Chapter 716: Battle Preparations Completed
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Britannian Empire Imperial Calendar Day.
Britannia Empire, Northern Territory, Avalon Fortress, Command Room.
In recent days, a steady stream of information has been delivered from spies lurking in the Holy Hiran Empire.
Su Cheng frowned slightly as he looked at the large amount of information piled in front of him.
Willy, who was standing beside Su Cheng, whispered to Su Cheng:
"Captain, although there is a lot of intelligence showing that General Dong's early arrival has caused a big problem in the logistics supply of the Xilan Army. But this is most likely false information deliberately spread by the Holy Xilan Empire to confuse our."
"Yeah." Su Cheng responded in a deep voice, "I know."
Not all the information passed back by these spies is completely reliable.
Different spies return different relevant information.
Just like now: some spies said that there was a big problem with the supply of Xilan Army, but some spies said that the supply of Xilan Army was not greatly affected.
Some of the information may even have been deliberately spread by the Holy Hiran Empire in order to confuse Su Cheng and others.
Blocking intelligence and conducting intelligence warfare—this is what the Britannia Empire is good at.
On the eve of the "Spring Awakening" offensive 2 years ago, the Britannia Empire relied on its beautiful "deception operations" to deliberately spread false information that the "Spring Awakening" offensive was against the Frank Empire, and finally deceived Luo Lin. Empire, let the Luo Lin Empire neglect its precautions.
Faced with this massive amount of information, which is true and which is false, it all depends on the ability of the commander in chief.
Staring at the pile of information in front of him that he had read thousands of times, Su Cheng pondered for a long time:
"... Regardless of whether the Xilan Army's supplies have collapsed or not, General Dong's early attack will definitely affect their supply transportation."
"That's for sure, the only question is how serious it is."
"The larger the army, the more difficult it is to replenish its baggage."
"The Hiran Army outside the Great Wall has nearly 300,000 combat troops, so the total number of its logistics troops will not be less than 500,000."
"An expeditionary force with a total size of nearly one million people - for an army of this size, its supply transportation affects the whole body."
"If there is a problem in one link, there will be problems in the entire supply line."
“This year’s General Winter struck more than a month early—this abnormal phenomenon has not happened for a long time, and even I did not expect this.
"Even I didn't expect it, so I don't believe anyone in the Xilan Army on the other side could have expected it."
Having said this, Su Cheng paused.
After a moment of silence, he continued:
"Actually... this year's abnormal weather has already been foreshadowed before, but we didn't pay attention to it."
"Winter has been getting colder and colder since several years ago."
"Because the winter is getting colder, the horses in the two horse farms in the north are not growing well."
"In order to solve the supply problem of war horses,
At the beginning of last year, I was forced to go to the veteran in Kelor and invite the blacksmith who knew how to make horseshoes. "
"Last year's winter was so cold that neither Carol nor Alyssa wanted to go out, leaving me alone to return to the Imperial Capital for the year-end dinner."
After this year's General Winter struck early, Su Cheng finally woke up: this year's abnormal weather did not appear suddenly, and there were signs of it a few years ago.
When he became the new head of the Knights of Michael and first arrived in the North, Arlin of the Northern Territory Administration, Humphrey’s right-hand man, told him: The winters in recent years have become more and more severe. The cold weather caused the war horses in the two horse farms in the north to grow poorly, and the output of war horses dropped significantly.
The daily training of the cavalry originally consumed a lot of war horses. If there was another problem with the output of the war horses, the cavalry of his Michael Knights might have to ride donkeys for training in the future.
Su Cheng could not do anything about the horse farms that had problems with their output. The only way he could do it was to reduce the daily wear and tear of the horses as much as possible.
In order to reduce the daily wear and tear of war horses, Su Cheng was forced to go to Kailuoer's hometown at the beginning of last year to hire a blacksmith who knew how to make horseshoes.
Thanks to the help of the blacksmith, the Michael Knights have now popularized horseshoes, and the problem of insufficient war horses has finally been solved.
This increasingly cold weather reached its peak last winter.
Last winter was so cold that Carol, Alyssa, and Alan were reluctant to go out, leaving Su Cheng alone in the cold to return to Pendragon for the year-end dinner.
General Winter is coming early - this year's abnormal weather has been foreshadowed a few years ago, but no one, including Su Cheng, noticed it.
Fortunately, the Avalon Fortress has sufficient baggage reserves, and the supply transportation from the rear is quite powerful. Even if General Dong attacked early, he did not suffer much damage.
General Dong's advance attack did not affect the logistics and transportation of the nearly one million Holy Hiran Empire's expeditionary army?
Su Cheng absolutely doesn't believe this!
The Xilan Army's logistics supplies have definitely been affected, but I don't know how big the impact is.
For Su Cheng, the situation he most hopes to see is that the logistical supply of the Xilan Army will completely collapse, and the winter war equipment cannot be delivered to the front line in time, causing the nearly 300,000 Xilan Army in the Aighar Corridor to shiver with cold and unable to even get weapons.
Su Cheng heard from Humphrey a few days ago that the material preparations for the "Great Turn of the North" operation will be completed soon!
When the material preparations are completed, it will be the day of the operation.
At this juncture when the "Great Turn of the North" operation is about to be launched, if the supply of the Xilan Army collapses, it can be said that God bless Britannia! The success rate of the operation can be increased by at least 10%.
Of course, Su Cheng only dares to think about this great thing.
Hoping that the enemy will make mistakes - this is absolutely unacceptable whether it is on the battlefield or anywhere else.
Make sure you don't make mistakes, and then slowly wait for the enemy to make mistakes.
Regardless of whether the logistical supply of the Xilan Army really collapsed, Su Cheng would not let him and his subordinates take it lightly.
When Su Cheng and Willy finished their discussion today and were about to leave the command room, a messenger suddenly knocked on the door and informed Su Cheng: Yaerlin from the Northern Territory General Administration is here!
The second-in-command of the Northern Territory General Administration came to the fortress in person, and he definitely didn't come to have tea with Su Cheng.
Su Cheng hurriedly ordered Yaerlin to be brought to the command room to see if Yaerlin had anything important to tell him.
Yaerlin, who couldn't hide his joy on his face, said to Su Cheng and Willy in a joyful tone after entering the command room and confirming that there were no outsiders around:
"The transport ships, food, fodder and other materials required for the "Northern Great Turn" operation are all in place! The operation can be launched at any time!"
Even Su Cheng, who has always been calm, couldn't help but raise his eyebrows in surprise after hearing the news.
Because according to expectations, the various materials required for the "Northern Great Turn" operation should not be in place until late October, but it was unexpected that it was so much earlier.
Su Cheng stood up and looked at the large map hanging on the wall of the command room.
"It's time..."
Su Cheng's naturally hanging fists slowly clenched. </tent>
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