It cost two days to reform the army.
In view of the complicated command system, the time we spent was still within an acceptable range.
“So, what is General Curiu doing now?”
“According to our scouts, he seemed to be holed up in a city which is a day away from here.”
Holed up in a city…
It is difficult for us to beat enemies who are holed up in the city.
It’s July now, soon, autumn will approach in three months. At that time, we need to prepare for winter camping.
Obviously, it’s very dangerous to start a military action in such a cold winter. We’d better choose a place which has sufficient food for winter camping.
Winter weather will weaken the soldiers.
In general, compared with merit, there were more risks for a winter military action. Therefore, most of the army would like to choose a temporary truce. That means, we need to remove the remaining enemies in three or four months. It is a huge pressure for our army that was formed by farmers.
Rozel would seldom care about this since most of them are a horde society.
“Maybe we don’t need to care too much about this.”
Hearing my soliloquy, Bartolo shook his head and said.
“Why?”
“Very simple, Rozel spent 30,000 men here, which also means that the rest of its borderland will face huge pressure from other countries. Don’t forget that, aside from us, Rozel also has many other enemies such as Gilberd, Falderm, the Adernians of North Adernia Peninsula, the Southeast of Gallia, Germanis and so on.”
“I see……”
It is difficult for those great powers to guard their extensive borders.
“You mean, General Curiu is aiming for a decisive battle?”
“Probably. ”
A decisive battle.
But as far as the amount of army is concerned, we are still at a disadvantage.
Since we have more cavalry, it is better for us to have a mobile warfare.
But General knew it too.
“Another question is, what is the hairy monster? Anyone has a picture?”
“Yes, I have asked one who is good at painting to do it.
Bartolo told a messenger to take the picture here.
It’s a good picture.
The picture was circulated to all members, including me, Muzio, Alexios, Ron, Julia, Tetra, and the rest of the nobility.
Is it…?
“It is a mammoth.”-Almus
“Elephant. ”-Melia
“It is an elephant.”-Alexios
Alexios, Melia, and me answered at the same time.
Alexios felt a little bit surprised.
“Do you know the elephant, King Rosyth?”
“Well, I have heard about it. Is it found in Papua?”-Almus
“Yes. Just that, the elephants there aren’t hairy like that. There is a kind of elephant called Marimi that is usually used in construction and war.”
En, mammoth…
In the language of Tatar, mammoth means, the monster that lived in the earth.
But it seems the name is inconsistent for what adernians called.
“Well, good. Just call it the Kenaga elephant. Alexios, tell me how to deal with the elephants and how to use it.”-Almus
Alexios nodded and explained.
“There are mainly two uses of the elephants. First is used to charge and break the enemies’ formation. Elephants are huge, it is frightening for those unfamiliar with it. Besides, although it has a giant body, they run fast, which brings a very huge destructive power in the battlefields. If you are trampled, it would be hard to survive. On the other hand, Nothing could break up a line of infantry or send horses into a panic faster than a charging pack of pachyderms. Believe me, they are far more scary than cavalry.”
Bartolo had a painful realization about that.
Second?
“Second is to use the elephant as a shield. There is a specific smell produced by elephants. Horses dislike that smell. Because of that, if the elephant is put at the side of the army. It would be an efficient shield against a cavalry’s flank attack. However, whether General Curui would use this method is known to him only. So far as I know, he doesn’t like to use the same tactic many times.”
“All right”-Almus
General Curiu is an excellent commander. Although at first he looked like one who only does well in open battle.
After the war in the capital, I changed my opinion and regard him as an intellectual commander who is at the same level as Bartolo and Alexios.
“But it is hard to deal with the smell. Our cavalry can’t do a side attack.”
Muzio frowned. Stop the rival with heavy infantry and cavalry attack from flank and rear.
It’s the fundamental strategy of both our Rosyth Kingdom and Exxonian.
But we can’t use it to fight with the elephants.
“For our traditional strategy, enemies’ flank is protected by elephants, on the contrary, our stretched formation will be easily destroyed.”-Alexios
“In other words, we have to deal with the elephant first.”-Alexios
But how can we deal with it?
Indeed, in Skipio, they laid out the heavy infantry and threw the spears to stab the elephants to death.
In another war in Diadkoy, they successfully used thick chains to stop the elephants from moving.
However, rather than charging, our enemies will probably use the elephants as mobile shields.
“Roswald, can our cavalry use the explosive spears?”-Almus
“No problem. I have trained them on that.”
Well, that’s okay.
Next…
“How about the enemies’ slave troops?”-Almus
“I will deal with it.”-Julia
Julia answered.
“I heard that the scorers of our enemy’s sorcerers aren’t outstanding, right?. So, I will try to solve their curse. No guarantee, but certainly there will be results.”-Julia
“Oh, our enemies will face the oldest but strongest sorcerer in the world.”-Tetra
Tetra…it is impolite to call her “the oldest sorcerer”, women are very sensitive to their age. Moreover, Julia still looked young.
Anyway, this will solve the problem of the slave troops.
”Next is how to weaken the strange impact force of General Curiu…”
While drinking the wine, Bartolo muttered.
Stop drinking the wine during the meeting!
“Did General Curiu have any divine blessing? For strengthening body ability.”-Almus
“That’s right. I have done the investigation with senrigan. From what I can see, he can give the divine blessing of mania and charm to his soldiers,which will make them valorous in warfare. ”-Soyon
Enn, that would be bad.
“Almus-sama, you are powerful.“
What happened Lulu. Talking about me all of a sudden.
”You had killed the bears by throwing spears.”
Soyon nodded too.
I remembered it happened during the arrival of the refugees.
I nearly forgot it…
……
“That is, I take responsibility for Curiu?”-Almus
“The only one who can stop him is you, Almus-sama.”
Everyone stared at me. Ok, I know. I will try to deal with General Curiu. Anyway, Bartolo can replace me to take the lead, it is no problem if I don’t fight in the frontline.
But I have no fighting experience…
This was only their wishful thinking.
However, it is the same with General Curiu.
After all, it is hard to imagine that the commander of an army will fight in the frontline.
“But I have no confidence in fighting alone.”-Almus
“Don’t forget me.”-Gram
“I will support you too. No problem. Everything will go well!”-Ron
Ron and Gram stood. Indeed, the two who are under my divine blessing will become even stronger than me.
“So do I. I won’t let my friend die.”
Muzio smiled. He also has a Divine Blessing.
He can control the wind perfectly.
I will take responsibility for Curiu. Ron would protect my flank. Muzio and Gram would protect my rear with arrows. Well, it’s a good formation. We indeed have the chance.
“Put the guards in the center and lay our elites in the frontline. So we can gradually resolve the impact of Curiu’s army and…”
Bartolo covered his fist with a palm.
I got it immediately.
It‘s “surround and annihilate”.
“OK, everyone go back and prepare. Tetra, don’t forget to check the explosive spears.”
“Got it, Almus.” -Tetra
It’s time to put an end to this war.
It looks like the decisive battle would be tomorrow or the day after tomorrow…
“General Curiu, it seems that you have never failed, unfortunately, so have I.
I am the son of a Warlord. I have every bit of confidence in our success!”-Almus
The decisive battle is approaching.