Chapter 136 (1/2)
Sean's troops soon evacuated the unknown forest with the bodies of the northern barbarians and the archers.
William looked at the forest behind him, and the original loneliness on his face turned into regret: ”it's a pity that there are too few people.”
In this world, everyone is eager to fight the classic battle of winning more with less, especially the Principality of Ryan, because their thundering female warrior God relied on a classic battle of winning more with less to lay a solid foundation for the establishment of tonis.
That's why tonis is called tonis, which means the place of hope in the old saying.
But William's command style is different. He wants to have as many troops as possible. If he can use 1000 people, he will never use 900 people, even if the enemy has only 100 people. Therefore, when his strength is not dominant and he has other choices, he will never be foolish enough to confront the enemy, or try to play a classic battle of winning more with less.
In William's words, that's——
”To win more with less is a thing that can only be done when there is no way out. The world only knows the classic of winning more with less, but it will never face up to the victory when it occupies the harmony of time, place and people. However, it is no wonder that those people are ignorant, just because they really need a victory to strengthen their courage, so they don't know that more times in the world, the party with fewer people is completely annihilated. ”
”So when I have a choice, I will never do such a stupid thing. It's not that we can't afford to lose, but precisely because we can afford to lose, the less we lose, the better, because the so-called victory depends on these small advantages and details. How many people have made a mistake on this chessboard all the time. ”
Sean actually agrees with William's point of view.
In this world, there have never been fewer wars and battles to win more with less, but people will always remember those who have succeeded and completely forget those who have failed. Even these successful campaigns will not think about why they will succeed.
For example, he knew the classic battle of winning more with less.
In fact, it was ASENA who raided a Viscount's territory with superior forces, then won a baron's strategic place through Blitzkrieg, then lured the other party's coalition forces to attack with inferior forces, and then raided the base camp of the other party's coalition forces with superior forces. With the advantages of equipment, the front and rear attacks of the two armies and the strong strength of the Three Great Magicians in her hand, He directly defeated the coalition army and pursued and slaughtered for two days and nights, forcing the count to fight a decisive battle with himself without human and geographical advantages. Finally, he defeated the count's private army before the coalition army of two viscountees and several barons arrived.
In the whole battle, people only knew that Athena had less than 30000 troops at that time, but she easily defeated 100000 troops of 18 nobles in the kingdom of dabion. However, they would not know that in the first war, Athena dealt with 10000 with 30000, and in the subsequent blitz, she dealt with 5000 with 20000. In the battle to show the enemy's weakness, although there were only 23000 troops left in Athena's hand, he defeated the 40000 allied forces of the other party through his bold war skills.
When forcing the count's army in the kingdom of dabion to fight a decisive battle with herself, Athena had restored her army to the scale of 30000 people through recruitment, and then fought a decisive battle with the count's 30000 private army under the condition of occupying favorable land and people. Later, with 30000 troops fully rested and supplied, yasna defeated the 15000 people who had been exhausted by the urgent March of the two barons and several barons from the front.
This battle is indeed brilliant, and it is indeed a classic battle to win more with less.
But in fact, through the analysis of war reports, it is that Athena has a complete advantage in every local war. The real gambling war is only the war of 23000 to 40000. However, even in this war, Athena holds several trump cards. Therefore, she has never been really at a disadvantage since the moment she launched the war.
Therefore, Sean can understand William's regret when he said ”there are too few people”.
It is a suicidal act to use a secondary army of less than 150 people against a tertiary army of more than 500 people.
When Sean and others withdrew from the forest, the other deputy commander of the Loveland garrison also showed a contemptuous mockery. In his opinion, so many people have been evacuated in front, and this time he left with the corpse. It is obvious that it is a defeated army that has been completely defeated and has lost the courage to continue fighting. For such an army, as a ”regular army”, of course, he has sufficient reasons and qualifications to despise and despise.
However, Sean, William and Alfred are completely lazy to pay attention to such a pick beam clown. Of course, they did not suspect maliciously. What kind of expression would he have if he saw that less than 200 of his vanguard army were dead?
The team retreated quickly, but as soon as he returned to Loveland, Sean saw the steward of Sir Paro again. Obviously, the Sir was very concerned about the development of the war, but at this time, Sean didn't have time to deal with the sir. He directly told the housekeeper the situation in the forest, and he replied to the sir. He even severely condemned the Sir Paro, saying that he didn't tell the truth and the seriousness of the matter.
If Sir Paro really did not know the enemy at all, Sean would not believe it. If a city Lord was really incompetent to this extent, Paro's position would have been revoked by count danawi.