"But how to solve the money problem?"

Everyone's discussion seemed to be in full swing, but in the midst of such intense discussion, a voice suddenly asked a slightly strange question.

Ariel turned her head and saw that the person who spoke was a young man who looked thin and in his twenties. The young man frowned. After seeing Ariel's eyes falling on his face, he continued to ask -

"Ms. Marquis, according to your theories, we almost have to go to the mountain village as soon as possible to hide. To be honest, I even doubt that we have a week. We may even only have two or three days to prepare.

.And in this case, what should we do with the funds we use to continue to maintain all civilians and military forces? When we left Pelican City this time, we almost traveled lightly and did not carry much funds. And..."

After pausing for a moment, the young man looked at the people around him who were looking at him, and said slowly: "Moreover, we didn't even bring many heavy weapons with us. Those elemental cannons were not brought out because we were in a hurry.

.I want to know, under such circumstances, do we really have to leave the city and go to the mountain village? In my opinion, this is no different from seeking death."

Although this sentence was uttered by this young man, for many people present, there was no doubt that it revealed their true feelings.

From the day it was founded, the Mermaid Army has been an army based in the city.

Even though Pelican City was still very weak at that time, it was still a city. And the soldiers were completely familiar with the work in the city. Now if they completely abandon the city life and go to the mountain villages, it will be very difficult for the soldiers of the Mermaid Army.

It is completely an environment that has never been seen before. This obviously places high demands on the army's logistical supplies.

Ariel nodded slightly and said, "I remember you are..."

The young man stood up, gave a military salute to Ariel, and said: "Belonging to the captain of the fourth field team of the third army of the Mermaid Army, Pocky."

Ariel said again: "Well, I know you. You played a great role in the attack on Diliao Province, and you personally led more than a dozen soldiers to attack the Imperial Army, resulting in a zero-casualty attack.

A record of wiping out nearly a hundred enemies."

Pocky's face did not show any pride, but said very calmly: "This is not due to me alone. The brothers of our four field teams all contributed. Some brothers have greater credit than me.

, they are just modest and shy, that’s why they recommended me to sit in this position now.”

Round Cheese on the side saw the arrogant look of the soldier captain, and immediately scolded: "Hey! Be respectful to the Marquis! You soldier captain, you also know that you are lucky to be sitting here, so be careful

Listen to the Marquis! Don’t talk about these nonsense!”

In response to Round Cheese's scolding, Pocky glanced at him and said: "The Mermaid Army is an army established by Ms. Ariel based on the concept of equality, fairness and justice for everyone, so now, I will even say something against it here.

Isn’t it okay anymore?”

With one sentence, Round Cheese was directly smacked back. However, he seemed to want to refute, but Ariel smiled, stretched out her hand to smooth things over and said: "Okay, okay, we are all our own people. Round Cheese, you sit down first."

.Then, Pocky! I appreciate your straightforward attitude! What I need now is someone who can express his opinions as much as possible. We don’t have much time. According to your ideas, how should we deal with the current situation?

Is that good?"

Seeing that Ariel actually let a team leader like him speak, Pocky's eyes lit up slightly, but maybe it was because of his personality. His bright eyes did not make much change in his expression, but he continued

Said——

"The Mermaid Army is now gathering at Baiquan City. If all our troops enter the mountains and rivers near Tianhong Province to hide and bury themselves, then there will be so many people in the city, and the Imperial Army will know what we want to do when they arrive."

"Ms. Ariel, you said before that the Imperial Army might take retaking the marginal provinces as its primary goal and not pursue us who fled into the mountains and villages. I personally think that your judgment is a little too taken for granted and even a little dangerous.

Your arrangement is based on the three relationships of the Imperial Army being overjoyed with success, despising us, and urgently needing to regain lost ground. But as long as there is any slight change in the Imperial Army, it can lead to an army several times larger than ours to follow.

Our tails went into the mountains together and carried out follow-up and annihilation operations against us. So in my opinion, this is looking for death."

After such a few simple words, Ariel's plan to enter the mountainous area was completely overturned. This was simply treason in the eyes of others present!

Although, the Marquis Ariel Garcia has always said that her strategy is not very good. But, who has seen that her strategy is not good?

Since the establishment of the Mermaid Army, haven't all the battles fought by the army led by the Marquis ended in a complete victory? Is this called a bad strategy? If this is called a bad strategy, then there will be no return in this world.

Someone with enough strategic ability!

Therefore, almost everyone present would not doubt Ariel's plan. Even those who vaguely felt that there might be some problems with this plan would use the reason "Has this big man ever lost a battle before?"

Let the uneasiness in your heart disappear.

Regarding these problems, several members of Mermaid Song are even more serious. They almost no longer have the slightest doubt about all of Ariel's strategic plans. Even when Ariel asks them to provide opinions, they are at most under Ariel's advice.

The original plan was to tinker with it rather than have any subversive opinions.

Therefore, when people looked at this little soldier captain who dared to doubt the great Ariel Garcia, they all looked at him with surprise. In fact, some people even snickered secretly, thinking that this Pocky

I probably won't be able to keep my position as squad leader.

In response, Ariel gradually put away the smile on her face. She raised her hand, curled a piece of her hair, and thought for a moment.

No one knows what the Marquis is thinking about. They only know that the indifference and contemplation on her face now give people a strong sense of oppression... I'm afraid everyone thinks that this little captain is going to suffer, right?

"Pocky, you should know that you are denying my main strategic plan now, right? What is your mentality that makes you want to deny my strategic plan?"

After thinking for a long time, Ariel finally asked this question.

Everyone's eyes immediately turned to Pocky. Since the Marquis said such words, the team leader was definitely finished!

In response, Pocky took a slight breath, and then slowly exhaled it. He stood upright, looked at Ariel with the most determined eyes of a soldier, and said in a neither humble nor condescending manner——

"Ms. Ariel, the first people to face the enemy on the battlefield are me and my brothers. We don't want to die, so we brothers must try our best to know how to avoid death and still be able to complete the mission.

Madam, although I may offend you a little by saying this, I want to say that you have probably never truly stood on the front line of a charge team in your life and experienced the feeling of being on the battlefield. Everyone in the Mermaid Song Guild

They are indeed strong men, and any guild member among them is undoubtedly stronger than me. What is needed to be able to fight in the army is definitely not individual combat ability, but to truly know what needs to be done on the front line, how to do it, and what to do.

How can we do it?”

Listening to Pocky's words, Ariel was silent for a moment again. But then, she waved her hand.

Seeing Ariel waving, Round Cheese immediately said to the people next to him: "Come here, hurry up and drive this squad leader out! Mr. Marquis, don't be angry. There is no need to get angry because of these ignorant little soldier leaders...

…”

"Did I ask you to kick people out?"

However, Ariel immediately added a sentence——

"Pocky, tell me, if you were asked to arrange it, how do you think our next strategic goals should be arranged?"

Seeing that the Marquis actually asked the captain for advice that might determine everyone's war strategy in the future, everyone couldn't help but take a breath!

After Pocky received Ariel's recognition again, his eyes became even brighter! At that moment, he once again gave a military salute to Ariel, and then walked out of his position and came to the wall where Ariel was standing.

In front of me, I looked at the regional map hanging on the map.

"Our ultimate grand strategic goal is to create a beautiful country as Ms. Ariel said. To do this, we must do two things."

"First, we need to get rid of the Demon King. Second, we need to get rid of the Blue Bay Empire."

"Among these two things, the Demon King is a relatively short-term goal, and the Blue Bay Empire is a long-term goal."

To be honest, Ariel was surprised that the soldier leader would come to such a conclusion. Didn't he hear clearly what he just said that it would take humans fifty years to defeat the Demon King?

"However, although the Demon King is a short-term goal, it does not mean that we can win quickly. The Blue Bay Empire is a long-term goal, and it does not mean that we need to negotiate with the other party now. Among these two goals, it is obvious that according to

According to the information provided by Ms. Ariel, the Demon King is probably not more interested in us than the other Imperial forces. On the contrary, the Imperial Army is much more interested in us than the Demon King's army."

"Therefore, we cannot just move all the troops into the mountainous area and blindly hope to avoid the attacks of the Demon King's Army and the Imperial Army. On the contrary, we should temporarily avoid the peak of the Demon King's Army after judging its attack strength.

Then find an opportunity to defeat the Imperial Army’s military spirit in one fell swoop.”

"Obviously, because of the previous disastrous defeat, the Blue Bay Empire hastily dispatched 50,000 troops again this time, together with the 100,000 troops of the Orion Empire to attack us. This has already wiped out all the wealth. According to my judgment,

, they should have annihilating us as their primary goal. For this reason, a marginal province without much defense power is unlikely to interest them much."

"Based on the above judgment, not only should we not send our troops into the mountains to escape, but we should use the large area and terrain of Tianhong Province to attack the hinterland of the Blue Bay Empire. To put it simply, we should avoid

Launch a frontal attack on the Imperial Army, but in turn attack the Imperial Army’s already weakened rear positions.”

Obviously, these words have shocked everyone.

And Jelly here may be considered to have some military literacy. He couldn't help sweating on his forehead now, and said: "Not only did we not step up to hide...but we took the initiative? Five thousand of us...to challenge 150,000? And

Or without logistical supplies and base areas?”

Pocky did not deny this, but continued to nod and said: "As I said just now, hiding can only make us weaker. However, attacking can bring us a lot of extra income."

"As long as we avoid the frontal attack of the Imperial Army, then after we enter the weak rear of the Blue Bay Empire, everything will be at our disposal. As long as we can successfully capture their cities or villages, the food and grass in these places will be enough to attack us.

Supplies. As far as I know, the Imperial Army has now established an element factory to build element guns, right? Of course, these weapons are also distributed to various towns, so in terms of ammunition, we can also supply them on the spot, implementing a strategy of supporting war with war.

Way."

"And the best way to do this is to avoid our current situation of being flanked by the Imperial Army and the Demon King's Army, and transform into a flanking attack between us and the Demon King's Army. The situation has turned out to be in our favor."

Now, Jelly's eyes lit up after hearing this, and he continued to ask: "So, does this help our strategic goals?"

Pocky continued: "To flank the Imperial Army, all that is needed is to force them to face the Demon King's Army. As Ms. Ariel said just now, the Demon King's Army will first contact the Imperial Army, and may also bring the Empire to

The military beating hurts.”

"Under such circumstances, our army is also carrying out guerrilla operations throughout the territory of the Blue Bay Empire, taking advantage of our small force's ability to move quickly to contain and lure the Imperial Army. The Imperial Army wants to encircle and suppress us while also confronting us.

The Demon King's Army will definitely be exhausted. Under such circumstances, we are qualified to ask them to negotiate with us. Only when they cannot catch us and are exhausted mentally and physically by the Demon King's Army will they think of negotiating with us first.

Let’s defeat the Demon King’s army together.”

Compared with Ariel's method of waiting silently just now, this method is undoubtedly more proactive.

Once you have the initiative on the battlefield, you have the power to choose. There is no doubt that Ariel has been impressed by this strategy from the bottom of her heart!

However, this is not the end yet. Ariel knows that the captain of the big-headed soldier in front of her must have some surprises waiting for her!
To be continued...