Of the entire staff team, Duncan is actually the most experienced in territorial governance. The old butler's master, Earl Winston, had died at the hands of the orcs' butcher's knives the previous year, and although he had been dug up by Roddy, he had never said a word. Obviously, without knowing Roddy's temperament, he did not dare to express his opinion at will.

But Roddy won't let him continue to play dumb: "Duncan, I know you have some experience in large-scale warfare, come, tell me what I am doing now is reasonable, and what is different from what you have experienced." ”

Roddy asked directly by name, where did Duncan dare to refuse, he bent down and saluted in fear, thought for a few seconds, and said in a low voice: "Prime Minister, what I have experienced is really not on the stage..."

"Don't talk clichés, I'm the first in efficiency here, what do you have to say. ”

Duncan choked up, but he had a bit of a liking for Roddy's words... Most nobles like to listen to false empty clichés, that is because they themselves are not good at warfare, not to mention that their brains are not bright, and few people can listen to those complicated statistics alone. At this time, he felt that he couldn't keep it hidden, so he opened the conversation: "Prime Minister, I've always been strange... Aren't you really going to call these lords of your territory to battle?"

The battle of the Karen Kingdom has always been the great lord issuing a summoning order, and the small lords below flock to the city with the knights and servants in their own territory, and everyone gets together to announce the battle plan - usually arrives at a certain place before a certain month and a certain day, and there is no arrangement in the process, and everyone does what they can. The baggage logistics are generally borne by the big lords, and the rest must be collected along the way, or relied on other lords to raise them.

And now it's April, Roddy, as the prime minister, still hasn't issued any "collection order", the only mobilized army is only Sodrol is in charge, except for Elson City, which belongs to Roddy's personal guard, the entire current combat force adds up to only 15,000 people... This is the figure after the "logistics system", that is, the first troops actually put into the battlefield, the total number may be only about 5,000 people.

"Call a group of guys with uneven military literacy to go to war, and drag yourself down before you can do it, I can tell you clearly, from now on, this kind of thing will not happen again. ”

Roddy knew that the staff member was good at numerical calculations, but the ability to calculate alone didn't mean much, and he needed the whole team to keep up with the changes of the times - it would be a wasted effort to just take the previous experience and use it rigidly.

"You must understand that the battle we are going to fight is unlike any previous war. So from now on, you must not follow the framework of previous wars to calculate data, understand?"

His words caused the staff in the conference room to stop their current work, some of them thoughtful, some of them still unable to understand. Duncan, however, was visibly more thoughtful, and replied, "The steps you have taken do seem to be much more efficient now, the roads and trucks have made logistics more than tenfold faster, but... I've always felt like you're spending too much money on logistics. ”

In other words, the knights are either responsible for their own food, and if you want the lord to pay, who will make you have some big fish and meat? After all, productivity is too low in this era.

Now Roddy is building roads, building trucks, and "paving roads" for enough gold to fight a thousand-man battle. In contrast, not even half of the money spent on military pay to train a professional army is reached.

"It's not just the logistics, it's...the 'plane' project also costs a lot of money, Prime Minister, if it's just for reconnaissance, I think it's like spending so much money on research in this area... Not quite right. ”

Duncan's words are actually a mystery that has always existed in the minds of many staff. They don't understand the point of Roddy's spending so much money to give Kardashian to study airplanes, is it really just to curry favor with this dragon?

Although they have created a flying machine capable of carrying people to heaven, this kind of thing has only a limited number of surprises for them... After all, this is an era when mages can fly in the sky, and "flying" is not an unattainable dream for human beings. In Duncan's eyes, a few planes could not change the course of the war at all. What else can you do but be able to detect?

"That's one of the main points I'm going to talk to you about today. Luo Di got up and pointed to the map beside him, "Whether it is a war of tens of thousands of people or a local war of dozens of people, the side that has the initiative has a better chance of winning, you all understand this truth, right?"

Everyone nodded, but anyone who knows a little about military affairs understands that "numbers" are not the biggest factor in determining victory or defeat, but "initiative" is.

"The 'airplane' is the most important tool to help us gain the initiative, as you will gradually understand later. Roddy then slid his finger across the map, from Elson all the way to the Temple, and then to the Imperial City to the south: "You may think that war is going to be a gradual ennibalization and annexation. But from now on, I want you to understand this new concept of warfare. ”

"The most important thing in this new way of warfare is logistics. It can be said that I think the war is fought by logistics, not by the number of people mobilized by each individual. ”

Roddy reached out and pulled out a copy from the pile of documents next to him, which was labeled "March Weapons Production Report", one of the pages was folded, he opened it directly, and handed it to Duncan: "How much do you think this weapon has an impact on the war?"

Duncan frowned and looked at the production list that said "Type III Hedron Energy Cannon", and he couldn't evaluate it for a while - for people in the era of cold weapons, if they didn't watch it live, it would be difficult to understand what effect this equipment similar to "hot weapons" would have in actual combat...

"Prime Minister, such a weapon should be equivalent to allowing the team to fight with several magicians at any time, right?"

Roddy nodded: "It can be understood so. ”

"That's... If it is used on a large scale, we can indeed save a lot of money and greatly improve the combat ability of the army compared to the cost of training magicians..."

Duncan's angle of entry is always related to money, and it can't be helped, who made him deal with gold coins all his life?

"But when you say that war is about logistics, you mean that we need to focus more on... On the road, the plane, and all this armament?" Duncan was a little hard to understand, but he wasn't dead-headed, and since he was sitting here, he had to do his best to understand his boss's intentions. He thought for a moment and replied, "Then we may be facing a big problem now - if we maintain the current investment ratio, we will have to spend much more gold after the war than any previous battle of the same scale. ”

Then he began to list a series of numbers. Because he has been in the staff group for more than half a month, he has already understood everything he should know, and he is now familiar with budgets such as trucks and airplanes, so his judgment of consumption after the start of the war is also extremely accurate.

Compared to Camilla, who had never experienced war, Duncan was noticeably more sophisticated in detail. Because many things are one thing on paper, they often become another situation when they are implemented. To give the simplest example: On the surface, it is said that the daily diet of all soldiers in the army is bread and broth, but when an army of tens of thousands of people is in action, where can I find broth and bread in many places? What should I do if I bring it with me? If I use a refrigeration array, how much will it cost? How much will it cost to consume spars? How much will I have to wear and tear in the middle? If I find a substitute, who will supervise it? How will it be implemented? How much additional expenses will it have?

It's hard for Camilla to imagine something she hasn't experienced. Duncan was well acquainted with this, and added all the details of the military calculation. However, the initial budget for the entire war was higher than before - according to all that was expected, the war would cost at least eight million gold coins!

This is a staggering figure, as it would have cost so much gold to fight for two years in the past. Moreover, with the current gold reserves of the Karen Kingdom, there are actually not so many gold coins at all, and they can only be replaced by equivalent items.

The most important thing is that at the moment this is only about eight months' budget, and if something happens, it needs to be increased at any time.

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