Gu Shiyu got dozens of pikemen and archers as promised. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoAlthough these people have low combat effectiveness, and the defense of the city is barely enough, and the field battle is not worth mentioning at all, it is better than nothing. Gu Shiyu had no choice but to pay for it himself, and recruited more than twenty retired swordsmen from the castle with high salaries.

When these mercenaries stood in front of Gu Shiyu, Gu Shiyu's expression was slightly complicated. What displeased him was that there were too many old men in the team, not to mention the gray beard, almost everyone began to get fat, with a big belly, and the peak of physical fitness was obviously over. I am slightly satisfied that all of them have big shoulders and round waists, and they still look quite powerful.

When the old men saw Gu Shiyu's eyes, they immediately understood that Mr. Governor thought everyone was too old. So a few old men patted their chests and said, "Don't look at us old, Lord Governor, we can still swing the heaviest sword like a young man, and we don't pay attention to three or five young men!"

Gu Shiyu's face showed joy. Perhaps their invaluable combat experience can compensate for the lack of stamina and speed.

The young people are not happy anymore! Aren't you robbing the young people of their work, and how will you tell us to mess with it in the future? God has never robbed human beings of their work, so how can you rob God of the work that God has ordained? A few young spearmen immediately stepped forward to challenge.

Among the human warriors, those with average qualifications can only be spearmen and archers, those with slightly better qualifications can be swordsmen, and those with outstanding skills such as strength, speed, and reaction choose to be heavy cavalry, and those with outstanding qualifications can be heroes. And the further you go, the longer the training cycle and difficulty. For example, cavalry, in addition to training group combat methods, also has to go through harsh guerrilla and field survival training, not to mention heroes. In addition to practicing in winter and summer, heroes must also have to be lucky enough to get the favor of the fire, otherwise they will only have the life of a knight.

Gu Shiyu didn't know what was going on, maybe it was smoke on the ancestral grave, otherwise how could he get the favor of the fire? The most infuriating thing is that this kid not only smoked on the ancestral grave, but also got fire on the grave, and actually got two fires!

Under normal circumstances, a swordsman can fight more than three spearmen, while a cavalryman can face at least three or more swordsmen. As for how many heroes can fight, it depends on the individual's cultivation, strong heroes, and even use Doomsday Judgment to wipe out an entire army!

Now an old man stood in front of the group, flapping his shield with his iron sword, and faced the four pikemen alone without fear.

"Wait!" Gu Shiyu shouted loudly, "Do you have any wooden guns and swords for training?" I don't want to see anyone shed blood!"

"Lord Governor, wooden guns and swords are for children who are new to martial arts, and if it is a man, he should use a real weapon to attract blood!" the old man shouted loudly and began to swing his sword at the attack.

Gu Shiyu was quite satisfied when he saw the old man swinging his sword. The heavy sword was wielded vigorously in his hand, the sword slashed the shield, and broke the three spears at once, and then slapped the opponent with the spine of the sword, and the last sword was to split the spear of a spearman with both arms blocked, if it were not for the mercy of his subordinates, I was afraid that even the people would be split in half.

"Okay!" Gu Shiyu praised loudly: "You will be my swordsman captain!"

Although the old man's face was slightly flushed and slightly panting, his bravery had not diminished in the slightest, and it seemed that he was not afraid of a few more.

"I need someone like you with combat experience, so you can train swordsmen for me in the castle!"

The first half of the sentence made the old man so happy that his beard curled up, and the second half of the sentence made the old man so angry that his beard turned high, and he rolled his eyes: "Your Excellency the Governor, you can take me out to die on the battlefield! Otherwise, I will accompany the old lady at home every day, and if I am bored for the time being, I will die of anger sooner or later!"

"Your valuable combat skills and experience will be more valuable than your fighting on the battlefield! Only you can train better swordsmen for me! You don't need to say more, I will give you a hundred gold coins every month, and with this money, I think you should be able to make the family more harmonious, and your wife will not quarrel with you anymore. ”

If we talk about feeding pigs and sheep, plowing the fields, and mending fences, how can a professional soldier be a farmer? The old man was already angry and planned to die generously because his wife disliked him for making too little money and that he was useless as a hero, but who knew that the new governor would not allow him to die.

It seems that everyone has to find their own strengths and play to them.

The crowd began to applaud. The old man's wife was going to threaten him not to join the army with the famous stunt of crying, making trouble, and hanging himself, but unexpectedly, the wise governor admired his husband so much, and gave him great prestige and wealth, so he rushed out of the crowd with joy, hugged the old man and kissed him non-stop.

The old man finally rediscovered the feeling of being in love when he was young.

Alas, what girl doesn't like heroes? It's just that once they get married, heroes have to face firewood, rice, oil, salt, and a family waiting to be fed. The difference between wielding a sword and wielding a hoe is too great, and it is no wonder that my wife will one day dislike and blame herself, and regret that it is better to marry an honest farmer.

Since the Governor does not allow himself to die, he must live! The old man no longer wanted to die, but thought about living well, how to train more excellent soldiers to protect himself and their families.

With the support of these swordsmen, Gu Shiyu finally had a slightly decent army. He first recovered the lumberyards, quarries and iron mines near the castle, and a group of centaur warriors who temporarily used the mine as a foothold were defeated and had to flee into the forest. With the addition of these people, although there is not much improvement in quality, it is still considerable in quantity. At least the march was on the road, and the smoke and dust that came out were much larger.

When Gu Shiyu succeeded in recovering the mines near the castle, the team nearly tripled. Now he had a hundred pikemen, sixty longbowmen, twenty swordsmen, forty dwarven warriors, a dozen monks, and twenty lizard warriors. Of course, these people in the back are all troops who surrendered because Gu Shiyu had diplomatic skills and negotiated the terms of surrender.

Who said that diplomacy is not useful, but surrendering troops is actually soldiers! A tamed wolf is always more terrible than a dead one.

Gu Shiyu didn't doubt his choice at all, although he was always thinking about how to learn wisdom art in his mind now.

But since Dia's farewell, he hadn't met a white-robed shaman who could let him learn the art of wisdom.

So far, Gu Shiyu has not encountered a decent battle. The opponent will either flee from the wind, or all will be obedient.

An old local swordsman presented Gu Shiyu with a map of the entire Castelos. Carried away by the easy victory, Gu Shiyu began to lead his team through Castelos, except for the two valleys guarded by a group of Wyvern kings and snake demons. I don't know what treasures are inside, but the old men strongly oppose the forcible attack, saying that although the forcible attack can be won by narrowly, the losses of the troops will definitely be very huge.

A successful leader must be able to listen to what others are saying, even if it's against them.

The question is whether it is worth the great sacrifice, after all, no one knows what treasures are buried in the valley.

The most terrible thing is that after paying a huge price for sacrifices, there are not enough troops to deal with the next battle.

Now almost the entire vicinity of Castellos has been conquered, and the Lion King of Erathia can be seen everywhere. In order to continue to develop and expand the results of the war, the only way to find an outlet to the sea and lead the troops to start an expedition is to do so.

The old men strongly opposed the expedition on the grounds that the current ranks were not strong enough. Leaving the base area in a hurry, the troops were not able to receive sufficient personnel and material supplies. But Gu Shiyu couldn't listen to it anymore, and he had already concluded from sweeping the surroundings of Castellos that only by fighting can he survive, and only by fighting can he grow. Isn't it okay to feed war with war?

There are no guns, no cannons, the enemy makes them for us, and there are no soldiers, no food, and the enemy sends them to us. If the People's Liberation Army (PLA) has been able to grow from hundreds of thousands to millions, isn't that just by fighting? Not to mention that it has intermediate-level diplomatic skills, which is equivalent to lurking its fifth column in the midst of 10,000 troops to plot against the enemy.

The old men saw that Gu Shiyu was obstinate and stubborn, so they proposed a compromise plan, asking Gu Shiyu to return to the city to replenish and then carry out a large-scale expedition.

But our big brother Gu has gotten carried away and can't listen to other people's advice.

He had finally found an outlet to the sea, where the dockyard was guarded by dozens of red-robed mages from the Elven City.

Gu Shiyu quickly arranged the attack formation and led the crowd to start attacking.

Although the old men did not approve of such a decision, as soldiers, they must carry out orders unconditionally. This is the minimum duty and mission of the soldiers, even if it is a very confused order from the commander.

It seems that in all the battles so far, the Doge has appeared very wise.

The leader must have iron discipline. The order is like a mountain, whoever dares to disobey, or even run away, Gu Shiyu will be mercilessly martialized.

Are there fewer foolish executions on the battlefield? Yang Liulang and his six relatives do not recognize him, and even his son Yang Zongbao and daughter-in-law Mu Guiying who violated military orders dare to kill, you birdmen are not my seven aunts and eight aunts, why don't I dare to kill them? My brother is not married yet, and you are not relatives of Catherine's family, no one dares to restrain them, and there is no need to listen to Catherine's pillow wind.

Gu Shiyu actually hoped that this group of red-robed mages would flee or join his army, but he did not master the corresponding magic to check the hostility of his opponent. All in all, it's all because you haven't learned the art of wisdom.

How can there be a certain victory in the world? All success and victory must be won by oneself.

But the hostile mages did not flee from the wind, but chose to resist desperately.

The more Gu Shiyu beats, the more angry he becomes! Your grandmother's, obviously you can't beat it, why are you still fighting, is it because you are tired of living?

But he forgot that there is still a kind of battle in the world, that is, in order to achieve strategic goals, even if the enemy is outnumbered, he must resist desperately, try his best to consume the enemy's living force, and delay the enemy's actions in time and space.

This is a sniper war, and the side involved in the sniper knows that this will cost a huge sacrifice, even at the cost of annihilation!

Although the Tears of the Gods are very powerful, they are aimed at attacking the enemy's main battle heroes and epic-level warriors, not against ordinary soldiers. Obviously, one arrow can cause a hundred, or even hundreds of points of damage, but against these fifth-level warriors with only a few tens of health points, they can still only use one arrow, and it is impossible for people to all gather in a pile and wait for an arrow to penetrate a dozen people.

A lightning bolt, although it can deal dozens, or even hundreds of damage, is not much different from hitting an enemy in actual combat.

Of course, if it's crowd attack magic, that's another story.

But Gu Shiyu hasn't even learned the basic wisdom technique, and the group attack magic requires a senior wisdom technique, otherwise he won't even be able to understand the spell, let alone how to cast it.

Although Gu Shiyu's lightning and fireball skills are backed by high mana damage values, they have a magic cooldown after all. During this time, he could only watch as his fragile spearmen and archers fell one by one under the magical lightning of dozens of red-robed mages.

When Gu Shiyu successfully captured the dockyard, his archers, lizard shooters, and druid ranged attack forces had already suffered half of the casualties.

Half of the soldiers on the battlefield were cheering, half were weeping, half were celebrating the victory, and the other half were burying the bodies of their comrades.

Gu Shiyu immediately called the old guys aside and emphasized the value of this victory. For the sake of this value, it is inevitable to pay the necessary sacrifices, but this sacrifice is necessary and worth it.

Immediately, a few sycophants appeared among the old men, and they wrote a posting article in which they described how earth-shattering and weeping ghosts and gods a battle was not necessary. The heroic deeds of the martyrs inspired everyone, and every living soldier was filled with righteous indignation, and they were proud of their deaths, so as to seek shade and glory for their descendants.

The energy of public opinion propaganda is very terrifying, but it is also very powerful.

Correct guidance of public opinion can turn decay into magic, and wrong guidance of public opinion will make people hold commanders accountable for their strategic decisions.