Heroes of Silver Moon

How would you feel when you woke up and found that an army of 300,000 barbarians suddenly appeared at the door?

Simon doesn't know how others feel. He only knows that he is numb at the moment, and his mind is full of: Who am I? where am I? what am i doing

Three hundred thousand troops, what is this concept?

Simon can tell others from his actual experience that he stands on the city wall and looks at those barbarians, just like a traveler looks at the sand in the desert. the savages!

Boundless and full of mountains and plains, it is not enough to describe the army formation of the barbarians at this moment.

Deborah appeared beside him and said, "The Hawke family has rushed over with reinforcements."

Simon nodded numbly, turned his body stiffly, and involuntarily followed Deborah to greet him.

Although his body was moving, what he was thinking in his mind at the moment was how they should deal with this boundless army of barbarians.

With an army of 300,000, even if their reinforcements have arrived, even if they have a city wall defense, even if the barbarians' average combat power is low, they will be in danger of being bulldozed this time.

So, if you hit the young ones and then come back to the old ones, this kind of plot will never appear! How could the villain send his subordinates to give experience to the protagonist time and time again.

Even if he didn't pay attention the first few times, but after suffering a few losses, he should go on stage to smooth everything out in person, so why would he let the protagonist continue to grow.

This is the situation that Simon encounters now. The villains encountered by other protagonists are all fools, but only the villains he encounters only want to flatten him.

In the original estimate, Simon's envisioned enemies should be about 100,000, and the maximum will not exceed 150,000. This is also the main reason why he must vigorously develop the new army first.

But now the barbarians in the Gru Mountains have created an army of 300,000 for him, and this may not even be the final number.

What else can he do with this? It's better to go home, wash and sleep!

Thinking hard about countermeasures in her mind, Deborah took Simon and met all the lords who came to support him, the leader of which was Simon's father Valery.

The entire Gru Mountain Range is so long that the barbarians may randomly choose a direction to attack at any time, so the lords spontaneously formed an offensive and defensive alliance while resisting the intrusion.

It can be roughly divided into the northern defense line, the central defense line, and the southern defense line of the Gru Mountains. The Hawke family is the leader of the central defense line. As long as the barbarians start a war on the central defense line, the Hawke family will lead the fight.

Simon's newly opened territory also belongs to the central defense line geographically, and as long as his territory is opened up, the private lands of the lords of the entire central defense line will be blocked by this new territory.

In this way, the loss of their territory being plundered by barbarians every year will be greatly reduced.

This is also one of the reasons why they are willing to help Simon resist the barbarian attack. Without enough interests, even the leader of the Hawke family can't command this group of lords at all.

"How's the situation?" Valery asked anxiously as soon as they met.

Although Simon has left the Hawke family, after all, blood is thicker than water, so of course he has to care about this son.

"Well, the situation is so bad. There are too many barbarians." Simon still didn't recover, and replied with a dull and careless expression.

"Tch, you must be fighting for the first time. There are always a lot of barbarians!" A slightly contemptuous voice sounded from the crowd behind Valery.

Simon was still out of his mind, so he didn't react very much, but Valery's face sank, and he recognized the voice, which was the heir of the Viscount Cochrane family.

The Cochrane family is the most powerful family in the central defense line, except for the Hawke family. In fact, in the past, the leader of the central defense line has always been the Cochrane family.

It was only twenty years ago that the Hawke family became the Earl's family, their fiefdom was nearly doubled, and their strength increased greatly. Then they replaced the Cochrane family and became the leader of the central defense line.

Therefore, the Cochrane family has some grudges against the Hawke family, which is justified.

But like now, it is a bit outrageous to speak directly and satirize his Valery's son.

Valery turned his head coldly, and Fritz, who had spoken just now, immediately lowered his head unwillingly, not daring to meet his gaze.

The hard power of the Hawke family, coupled with Valery's natural and excellent military command ability, gave him a very high prestige among the families in the central defense line. This is not something he, the heir of the Cochrane family, can provoke.

"Hmph!" Seeing Fritz subdued, Valéry didn't pursue the matter further, and turned to Simon again and asked, "How many barbarians have come?"

Simon reluctantly put his thoughts back, shook his head with a wry smile, and said, "Let's not talk about this now, I have prepared a reception banquet for you guys, let's talk while eating!"

Valery nodded, followed Simon to the banquet venue with a group of lords or their spokespersons. As for the private army they brought, Harris was also in charge of entertaining them, but the standard of the banquet was much lower.

After drinking and eating, all the lords who were drunk and drunk began to brag about how awesome they were, what kind of deeds they had, and how easy it was to repel the barbarian attack this time.

It's no different from those rude adventurers in the tavern, the only difference is that they have a noble status.

Simon is already very familiar with this point. Most of the nobles in the southern border are like this, especially the lords of these wild lands. Ignorance and low quality are normal, and they are completely different from those nobles who pay attention to self-cultivation in the capital.

Or else, the nobles of the northern border just look down on the nobles of the southern border, thinking that the nobles of the southern border are a bunch of bumpkins!

When the banquet was almost finished, Valery continued to ask about the status of the barbarian attack.

"The number!" Simon cast his eyes to the other side with guilt, and said duplicity: "At first it was 100,000, and after being repelled by us a few times, they gathered some more people. Now maybe, maybe, Probably, it is estimated that there will be 150,000 people!"

One hundred and fifty thousand people, after hearing this number, the lords who were bragging everywhere suddenly fell silent.

In previous combat experience, the combat power ratio between the barbarians and the lord's private army was about 1:6 to 1:8, that is, 10,000 lord's private army could deal with 60,000 to 80,000 barbarians.

Excluding those troops used to guard the house, the mobilization ability of the lords on the entire central front was almost 20,000 private troops.

Frontal combat can deal with 120,000 to 140,000 barbarians, and in previous wars, the barbarians dispatched the largest number of times, almost always around 100,000.

Therefore, in previous wars, this group of lords on the central front was basically crushed, and there were very few confrontations or disadvantages, except for the time when they fell into the siege of barbarians twenty years ago.

That time, it was the Marquis Kim who was in charge of the command, and the unlucky Viscount who was in charge of reconnaissance, who put the entire lord coalition army into a trap.

The 150,000 barbarians are basically on par with the entire lord's coalition in terms of combat power. If they fight head-on on the plains, I am afraid that even if they win, it will only be a miserable victory. Therefore, these lords will fall silent.

Valery's eyes narrowed. His natural military command ability and his understanding of his son as a father let him know that what Simon said was absolutely untrue. He asked in a deep voice, "What's the situation?"

Simon rubbed his face a little ashamedly, and said slowly: "We have a five-meter-high city wall here, so we don't need to be afraid of those barbarians!"

Hearing that there was a city wall, a hint of surprise flashed in the eyes of these lords.

The city wall is there, and they saw it when they came here, but they have lived here for generations, even if it has not been reclaimed, they have already felt it thoroughly, so of course they know how long the gap is.

This is a huge project, and it cannot be completed overnight. However, according to the information they obtained, it seems that it has been less than two years since Simon came to open up the territory. It was too late.

How did this kid do it? This question flashed through the minds of all the lords.

But no matter how he did it, in short, with the city wall, they will indeed be much easier to fight, especially when the barbarians are not particularly good at attacking tough battles.

"Even if there is a city wall here, what if those barbarians detour from both sides and attack us from both sides?" asked Fritz of the Cochrane family.

The lords felt reasonable when they heard it, and their faces suddenly became sad again.

Simon stared at this man with disdain on his face. Although he didn't know where this guy's hostility came from, it didn't stop him from making a taunting counterattack: "Oh, I have built city walls on both sides and sent troops to station them. Unless the barbarians make a big circle around your territory and attack from behind, the situation you mentioned will never happen!"

Fritz's face froze at first, and then gradually turned into disdain, saying: "This is impossible, you must be lying, no one can complete such a big project!"

"Enough!" Just as the other lords were about to watch the show, Valery slammed the table, startling everyone including Simon and Fritz.

"How many barbarians are there?" Valery asked through gritted teeth.

He didn't pay attention to the fight between the two juniors at all. What really concerned him was the specific number of barbarians.

Hearing Valéry's bad tone, all the lords were stunned, knowing that Simon must have concealed something, which is the most taboo on the battlefield.

Because it is possible that just concealing a piece of information will put the entire army in danger!

Simon opened his mouth, hesitated again and again, and finally said it truthfully: "There are about 300,000, and the number is still increasing."

Bang! The wine glass in his hand slipped unconsciously, and all the lords were stunned, as if they had been immobilized by a certain monkey.

Fritz, who had ridiculed Simon for not having fought a war before, was even colder and his face was bloodless.

300,000 against 20,000, the ratio of combat power is about two to one. It is almost impossible to win in this situation, because it is different from the ratio of numbers. The ratio of combat power is a real thing. Morale, weapons and equipment, Soldiers' literacy is included.

If one wants to equalize the disadvantage of the combat power ratio, one can only rely on the commander's excellent command, but there are some problems that even an excellent command cannot solve.

For example, the number of high-level professionals, especially the number of master-level spellcasters.

In the barbarian's temporary camp, the great shaman Watts is discussing a plan with two other great shamans. The two extra master-level spellcasters, one is a kobold, the other is a jackal, and the goblin patriarch Sent to assist him in managing the army.

After all, with 300,000 people, even a highly disciplined human army will often go wrong, let alone these barbarians who have no concept of discipline at all.

In addition to him, the goblin great shaman, the three main races of the barbarians are gathered together today.

"Human beings have a powerful spellcaster. I am not his opponent. It may take all three of us to suppress him!" Watts said.

"Then let's suppress it!" The other two replied without thinking.

This simple and clear answer made Watts visibly stunned. He thought he was going to explain these two things step by step, but he didn't expect it to be so simple.

"However, humans have built a very strong city wall. Without us taking action to destroy it, it would be difficult for our people to break through that city wall~www.readwn.com~ Watts frowned and said again.

"Then let's destroy it!" the Kobold and Gnoll replied foolishly.

Something bad flashed in his heart, and Watts felt that these two people seemed not very smart, so he asked tentatively: "But we want to suppress that human mage?"

The kobold pondered for a few seconds, and then said: "Then let the clansmen attack by themselves, anyway, the chief patriarch Bishop has given the death indicator."

Watts thought about it, and found that it was indeed the case. They wanted to destroy this new territory, but also grasp the loss rate of the tribesmen. They wanted to let more old and weak die in battle, and let those old and weak consume human combat power first. It couldn't be more appropriate.

"Well, let's not shoot for now, let humans kill the old and the weak as much as possible, and when the number of casualties is almost the same, we will cooperate with the remaining elite attack!" Watts said with a vicious look.

They mobilized too many people this time, attacking this newly opened human territory is nothing, but if they continue to advance towards the human territory after destroying this new territory, it will inevitably be regarded as a full-scale attack.

If the human beings are serious, let alone the hundreds of thousands of miscellaneous soldiers under their command, I am afraid that the three master-level shamans may not be able to escape back.

Therefore, it is best to complete the number of casualties specified by the patriarch here, and then lead the surviving elite to destroy this human territory in one fell swoop.

In this way, the goal of casualties is achieved, and the human beings will not be forced to do anything. It can be regarded as the best of both worlds.

As for the failure, Watts never thought that when three master-level spellcasters gathered together, even the somewhat overpowering human archmage could barely protect himself.

Of course, this is just what he thinks.