Chapter 304 Response
In the lizardman camp, listening to the report of his subordinates, the lizardman leader was filled with anger and had nowhere to vent, and kicked the subordinate kneeling below him to the ground on the spot.
“Trash!!”
After simply venting his anger, the lizardman leader began to think about countermeasures.
“Although the number of ‘Baltu’ brought here this time is quite large, we cannot just let the bastards on the opposite side kill them.”
While muttering to himself, the experiences of the past few days came to mind again, and the lizardman leader's face suddenly became a little ugly.
Li Ce’s one-hit-and-go tactics are simply shameless in the eyes of the lizardman commander!
At this moment, it was obvious that he was at his wits end.
In the past few days, he has tried to lure the enemy deep, then set up an ambush to surround and kill the opponent.
But I don’t know if he saw through his intentions. After the opponent finished the wave, he immediately turned around and left without even hesitating, giving them no chance to surround him.
However, after a period of time, they did not gain anything at all. At least they figured out that there were three groups of guys attacking them this time.
Humans, centaurs and elves respectively!
Humans aside, centaurs and elves are undoubtedly troublesome beings, but as heroic warriors serving the ancient gods, they certainly cannot retreat!
The lizardman commander who was sorting out his thoughts at this moment slowly understood Li Ce’s thoughts on their actions, and then spoke...
“Pass my order, from now on, The composition of all patrols was changed to five dragon cavalry, plus twenty 'Baltu' infantry."
Hearing this, the 'Baltu' lizard man kneeling below was suddenly startled.
"Commander, if you arrange it this way, the number of patrols will be greatly reduced."
"Then reduce it!"
The lizardman commander gave it without even thinking. This answer.
When things have developed to this point, if the number of patrol teams is simply too large, it will no longer make any sense.
What he needs now is to increase the combat strength of the patrol team.
According to the intelligence obtained in the past few days, the strength of these three forces is not large.
He just estimated that the improved configuration is enough to make the other party feel the pressure.
If possible, he even wanted to upgrade the configuration of the dragon cavalry to ten cavalry.
But this is obviously not realistic.
Considering the casualties and losses of the Velociraptor Cavalry in the past few days, the number of Velociraptor Cavalry under his command is no longer very abundant.
Under this premise, the speed dragon cavalry also shoulder the important task of obtaining food through hunting. At this time, there are not many patrol teams that can be allocated. Each patrol team has been increased to five cavalry, basically It's already the limit.
The order issued by the lizardman commander was quickly implemented.
Facts have proved that the increase in military strength has indeed put pressure on Li Ce and the others in the simplest and crudest way.
The increased risks have made their actions less unscrupulous than before.
In response to this situation, Li Ce was not panicked. As the person who formulated this harassment tactic, he had certainly thought about how to deal with this problem if he were on the opposite side.
As for the simple and crude method of directly increasing the number of troops, he has undoubtedly also thought of it.
Therefore, after discovering that the strength of the patrol team on the opposite side had increased significantly, Li Ce restrained his actions slightly and started observing for a period of time. Then he completely confirmed his guess and breathed a sigh of relief.
"As expected!"
The reason why he adopts the strategy of 'one strike and away, never reluctant to fight' is mainly because the distribution density and frequency of patrols of the opponent's patrols are too high. .
If the other side is attacked, they will inevitably send out a distress signal and call for reinforcements. Once the fighting time is prolonged, there is a high probability that they will be besieged by subsequent reinforcements from the opposite side.
But things are different now. To give a simple example, in the same area, a patrol team used to pass by every ten minutes, but now it only passes by one every fifteen minutes or even twenty minutes.
The strength of the patrols has increased, but their numbers have decreased.
This directly led to a significant decrease in the distribution density and frequency of patrols.
In this way, if they launch an attack, the time it will take for the rest of the patrol to discover what's going on here and rush over will be greatly lengthened.
And their fighting time will naturally become more generous as a result, and they no longer need to fight and run away as before.
This shortcoming can actually be made up for.
That is to increase the strength of the patrol team while maintaining the original number of patrol teams.
This requires enough troops to support.
The lizard man on the opposite side obviously couldn't do this, which made Li Ce greatly relieved.
Li Ce, whose suspicions were confirmed, was not in a hurry to take action.
The increased fighting time does not equate to easier fighting. The risks and threats they need to bear have increased, and this cannot be changed.
Staying still for the time being, Li Ce approached Drogo and the others after dark.
Compared to the elves, who had basically no news after the operation started, they still have very close contacts with the centaurs.
They often get together to exchange information, and occasionally bump into each other in battle, and they will cover and support each other. In this way, they have accumulated more tacit understanding between each other.
"On the lizard people's side, the patrols and hunting teams have become larger in size. I think it is safer for us to join forces to attack next."
"I agree."
Drogo directly agreed to Li Ce’s proposal.
Drogo's cheerfulness was within Li Ce's expectation. What he wanted to know more now was actually the situation on the Elf side.
"Leader Drogo, do you know what's going on with the elves now?"
If possible, Li Ce thought it would be better to bring the elves' troops with him.
Judging from the current situation, they will inevitably start a large-scale war with the lizard people in the future. By then, the elves will also be an important fighting force on their grasslands.
While it can be secured now, Li Ce still hopes that the other party can preserve its troops and use more force when a large-scale war breaks out.
However, facing Li Ce's question at this time, Drogo shook his head.
"We had an encounter from a distance before. At that time, they had no intention of contacting us. They left quickly and we basically haven't seen each other since."
Drogo's words made Li Ce frowned slightly.
In fact, as early as when they were discussing tactics, he had vaguely realized that the group of prairie elves seemed to be unsociable.
Of course, this is not quite appropriate.
To be more accurate, it should be that the grassland elves think very highly of themselves, and they look down on them in their bones. They feel that if they act together, they will hold them back.
So now, despite the name of cooperation, the prairie elves are completely alone and have basically no interaction with them.
(End of this chapter)