Chapter 32: The Clouds of War
In the Dark Elf City, every few years, a family will start to plan to eliminate another family, so that their family can get more resources, more living space and higher ranking. This behavior, known as the family war, comes in two different ways.
The first is to launch a surprise attack. There is no legal basis for this, but it is very much in line with the habits of the dark elves, and almost all family wars take this form.
This is a very risky approach, because all the nobles of the victim family must be dealt with as quickly and unobtrusively as possible. If any of the nobles survived to accuse the murderers, the cold justice of the dark elves would issue a sanction and cut down the attacking family to the roots.
If the raid is executed perfectly, there will be no negative effects. All the people in the city, even the ruling council, would secretly applaud each other's courage and wisdom, and no one would ever speak of the accident again.
The second is to declare war in advance through parliament under some pretext. There is a good legal basis for this, but it is very inconsistent with the habits of the dark elves, and almost no family will take this form of family warfare, and the reason why it has not been abolished is entirely because it is necessary to leave a "legal" promotion path for everyone.
This is a very stupid thing to do. This is because your opponent will have plenty of time to prepare for your declaration of war, and will be able to invite allies and mercenaries to assist in the defense. The attacking clan, on the other hand, will be under a lot of pressure, not only will it be difficult to openly recruit allies and mercenaries, but it will also be very likely that other clans will take advantage of the opportunity to stab them a few times. If you can win in this way, why not take a more labor-saving direct surprise attack without leaking your own strength.
If the attack is successful, theoretically it is possible to directly inherit the opponent's ranking, obtain all the resources of the opponent, and surrender or kill the opponent's family members at will, regardless of whether he is a nobleman or not, but in practice it is likely to be liquidated by the council. If the attack fails, the family will inevitably be wiped out.
Only those families who think they are invincible in the world, or at least invincible in the city, will choose the second way to go to war.
"Are you saying that I should go to the city council and apply for a thorough search of the Phaere family in the name of a lost slave, and the other party will use this as an excuse to declare war if they don't agree?"
"Yes, we have slaves who go missing every day, and we cannot afford to deny them, and we must take responsibility for what we have done. "When the merchant group or the order is managing the newly bought or captured slaves, there is not much difference from what they did in Sanzang Town before, and it is strange that no slaves are "lost".
"No, Master, what my sister means, is it not good for us to declare war and launch a surprise attack directly?and the Phager family is stronger, why not choose the weaker one?" Shadurirona saw that Farah's hands and lips were trembling, but she was not in the mood to gloat now. After losing the war, Farah did not end well, but she was forced to tie up with Mike.
"Alas, you two are too young, too simple, and sometimes seem naΓ―ve. Mike spoke earnestly.
The two sisters were speechless.
"Under my wise leadership, any family is just a chicken, and there is no need to engage in any raids. If there is an eye-opening clown who comes out to make trouble, it will be eliminated together!"
The two sisters remained speechless.
"Sal is right, but only in one aspect. On the other hand, the previous series of actions was too big, and no one in Faturi City did not know that we were going to start a war, but it was impossible to determine who we would wag war on. Whether it is the Fae family or the Abad family, as long as the small and medium-sized families close to us have definitely entered the highest state of combat readiness, and it is very likely that they have reached an offensive and defensive alliance. Therefore, whether we raid or not, we will not have any advantage, and we may be punished for missing the nobles. "Mike patiently taught**.
"However, they can't stay on guard forever, and we can take action later. "The two sisters naturally know this kind of thing.
"Where do we have so much time to spend with them? Relying on his own strong strength, he forced the strongest nearby Fae family to surrender, and if he didn't surrender, he pushed over to deter the other families. This is the right principle of the art of war. It can not only make the strength of the family greater, but also declare our strength, so that the family will not be bullied after the business group leaves. β
There is another reason for choosing the Phae, after the rebellion of the former Second House in Faturi thirty years ago, the dark elves decided to carry out a large sacrifice, so they bought a sacred sword of Corellon from the Psicoucker for a large amount of money to sacrifice to the spider queen. As a result, the sword was indeed a holy sword, but it was not Corellon's, and the spider queen didn't ask for it. Then if you want to return the spirit sucking monster, you can't use it, if you want to sell it, no one will be willing to pay a high price, and if you want to transform it, you don't have the ability, and the result is rotten in your hands. Because when the sword was purchased, all the families paid according to the head, and no one was willing to bear the loss alone after the accident, so it was decided to take turns to keep it, and now it is the turn of the Phaefamily family.
According to the law of the Dark Elves, which has not been used or not, after the Fae family has won the war, everything in their hands becomes the spoils of war. If you fight other families to make a forced landing on the Fae family, there will be no such good thing. Of course, the council may not admit it, and it may also ask the Fargerians to hand over the sword first, but it doesn't hurt to hit whoever is not to fight anyway.
"Brother Mike is right, if they try to rebel against the wise me, they will only kill themselves!"
The two sisters glanced at each other, if they could really bulldoze the Fae family with a thunderous blow, it was indeed possible to realize Mike's idea, but the Fae family was a medium-sized family with one hundred and fifty or sixty people, and it would definitely receive support from many parties, and it would be very difficult for the Tayren family to win, and the newly established Sanzang family of more than forty people really had the ability to bulldoze with a thunderous blow?
With some hesitation, Shadurellna asked, "Could it be that in addition to Master Jersey, the elders of Captain Thrall will come to help?" However, the space here is limited, so I am afraid that it will be difficult to exert all my strength. β
Unlike the vast surface world, the underground world has a complex environment, and dragons' movement ability is greatly limited, and it is easy to be beaten to death.
"Not really. To lead the army to push down the Nafae family, in fact, only the mercenary group is enough. Asking Master Jersey to intervene is just to be on the safe side, to prevent the other party from using any means that we don't expect. Mike said.
"Master, I don't question you, but our strength is really that strong?The other party may have brought reinforcements from multiple families, and we only have a total of 40 Drow with low combat effectiveness who can fight, except for the merchant group and the helpers you invited. Shadurellna asked again.
"Alas, don't look at things with old eyes. You also said that those dark elves are low in strength, and there are not many of them in this battle. Our backbone is the newly refuted righteous people. They are willing to prove their loyalty by their deeds and qualify for membership in the Order. Mike's expression was serious, not fake.
The two sisters looked at each other again. With some hesitation, Farah asked, "But our recruitment work is not going well, and there is not a single new member yet." Master, you can't be talking about more than a thousand slave cannon fodder......"
"That's them. You should study more and think more, change your thinking and broaden your horizons. When we first fought the Lizard Cave, we didn't use them as the main force. The same is true for the upcoming battle. β
The two sisters were stunned. Because of their stereotypes, although they know that they have recently bought hundreds of slaves, it is still difficult to believe that they are what Mike calls "the newly refuge of the righteous man".
Because of the lack of resources in the underground world, the dark elves are destined to be unable to adopt the tactics of crowds, and they are accustomed to cannon fodder demining elite victory.
Every warrior has good martial arts, can use two-handed magic, and has a certain amount of spell resistance. Such an army, if placed in the surface world, can already be said to be extremely elite. But in the Dark Elf society, it is nothing more than a standing army of the family. Their elite are elites such as lizard cavalry selected from among the warriors.
Goblin kobolds and other slaves, who feed mainly on chaff, moss, and garbage, are so poor in physical fitness that even if they are distributed, they must have fifty or sixty people to match a Dark Elf warrior - this is still a situation where slave soldiers are guaranteed to fight to the death Dark Elf warriors without spell items. Their main role is to serve as human radar and demining equipment.
Therefore, no matter how many there are, no one will take them seriously.
Otherwise, the merchant group would have bought so many slaves, and the council would have reacted a long time ago. But now, they just think that the lady of Tesren or the head of the Tang monk probably has something wrong with their brains, so they will buy so many slaves and waste money and food. There are also some people who think that they want to pick treasures from the garbage, but if the treasures are so easy to pick, how can they be turned.
"Master, then you mean that you and Master Jersey are very strong, so strong that you only need to lead a few bodyguards and a large group of cannon fodder to kill a large number of soldiers and win the war?"
"Nonsense!" said Sal, "the role of the two of them is nothing more than to sweep away some garbage, and only the army under my wise leadership is the decisive force!"
The two sisters were stunned.
"Brother Sal is right. Heroes and armies are just different in the division of labor, and after separation, neither can exert real strength. Mike reassured Sal, "As for the master, I'm just a fool of everyone, but the Jersey master, as you know, is a real master." β
"It would be great if it was like that. Commander Saar, I don't understand this level of warfare, I beg your forgiveness for saying the wrong thing just now. Sadurellena hurriedly apologized to Sal, she didn't want to mess with the red dragon that Mike held very seriously. Although it is still hard to believe that the two masters are strong enough to "bulldoze with a thunderous blow" as Mike said, it seems that it may be possible to look at his confident appearance......
"My wise Lord Thrall has always been on top of his guns, and he won't be as knowledgeable as you. Inadvertently, Sal used the wrong idiom again.
The tactic Mike is ready to adopt is superhero plus cannon fodder.
Although the dark elves are elite, due to the population base, there are not many top masters, especially top spellcasters, at least in this Faturi City. In the so-called family battles that will be fought, there are very few people who need to face the caster and can use a 5th level spell.
Master Jersey, who has mastered the 8th level of arcane and can also be immune to mental spells, is enough to be called a superhero in this situation, and Mike himself is enough to be considered a superhero with the help of Master Jersey with sufficient spell slots and a large number of spells to choose from.
As for the elite warriors of the other side, they could not threaten the casters under the protection of a large amount of cannon fodder. Even if Wukong, a master who is born with divine powers, uses heavy weapons, has a strong suppressive power when he grows bigger, and can fight alone with Master Zewahid, he can only escape and be bombarded against Mike, who is protected by a large number of cannon fodder. Limited by size and physical fitness, the suppressive power is far inferior to Wukong's dark elf warriors, so it goes without saying how much of a role it can play.
High-level martial artists and high-level spellcasters are like invincible swords and ordinary bazookas. The difference in ability makes the status of the two very different.
'The native barbarians are really sad, but who told you not to use snipe......