyrell still understood Earl Rowan's thoughts in an instant, and waved heavily, "You guys The two return to the team, as long as the night watchman sends troops out, attack immediately!"

"As ordered!"

On the frontal battlefield, as the Hewan Army's forward line disintegrated and deformed, the hearts of all spectators rose to their throats.However, under the watchful eyes of countless pairs of nervous observers, the Queen's Western Expeditionary Army who was facing the former did not show any signs of attack. Instead, the Hewan Vanguard Army actively changed formations to lure the enemy. It collapsed by itself.

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Chapter 676 Rolling Formation

Unrehearsed specific orders such as "change formation to avoid artillery" are different from fixed mobilization commands, and are not within the signal system of semaphore or musical instrument orders-needless to say, they can only be conveyed by manpower.Thus, another wave of workload peaks for the orderlies began, and they ran all morning... without even having time to change a batch of horses.

The morale of the forwards of the River Bend, which had suffered several rounds of shelling, had been severely hit, barely staying above the collapse line, and the new orders were sent to the grassroots in accordance with the procedures, and they were immediately implemented where they arrived.Everything seemed to be in order, but something went wrong in the first step of "delivery": Matus Rowan was flustered by the repeated shelling, and he forgot to consider the message transmission and effect when he gave the order in a hurry - the part of the line that was closer to him was a step faster in receiving orders because the messengers arrived earlier, so they took the lead in gathering the detachments and moving to the nearest sloped terrain - and such a suitable terrain is of course impossible Just in the nearest place but distributed on the left, right, a little far ahead...even a distance behind.

As a result, in the eyes of the troops on the two wings farther away from the headquarters that had not yet received orders, the battlefield situation became like this: the enemy's firepower continued, but the position and formation of the central army headquarters suddenly began to become disorganized for some reason.Some troops approached themselves, some retreated in the opposite direction, and some even started to retreat!

They didn't know why, and panic suddenly appeared in their hearts.

If that's the only way, then the certain military training they have undergone may allow them to endure until the messenger arrives, but they are still alive - the fourth round of firing by the artillery of the Land-Grant Army just happened to be at this point in time, and the intensive While the shells and rumblings disrupted the front line, they also affected and interfered with the messengers, forming the effect of "interdiction of firepower".

Just like that, amidst the chaos caused by the deafening gunfire, the large ball-shaped sandbags of death bouncing on the ground, and the inexplicable formation decomposition of the Chinese army... the rout that Rowan was most worried about began in a muddle-headed manner.

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The first to escape was a group of farmers and soldiers from the villages around Bitter Bridge. Contrary to what many "experts" who analyzed the battle in later generations guessed, this group of farmers and soldiers whose hometown was "under the iron heels of the invaders" In fact, it can be regarded as the same hatred and high fighting spirit, and the commander who ordered the retreat was not a coward: he took over the main position injured by the artillery as a temporary commander. He has experienced several battles and has some battlefield experience.At that time, the order to retreat was because the adjacent army began to gather troops-to transfer to a small slope about five meters high 50 meters behind, and the artillery shells fired from the enemy's line, the rumbling sound and the drift Under the triple effect of incoming gunpowder smoke, he saw no meaningful flag orders or messengers on the messy battlefield, so he judged quite "wisely and decisively": the headquarters should order to move the front line back.

He didn't want the fellow villagers who left the village with him to continue to be beaten in vain within the enemy's fire range, so he quite boldly gave the order to retreat.

A similar situation happened simultaneously in two or three places on the several-kilometer-long front. The first troops to follow back did not know that the troops "retreating" in their eyes were not actually fleeing but transitioning. Seeing them retreating, the troops on the two wings also began to run away without knowing why... The messengers chased desperately and delivered the correct instructions to the previous group of troops in time, but it was too late to prevent the further troops from fleeing anyway. , and this weird retreat in turn affected the central troops who had received the correct order: they faithfully followed the order and moved to a suitable position to stop and stabilize their positions, but when they looked up, they saw the troops on both wings scrambling for their lives as if they were running for their lives Stepping back, I became a lordotic protrusion in a daze!

Is it because of some new changes on the battlefield, or the headquarters has issued an order to retreat, or is there a breakdown in the will of some troops?

One wrong step, one wrong step, confusion and panic are contagious and superimposed.In the beginning, no one wanted to run away at all, but soon, the situation deteriorated to the point where they had to run if they didn't want to... At this point, even if Matus Rowan was the reincarnated soul of Sun Wu, he was powerless to stop the entire road. The battle lines collapsed.There is only one option left for him: to run faster than the troops under his command, and try to gather the defeated soldiers at the end while avoiding becoming the ghost of the enemy's chasing soldiers.

Although the order given by his superiors was to pretend to be defeated to lure the enemy, but he ran away after only a few shots, and lured a ghost?

In between jumps, Earl Rowan, full of annoyance and unwillingness, got on his horse under the persuasion of his staff, and retreated with a whip.

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A mile to the east, Egger, who was in the center of the Queen's Army echelon, relied on the aerial reconnaissance reports of the skinchangers to have a clear grasp of the breakdown of Rowan's vanguard, but he didn't have any intention of ordering a pursuit.

Not only could he "see" that the enemy's defeat was not a fake, but he also had a panoramic view of the main force of the Riverbend Cavalry in the south who were secretly poking at the edge of his sight.Through the clumsy but hard-working narration of the bird skinchanger, he learned that the cavalry force had been roughly divided into three parts and was ready to launch a general attack at any time—in the first round of confrontation with the forward infantry of the River Bend, he did indeed Accidentally achieved a bigger and faster victory than expected, but such a victory is not decisive, and then... is the time for the main course.

It is safe to stay motionless in a defensive formation, but it will never reach the city of Highgarden; but at this moment, as long as he dares to mobilize any infantry phalanx or any cavalry to pursue Rowan's forward, the troops he sends out will be defeated. Dumplings never come back; even if they keep their minds steady and don't underestimate the enemy, and continue to hold together and push, they will soon usher in the most ferocious infantry-cavalry joint attack in the history of Westeros...

And to be honest, Iger is really not very confident that he can still win easily in such an intense battle.

At this time, it is time for him to show his real skills.

Taking a deep breath, Iger gave the order calmly and succinctly: "The artillery stops firing, the Command and War Department pays attention to coordination and communication, and the whole army starts rolling!"

With the sound of horns and golden drums, it seemed that the entire Mande River was shrouded in the sound of summons and orders from the command system of the Queen's Western Expeditionary Army.Garlan Tyrell, who saw the enemy's movement from a distance, was startled, and almost waved his hand to order to prepare for the attack-the backwater formation with a certain balance in depth and width on the opposite side can stop at any time and organize defense on the spot. False, but no matter how fast the physical state of movement-defense changes, the haste and sense of urgency to meet the emergency state cannot be quickly eliminated, and this has led to: even if it is specially designed to deal with attacks on the march Its formation and its defensive and combat capabilities when it is really attacked are by no means comparable to those who stand still and wait for work.

As long as a round of three waves of charge breaks up the opposing half of the formation, and the main force of the infantry takes advantage of the situation to cover up and kill them, the anvil will take shape immediately!

With good calculations, the Western Expeditionary Army in the field of vision began to perform unimaginable operations: in front of Garlan Tyrell's gaze, there was a little commotion inside the trapezoidal formation formed by the Queen's Army, and the overall Without any movement, the sloped side of the trapezoid facing east suddenly collapsed into the interior without warning!

The situation that is not clear from the ground can be seen at a glance from the air: among the nine infantry phalanxes that form a trapezoid, the three that form the east slope - the No. [-] phalanx closest to the bottom of the river bank In the gap with the river bank, it shrinks into the interior of the trapezoid, travels along the river for the entire length of the bottom, and then returns from the west to the west end of the first row of square array; Going westward in the gap, the two phalanxes passing by this column also reached the west end; finally, the No. [-] phalanx passed the cavalry unit from the gap between the second and third columns, and passed another phalanx in the third column , and complete the orientation exchange with it.

Observing the entire transformation process from the perspective of God: the east hypotenuse of the phalanx will briefly retract into the interior of the formation, and soon emerge from the other side, seamlessly transforming into the west hypotenuse of the trapezoid... in this whole During the process, two-thirds of the six phalanxes of the nine infantry phalanxes will stand in place and maintain a complete defensive state, covering the three infantry phalanxes and the central army headquarters that are undergoing formation changes, allowing the river The main force of the cavalry of the Wan people who were ready to move could not find any chance to take advantage of the gap.

If it is the east hypotenuse → west hypotenuse, east hypotenuse → west hypotenuse, etc., the entire trapezoidal phalanx will march at one-third of the normal overall marching speed, slowly, like a tank crawler. However, it unstoppably rolled towards Gaoting.

This is the fundamental reason why this large formation with its back against the Mande River is called a "rolling formation" instead of a "trapezoidal defensive formation"!

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Chapter 677

Garlan Tyrell held up the lens to observe in a daze, watching the queen's army expand and contract like a spring, alternately making strange changes.It wasn't until after one round that the entire army miraculously completed a roll, shifted an entire "position" westward, and advanced a mile toward Highgarden, that he came back to his senses with a chill on his back as if waking up from a dream Come, realize that what you are witnessing is an invulnerable new method of propulsion: artillery disperses frontal infantry, alternate rolls leave no room for cavalry, slow but determined advances towards strategic objectives!

With the nature of the night watchman, if he finds this trick is effective, he will probably use this method to slowly approach the family he was born in and grew up in - High Court. The flaws and flaws he wanted to wait for may never appear!

Intuitively, he didn't find the fighter plane.But at this moment, the command of nearly [-] cavalry is truly in his hands. If the number of four-legged "comrades" is also counted, the number of troops (human + horse) in Garland's hands at this moment is more powerful than that of the Queen's army on the other side and even his own side. The total amount of the infantry's main force is even greater, and such an astonishing hand like a king bomb is enough to make anyone unable to bear the urge to "don't worry about it and try it first"...

After clenching his fists for a long time, Garland slowly used his reason to control the blood flooding his brain.

His father recommended him to be the head of the cavalry, not because he had "brave" in his nickname or how superb his riding skills and commanding ability were, but because he would never make decisions or make decisions without thinking. The current situation is very clear: without cooperation, the chances of winning the elite infantry with cavalry charging into the formation are extremely low.The top priority right now is not to fight, but to immediately report what he saw and heard to his father and King Aegon, who commanded the main force of the infantry, and let the veterans in the headquarters want to deal with Iger's idea!

He loosened his grip on the reins, turned his head and shouted: "Order!"

Garland finally chose to send troops to report to the headquarters, and at the same time led the cavalry to continue to contain them from a distance.This decision is wise and correct: if he attacks by force, he will face a defensive phalanx with long spears, loaded shotguns, and all anti-cavalry preparations; Stop rolling and march in the usual mode, approaching Gaoting at a speed three or four times faster than the current situation, and bombard the main force of the infantry with artillery again, and continue to let the cavalry have no gaps.

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When the first round of rolling was carried out cautiously and slowly, Iger’s nerves were still quite tense: this was the first attempt of the "Ai-style rolling advance" tactics from theory and training to practice. There will be various practical problems that will not appear when talking about military affairs on paper.It can be said that the moment when the trapezoidal formation shrinks into a triangular formation for the first time is the most vulnerable moment of the entire Western Expeditionary Army today. If the opponent's cavalry leader is decisive enough to kill and attack, choose to start the first formation change in the first round The instant the cavalry charged...

Even without the pressure from the Hewan infantry, the battle would still be somewhat dangerous.

But the opponent chose to seek stability.

And this seeking stability, he jumped into Iger's trap and became a frog in his warm water pot.

The reason is very simple. Although the scene of Yishen vs. Jian is very boring and tormented, but now he is approaching the strategic goal, while the opponent is doing the opposite.

The purpose of war is victory, and victory needs to be achieved several times to achieve strategic goals... Facing a behemoth with extremely long blood bars like Hewan, "destroying its army" is the most thankless way to win.Facing a powerful enemy that was difficult to swallow, Iger chose the route of cutting flesh with a blunt knife: first hit the morale of the enemy, and then fight the last battle after weakening the enemy to a certain extent.

The casualties of only a few hundred people may be whitewashed and concealed through means, but the continuous retreat of the front line is real and everyone can feel it!

It is conceivable that when the [-] troops gathered together with great difficulty managed to muster up their morale and fighting spirit through difficult mobilization, they rushed to the battlefield, only to find that the enemy, far smaller than their own, was still pressing on every step of the way. But I can only retreat steadily under the order-no matter how small or slow the retreat is, it will be a huge blow to morale.

The first round of four changes took more than an hour. After this round of rolling was successfully completed, and some problems that were exposed were all solved, Iger completely relaxed.

In just over an hour, the Western Expeditionary Army under his command completed a qualitative small overflight: now, they are the first army in the known world that "successfully completed the Ai-style rolling propulsion in an actual combat environment"—that is, Like swimming, cycling, or even going for a foot massage, many things are so familiar: the first time you try it with fear, you can do it again with confidence and calmness!

Next, all they had to do was to repeat and repeat, to operate under the eyes of the enemy, to sharpen their bottom line by cutting sausages, and to approach the High Court they swore to defend.

Going up directly at the beginning of the game has a good chance of winning, but the people in Hewan dare not;

In this way, the slow retreat of the camp step by step may cause the Western Expeditionary Army to run out of ammunition and food, but time and morale do not support this tactic.

So, there is only one possibility left.

Iger is betting on this possibility.

Every second that time passes, the mental pressure on the enemy will increase; in the end, the opponent will not be able to hold back and force the battle before the Western Expeditionary Army runs out of ammunition and food, and will never fight and defeat itself. Pick the right fighter, but can't make full use of the number advantage!

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Because the coordination between the various formations is smoother, the time-consuming of the second round of rolling has been shortened by nearly [-]%.Halfway through the completion, the sun was already close to the top of the head, and Iger also stood on the position where the forwards of the River Bend Infantry confronted him in the morning.

The defeat of the Hewan people seemed to be in a hurry, but at least they were not so embarrassed that they left the wounded on the battlefield to die... Among the broken shields, miscellaneous weapons, corpses and blood all over the ground, a lot of family flags used to bluff were also scattered. On wet fields.This is actually a very unusual phenomenon: unless it is a devastating defeat, the general standard bearer has enough quality to ensure that the flag will not be lost in the defeat, but this time the River Bend forward pretended to be defeated to lure the enemy in order to create a main force. , a lot of untrained ordinary peasants and soldiers came to wave the flag temporarily - these people did not have the professionalism of a flag bearer. When they saw the troops retreating, they immediately threw away their things and ran faster than anyone else.

The trophies include armor, weapons and even a small amount of gold and silver (the private property of the fallen soldiers), but unfortunately there is no food that the Western Expeditionary Army is most in need of at the moment. Looking at the various pieces of cloth that are still left on the battlefield after sorting out, Iger was about to sigh , but suddenly a flash of inspiration.

"Order all the ministries to gather up all the flags dropped by the enemy with cloth and poles, clean them up, roll them up and carry them with the army, in case they are needed in case of emergencies!"

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Chapter 678 Intermission

The sun was fading to the west, and another spring day in the Reach Plain was coming to an end.

Nearly twenty miles to the west of the morning's unilateral bombardment, the large Reach Corps encamped.[-] infantry and countless auxiliary personnel formed a huge super camp that stretched to the end of the field of vision. In the center of this barracks, which was comparable in size to a city, in the tallest and most gorgeous tent, the core members of the Joint Command The people are gathering together, in a heavy and depressing atmosphere, they are intensely exchanging information and discussing new countermeasures.

This is a serious military meeting, but many people present are in a kind of...a little confused and numb state of trance.

They shouldn't be here.

When they got up in the morning, the army was still in the old camp some distance to the east, and they left the camp with high morale and confidence, determined to fight a hearty bloody battle with the menacing enemy and win a battle that would be enough to carry the entire army. Great victory in history.

But at night, they set up a new camp in the west—closer to Highgarden than in the morning, and the old camp had been occupied by the queen's army.

The most puzzling thing is: they didn't suffer a big defeat, and most of them didn't even see the shadow of the queen's army.

The forward's cannon fodder bait retreated in less than half an hour after entering the battlefield, and the enemy has not yet been hooked... This is nothing. Regarding the matter of luring the enemy, the headquarters has always embraced "it's best if it can't be done, it's okay if it doesn't work." It’s okay” mentality.The enemy is not fooled, and then adjust your mentality and set up a good posture to fight normally.However, the retreating forward not only carried back a large number of lightly and seriously wounded, but also brought back bad news: the number of firearms of the Queen's Army far exceeded expectations, and the killing mode like plowing the ground was especially restrained by the dense infantry formation!

Earl Rowan's task was to pretend to be defeated to lure the enemy. There was no reason to exaggerate the enemy's strength to cover up his defeat, and the words of a large number of wounded and defeated soldiers with missing arms and legs confirmed his intelligence.Now... even the headquarters is caught in a dispute of "should we fight it out with firepower or take a long-term plan". Influenced by the influence, he failed to stand up decisively and give an order. After a delay, the troops could only retreat again and again in front of the trapezoidal formation of the Western Expeditionary Army that was approaching. position.

The people in Hewan are at a loss. They have never encountered a similar situation that does not conform to their intuition and military common sense: they have obviously laid a net to surround the enemy, and swallowed the whole dumpling, but they can't digest it anyway. Lose!Even, it was unbelievable: the enemy was still overwhelmed in his stomach, resisting threats and pressure from all directions, and marched several miles towards Gaoting within a day while being surrounded by an army of [-]!

Although the Western Expeditionary Army had actually penetrated hundreds of miles into the river bend before this, the feeling of actively letting the enemy in... and trying to stop it but being unable to stop it is completely different!

In a word, the current situation and feelings faced by the people of the River Bend are as follows: they wanted to let the enemy in and close the door to beat the dog, but found that the one who got in was a tiger.While everyone was terrified, they had such an ominous premonition in their hearts: that damned night watchman seemed to be descended from heaven to restrain them.

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"All the routs have been gathered, and they have been enclosed in a separate battalion to avoid causing too much damage to the morale of the entire army." Lando Tarly broke the silence first, "I insisted on launching a strong attack according to the original plan in the morning, Lord Mace But insist on playing it safe. Heh, there is a safe way to play it safe-we use cavalry on the flanks to curb the enemy's advancing speed just like today, and retreat while fighting. It is a price that can be given up. As long as the grain transportation route of Rose Avenue is blocked, 3 people on the opposite side will go deep into the hinterland of the river bend, and scorched earth tactics can starve them to death!"

"Take Gao Ting as an abandoned child?"

Mace Tyrell was bristling with rage.After so many eastern vassals abandoned their castles and responded to the call to retreat, he certainly could not say that his castle was the only exception and must not be abandoned.After taking a few breaths, he recalled the appropriate words: "But that is the capital of the River Bend! Didn't we discuss this issue a long time ago, if Highgarden also falls, the people of the River Bend will not be able to maintain the morale to fight again Moreover, once the timing of spring planting is missed, we will starve these 3 people to death, how many farmers will be buried along the river bend?"

"Morale, morale! The morale of our army is at its highest in the morning, why don't we go to war?" Ran Dao threw the question back, and he was suffocating a fire in his heart, and he couldn't care less about contradicting Feng Jun.My own fiefdom is being exposed to the threat of the Dragon Queen's South Route Army and the Dornish people, and I ran all the way to fight for the so-called whole river bend, but the fief and the king didn't fight well, what the hell? "Today's decisive battle, even if you can't win, at least it can severely damage the enemy's spirit and curb their marching rhythm to High Court - do you know that organizing a decisive battle and letting everyone write their suicide notes but retreat temporarily will be vented How much morale? Anyway, my point of view is that since there is no fight today, we should not fight at all, and take advantage of the fact that the army is intact and still has bargaining chips, let’s give in and seek peace!"

"Lord Landau, calm down!"

Jon Connington quickly took Randall's angry words and prevented the meeting from turning into a quarrel.What a joke, if Hewan really seeks peace with the Dragon Queen, he and his assisted King Aegon are definitely one of the terms of the contract, and even the Golden Group may be sold as a whole—even if Randyll did not really The meaning of summation, the topic must not develop in this direction.

But it's funny to say that he was worried that today's war would not go well, which would cause dissatisfaction and conflicts among the local forces represented by the king and queen. Who would have thought that the people of Hewan would quarrel first among themselves. It is a fact that the duke family has the worst authority over vassals.

"I have to admit that your idea is reasonable. The morale of our army is indeed this morning, and that kind of morale is difficult to replicate in the foreseeable future-unless we win a battle. To win, we must boost Morale, and to boost morale, you have to win an outpost first, but the opponent doesn't give a chance at all... This is an endless loop." Clinton paused, "But from another perspective, the so-called winning— —Does it have to rely on taking the initiative to attack and annihilate the enemy army?"

Under the gaze of more than a dozen pairs of eyes present, King Aegon's hand happily announced the answer: "It is impossible to abandon Highgarden. If we do that, the camp will be divided and disintegrated first. This plan will not be discussed; but today we are not under fire. The loss of morale caused by a forced engagement is a foregone conclusion, and it is useless to think about it. Thinking about the good, we have at least used a temptation to obtain useful actual combat information—if we can use the points we lost Opportunities, in exchange for more targeted tactical arrangements, the battle still has to be fought.”

"Next, please listen carefully—I used the afternoon to discuss some personal thoughts with Captain Strickland and Lord Rowan!"

"Cough." Harry Strickland nodded, cleared his throat with a cough, and began to speak, "Beforehand, this set of countermeasures was mainly discussed and designed by Prime Minister Clinton and Sir Matus Rowan. Military staff were provided in the process."

These are not polite words. In fact, the idea of ​​the whole set of countermeasures mainly comes from Sir Rowan. It's just that the cannon fodder striker he commanded this morning was completely defeated. As a defeated general, it's not suitable to speak in public.The head of the golden troupe let out a sigh of relief and began to narrate.

"When I first learned that the enemy had mastered efficient anti-infantry methods and adopted an unprecedented alternate marching formation, I, like everyone else, felt very at a loss." Harry Strickland opened with a sentence of empathy "After exchanging opinions with Prime Minister Clinton and thinking calmly, we analyzed the source of this confusion - that is, the enemy's methods perfectly restrained our original anvil hammer tactics, using anti-infantry artillery Let the infantry's 'anvil' be completely unable to form, thus causing the cavalry's hammer to be useless. Therefore, the next question we discuss becomes simple-how to break the enemy's 'counter-anvil hammer' tactics '?"

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Chapter 679 Abandon fantasy!

Repeated setbacks caused the morale of all soldiers to drop to the extreme. Commander Strickland did not dare to challenge the temper and patience of the people present, and continued to narrate without pausing.

"The enemy's way of cracking our army's anvil and hammer tactics is to 'break the anvil of the infantry', so our countermeasures are naturally divided into two routes: [-]. Strengthen the anvil of the infantry so that it will not be afraid Bombardment; Second, abandon the anvil-hammer tactic and find another way..."

"The enemy only has two or three days to go to Highgarden. At this time, we can use other tactics to re-arrange. How can we have time?" Lando let out a cold snort without even thinking about it, and interrupted Strickland's speech with undisguised objection. , "What's more, cavalry can deal with firearms. This is a consensus we have reached long ago. I'm curious as to what method the leader can find out if he finds another way."

"That's right. After discussing with Lord Clinton, I also agree with Lord Randyll's point of view: to completely throw away the previous plan is to give up our greatest advantage in cavalry, and there is no time." Strickland sighed for a long time and nodded. Recognized, "So, the final result of our discussion is: a compromise. On the premise of focusing on strengthening the anvil of infantry, make slight targeted adjustments in details, and strive to make good use of the 'morale disadvantage' In exchange for the 'backhand advantage', reverse the trend!"

Disadvantage of morale for the advantage of the second hand?

It requires extraordinary emotional intelligence and skills to be able to say so clearly that there is no power to fight back after being deflated again and again, and the requirement for thick skin is beyond the sky.But before everyone had time to sneer, the head of the golden regiment raised his volume after a slight pause.

"I know someone must have scolded me for being shameless in my heart, but I still have to explain the last sentence I said." Strickland puffed up his chest, and the golden armor, which had already dimmed in color, became transformed again under the light of the oil lamp. Yi Yi flashed, "It's true that our army has suffered repeated setbacks, but the opponent's cards have almost been exhausted... and we still retain our vitality, we can gather here for combat meetings, and we can calmly think about how to deal with the enemy." Fang's various powerful weapons and unique tricks—this is the advantage of the second hand in exchange for morale!"

"Admittedly, I can't say with certainty: This exchange must be worthwhile. But I can be sure: If we continue to argue about things like 'whether you can win when you go up in the morning when the morale is high', 'whether you can continue now that the morale is low? The meaning of fighting'... such topics, then, the middle and low-level noble knights outside the tent may still have a chance to surrender, but the heads of me and everyone who are qualified to enter this tent for discussion will definitely be killed in the near future. Inserted by the moat of Highgarden!"

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The words of the head of the golden group seemed to be out of order, but in fact they clearly contained two parts: positive motivation and negative vigilance. atmosphere——people with a clear mind began to realize that "morale advantage for second-hand advantage" sounds absurd, but there is some truth to it, and even those who can't think of it or don't recognize this layer have to admit that, apart from persisting in resistance, they There is no way out.

Of course, such a remark is not something that a mercenary leader can say, but it is the handwriting of "Hand of the King" Jon Connington who realized that he was too cautious in the morning and made a cowardly mistake, but he must never admit it in public .As for Strickland, who has been used as a mouthpiece, his inner feelings at the moment are a bit ridiculous.

He is a mercenary, who uses people's money to eliminate disasters for others, how did he get in the core command circle of the coalition forces in a daze?After suffering two consecutive defeats, not only did he not run away, but he also took the initiative to speak at the post-war summary meeting, motivating a group of hereditary lords to cheer up and continue fighting!

Whether it is for the profession of mercenary or for his personal character, this is an extremely unreasonable thing.