"I fought the Gray Castle, you guarded the Gray Castle, and finally the Gray Castle was held, which can only be called a description of the facts, not a statement of purpose." Chino stretched out his hand and swept over the sand table in front of him, "The Gray Fort is just a corner of the city, built on the plain, with no support inside and outside, it is an isolated city, and it has no strategic significance. ”

"Yes, you defended the Grey Keep, and you're prettier than me in terms of battle damage... And then what? Did you get any benefits other than your record? Are you going to turn Grey Keep into a thorn in the flesh that stands in my way? Or does the Gray Fort have a strategic significance like Fengyun Pass, and holding it can buy time for the rear to deploy? Or is it a city of grain storage, where supplies must not be lost? ”

"No, no, compared with the vast territory, losing the Gray Fort is equivalent to losing a hair, insignificant, and it will not affect the overall situation of the war at all, but you have invested heavy troops here to resist the attack, and you have lost more than 7,000 people, which is almost equivalent to the loss of a full army, and in the end nothing was exchanged."

Solandale scratched the back of her head and tried to argue, "But... I defeated more than 13,000 of you with the loss of more than 7,000 people, which in itself is a process towards victory. And, since you said that the Grey Fort is not strategic, then why would you fight the Grey Keep? Aren't you wasting your troops here too? ”

Chino smiled slightly, as if he had heard the point: "Because my strategic goal is clear from the beginning, I want to consume your living force as much as possible, and at the same time use the vanguard troops to buy time to open up the strategic supply line of the imperial dynasty - desert - Fengyun Pass - front line for the rear, so that the main force can come steadily." ”

"What are the invaders most afraid of in war? The most afraid of defense in depth. The territory of Doguland is so vast that if there is any problem with the supply lines, the invading forces will be directly mired in the quagmire of war, dragged to death by the huge combat area. ”

"So for me, all campaigns are for one purpose - to buy time to open supply lines - and for this reason, I will use the vanguard army to launch an offensive on your territory as much as possible, and try my best to fight you in a pot of porridge, even if the battle damage is several times that of yours."

"I told you before that in this era in history, Doguland lagged far behind the Far Eastern Dynasty in terms of economy and military strength, so for you, every grain of your grain and every soldier is very precious."

"But for me, as long as the supply lines can be established and the Imperial Empire mainland can be connected to the front line, the huge national economy will bring me a steady stream of food supplies, and the thriving population will allow me to recruit a steady stream of new soldiers, and I can fight as much as I want when the time comes."

"Therefore, the vanguard army was originally my outcast, and their existence is to gain time, and secondly, to consume your limited food, grass and troops, and to seek an advantage for the final decisive battle."

"Even if 10 soldiers die on my side to replace 1 soldier of yours, it will be a loss for Doguland, who lacks stamina, and it will be a gain for the Far Eastern Dynasty with strong war potential."

"Then the question is, my strategic goal is very clear, but you also choose to join forces with me everywhere and fight vigorously, what is your strategic goal?"

These words made Solandelle speechless, and she wanted to say something a few times, but she couldn't say anything when the words came to her mouth, so she could only purse her lips and look at the huge sand table in a daze.

"I don't know," Solandale muttered after a long time, "I just want to keep the land... Because for every city lost, hundreds of millions of people are displaced... I want to save them. ”

Chino: "Then I can understand that your strategic goal is to drive the invaders out and at the same time reduce the casualties of your compatriots. ”

Solandale nodded heavily.

"But have you achieved this goal?" Chino took out the data after the deduction, shook his head and said, "In the early stage of the war, you did protect the people very well. However, after the decisive battle, the whole of Dogurand fell, and all the people you protected fell into my hands. What's the point of you giving them hope, but that hope is dashed in an instant? ”

"As I said before, your food, grass and troops are very limited, but if you fight a war of attrition with me, you will be one step closer to destruction. You think you're moving towards victory, but in fact every step is the opposite of each other, and you only have tactics in mind, not the concept of strategy. ”

"That's why, you won all the battles and ended up losing the whole war."

Solandale is 12 years old this year, and it will be two months before he turns 13, and if he wants to change to other children of the same age, he should still be reading children's books at this age, and he can know some astronomy and geography is already very good.

But her talent is really very smart, she has memorized everything Chino said, ready to digest it slowly as a knowledge reserve, and urgently raised her own questions: "Then in your opinion, if I want to win the Laurel War, what kind of deployment should I make?" ”

Chino: "History has told you the answer to this question - your father faced this war back then, and his deployment seemed to me remarkable. ”

Chino looked at the sand table and pointed out the strategic coordinates on it one by one: "Back then, in the face of the situation that Fengyun Pass was broken, your father did not choose to fight a tug-of-war in any inland area, and those who could be withdrawn were withdrawn in advance, and those who could not be withdrawn were directly strategically abandoned." ”

"This did cause a lot of innocent casualties in the early days, and it also had a certain degree of morale damage, but it was in exchange for a strategic initiative - not holding the inland stronghold meant that he could break up his legions and break them into pieces, and use his familiarity with the terrain to launch a guerrilla attack in depth."

"The vanguard of the Far East broke into the interior, and it seemed that they were invincible, fighting one city and occupying one city, but all the cities occupied were lonely cities with no internal and external support, and the grain and grass in them had already been vacated in advance. It's like getting headlong into a quagmire, and the deeper you go, the bigger the obstacle. ”

"According to statistics, in the month-long defense in depth, the royal army only paid the price of a few hundred soldiers, killed and wounded 20 times the enemy of its own, and dragged more than 100,000 Far Eastern pioneers to death."

"Such a battle loss makes the Far Eastern Emperor very anxious, if the vanguard army is dragged to death in advance, it can't buy enough time, and it can't consume the living force of Dogurand, so it will be sent away in vain, and the decisive battle form will be very unoptimistic for them."

"Therefore, the Far East was forced to send wave after wave of light troops to help, hoping to stabilize the occupied area with manpower, offset the in-depth defense of Dogulander, turn the cities occupied by the vanguard army into front-line fortresses, and compress the area of activity of the kingdom army."

"After a fierce battle, the preset goal in the Far East was indeed achieved, but it also led to a sharp lengthening of the front and rear fronts, and their supply situation began to lag behind the defenders of the kingdom who were fighting on the back of the "Cardinal Province", and finally had to start a decisive battle in advance."

"And at this time, the most critical hand came."