72 Battle Plan

Meng Yi had just finished his thoughts when he got a report stating what he had just described. There was a large army headed right for him, if this base falls, the sim would end up as their defeat. Meng Yi decided to fill Baron in on the situation.

(MY) "Baron, it is as you have described. There is an enemy army fast approaching my location."

(BM) "I'm quite surprised that your brother and Guan Yu would be so bold as to ignore all the other bases along the way and go straight for the main base. It is a plan that makes no sense and is hardly ever used since it would expose them to a myriad of flanking maneuvers."

(MY) "I believe that my judgments are to blame for this. Had I not chosen to make the bases pretty much on steep mountains, they would never had the gall to implement such a crazy plan."

(BM) "That matters not now, we will just have to do our best to cripple them now that they are in enemy territory surrounded on all sides by enemy soldiers."

(MY) "Hmm, yes. I hope you understand that I will have to recall the troops that I had just sent out to reinforce the other bases."

(BM) "Don't worry about us, we will manage with what we have. The most important objective is to protect the main base where you are."

(MY) "Be careful, if they are attacking me, then that surely means they are confident that they can stall you two long enough for them to do so."

(BM) "I understand."

The two of them immediately sprang into action by giving out orders after orders. Meng Yi gathered as much soldiers as he could and prepared to hunker down and protect the main base of operations. Baron, on the other hand, had to go back to Yue Fei and come up with a way to make sure they don't lose. There was one main reason for Baron deciding to do this instead of going to help Meng Yi.

Yue Fei only had an army of 80,000, less now that he had been doing battle for a few days. If the enemy was doing what he thought they were doing, then there would just be multiple more enemies armies coming to stall them. Since, they could not get any reinforcements as of yet, they decided to just weather the storm until the army that is targeting their main base is defeated first. All the extra personnel from each base will form up into multiple armies and go to the main bases' aid.

The only thing that confused Baron was why they had chosen to send a completely different army to take out one of their outer bases if they were just going to target the main base. Surely if they could spare these men, they could put more into the army targeting the big players. For now though, Baron left them alone and hoped that his side would come out victorious. The main priority for him was to ensure that Yue Fei didn't get captured by the enemy. That would be a devastating way to effectively lose at least a third of their commanding power.

Baron had an epiphany then and there while traveling to Yue Fei's position. The enemy must have spent quite a number of their forces to attack them this time, perhaps even the majority of it. Baron then radio-ed one of the southernmost basesand ordered them to send a small recon unit to assess the enemies' defenses. He also had them do it in the fastest manner they could. The southernmost base immediately sent out a 10 man unit with some of their fastest vehicles to fulfill their orders.

Even with their fastest speed, Baron reckoned that they would take at least another few days to complete their assignment. He only needed to ensure that the enemy wouldn't wipe out Yue Fei. As soon as he made it to Yue Fei's battlefield, Baron made haste to ambush the enemies from every direction possible. Soon after, they had once again retaken the advantage and were gradually pushing the two enemy armies away.

This was the case until another army only 15,000 strong cut in from another angle, the newcomers may not make a huge difference, but just the morale drop from the troops were just staggering beyond belief. Baron and Yue Fei took another few days to nearly drive the enemy away until yet another army also 15,000 strong came in from their blind side to deal a devastating blow.

Things were not going well for Baron and Yue Fei, the enemy was playing them in the palm of their hands. Not only was the new enemy reinforcements equipped with better vehicles and destructive weapons than the previous armies, Baron was starting to worry that there were even more enemy soldiers nearby that would move at the drop of a hat to attack at the worst possible time. It was then that Baron received the report that he was waiting for.

The assessment that he had ordered to do for the enemy bases. Just as he had expected, many of the enemy bases were near empty and most had come to stall Baron and Yue Fei. They also reported that they scouted all the way to the enemy's main bases where it seems there was an army much bigger than it should have been stationed there. Since they were a small unit they all managed to make it out before the enemy saw them.

Baron told Yue Fei at the end of the day when the fighting was put to a stop of the situation and of his plan to take a large detachment to target the enemy's main base as well.

(YF) "What about the soldiers? You can sneak out alone with a few guards, but where would you getan army?" Yue Fei asked.

(BM) "I have already ordered some of the bases that is furthest away from the two battlefields to prepare an army and move to multiple outposts that are just a few kilometers outside of this battlefield. I'll sneak out with a few guards and lead them to smash the enemy where it hurts and win the sim." Baron replied.

(YF) "Seems like you had them posted there for some time now."

(BM) "Indeed, if the situation was unfavorable for me to deal a sizable blow to the enemy I would have used those 100,000 to relieve our soldiers of the constant fighting that they had to endure for the past month or so."

With that, Baron and a few others slipped into the night and disappeared from sight. The only one who knew was Yue Fei.