Chapter 616: War burns money
Although Li Yu, Ilea, Du Lun and others have formulated the next battle plan, there is still a lot to do.
Night fighting is a magical way of defeating the strong with the weak.
The attacker uses the dark environment at night to minimize its own disadvantages in numbers or equipment.
There are many classic cases of night battles in history. In the Korean War, the Volunteer Army caused great trouble to the US military through elusive night battles, making it difficult for the US military to exert its artillery and air superiority.
But organizing a successful night battle is not an easy task.
There will be more night battles than those that win and lose.
The biggest difficulty comes from command, especially for the medieval army where military discipline itself is very loose and the team is pieced together by various families. It is not easy to just follow the orders and prohibitions.
For example, Hugo was unwilling to obey the order of Marquis Cullen and led people into the Dragon's Back Mountains alone. This was certainly a conspiracy between him and the dwarves, but for the nobles on the Bratis continent, it was not a big deal. Worthy of weird stuff.
As a vassal, the party has the obligation to respond to the monarch's call and fight for the monarch, and often has to prepare his own dry food. It is reasonable to make some small robberies on the road and make some extra money to make up for the losses.
Many times even the monarch is not very good at preventing such behavior.
This is also the reason why Cullen and others did not doubt Hugo much before.
This situation still exists when it comes to Miss Rabbit. Except for the two thousand people she brought with her, the rest are warriors from other families.
Nominally, these people will obey the orders of her commander, but in fact, according to the mainland's long-standing tradition, if Ilea wants to send these people, she must first give the order to the nobles who lead the troops.
The nobles then conveyed it to their knights, and finally the knights were responsible for leading their respective warriors to execute the orders. The intermediate links were mostly on one side, and the most important thing was that these people also had a certain degree of independent initiative.
Although it would not blatantly disobey Ilea, the commander-in-chief's order, it would definitely cause confusion in communication.
During the day, it's okay to say that if I mess with you, you will also mess with me, and everyone can just fight randomly.
But fighting at night is definitely not possible. Before reaching the battlefield, two or three people were separated first, and then after a random charge, our own people fought with their own people, pushing and trampling each other, plus those who fell into the ditch... this battle There is no need to fight, you can just admit defeat.
In order to avoid such a situation, the first thing Ilea needs to do is to reorganize the army and achieve unified command and unified dispatch.
However, over thousands of years, everyone has become accustomed to the previous organization and combat methods.
It is not easy for Ilea to convince the noble generals of other families to temporarily give up their military power.
Fortunately, she has the title of martial arts champion. When the black dragon was wreaking havoc in the Western Territory, it was she who stepped forward and successfully slayed the dragon, making all the major families in the Western Territory owe a favor.
But the most important thing is that in the recent battles, the female lord used the Shuangxiujiao's sacred sound-transmitting instrument to prove her commanding ability.
She has led everyone to several victories, defeating the dwarves near Gravel Valley, and her reputation as the Imperial Valkyrie has become more and more famous.
Coupled with the current strong enemy, although the food crisis was temporarily solved by looting the savage tribes, they could not defeat the dwarves blocking the road, and they were unable to leave the valley and were always in danger.
Therefore, everyone finally agreed to the female lord's proposal.
So the girl then broke up the 8,000 people on hand and reorganized them into 16 brigades, each with 500 people and a wireless walkie-talkie.
In this way, real-time command can be carried out as before, and at the same time, teams can communicate with each other and cooperate with each other.
In addition, the female lord also agreed on a secret code in advance to distinguish between ourselves and the enemy.
Those who can pick up the code are our own people, and those who can't pick up are the enemies. When the time comes, they will be cut down.
Of course, it’s not enough to just cut in the dark, there must be light.
But the light in night battles is a double-edged sword. It can not only be used to identify targets and cause psychological oppression to the enemy, but it can also expose one's own side and become a target of concentrated fire.
However, the female lord also has a drone, and Li Yu plans to install a searchlight on it to provide lighting for the army.
Since drones are in the air, there is no risk of being attacked as long as they rise to a certain height, and they can calmly search for targets among enemy forces.
Drop a beam of light onto a target, turning it into a target for your own archers.
These strong beams themselves also have a certain blinding effect, and the sudden appearance of white light beams above their heads can also make the enemy feel deep fear.
In addition, they can also be used to assist command and indicate the direction of attack to soldiers who did not hear the order clearly.
However, considering that civilian drones need to return to their destinations for recharging in about 30 to 40 minutes, Li Yu needs to bring more batteries.
In addition, Li Yu also purchased a batch of luminous paint, which can be painted on the faces of the soldiers. Firstly, it can further intimidate the dwarves, and secondly, it can also be used as a form of identification.
Finally, of course, there’s an old friend – the Molotov cocktail.
Once Jacobi died, no one in the sky could be Zhu Zhigang's opponent.
And Li Yu also planned to maximize his air superiority.
He specially equipped Zhu Zhigang with a pair of night vision goggles, so that Zhu Zhigang would not need any light to carry out activities, thus ensuring his safety to the greatest extent.
If you carry a Molotov cocktail, you can completely transform into a stealth bomber.
Then he will burn the dwarves' food and fodder, and further cause chaos among the dwarves.
Li Yu made a list and wrote down all the things he wanted to buy. Then he calculated the prices and found that next month's reimbursement amount was not enough.
Fortunately, the short video accounts he opened on several platforms are now showing some improvement. In addition to some income brought by the number of views, business orders have also come to his door, and Zhang Yanlin has been actively contacting them.
It was expected that new income would arrive soon, so Li Yu continued to keep the money himself.
And he simply did not stop and purchased thirteen more drones, preparing to invest them all in the upcoming battle, ensuring that each team would have at least one drone to fight together.
In the end, when all kinds of things were added up, the total expenditure exceeded 80,000 yuan, and Li Yu was considered to have suffered a lot from the next battle.
In the next few days, he carried these things to the green field in batches.
In another dimension, while the female lord continued to sweep away the savage tribes, she also took this opportunity to actively train the new army that had just been reorganized. (End of chapter)