Chapter 157 Dilemma
Ryan waited silently for ten minutes. When he knew Duke had arrived, he came to the chamber and began the military discussion.
Before the battle to defend the city of Stormwind City began, the nobles who were still shouting that "even if there are millions of orcs, they will die under Stormwind City" were all silent.
As expected, the topic changed from how to kill the orcs to how to evacuate.
Evacuation is not an easy task. Even though the women and children had already started to evacuate several months ago, it was not that they didn’t want to evacuate, but that there were not so many ships at all.
No one blames Duke, and if it weren't for Duke, the situation might have been worse. The simplest example is the new Storm Harbor, which extends all the way to the stone pier in the sea. It is more than ten times more transport than the original narrow military port and the beach-based fishermen's pier?
There is also transportation capacity, I really don’t know what Duke is thinking. Almost all ships directly under Duke are typical large cargo ships, and they don’t even need to be modified, and they can be used to carry cargo directly. The spacious cabin and good ventilation make it full of people like canned sardines, and there will still be no major problems.
Unfortunately, considering the voyage, no matter how the ship is almost overloaded, it can transport more than 5,000 people per day on average.
At this moment, there are still more than 300,000 soldiers and civilians trapped in Stormwind City.
There are only so many ships, it is no exaggeration to say that almost all the ships in the human world are here. Even if Storm Port and the shipyards in Kultilas work overtime day and night to build ships, the capacity will not be greatly improved in a short period of time.
The shortage of transportation capacity is the biggest problem that blocks Ryan.
The Storm Kingdom in "History" was also severely damaged for this reason. After raiding Karazan, the orcs advanced faster than in this life, all the roads they came were blocked. Losa was unable to return to Storm City. When he rushed back to Storm City, Ryan was already in an underground secret chamber, and was killed by Garona under the witness of the little prince Varian.
There were no leaders in the group of dragons, plus the garbage at the port, and insufficient ships. As a result, when Stormwind City was captured by the tribe, more than 80% of the citizens who had no time to escape were slaughtered.
Losa only brought less than 20% of the Storm Kingdom citizens and the orphan and widowed mother left by Ryan to Nanhai Town. Without soldiers, no one, and no weapons to supply, the almost poor Losa went straight to the point of ending his life.
This is why later generations Lothar announced as a direct descendant of Solatin to abandon the imperial power of Solatin, and at the cost of recognizing the legitimacy of the kings of human countries, in exchange for the establishment of an alliance and jointly resisting the invasion of the tribe.
In this life, with Duke's existence, the course of history has long been greatly changed.
At least Ryan is still alive, and now more than 300,000 citizens have been transported to Nanhai Town. Regardless of the loss of Storm Kingdom as in history, it is obvious that he has saved his vitality in this life. (Due to the large number of citizens and Duke sent people there to prepare for a large-scale construction in the morning, both the Rapids and the Altlan have voices of dissatisfaction. They doubt whether the guys from Storm Kingdom came here and refused to leave.)
King Ryan knew very well that Duke had reached his limit. But evacuation was not something that could be evacuated just by evacuation, nor was it a simple mathematical problem. Oh, 300,000 divided by 5,000 will be evacuated in just 60 days.
It was beautiful to think that hundreds of thousands of orcs were eyeing the outside. Once the city was broken, all the remaining people would be instantly packed with dumplings and could not escape. The only ones who evacuated in the first few days were the more dangerous they would be.
Now, counting all militias and city guards is 90,000 people. It sounds like a lot. Once the decisive battle is over, it will take only half a day to defeat all the people.
"Stormwind City can no longer be defended. For the sake of the continuation of the kingdom and the future, we unanimously suggest that the noble queen and His Highness Varian should evacuate first." Several dukes stood up together and advised him in the first place.
When Losa heard this, he snorted coldly from his nose.
Why ask the queen and the prince to retreat first? Isn’t it just that the mother and son do not retreat, and you guys who are greedy and afraid of death dare not make taboos to withdraw first?
If the upper beam is not straight, the lower beam will be crooked.
The upper beam is upright, and the lower beam is wrong, and if you want to ask whether the upper beam is willing or not.
The nobles dared not ask about the queen and prince erecting here and withdrawing their children. Now, the Storm Fortress almost fell, which gave them the best excuse.
Ryan swept through these nobles, and none of them dared to really look at Ryan's burning eyes.
After pausing for a moment, Ryan said: "Yes, all noble women, the first heir of the family, who have not served in military positions, or the children of minor nobles, can evacuate with the queen and the prince. Don't worry, when the bloody battle is meaningless, I will not ask you to defend the whole with me."
Ryan's reply made the nobles really intertwined with joy and anger.
Fortunately, Ryan finally gave up, giving their offspring an excuse to distract.
What was angry was that Ryan still did not allow any escape at the last minute. The Storm Kingdom was established for thousands of years, and he used military merits to protect his titles and advanced with military merits. This led to the nobles' efforts to make their children stand out in the army in order to make their children stand out, and even the boy from the Brando family who had conflicts with Duke before took the initiative.
Now, Ryan blocked these guys' escape route in one go. Except for a few who had great reasons to run away, the rest would have to live and die with the king.
Those who arranged for their offspring to run away in advance were naturally secretly happy.
Not that smart, now they all look like they have just eaten arsenic as a snack.
Ignoring these guys, Ryan focused his attention on another important issue: "Losa, if I put the whole city's combat power at your disposal, how many days can you hold Stormwind?"
Lothar thought for a moment: "Just relying on the 16-foot (5-meter) high city wall? If the orcs use it as the breakthrough point... in 10 days, there will be no more, and at least 30,000 people are required to cut off the rear, this group of troops will definitely be destroyed."
As soon as the words came, there was a commotion in the noble group, and almost everyone was thinking about their own little thoughts.
Ryan turned his head to Edwin Van Cliff, who looked a little uneasy on his face: "Van Cliff, can I do it if I ask your people to urgently build 50 arrow towers and catapult towers over 20 feet high on the east wall? How many days will it take?"
Chapter completed!