To deal with a caravan, do you need to send a fully equipped army?

Sometimes it is needed, but Trussier believes that this time it is not necessary at all.

In the past, when dealing with some large caravans, not to mention dispatching one legion, there were cases of dispatching several legions. For example, two months ago, in order to deal with a caravan that had purchased 20,000 tons of industrial salt in Salt Lake City without paying protection money, the black group dispatched three legions in one go, and killed half of the caravan's guards in just one hour, looting and harvesting more than 30 million ounces of gold.

Legions are definitely needed to deal with large caravans, but not all large caravans need to use an entire legion.

That's right, it was a large caravan that bought more than two thousand entertainment slaves in Las Vegas, and tens of thousands of guns in Salt Lake City, with a total of nearly three thousand personnel, and more than two hundred vehicles. The problem was that the total number of escorts for this caravan was just over four hundred. According to the custom, a caravan with a number of nearly 3,000 people must have at least a thousand escorts, otherwise safety is not guaranteed.

Plundering caravans is not so much against caravans as against caravans.

Interestingly, not only was the caravan severely undersized, but it was also dominated by freelance mercenaries and a small mercenary corps. In contrast, it is a huge scale and expensive cargo. More than 2,000 recreational slaves, plus nearly a hundred truckloads of munitions, were worth 50 million ounces of gold in Denver's market, equivalent to ten times the amount of cargo transported by other caravans of the same size.

What is the concept of 50 million ounces of gold?

It costs a little more than 4,000,000 ounces of gold for a month and 50,000,000 ounces of gold for a year. If this caravan traveled between Denver and Las Vegas with the same amount of cargo, a year's profit would support six such legions. The Denver Chamber of Commerce's annual profit is only a few hundred million ounces of gold, and it can only support a maximum of eight such legions.

That is, the profitability of this caravan is close to that of the entire Denver Chamber of Commerce.

Troussier couldn't figure out why this caravan could get out of Salt Lake City unharmed, and leave the black syndicate uneventually.

In anyone's eyes, this caravan is a big fat pig that has been raised, and it is a fat pig in captivity.

How could a predatory separatist like the Black Syndicate in Salt Lake City let go of this fat pig?

On the third day of his arrival on the east bank of the Green River, Trussier figured out that the caravan had paid the equivalent of 10 million ounces of gold in Salt Lake City. Without doing anything, you can get a protection fee equivalent to 20% of the total value of the caravan's goods, and the black group will naturally not deal with this caravan.

The problem is that when a caravan travels from one city to another, it inevitably enters other territories where the division is strong.

Trussier felt that the captain of the caravan must have had something wrong with his head.

If the other large caravans were wild boars with thick skin, and the sharp fangs could discourage the other beasts hiding in the jungle, then this caravan with few guards and extremely large scale was the domestic pigs released from the pigsty together, not only did not have hard skin, nor sharp fangs, but only fat that made the beasts drool.

According to the law of the jungle, such a caravan has no possibility of survival at all, and is only worthy of filling the mouths of others.

It's just that Trussier is a little confused. Do you need to send a whole legion to deal with this caravan, which has just over 400 guards and is all a rabble?

That's right, Perez is finished, and it is likely to be the masterpiece of this caravan.

The problem was that Perez fled Las Vegas with only fifty guards, and when he left Las Vegas, he had one of the deacons register to leave the city, not in his own name, so his caravan didn't actually pay protection money to the Las Vegas white group, and safety was not guaranteed. With such a small caravan, it is common for the whole army to be wiped out on the road.

Obviously, the fall of Perez does not mean that his enemies are strong enough.

In Trussier's view, a large group of robbers could wipe out Perez's army, let alone a convoy of more than 300 people.

In addition, Perez has a lot of foolishness.

For example, more than 300 guards were sent to attack a manor that was guarded by a considerable number of guards and had been deployed for defense. Not to mention the escorts, even if it is a regular legion, when the strength is equal, it will not rashly attack the enemy who has been prepared for defense.

Perez died on the road, and he was completely to blame.

Of course, Perez's death has more to do with funding. If it weren't for the sudden cut off of funding, Perez would have had no reason to run away.

None of this is enough to show that this caravan is strong enough.

In Trussier's opinion, if the sneak attack was successful, it would only take a maximum of 500 men to take out the caravan. Even if the sneak attack fails to turn into a strong attack, only a thousand people are needed. Even if you include the pursuit of slaves who escaped while the chaos was in place, and the control of nearly 100 truckloads of munitions, only 1,500 people were needed.

It's just that the above let him bring the entire legion, a full 5,000 people!

It is important to know that letting the legion come out to fight and feeding the legion are two completely different concepts.

Dispatching the corps means a lot of fuel consumption, more food consumption, casualties, and the need to prepare enough medicines and provide pensions for the wounded. As for the officers and men of the legion who died in battle, there was no need to compensate for anything. More importantly, the regiment had to pay officers and men a combat allowance of 10 ounces of gold per month, and officers were given a monthly allowance of 100 ounces to 10,000 ounces according to their rank. That is to say, as long as the legion opens a garrison, whether it is to fight the enemy or to camp in the field, it means that hundreds of thousands of gold will be spent every day, millions or even tens of millions a month, which is equivalent to several times the daily supply. If there are large combat casualties, or serious equipment losses, the cost is even more incalculable. Sometimes a battle is fought, and a legion costs hundreds of millions of ounces of gold. For example, in the battle against Fort Collins, Denver dispatched five legions, and the battle lasted less than a month, costing more than 400 million ounces of gold.

It can be seen from this that the size of the legions sent to plunder the caravan is not to see whether it can be successful, but to see whether the raid is profitable.

Regular legions in various places rarely sent out to raid caravans, especially large and powerful ones, and the point was that raiding did not bring much benefit. If the operation lasted for a month, it would not be profitable for a caravan with 10 million goods to send a raiding force of 1,000 men. If you take into account the battle casualties and losses, especially if the large caravans generally have their own escorts, the raids are basically a loss-making business.

Obviously, this is the main reason why the black group did not loot this caravan.

If the caravan leader had been ruthless and had killed all the slaves when they were raided by the legions, the raiders would not have gained the slightest.

According to Trussier's estimates, this operation will be unprofitable, even if the casualties and losses are negligible.

The point is, there are too many people dispatched.

Trussier couldn't figure it out, and he didn't need to figure it out, he just had to carry out the order. It was the Great Rabbis, the supreme ruler of the Jewish bloc, who gave the order. It was a strange order that the legion could not cross the Green, and if the caravan was still on the west bank of the Greene a month later, Trussier would lead the legion back to Denver. If, within a month, the caravan crosses the Green River, it is resolutely destroyed.

Although he did not understand why the Great Rabbi gave such a strange order, Trussier was absolutely loyal to the Great Rabbi and believed that the Great Rabbi was the only wise man in the world. In just a few months, the Grand Rabbi not only created the Jewish group, but also built the Jewish group into the most powerful separatist force in the west, and built Denver into the most prosperous city in the west.

Without the Great Rabbi there would be no Jewish clique, and in the hearts of all the members of the clique, the Grand Rabbi would be the supreme being.

Like the rest of the group, Troussier not only obeyed the Grand Rabbi unconditionally, but also had an unwarranted blind worship of the Grand Rabbi.

In accordance with the will of the Grand Rabbis, Troussier's legions were stationed on the east bank of the Green River.

Although a lot of supplies are consumed every day, and the mood of the officers and soldiers is not very stable, the materials are sufficient, and Denver has also sent a group of camp prostitutes.

Three days earlier, the caravan had arrived, camped on the west bank of the river, and did not seem to be in a hurry to cross it.

The caravan did not cross the river, so Troussier complied with the orders of the Grand Rabbi and had the legion set up on the east bank, and then sent scouts to search and monitor the nearby riverbank.

Big deal, spend a month here.

Besides, it's definitely not the legion that can't afford it.

From Salt Lake City to Denver, a caravan transporting all the people and goods by vehicle would take only ten days at most, so it is likely that the caravan only prepared food for fifteen days. Until they run out of food, the caravan has only two options: crossing the Green River or returning to Salt Lake City.

That evening, as he had done the other day, after dinner, Trussier ordered the orderlies to send his two favorite camp prostitutes to the commander's tent, and he made his rounds around the camp. Although he was already the commander of the legion, Trussier did not forget that these were troubled times. If you want to survive in troubled times, you must be careful, and you must understand a truth, that is, you must do your job well before you have fun.

The camp is huge, and it takes some time to walk around the camp.

When Troussier returned, the lights in the tent had been extinguished, but by the moonlight shining through the door, two camp prostitutes could be seen lying on their beds. These two little ladies are two of the youngest and most beautiful of the camp prostitutes sent by Denver, and one of them is still a young girl who has not been opened. Thinking of the feeling of ecstasy last night, Trussier immediately moved his fingers and walked straight over.