Chapter 324: Diverting the Tiger from the Mountain (I)
Although it is said that directly the whole army set off and ran over it, it has always been the simplest, crudest and most effective method.
With a dignified and upright teacher, the right way is the art of war. If you use too many risks, there will always be some omissions, and if you are not careful, you will often lose all the games.
However, this method can only be used casually if there is an overwhelming advantage in strength.
If the strength of the two sides is about the same, such a simple and crude approach is easy to fall into a disadvantage.
ambush, flanked, flooded, fired...... Or the other party is holding the fortified city and waiting for work, so that their own side will hit their heads and bleed. Either way is uncomfortable.
Unfortunately, according to the investigation, there are probably nearly a thousand of those monsters, and there are many cultists to help.
Although the earl, Luo Ming and those small nobles have gathered an army of more than 3,000 people, the elites who can fight are only in their early 1,000s, and considering the problem of general cooperation, the difference in strength between the two sides is not obvious.
Now, it is his own side that sets out to attack the other party, and the location is on the other side, so naturally he can't be careless.
After a period of deliberation, the strategy was also decided.
Leave it alone, they will eat a lot of livestock and even humans every day, and their individual strength will continue to grow, and then they will be able to bring back more food for the nest.
And as long as the monster lair absorbs flesh and blood nutrients, it can create more monsters.
Therefore, it is necessary to cut this chain directly from the source.
If you just kill monsters, the nest can also regenerate some monsters.
If the nest is destroyed first, then the monster will naturally become a source of water, a tree without roots, and you can win by slowly reducing their number in a war of attrition.
Although Luo Ming felt that this strategy was more idealistic and doubted whether it could be implemented smoothly, it was a matter of man.
First of all, you have to try to do it.
If it succeeds, it is gratifying, even if the strategy fails. With the help of a hot air balloon, the field of view is greatly broadened. Luo Ming can detect the defeat in advance, and lead the troops to retreat in time, without suffering too much loss.
Although it is a bit pessimistic to say this, it is also a kind of caution to say defeat before victory, and to think about retreat before thinking about progress.
In fact, as long as this strategy is not a sure failure, or puts Lomin in the most dangerous and easy-to-fail place, then he will not refute it.
If you want to say why, although he has a certain strength, he has only been a nobleman for a short time, and others may not believe him.
Before the war, he said, "This will fail," and not only would others not listen to him, but they would even think he was too pessimistic.
After the real failure, Luo Ming's previous statements proved the stupidity of others even more. How could they have a good face for Luo Ming? Maybe they would complain indiscriminately about why he didn't try harder to stop him in the first place, and even think that he was just watching a joke now.
In that case, why would he do such a thankless task?
It's better to keep the words silently in your heart, be vigilant yourself, and have a few more eyes.
If you win, that's it, and then you'll be rewarded for your deeds. But if it fails, you will naturally be able to take the lead by preserving your strength to the greatest extent.
When the time comes, he will naturally be able to come up with another effective strategic approach.
After all, Luo Ming comes from an information society, and Aya is also a well-known and modern battle, and there are as many examples as there are that can be used as a reference......
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With a large force of 1,200 men, Luo Ming came to the top of a small knoll.
The strategy to be tried this time is to divert the tiger from the mountain.
His forces will divert the enemy's main forces as much as possible, and then the superior forces of the coalition will attack the monster's lair while they are empty.
And the core of diverting the tiger from the mountain is how to divert the main force of the enemy army.
Conspiracy such as deception and provocation is not the right way after all, and it is likely to be discovered.
Therefore, the top brass of the coalition forces worked out a conspiracy.
There are nearly a thousand monsters near that lair, although they are omnivorous, but they have a great demand for meat, and if they don't have enough meat, their physical strength will decline and their combat effectiveness will decline.
Well, there's an obvious problem – there's not enough meat there.
Although there is a barony there, even if the barony is scavenged, it is only a thousand people and hundreds of domestic animals.
In fact, it was the cultists who fed the monsters to such an inflated number. They bought, looted, and stole large numbers of livestock, or acted as an internal and external co-operative, breaching certain strongholds and forcibly taking the population of them to feed on monsters.
It just so happened that the Inquisition had information on a road - about a few hundred livestock would be driven from this direction to the monster's lair.
As long as Luo Ming led his troops to intercept this group of livestock, and showed that he had a lot of troops, but it was not too large, then he naturally did not worry about whether the enemy would send the main force to find trouble for him.
This is equivalent to cutting off the grain route in a war between human beings, and attacking the enemy will be saved.
And it also gave the enemy a chance to be able to destroy Login's army.
Of course, Luo Ming also has his own considerations.
Divert the tiger away from the mountain - he and his 1,200 soldiers are bait.
The main force of the other party will definitely pounce and launch a strong attack, hoping to deal with him as soon as possible, and then save that large number of livestock.
Even if the Earl and the others go to raid the monsters' lair and make the monsters plan to retreat, their own side will have to delay the withdrawal of the other party's troops as much as possible - otherwise the Earl and they will be attacked on their backs.
Of course, it doesn't matter if you sell such an opponent as the Earl, but the large army of the Inquisition is also there, and if they are sold together, Luo Ming will definitely have no place in Van Shee County.
From a traditional point of view, whether it is to force the main force of the enemy army or delay the retreat of the enemy army, it will cause a lot of casualties.
Although Luo Ming does not intend to spoil his soldiers as flowers in a greenhouse, he also does not intend to waste their lives for no reason.
His total population is far less than 10,000, and every life is as precious as a gold coin for him today.
Moreover, if the losses were heavy at this time, perhaps the Count would have defaulted on the debt.
The earl can't afford to rely on everyone's accounts, but Lai Luoming's account alone is still fine, anyway, the two of them have a holiday, and others will not be surprised.
At that time, even if Luo Ming, who had suffered serious losses and losses, wanted to trouble the earl and collect debts with arms, most of them would not be able to defeat him.
During this time, Luo Ming's reputation rolled like a snowball...... It's a big snowball, but it's definitely not as hard as ice.
The slightest mistake, such as a fiasco, will cause the snowball to collapse.
However, Luo Ming dared to take on this task, and naturally was: how dare you do porcelain work without a gold diamond?
Luo Ming arrived at the predetermined ambush site three hours ahead of schedule.
Then, he took command of his subordinates and began some civil engineering.