Lord of War

"boom!"

The sound of a heavy object falling echoed in the secret room. Hunting????????????

A solemn middle-aged man was panting heavily and his face was flushed red. This made the other people in the secret room very worried whether this guy would suddenly die suddenly.

But soon, the middle-aged man let everyone in the secret room know that their worries were unnecessary. Although he still looked angry, he still picked up the chair that he kicked out just now, arranged it and sat down again.

"Is there no other way?" The middle-aged man said unwillingly.

These words attracted the attention of other people in the secret room, and everyone's eyes couldn't help but look at the face of the pale old man sitting on the left side of the long table.

Apollo Beta, ranked ninth among the ten generals, is a legendary general who is very good at using the advantage of numbers.

Although he is somewhat deficient in the strategic overall situation, and his tactical literacy is relatively average, he is very good at maximizing the forces that can be used at hand, and almost precisely divides the work to each soldier.

Basically, with the same size of troops, Apollo's tactical literacy is not so desperate, unlike William and Hela, who always create a sense of despair. But if Apollo has more troops than the opponent, even if it is only 10% more troops, he can make the opponent lose the war inexplicably, so the battle commanded by Apollo must at least be more than the enemy. More than 10% of the troops.

Of course, the more troops the better, the more troops you have, the faster Apollo can win the war.

"No way." Apollo saw that everyone was looking at him, but he was not timid at all, and said calmly, "Hella Garcia, although she is a famous player who ranks only after me , but her strategic awareness is much stronger than mine. If you want me to be undefeated against her, I must at least have half as many soldiers as hers. Only in this way can I deal with her follow-up tricks.... If you want to win, At least twice as many as her."

Apollo looked around at the many nobles present, and continued to say regardless of their ugly faces: "I have studied her battle reports, and she is a famous general who is very good at making momentum. Maybe when the war first broke out, she didn't show her strength." Bulushui doesn't look like much, but as the battle progresses, everyone on the battlefield will become her pawn... no matter the enemy or us."

Apollo especially emphasized the four words "regardless of whether the enemy or us".

"Once it becomes her pawn,

The script basically proceeded as she arranged it, and it was only a matter of time for her to win. Unless it can be like the battle between Ryan and Dabion, go directly behind the enemy to subdue Hela and take it away, so as to destroy her general situation. Otherwise, once she succeeds in building momentum, no one will be able to block her attack. ... Well, maybe the God of War can do it, but I can't do it anyway. "

"If that's the case... Although we lost the first battle, we still have nearly 70,000 troops, 20,000 more than the opponent's vanguard..."

A noble sitting third on the right side of the long table interrupted suddenly and broke the dignified atmosphere in the secret room, and his words undoubtedly brightened the eyes of all the noble lords present and felt a ray of hope.

"It's already too late. If you united half a month earlier instead of looking for ways to leave, you might still be able to fight." Apollo shook his head, "Now?... Heh, Hela has already taken advantage of the situation. It has been built. You give me 70,000 troops, and I can indeed wipe out their vanguard troops, but in this way, I only have... 12,763 soldiers at most. Now more than half of the lords and nobles in the country They all choose to remain neutral and do not plan to join this war, so after this battle, how many troops can you find for me?"

Speaking of this, Apollo glanced at all the nobles present, and these nobles who were inspected by Apollo's eyes couldn't help but lower their heads.

However, Apollo obviously did not intend to listen to their answers, and continued to say to himself: "If I remember correctly, the main force of the Void Empire Expeditionary Army probably has a strength of close to 100,000. If Alf on the Western Front When the Thunder Lion led by Red joins the battlefield, the number of troops will surge to more than 130,000. Can you find me 247,237 soldiers? Even if I remain undefeated, you must Get me 182,237 soldiers."

All are treated equally.

This is a special celebrity talent possessed by Apollo.

For other generals, even the top ten generals on the mainland naturally hope that the army they can command will be as high-strength as possible, otherwise there will be no distinction between fifth-level and sixth-level armies. .

But Apollo is an outlier.

For him, all he needs is a sufficient number of troops. In the eyes of Apollo, those so-called trump card teachers and elite teachers are nothing more than one person can be used as three people or two people. So if there is really no elite army with stronger combat power and military literacy, as long as there are enough troops, he can still fight a beautiful battle.

It's just a pity that there is nothing in the Principality of Renbeier today.

It's hard for a clever woman to be without rice, which is the current situation of Apollo.

"Is there really no other way?" A middle-aged man with a slightly haggard face said dejectedly.

He was sitting in the seat of the secret room. He was still high-spirited a year ago, but now he doesn't look much better than Apollo, and he is even much inferior to Apollo in terms of energy and spirit. He looks like he will die at any time appearance.

This person is Cecilia's uncle, the father who killed Cecilia, his own brother, and now the Grand Duke of the Principality of Lumber.

Magellan Rumbell.

He was once recognized as the hero most likely to recover the Duchy of Lumber, because his personal talent is the strongest among all the royal blood. But in the end, he was not handed over as Grand Duke, which made him feel extremely humiliated, and thus planted the seeds of later civil strife. Especially after hearing that Cecilia had activated the phoenix blood of the Lumber royal family, he was so shocked that he couldn't sleep for several days.

Although from a moral point of view, Magellan is indeed a regicide, a despicable person.

But from the perspective of the Principality of Rumber, Magellan is a very qualified manager. Under his leadership, the entire Duchy of Rumble, although still unable to get rid of its status as a puppet, has shown a thriving development attitude. This alone is enough to prove his outstanding political achievements. Otherwise, it would be impossible for the Duchy of Lumber to allow so many people to stay.

If Magellan was really an incompetent, the first one to abandon him must be Apollo Beta.

"If you want to defeat the Void Empire, unless the St. Joles Empire sends troops to intervene, or you find me 247,237 soldiers." Apollo shook his head, "In the current situation, even if I can Annihilating the vanguard of the Void Empire Expeditionary Force will not be able to stop the main force afterward. So the struggle is futile and meaningless, it is just unnecessary sacrifice and waste."

"Can't you even take command in person?" Someone protested.

There is a reason why Apollo needs far more troops than his usual battle command.

Because Apollo couldn't go to the front line to be in charge of scheduling in person, he could only write all the plans into a plan and let the front-line commanders refer to the command according to different situations. This can easily lead to confusion in the command system. After all, consulting the content recorded in the plan book to command, and Apollo just looking at the battle situation and making corresponding arrangements immediately, the time consumed by the two is completely different.

The vanguard army of the Lumber Principality and Clover had already fought a battle before.

At that time, the Lumber Principality had as many as 100,000 soldiers, but the force commanded by Clover as the vanguard was only 60,000.

At the beginning of the battle between the two sides, Clover was indeed suppressed very badly for a time, and even had to set up two sub-battlefields to share the military pressure of the Duchy of Lumber. He even wondered for a while whether Apollo was directing himself, if so, this would be a rare piece of good news for them. But with the pressure sharing outside the main battlefield, Clover quickly discovered that the commander of the enemy army was not Apollo, so after sustaining the pressure, Clover quickly launched a counterattack.

Of course, this is also thanks to the high morale and military quality of the Cecilia Guards.

So the final result of this battle is that Clover lost about 18,000 soldiers-not counting the wounded, but only the soldiers who were killed and lost their combat effectiveness and could no longer return to the battlefield. On the side of the Duchy of Lumber, more than 27,000 corpses were left behind—in fact, the actual number of dead in battle was about 20,000, and the remaining 7,000 people were all surrendered by Clover. Chopped.

In terms of the number of troops killed in battle on both sides alone, the battle loss ratio of the two sides is close to 1:1. This is also the lowest ratio since Clover led the Cecilia Guards to fight for so long. Because of previous wars, every time Clover lost a soldier, he could bring three, or even four, or five or more soldiers from the other side to be buried with him.

However, compared to Clover's feeling that this result was unacceptable, the Lumber Principality was even more unacceptable.

With a force of 100,000, this is the gathering of thirteen lords, plus the strength of the princess's royal family. If Apollo personally commanded it, it would be impossible for Clover to have any chance of survival. But unfortunately, because the plan could not keep up with the changes, the commanders on the front line did not have the sharp command awareness and vision as Apollo. As a result, the battle was finally turned back by Clover, so the Lumber Principality was so furious.

"I'll fight in person?" Apollo glanced at the other party with a half-smile, and then a bit of sarcasm soon appeared in his eyes, "Yes. Then you will die faster."

"What do you mean?"

"What do I mean?" Apollo sneered disdainfully, "Why do you think we have a meeting in this secret room? Are you out of your mind? There are four super powerhouses in Void Empire, even if only two came, believe it or not As long as I appear on the front line, their super powers will attack me immediately?... What do you use to block other people's super powers?"

Being ridiculed by Apollo pointing at his face like this, the nobleman who spoke turned blue and then pale, but he didn't know how to refute, so he could only hum a few times and then turn his head to give up.

"Since the opponent has two super experts, why not send them directly? We don't have any resistance at all."

"Who knows." Apollo shrugged and said nothing.

However, the atmosphere in the secret room is getting heavier and heavier.

Seeing that this discussion could not have any results, Magellan immediately waved his hand and announced the dissolution, letting these tempered noble lords leave on their own. As for himself, he sighed heavily, then raised his head, still sat there with blank eyes, not knowing what he was thinking.

After a long time, he regained his composure and realized that Apollo hadn't left: "General Apollo, what's the matter?"

"There is indeed one thing." Apollo nodded. (To be continued.)