I will be crowned king

Because of the enemy?

Looking at Anson Bach, who was confident, and Louis Bernard, who seemed to have no objections to this, more than half of the people present looked confused.

Of course, it’s not that everyone doesn’t understand what he means. After all, most of the representatives in the parliament may not understand military affairs, but as colonists, they at least have experience in pioneering and reclamation. They are not unfamiliar with this; when they first arrived in an unfamiliar area, their Supplies are never enough. As long as there is an opportunity, of course, we must obtain supplies from the enemy as much as possible.

But the problem lies in the behavior of the away game versus the home game. In terms of the host-guest relationship, the New World Army is the locals, and the Jihadi Army is the foreign invader. It is not the other party but our own side that has to lose food to the enemy. Isn't it too...

The word "whimsical" came to the minds of many parliamentary representatives, but the two powerful people present did not dare to say it.

"I have a question."

Just when Anson seemed to be about to continue speaking, Reinhard Roland, who was sitting near the end of the long table, suddenly raised his right hand: "I have no doubts about your strategic deployment. Yes, we should be as late as possible." Enemy attack avoids worst-case scenario.”

"But is the idea of ​​'obtaining supplies from the enemy's hands' too fanciful?" Reinhard frowned slightly: "Even if we don't consider whether doing so will increase the possibility of the army exposing its targets, once the enemy thinks that transporting supplies on the road is too risky, If it is high, it will definitely increase the weight of shipping.”

"Right now, we don't have any fleet that can compete with the enemy. It can even be said that there is no fleet at all. Losing the opportunity to fight the enemy on land means losing the last advantage we can compete with, isn't it?"

The president of New World Company stared at Anson with stern eyes, as if he was not affected by the atmosphere at all, and directly asked the question that everyone wanted to ask.

In the dead silence, Anson did not answer the question immediately and silently observed the expressions of others.

The representatives of the Supreme Council were worried and obviously had the same idea; the Storm Legion seemed very peaceful, which could also be said to be numb; the Sail City defenders or the former Imperial rebel knights had different expressions, some were solemn and some were disdainful. But at least they all understood the purpose of doing so; the militia groups in various places were a little excited, and they were quite happy that they didn't have to confront the enemy head-on.

In short, after experiencing the Battle of Gray Pigeon Castle and the Battle of Black Reef Harbor, the Free Confederacy has gone from being indifferent to the enemy to becoming as fearful of the enemy as a tiger.

The enemy's number, combat power, and support are far beyond the limits they could imagine. They no longer even object to their retreat plan - there were many who protested before - and when they hear that the enemy will only If you attack at sea, you will be very happy without having to face the pressure of a large army on land, because the warships can only attack the port and not sail on dry land.

Faced with this situation, if there is no way to win a victory as soon as possible, even if it is only a small-scale victory with little effect but some significance, I am afraid that in the end I will have to be an otaku in Winter Torch City.

"You asked a very crucial question, and even made a good supplement to what I just said, Your Excellency Reinhard." The corner of Anson's mouth raised slightly:

"Forcing the enemy to increase the weight of sea transportation through harassment is also one of the goals of the entire plan."

"oh?"

Reinhard opened his eyes slightly and fulfilled his responsibility as a trustee perfectly: "I would like to hear the details."

"The New World is full of wilderness and the population is concentrated. Apart from scattered farms and settlements, the countryside has no value for occupation. This is obviously different from the Old World."

Anson glanced at the chief of staff beside him: "Once the enemy realizes that the tactics used in the past are out of proportion to the rewards, they will inevitably adopt a more conservative strategy - and this is exactly what we hope for."

"Ahem... To put it simply, in the Old Continent, just controlling the central town or castle in a region does not mean complete control of the region. Part of the troops must also be allocated to sweep the surrounding areas in order to obtain all of this land. Resources and wealth." Karl, who was urged, coughed twice and explained to everyone:

"But the New World is exactly the opposite. At least half of the population is concentrated in the largest towns and outskirts of the colony. The vast territory has little occupation significance except for a few mines and farms with rich output."

"If the Jihadi Army is determined to completely control these areas, then they must mobilize a large number of troops to disperse among a large number of colonial settlements with only a few hundred or dozens of people; at least half of the 150,000 troops must be consumed in From this, there is very little harvest, and it may not be able to afford the cost of investing these troops."

"But if they don't do this, then what the Crusaders have in the new world are just 'points' represented by large towns and 'faces' represented by vast wilderness. In a sense, they have not really fallen, just We gave up control and did not fall into the hands of the other party.”

In order to explain more intuitively, Karl stood up, picked up his fork, nodded at the three fallen towns, and drew circles in the sky on several colonies:

"If we can force the enemy to give up control of the wilderness and scattered settlements through harassment and use more efficient sea transportation, then we can limit the enemy's range of activities to the surrounding areas of Black Reef Port, from Black Reef Port to Red Hand Bay Most of the territory in this area is still under our actual control."

"Wonderful plan, and thank you Lord Carl Bain for your explanation, but unfortunately I still haven't answered my questions." Reinhard continued:

"Even if the goal is achieved, is the idea of ​​using food to the enemy still too exaggerated? It is very easy to expose our military targets and cause enemy encirclement and suppression. In the later stage, the enemy will transfer all transportation to the sea. How should we use food to the enemy—— You can’t attack the town directly, right?”

"You really hit the mark, His Excellency Reinhard Roland."

Carl Bain smiled: "We just want to attack the occupied towns and snatch the supplies back from the enemy."

Um? !

Not to mention the representatives who did not understand military affairs, even the leaders of many militia groups were stunned.

"To explain this problem, please allow me to tell you a very important fact - according to the information that our scouts and reconnaissance sentries have obtained from the prisoners, almost every legion of the Jihadi Army fighting across the sea has been infected with the disease on a large scale. , malnutrition.”

"It is for this reason that although they are large in size, they need a long period of rest to exert their full strength. A lot of work is either given to the auxiliary troops or to oppress the people who have not withdrawn from the colonies; in other words, Even the control over towns is by no means tight."

He looked around the audience and glanced at everyone: "And thanks to your heroic efforts, we not only captured a large amount of supplies from the Jihad Army, but also captured thousands of prisoners."

"Using them and the intelligence they possess, we can completely infiltrate the poorly defended Black Reef Port, attack and even smuggle the supplies they plundered and shipped from the mainland to supplement the lack of military supplies of the New World Legion."

"Even if the enemy switches to shipping, they must mobilize supplies nearby. The docks of Black Reef Port are much inferior to those of Sailing City. A large amount of supplies must first arrive at Sailing City, and then be forwarded to Black Reef Port by Sailing City, and finally distributed to the Holy War. Each legion of the army has become more complicated; the procedures have increased, the sources of soldiers are complicated, and control is seriously insufficient... It is no exaggeration to say that there are opportunities everywhere."

"This... is the elastic defense plan jointly formulated and planned by Commander-in-Chief Anson Bach and the staff department to defeat the enemy with food!" Carl Bain said with a firm expression:

"Excuse me, do you have any questions?!"

No one spoke, and Reinhard, who "suddenly realized", was very realistically stunned in place. After a long time, he bowed to Anson and then sat down.

"Since everyone has no objections, this plan will serve as the next step for the New World Army."

Louis, who had always been silent, spoke, holding on to the chair and slowly stood up; everyone present stood up in a hurry, half a beat later, and the room was filled with the harsh notes of the collision and friction of messy chairs.

"Next, we will carefully discuss the details of all aspects of the plan, the troops to be mobilized, logistics, and all aspects of manpower and material resources in the staff department." Louis, who looked calm, looked into everyone's eyes:

"The final conclusion and the tasks you need to undertake will be conveyed to you early tomorrow morning. Do you understand?"

"clear--!!!!"

……………………

At the end of the meeting, just as everyone was leaving one after another, Louis, who was silent for the whole audience, stopped Anson, who was the last one to get up.

"Don't leave yet." The young knight who was sitting still on the chair said without raising his head:

"Tell me the true purpose of your plan."

The stunned Anson stopped, frowned, and turned to look at Louis with a puzzled expression:

"...The real purpose?"

"It's the things you want to cover up, or are unwilling to tell others." Louis glanced at him, with a hint of dissatisfaction in his blue eyes:

"Of course, if you want to explain it to the Sail City Legion in person, just pretend I didn't say anything."

"They all found out?!"

Anson was a little surprised. It wouldn't be surprising if one or two knights with a higher level could see through it. They were all... How did he defeat Bernard Molwes?

"Of course not... I told them before the meeting that no matter what plan you propose, you are not allowed to object explicitly." The young knight snorted and couldn't help complaining:

"Otherwise, given Clovis's relationship with the Empire and your experience of defeating them before, how could this meeting go so smoothly?!"

So, no wonder this group of imperial knights with a serious excess of self-awareness did not interrupt the whole process and actually arranged it in advance... Anson was surprised and couldn't help but take a look at Louis. He really didn't expect that honest people also have a sophisticated side.

"Thank you so much, Marshal, for taking care of me. I am so grateful. I don't know how to repay you!"

"If you continue to act so pretentious, I will go find the Imperial Knights from Sailing City." Louis' face was obviously unhappy: "They really hope to have a debate with you, a great orator. Of - of course, all.”

"Ah, that's not necessary!"

Anson calmly and skillfully raised his hands to surrender, and with a smile, he took out an opened letter from his arms and handed it to Louis: "This... is what I have to hide."

The young knight curiously took the letter and started reading it. Before he could read the second line, his eyes widened and he was shocked: "He, they..."

"Officers within the Holy War Army hope to smuggle some supplies to us at a high price." Anson nodded slightly: "This is a spy who has just obtained the information about Fernando's Legion arriving at Black Reef Port. He successfully penetrated into the Holy War Army and obtained the information. Case."

"Roughly speaking, there is a group of 'people of insight' within the Crusaders. After the Battle of Black Reef Port, they fully realized that the war could not end before winter, and they had won a lot of honors and land in the previous and following battles, but really There was very little gold and silver, so I came up with the brilliant idea of ​​smuggling to make extra money.”

"But this kind of thing cannot be leaked, especially since most of the materials they intend to trade seem to be arms, and it cannot be exposed; a more reasonable method must be used to turn it into 'reasonable losses' caused by various accidents, such as Say..." Anson looked at Louis meaningfully.

"Ambushed by the enemy and... stolen?" Louis' face was full of disbelief, and he stuttered when he spoke:

"This, this must be something that Major General Ludwig or some officers secretly plotted. It shouldn't be..."

"It's a knight commander under Borre Levent, his deputy and relative. The descendant of the orthodox Levent family is leading this matter behind the scenes."

Anson quickly shattered the young knight's last fantasy: "It seems that in order to conquer Black Reef Port, the Levent family contributed a lot, and one of their talented wind knights died in your hands... Such a huge loss, When it comes to rewards for merit, Beaure Levent can’t get many real rewards.”

"As for the territory... With the high command of the church here, and the Levent family and the church having a sworn relationship, no one would dare to divide the territory privately without the high command speaking up. Even if it were to be divided, except for the towns in Black Reef Port, which are more valuable, the rest are in The Levent family, who are from the south of the empire, probably don’t think particularly highly of him.”

"In this case, of course they can only find flexible employment in other ways and get rich through hard work."

Louis was completely speechless.

A seemingly vigorous holy war, full of tragedy, glory, betrayal, loyalty, forged with consciousness and faith, and of unprecedented scale...

In the end, it turned out to be nothing more than a fig leaf for a group of people to reap benefits and make extra money?

Being urged to study by readers, Kong Kong was really moved and at a loss... Not much else to say, if you will work hard, you will definitely work hard!