Chapter 200
When it comes to matters related to "war", there is no one who is more well-informed than the God of War system, let alone people from other forces, and even many middle nobles of the Southern Noble Sect of the Gold Coin Federation do not get the news as fast as the God of War system.
After all, as long as there is war, it is inseparable from war, and it is inseparable from those people who believe in the gods of war.
Whether it is a regular army or a mercenary, there are not a few people who believe in the gods of war. The gods of war promised that after their heroic battles, their souls could go to the kingdom of God to rest, and if they were qualified, they might even be transformed into immortal oracles to continue their unfinished journey. For the soldiers, this is almost one of the best places to be.
So when the nobles wanted to form a rapid mobile force, the gods of war quickly got the news and verified it in detail and kept following up.
"They're probably going to have a fast mobile force of two hundred people. "A third of them are intermediate, a staggering number." ”
One third of the two hundred people are intermediate, which means that there are sixty to seventy intermediate. This number is indeed somewhat surprising - if you are in an ordinary army, this is almost enough to support an army of tens of thousands.
Considering the remaining beginners, as well as the spellcasters needed in this army, the cost of building a team of just 200 people is only better than that of an ordinary army of 10,000 people.
In other words, this army was formed in the hope that they would be able to achieve a record that was no less than or even better than that of an ordinary legion. In the same way, if they were defeated or even annihilated, the losses inflicted on the noble faction would be no less than or even more than an ordinary legion.
On the main plane continent, defeating or even annihilating a legion is definitely a great battle. Generally speaking, in a war like the Gold Federation Civil War, which is not too intense, such a big battle is enough to decide the outcome of the war. If you lose such a battle, it is basically impossible to turn over.
The reality is not to play a game, not to say that an army is lost, and then recruits from several nearby cities, with generals, and transports it. Rather, it requires long-term training and a large amount of supplies to be able to support an army.
Since ancient times, it is very rare for a capable person to turn over after losing the entire legion in a battle. Liu Bang relied on the help of Lu Ze and Han Xin, twice to save such a defeat, and was called a typical example of "the good loser does not die" by later generations, Liu Bei was displaced for half his life, and was forced to abandon his wife and flee many times, but the white-eared elite soldiers have never really been defeated and collapsed, which is where his confidence lies in the world. Chen Qingzhi, a scholar general who was powerless, led the white-robed army to sweep through the north and captured Luoyang with thousands of soldiers and horses, but once the white-robed army was damaged due to hard fighting and flooding, he had to disguise himself as a monk and flee back to the south.
The aristocratic faction has a huge power, and naturally there is no shortage of famous generals. But no matter what kind of famous general, there is no way to turn an ordinary farmer into an elite soldier all at once.
Because of this, the Earl of House proposed at the Council of the Great Nobles the plan to form a rapid mobile force, attack the rear of the merchant faction with a purely elite army, and constantly bleed the merchant faction to force them to surrender.
At first, not to mention the great nobles of the central faction, even the great nobles of the local faction opposed his plan - this plan was really ...... Hundreds of beginner and intermediate experts were selected to form an excellent team, all equipped with alien war horses with amazing endurance, bypassing the border line of confrontation between the north and the south, entering the vast north, and destroying everywhere, with the goal of killing and injuring civilians and destroying the production and life of the north.
This is not only dangerous, but also vicious.
"This is not in keeping with the spirit of the aristocracy!" said a central earl indignantly, "We nobles must fight for honor, and honor is our life!
"Everyone is a believer in our lord's golden crown (goddess of wealth), why bother to use such cruel means!" sighed a local earl, "good horse, forget it." ”
However, Earl House, nicknamed "The Good Horse", had no intention of "forgetting it" at all, and he repeatedly stressed the importance of this war, especially that this battle must be painful and fearful to the merchant faction in order to ensure stability for decades to come.
"If you want to beat them to fear, you have to make them feel the fear. Rather than annihilate one or two legions on the battlefield, it is better to have mobile units go around their hinterland, kill their population, burn their villages and farmland, and destroy their caravans and production bases...... As long as there are so many times, even if the big businessmen can hold on, the small and medium-sized businessmen will definitely be scared, and at least in one or two generations, they will not dare to mention the war again!"
Looking at the young earl's pointing and eloquent appearance in the magic projection, the rest of the nobles were a little distressed.
Of course, they admit that Earl House has a point, but no matter how reasonable, the two levels of honor and risk can never be bypassed.
Needless to say, there is no harm in attacking civilians, but if you want to do it as a career, it will naturally hinder the reputation of the family. In the future, when the so-and-so family is mentioned, everyone will think of "Ah, it's the executioners who slaughtered civilians...... This is simply terrible, I am afraid that even future generations will jump and scold the street.
The danger is more direct, and the risk of going deep alone is needless to say, even if you can win all battles, will the massacre of civilians anger the goddess of wealth? If you anger the goddess of wealth, will you be punished by God?
Even if the goddess of wealth disdains to attack the soldiers, the officer who takes the lead will surely be unlucky!
However, the Earl of House said that he was willing to lead the team himself.
This time, everyone was choked.
People have taken the biggest danger, shouldered the heaviest responsibility, and carried the black pot of the worst reputation, are they still embarrassed to push back and hinder?
Thirteen earls, two marquises, each family a little, two hundred people, it is not difficult.
Of course, they didn't send their loyal subordinates on such a mission that would be suspicious of death no matter how they looked, but immediately threw a lot of money and recruited mercenaries. If you can't recruit mercenaries in one step, you will send out those marginal characters in the family power who are not distressed when they die.
As for how to blend this group of people into a whole, and how to lead this group of patchwork "fast mobile troops" to fight deep behind enemy lines, it was the job of the young earl, who had just taken over the earl's scepter from his dead ghost father three years ago.
In person, everyone had high hopes for Earl House. And behind the scenes, the big nobles didn't have even a crazy plan to be optimistic about him.
One of the leaders of the Central Aristocratic faction, the Marquis of Jewels, Sax Yuke, once complained to his father, who had been semi-retired due to old age and decrepitude, saying that this teammate was really unreliable. With this kind of pig teammate dragging his feet, he felt that he should really seriously consider whether to change careers and merge into the merchant faction......