Volume 7 The Ferryman of the River Styx Chapter 50 The War on Grain
"Guerrilla tactics, of course, cannot determine the defeat of a battle. ”
In Isaac's secret base, Grand Duke Lion, Fernando Sr., said to his son.
"But they can train the soldiers very well, and train the wildness of these soldiers! Let them not be heroes in the barracks and waste on the battlefield!"
"Lingnan County has not had a decent battle for a long time due to the natural danger of the Gray Dragon Mountain Range, and the veterans have all retired and gone home to farm, and those soldiers don't know what it means to stand and fight. I think you have seen the results of the last Verne invasion, these soldiers can only withstand the attack of the other side, and they can't even beat them back! This is absolutely unqualified among the soldiers I brought before!"
Fernando Sr. said.
"After this battle, we may face more battles in the future, the world will be in chaos, we need a wild team, so, let those people go here to toss, anyway, your brother-in-law is also letting us toss, how to toss, it's better to practice by the way." ”
The Grand Duke said with a smile.
"But how are our warriors going to get out of here?"
Little Fernando was very incomprehensible.
"Stupid!"
The Grand Duke smacked his son on the head.
"Why do we want to go back? We're here to fight, and if we don't win the final victory, what are we going back for?"
For weeks on end, the combined forces of Verne and Hugo were caught off guard by the guerrillas that suddenly appeared, and no one knew how they appeared or how they disappeared. The coalition forces have organized several sweeps, but in the end nothing has been fruitful. They are like the wind, coming and going without a trace.
Verne's emperor's brain was full of green muscles, but there was nothing he could do, the other side always maintained this guerrilla method, and all the entire 300,000 troops disappeared on the vast plain of Verne. Moreover, as time went on, their attacks began to advance inland into Verne, and despite the flickering injuries of each other, it was still the Verne army that suffered heavy casualties.
"Once again, we were led by the nose by those dirt buns. ”
Emperor Verne said to Emperor Hugo when he received the report of the battle from the front.
"That's exactly what we want, they blow up their way home, then they choose this path of no return, they won't get any supplies, they will lose all their combat effectiveness, they can only attack local farms, or farms to get supplies, so we don't necessarily need to go head-to-head with them, all we need is for them to rush into our pockets when they are hungry. ”
Isaac was in no hurry to launch a general attack, and Verne and Hugo enjoyed the success, and began to hoard all their massive forces wherever they might be attacked by the partisans, waiting for them to take the bait. But the commanders of the coalition forces are very strange, in general, guerrilla tactics are used on their own territory, using familiarity with their own territory to achieve their advantage. And how could these Isaacs know so much about the land of Verne? Naturally, they could not fly away out of thin air, and of course they could not teleport back and forth, they could only hide themselves in places where no one else could find them.
Verne is a typical mountainous country with hills and ravines, and it is generally unrealistic to find a team that is deliberately hidden from the many ravines and ravines. In particular, the number of the other party is not large, but almost all of them have disappeared into the entire territory of Verne.
Could it be that Isaac had always had intentions for Verne, so they already had a detailed map of Verne?
This is something that many commanders can't figure out.
It doesn't matter if he can't figure it out, because neither Wang Wei nor his father-in-law has any intention of letting the other party figure it out, and no matter what decision Hugo and Verne make, it doesn't make any sense to Isaac. Because all Isaac warriors can easily get their own supplies, and the way they get them is very special.
Whenever the partisans finished a battle, they moved to a temporarily decided location to hide, and after making sure that there was no danger, several mysterious people suddenly appeared. He carried with him all sorts of huge equipment, where he would improvise and assemble it, and eventually, that device would become a massive portal through which large quantities of supplies would be delivered, and the wounded or dead soldiers would be sent away through the portal. Not only that, but the soldiers can also replace their broken weapons, and even receive a letter from home the day before yesterday, and even more awesomely, they can even get a change of underwear!
Each soldier carried three days' worth of supplies with them, allowing them to leave behind all unnecessary clutter and concentrate on the battle with ease. This unprecedented comfort gave the soldiers an inexplicable sense of reassurance, as their commander had said.
"Give me all the best to fight, protect your head when the time comes, as long as you don't die, make sure you can go back alive!"
Even the last layer of concern is gone, so what are these soldiers afraid of? Although no one knows who this mysterious supply officer really is, some rumors point to the head of the legendary hero. said that this was the lord's subordinates, and they came to avenge their leadership.
In any case, their lives were much better than those of the mighty army of two million.
Because the army of two million is really going to run out of food.
Long before Isaac began his attack on Verne, Isaac announced that he would stop all plans to export grain to Hugo and Verne, and instead divided their quota among some small countries. And Hugo and Verne have just paid the high grain subsidy and the first part of the advance payment, and they haven't even seen a grain of grain!
You can't discuss a trade dispute with a country you're fighting with, can you?
Isaac has been stuck with Hugo on the grain issue since he took control of the grain in the Gray Dragon River Valley, and after the grain harvest resumed last year, Hugo and Verne did not see a grain of grain. For these two grain-poor countries, the use of grain reserves has basically become a foregone conclusion, and due to Isaac's strict grain export quota policy, some small grain-producing countries around them do not dare to sell too much grain to them casually. Because they had already received a draft agreement from Isaac on the grain trade in the Gray Dragon River Valley, if those small countries dared to sell Verne more than a certain amount of grain, Isaac would immediately suppress the food prices of those countries internationally.
Those small countries don't have enough harvest in a year for people to throw a few bags away, how dare they compete with Isaac? After all, all their national income is there.
As a result, the small countries were well aware of the current affairs and only symbolically exported some grain to Verne.
And that's just enough for the people of Verne to eat for half a day.
Isaac's premeditation was now fully unfolded, and every political scientist and military scientist secretly applauded Isaac's perfect series of layouts. War on the continent was not so much a contest between soldiers and soldiers as between grain and grain, and in order to maintain a large army, the country had to maintain a large supply of food. This is the most basic need, everything else can be solved, only food is irreplaceable.
Isaac had such a strong series of tactics at the beginning, and even did not hesitate to take a risky move to withdraw from the Far Mountain Council, in order to plan for the future. Isaac, who already controls almost half of the continent's grain share, has actually become a country with a lot of power on the continent, and Isaac has given almost nothing. He became the savior of the Three Kingdoms and the promoter of the times.
Until now, people don't know why Isaac's little Empress Tina was so angry about the attack on a lord, and even went so far as to directly confront the other party.
Because that man is a genius! For other countries, he is an extremely dangerous figure! But for Isaac, every day that man exists, Isaac will advance at a terrifying speed! It can be said that that the man represents Isaac! Even if he wants to be emperor, there will be many people on his side, and the most amazing thing is that the man seems to be more interested in being a lord.
How can such a person not be taken seriously by an emperor?
What's more, many people tend to believe that the current Empress Tina has an inexplicable relationship with this outstanding figure.
"You know, war, the most interesting thing is to fight a war of attrition. ”
Wang Wei took a hard bite of the barbecue in front of him, which was food brought by a Verne merchant. Verne was in turmoil, and many of Verne's big merchants shifted their business focus to other countries. This is a typical prototype of capital flight, which is exactly what Wang Wei wants.
"We use half of the world's grain to supply 300,000 troops, while the other side is using the world's very small grain reserves to supply more than 2 million troops, and we don't need to fight at all, just tell them that we are here, so that they can't retreat. Then without us, they themselves will be able to defeat themselves, all we need is to knock and knock them. ”
Wang Wei said to Hurley, who was at the same table, that he was all dirty, his hair was almost dreadlocked, and he didn't know what was going on.
"So, with me, you can be smart and smart. ”
Hurley's little face was high, and she set the third barbecue plate beside her.
"It's not smart, it's cunning. ”
Wang Wei said with emotion.