Chapter 57: The Team
Early the next morning, Shen Yi began to deal with the affairs of the troops.
After becoming the commander, Shen Yi could not only have a force of less than a thousand people, but also promote the original team to a private guard.
The maximum number of private guards is not more than 100, and they can be recruited or recruited, regardless of the type of troops.
Now Shen Yi still has 5,000 camp honors in his hand, of which 2,000 are left over after he became the commander, and 3,000 points are the reward given to him by killing Arceus.
Since killing Arceth is not a faction mission, there is no reward for it, and participants can only benefit from the dead. However, since Shen Yi became the commander and had the authority to publish tasks, he could make up such a task for himself.
Of course, this is also related to the decline in urban control.
Since the orc camp generally has a higher opinion of Shen Yi at present, they all think that some rewards should be added for Shen Yi who killed the Lich King. This kind of practice of getting on the bus first and then making up the ticket was impossible before, but with the change of the girl in white to the mission world, the increase in the autonomous power of NPCs has made Shen Yi a success.
Chen Yuntao tried his best, the task of the Flame Lord was still far away, and Shen Yi first took the opportunity to make a big profit.
Five thousand honors were enough for Shen Yi to recruit enough powerful soldiers.
Due to the battle at the outpost, Shen Yi's troops lost eight people, and there are still 70 people left, Shen Yi simply took out some of the bloody points, and added ten elite minotaur warriors, five elite shamans, five elite witch doctors, five elite soul walkers, and five elite Kodo beast cavalry.
These elite classes are far more powerful than ordinary soldiers in terms of attack, defense, ability, and life.
For example, the elite Minotaur warrior has a vitality of 2500 points, a strength coefficient of 100 points, a weapon giant tree, an increase of 120% in strength damage, an attack distance of two meters, a defense of 40, and a smashing attack damage of 120 points, which is several times stronger than ordinary Minotaur soldiers, and even stronger than some captains.
Of course, the recruitment price is also ridiculously expensive, and it requires a full four hundred faction honors, which is equivalent to two thousand blood points, which is ten times the price of an ordinary Minotaur warrior. Some adventurers have struggled so far, and they can only recruit two or three of these minotaurs.
But even if it's ten times the price, Shen Yi wants it.
It is a waste for these elite minotaur warriors to fight, it is better to recruit ordinary minotaurs, ten is stronger than one, but if you want to take Hyjal Castle, you have to rely on the strength of elite soldiers.
Thirty elite soldiers cost a lot of money, almost exactly spending Shen Yi's five thousand camp honors, and this is because Shen Yi's guards still have thirty requisition places, giving him a nine-percent discount.
Shen Yi finally understood why the other commanders obviously had a quota limit of one hundred elites, but in the end there were only twenty or thirty elite entourage, it turned out that these guys were really expensive.
Then Shen Yi transferred the original orc soldier Ralk to the captain of the guard - although this guy's strength is average, he is better than having a flexible mind, and he is also a rare smart person among orcs, and the establishment of the guard is completed.
Since there are adventurers who have volunteered to become captains under his command, he no longer needs to worry about the recruitment of a thousand ordinary soldiers, Shen Yi only needs to select ten captains, and the captains will worry about the affairs of the soldiers themselves, of course, their soldiers also occupy Shen Yi's recruitment quota. In this regard, Shen Yi asked the adventurers to compensate, and it was not all for nothing.
Of the ten captains, except for Wen Rou and Fat Man, who each occupied one place, the other eight sold six to adventurers, including three of the Wild Bull Team, namely Chu Sheng, Guo Falong and Liu Fei, among which Chu Sheng was also the position of the first deputy commander - this position was strongly requested by him, and he absolutely did not accept that he was under the fat man.
The other three were sold to Xiaodao and two other adventurers, one named Ding Xuyang and the other named Ling Ao, all of whom were not weak adventurers.
The two deputy commanders are concurrently held by Chu Sheng and the fat man, and since the deputy commanders are unofficial, they can only be concurrently, so they are also called the first captain and the second captain. During the Commander's absence, the entire Thousand Squadrons are run by the Deputy Commander.
In the process of creating the team, Chu Sheng's performance was undoubtedly the most eye-catching, and the hundred soldiers under his command were all Minotaurs, which shows that he has earned a lot of camp honors during this time.
As for the fat man, his troops were all catapults. Since each catapult requires five orcs to operate, these catapults are all he has. However, these catapults are much more powerful than in the game.
Hong Lang, Jiang Chao, Dean and others all appeared as ordinary soldiers - teamwork is good, there is no need for everyone to be officials, as long as there are one or two of their own people, others can use honor to exchange for various treasures and improve their own strength.
There were two captains left, but Shen Yi did not sell them, but directly recruited two orc teams.
The main reason for this is to ensure that the right to speak is not lost. If all the captains are sold, it is very likely to cause the alliance of adventurers and empty Shen Yi.
Selling/selling to the point of selling oneself is absolutely not something to do.
Now with gentleness, fatness, and two absolutely loyal orc captains, Shen Yi can basically control the situation, even if he is not there, he will not let anyone dominate.
Next, it's a matter of training and coordination.
To be honest, no one is good at it. Adventurers have had some experience playing games, and they also know the formation and the truth that the arms are mutually reinforcing, but they are all on paper. If you really want to put it on the table, the knowledge in the books is not enough.
Even Shen Yi can't do it in this regard, he can still command it if there are fewer people, and it is the first time for him to command a scene of thousands of people, which is completely different from the feeling when he commanded more than 70 people before.
Although he had also experienced battles like the Market Garden, hot battles were obviously different from cold weapon battles, and the battles in Warcraft were even different from ordinary cold weapon battles - in the past cold weapon wars, there were no soldiers who could jump several meters and use magic.
Even those famous generals in history come over and look at these soldiers to be blind.
On the large playground outside the orc camp, a thousand soldiers were now divided into two camps to do battlefield exercises, and the captains were personally in command.
However, the effect is a mess.
Groups of soldiers rushed into a mess, all kinds of magic abilities were unleashed, and the captains shouted hoarsely and gave all kinds of orders. Not to mention that the soldiers simply couldn't understand it, and even some of the captains themselves didn't know what the meaning of their orders was.
Some of the troll hunters who were supposed to be in the rear somehow ended up on the front line, and most of the minotaur warriors and orc infantry that were supposed to be used to replenish the front line of troops actually fell behind.
That's okay, but the worst thing is that the spells are also messed up.
Due to the lack of command, often a group of witch doctors often have their healing rods in the same place, but none in the other positions, or a group of Kodo beasts gathered together and rumbled to beat the war drums, while the wolf cavalry unleashed more than thirty nets at the same time against a hapless adventurer, anchoring him to the ground......
And that's not even the worst.
When the war is chaotic to a certain extent, it is often the soul walkers of one team on this side who just hang soul chains on their soldiers, and then the shaman of the other team releases the purification. Immediately after that, as soon as the shaman released the bloodthirsty spell, another exorcism was released by the soul walker over there......
However, this is still not the worst.
The really worst thing is that even the adventurers themselves are messed up.
When the battle was on the rise, Chu Sheng commanded his troops to charge directly, shouting desperately: "Rush with me!"
A meteor hammer swept down the soldiers in front of him, and he rushed into the "enemy" formation with an unstoppable momentum, and then found that his troops had not followed at all, followed by a "enemy" blow, and then the soldier in charge of the test not far away had raised his flag and announced his death.
Chu Sheng was so angry that he scolded: "Lao Tzu is not dead! Do you think Lao Tzu is so tender?"
Fortunately, in the next moment, Shen Yi's guard soldiers, two elite minotaur warriors, personally pulled out this guy.
Looking at the noisy scene in the field, Shen Yi couldn't help but pat his forehead anymore: "It's really miserable!"
With this kind of fighting, when you get to the battlefield, just a few hundred people can wipe everyone out.
Shen Yi waved helplessly: "Lark, you go and call Ikabo and Kelis." ”
Ikabo and Kelis were the two orc captains, one an elite orc infantry and the other an elite troll hunter.
Hearing Shen Yi's summons at this moment, the two ran over and saluted Shen Yi: "My lord, do you have any instructions?"
"I want to ask you how you used to fight. I mean, is this a common occurrence for you?"
Ikabo looked at the battlefield and replied, "Pretty much, but better than them." They look too crowded. ”
"And how do you usually command?"
Kelis immediately replied, "Let them charge, my lord, and it won't be the case if you spread out the formation." ”
"You're saying that when you command a battle, you let them charge?"
"Of course, what else could there be?" replied Ikabo and Kelis in unison.
"What about the other camps?"
"Maybe better than us, but not much better. We are orcs, and we use our strong bodies to break through the opponent's defenses, not in formation. ”
Shen Yi was completely convinced.
He had understood what the problem was.
Real warfare is not a game after all, and command is never as complex as possible. Complexity means difficulty in execution, and for simple-minded orcs, when something becomes too complex, they are often at a loss, and the effect can sometimes backfire.
This is the case in front of them, and the adventurers who come from the city want to show off the formation and combat knowledge they have learned from the game, but they obviously ignore the ability of the soldiers of this era to receive and understand information, and they have never been trained in this area.
Soldiers are not game characters, and it is not the case that you pull the mouse and they will move and fight as you imagine.
The soldiers' minds are simple, but the adventurer commanders are still self-righteous. The result is that a bad command meets a simple-minded soldier who can't fight even the simplest of battles.
According to Ikabo and Kelis, the orc troops are basically fighting in squads, and the orders from the commander are usually the simplest, easiest to understand and execute such as waiting, charging, assembling, and retreating.
As for the formation and tactics, they completely do not understand them, and courage and faith are the only support and link for them to fight.
It can be said that the card in Shen Yi's hand is very large, there is a king, there is a 2, there is an A, but it is not a pair, and it can't be a dragon, and it can't be a bomb.
Perhaps it would be better to give up command and let them charge freely, as Ikabo said.
However, in this way, it is equivalent to pinning the victory of the war on how stupid the opponent is rather than how strong he is, which Shen Yi never likes.
The problem is to train a team into a strong soldier with a degree of advance and retreat in three days, even a talented general can't do it, not to mention that at the moment, including Shen Yi, there is not even a basic qualified commander.
As soon as he thought of this, Shen Yi's head was extremely big, and he waved his hand: "The exercise is over, tell those stupid people, let them come over for a meeting." ”
The captains withdrew from the battlefield one after another and came to Shen Yi's side, they obviously knew that this exercise was very bad, so they hung their heads one by one.
Shen Yitie blushed and said: "This is the worst exercise I have ever seen, to be honest, you succeeded, we almost made ourselves famous in history and became the worst army in history." ”
Xiaodao replied: "Hey, boss, you can't blame us for this, it's all Chu Sheng's big fool who is in a hurry, and he has left all his soldiers behind." ”
Chu Sheng immediately replied: "Get out of the way! Do you have a lesson for Lao Tzu? You are in good command, four shamans put lightning shields on one person, do you think Lao Tzu didn't see it?"
Knife immediately replied, "Can you blame me? I ordered the lightning shield to be released on the target in front of me, who knew that those shamans would strike together?"
"That's because you didn't know who was going to release you. ”
"How could I have given such an order, I still don't remember the names of those shamans. Besides, do you think this is writing a novel? Every word can be considered? This is a battlefield, it's changing rapidly, it's impossible for Lao Tzu to give an order and consider the words, right? Of course he shouted it casually!"
"Then you'd better think about it next time. Chu Sheng smiled and said, "Also, if you dare to call yourself Lao Tzu to me again, I will strip you." ”
", do you really think I'm afraid of you?" The knife spat at the ground: "What about the deputy commander? ”
"What the are you talking about?" Chu Sheng's eyes widened, and a group of people from the Barbarian Bull Team were angry at the same time, and they were about to make a move on the knife, but they didn't expect Ding Xu Yang and Ling Ao next to him to stand up at the same time, and the three-person formation of the knife group. It seems that the three of them have formed a small team alliance.
People are like this, no matter where they are, they will be separated from each other, and small gangs and small groups cannot be eliminated even if they are peerless.
"Enough!" Shen Yi snorted: "Let you come to the meeting, not let you quarrel." Infighting...... What do you want to do? Give the enemy a chance to take advantage of, or are you going to stab your own people on the battlefield?"
This crime is big, and both sides shut up at the same time.
Shen Yi glanced at everyone, and then said: "This drill itself is to find problems, and if you find them, you will find a way to solve them, there is nothing to fight about." Now who's going to talk about the problem you've seen first?"
Gentle immediately said, "I'll tell you." In fact, although the orc soldiers are simple-minded, they are still very serious about carrying out orders. It's just that we, the commanders, are indeed too inexperienced. In addition, we also lack a good command transmission system, lack of precise passwords, lack of cooperation, and lack of good command awareness...... Some people are unconscious, others are thinking too much. ”
"That's true. Everyone laughed.
"In addition......" Gentle added: "The problem is not only with the commander, but also with the soldiers." I'm not talking about those orc soldiers, I'm talking about adventurer soldiers. There are always those who are in the position of soldiers but do not regard themselves as ordinary soldiers, and some people do not even accept orders and only listen to the orders of their superiors. There are not many such people, such as...... Flood waves. ”
Hong Lang shrugged.
This thing is fighting as a soldier under a gentle team, but when he fights, he only cares about killing himself, how can he care about listening to the orders of the commander, not to mention that the commander is also a member of his team, and it really lacks some prestige for him. If Shen Yi personally gave the order, he would probably listen to it, of course, it is difficult to say how it was executed.
In fact, there are not a few adventurer soldiers like Hong Lang, including Dean, Jiang Chao, and Zheng Lan of the Barbarian Bull Team, but they have just had a quarrel, and gentleness is not suitable to talk about them...... What's more, they also have a reason, their boss only cares about killing himself, and he doesn't give them any orders at all.
In any case, this is a mess from beginning to end, whether it is a soldier or a grassroots commander, they are all unconscious, unconscious, consciously self-righteous, and they are not convinced by each other, and if you want to command such a team, it is better to command an ordinary orc army.
The strength of Shen Yi's army is very strong, but unfortunately 1 plus 1 is not greater than 2, but less than 1.
In this regard, Shen Yi said lightly: "If you have a problem, you have to find a way to solve it." Chu Sheng, Hong Lang, about the unauthorized charge, there will be a next time, each person will hit fifty boards. ”
There is nothing to fear from adventurers, but everyone has to save face, and it is definitely not a glorious thing to be spanked in front of everyone, so Hong Lang Chusheng and others are at the same time. In fact, they also know that they are doing a terrible job, but they just don't admit it.
Shen Yi continued: "All problems, in the final analysis, are actually problems between commanders and soldiers. Orc soldiers can't take orders that are too complicated, and our commanders are inexperienced...... Zeus, maybe you can help me figure it out. ”
Zeus replied: "I can make a simple simulation program, in which our control over the troops will be reduced to the simplest few commands such as assembly, waiting, charging, etc., and then you will do a computer simulation exercise, which will be much more efficient than going through a battlefield exercise...... You can do dozens of such drills in a single day. ”
"Then the question of the commander will no longer be a problem. By the way, remember to add a restriction to the command system, when the commander's language is unknown, his troops will have incorrect execution, which will help them simplify their orders. ”
Gently interjected: "It is possible to set up a professional military language, more direct and effective." ”
"It's a good idea, but the soldiers have to worry a little more about it. The knife said immediately, he gave himself an order, and several shamans were still angry about wasting mana by throwing lightning shields at the same time.
"So try to keep it simple. Gently replied.
Shen Yi said: "In addition, there is another problem that is the control of spells. Since there were no magical soldiers in the history of the earth, we can't find any experience to learn from in their use, so we can only rely on ourselves. ”
At this time, the fat man suddenly said: "I have a solution to this problem." ”
"What's the solution?"
The fat man replied: "The spell confusion is mainly due to the fact that there is too much singleness between the squads, in the previous wars, everyone paid attention to the formation, and the more single the troops, the more convenient the formation." But we don't care about the formation now, so why don't we just disrupt all the mage classes and mix them into the squads? In this way, there is no problem of concentrated and wasteful spells. For example, if a team only needs three to five Witch Doctors, and the Witch Doctors take turns releasing the Healing Sticks, there will be no area full of Healing Sticks and another area with nothing. ”
The people looked at each other.
The method that the fat man said was simple and effective, but in this way, everyone's troops had to move each other. Like Chu Sheng hired a hundred minotaur warriors, basically he had to take out at least fifteen of them in exchange for the witch doctors, shamans, and soul sacrifices he needed.
In addition, the same is true of the fat catapult troops.
For them, this exchange is undoubtedly very disadvantageous.
Shen Yi looked at Chu Sheng: "What do you say?"
Chu Sheng scratched his scalp, and finally said unwillingly after a while: "It's changed!"
The knife snorted angrily: "I'll make it up to you." ”
Chu Sheng immediately grinned.