Chapter 98: break out

　　 "Well, let me say it again, no one wants you to commit suicide, no one! Understand? If you understand, be quiet!"
　　The frontline commander of the Yanlong Fortress knocked on the table and looked helplessly at the noisy lower-level officers in front of him.
　　He can fully understand their feelings. After all, anyone knows that he will bring a force that is not as good as his opponent to fight a defensive battle, and the pressure will be much greater.
　　 Fortunately...
　　 The commander glanced at a piece of paper that was placed in front of him with pleasure-if His Majesty the King had secretly sent a countermeasure, I am afraid he would have to join the ranks of the group of men?
　　 "First of all, according to the intelligence of the scout troops, the Stasi army across from us is mobilizing frequently, and it seems that they may attack at any time."
　　 The commander did not rush to throw the blockbuster, but started from the beginning.
He opened the map, pointed to the Stasi's control area in the direction of the border, and said, "It is probably this area-oh, of course I know your concerns, but please believe me and your Majesty the King, what we have prepared over the years More adequate than those on the opposite side."
Seeing the obvious disbelief in his subordinates' eyes, the commander couldn't help but laughed: "Don't worry, our countermeasures have been kept secret before, just worrying about being discovered by Stasi. Don't talk about you, I was only a few days ago. I just found out."
　　 "What countermeasures can we defeat the enemies who surpass ourselves in quantity and quality?"
　　 An old military officer about fifty years old snorted. It is because of his age that he believes more in his previous experience.
　　 At least, the general who Falkenridge could play most at the time, the Duke Tuttle, couldn't handle the situation at hand!
　　 "So I said, this countermeasure needs to be kept secret... Although it is indeed a shameful plot, His Majesty believes that the later the enemy sees it, the more obvious our advantage will be."
　　 As he spoke, he clapped his hands and sent a new piece of information up: "Before reading this piece of information, I hope you will be mentally prepared."
　　 "What is the psychologythis, is this a joke?!"
　　 Another young officer was almost called out for no other reason, but the information stated that Stasi’s forerunner consisted of about fifty Earthwalking Dragon Knights.
　　What is the Earth Traveling Dragon Knight?
　　Ace of land warfare, heavy monsters, infantry nightmare!
　　 Although the Stasi’s Earth Traveling Dragon Knights were only formed more than ten years ago, its power must not be underestimated. In Falkenridge’s simulated battle analysis, it was often found that ten well-coordinated Earthwalking Dragon Knights led two hundred infantrymen to break through a fairly strong line of defense!
　　 What's even worse is that this time Stasi sent more than ten, but fifty.
　　 It can be said that in the absence of a caster force, the Knights of the Earth Traveling Dragon are simply unstoppable evil stars.
　　 But how can the caster force be so well formed?
　　 Although the difficulty of cultivating a spellcasting soldier is much lower than that of cultivating a warlock, there is no simple thing in this world that is related to magic?
　　 Not to mention the large amount of materials needed by the caster, just the accumulation of the necessary knowledge makes the training cycle too long for people to accept. So, if you put it together, if the cost of forming a caster force is used to build a regular army, you can definitely pull out an army that is ten times more powerful!
　　 Of course, if you really have enough material and financial resources to form a caster troop, the advantage afterwards is indeed not small. Today’s four major empires and the Kingdom of Minysk have their own spell-casting troops—because the number of people in each country is limited, it is impossible to expand its troops endlessly. Even the Vola Empire, which claims to have the most soldiers, only Can maintain up to three million regular troops.
　　 So after the number of conventional troops reaches a peak, the rulers must consider replacing quantity with quality.
　　 But these things are still a bit far away for the frontline officers in Yanlong Fortress.
The commander seems to be the most relaxed person here. He nodded to the subordinate who had exclaimed before, and finally solved the mystery with a smile: "This is the purpose of my calling you: this war, you don't have to be stuck A momentary victory--or, the eleven lines of defense we laid out in front of us are just for the enemy to penetrate!"
　　 "?!"
　　 Everyone was shocked, it was the first time they heard of this practice.
"It is expected that our front will be breached by the Earth Traveling Dragon Knights, the first defensive position...here to here, we will give up within 1 hour after the enemy initiates an attack...behind here is a small open area for the archers To cover the infantry, lie in ambush in the woods at the end in advance, waiting for their earth travel dragon knight to appear at the other end of the open area.
　　 said to himself, the commander pointed to several positions on the map.
　　 Following his explanation, some of the lower-ranking officers were still worried, but some of them were smart, and gradually saw that some ways were coming.
　　 "But how long will it take to retreat?" An orc officer not far away raised his hand and asked.
"It takes about half an hour to retreat and give up the second line of defense to the Stasi's army." The commander clicked on the back of Stasi on the map. "Unlike us, they have more advantages in long-range firepower. Obviously. And by that time, our strategy may have been seen, so the location of the woods is not safe, you must retreat if you take advantage of it."
"Finally, this place... Yes, it is here. It will be our temporary camp. After completing the mission, the troops will return here to gather and stand by. Other troops will be responsible for the rest. In short, in order to prevent leaks, the first phase of combat The mission is like this, and I hope you all will come back to receive the next mission."
　　 The commander said, motioning for his men to disband.
　　 "Remember, we are a front-line unit and Falkenridge's most elite unit. Believe in ourselves, we can be bigger!"
　　 "Yes!" Everyone stood up and answered.
　　 At the same moment, in Zakif’s royal castle.
　　 "Airo, your orders have been issued smoothly. Now you can tell me, what are your plans?"
　　Weiss frowned, watching the gray-clothed boy enjoying his own rich lunch with the king's silver tableware, and couldn't help but ask.
　　 This can't blame him for being anxious, but because Ai Luo is too leisurely, so that the war may break out at any time, but there is still the mood to eat here like a noble party.
　　 Anyway, with Weiss’s eyes, although I can see that there must be something special about Ai Luo’s arrangement, he is not sure what is outstanding.
　　 And he has been a king for twelve years, and he has long regarded this country as his own property. Even if he knew that this country should actually belong to Ai Luo, he could not help but feel anxious about the coming war!
"No hurries?"
Ailuo slowly raised his head and glanced at Wes, and continued to use a knife and fork to cut the piece of steak with delicious sauce, which looked extremely attractive-although he prefers to start directly, it is obviously better than filling. Stomach, he is more inclined to a spiritual enjoyment.
　　 "Dear Weiss, why don't you sit down first and taste the craftsmanship of the court chef?"
　　 "...No, thank you. I haven't lived enough yet."
　　Weiss stared at the delicate fried egg on the steak gnashing his teeth, forcing himself to think about the poison in Ai Luo's body fluid.
　　 Seeing that Weis was about to freak out, Ai Luo, who felt like he was playing almost, finally put away the casual attitude and began to explain his intentions.
During this period of time, Falkenrich took the lead in breaking the traditional conventional positional warfare under the guidance of Ailuo, digging a total of 18 pockets for Stasi on the wide frontal battlefield, even if the person who digs the position may I don’t know the real use of these positions—the time is tight, and considering the fact that Stasi’s intelligence penetration into Falkenridge is not low, even though many spies have been eliminated with the efforts of the integrated intelligence department over the years, A lot of military problems can only be known to his men but they don't know why.
　　 To put it simply, these pockets are defensive positions carefully arranged according to the terrain. As long as the Stasi’s army begins to attack, these defensive positions will become a bloodbath that strangles Stasi’s vigorous forces, and eats all the elite troops on the front line of Stasi in one go.
　　 As mentioned earlier, these pocket-like defenses are not permanent fortifications set up to stick to ~EbookFREE.me~ but a quagmire designed purely for massacre. From the day of their birth, these lines of defense had only one purpose, and that was to kill Stasi's viable power, and to kill efficiently and quickly.
Ello predicts that of the 18 pocket defensive positions on the front battlefield, about 14 can perform normal functions, but as long as there are more than twelve positions successfully strangling the offensive forces of Stasi, then Grand Duke Jon will have to Elite soldiers who lost at least fifty thousand.
　　 This is the beginning of the war. If you can really wipe out 50,000 people, it would be tantamount to giving Grand Duke Jon a head!
　　 In short, compared to other commanders, Ai Luo's biggest difference is that he doesn't care about the momentary success or failure, nor does he care about the invasion of the territory, but likes to trade space for time and try to kill the opponent's vitality.
　　 In other words, he believes that effective defensive operations should focus on killing the opponent's forces, rather than defending one city and one place.
　　Once the two sides formally go to war, Falkenridge’s elite troops will follow this strategy and use a near-perfect defensive counterattack, destroying the vast majority of the Stasi’s front-line combat troops.
　　 "Airo, you are really..."
　　 After listening to Ai Luo's explanation, Weiss looked at the humanoid dragon in surprise, not knowing what to say for a while.
　　 Is this really a young dragon?
　　 Such a mature mind, such a deep strategy... it is almost comparable to an adult dragon!
"That's it."
　　 Ai Luo smiled, calmly put the fried egg that Weiss had watched for a long time into his mouth.
　　 Just one day after this conversation, as Ailuo expected, in the early morning, Grand Duke Jon personally issued the command to attack Falkenridge across the board.