Chapter 156: War preparations (1/2)

The Elites were at a MASSIVE disadvantage in the war , period!

Everything had a role in wars , terrain , strategy , weapons , tactical superiority and coordination. However the biggest thing needed in a war was numbers.

Against an army of 100,000 strong , 100 men cannot last long against them in any sort of open confrontation.

The only example in history when 300 men toppled an army being outnumbered by thousands was the spartan war of 300 against the persians.

However that was because they held a small passage where the numerical superiority of the enemy had no advantage , except that it was draining on stamina.

However history was mans best teacher and Rudra had learned a lot from the battle of 300. He thoroughly understood that he needed a great equalizer to negate the enemies overwhelming numerical superiority.

And that equalizer came in the form of fort knox. Fort knox was the battlefield that was geograpically in a beautiful location.

It was built on a small hill beside the ocean , on its south side was a small beach and connecting the beach was the ocean.

On its west side was a river , which met the ocean forming a estuary.

On its north and east was a wide lush green plain stretching for kilometres.

Rudra knew the fort knox battlefield inside out. It essentially had 3 openings , the first was the north gate entrance. The north gate entrance was the largest entrance and was the easiest to breach. The wood used to make the entrace door was quite weak , and it was the reason why whoever used fort knox in wars upto now , was defeated thoroughly.

The east side had a smaller entrance about the size of one horseman. It had an iron door to fortify the castle , but it could also be breached making the assault a two pronged assault.

If the assualt ever becomes a two pronged one , when the defending party is highly outnumbered then know that you have lost the war there and then.

And there was a third hidden passage inside the sandy beach , that opened inside a cellar inside the fort .

This passage had not been discovered yet , in any wars , however Rudra with his reincarnation knowledge aldready knew about it and the passage was a key part of his plan .

To win the war there were three phases of action that needed to be taken , in every phase there was little to no room for mistakes and only and only when all three phases are executed perfectly , can one win the war.

Even before the first phase of the war began , one needed pre planning to do , and that preplanning was to misguide the enemies.

How can one achieve that? Ofcourse through the snake inside the guild Orochimaru.

Rudra needed to have a fake war meeting inside the guild hall , explaining a fake plan and terrain and throwing off the opposition off their gameplan.

While actually preparing for the war secretly in an entirely different direction.

The actual plan of war was aldready formulated in his mind as he had calculated everything to utmost precision , thinking about every possible scenarios and how to counter them.

The first phase of the war would see the guild fortifying the entrances of fort knox in the east and the north gate using the lifestyle members and the reinforced bricks obtained in the auction.

Within 10 minutes of preparation time , using fire spells and lots of practice in the days leading to the war , the guild members will learn how to make a cement wall of reinforced concrete as they seal both entrances , making the fort impregnable.

Once the entrances are sealed completely , then the arrow shooting ballistas would be opened to the world , as thousands would fall every minute to the relentless assault of the arrows of the ballistae.