After dealing with the tail end of the Anpu battle, I didn't even have time to accept the congratulations and rewards from Queen Yann, and I rushed directly to the border between Andriel and the Kingdom of Yann. There, the Andriel resistance army, which I instructed to contain the orcs, couldn't even pose a threat to those orcs. Every time I went to harass them, I usually ended up with heavy casualties. The only benefit of this consequence was that it made me realize the real gap between ordinary human soldiers and orc warriors.
"My lord, I am incompetent. When I ordered a few Andriel resistance forces to block the orc troops, not only was I unable to launch an effective attack on the orcs, but I also suffered nearly ten thousand casualties in the opponent's counterattack. Please punish me!" As soon as I met Shen Xiang at the border between Andriel and the Kingdom of Yan, Shen Xiang stood in front of me with guilt.
"Don't worry about the gains and losses at this moment. After all, the Andriel resistance army has no means to carry out long-range attacks on the orcs. Moreover, they are far less brave than the orcs in single combat. The failure is completely within my expectations. However, I am still too disappointed with such a huge loss. After all, I just want you to delay their progress, not to attack them directly... But forget it, after all, you are not a professional combat commander, and it is very good to be able to do this. Now, tell me the specific situation of those orcs! After all, after such a long contact, I don't think you don't even know the situation of the other side, right?"
"Sir, to be honest, I didn't get much useful information about the nearly 1.5 million beastmen. Apart from knowing that they have about 1 million ordinary combat soldiers, nearly 100,000 archers with a range of about 500 meters, and about 300,000 grenade throwers, I didn't get any other real information. In addition, based on the siege they attacked along the way, the other side probably has about 20 magic crystal cannons, but the exact number is still uncertain. Because according to magic reconnaissance, there are no less than a hundred large mobile vehicles that look like magic cannons in the beastman army, so we dare not say with too much certainty how many magic cannons the other side has..." After listening to what I said, Shen Xiang answered me a little terrified. Although I said I didn't blame him, after all, he, Shen Xiang, also came from the army, and he knew very well what a commander should and needed to do in my army.
"Nearly a hundred large vehicles that are suspected to be magic cannons? Very good, very good... Those stupid orcs actually know how to create confusion! It seems that they are still very worried about us..." Suddenly, I burst into laughter, even laughing a little out of breath.
"Sir, what do you mean?" Seeing that I was laughing crazily, Shen Xiang and others surrounded me and verbally asked me what I meant, but they were actually worried whether there was something wrong with my nerves.
"Nothing to say, immediately move the whole army to the Devil King Canyon. We must seize the high ground on one side of the canyon as soon as possible. There, we can put an end to the threat of the magic crystal cannon to our magician troops and magic cannons at a distance..." Ignoring the concern of my subordinates, I directly ordered to set off to the first ambush location that was originally scheduled. Before launching this battle in a planned manner, I had already conducted a series of detailed understandings and deployments of the locations and steps that would be beneficial to us or that could play the most special role in the entire war.
"Ah! This... Sir, look, in less than 1 kilometer, we will reach the high ground on the left side of the Devil's Canyon. Look..."
"Uh! Then we'll go there right away..."
Soon, I arrived at the destination with nearly 50,000 troops. Looking at the terrain here that was similar to the Loess Plateau, I carefully observed the surroundings.
Judging from the terrain, this place seems to be the collision point of two continental plates. The place where I am is elevated due to the collision of the continental plates, while the other continent in front of me seems to have sunk after the collision, forming a large continental fault similar to a cliff.
On my right, for some unknown reason, a very long passage appeared, which led from my continent to the lower continental plate. At the same time, a 5-kilometer-wide road between the two continental plates was created, which could be used for free travel between the two continents. Now, I was going to ambush the beastman army with nearly 1.5 million troops here.
"Attention all magicians, immediately install all the small teleportation arrays we brought ten meters inside the cliff. Also, have the survivors warriors transport all the magic artillery shells we brought and install the recommended timing devices according to my original teachings... In addition, send another team to investigate the movement direction of the main orc force, and dispatch all the soldiers of the First Division to patrol the area to prevent large-scale troops from approaching us... I don't want to be massacred by others..." Looking at the still silent canyon, I quickly gave the order to start setting up the scene, preparing to give the orc army a gift they would never expect.
"Sir, what if we set up another magic minefield in the valley..." Shen Xiang whispered in my ear as he watched the soldiers around him quickly set up the magic array. A wonderful ambush in that valley made Shen Xiang fond of setting up magic minefields on a large scale.
"Hehe, I have thought about all these, but in fact, they are not very feasible. Think about it, this canyon is 5 kilometers wide and dozens of kilometers long. Even if we have the determination and so many magic scrolls to set up an ambush, what will the effect be? I am afraid it will not even be 1% of the last operation. After all, last time we set up a large military camp and a large amount of supplies above the minefield to lure them, but this time we are facing a marching army, and the effect is completely different.
In addition, I also thought about using our magic cannons to attack the orcs from the high ground on both sides of the canyon. But after thinking about it again and again, I finally gave up this plan. The main reason is that after we eliminate the 500,000 troops separated from their main force, the orcs will definitely increase their detection and tracking of our troops. And if we place magic cannons and troops on both sides of the canyon, then the orcs who get the news will definitely not obediently pass through the canyon in such a situation that they will definitely be beaten. They will definitely send troops to attack and drive away our troops on both sides of the canyon. Then our plan will become a complete failure.
On the contrary, due to the relationship between our number of troops and attack range, if we only appear on one side of the canyon, the orcs will completely think that we are afraid of them because of our military strength. If we appear on one side of the canyon, the orcs will also think that we are just monitoring them and have no intention of attacking them. After all, according to their understanding, even the magic crystal cannon can only attack up to a distance of 3 kilometers, and the magic dynamic cannon we have only has a range of 2 kilometers.
Therefore, the orcs will completely ignore our existence and pass through the right side of the canyon to avoid the attack of our magic cannon. What's more, those stupid orcs will set up magic crystal cannons outside our position and attack us directly. . . . And this is also the best time for us to attack those orcs. . . . . . "
"Your Excellency has indeed thought it through. With Your Excellency here, the orc troops stationed in Andriel will surely be relocated and destroyed soon..." After hearing my explanation, several officers looked as if they had suddenly realized something. Even Shen Xiang, who usually doesn't flatter others, was very excited.
"Did I say we would continue to destroy those 1.5 million orcs? No, let those idiots stay in Andriel and let the Andriel Resistance Army worry about it! The first thing we need to do now is to destroy all the magic crystal cannons in the hands of the orcs, so that we can be invincible. After all, if those magic crystal cannons really work, then the tens of thousands of people here may not be enough for them to bombard them for a few rounds..." To everyone's surprise, my answer made Shen Xiang and Shen Qiang present stunned and speechless.
"In fact, you should also know that although we have more advanced equipment than the enemy, we still have a fatal flaw, that is the number of our troops... 50,000 people, with just that small number, we may die directly if we deal with 500,000, let alone an army of 1.5 million. In the war in the Anpu area, if we were not lucky, we might not have been able to defeat those 500,000 orcs so easily. After all, if we were to engage in a formal head-on battle, the 500,000 orcs' troops could completely defeat us, and we would only lose 100,000 troops at most..."
"Then, sir, if we arm all the troops of the Kingdom of Yan, and even the troops of the Mocast Empire..."
"No, absolutely not! We must not arm some troops that we cannot control. This is absolutely not conducive to the security of our Kastark Empire, and will even directly threaten our existence. My lord, I firmly oppose this proposal." Before the officer from the survivors finished his suggestion, Matthew, who had followed me for a long time, immediately stood up and expressed his firm opposition. (To be continued)