Emperor Frederick's question itself is self-contradictory.

The strategy of the Grand Legion originated from an early idea of His Highness Randall, and has not yet been tested in actual combat, so how can the principles of combat be formulated?

However, this kind of problem seems to be normal for Victor, who has awakened his extraordinary wisdom talent.

With the delicacy and intuition peculiar to women, Orokshia keenly grasped a key point, and said in a soft voice: "Sand table map?"

"It's a wargame. ”

The Priest of Kent's big mouth was not called in vain, and he said proudly: "Although His Highness Randall does not have much experience in war command, he is extremely intelligent, and has come up with a brilliant idea of deducing the changes in the local war situation on the sand table map. It is necessary to refer to the characteristics of the opposing sides, the comparison of troops, the terrain of the battle, and other factors, and the more detailed the better. Through the continuous game between the two sides, the actual combat situation of the Grand Army was deduced. Well, it's like playing chess...... I know centaurs very well, so Victor asked me to do a war game against centaurs. We played hundreds of games, and many of the methods in this battle were figured out in wargames. ”

The Golden Paladin Rael Garrell asked, "For example, the knight cluster is fighting alone?"

"Yes. The priest of Kent nodded, "I propose to form a group of knights to fight alone, and there are good reasons to convince you. If it weren't for hundreds of wargames, how could I have come up with a charge tactic for a group of knights so quickly?"

"I don't have the ingenuity of His Highness Randall. ”

He paused, restrained his joking expression, and said solemnly: "Through the wargame deduction, Victor proposed two important decisive factors for the battle of the Grand Army. ”

The Golden Knights were so calm that even the roaring bonfire dimmed, and they heard Kent say, "The first is the contact surface...... Victor believes that in a general battle, there is no causal relationship between the number of people and the actual combat effectiveness, and it is not that the side with the largest number of soldiers is more combative. Because, the soldiers in the back row cannot touch the enemy at all, so naturally they have no combat effectiveness. Unless all the soldiers in the front row are dead, they can only stare dryly on the battlefield. ”

"One of the keys to victory is to expand our contact area and narrow the enemy's contact surface. ”

The audience next to the campfire were all extraordinary and powerful, and naturally understood what the priest Kent was saying. For example, if a group of knights fights in a large camp of centaurs, its contact surface is 100 percent, while the contact surface of the centaurs against the knight cluster is pitifully small, and the vast majority of centaurs can only watch the excitement from behind, and they can't use their strength, so what's the use of a large number? Queue up to kill the knights, so that they will be exhausted and faint from exhaustion? The actual situation is that if the knight cluster can kill them, they can kill out of the encirclement, and no centaur can stop them except for the fierce centaur cluster.

Ordinary soldiers are the main body of the general battle, and the Kent priest chooses to invest in batches and times, sending troops to that side whenever needed, in the final analysis, in order to expand his own contact area and reduce the enemy's contact area. For example, 3,000 human soldiers took advantage of the opening of the knights' cluster to divide and surround 3,000 centaurs. The centaur warriors who were squeezed in by their companions had no room to shoot, which was equivalent to watching visitors on the battlefield, and the 3,000 human warriors attacked in unison, and the contact surface of the besieging centaurs was still 100%.

If this principle is not wrong, then it is possible to develop a tactical style of large-scale battles based on it.

Pastor Kent went on to say, "The second decisive factor is morale. Victor called low morale or high morale an emotional contagion, and he even believed that emotional contagion was an internal condition that determined victory or defeat in a major battle. ”

"I don't need to explain this, you've all seen the results. ”

Everyone was silent, countless soldiers were still decomposing the corpses of centaurs overnight, and if these corpses were piled up, they would definitely look like a small mountain. Centaurs have good leather, strong tendons that can be used as bowstrings for ballistas, and the texture of the meat is no different from that of horse meat. More than 40,000 centaurs are obviously a great fortune. However, only half of the centaurs killed by the human alliance were killed, and the other half of the centaurs died at the hands of their own kind.

The madness of the centaurs killing each other caused the High Knights and High Clergy to be cautious and vigilant, fearing that a similar bombing camp would appear on the human army.

Patriarch Friedus stared at the bonfire in silence, and after a moment, he smiled, "The mental activity of the Wisdom Seed is related to the chaotic future, and it is the most difficult change to fathom. A hundred desperate people can give birth to the strongest courage, and a hundred brave people can be thwarted into the abyss of despair by a single defeat. ”

"Courage and faith are like the splendor of the heart, fear and despair are like the plague of the soul, and the greater the number of centaur warriors, the faster the plague of the soul spreads, and the more violently it erupts, until the army is crushed with casualties. Pastor Kent also smiled and said, "That's my opinion." His Highness Randall's statement is ......"

"Attack the enemy first. ”

The flames of the bonfire began to beat again, and the Duke of Baselius exclaimed, "His Highness Randall is truly a genius. ”

Victor is not yet 30 years old this year, and his life experience is far less than that of the two old pastors, Friedes and Kent, and he can summarize the truth of "attacking the enemy first and attacking the heart", isn't he a genius?

Charlottia Bernadict became happy when she heard this, "attacking the enemy first and attacking the heart first" is exactly Turnans's specialty, and then looking at the principle of "contact surface", this coincides with the essence of Tournans's martial arts of "time for space, space for time".

Turnans had told Victor about the mystery of the Psychic Fire before, and His Highness Randall was able to draw inferences from one case and transfer the martial arts experience he had summed up to the general battle, he was indeed a genius....... Charlotia thought secretly. Acknowledging Victor's talent is an acknowledgment of Tournans' achievements. As the wife of Tournans, she was happy for her husband.

"The strategy of three missing one was also proposed by Victor when he was doing wargames. He said that rabbits that are forced to be in a hurry will bite people, not to mention the orc legions that are in a hurry? In the case of not being sure that the enemy will be completely annihilated, one can consider leaving an escape route so that the enemy can have the mentality of avoiding battle. Kent gave his fist a fist and said with some chagrin, "I fully agree with him...... The one in favor is a bit too much. I also reserved an escape route in the northeast corner, allowing many centaurs to escape...... If I had insisted on the strategy of encircling three without one, we might have captured far more than 45,000 centaurs. ”

Friedes was in a good mood and said with relief: "This battle will be sung as an epic and regarded as a classic...... Brother Kent, the pros and cons of this battle, we will discuss it slowly in the future, I want to ask, His Highness Randall explores the strategy of the Great Army, does he think that large-scale battles are more beneficial to mankind?"

Kent nodded and said, "His Highness Randall has full confidence in the Grand Legion, and he asserts that no orc can compete with the Human Legion in a large-scale battle. I agree with him, and the battle between the Black Emperor and the Goblin King of the Golden Age is the most obvious example. ”

At the end of the Golden Age, the Black Emperor Garshmel gathered an army of 800,000 to fight the millions of orcs of the Goblin King for several months in the Valley of Wailing, although the annals compiled by the Church recorded that the Black Emperor suffered a crushing defeat and the city-state army lost 500,000 people, they killed the 7 white ape behemoths enslaved by the Goblin King, annihilated millions of orcs, and successfully stopped the momentum of the orc army southward.

The Battle of Wailing Valley was the largest battle ever fought by mankind in the history of Glorious History. The current generation of high-ranking clergy does not wash away the stigma of the Black Emperor, nor does they need to care about the face of the Pope. Judging from the comparison of the forces of the two sides in the battle, the Black Emperor's city-state alliance can be described as a complete victory.

In today's human kingdom, the Church is the only organization capable of waging large-scale battles, and it has been proven that the Holy Warriors of the faith can defeat an orc army many times their own. According to the principles of the Grande Legion deduced by His Highness Randall, Patriarch Friedes believed that the Sassan Empire, in cooperation with the Radiant Knights, would be able to sweep through the northern wilderness and restore the homeland of mankind by adopting the mode of general battle against the orcs.

Oroxia said in a soft voice: "Historically, all the battles launched by the human kingdom have been won first and then lost, and the land has been lost, why? because the stupid orcs have never had the concept of a battle, and their only purpose is that because there are too many orcs, they must launch a beast tide against humans. If the orcs can beat us humans, they will keep fighting, and if they can't win, they will run. The beast tide in the Twilight Forest looks like this...... The essence of the Sidon Centaurs' raid on the Eastern Frontier is also to reduce the surplus of goblin slaves, but it is only that among the Sidon Centaurs there is a careerist who wants to be the Great Khan, so we have the opportunity to launch a large-scale campaign. ”

No matter how powerful the human army is, what can the orcs do if they don't fight you?

Friedes was stunned, feeling a sense of frustration that his hopes were dashed, and things went full circle, returning to the pioneering mode of the castle fortifications and the knights' squad.

Compared to Friedes and the Golden Paladins, Emperor Sassan quietly breathed a sigh of relief, this battle almost drained the family of Bloodwolf Castle, and Queen Sassan sent someone to tell him that Bloodwolf Castle secretly borrowed 1.2 million gold soles from the Barcelius family for war expenses. If the future pioneering wars were fought like this, it would really cost the emperor his life.

Frederick smiled, "His Highness Randall developed the Great Legion to deal with the ant tide. Only the brainless Ant-Man dares to face the hundreds of thousands of human legions. ”

Friedus thought about it calmly, frowned and asked, "Can't the three fortresses in the Centaur Hills stop the ant plague?" If the three fortresses can't stop the ant tide, Sylvia won't spend a lot of money to build the fortress. Three strongholds can hold off the ant tide, why does Sylvia support Victor to develop the Legion? unless they believe that there are other powerful opponents besides Ant-Man that need to be dealt with with by the Arm. ”

The Legion can significantly increase the influence of the Church, and the high-ranking clergy of the Radiant Knights are unwilling to abandon the Legion just like that, and Friedus uses the unknown disaster as an excuse to urge the lords of the Sassan Empire to continue to develop the Legion. However, secular lords, including the Emperor of Sassan and the House of Barcelius, shy away from large-scale battles.

In fact, the core of the strategy of the large army is standardization, and the premise of standardization is the centralized system of sealing fields, in other words, the first to concentrate financial revenue can concentrate the large army to fight. Without these two things, if you fight a large-scale battle, whether you win or lose, the lord's pants will be lost. Emperor Frederick was to give money to reward and appease all the lords and soldiers of the Blood Wolf family who participated in the war, and the lords of each family would also reward and appease their knights and soldiers. The Sassanid Empire had hundreds of thousands of people participating in the war, and not counting the reinforcements from the kingdoms, the Sassan Emperor and the lords were already feeling the huge financial pressure.

Duke Baselius changed the subject and said, "The centaur gods have summoned the ferocious centaurs of all tribes to sweep the fortifications in the southeast corner. I was particularly worried about them breaking through from the southeast corner, and then led a centaur army to counter-encircle the 120,000 soldiers on the eastern front...... Fortunately, the Centaur tribe in charge of the broken end chose to break through from the northeast corner, taking with them a large number of centaur warriors, thus disintegrating the possibility of Sidon Centaurs counter-encircling the human coalition. ”

Oroxia also said, "Thanks to His Highness Roland August and Charlottia for deliberately letting go of the two centaur captains of the Blue-Eyed Clan. ”

Charlottia was secretly ashamed, fixed her mind, and said along the topic: "Since the Centaur Divine Dependents can concentrate the strong men of various tribes, it means that it has initially grasped the power of the Sidon Khanate. Although the Centurions of the Blue-Eyed Clan have shaken its dominance, it is hard to say how long they will last in the face of the pressure of the Centaur Gods. ”

Everyone looked cautious, and Friedes stopped dwelling on the affairs of the Grand Legion, and instead asked, "Usein, what do you think of the strength of that centaur god?"

Duke Baselius said solemnly: "At least a half-step legend! Judging from the current situation, sooner or later, it will be able to promote the Great Centaur and awaken the talent of the Earth Armor." At that time, the Blue-Eyed Clan would not be able to compete with it at all. Therefore, we must hurry up and divide our troops into two directions, pursue the two centaur teams separately, and try to kill and wound the ordinary warriors of the centaur tribe as much as possible. ”

"Frederick, my opinion is that we, the Knights of the Gripen, as well as the Knights of the Moon Bear of the Duchy of Teuton, will cooperate with the Knights of Radiance to pursue the most powerful centaur gods. You lead the Knights of the Blood Wolves, the Knights of the Dragons, and the Knights of the Iron Wall in pursuit of the Blue-Eyed Clan fleeing northeast. Duke Baselius looked into the eyes of Emperor Sassan, and said sincerely: "In this battle, the Blood Wolf Knights have suffered a lot of losses, and it is also our Gripen Knight's turn to help." ”

More than ten years ago, Sylvia praised Duke Barcelius as the closest Golden Knight to the legend, and after so many years, Usein may only be one chance away from the legendary rank. The Blood Wolf Castle and the Barcelius family have a secret cooperation, but it is more of a disagreement, Frederick never wants Barcelius to be promoted to a legendary knight at this time, he shook his head and smiled: "As the lord of the Sassan Empire, how can I let go of the culprit who invaded the Empire's pioneer territory? ”

Barcelius's eyes froze, and he said in a deep voice: "The strength of the Centaur God is extraordinary, and the Golden Paladin can deal with it. Frederick, you'd better be cautious, if the Blood Wolf Knights pursue it to no avail and let it run away, we will face a Great Khan of Sidon. ”

The Golden Paladins can reach the Legendary level in a short period of time, but if they want to block a deeply violent Centaur Khan, they still need more high-level knights to cooperate.

Barcelius bluntly said that the strength of the Blood Wolf Knights was insufficient, but Frederick said lightly: "The main reinforcements of the Great Stone Fortress have entered the hinterland of the Sidon Khanate. His Majesty Neowest and his unicorn knights are coming to our side, and with him here, I'm sure the Centaur Divine Favor is in danger. ”

Oroxia's eyes fluttered, and she asked in surprise, "Your Highness Randall, they solved the Goblin Lord?"

Patriarch Friedes coughed and said, "It's not certain yet...... However, before leaving, Tystiel explained that once they set off for the northern wilderness, they would behead the goblin lord. The main reinforcements of the Great Stone Fortress Theater can safely and boldly penetrate into the hinterland of the Sidon Khanate and sweep the lair of the centaurs. ”

Charlotia curled the corners of her mouth and said with a smile: "Grand Master Testiel has Turnans by his side, and with His Highness Randall, the goblin lord can't move!...... His Majesty the Pope and Tournans' teachers were also in the ranks. ”

A few people can make the army of the Goblin King fall silent, this is the deterrent power of the top extraordinary powerhouse.

"Your Excellency's teacher?" Orokthea turned her gaze to Charlotia and asked curiously, "It's the Lord of the Church." ”

"Your Excellency is not famous. Charlotia's smile became brighter and brighter, and she said reservedly, "But he is a holy warrior master who is close to the Sanctuary. ”

Duke Baselius exchanged glances with the family guardian, exhaled, and said, "Okay, the Knights of the Gripon are in charge of pursuing the Blue-Eyed Clan. ”

Patriarch Friedus stood up, looked left and right, and asked, "What about Princess Auguste?"

Charlottia replied, "She skinned the Golden Centaur and returned to Duncan Fortress with the high female knights of Gambis." ”

Friedes shook his head and said, "The commander guarding Duncan's Fortress secretly left the defense zone and ran out to the battlefield alone to hunt the centaur commander...... This highness is really uneasy. Before leaving, Victor had the foresight to ask me to keep an eye on Princess Auguste. I'll go back to Duncan's Fortress and have a good talk with His Highness August. ”

Roland has a blood feud with Neowest, and if she sneaks out of Duncan Fortress and meets Neowest again, it will be a big problem. Patriarch Friedus could not let this happen, and he had to go to Duncan Fortress and keep an eye on Roland August.