Chapter 1591: Chapter 65: The Overbearing Hudson
Gutland Province.
“Governor, it’s not good, the enemy has not continued their blitz on the city, instead they’ve chosen to bypass and penetrate deeply!”
Military Officer Viscount Paleti reported anxiously.
In military terms, this kind of abandonnt of a fallback and deep penetration is essentially courting self-destruction.
But the current situation is different!
The rear of the Giant Foot Centipedes has already been intercepted by Hudson, staying in the Gutland Province for a grinding fight won’t get them reinforcents or logistical supplies.
Destined for lonely combat with no reinforcents, it doesn’t matter where they fight, persisting against the city fortress is just foolish.
If the rear had completed the scorched earth tactics, Viscount Paleti wouldn’t be so panicked, the enemy can’t get supplies, collapse would only be a matter of ti.
In reality, apart from several counties near the frontline being prepared, other regions are busy preparing for spring farming.
During the farming era, no matter how chaotic the situation is, the land still needs to be fard!
Now letting the Centipede Army go forward, the disruption to rear production is imaginable. Even if it’s not his own territory, Governor Simon is still worried.
Gutland Province has beco a ruin, waiting for rear support for post-war reconstruction, if everyone’s territories are destroyed, who would care for them!
Born in troubled tis, one must learn to keep warm together. Governor Simon still has this strategic insight.
“Imdiately inform all provinces and simultaneously issue an urgent warning to the capital; the enemy might unite with other Earth Core races!”
This is all that can be done.
A counterattack was possible before because the enemy diverted forces from the frontline, creating a weak point.
Now that they’ve abandoned siege and bypassed directly, sending troops to pursue would an engaging the enemy in field battles.
If the force consisted of the Standing Army elite, Governor Simon might take a chance, but now most of the defenders are serf soldiers.
Even if these serf soldiers have received basic military training, their combat effectiveness still can’t be trusted.
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The unconventional tactics of the Giant Foot Centipedes have bewildered the Dark Forest Kingdom.
A single Earth Core race is already troubling enough; if several band together, the battle would be even tougher.
The front-line commanders lant, and the nobles along the way are crying.
Especially for so lords leading troops to war, now the enemy has intercepted their bases, how could they sit still.
One by one they clamored to go back and defend their territories, the pressure transmitted through layers, finally gathered on Alexander V.
It’s impossible to let summoned noble lords return; if that happens, all battle lines would rot along.
People can’t leave the battlefield, so the Kingdom Governnt must give an explanation for the loss of their bases.
If only one or two lords were unlucky, the issue would be simple, the Kingdom Governnt could just compensate them for their losses.
Now the trouble is the Centipede Army is continuously ravaging, how many will be the final victims, no one can say clearly.
The Kingdom Governnt can afford the losses of one or two noble lords, but it doesn’t an they can afford the losses of a group of noble lords.
The Giant Foot Centipede Clan has lost its fallback and also its restraints; now they completely hit wherever they want.
Based on the current information, even the enemy’s destination is temporarily unconfirmable.
“What about the Military Departnt’s plan?”
Faced with the King’s question, Count Nicholas, the Minister of Defense, looked arid.
Drafting a siege plan is simple, the issue is there’s no army at hand!
Seemingly, the Dark Forest Kingdom currently has two million troops, with over five hundred thousand armored soldiers, but that’s just theoretical numbers.
The main forces are held by the Alien Coalition, and the mobilized noble private armies are dispersed across various battlefields.
The Kingdom Governnt’s remaining mobile forces are just the last six legions, which can’t be easily mobilized.
“Your Majesty, the only actionable mobile force currently is the fifty thousand nobles’ Allied Forces led by Governor Simon, of which less than half are combat-ready.
The Military Departnt plans to wait until the Alpha Kingdom sends troops, then the two armies will join forces to exterminate these vile Centipedes!”
Count Nicholas answered with a tough face.
The reality is worse than he described.
Half of the combat-ready soldiers is an exaggeration; if there were one-fifth elite, Governor Simon would have already taken action.
Nearby provinces did send reinforcents, but those were rely to et the Kingdom’s nurical requirents, not qualitative ones.
If both sides’ combat effectiveness were comparable and troop numbers equivalent, the Centipede Clan would have been blocked within the Hundred-Mile Corridor long ago.
“The Southeastern Province deployed only the Hundred Thousand Army to drive those Centipedes to chaos, while we have…
Forget it, let’s not dwell on this issue!
The Departnt of Foreign Affairs should speed up negotiation progress, the faster, the better. Once these Centipede troops unite with other Earth Core races, the Kingdom’s situation will be ruined!
If it really cos to that, we can only mobilize border troops into the war.
Surrounding different races have long been ready to stir; once they join in, the consequences won’t be within our control!”
Alexander V reluctantly accepted reality.
Through the progression of the war, he has co to understand the combat power of the Giant Foot Centipede Clan.
Among them, the elite are indeed formidable, tougher than the Kingdom’s Standing Army, but most Centipede Soldiers have rather ordinary combat power.
Rather than saying the King Centipede now leads over sixty thousand troops, it should be said carrying over fifty thousand young and robust, and less than ten thousand elites.
That’s determined by real conditions!
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