After a while, Wu Tongtong asked a little unwillingly: "Then I have also heard a lot of tactics such as the infinite resurrection flow of skeleton soldiers, the infinite summoning flow, the firing of arrow formations with a large number of low-level archers, and the tactics of absorbing high-level spell classes by energy absorbers, can't they be used here?" ”

Li Ran smiled and continued to explain: "Although these are possible, most of them are just imaginations, as a war, who doesn't want to win with all their ideas, a single arm or tactic may be able to win one or two wars, but once it is detected, it is easier to be restrained, on the battlefield, a defeat may mean never turning over." As for what you said in the early stage, a large number of low-level archers or infantry used suppression or encirclement tactics, but there are so many troops in the third world for you to recruit, even if you have the money and the support of the big guild, but the war itself is not only war, what to do with their food assembly, what to do with eating, drinking, and sleeping every day, and low-level troops are also easy to be suppressed, such as the orc tribes we faced before who paid a lot of materials for it, do not have many high-level troops that can cooperate with each other, even if they have 10,000 and a half orcs, Do you think I'll still keep them close to the city? I don't need archers, I can grind them to death if I let the mages ride on their horses and keep wandering."

Saying so much in one breath, Li Ran couldn't help but take a breath and concluded: "In fact, the meaning of war is nothing more than profit, and it is not practical to fight a few top-level creatures with a large number of low-level creatures, except for dealing with special individuals. This matter itself is a process that outweighs the losses, for example, if you use a thousand two- and third-order big-eared monsters to besiege a team of high-level cavalry, not to mention that you can't catch up with him, even if you surround them. In the end, two or three cavalrymen might be captured, but the big-eared monsters would have to die in the hundreds. What do you think is the difference in value between the two? ”

Wu Tongtong bit his lip and said with some dissatisfaction: "Then I will use a thousand low-level archers."

Knowing what Wu Tongtong wanted to express, Li Ran smiled and continued to explain: "Then do you think the cavalry will enter their range." Not to mention that cavalry can use camouflage to charge to consume archers' arrows, even the first to break through the archer troops can also cause a large number of archers to die, and whether the bows and arrows fired by low-level archers can penetrate the armor of cavalry is a question, and do you think the arrows they shoot don't need money to buy? Don't you take the time to build? I'm afraid that the cost of a salvo is enough to buy a cavalryman, right? ”

Wu Tongtong said depressedly: "Then doesn't this mean that the low-level troops are completely useless?" ”

However, at this time, Li Ran shook his head and said: "It's still the thousand low-level archers, this time with a thousand cavalry, there are always some vital points that can be shot through the gaps in the armor in a volley, plus those who trample to death after the war horses that were shot overturned, maybe they have earned back the cost, at this time, you will divide a hundred archers to stand forward and block the cavalry." The corpse after death can also have the effect of slowing down the cavalry, allowing the archers behind to shoot two more rounds, which is even more profitable. ”

Simulating a possible scenario in his mind, Wu Tongtong reluctantly admitted this fact, and asked curiously at this time: "Then the low-level troops are so useful, why did those low-level orcs sell them last time?" ”

Looking at Wu Tongtong, who was about to break the sand pot and ask to the end, Li Ran smiled bitterly and continued to explain: "There are many reasons for this, the first territory is only so big, and there is no place for them to live. Second, the food is only enough for these people now, and I can't afford to go to the world map to bring food, and third, we are now on the defensive side, and these low-level orcs are of little use. Fourth, we have no choice but to take the elite route now, even if we go out to encircle and suppress these low-level orcs, we can't keep up with our way of fighting. Fifth~ is"

"Okay, master~~ I know" Seeing that Li Ran didn't say anything one by one, Wu Tongtong immediately stopped: "I'll go to Ziyun first to study what kind of troops I want to bring"

saw Wu Tongtong running away with a jump. Li Ran looked at the darkness around him, and couldn't help but shout at her to slow down. She finally had some time to reason with him, and she was still a little impatient. Li Ran shook his head and smiled bitterly, and walked towards the location of the city gate.

The night was uneventful, and when the sun slowly shone into the territory that woke up from sleep, Xia Houben, Tang Shi and others came to Li Ran, and soon Morga and Doric and others also continued to arrive, followed by the archmage Relch and the prophet Tanilov.

Although it was already known last night that the creatures in this encirclement were just a group of big goblins, everyone still waited for the hunter leader Histan to bring the latest information.

Because he was on duty last night, Li Ran decided to let Xia Houben lead the team this time, and Shadow Blade and Ziyun Huakai accompanied him, and the troops mainly led the leopard clan with Xia Houben, and Ziyunhuakai led twenty archmages and several priests. Shadowblade commanded a troop of Dorik's family cavalry.

Glancing at the little Erme who was hiding behind Wu Tongtong in the crowd, Li Ran suddenly called out her name and asked her to follow Ziyunhua to fight, the latter was naturally very excited, knowing that letting Wu Tongtong help intercede had an effect, he smiled at the latter, and ran to the back of Ziyunhua in three steps and two steps.

After watching everyone leave the territory, Li Ran discussed the matter of building a house with Morga and the others.

Just after noon, Li Ran, who was resting in the lord's room, received a report from Morga, saying that Xia Houben and others had returned. Fortunately, there were no casualties this time, and the loot was brought back twenty-two goblins, all of which were third-order except for one fourth-order.

Quickly got up and came to the conference hall with Morga, Xia Houben briefly said to Li Ran, Li Ran said that he had worked hard, and then he was about to hand over all the big goblins to Wu Tongtong, but he was asked to go by Ke Jiaxi on the side.

After a while, according to Li Ran's request, the hunter leader Histan brought the latest frost mastiff situation, they really had no intention of attacking the territory, and after discovering that there was a territory nearby, they chose to move eastward, and moved to the northwest after culling a group of gray wolves as food.

After handing it over, Li Ran inquired about the location of the large orc tribe again, and was pleasantly surprised to find that the two sides were slowly approaching, and immediately asked the hunter Histan to strengthen the reconnaissance again.

In the afternoon, the work of the territory was arranged, and then Li Ran found little Amer, chatted with her for a while, and preliminarily agreed that she would participate in the encirclement and suppression activities, but the premise was after getting the permission of him, the guide.

Seeing that the fatigue point was about to reach the limit, Li Ran yawned and chose to go offline to rest.

However, this time he couldn't sleep well, and when he finally finished eating, washed and went to bed, he didn't sleep for two or three hours, and was awakened by a rapid knock on the door, and when he opened the door, he saw that it was Wu Tongtong.

"Master! Come with me into the third world, the information that Histan brought back said that the frost elephant mastiff and the orc tribe are close" This was Wu Tongtong's first sentence after he spoke.

Shocked, Li Ran went back to the house without saying a word, put on a coat and ran towards the virtual warehouse, and Wu Tongtong followed closely behind.

With a burst of white light, returning to his lord's room in the third world, Li Ran pushed open the door, obviously everyone in the territory had received the news, and they were all gathered at his door at this moment.

didn't think much about it, and after nodding with everyone, he called out the hunter leader Histan to inquire about the specific situation, it turned out that the frost elephant mastiff and the orc tribe, which should have been two or three days later, could have met before, because the frost elephant mastiff chased a group of short-tailed elk and advanced, and now the two sides are only less than ten miles apart, and they may find each other at any time.

"Where are they now?" Bringing everyone to the conference hall, Li Ran pointed to the sand table and said to Histen, the leader of the hunters.

And with the position pointed out by Histen, Li Ran frowned slightly.

This place is much worse than the place where the two sides may meet, and the most obvious thing from the sand table is that it is much farther away from the territory marked by the leopard head statue, which means that if there is an accident this time, they will not even have a chance to escape back to the territory, let alone rely on the defensive advantages of the territory to turn things around, and can only choose to suppress or be exterminated on the periphery.

The same problem, maybe everyone had already thought of it when waiting for Li Ran, looking at the silent lord, everyone didn't dare to speak, this is a major matter related to the survival of the territory, once there is a mistake, not only the people who went out to encircle and suppress may not be able to come back, but also may make the frost mastiff and the orc tribe hate the territory, and it is difficult to say whether the territory can be kept at that time.

A few minutes passed, and Li Ran kept calculating the various situations he might encounter in his mind, and at the same time, after further asking the hunter leader Histan Orc tribe about the strength of the troops, he kept demonstrating the final result in his mind.

This is a long few minutes, the whole conference hall is audible, everyone is holding their breath, Wu Tongtong keeps kneading her palms, and those who have been with her for a long time know that this is a performance that she will only have when she is nervous.

"What's going on around the territory? Are there any biota and tribes that pose a threat to us" Just as Wu Tongtong felt that his palms were sweating, Li Ran suddenly asked. (To be continued......)

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