The mighty lord of online games

Chapter 302 The Influence of Tactics on Combat
Walking through the hinterland of the Kujit Kingdom, Zhang Qiang was extremely careful. Lana, Halma, and any lord troops randomly sent out in that city would cause him heavy losses.

Fortunately, the Kujit army is fighting against the expeditionary force of the Swadia Kingdom in the Dherim area. The hinterland is empty, and even the lord's army that usually patrols its own territory cannot be seen.

After all, this is a national war, a decisive battle between two kingdoms. For the kingdoms of this era, 2 to [-] troops are almost all the troops they can recruit to fight.

When approaching Uruzdak Fort, Zhang Qiang and the others saw the patrolling lord's army.

But those lords' army saw that Zhang Qiang's logistics force, including the merchants accompanying the army, had a scale of 800 people. Looking at the strength of Zhang Qiang's troops, there were dozens of heavy cavalry from the Kingdom of Swadia, a dozen knights from the Kingdom of Swadia, and the upper class. Hundreds of mercenary cavalry fled directly.

All of a sudden, scout cavalry were flying all over the sky, one side drove them away, the other side investigated them, all kinds of news spread in the hinterland of Kujit.

The alarm in the hinterland of Kugit was repeated frequently, and an army of the lord of the Kingdom of Swadia entered the hinterland of Kugit, which was very scary.

But Zhang Qiang is not in the mood to pay attention to these things. He looked at the map bought by Manid, which is like a heavenly book. The map of this area is completely different from the map of the real world he saw. The way of expression, you have to Only by guessing and racking your brains can you know what those ghost symbols on the map represent.

The troops are currently marching in the mountains, walking along the foot of the mountain, the road can only be described as uncanny workmanship.

It's not easy to control a troop, especially a troop of nearly a thousand people. To put it bluntly, command skills are like the military knowledge that an officer who has learned how to lead troops in a military academy knows.

All kinds of headaches, for Zhang Qiang, a half-homeboy and half-worker, managing a team of nearly a thousand people, even with some people assisting him, often makes mistakes in his busy schedule.

At this time, he took a few entourages and climbed to the nearby mountain to check the terrain.

Yatiman pointed to a valley protruding from the hilly area in the distance, "That's Uruzdak Castle. When I traveled to the mainland and investigated the construction method of the castle, I once observed here. Look, Uruzdak Fort Duck took advantage of the natural trend between the valleys, blocked the valley passages on three sides with city walls, and built city walls and city gates on the side facing the plain. The city walls extended to the nearby peaks and were built on the protruding platforms of the peaks. The watchtower, the watchtower, the terrain is steep, and all the dead corners that can be close to the city wall are blocked with ingenious watchtowers.

Restricted by the terrain, the enemy can only attack it from the side of the plain. He only needs to defend one side. The rest of the place is close to the mountains. Putting a few soldiers can deter the attackers. They can concentrate their forces on this side. For defense, the attacking party must concentrate more troops than him, and a strong attack can break through its defense, and many warriors need to die to stand on the city wall.

The bows and arrows of the Saranders who conquered this castle have advantages in firing speed and accuracy compared to the crossbows of the Swadia Kingdom. The archers of Sarander are more accurate than the crossbowmen of our Swadia Kingdom. , They have semi-professional troops. Compared with us who are knight training troops, it is much better for the lord to recruit troops in the village. They have been trained for a long time, but their combat effectiveness is not bad. The only disadvantage of the Sarandes is their equipment. , the defense is too poor. "

Rolf said: "We don't need to understand this, we don't want to attack the city, we are just going to James Knight now."

Yatiman said displeasedly: "But we will attack this castle one day. The lord can't just be a baron in his life, he will go up, viscount, earl, become a prince of one side, and become a prince , you have to have your own castle.

Relying on a village, a very barren village, a tax of more than 100 dinar gold coins a week, plus two factories in Kulau City, Kingdom of Vikia, but [-] to less than [-] dinar gold coins a week.

I can't even afford a good pair of boots, so I can only pay some first-level soldiers. At present, with such a huge army as the lord, the salary alone costs tens of thousands a week, and a month. Lost hundreds of thousands.

A castle costs tens of thousands in taxes alone. If you add some tolls, it will be 10,000+. It is enough to raise a low-level army. If you add a few profitable caravans, then raise an elite army A unit of cavalry attacks the enemy, a unit of elite infantry, and units of archers defend and attack the city.

It may not be enough for a castle king to grant you a castle. You have to keep expanding your territory and own more castles. If you can own a large trading city like Dherim on the central passage of the mainland, then a week Hundreds of thousands of taxes, plus tariffs, hundreds of thousands, millions of gold coins a week, then our lord will be very powerful. "

Rolf shook his head, and said disdainfully, "Idiots can only dream, and the lord is just a small baron now. There are not three hundred barons like this in the Kingdom of Swadia, and there are more than 200. There are fiefs, and there are no fiefs." , there are many earls without fiefs, not to mention barons, our lord is not very strong now, he can only guard a village, no matter how big he is, he will be powerless."

Zhang Qiang ignored their words, and after seeing the terrain clearly, he led the troops to move on.

As Rolf said, he is still too weak to think so much.

However, when he came to Weiye Mountain Pass, he had no choice but to attack the city.

Because this mountain pass is not small or big, and the enemy's forces can just cover this mountain pass, and it is impossible for him to pass through it quietly.

Moreover, the enemy's strength is comparable to his, just over 300. According to the news of the scout cavalry who approached for reconnaissance, there are also 300 defenders in the city.

The defenders don't need to worry about it, but the patrolling lord's army needs to be killed. Kill the lord's army before they can pass.

Chief Rafad, who is this? It seems to be the earl lord of the Kingdom of Swadia. It seems that he has also defected to the Kingdom of Sarande. Because of the ongoing war in the Dherim area, the Kingdom of Swadia is facing With the war between the other two kingdoms, many lords were not firm enough, not loyal enough to the kingdom and Halaus, and had a bad relationship. Therefore, they began to seek refuge in other kingdoms to avoid wars and wars. Zhang Qiang looked at flowers After a quick glance, the news from the kingdom made him feel too confused.

Recently, more than a dozen lords have betrayed, more than a dozen lords have been exiled, and then dozens of lords have come to the Kingdom of Swadia. The lords of the six countries have changed back and forth like a revolving lantern, and the changes are dazzling. up.

Earl Rafad, it seems, appeared in Rhodok, and later in the Kingdom of Swadia, and now he added the word chief after his name, and became the lord of the Kingdom of Sarande.

Zhang Qiang felt a headache from the news that kept coming in. Because his army was too large, the mountain roads were difficult to navigate, and his tactical skills were low, he found that his army was divided into several sections. He had to use 20 heavy soldiers from the Swadia Kingdom The cavalry, with his heroes and entourage, fought Chief Rafahd's mixed force of 40 Salanders.

According to the scouts, the enemy has 10 Mamluk cavalry, 10 Sarande elite cavalry, 5 Sarande guards, 10 Sarande light infantry, and 5 Sarande archer masters.As well as the knights of Chief Rafaeld, knight attendants, and 15 followers.

It seems that Chief Raffard's tactical level is not too high, but it is higher than his tactical level, and the number of troops arriving and the number of elites are more than his.

His Second Kingdom of Perswadia had 10 knights, 10 heavy cavalry, Zhao Siyang and his 18 players, and 10 Kujit people.

I don't know about the second wave of Chief Rafald's troops. It is estimated that there must be more troops than Zhang Qiang's. Even if they are cannon fodder troops, Zhang Qiang has a headache.

For the first time, he discovered that the tactical level is so important.

It seems that in the future, I will learn more about tactics, how to arrange my own troops, and how to improve the overall operational capabilities of the troops.

At present, he has to use these people to face twice the enemy's strength. The important thing is that the enemy's first wave of troops is stronger than him.

They are all four or five levels of strength.

Both the guards and the Mamluk cavalry are of the fifth rank, and the elite cavalry are of the fourth rank.

His heavy cavalry is of the third rank, and the knight cavalry is only of the fourth rank.

The only good thing is that his troops have high morale and are ready to fight, but the enemy's troops seem to be downcast, like those border guards who are sent to guard the desert, mountains and snowy seas. look.

"Maybe we can beat them."

Rolf said.

Zhang Qiang said: "However, it will take three hours for our second wave of soldiers to reach the battlefield, and the enemy's second wave of reinforcements is estimated to be very soon. By then, not only will we not have the advantage in terms of strength, but we will also not have the advantage in terms of military strength. "

Rolf said eagerly, "As long as we kill them in large numbers, reaching one-third of all their soldiers, their morale will definitely be even lower, and they will desert. At that time, as long as we are still on the battlefield, Even if the second wave comes, we can hold out until our second wave of reinforcements arrives."

"Then, let's start," Zhang Qiang said.

"You take the infantry followers to find a high ground to hold on to, and I will go around to the enemy's rear, attack the enemy's archers, kill the archers, and then use the terrain to control a few Mamluks, and the enemy's forces will be intercepted. Lose one-third, and then slowly consume the enemy's strength. Waiting for reinforcements to arrive, I think his second wave of soldiers must have a lot of infantry, so that our cavalry will have an advantage here."

After finishing speaking here, the two began to arrange battles.

At this time, Chief Rafade led his troops and looked at the current lord's army suspiciously.

The Kingdom of Swadia, this made him very emotional. He did not do well in the Kingdom of Swadia, whether it was in Earl Klages' group or in the other two family groups, or even in some other territorial groups. His lords were also unsatisfactory, and his resentment towards King Harlaus, accumulated over time, finally broke out.

However, he peacefully rescinded his oath of allegiance to King Halaus, and turned to the Kingdom of Sarande. King Hakim Khan of Sarande, who wanted to take control of the plains of the Kingdom of Swadia with rich resources, thought of him. He was very happy with his allegiance, and directly gave him Weiyeha Fort as his territory.

Although this place is a border mountain pass, the customs duties here are not in his hands. It is considered good that Hakim can give him the taxes here.

This caused the extreme shortage of his military maintenance expenses. His soldiers guarded here hungry every day, and they could only receive some basic wages, and sometimes they had to owe a few months. Many high-ranking soldiers in his army escaped , leading to low morale.

Morale is an extremely important factor in combat.

(End of this chapter)