Chapter 291 Pre-War Deployment
The normal lifespan of the elves is about 1,600 years, but Elder Klan has already reached this age.
According to human terms, Elder Clan is a centenarian, and every extra year he lives is a new record.
At this age, and having Alzheimer's disease, even Slavin, the clan leader, doesn't dare to bother him.
"Chief Slavin, I have a subordinate who is responsible for leading troops in battle. It is related to the upcoming battle. Why don't we let him come in and discuss it together?"
Hearing this, Slavin didn't think much about it and nodded in agreement.
Only Zhou Xu and Zhuo Ge were allowed in, mainly because they were not yet completely sure of their purpose.
Now that this issue has been clarified and an alliance has been reached to discuss the next battle, Slavin naturally doesn't mind letting the other side's generals come in to discuss together.
"Silk, come here too."
Li Ce came quickly, and seeing this, Slavin called Silk over to discuss the matter together.
Obviously, on the side of the grassland elves, Silk is definitely not a simple patrol officer.
On the way here, Li Ce, who had already roughly understood the situation, didn't waste any words. He directly took out the animal skin map he carried with him and spread it on the table.
“We discovered that this is where the energy channel is.”
Compared to Zhou Xu, who only comes to the grassland occasionally, Li Ce is undoubtedly much more familiar with this grassland.
“And our current location is right here.”
He simply pointed out two points on the map, causing Slavin and Silk, who were standing nearby, to frown.
As of now, on this grassland, Drogo and his men have no place to live, the hyena people have been defeated and are nowhere to be found, and Zhou Xu and his men's grassland village is on the outskirts of the grassland.
After all this, it turned out that the people closest to the Lizardmen were the elves.
This situation really made it impossible for them to stay out of it.
"Leave the task of gathering intelligence to us."
Faced with this situation, Slavin not only did not shirk his responsibility, but even took the initiative to take the task upon himself.
You know, in this situation, once the grassland elves' camp is exposed, it will definitely become the lizardmen's primary target of attack.
It doesn't take much brainpower to figure out this problem, and Zhou Xu didn't believe that Slavin couldn't think of it.
Under this premise, the other party still made such a decision, which made him change his mind a little.
[From what I can see so far, although Slavin likes to teach others and is a little arrogant, he can really help when there is something going on. He is not the kind of guy who only talks big but cannot do anything.]
Since Slavin took the initiative to take on the task, Zhou Xu certainly had no interest in arguing with him about it.
As for Drogo and the others...
They are still covered with wounds. For them, the most important thing is to recover their injuries and regain their strength as soon as possible.
In this case, the most suitable person to do this right now is really the grassland elf.
After briefly finalizing the arrangements for the intelligence work, they roughly confirmed the ideas of the three parties. As for the detailed arrangements in the future, they would naturally have to wait until the intelligence came back.
Without concrete intelligence to support it, it's useless to come up with so many plans here.
"Chief Slavin, I still have to make some arrangements in my village, so I won't stay here any longer."
Having said this, Zhou Xu paused as if he had thought of something.
"Oh, by the way, I will leave a subordinate here. If there is anything, you can ask him to pass on the message."
After saying that, Zhou Xu didn't plan to stay here any longer.
However, before leaving, he simply reached a deal with Silk and took away his two horses.
Now they have become allies. Silk is suspected to be a general on the side of the grassland elves. Considering the subsequent cooperation, Zhou Xu naturally does not want to cause any unpleasantness with the other party.
Not to mention that it's a two-for-one business, it's hard to justify saying it's a loss.
After leaving the elf camp, Zhou Xu walked for a while and soon saw Qiansui dozing on the grass, with one of their cavalrymen guarding beside him.
As early as when he decided to come here, Zhou Xu sent someone back to convey the order and also asked the other party to bring Qiansui here directly.
In case of any emergency, let Li Ce pick up Qiansui and then charge in directly.
"This is Chitose?!"
Last winter, Zhuogo, who lived in the grassland village for a period of time, naturally saw the Thousand Years Old.
But he didn't expect that in less than a year, Qiansui's body had changed so much! Especially his head, which grew too fast.
Now, no matter from which angle you look at it, Qiansui can be called a ferocious beast.
"Let's go back to the village!"
In response to Drogo's question, Zhou Xu simply gave an affirmative answer and then issued an order to return to the village.
As for Drogo and the others, they had already tacitly followed them and returned to the grassland village without him even saying anything.
After all, they have nowhere to go now.
"Call the doctor to treat Drogo and the others' wounds. Also, tell the kitchen to start cooking!"
As soon as the horse was ridden outside the village, Zhou Xu started giving loud orders.
Drogo and the others' stomachs had been growling all the way, and he couldn't help but hear them.
During this time, Drogo and his companions did not act pretentiously. They even entered the village as if they were familiar with the route, and it felt a bit like they were home.
Seeing that they were not unfamiliar at all, Zhou Xu ignored them and quickly called Ye Jinghong to make his own arrangements.
"This is definitely going to be a tough battle. The thirty regular soldiers from Prairie Village and the militia living here are definitely not enough."
"Pass on my order and transfer the ten rattan armor soldiers stationed in Black Moon Village directly here. As for Tieshan Village, it is also in the border area and the troops there cannot be easily transferred. Send Zhou Chongshan to join the battle!"
"Besides that, issue a conscription order and start a new round of conscription!"
A series of orders were quickly issued. There was no need to say much about the troop deployment. As for the conscription work, Zhou Xu actually did not plan to let the recruits go directly to the battlefield.
Once a war breaks out, soldiers who have not received formal training will not know how to cooperate, and will not be able to keep up with the actions of the regular army, and will most likely fall behind.
Rather than dragging it to the battlefield and causing trouble for them, it’s better not to do it.
Under this premise, the reason why Zhou Xu still wanted to recruit soldiers was that he planned to use them as reserve forces and train them first.
If the battle can be ended in a short time, that would be great, but if it drags on into a long battle, he would be more confident with the reserves behind him.
It doesn't mean that after one wave of fighting, the regular army will be wiped out and only the militia will be forced to go to the battlefield.
Generally speaking, when it comes to that, unless the opponent has also suffered heavy damage, there is basically no chance of winning.
Ultimately, the outcome of a battle still depends on the strength of the regular armies of both sides!
(End of this chapter)
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