July 19, 290 in the Imperial Calendar of the Britannia Empire.

Early morning, 7:18.

Within the Luolin Empire, on the south bank of the Shunau River, Leer City.

The first ray of sunshine of the new day fell from the sky.

It was thrown on the body of Eugene, who was standing on the north wall of Lyle City and had not slept all night.

Eugene rolled his bloodshot eyes and looked at the sun rising from the horizon in the east.

The sunlight shining on his body brought a little bit of warmth to Ou Ren, making his head that was about to explode feel more comfortable.

Of course, his head would be more comfortable if the more than 400 horns that were still shouting "woo woo hoo" outside the city could stop.

Late last night, after seeing the more than 400 light cavalry surrounding him outside the city of Lyle, blowing the charge horn "woo woo woo", Eugene immediately understood the Britannia force outside the city.

What is the army commander planning to do!

The commander of the Britannia army outside the city planned to use "enemy fatigue tactics" to deal with him!

Make a huge noise to disgust him and all the defenders in Lyle City! Let them not have a good rest, kill their fighting spirit, torture their spirit, wait until their fighting spirit and spirit are worn away, and the torture is almost complete, then

Launched a general offensive and captured the already very weak Leer City.

At the same time, last night, Eugene also understood why the Britannian Army's military camp was set up so far away from Leer City.

Because this way you won’t be afraid of being harassed by noise from your own people!

I have to say that this "enemy-weary tactic" is really suitable for dealing with small cities like Lier City.

Lyle City is just an extremely small city. At its peak, the population was only over 20,000 people, so the area of ​​Lyle City is also very small.

It is precisely because of its small size that the more than 400 charging horns of the Britannia Army can easily cover the entire city of Leyre, making everyone in the city of Leyre deeply affected by the roaring charging horns.

torture.

If it were a slightly larger city, this "enemy-tiring tactic" wouldn't work at all, because if the city was too large, the noise wouldn't be able to cover the entire city, so it wouldn't have the effect of disturbing the enemy.

When he thought of this, Ou Ren couldn't help but cursed secretly.

Eugene dared to conclude that the commander of the Britannia army outside the city must have done his homework carefully and carefully studied the specific situation of Leyre City, so he was able to judge the small size of Leyre City.

Characteristics, and formulated this extremely disgusting "enemy exhaustion tactic".

Thanks to this extremely disgusting "enemy fatigue tactic", since more than 400 light cavalrymen of the Britannia Army outside the city began to blow the charge horn last night, almost all the generals, including Eugène,

, the soldiers, and the citizens in the city could not sleep.

Of course, Eugène and the others would not just sit back and wait for death. As for how to deal with the group of Britannia troops outside the city who were frantically harassing them, Eugène and his generals had already thought of many ways last night.

First of all, it is useless to stand on the city wall and shoot them with a crossbow.

Because the light cavalry of the Britannia Army outside the city are outside the range of arrows, no matter how they shoot, they can only hit others' feet at most.

Since the arrows shot while standing on the city wall were missing, last night a general also proposed to quietly send a force out of the city to get rid of the Britannian army's light cavalry outside the city!

This plan was not even tested, and was rejected by Eugene after a little thought.

Because the 5,000 troops under his command have no cavalry at all.

Eugene's mission is just to sit in Leer City and guard this baggage transfer station.

Because the mission was only to defend the city, when Roger was allocating troops, the 5,000 men allocated to Eugene were basically infantry and no cavalry.

In the absence of cavalry, it is basically impossible to use infantry to chase down the enemy's light cavalry.

The high mobility of the light cavalry allows the light cavalry to run around the infantry like a puppy.

Before the infantry encountered the enemy's light cavalry, the enemy's light cavalry had already disappeared.

Therefore, in the current situation without cavalry, it is definitely useless to send troops out of the city to kill the enemy. It is certain that they will not even touch a hair of the enemy.

"well……"

Ou Ren, who rarely sighed at ordinary times, now sighed with a tired look, and then continued:

"It's difficult... I can't send people to ask for help, I can't shoot those damn light cavalry, I can't send people to attack those damn light cavalry... The situation is much more serious than I thought...

"

Just as Ou Ren was grimacing and complaining about the bad situation, a general who was also standing on the north city wall behind Ou Ren said in a deep voice:

"General Eugene, in this case, we might as well gather the entire army and fight to the death with the Britannia army in the wild! Our two armies have equal strength. Even if it is a decisive battle in the wild, our army will not be at a disadvantage!"

"A decisive battle in the wild..." Ou Ren chuckled twice, "That's not necessary. I won't risk going out of the city to fight with the enemy unless it is absolutely necessary. Now we just need to defend Lyle City as usual and wait quietly.

Just call in reinforcements and come to the rescue."

"General Eugene?" the general asked in surprise, "Have you successfully conveyed the 'request for help' message to the rest of the troops?"

"That's not the case. The rest of the troops must not know that Lyle City has been attacked now, but in a few days, that won't necessarily be the case."

Having said this, Ou Ren paused for a moment, and then continued to explain to the general:

"You should also know that our city, Leer, is now a baggage transfer station that transports baggage to the north bank of the Shunau River, right?"

"Know!"

"Then you should also know that the Erd Army's position is the closest to here, right? The distance between Lyer City and the Erd Army's position is only 60 miles."

"Every five days, we have to transport a new wave of baggage to the Oede Army's position responsible for defending the central area on the north bank of the Shunau River."

"The last time we delivered baggage to the Erd Army's position was two days ago, on July 17. In other words, according to regulations, our next new wave of baggage must be delivered on the morning of July 22

, and deliver it to the Erd Army’s position.”

"When three days pass, on the morning of July 22, Erd discovers that no new baggage has been delivered. What do you think he will think?"

Eugene's words immediately woke up the general.

The general's eyes suddenly opened wide, and then he said loudly:

"General Erd will definitely suspect that something has happened to our city of Leer!"

"Well, that's right." Ou Ren smiled and nodded, "On the morning of July 22, three days later, if Erd finds that no new baggage has been delivered to the position, he will definitely wonder if it is our Lyle City.

Something happened, so I sent someone to Laer City to investigate the situation."

"The Erd Army's position is 60 miles away from here. If we hurry up, we can start in the morning and reach our city of Leer in the afternoon."

"In other words, on the afternoon of July 22, the scouts of the Oede Army will be able to learn about the current situation of our Leer City, and then rush back to inform Oede."

"If we set off from Leer City and return to the Erd Army's position in the afternoon, it will probably take until late at night to return to the Erd Army's position."

"By that time, it will be too late, and it is unlikely that Erd will march in the middle of the night to rescue us."

"If Erd had learned that Leer City was being attacked in the middle of the night on July 22, he would probably have started marching to the rescue in the early morning of July 23."

"Based on the road conditions here, it would take almost a day for an army of more than 10,000 people to march here."

"In other words, if Erd starts to march in the early morning of July 23rd, he will not be able to arrive here until July 24th to rescue Lisle City."

"In short, we only need to continue to defend Leer City now. As long as we hold on until the morning of July 24, Oede's reinforcements will arrive."

Ever since he was awakened by the horns of the Britannia Army late last night, Eugene had been thinking about how to deal with the light cavalry units outside the city that were frantically harassing them.

After discovering that he had nothing to do with the light cavalry, Eugene no longer thought about how to deal with the light cavalry, but instead thought about how to defeat all the Britannia troops outside the city!

After carefully thinking about the current situation of their Leer City, Eugene found that he could continue to defend Leer City without having to think about how to defeat the Britannia army outside the city, nor how to send people to follow them.

Other troops reported and requested support.

This characteristic of his "baggage transfer station" in Leer City can help him convey the information that "something is going on in Leer City" to other troops!

Three days later, that is, on the morning of July 22, if Erd found that the baggage had not been delivered as scheduled, he would definitely send someone to check the situation in Lyle City, and then he would know that Lyle City was now being attacked by the enemy!

Then reinforcements will naturally be sent to rescue!

Therefore, the current strategy of Leer City against the enemy is fine as long as it remains unchanged! Continue to defend Leer City until the morning of July 24th, and reinforcements will arrive!

After explaining to the general behind him why he chose to continue to defend Lyle City, Eugene turned back with a grimace and looked at the light cavalry outside the northern city wall who were still blowing their charge horns frantically.

"So, we just need to endure these annoying horn sounds now, and as long as we endure it until the morning of July 24, we will be saved."

"Actually, I'm not too afraid of these noises. Although it will make us unable to sleep, once we get used to it, it will be fine."

"What I'm most afraid of right now is that the commander of this Britannia army will not only make noise to harass us, but he will also come up with other tricks to torture us..."
Chapter completed!