The coalition army that was fighting across the sea was facing the crisis of insufficient food supply. Therefore, when they learned that the Tang army was about to arrive, they immediately focused their forces on capturing cities that could provide abundant supplies as a foothold. Will City was famous for its richness and abundance of food, so it naturally became an important target for the coalition army. In addition, the terrain was difficult to attack, making it the best stronghold. They had to take it even if they had to pay a high price. Bai Si, Ling Dal, and the other cities were far inferior to Will City in terms of supplies, so it was meaningless to break through. Moreover, if their forces were dispersed to the smaller cities, it would be easy for the coalition army to not be able to resist when they counterattacked. It was better to concentrate their forces to occupy a self-sufficient and easy to defend place, and that was Will City.
Vicious, vicious, Reynolds sighed. It was said that Guise was a merchant, a cunning old fox, and had seen through things thoroughly. It was not that he did not know the importance of Will City to the coalition army, nor did he deliberately send insufficient manpower to defend it. If it was between the empire's cause and personal grievances, he would choose the latter no matter what. However, the forces that could be mobilized at that time were indeed tight, as could be seen from the degree of disarray in this army. If the 376th Regiment could defend Will City, it would naturally be a happy ending, but the possibility was very small. Even if they could not defend it, using the advantageous terrain of Will City, it would not be a problem to make the enemy suffer a certain degree of casualties. In the end, it would still be a profit. However, the troops that were sent to defend Will City would be used as cannon fodder. Even if Guise did not choose Reynolds, he would still have to choose someone else to be cannon fodder. In that case, why not take this opportunity to take revenge? Under the circumstances of thinking for the interests of the empire, to be able to kill this boy that he hated to the bone was really killing two birds with one stone. The plan could be said to be perfect, worthy of being an ambitious and ruthless figure of the empire.
It was no wonder that the Empire kept transferring the citizens of Will City even though the situation was good. It turned out that they had already planned for the worst. Reynolds sighed. Compared to this wily old fox, he was still too inexperienced. However, even if he knew that he was cannon fodder, Guise had no choice but to ask him to be the one. He did not say it clearly just to avoid confusion. If everyone in the army knew that he was going to die, they would lose half of the battle before even fighting. From another perspective, Guise was still very considerate of the Great Tang Empire. Of course, the method he used was more invisible and deadly.
It was impossible for Reynolds to give up on Will City and escape. Yue Ji and the other deputy generals would definitely not be willing. They were all loyal to the Empire and would definitely support the defense. Even if the chances of survival were not great, even if they could escape, Guise would use the crime of desertion to kill them. Will City was an important city, and there were still a large number of citizens who had not been transferred. Reynolds could not follow Bai Si's example and give up in advance. However, the current situation was not optimistic at all. What should he do?
Yue Ji was a little worried when she saw Reynolds at a loss. She knew very well what this news meant, but she couldn't conceal it. Otherwise, the consequences would be even more severe.
"Thud, thud, thud …" The sound of magic steeds approached from afar. Reynolds and the other two looked towards the source of the sound, only to see a large group of warriors of other professions flying towards Lan Ling Highland in an orderly manner under the protection of the spear-wielding knights with tyrannical defense. Among them were quite a number of their war pets.
Of course, the enemy would not arrive so quickly, and Reynolds was pleasantly surprised to see a burly man in front of the group. It was Vashlaki.
Soon, Reynolds discovered the other members: Arnold, who was known as the "Violent Warrior," Bruce, the Charm Master, Segus, the Knight, and a shy Priestess, Karin, who he had never seen before. They were all in the team. As the leaders of the various troop classes, they were very conspicuous and could be easily seen. These people were all friends of Reynolds and Yue Ji from Chang 'an Academy who were on good terms with them.
The thousands of newly arrived defenders of Bai Ao were naturally under the management of the 376th Regiment. After they were divided, the people below the platoon leader immediately organized them, while Reynolds had an emergency meeting with Vashlaki and other important people.
"Brother, it's great to see you!"
Instead of his usual conspicuous expression, Vashlaki was calm and composed. It was as if he wouldn't frown even if the sky were to fall. "Shijun, hurry up and tell me what happened," he said flatly.
Yue Ji immediately told him about the alliance of the Northwest Army to attack Will City.
As soon as her words came out, it was like a stone that stirred up a thousand ripples, and the crowd was in an uproar. The alliance changed too quickly, and they had not received any news yet. The joy of meeting with the 376th Regiment had turned into worry. The ratio of people was more than one to six, and the enemy also had knights, mages, archers, and a large number of other forces that were good at attacking the city quickly. The chances of winning were too small, and it would be difficult to hold on until the reinforcements from the Empire arrived. Even Vashlaki, who was always calm in the face of anything, frowned. It was clear that the situation was serious.
Therefore, everyone began to discuss and rack their brains to come up with various tactics, but in the face of the huge difference in strength, they all seemed so powerless. At most, they could only delay the fall of the enemy slightly, and it was only a matter of time before the whole army was wiped out.
However, knowing the strategic position of Will City, no one proposed to retreat, and they could not bear to abandon so many ordinary citizens who had not been transferred and had no combat ability.
"Ahem, ahem!" Reynolds, who had been silent all this time, coughed dryly.
Everyone knew that he was a rookie who had graduated from the academy in his first year. Even if he was good at martial arts, he was still too weak in terms of leadership and decision-making. In a large-scale war, one could not rely on one's strength to win, so they did not understand why the Empire would appoint a rookie as the regiment commander, and they had always ignored this person with the highest authority.
At this moment, the invisible man suddenly spoke. Everyone was puzzled, and their gazes all turned to him.
Reynolds cleared his throat and said, "Everyone, it's not that I want to boost the morale of others and belittle our own, but it is undoubtedly a very stupid thing to go head-on against an enemy six to seven times stronger than us. I think we can avoid the brunt of their attack and change our target elsewhere?"
Everyone was puzzled. "Change our target?"
Reynolds's lips curled into an imperceptible smile. "That's right, change it to something of theirs."
He said word by word, "Food!"
Everyone was puzzled, and Vashlaki, who had been listening to the heated discussion, suddenly had a strange look in his eyes. "Food?" Everyone was still puzzled.
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