Strange, this Duke Ivan is crazy?

Luo kills the national situation is different from Da Chu, Da Chu is at least a unified country, all the armies, nominally belong to the royal family of Da Chu, the eight major legions, the government army, the city defense, no matter which one, as long as you hang the name of the army, it must be national and royal.

Of course, the real situation is not the case, the Eight Legions have long been infiltrated by various forces like a sieve, and a Yulin Army is divided into countless factions, even if Wei Wenchang wants to completely control it, it is impossible.

Luo is a private army system, the king has the king's army, the duke has the duke's army, and there are marquises, earls, viscounts, and barons below, which is a country with private soldiers with titles, and even below the barons, there are lower lords.

The so-called lord, put it in Da Chu, that is the level of the small village chief, pick some people in the village who can fight, equip them, and train them a little, this is the lord's private army, which sounds more like a grass platform team.

The baron may own several villages, as well as his own, the largest village, with his own private army. When fighting, in addition to mobilizing your own private army, you can also command the private army of those lords under your command to form a coalition army.

Then there is the viscount, at this level, he may already have a small town, the same, in addition to his own private army, plus the private army of his barons.

The earl owns the city, the marquis owns a relatively larger city, and the duke is the big lord who dominates one side, and when he sends out troops, he has a large number of nobles, each leading his private army to participate in the war.

According to this social structure, if a duke has a large army, the number is more than the number of regular legions in Dachu, but most of these people are here to make a strong appearance, looking at the number of people, but there are not many people who can really fight on the battlefield, saying that they are militia are praising them.

With a knife in your hand and clothes to wear, this is already fully equipped, as for armor or something, you don't have to think about it, if you have a horse at home, you can ride a horse, and if you don't have it, you can walk on two legs, and even some private soldiers need to bring their own dry food.

It's all mixed up like this, and you're still willing to be a soldier?

Of course not, but the nobles, that is, those with titles, have absolute control over the territory they belong to, and the proper emperor of the soil will kill you if he says that if he kills, he will kill you, and in most places in the country of Luo Kill, the system of early night power is still being implemented.

Except for the nobles, all people are slaves, as long as they have a combat unit in their hands that can control the situation, who dares to resist? Killing all the slaves is no different from entertainment for the nobles.

Anyway, those damned serfs can't be killed, as long as they can eat half full, they can keep laying cubs, killing batch after batch, and always dying.

In order to ensure their quality of life, no nobleman will ignore the equipment and training of the private army, which is the foundation of their life.

The best equipment, the best training, the best food, as long as the nobles can get it, will be piled up on the private soldiers, in exchange for the loyalty of the private soldiers.

In the records of the war of Luo Slaying the Kingdom, one of the most powerful grand dukes, in the battle campaign against another grand duke in the neighboring territory, launched a huge attack of more than two million people.

In less than two months, it ended in failure, and his opponent, who had less than 50,000 private troops, 2 million against 50,000, was defeated, and the defeat was very bad.

Afterwards, some military experts analyzed and found that the lord who started the war could not afford to supply two million private troops at all, and this supply could not be afforded, referring not to equipment, but to the most basic food, and in less than two months, two million people ate up the food that the territory had accumulated for three years.

It's not that the Grand Duke doesn't want to save more, in fact, the serfs have never had enough food to eat, and after saving for three years, it is not enough for two million people to eat for two months.

After this battle, the nobles found a truth, the soldiers are noble but not too many, and the final conclusion is to save food.

Seeing such a strange conclusion, Renault, a military layman, couldn't laugh or cry. It can be said that Luo kills this country, and his understanding of war is more earthy than that of Dachu, but such a country has brought strong military pressure to Dachu.

The reason comes from barbarism, Luo kills the nobles and doesn't care how many people die, as long as the private soldiers don't lose much, it's no problem, they can drive thousands of unarmed serfs to consume the enemy, they don't care how many people die, it's good to die, save food.

Saving food is the most important condition for victory in Luo's opinion.

Resisting? non-existent, cannon fodder sent to the front line, there are family members behind you, you die on the battlefield, your family will get a little insignificant first taste, for example, a little tax reduction.

If it is a battle against the water, a dead household registration book is the most basic standard, and it is not uncommon for a dead village to die. The nobles of the Luo Killing Kingdom have always believed that the number of serfs is too many, so many that the powerful duke can never count the number of serfs in the territory.

Luo killed the nobles is not stupid, they know very well that the difference in military strength between the private army and the Great Chu army, even if they use serfs to pile up, without three or five times the strength, they will not be able to defeat each other.

The Duke of Blackwater is a powerful duke, with 80,000 private soldiers, plus the noble private soldiers under his command, it can reach about 150,000, and as for the serfs, the number is large.

King Luo is still very good to Duke Blackwater, and sent a large number of criminals and war criminals to him as cannon fodder.

Of course, Renault didn't know this, and he found that this time, the number of troops led by Duke Blackwater was not as large as the legend said.

What is the legend like? In a war to kill the country, the serfs who are usually overwhelming are in front of them, consuming the opponent's military resources like locusts, and when they are almost exhausted, they will send private troops to fight a decisive battle.

If Luo kills the whole country to attack, Da Chu is afraid that he will have to mobilize most of the legion and army, and recruit a large number of troops before he can fight a national war with it.

But this kind of thing can't happen at all, the life of the nobles of the Luo killing country is even more luxurious than that of the nobles of the Great Chu, but the serfs can't even fill their stomachs, and there is no surplus food to launch a national war.

Therefore, the two borders of Da Chu and Luo Shu have always been small frictions, but there are almost no major wars. Of course, there is also King An at work, an earth immortal, is the pillar of the country, there is an earth immortal, no country dares to use the sword lightly.

No, it's not right. The strength of the Duke of Blackwater, in a head-to-head battle, cannot be the opponent of the Xiangshui Legion, and the difference in strength is at least doubled, and may even be more.

"General Wei, do you have any other information?" Renault asked after looking at the distribution of troops on the map.

Wei Wenchang had a hint of resentment in his eyes, and he wanted to say just now, I was interrupted by you.

According to the news from the secret spies, this time it was the Blackwater Ministry that sent a guide and a small number of troops to prepare for Koubian. ”

The people of Great Chu are very proud, and they don't look down on other countries, although the Duke of Heishui is only one of the many dukes in the Luo Killing Kingdom, this can already be called a national war, and when he arrives at the Great Chu court, he will become Koubian.

What does Kou Bian mean, Kou, robbers too. Directly treating the Duke of Blackwater as a robber, the contempt is very heavy.

said so on the lips, but in fact, the Great Chu Dynasty was like a great enemy. The monarch is newly mourned, the new monarch has not been established, and all parties are moving, and it is very troublesome to kill Kou Bian at this time.

Great Chu has the strength to defeat the Duke of Heishui, and it will be easy, but now the internal instability, until this moment, the political hall has not been able to come up with a plan, when the King of Chu is alive, it will not be like this, even if there is King Wu to contain it, it will respond as soon as possible, reinforcements, materials and even ministers should be on the way.

It is also unexpected news, the Heishui tribe is very backward, but the people's life is not bad, the white water of the black mountain in eastern Liaodong, rich in products, relying on gathering and hunting, it is difficult to go hungry, although it is not as stable as the people of Da Chu, in fact, it is better than many people of Da Chu, at least people will not be displaced by disasters, become homeless, and survive by asking for food.

Moreover, the Blackwater Tribe is not a tribe, but a tribal alliance, consisting of hundreds of small tribes, the big ones have thousands of people, and the small ones are only about a hundred or so people. This tribe is extremely wild, and it has been neighbors with Da Chu for more than 300 years, and it refuses to be naturalized.

Of course, this is also the intention of Da Chu, like this tribe, it is difficult to start a war, the army is coming, people are digging deep in the mountains and old forests, and the army is gone and runs out to trouble you, it is better to open the border market, exchange for some fur, animal meat, wild ginseng and other specialties.

"The spy brought back an uncertain news, Ivan, the Duke of Blackwater, spent a lot of money and asked Luo to kill the Earth Immortal to help in the war. ”

"Earth Immortals?" Renault asked in surprise, and at the same time turned on the scanning function of the God of Wealth, he only looked at the map and the march and distribution of the army before, and he never thought about scanning the human body data, after all, such a large area, tens of millions of people, the God of Wealth scanned all the human body data, it took too long, and it was not necessary.

"Of course, Luo kills the state-owned land immortals. Wei Wenchang glanced at Renault in surprise, how could a country as big as Luo Kill not have an earth immortal?

Secret Master, Earth Immortal, this is the standard configuration of a big country, okay, without these two talents, how can it be possible to establish a big country with a population of more than 100 million?

For a strong country, it must have an earth immortal, or have ever owned an earth immortal.

The God of Wealth's scanning is in full swing, but with so many people, it can't be finished for a while.

Renault understood a little, Luo Killing's intelligence system is much more clever than the Great Chu people imagined, it has only been seven or eight days of hard work, and the disappearance of King An against King Ming has already reached the Duke of Heishui, although this speed is not as fast as telegraph and telephone, it is not slow, you know, from Los Angeles to Liaodong, there are more than 20,000 miles.

"Duke Blackwater knows about King An?" asked Renault.

Wei Wenchang nodded slightly, this possibility is very likely: "If you use flying birds to communicate, it is possible." ”

Flying birds, creatures similar to carrier pigeons, are much faster than flying pack beasts with three wings, and it is said that there are many more species.