Chapter 942 (1/2)

”In this war, we will lose without doubt!”

Inside the tower of the eboden wall, Loren Turin opened the whole pre war conference with these words.

The voice fell and the whole war room was quiet.

For a full minute, there was no one at the map table, and the atmosphere was embarrassing to death.

The two mercenary commanders did not dare to speak. The commander of the urban defense army and the commander of the imperial Corps looked at each other. Isaac did not know what had happened at all. The Earl of anger castle, Eckert, and the consul of corona kept smiling.

With a slap, Lucian patted his face directly, and the corners of his mouth twitched.

Lord Loren is absolutely unprecedented in using such words as the final mobilization before the war.

Fortunately, this was the last pre war meeting, and master corona stopped all the free nobles by virtue of his status as consul.

Otherwise, if people outside hear their commander's remarks, they will be willing to stay and defend the city!

Of course, he is Lord Loren, Loren Turin - the guy who believed the nonsense of a deserter, went alone into the glacier wasteland to find the Dragon King City, and finally succeeded; So it's not surprising what he did.

”Please don't get me wrong. This doesn't mean that we can't stop the enemy's front - of course, in a sense - nor that we can't hold eboden... Er, it's really impossible to hold it; let alone make everyone prepare for retreat in advance, although you really need to prepare for retreat in advance...”

”Please speak to the point.” looking at the darker Loren, count Eckert quickly stood up to ease the atmosphere for him: ”I think... Everyone present should understand your idea.”

”In short... The way we fight against the enemy must not be limited to the conventional city defense. We can carry out passive defense by unswerving walls and clearing the fields and killing the enemy a lot. There will be no good results in such a battle.”

Loren had to explain, ”we should turn passivity into initiative and lure the enemy to attack. We want them to attack in the direction we want them to, so as to achieve the goal of defending eboden.”

Looking at the confused expression of the people present, the black haired wizard had to sigh.

”To be more specific, we should use the weak but equally complex urban defense system of eboden city to lure the enemy to deliberately attack it, so as to delay their speed of seizing the city.”

”We don't want to turn eboden into a flesh and blood mill, but let them capture eboden City bit by bit; lure the enemy's heavy troops to besiege the nodes we deliberately use as bait, so as to reduce the pressure on the whole front; and give the bait to the enemy or destroy it altogether before causing heavy casualties to us!”

”Just like the prince who saved the princess in the legend, each volume has to overcome a difficulty; we are the villains who set difficulties for the prince. What we have to do is to delay the time spent by the prince at each level; when he had better see the princess, both of them are already bent and dying!”

The commander of the urban defense army looked surprised, and corona's eyes lit up.

Only the imperial Legion commander frowned: ”so, it's not that eboden will fall, but that you're ready to abandon eboden?”

The voice fell, and everyone's eyes turned directly to the calm black haired wizard.

Even the Legion commander was amazed by his own answer.

Which garrison commander in the world began to plan how to make the city fall before the battle began?

Only Isaac remained stunned, as if he were anxiously waiting for something.

”Yes, neither.”

Facing the public's eyes, the black haired wizard shook his head, leaned forward unconsciously, and pressed the map on the table: ”first of all, thank you for finally understanding my plan, and secondly... You seem to have forgotten the most important thing.”

”What is the purpose of this campaign?”

At the map table, all the faces were stunned.

So master corona stood up and announced the answer: ”it is to delay the enemy as long as possible and buy time for the Empire to assemble troops and materials.”

”That's right.” Loren snapped his fingers and sighed softly, ”we only have less than 30000 troops. If we spread them evenly to the whole eboden city defense, it will only be barely enough.”

”In other words, once the enemy launches a full-scale offensive, it seems that there are enough troops, and they will soon be stretched out; once they fall into the battle for an important fortification or fortress, it is certain that they will compete with the enemy.”

”I don't know if I can hold eboden in this tragic way as much as possible; but even if I hold it... How many of these 30000 people can survive?”

The expressions of the two heads of mercenaries became dignified.

”But it's about the honor of the Empire. It's a great shame to abandon the city in front of the enemy!” the regiment commander frowned: ”you're a Bain. I always thought that Bain people had the courage to sacrifice for honor and dignity...”

”If the city is lost, we can try to get it back... We'll die together and build another one in the future. When people die, what do you rely on to fight the next war?” Lauren interrupted, staring at him coldly:

”And you seem to have misunderstood the difference between sacrifice and death - in order to win, the Baines will never resist sacrifice; but wasting their lives that could have continued to fight is called deliberately seeking death.”

”I think... The Duke is right.” the silver blood, who had been silent just now, finally opened his mouth: ”the silver blood mercenary Corps agrees with the Duke's point of view and is willing to continue to serve the Duke and the empire after this battle.”

The ”black blade” next to him nodded and twitched his throat silently.

The regiment commander finally stopped talking.

”You'd better tell us about your specific plan.” corona glanced at Isaac, who was almost impatient next to him, and missed the opportunity to smile:

”If you want to lure the enemy, you must have a specific target.”

The black haired wizard nodded, fumbled with his index finger on the eboden map and stopped at the castle on the other side of the gem River: ”this fortress is our first bait.”

The dignified voice of words made everyone's expression serious.

”Once the Azores fleet approaches, the first problem they have to face is the iron chain directly in front of the coastline - if they want to lift the iron chain blockade, they must break through one of the two forts.”

”I arranged a large number of temporary fortifications around the circular fortress at the port and turned it into our battlefield completely, in order to lure the enemy to turn his main attack target to this ancient castle hanging on the other side of the river.”

Loren quietly raised the corner of his mouth: ”as long as the castle doesn't fall for a day, the enemy fleet can't even get close to the harbor of eboden, not to mention the gem River, so they must come.”