"Arrogance!"

The Wind Chasing Wolf King snorted coldly, but subconsciously looked at the battle group below and was suddenly shocked.

In a moment, the monk army below unexpectedly arranged a trapping and killing array, trapping all the demon cultivators in the array.

As soon as his body flickered, he was about to rush into the formation to support. Gu Yang also shook his body and blocked in front of him.

The Wind Chasing Wolf King frowned, and his figure disappeared in place again. Gu Yang snorted coldly, once again sacrificed the Thunder Battle Axe, and rushed into the battle array.

The Wind Chasing Wolf Clan is known for its speed, but now that they are in the formation, they can't play an advantage at all, and they are even inferior to other demon clans. Gu Yang rushed directly in front of a kobold demon monarch and slashed him with an axe. Then he rushed to the next kobold shemale king, and another axe.

"Whew-"

The young demon king was furious, and he also began to kill the monks around him. However, the monks all activated the immortal armor, and they were also wearing the inferior immortal armor, and he could only seriously injure it with a claw, and the monk next to him immediately stepped up.

He shot like the wind, and in a breath he blasted away a group of monks around him. However, Gu Yang then rushed up with a battle axe and slashed at him.

This is in the trapping array, and it is not so easy for him to think about the wind again, so he can only cross his claws and take Gu Yang's axe, regretting it in his heart. However, the physical strength of the demon clan is comparable to that of an immortal weapon, and the attack of a hard immortal weapon is nothing.

"Poof—"

The thunder axe slashed, and a wolf claw fell, and blood mist splattered.

The young demon king screamed, and then his body shook and disappeared into the blood mist.

The next moment, a loud wolf howl came from a distance, and countless kobolds immediately rushed out of the formation.

With such a good opportunity, how could Gu Yang let it go, rushed behind a kobold demon monarch again, and cut it in two with an axe again.

After all, the Wind Chasing Wolf is a race known for its agility, and no one can catch up if it really wants to run. And they don't need to run fast, they just need to run faster than their companions.

Seeing that the situation was not good, several demon monarchs who had followed the Wind Chasing Wolf King immediately ordered their men to retreat. But where did their subordinates outrun to win the Wind Chasing Wolf Clan, so they became substitutes for the Wind Chasing Wolf Clan, and in the end, only a few hundred demon cultivators escaped.

"Poor Kou Mo Chase!"

Seeing that the first battalion was chasing after him, Gu Yang shouted, and then ordered:

"Immediately set up the circle and set up the fortress. ”

This time, the crowd came prepared. Gu Yang immediately led a team of formation mages to survey the terrain, and David commanded the Dao Ting Army to surround Zizhu Mountain.

Zizhu Mountain is in the Poisonous Mist Forest and belongs to the undeveloped fairy veins. The mountain is thousands of feet high, and the bamboo covered with purple leaves on the mountain is just right to dispel the poisonous mist in the mountain range.

The purple bamboo shoots abundant in the mountains are not only a good medicine for detoxification of the heart, but also a famous ingredient. Therefore, there is also a small town at the foot of the mountain, which used to be a small immortal cultivator's market, trading some fairy grass and purple bamboo shoots in the poisonous mist forest, but now it is in ruins.

After Gu Yang and a group of array mages surveyed the mountain, they decided to enclose the upper part of the mountain and build a fortress. In this regard, the 72nd Battalion had already prepared, and the engineer brigade then took out piles of refined city wall bricks from the storage boxes, numbering in the millions.

Tens of thousands of Daoting troops went into battle together and quickly turned bricks into walls and watchtowers. The array mage quickly buried the array flags and array plates, and Gu Yang personally marked the city wall with runes, one for each city wall brick, all of which were intermediate defense runes.

In just three days, there was a brand-new fortress on Zizhu Mountain, and after Gu Yang planted the Killing Array, Trapped Formation, and Phantom Formation on the hillside, he left a battalion to run Zizhu Mountain, and then continued to build the road to Chihuo City.

The reason why Red Fire City got its name is because there is a fire vein under the city, and there is a flame stone vein nearby, which is not only a gathering place for the refiners of the Martial Kingdom, but also produces red flame stone, orange flame stone and yellow flame stone, and even occasionally can dig up green flame stone. For Wusheng Pass, Red Fire City is the only way to Yuanwu City, so it must be taken.

The 72nd Battalion built the road step by step, and everything was in order. The Dao Ting Army swept nearby, cleaning up the remnants of the demon beasts within a hundred miles. These demon beasts have not yet transformed, and their intelligence is not high, they belong to unorganized and undisciplined stragglers, and they are inexhaustible to kill.

Gu Yang summed up his recent combat experience and gradually discovered a problem, the limit of elite soldiers. In his previous life, when he led the armored legion to gallop through the stars, he encountered this problem.

That is, the force that a commander can effectively control is not unlimited, but has a limit. In a battle, the number of troops that can play an effective role is not unlimited, and there is also a limit. The difference in the ability of the commanders of the two sides lies in the difference in the number of effective troops. That's why there is such a saying in history:

A person who can be a good regiment commander may not be able to be a good division commander. A person who can be a good division commander may not be a good general. Otherwise, how could there be an allusion to "Li Guang is difficult to seal".

In order to break through the limits of the commander's ability, human civilization has created a hierarchical command system, such as the army commander commanding the division commander, the division commander commanding the regiment commander, and the regiment commander commanding the battalion commander...... In short, it is the superior commanding the subordinate.

However, there are also drawbacks in the hierarchical command system, that is, for each additional layer of the command level, the command efficiency will be reduced by an exponential level, so the command level also has a limit.

In short, there is a limit to the size of a military organization. By extension, there is a limit to the size of all organizations, friend or foe, category, race, and this is the core idea of the Elite Limit Theory.

The Monk has divine consciousness that allows for a flatter chain of command, but there is also a limit to the size of the organization. Although the demon clan didn't know what the "elite soldier limit theory" was, the four demon kings all had only a few thousand subordinates, and the demon king's subordinates were only in their early thousands, less than two thousand. Although Nie Hu commanded tens of thousands of demon clans, he was defeated every time he clashed, which was enough to explain the problem.

With David's abilities, only one battalion could be effectively commanded. And with Gu Yang's ability, he can only effectively command ten battalions. No matter how many people there are, the subordinates can only comprehend the spirit.

With the current size of the Daoting Army, it can be said that it far exceeds the limit of the operation of troops, so every major battle will evolve into a melee.

After Gu Yang figured everything out, he summoned all the senior officers, battalion commanders, and squadron leaders to his side, a total of three or four thousand people, of which nearly half were celestials.

He spread his consciousness and systematically put forward his own military theories, so that his subordinates could comprehend the spirit. There are so many people that he doesn't know who can fight and who can't.

Chief of Staff Zhou Hu was stunned, and then he was fascinated. He has been commanding the army for many years, and he was deeply attracted by this set of theories for the first time. Wu Yi, who has experienced countless battles of all sizes, also beats his chest and pauses, only hating to see each other too late. David, who had been following Gu Yang, also thought deeply and couldn't stop nodding.

Many battalion commanders and squadron leaders looked ignorant, Gu Yang's theory sounded very reasonable and novel, but it didn't seem to be of practical use. Winning a battle depends on cultivation, equipment, daring to fight, and unity...... Of course, no one dared to say it.

Only a handful of them frowned and fell into deep thought. Gu Yang wrote down these people, and this is the commander who can be cultivated.

After Gu Yang finished speaking, he asked everyone to communicate with their divine senses.

"Let me talk about the Battle of Cam Ranh Island, I believe most people are familiar with it. The commander of the Zilan Empire at that time was Marshal Lan Duo, and I was the commander of the Right Route Army. If he had known the theory of the limit of elite soldiers in advance, he would definitely not be stupid enough to organize a front of 100,000 people......"

Zhou Hu was the first to speak, talking about the famous Battle of Cam Ranh Island......

It was a war between the Purple Orchid Empire and the Purple Gold Empire for Cam Ranh Island. Both sides sent more than 100,000 troops, and all the vassal kingdoms participated in the battle. The commander of the Zilan Empire was Marshal Lan Duo, and as soon as 100,000 people entered the battlefield, they lost control, and then evolved into a melee, and finally killed a river of blood. Both sides suffered heavy losses and had to sign a treaty to jointly administer Cam Ranh Island.

Zhou Hu said, and even recorded his memory as a crystal ball man for everyone to watch, all of them gasped, it was so chaotic that they didn't know their own people. Two kingdoms belonging to the same camp are fighting each other, and I don't know if they are red-eyed or have long had a grudge.

The old marshal Lando ran around with his marshal banner on his shoulder, trying to recommand the army, but no one listened to him. In the end, he was besieged by the decapitation team of the Zijin Empire and died in battle, after which the Zilan Empire began to rout.

After Zhou Hu said a few classic examples, Wu Yi also told his own experience. The two veterans unanimously agreed that it is true that fighting a war does not depend on the number of people, but on correct and effective command, otherwise there would not be so many examples of winning more with less.

"The Daoting Army should be reorganized. ”

While everyone was discussing military theories, a crisp male voice resounded throughout the audience.

Gu Yang looked at a young man with clear eyebrows and asked with a smile:

"Oh, then what do you think the Dao Ting Army should be reorganized? ”

The young man was a squadron leader, wearing a set of shiny leather armor, very handsome, but his cultivation was only consummated, and he was one of the people who frowned and pondered when he listened to the lecture before. Seeing everyone looking at him together, he suddenly blushed with shame and was so nervous that he couldn't speak.

Gu Yang waved his hand to help him isolate the divine sense pressure on his body, and said with a smile:

"Say, this is a discussion class, you can say anything. Everyone should be like him, and if they have ideas, they should speak up. ”

The boy stood up, bowed first, and then mustered up the courage to say:

"I don't think the factor of victory lies entirely in command, but what a commander can do is to command effectively. The more reliable the commander, the more assured the victory.

I am a squadron leader, my consciousness is spread, and I command a maximum of three hundred men to fight. And the scale of effective control of the vast majority of people here is between two hundred and five hundred. Therefore, I think that the squadron and battalion-level structure should be eliminated and the brigade structure should be expanded to about 400 people, so that there are just over 200 brigades under the unified command of the headquarters. ”

When everyone heard this, they nodded one after another, but Gu Yang asked with a smile:

"There are so many people here, only two hundred brigades are left, how can other people arrange. ”

When everyone heard this, their faces immediately changed, this kid wants to serve his own rice bowl......