Mercenaries, I Will Be King Chapter 126 - 122: You're Talking Tactics with Me?

The discussion about the tactics for encircling the headquarters of the Freedom Alliance was the hot topic of controversy that night.

Eliminating a force, aside from calculating the benefits, boils down to tactical planning.

If there's no problem with the benefits, and eliminating the opponent is beneficial, then do it. That's the motivation.

Succeeding or failing depends on tactical deploynt and whether the tactical goals can be achieved depends on whether there are comprehensive tactical arrangents. That's the ans.

Apart from Song Heping, the Cook was the person in the team with relatively superior tactical skills.

If others were asked about tactics, their responses often left Song Heping dumbfounded.

For example, ask White Bear.

White Bear just says two words—"Do him!"

As for how to do it.

He can't articulate any further.

Just attack, attack, and more attacking!

Song Heping felt that if they followed White Bear's tactics, even adding a few more "Musicians" to the defense wouldn't be enough.

Ask Hunter.

Hunter would say, set up a sniper team, you don't need that many people, just ambush on the mountains near Artie Village, and when their leader cos out, just blast his head off with one shot, directly achieving his phenonal transcendence.

These were typical special operation tactics, a kind of decapitation strategy.

It's not that it wasn't feasible, but it wasn't suitable for this operation.

The reason was simple.

The Freedom Alliance was an organization.

Its leadership did not have strong individuals and did not rely on strong leaders for organizational growth.

Its growth was rely backed by the Kurd Ard forces.

The Kurd Ard was its backbone.

If the Kurd Ard was strong, it was strong.

As for the leadership of the Freedom Army, they were all puppets appointed by the Kurd Ard.

Decapitating their highest Commander, the Kurds could just prop up another leader to continue to puppeteer and maintain the organization's operations.

Clearly, this wouldn't achieve the effect of annihilating the organization.

Ask Grey Wolf what to do.

Grey Wolf would just shrug his shoulders, saying I don't understand tactics, I'm just an assault trooper, whatever you guys decide is how I'll do it.

Asking him was as good as not asking…

Ask Queen.

Queen just laughed after hearing it.

After giggling, she said you bunch of big n are here planning to raid soone else's den, and you actually ask a woman how to do it? Aren't you ashad?

Resulting in a bunch of n feeling quite embarrassed on the spot.

Disaster Star, well...

Let's just drop it.

Better not ask.

Asking him about tactics is like asking him how many ways there are to cook lamb, whether roasted lamb leg or lamb chops taste better...

In the end, the problem still fell back onto Song Heping and Cook.

Cook said, "Song, why are you looking at ?"

Song Heping said, "Aren't you supposed to share your own thoughts?"

Cook spread his hands, "I haven't been the boss for a long ti, now you are the legal entity, you are the boss."

When Song Heping heard the term "legal entity", he was furious.

This damn "legal entity" is the most trapping of all.

Real bosses hate to be the legal entity.

Previously, when opening a store with Old Demon, that guy refused to be the legal entity, sneakier than anyone.

Eventually, the driver, Ah Guan, ended up being the legal entity.

"Then you must at least share your view, if it were you, how would you fight?"

Under Song Heping's pressure, Cook reluctantly had to analyze the situation.

He looked at the map for a long ti, his head buzzing from the stare.

This battle was indeed tough to fight.

Organizations like the Freedom Alliance were no fools.

Otherwise, they wouldn't have been able to hold their ground in the border areas for so many years; just looking at their defensive arrangents, one could see they were built on experience paid for with lives and blood over the years.

The entire Freedom Alliance had over a thousand people.

All their forces were dispersed and not grouped together.

The majority were spread out in military units across an area of over three thousand square kiloters in the mountainous border region.

Centered around Artie Village, there were more than a dozen outposts within several dozen kiloters, aning that taking down their stronghold entailed crossing half the defensive zone to reach the central area.

Although Avanti had provided intelligence on the weak points in the Freedom Alliance's defensive area, as long as one was careful, it was possible to move through the weak points and achieve a covert engagent with the enemy.

The biggest problem lay not in conducting infiltration with two local rcenary platoons, but in how to retreat unscathed after the infiltration and attack.

Once the battle began, it was like poking a hornet's nest.

All the Freedom Alliance detachnts near Artie Village would send troops to converge there for reinforcent.

In this scenario, the Musician's defensive team could easily get trapped in an encirclent, and whether they could break through was unknown; however, it was certain that there would be heavy losses.

This was not the outco Song Heping wanted.

"This battle is too tough to fight,"

The cook, shaking his bald head, said, "It would be easy for to take down their headquarters. There are only 300 ard militants guarding nearby, and we also have three hundred people, one-to-one, I'm not afraid of them at all. It's just..."

He lightly tapped on Artie Village on the map with his finger and then drew a circle.

"There are too many scattered Freedom Alliance forces nearby. If we strike in the middle, these guys will definitely swarm us like hyenas slling blood. Even if we could eliminate everyone at the Freedom Alliance headquarters before their reinforcents arrive, we'd still have a hard ti escaping..."

As he spoke, his gaze fell on Hunter.

"I think Hunter's idea is good. We simply form a sniper team and infiltrate to take out a few of their high-level officials. That would be simpler."

The cook's idea was imdiately rejected by Song Heping.

"A sniper team could take out a few of the Freedom Alliance's high-level officials? One? Two? Maybe three?"

Song Heping's gaze swept across everyone's faces.

"Even if you are incredibly skilled and can simultaneously snipe several high-level officials, once a shot is fired, the rest will start running. What can a sniper team do then?"

Everyone was silent.

The cook irritably threw the pencil in his hand onto the table.

"How about, follow the intelligence provided by Avanti, lead our two platoons to infiltrate, and set up artillery positions at the high points around Artie Village. Following typical infantry tactics, carry out a preparatory fire and then organize personnel to storm in, clearing them room by room."

"And then?" Song Heping asked.

The cook replied, "Then we break out! Tear through their encirclent! I refuse to believe we can't break through!"

"Yes," Song Heping nodded, "Of course we can. The question is just how many people will die."

"Can war be fought without casualties?" the cook said. "War ans people will die. If you're afraid of casualties, then go ho and be a good baby. Why be a rcenary?"

The cook's temperant was just like that, explosive and straightforward.

Song Heping had anticipated this kind of response.

Following the cook's thod, at least half of his two platoons would be decimated.

This thod was about fighting a senseless battle.

He approached the table, his gaze once again falling on the map he had examined countless tis.

The various markings, topographic lines, and contour lines on the map seed to co alive, forming a three-dinsional mountain landscape in his mind.

Song Heping's thoughts wandered through the mountains with the map.

Different attack routes, thods of attack, and retreat paths appeared before his eyes.

Focused defense?

Single-point breakthrough?

Firepower coverage?

Or luring the snake out of its hole?

Idea after idea flashed through his mind.

Suddenly, his eyes beca resolute.

"No..."

Song Heping showed a smile.

"None of your thods will work. I have a better idea."