Chapter 886: There is no normalcy in soldiers
"How could I not know?" General Batumih sighed and said, "Who knows how many of these blasting traps the enemy has buried along the way, if we use human lives to catch up with the enemy, God knows how many usable troops we have left, and in the case of fear, it is difficult to raise the speed." β
Naru admonished again: "It is impossible for the enemy to set traps all over the mountains, but must set traps on such roads or roads, so why don't we take the initiative to avoid these roads?" After all, we are light cavalry, and our dependence on roads has never been so heavy, and there have always been no roads in the endless wilderness. β
General Batumih nodded, shook his head again, and said: "I have not thought about this method you mentioned, if the enemy is in the same situation as us, and there is no road, we can indeed catch up with the enemy with the speed of light horses.
However, with the blessing of the road, the enemy marched through the wilderness, but I am afraid that it will be difficult to catch up with the other party, after all, this is not an endless wilderness, although Sesk is mainly a plain, but it is not a flat river, as long as there is a little natural obstacle, any delay will slow down our march.
Don't forget what is another important responsibility of us as a pioneer army! β
Naru replied without thinking: "Clear the way for the army led by the Khan." β
"The difficulties we are facing now are also the ones that our army will face next, not only to catch up with the enemy, but also to clear the way for the army." General Batumih replied in the affirmative.
"Then use cattle to open the way." Naru turned his head and came up with a murderous and cold-blooded method, "Split our vanguard army and scatter it like a pack of wolves, drive the locals or monster tribes from the native area, and let them open the way in front."
Multiple stages are carried out at the same time, and the efficiency is naturally greatly improved.
And I speculate that the traps they set were carried out in stages, and it was impossible to do all along the way. β
The cattle that Nakan is talking about are naturally not real animals, but those Scysk natives.
In the eyes of the Tukans, the value of the real cattle is higher than that of the natives, especially when there is no way to send slaves to the endless wilderness on a large scale, they are a bunch of cannon fodder that can be consumed at will.
General Batumih thought about it for a moment, nodded and said: "This is the most feasible method at present, but there is no need to dismantle the army too scattered, we must prevent the enemy's counterattack, dismantle the goblin wolf cavalry into ten thousand teams, and let them be responsible for driving the sheep and clearing the traps, and the other two teams will conserve their strength and respond in the center." β
"The general is on the safe side, and we will act according to the plan." Naru praised.
The efficiency of the Toucan vanguard was very high, and less than half an hour after the plan was set, the big goblin wolf cavalry rushed into the field in a burst of shouts.
These goblin wolf cavalry, with the cooperation of the Tucan Eagle Knights, also acted very efficiently.
The fastest one, in just an hour and a half, drove the first slaves back.
The slowest one didn't take more than three hours.
General Batumih chose the Great Goblin Wolf Cavalry for this mission, not the Gnolls, but also to make good use of it.
These goblins are a kind of professional soldiers in their bones, and as long as they are satisfied with their current lives, even as slave soldiers, they will do their best to complete the task.
But those gnolls are different, in their bones, they are thugs without any moral bottom line, if there is not enough force to suppress them, scatter them into the wilderness, let alone complete the task, how many people will come back, it is unknown.
With a large number of flesh and blood opening the way, the Toucan vanguard army, which was slowed down by the mine array, immediately began to accelerate and chased towards the chariot army in front.
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The response adopted by the Tucan vanguard army was immediately transmitted to the chariot corps that was rushing forward.
"Driving good people to destroy the trap, these Tucans are still as unscrupulous as ever, and I believe that it will not be long before they will be defeated in the Sesk Plain." The Earth Spirit Witch snorted angrily.
Apparently, what the Tucans were doing in the Sesk Plains reminded her of the evil deeds of the other party in the kingdom of Lesserman.
"It's naΓ―ve to try to break our trap in this way."
Gavin turned his head and asked the professional, "Master Susie, can you improve the detonation device of these traps to further increase their load-bearing pressure, ordinary people will not detonate when they step on it, but the person on the mount will blow them up." β
Sure enough, war is an important means of promoting development, but I didn't expect the concept of anti-tank mines to be put on the agenda so soon.
Susie, Gavin's kobold trap maker, replied without even thinking about it: "This is not difficult, you only need to adjust the burial depth of those flutter bombs, and I will immediately go and personally guide them in their operations." β
The flutter bomb trap that held back the Tucan vanguard was naturally the work of the kobold trap makers.
These earliest followers who followed Gavin were irreplaceable in their ability to make traps.
Wherever there is Gavin, there will be their shadows, and they will participate not only in the war, but also in all kinds of construction.
Therefore, their growth rate is undoubtedly amazing, the kobold people in the pit village have already increased from less than three hundred to the current three thousand, of which there are as many as five hundred pit makers who follow Gavin to fight in various places, one is counted as one, all of them have extraordinary strength, and they are all dragonized kobolds.
This not only means that they have turned on the dragon wings, they are the air force, and they have stronger mobility (they are extraordinary spellcasters after all, although the specialization is relatively high, but teleportation is their standard, ordinary mobility is auxiliary in their hands, and if necessary, they can teleport and intersperse), but it also means that their abilities have been extremely enhanced like Susie.
Although not everyone is like Susie, who has opened the ability to instantly trap the pit, it is not too weak, and the ability is more diverse, and even Gavin has no bottom to what extent it is diverse.
After all, he is not what he used to be, the kobold is just one of his many troops, and he has jumped from a kobold lord to a commander who coordinates the overall situation, and there are too many things for him to consider, and it is impossible to invest too much energy in a kobold army as before.
Gavin understood this truth a long time ago, a person's energy is limited, especially with the development of his own forces, some low-end things must be properly delegated and handed over to his own subordinates to deal with, so that they can develop on their own.
If you have a need in a certain aspect, you can directly put forward the corresponding requirements to them and hand them over to develop them by themselves, and they can even bring unexpected surprises to themselves.
Without their own participation, they just returned to normal at the speed of development, and it was not set in stone, and Faeron was now relatively complete in the career system, which could not be underestimated.
This is a symbol that a power is on the right track and is gradually growing stronger, if you have a firm grasp of everything, it means that you are only a small lord from beginning to end.
"Wait a minute." Gavin stopped Susie as she was about to take off.
"My lord, what else do you have to order?" Susie asked hurriedly.
Gavin continued, "You can create more traps, send out those digging worms and create more traps and tunnels, and you can also set up more traps and trap horses, and the most important thing is not how many enemies you kill, but how many people will be injured so that they can't increase their speed and fight with our main force." β
"Thank you Lord for your advice, I understand how to do it, I wonder if there are any other instructions?" Susie's eyes lit up, because this matter, for them, it was really very simple, and those traps like rabbit holes were much easier to make than huge pits.
With the ability of the transcendent trap maker, a single spell can make hundreds of traps spread over an area of thousands of square meters.
These traps do not hurt ordinary people much, but against war horses, especially running war horses and their knights, the damage can be one by one, once they stumble and step into it, the huge weight and speed will break their hooves and throw the knight out.
Moreover, the difficulty of dismantling them is not comparable to that of the Tremor Bomb, after all, there is no way to blast and dismantle this thing.
They can only be filled in and removed by hand or magic, either way, and either way, it takes time.
However, in this way, the goal of delaying the enemy has been achieved.
Spell traps usually have a duration limit, mostly between ten and eighteen hours, depending on the life dice of the trap maker (life dice/hour).
Once the time limit is exceeded, the magic that has gathered together will dissipate, the magic trap will automatically fail, and everything will return to its original state.
This is both a disadvantage of magic traps and an advantage that ordinary traps do not have.
After the war, there was no need to send people to find and dismantle them.
Gavin waved his hand and said, "Go ahead, that's all I can think of for the time being." β
"Yes." Susie saluted again, flapping her wings towards the kobold's team of pit-makers.
Looking at the dragon-turned kobold in the distance, the Earth Spirit Witch's gaze was full of admiration: "I heard that Lord Commander started with kobolds, but I didn't expect that you didn't just use their strength to cultivate these little guys to such an extraordinary level, we originally thought that only those dragons could really develop the true strength of these kobolds!" β
"It's true that only those dragons can really tap into their strength, and I'm no exception." Gavin said honestly, "Originally, I thought that I could use my own ability to change the instinctive nature of these creatures and shape a new race.
Where did I think, going around and around, and finally returning to the dragon, unless it is a god, if you want to reshape a race, you must do it over many years, just like your lords. β
Gavin ended up talking about the Lythermans, just as he created the Kobold with the Dragon Oak Collar, it was these Lythmans who shaped the Lesserman kingdom and the existing Lessermans.
"The commander's reputation is not so much that we influenced the Lessermans, but that we influenced each other to get to where we are now."
The Earth Spirit Witch humbly replied, "You have opened up a whole new world for us, and without the protection of the Totem Dream, we would not be able to easily transfer our troops and forces to continue to intervene in this war." β
This is not just a compliment, but a statement of facts.
The reason why they dared to cooperate with Gavin to calculate Yamen Khan before was because they had the support of the Totem Dream Realm, and they no longer had to worry about Yamen Khan launching a full-scale attack on their Lythman Kingdom desperately.
The appearance of the totem dream not only changed the role that the Lytheman Kingdom could play in this war, but even changed the war situation between them and the Searle Kingdom, no longer simply being beaten passively, but having the ability to take the initiative and let the initiative of the war be in their hands.
"This is a matter of mutual benefit, and if it were not for the extraordinary containment of the Yamen Khan in the army, I would not dare to act rashly in other directions." Gavin responded with a smile.
Whether it is the dispatch of the chariot legion or the previous attack on the Tucan army by the Haslan witches, they are all interlinked.
There is only one purpose, that is, to bind the Yamen Khan, and only in this way can the war be dragged into normalcy.
After a moment's silence, the Earth Spirit Witch suggested, "Since the Tucans have already divided their forces, why don't we take them by surprise and eat up this vanguard of theirs, who only think they are chasing your chariot legions, but do not know that one of our berserker legions is lurking in your chariots." β
It is not only the Haslan Witch who is liberated from the totem dream, but also the berserker legion of the Lytherman Kingdom.
After the official establishment of the Totem Dream Realm, the Haslan Witch and Gavin held another secret meeting to delve into the situation in the Desperate Eastern Regions and reach a deeper cooperation.
These Haslan witches continued to appoint Gavin as their commander, not only did their best to help him form the Far Eastern Heavy Cavalry, but even selected the most elite fearlesss of the Lysserman Kingdom to form a 10,000-strong army, commanded by the Iron King Sedrin himself, and the Earth Spirit Witch sat behind the scenes, and handed over to Gavin for full command and deployment.
Don't underestimate this legion, they are the essence of the Lythman Kingdom, these fearlesss have all activated the totem spirit, and all of them are selected to be suitable as mounts.
This means that a legion can be used for two purposes, as a storming or defending berserker, or as a cavalry for assault or pursuing the enemy.
The most powerful thing is that they not only have the ability to fight three against one enemy, but also take into account the defense of heavy infantry and the mobility of light infantry, as a cavalry when used more magical, with the advantages of light and heavy cavalry at the same time, there is also a concealment that ordinary cavalry does not have, their mounts are their totem spirits, usually in their bodies to recuperate, only when used, summoned.
These Totem Spirit Mounts have a daily manifest time limit, which is a minor flaw.
The characteristics of this berserker legion make it a perfect match for the chariot legion.
Since leaving the kingdom of Lesserman, they have been hiding in the chariots, and with the shelter provided by the storm body, even the Tucans with aerial scouts have no way to fully understand the reality of the chariot legion.
"It's too close." Gavin vetoed without hesitation, "It's too close to Tucan's army, and the other party's reinforcements can arrive at any time, if you are stuck by them, it will be worth the loss."
Moreover, the other side is a light cavalry, if they are bent on escaping, it will be difficult for us to annihilate them, and it will delay our next battle plan. β
"Makes sense." The Earth Spirit Witch did not insist on her opinion, after all, the other party is professional in commanding the war, but asked, "What kind of military measures is the Commander going to take in Taimar?" Stuck in the city? β
"There is no impermanence in the army, and there is no normalcy in the water." Gavin dragged an ancient sentence, since communicating with those Xianglong people, his Huaxia soul had a feeling of burning, and many things were unconsciously hooked.
The Earth Spirit Witch did not doubt him, but regarded it as the unique language of the Xianglong Empire, and asked curiously, "What do you mean?" β
Gavin explained: "The art of war and tactics are not static, but change according to the changes of the enemy, whether Taimar can hold on or not is not up to us, but by the resistance forces gathered there first and the movements of our enemy, even if we prepare a strong defense, if the enemy is not ready to attack at all, but directly crosses, everything we do is useless." β
"Don't attack Tymar?" The Earth Spirit Witch couldn't help but be stunned. (End of chapter)