"No." Sauron came up to meet him, glanced at Richard, and said solemnly, "On the contrary, Sir Richard, we won the battle."
After a pause, Sauron said: "Not long ago, before dark, our troops successfully drove the people who had infiltrated the Sika Kingdom Alliance onto the plains near Gotha City and formed an encirclement.
The people of the Sika Kingdom realized that something was wrong and wanted to break out. The light cavalry that had been prepared long ago cooperated with the elite heavy cavalry and immediately launched a charge, covering the opponent's defense line and fighting a beautiful battle of annihilation. In the end, except for the remnant soldiers of more than 200 Sika people who fled into the nearby forest, half of the rest were annihilated and half captured.
Now it can be said that the infiltration force of the Sika Kingdom has been basically eliminated. Half of the remaining soldiers are injured. Without medicine, they cannot survive in the forest. They only need the second-line troops to clean up a few times and pay attention to prevent the other party from messing with them. What's going on? "
"This is indeed a good thing." Richard nodded after hearing this, but he was a little puzzled: If it was really a happy event, there would be no need to call him here in such a hurry, right
"General Sauron, is there anything else besides this?" Richard asked.
"Of course." Sauron seemed to have given a definite answer, "Now that the infiltration army from the Sika Kingdom has been dealt with and the tunnel has been found, we can really concentrate all our energy, manpower, and material resources to fight with the Sika Kingdom. The Ka Kingdom is having a national war on the border."
"Come and see, Your Excellency Richard!" Sauron waved to Richard to come to the sand table, picked up the wooden stick, pointed quickly, and quickly told the distribution of the two troops on the border.
After finishing speaking, Sauron's eyes were a little fiery and he said: "Originally, I thought that when Mr. Richard came to the front line, the most important thing was to exercise a supervisory role, but judging from Mr. Richard's performance, he also has a strong ability in command, and he has Far beyond my acuity, the previous idiomatic discovery is an example.
Many of my people said that Mr. Richard's discovery of the tunnel was either due to luck or because he had some unknown means. I am a pragmatic person and do not want to explore the specifics. It is enough to know that Mr. Richard has this ability and is willing to serve the alliance.
In the next war, I sincerely hope that you, Mr. Richard, can fully cooperate with me and formulate a complete battle plan to defeat the people of the Sika Kingdom, penetrate their border defenses, and teach them a lesson. "
"Um..." Richard hesitated, "General Sauron, you are serious. I think finding the tunnel is just luck. Don't look down on me. I have no experience in commanding battles. I may be able to help you reluctantly in formulating a battle plan. ,but… "
"No, but since Mr. Richard has agreed, let's get started." Sauron said very simply.
Richard was stunned: "Now?"
"Of course it is now." Sauron said, "Every second counts. We are preparing, and the people of the Sika Kingdom are also preparing. Whoever prepares first will have an advantage."
"All right… "
The formulation of the battle plan began just like this, somewhat beyond Richard's expectations.
The following time is a time when the battle plan continues to be improved and becomes more complicated.
Speaking of which, the battle plan focuses on data processing, which is like doing a calculation problem.
However, this question is very large, with thousands of variables, and many numbers cannot be completely determined and can only have a probability interval.
To give an example, half of the success of a war depends on logistics.
So how to ensure good logistics is very important.
First, you need to know where each army is on the defense line. In addition, you need to know what the army lacks. Then you need to know where the supplies can be obtained. Finally, you need to know how to transport the supplies to where they are needed.
This is not simply between two points, the straight line is the shortest.
From the supply point to the army, there are mountains and rivers in between, and there may be gangs of thieves.
Then you have to consider whether to use soldiers to escort the soldiers, where to send the soldiers from, or let the nobles passing through the territory send private soldiers to assist, in which case official orders are needed.
In addition to soldiers, transportation capacity must also be considered.
After all, with the capacity of transportation tools in this world, it is difficult to transport things to the required places at one time, or there is simply not enough stuff in one material point, and it has to be transported to other material points.
So how to optimize the route needs to be considered.
It's just a kind of material, which is relatively simple, but the army can't just need a kind of material. The army needs weapons and equipment, food, clothing, medicine, and various sundries, etc. - so the difficulty of the problem increases exponentially.
After the logistics are dealt with, there can be no mistakes in the real battle.
It is necessary to understand the location, number, morale, equipment, and combat effectiveness of each unit, and try to understand these data about the opposing unit.
The data on one's own side is relatively easy to obtain, while the data on the other side must rely on scouts and spies. Even if you get it, you can't completely believe it. You need to verify it with multiple parties and work hard to prove that this is not false data deliberately disclosed by the enemy.
The final "battle plan calculation problem" will have countless unknowns.
To launch an attack under this premise, you need to guess various encountered situations and come up with preliminary plans.
For example, if the attack goes extremely smoothly, how can we expand the results? Or is there a trap and we need to retreat decisively
For example, if the attack is frustrated, how to reverse the situation, whether to give up the attack, or to mobilize reserve forces to counterattack.
Another example is if the enemy takes action before attacking, how to defend and then counterattack.
Problems, tons of them, are constantly being thrown up and waiting to be solved.
It is true that many things do not need to be handled personally by the two top military leaders, Richard and Sauron. For example, they do not need to calculate how much food and medicine a group of people needs, and they do not need to distinguish what are the real needs. Which demands lied by greedy officers will be verified and completed by the staff and civilian personnel.
But even so, the two of them still need to understand a lot of data, know what is important, what is secondary, what can be ignored for the time being, and what must be satisfied. The preparations for the battle cannot be perfect, and they must make a choice at this time.
For example, is a transport team transporting iron ingots for repairing weapons, or transporting medicine
Both cavalry regiments want to compete for the vanguard position. Who will be the main attacker and who will be the preparation
To sum it up in one sentence, the two of them have to coordinate various things and try to get an optimal result.
This was undoubtedly very tiring, and it took a long time. Under Sauron's warm invitation, Richard was busy for nearly two days and two nights.
Just two days later, late at night, the battle preparations were basically ready, the battle plan was formulated, and the battle orders were conveyed in place.
With the general attack order coming from the command room, the national war between the Soma Alliance and the Kingdom of Sika has truly begun.