I will be crowned king

In order to ensure that the New World Army, which had limited troops and even more limited combat effectiveness, would not collapse at the first touch, after carefully inspecting the "Red Hand Bay Defense Line" presided over by Anson and spending several months to build, Louis, who had begun to feel desperate, suddenly became Full of confidence.

There is no other reason, it's just that what I saw is a real iron wall.

Regardless of the structure of a qualified defense line, what matters is nothing more than the number of troops garrisoned, logistical reserves, and what materials you use to build it - a luxurious fortress with granite base, cement pouring, and steel reinforcement is definitely better than a luxurious fortress with only a few paved floors. A plank trench is much stronger.

There are no cement factories in the New World, and the steel production is so small that it even produces tools and weapons. It is impossible to build a defense line covering a colony.

But the New World also has advantages that the Old World does not have - cheap wood and stone produced by mining.

These newly felled trees and the slag and gravel from the mine had no value at all, so Anson sent New World Company to come forward, hire workers to transport the gravel and slag around Red Hand Bay and Changhu Town, and buy them directly from the lumberyard owners. The logs were transported to the defense line and used as building materials for the defense line positions.

After solving the material problem, the next step is to select a site; except for a few smoothed roads in the New World from June to August, the thawed land has basically turned into mud, undeveloped grassland, swamps, puddles and jungles; small-scale Fortunately, it is almost impossible for the army to pass through these places.

Therefore, the control of the road is the top priority of the entire defense line. Anson built the northern defense line here, a position sufficient for the defense of at least ten thousand troops, and built small artillery forts and bunkers on three surrounding highlands. .

To be honest, as a skirmisher, he did not have much skills in building large-scale fortifications and legion-level positions. On the contrary, Ludwig was more proficient; but he had an experienced adjutant and a technical advisor who was proficient in mathematics.

The former has seen the structure of large fortresses and has personally built defensive positions at the regiment and division level; the latter knows nothing about military affairs, but can point out unreasonable errors in the defense line design drawings.

Especially after on-the-spot investigation of the good terrain of Red Hand Bay, and obtaining construction materials, logistics supply lines, and labor force numbers from the New World Company, William Gottfried designed a transportation and engineering plan specifically for the New World Army. .

After his optimization and design, the transportation speed and daily working hours have not increased, but the arrival location of the materials is in time, and the personnel's work scope and speed are seamlessly connected. The optimization has increased the efficiency by 20%, and can be as smooth as an assembly line. Intermittent construction work.

Similar to the previous "Train Factory Equation", this time he called his plan the "Legion Camp Equation" - how to plan resource transportation routes, reduce unnecessary losses and wasted time, and achieve the fastest speed Design and build army camps to suit your needs.

The two of them joined forces, and thus they had what Louis saw before his eyes, a position with a perfect and reasonable structure and dense defense lines, which made him confident after seeing it.

In addition, there are a total of twenty-five defensive strongholds around the entire Red Hand Bay colony, which serve as reconnaissance posts and delay the enemy's attack speed; these strongholds, as well as the road network behind them, the northern position, and Red Hand Bay The town itself, together formed the entire line of defence.

Since the enemy wants to attack from land, the defensive position on the north side is the only way for its main force to pass.

If it was Anson or any officer whom Louis didn't know, and he was attacking simultaneously from both land and sea directions, he would have to beware that the other party was most likely just feigning an attack from this direction, using a small group of elites to surprise a certain sentry and break through the defense line. Create chaos on the inside of the defense line to provide the navy with an opportunity to land.

But this time the commander-in-chief of the army was Arthur Herred... Without even thinking about it, Louis concentrated all the remaining main forces of the entire New World Army on the northern defense line.

Only a small number of troops were left at each post to conduct reconnaissance, and their own headquarters were set up at the forward positions, leaving no back-up personnel at all.

He was betting that Arthur would not take a detour or make a sneak attack, but would launch an all-out attack from the front to the north position openly, using his sharpest spear to stab his strongest shield.

This is another reason why the entire New World Army will raise objections: if there is a mistake in judgment, Louis Bernard still encounters an accident at the forward position, and the fall of Red Hand Bay is nothing, most of the top management of the New World Army may be taken away in one pot. .

However, under Louis' rare tough orders, the officers and knights had to comply with his request, but still sent messengers to Beluga Port, hoping that the deputy commander of the Storm Legion would be ready for rescue at any time.

Even the elf girl who didn't take this to heart originally insisted on staying with Louis to protect him anytime and anywhere to prevent accidents.

Under the influence of a pessimistic atmosphere, only Louis himself still believed in his own judgment, put all his bets, and was ready to give it a go on the northern defense line.

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On the deck of the flagship of the Clovis Crusade Fleet, the King Power, an incredulous Colonel William Cecil handed Ludwig Franz the news just sent by the messenger:

"The land forces were not divided. They all marched along the road towards Red Hand Bay. The commander of the Army, Arthur Herred, personally led a frontal attack on the defense line that the Free Confederacy had repaired, leaving no reserves or back-ups."

"He requested that you postpone the attack on the Red Hand Bay port and prioritize ensuring the logistics of the land army; and promised that it would only take three days to break through the defense line and attack Red Hand Bay with the fleet from the north and south."

William Cecil sighed, with a surprised and somewhat resigned expression on his face:

"Congratulations, you won the bet."

"Thanks, but there's nothing to congratulate about being expected."

Ludwig took the letter from the other party calmly, with no hint of excitement in his eyes. He stared coldly at the horizon in the direction of Red Hand Bay:

"With this letter, we can reasonably postpone the attack on Red Hand Bay for at least three to five days, continue to operate Sailing City and retain control of it, and avoid being occupied by the newly arrived Philos Legion. .”

"According to the information we have now, this legion commander is likely to have bad intentions... He has a deep relationship with the Church of Order and the Knights of Judgment, but he is very secretive about it. It is most likely that the church specially arranged it to ensure that White gloves for solving problems when the rest of the legions don’t obey command.”

"If my guess is correct, then the church is very likely to repent on the matter of Sailing City, or force us Clovis people to attack and capture Ice Dragon Fjord to prove whether we are loyal to the church."

"We must try our best to avoid this situation. Even if it is unavoidable in the end, we must ensure that Sailing City is safe; this is the only interest that Clovis can protect. He would rather hand it over to the Free Confederacy after the war than let the church and the empire take it. Let’s go—this is the minimum bottom line…”

Ludwig said in a calm and deep voice, with no trace of ripples visible in his eyes under his stern expression, like a steam differential engine covered in human skin.

William Cecil stood silently beside him without saying a word, staring intently into the other person's eyes, feeling infinite emotion in his heart.

In the past, he had some disdain for the Franz family, believing that this family was just an upstart that suddenly rose to prominence thanks to Luther, the archbishop, and was fundamentally different from the local Cecil family.

But after meeting the Franz brothers and sisters with his own eyes, he had to admit that the current prosperity and arrogance of the other party were really not unreasonable; Ludwig, who was still a little emotional before setting off, was subjected to a violent attack in Sailing City. After being frustrated, he quickly becomes extremely practical, calm and rational, even scary.

As the commander of the Clovis Army, the other party controlled the powerful colonies of the empire. He colluded with the enemy in an almost aboveboard manner, wooed the commanders of the empire's holy war army, and isolated the commanders who did not cooperate with him...

To be fair, William Cecil thought he couldn't do it.

"What's wrong?"

After noticing the other party's gaze, Ludwig stopped and spoke with a curious look on his face.

"Nothing, just a little emotional." William Cecil shook his head, his eyes a little lost:

"Ludwig Franz, you are worthy of being Archbishop Luther's son."

"...?" Ludwig was stunned for a moment, not understanding what this guy meant.

But these are not important. He just frowned slightly and threw them behind his head, turning his attention again to the full siege of the Free Confederacy in front of him:

"The Fernando Corps also sent a messenger asking for help, asking us to provide supplies and reinforcements as soon as possible to ensure the attack on Beluga Port."

"Our previous excuse does not seem to have been approved by the other party. The Holy See's headquarters also rejected the proposal to feint attack Beluga Port and ordered us to maintain two fronts at the same time."

William Cecil nodded slightly: "So the plan failed, is this a bad thing?"

"On the contrary, this is a good thing!" The corners of Ludwig's mouth slightly raised:

"Maintaining two fronts at the same time...that is to say, the Holy See has given us official permission, and we don't have to worry about the life and death of the Borei Legion - even if they send 10,000 letters asking for help every day, we can ignore it!"

So the key point is here... William Cecil was slightly stunned. The expression on the commander-in-chief of the Jihad Army in front of him made him think that he was talking to Anson Bach.

Well, it's just so despicable and shameless.

"In that case, what should we do in the direction of Beluga Harbor?"

"Of course I agree. The reinforcements can be delayed any longer, and the supplies must be sent to them as soon as possible - we cannot let the Fernando Army catch us disobeying the command of the Jihad Army." Ludwig narrowed his eyes:

"But what supplies to send, how to send them, and whether to send other things apart from the supplies..."

"Humph, this is not what they said."

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"Major General Ludwig's information has arrived. The enemy will receive supplies in three days."

In the Beluga Port headquarters, Fabian looked at the officers present and said coldly: "In other words, the enemy will not, or only have a small group of troops, conduct tentative attacks on us in the past three days to understand the defense here. situation and troop deployment.”

"Once the supplies arrive, the Fernando Army on the opposite side will launch a full-scale attack - the terrain determines that the enemy can only enter the Ice Dragon Fjord to raid the port, and cannot bypass the attack on the town from the land."

"So our mission is to find ways to lure the enemy into launching a general offensive in advance, so that he can be completely delayed due to insufficient logistics, and at the same time consume the enemy's troops to the maximum extent."

"So we must convince the enemy's feint attack force that the defense of Beluga Port is empty, and there is no defense at all?"

A company commander of the Grenadier Regiment stood up and asked, with confusion written on his face: "But how is this possible? In order to defend against the attack of the Jihadist Army, we have destroyed the port of Beluga Port, and we have also destroyed the ports on both sides of the fjord. A fort has been built on the mountain - with such obvious preparations, how can we convince the other side that our defense is empty?"

"sure."

The confident Fabian took out two letters from his arms and placed them directly in front of the officers present:

"There are two letters here. One is from the eastern front. The main force of the Storm Legion is marching towards the slave port. However, I heard that the enemy's strength and movement speed have exceeded expectations. 20,000 Jihadi troops have already occupied the slave port."

"The other letter comes from Red Hand Bay. Marshal Louis has concentrated all the remaining main forces of the New World Army on the northern position. The empty defense line is at risk of being broken through. He is requesting support from us."

"Of course these two letters are all true, and I have just issued an order to the farms and strongholds around the town of Beluga Port, asking them to prepare to evacuate the people and evacuate to Winter Torch City." Fabian scanned He glanced at the people sitting there:

"What do you think the Fernando Legion on the other side would think if they got this information?"

how to think?

The officers were all stunned, and instantly understood what Fabian was thinking:

"You want them to believe that our troops are likely to evacuate soon, and that Beluga Port is just... an empty city?!"

"And we really want to evacuate and take the initiative to clear all the city defense facilities." Fabian nodded slightly: "But at the same time, we also have to place the eleven-three-ring flag on all the forts and towers to prepare for the situation. The enemy's attack."

"We must make the other party believe that the defenders of Beluga Harbor are just bluffing, and the defense force is simply vulnerable; if they don't attack the city as soon as possible, the same mistakes as Black Reef Harbor will happen - leaving them with nothing but empty warehouses, crying for food. Beluga Harbor, where there is nothing but the people!”

"Then what if the enemy just refuses to be fooled and has to wait until the supplies are in place before launching an attack?" The officer was still a little worried:

"Aren't we being very passive by going back and forth like this?"

"If the enemy is really unmoved, it means that they don't really want to seize Beluga Harbor, but just to cope with the orders from above." Fabian suddenly showed a strange smile:

"Tell Major General Ludwig this information, and he will be very happy to inadvertently let the Holy See and the Empire know about it."