Chapter Forty-Eight: The Conquest of the Huns
"My lord! About 50 miles from here, you found a town! Just as the army was resting in place, Qiao Rui rode over and said respectfully. Xiao Ying and the others have been entering the prairie for nearly two days, except for a few villages with no armed forces that have been disposed of along the way, they haven't even encountered an army of a certain size, and the land is veritably vast and sparsely populated. Of course, this is the border between the Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu, which is also one of the important reasons for the sparse population. Although there are no ethnic differences in reality, there is a meritorious service for killing foreign armies in the game, which makes players even more blatant and justified in robbing this area.
"Yes! After the rest, Gongsun Yue led 20,000 cavalry to besiege the town, and I took the remaining 20,000 Xuanjia Tiger Guards to attack head-on! Finally came across a territory with a lot of power, and Xiao Ying immediately excitedly assigned the task. When he stepped into the prairie with great ambition, who knew that after running for more than a day, he only encountered a few small villages and a few troops of only a few hundred people at most, when Xiao Ying was so depressed that he died.
However, Xiao Ying is now looking forward to a large-scale battle, with the scale of the army they are now entering the prairie, they can't carry out the layout of a large-scale battle at all, and there is a serious lack of middle and low-level generals, even Xiao Ying is counted, there are only four main generals when the battle is full, and Xiao Ying and Gongsun Yue are only able to command tens of thousands of troops, with Du Cheng and Qiao Rui's current command value, they can only command hundreds of troops, it is better to fight with Xiao Ying. And Du Cheng is a strategist, and it is impossible for Xiao Ying to be a scout, not to mention Gongsun Yue, she is willing to do it, and Xiao Ying is reluctant, so the responsibility of commanding the scout camp naturally falls on Qiao Rui.
Although theoretically speaking, you can lead as many people as you want, but you can't command so many people during the battle, you can't effectively convey instructions, not to mention, the general's various command effects can't effectively add to the soldiers, the more you exceed your own ability, the lower the bonus effect, and the combat effectiveness is naturally pitiful, which can be said to be a waste of soldiers' lives. The most important thing is that morale will also be pitifully low, and over time, the more you exceed your ability, the faster your morale will fall, and when morale drops to a certain level, the soldiers will naturally start to run away, in short, the gains outweigh the losses. Let's take an example that everyone knows in reality, in a company, you can only be a foreman, and there are supervisors, managers, ministers, etc., and you are a minister, which will only make your work a mess. Of course, the battlefield is different from being in a company, the battlefield is changing rapidly, and there is not so much time for you to absorb other people's opinions before commanding.
Of course, command is a pyramid mode of command, if you have enough commanders to help you command, the number of people can naturally be stacked. However, those commanders need one of the five major positions, and ordinary soldiers, no matter how high the command is, they will not be able to command the corresponding number of people. Therefore, Xiao Ying is now in urgent need of a mid-bottom level general, and ordinary NPC soldiers can automatically switch to the corresponding profession under various special circumstances. In the army, the most common method is naturally to fight, and after gaining rich combat experience through fierce battles, ordinary soldiers will automatically change jobs. And the bonuses of your subordinates to the soldiers under his own command will naturally add their own abilities. Generally speaking, the commander's ability is naturally higher than that of his subordinates, and the bonus is naturally higher. This is also the reason why the Guards are more powerful than ordinary soldiers. Of course, there are exceptions to everything, and subordinates may also hide dragons and crouching tigers, but let's not drill the tip of that horn.
Cultivating a group of middle and low-level generals is also one of the important reasons why Xiao Ying decided to conquer the Xiongnu this time. After all, there are not a certain number of players around him, and he can't effectively lay out large-scale battles, and if he doesn't have the effect bonus of "Emperor Qi", he wouldn't be able to lead an army of 40,000 to fight against the Huns. Like the last time the Xiaoyao Gang conquered the bandits, it relied on the command of thousands of players, otherwise it is estimated that the army would run out before they reached the bandits' lair. The advantage of a large number of players also shows itself here.
After about half an hour, when the army had rested enough, Xiao Ying patted the "meteor" beside him, stood up, Gongsun Yue glanced at him with concern, and also set off to gather the army. Although this is a game, the army does not have the factor of sleeping in Lazar, but it has a hidden physical strength and surname, and it will still be bitter, tired and hungry.
I don't know if it's because of the game, or if the 20,000 Xuanjia Tiger Guards led by Xiao Ying are indeed rare elite troops, and within a few minutes after issuing the order to assemble, the 20,000 troops wearing Xuanjia feet and straddle war horses have been neatly arranged. The military flag of several meters square with the two golden characters of "evil shadow" is grinning in the wind, but it is only one, unlike the military flags in novels and TV, generally a middle and high-level general has a military flag that expresses the problem of belonging to the army, and it is not necessary for a few people to carry a military flag. For example, the 20,000 Xuanjia Tiger Guards all belong to Xiao Ying, and one flag is enough. And Du Cheng and Qiao Rui only have a few hundred troops, but the two of them belong to high-level generals, and they each have a military flag that indicates that they belong to a certain military department of the evil shadow force. The role of the military flag in "Yu Wang" is to condense and improve morale, if it is within the line of sight, all the troops can see the figure of the defeated general, and it is okay to have no military flag. Although there is only one, but if the military flag falls, the morale will be forcibly deducted by half, and there is a high probability that the army will break and flee, of course, if you want to carry a few more military flags, the effect of the number of troops is the same, mainly so that the army under your command can see and feel the existence of the main general, if you are idle, you will not care if you are idle and have nothing to do, and no one cares about you if you put the military flag all over your body or wear the military flag as clothes!
Xiao Ying didn't do anything like boosting morale before the battle, he rode a war horse, followed by the "Meteor", and took the lead in the direction pointed by Qiao Rui. The "Meteor" is now bigger than a war horse, not only is it pure white and good-looking, but its huge body can also give people a lot of pressure. Although the "Meteor" can also be ridden, and it is still very imposing to ride, Xiao Ying has always regarded it as a partner, and rarely "abuses" it when there is a war horse to ride.
The thunderous sound of horses' hooves resounded through the heavens and the earth, and more than 20,000 troops marched forward like a huge torrent led by Xiao Ying on the grassland. Someone once said that there is no road in the world, but when there are many people walking, it becomes a road. More than 20,000 cavalry troops have stepped on, and no matter how lush the grassland is, it has also stepped out of a small road.
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