General Larry exhaled a long breath and said: "Forgive me for being rude, sir. Although I understand the necessity of this action, there are only more than 800 people. Isn't the strength a bit insufficient?
Not to mention anything else, even the slightly larger tribes on the grassland are beyond their reach."
Lorraine looked at the direction in which the eight hundred cavalry were leaving and said: "Of course I know this. But there is really no way to do it. The conditions are limited~!
In the prairie, what is most lacking is not food, but water."
"Water source?" General Larry asked curiously.
A guide from Lorraine said: "The further south you go, the drier the grassland climate becomes and the less water resources there are. Orcs continue to migrate every year in pursuit of water sources. Because of this, the Xingxing Lake area has become a holy land for orcs.
, only a few of the most powerful tribes can occupy it.
Our people have gone deep into the grassland. If they want to survive, they can only ensure high mobility so that the orcs cannot catch up with them. They have no strongholds and cannot rest. They must move all the time.
Food and clothing will be enough for them to rob the Orc tribe. Only drinking water is a problem. According to the carrying capacity of the grassland, it can only guarantee the continuous migration needs of a medium-sized tribe, that is, a total of four thousand people.
People and large livestock.”
General Larry took a breath of air and exclaimed in surprise: "So few~!"
Lorraine nodded, sighed helplessly, and said: "It's just too few. For the prairie, there is no essential difference between two thousand cavalry and eight hundred cavalry. This number is not enough to change the balance of power in that area.
.
But for the cavalry participating in the battle, it is crucial.
One person and one horse. A soldier who loses his horse is equivalent to losing his life. One person and three horses, they can move in and out at will without any scruples. Moreover, the fighting method I give them is different from the previous ones."
General Larry's eyes lit up and he said: "Change the cavalry's fighting style? Please teach me."
Lorraine smiled and said: "Once in the far east, on the other side of the Endless Sea, there was a grassland like this one."
General Larry saw what side of the sky Lorraine was talking about, and even though he was confused and didn't know which song Lorraine was singing, he could only listen patiently.
"On that grassland, a powerful empire of nomadic peoples once rose up. It only relied on a core cavalry force of hundreds of thousands of people to conquer and rule most of the continent. Although I have no good impression of nomadic peoples, I have to
Said, they are too powerful." Lorraine said leisurely.
"This is impossible." General Larry blurted out. After he finished speaking, he knew that this was very rude, so he hurriedly said: "I am not questioning your statement, but, even during the war between gods and demons, the most powerful cavalry unit
, the black knights of the demon clan, they have not been able to conquer even an empire with the strength of 200,000 people."
"Black Knight?" Lorraine scratched his head and thought for a moment. He had some impression of the term, but because he was not interested in the battle between gods and demons like a mythical novel, he threw it aside.
According to the book, the Black Knights are a group of powerful warriors with magic and martial arts skills. They hold long spears. Not only are they highly skilled in martial arts, but each of them has the ability of a junior mage. The powerful Black Knights even ride on dragons or nightmares, and wear
Black heavy armor, killing people is like crushing ants.
Lorraine sneered at this. He once laughed at it. This was another epic joke like the one hundred thousand people who surrounded Troy for ten years. There were really two hundred thousand black knights. Not to mention that they could kill people immediately, and their horses could turn into sheep. That was all.
If used as a junior mage, the gods would have been beaten to ashes long ago.
Lorraine waved his hand and said: "What's different? The nomads only have short horses. The light cavalry don't even have armor. The heavy cavalry are equipped with light armor such as leather armor or mail armor. They only use bows and arrows and spears as weapons."
.Often able to defeat heavily armored armies several times their number."
General Larry said in a daze: "How is that possible?"
"Yes, many people still think this is impossible, but they did it. Because they are well-trained, disciplined and have flexible tactics."
"Just like the eight hundred cavalry sent by your Excellency." General Larry said thoughtfully.
"This is just the surface." Lorraine shook his head and said: "The key is that what they particularly emphasize is the mobility of the troops, using long-distance outflanking and roundabout, separate advance and combined attack as the main tactics.
Relying on the high speed and flexibility of this light cavalry, they often perform circuitous maneuvers for hundreds of miles, making it difficult for the enemy to predict and prevent their attacks, thereby seizing the initiative in the battle and dragging the enemy into a battlefield environment that is powerful for them."
General Larry frowned, thought for a while and said, "But sir, troops with high mobility must not have high attack power."
Lorraine spread her hands and said: "In our opinion, yes. But in fact, it is different.
Therefore, the order I gave to Wokar was to never attack the enemy from the front.
I equipped them with enough mages to ensure that they can find the enemy before they find them, and to prevent them from being surrounded by orcs.
After discovering the orc army, attack them only with bows and arrows, constantly harass them, retreat after the orcs pursue them, keep aloof, and run with the orcs hooked until the orcs are exhausted and the formation is scattered.
"
General Larry deduced the tactics Lorraine mentioned in his mind, raised his head and said, "This is why your Excellency must equip each cavalry with three horses."
Lorraine pouted and said, "I originally wanted to match five horses. Our horses are good, but I'm afraid they won't be able to adapt to the climate on the grassland.
There is a joke in Ruman City. A nobleman raised a famous Parthian horse. After taking good care of it, it became a great horse. Later, he rode this famous horse to fight in Parthia. The poor Parthian breed
But the horse couldn't stand the Parthian climate, and ended up freezing to death in the desert. In the end, the unlucky noble had to walk back to Constantine from the Parthian front."
General Larry was stunned for a moment, and then couldn't help laughing.
Lorraine shrugged and said: "So, the most important thing when going deep into the grassland is mobility. For those cavalry, mobility is life.
The orcs can't catch up with our cavalry, but our cavalry can wear them down bit by bit. Then, as long as the remaining people cover them from all sides, they will first cover them with dense bows and arrows, and then rush up to engage in close combat. Eight hundred cavalry
Enough to eat two thousand orc warriors."
General Larry nodded and said: A small group of troops using this tactic can indeed defeat a considerable number of enemy troops. In a large-scale battle, if combined with well-ambushed infantry at this time, it is possible to defeat more with less.
"
"Actually, the orcs have always done this, but because we have city walls and the orcs don't, this tactic has less impact on us." Lorraine said: "I have given all this set of things to Wo.
Carl.”
"But there is no time for him to get familiar with it," Lorraine sighed, and said helplessly: "How much he can achieve and how successful he can achieve depends on his own luck. As long as he can come back from the grassland alive,
Then our Ruman Empire will have another outstanding cavalry commander."
General Larry said: "Wokar is the most flexible officer I have ever seen. He is courageous and decisive. He knows how to advance and retreat."
Lorraine smiled bitterly and said, "Who knows what difficulties are waiting for them in the vast grassland."
General Larry stood up and said: "As imperial soldiers, we have to protect our country. This is our duty. Your Excellency only commanded a few hundred students to face 70,000 Almohads in Maple Leaf Danlin. How could you do that at that time?"
It's not more dangerous than Wokar. If you can't beat him, you can still run away. Sir, you didn't even have a way out at that time."
Lorraine said: "You think so highly of me, I never thought I would die in the Maple Leaf Danlin battle. The Almohads don't know how to live or die, and I still don't understand whose butt they touched."
Lorraine thought to herself: At that time, there were two dragons in the academy, one big and one small. One of them became a dragon spirit when she was old, and Vera was a dangerous person in the dragon clan. I felt very at ease.
As the eight hundred cavalry marched south with a "windy" momentum, the plan to prevent the fire in the orcs' backyard was completed, and the rest was up to them.
Later, the cavalry regiment known as the 'Burning Legion' disappeared from history for some reason. However, a very conscientious historian sharply pointed out: The cavalry regiment known as the 'Wind Wolf'
General Karl, the famous imperial general and cavalry commander, should be directly responsible for the death of one hundred thousand orcs on the steppe, and indirectly responsible for the death of nearly half a million people.
But immediately, the expert was invited to have tea by the "Research Center for the History and Culture of Modern Warfare" of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Ruman, which is known as "fair, open and fair".
Then after patient ideological work by the deputy director of the center, this good young man was finally saved by the gray-haired old man. He truly realized his mistake, changed his ways in front of the old man, and finally returned to his former life.
The pleasant deputy director was sent home in his own special car with the emblem of an imperial admiral.
But these are all things for later.
After sending off the cavalry, Lorraine returned all his energy to the stalemate war on the southern front.
At this time, the two sides were traveling along several cities east of the city of Croni, and they were fighting lively back and forth.
Cities everywhere abide by Lorraine's order, that is, they cannot leave the city even if they are beaten to death. Even if there is only one orc in the city catching rabbits, they must not open the city gate. Without Lorraine's order, the city lord opened the city gate.
Beat the orcs and remove them from office on the spot.
This non-negotiable order was given, and each city lord immediately implemented it thoroughly.
The orcs were allowed to run back and forth freely under the city, peeing and yelling, but the defenders on the city wall just ignored them. At first, they fired arrows to drive them away, but later they simply didn't care.
When the orcs arrived, they waved enthusiastically, asking first "Have you eaten?" and then greeting the orcs' direct female elders.
After Lorraine ordered the walls to be fortified and the country to be cleared, the orcs lived in a better place (the houses outside the city were all vacant, just like us now), but they could not get food or benefits.
Although the orc chiefs kept cheering up the hungry orcs, saying that without supplies, they can't fight? How can that be possible! The Japanese army... ah no, the heroic orcs can endure any hardships. Food can
Take it from the enemy.
The orcs had no choice but to venture more than a hundred miles into Naian to snatch food.
Humans relied on the perfect beacon signal to guard against them early on. The orcs gained very little, and they were always intercepted by the Naian army that came later. After several times of this, no one was willing to risk fighting inside again.
The orc soldiers had no choice but to go hunting in the mountains to the west. The clan leaders did not dare to attack the human city. They could only keep cursing Vechin and Torek, "My grandson, you killed me."
Facing their increasingly dissatisfied subordinates, the patriarchs could only advocate again, "Orcs have been a herbivorous people since ancient times. You are surrounded by such fertile farmland, and you actually report a lack of food? What's going on!"
There are even clan leaders who live in the manor with their entire family of wives. They are very dissatisfied that their orc warriors do not go out to fight, but they keep eating.
These clan leaders ordered that they want to retreat to the grassland because they have no food and cannot fight. Can such people still be called half-orcs with a long glorious history and great tradition, and are forever loved and inspired by the great and glorious ancestor god?
Even if we orcs have no food, we must continue to fight. Can't we fight without weapons and food? This can never be a legitimate reason!
If you don't have a sword, you still have your fists. If you don't have your fists, you can kick with your feet. Even if these are gone, can't you still bite with your teeth?... Don't forget the spirit that an orc warrior should have! The gods of the ancestors will definitely do it.
Bless our...
(Students who are interested can search for the Battle of Imphal, which is very fun)
If the hard one doesn't work, then the soft one will be used. The orcs used their brains and racked their brains to come up with various strategies, showing weakness and acting, just to lure the humans out of the city to fight with them in the field.
However, those human beings are all a bunch of cowards. They all regard their official positions as more important than the heads of a few orcs, and they just pretend not to see the orcs' dedicated performances.
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Although the battle on the southern front has turned into a pot of hot porridge, with beacon smoke everywhere and shouts of killing, Nadel City is still a scene of prosperity with singing and dancing.
Although the tense atmosphere on the battlefield can be imagined from the battle reports posted every day.
But there are no beacon smoke, no wounded, and no damn Orc invaders in Nedel City. Of course, there are still some Orcs. The leaders of the Aquitan tribe have now fallen in love with Nedel City.
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This raging war seems to be far away in the horizon to the Naian people walking leisurely on the street.
Catherine and Adele obviously didn't think so. Lorraine and Vera had been gone for a long time, and every battle report from the south made them worried.
The two of them now manage the entire province on Lorraine's behalf, and have to deal with a lot of administrative work and war-related matters every day, such as allocating logistics supplies and distributing pensions.
Especially when Lorraine didn't even say hello, she had to give a large amount of land rewards to 800 soldiers. This made Catherine very angry and busy all day long. Then she wrote to Lorraine and complained a lot, saying that she
I have a few more wrinkles, I can’t sleep well every day, I have bags under my eyes, etc., etc.
After Lorraine received the letter, she just looked at her shriveled wallet that had just been ransacked by Vera and shrugged helplessly.
Without the support of Lorraine, Leo seemed a little alone, so he had to adopt a strategy of strategic change. He temporarily succumbed to Catherine's power and slowly figured it out, especially since Catherine gave him a lot of winter vacation homework.
Ou was forced to pull his hair and scream every day, and then chased after Melina to copy her homework.
Hilmeria spends every day in Nedel's temple, leading all the members to pray for the soldiers on the front line.
The priests behind Hilmeria saw that although their archbishop held a high position and had a strong backstage, he loved the people like a son and kept praying for the frontline soldiers regardless of his own body. They were all moved and shed tears of excitement.
These death sticks would never have imagined that all Hilmeria wanted in her heart was to let that dead guy come back safely as soon as possible.
Since taking office, Hilmeria has used the Pope's edict to carry out heavy-handed rectification and a series of tricks, driving several disobedient priests and chief priests to the small town in the north. Now the church in Naian
Hilmeria's voice was the only one left.
When the people of Nai'an saw that their archbishop was so concerned about the happiness of the people of Nai'an, they were naturally deeply moved, and even raised their donations to the church to a higher level.
Of course, although the current situation in Nai An Province is very good, it is very good, not a small good. However, it is not without unpeaceful factors.
But Dongchang Jinyiwei, which was built by Lord Lorraine, is not a failure either. Therefore, the quarry outside Nadel City is already somewhat insufficient, and two sub-bases have been opened.
I have to admire the superhuman working ability of Captain Beren, for the people of Naian, especially for the Governor of Lorraine who keeps an eye on the saboteurs inside Naian.
Otherwise, how can we say that Captain Beren is the confidant of the Governor of Lorraine~!
Piliank, the boy in the store at the time, was discovered by Captain Belen and jumped from a busboy in a restaurant to a full-time employee of a venture capital company. He has shown positive performance in front of Belen.
After basic training at the venture capital company, Pilianke officially started his internship. His task was to keep an eye on the man in black who was discovered by him. After a period of observation, Belen has now determined that the man is indeed
There is a problem.
After the man in black paid the bill in the hotel, Piliank knew that he might be preparing to leave the city. He immediately sent someone to report it to Beren and followed closely.
After receiving the report, Beren did not dare to delay and urgently asked to see Catherine and Adele.