Chapter 1932 The decisive battle between card players
While the aristocratic coalition was waiting, setting traps, wrangling banquets, and colluding with each other, the card players all turned into liver emperors under heavy pressure.
"All poultry and livestock are not allowed to be slaughtered privately! Come to the designated place to slaughter, and for each animal killed, I will give you five copper coins!"
"Collecting live mice, live pheasants, and all kinds of live game at high prices!"
"Buy all kinds of big animals that are about to die of disease!"
The farmers, vendors, unemployed, and vagrants in the Kingdom of Lotus are all happy.
They finally had channels to share the wealth, food, cloth, salt... these daily necessities that the card players had robbed from the nobles.
The biggest problem in agricultural society is not the shortage of labor, but the excess labor accumulated on the land, leaving people who want to make money no place to make money.
A large amount of wealth was accumulated in the warehouses of the old men. Food rotted, cloth became moldy, and copper coins rusted... However, the poor had no place to sell their labor power to buy these things.
Now, the entire Kingdom of Lotus, with a population of more than 10 million, has begun to serve the upgrade of more than 5,000 card players.
At first, some soldiers didn't want to give money and wanted to collect them by force, but that was too inefficient.
The soldiers gave them money, and the farmers gave them the mice they had caught, and everyone started rolling them up.
Lancelot taught them that as long as the land exists, as long as the river exists, and as long as the farmers exist, wealth will continue to flow.
The land and rivers produce food, and the food feeds farmers and their children. If they can work, they can create more and more money.
Such a simple truth cannot be understood by even a savvy nobleman.
It is the simplest and most cost-effective transaction to occupy the land deed and exchange the farmers for the grain they produce in exchange for the farmers working for them.
The power of food and money is huge. In just ten days, the soldiers were upgraded to an average of five levels, which is faster than the upgrade speed on the battlefield.
Skills are not added randomly, but are added in a targeted manner according to Lancelot's arrangements and requirements.
For example, the most important scout adds points.
The very few soldiers with psychic link skills are regarded as the most protected objects, and their importance is second only to Lancelot himself.
There are only three of them in total, and ten people are arranged to protect each one in turn, so that they will not fail alone for a minute.
Then there is their partner, a person with reconnaissance skills such as eagle eyes and wolf ears.
Among these people, no one knows the importance of maps better than Lancelot.
As a former wild knight, if you want to survive on the battlefield, the first thing you need to do is to familiarize yourself with the terrain. At least when escaping, you cannot run into dead ends: valleys, river banks, cliffs...
He selected 450 scouts, which was already an extremely large number, nearly one-tenth of the 5,000 men.
Next is the bonus point for the main output unit.
Long-range is the most important output. Although archers have low lethality, they often account for no more than one-tenth of the total number of people killed in a battle, but they are indispensable.
Keeping your footing is not something you just talk about casually.
They can stabilize their own formation and prevent the enemy from rushing in rashly.
Long-range accuracy, strong bow, poisonous arrows, rocketry, ice arrows, invincible heroes, darkness, and skills from World of Warcraft appear randomly.
Lancelot first let some people choose, and after checking the effect, he chose the one with the most cost-effectiveness and asked others to add points.
For example, poison arrows don't need to be too many, but they can't be too few. He selected 80 people to fight against the boss.
Rocketry is the best mass killing technique, and against soldiers composed of ordinary people, it is simply a map cannon in the Middle Ages.
If combined with the terrain, the power will be doubled.
Other skills can be deduced in the same way.
In short, when the coalition of nobles sensed something was wrong and marched again... mainly because they had almost run out of food, Lancelot's five thousand card players had already been trained and formed.
Reconnaissance, output, defense, mobility, treatment, assistance...a complete large team.
"See, warriors, this is our real strength! Scattered out, we can only be overwhelmed by the nobles, but when we unite, we are the most majestic mountains, the deepest and widest seas, the coldest glaciers, the hottest
hell!"
Lancelot excitedly inspected his army of card players.
Players, etc., still don’t conform to their thinking habits.
After all, in their lives, it is hard to imagine that they can have a family just by "playing".
"Oh, oh, oh!" The soldiers were also very excited.
They have seen how powerful they are.
Several times when the nobles dispersed their troops and came to pursue them alone, they were discovered first, then set up an ambush, and then attacked them with a single attack, causing the enemy to disperse, and then outflanked and pursued them.
It's a simple routine, but the enemy can't escape and is easily defeated by them every time.
They successively captured thousands of people, but none of them died, only dozens of farmers who were working as logistics workers died.
That's still due to non-combat deaths, such as death from falls or illness.
"Now, the outpost reported that the enemy has been dispatched, with a total of 200,000 people, including 60,000 soldiers and 140,000 farmers... Are you afraid?" Lancelot said to everyone with a smile.
"It's too little. Two hundred thousand. Each person can only get forty heads. It's not enough for us to move up a level now!" A big soldier shouted.
"Yes, there are too few, and it is difficult to kill them if they surrender. It is more cost-effective to leave them to catch rats and raise pigs and sheep."
"Why didn't two million come? What a pity. It seems that we are not powerful enough in their eyes!"
Lancelot was very happy to see the soldiers' high morale.
"Then let's go!"
His 10,000-strong army began to dispatch.
The scouts were dispatched first, and the mentally linked soldiers planned the route for them.
The enemy advanced along the Lotus River, which was the largest river in the kingdom and played an important role in shipping and irrigation.
Without this river, it would be impossible for 200,000 people to march. Just fetching water every day would kill them.
If Lancelot knew that there was a group of countries in the east that could conscript 600,000 or 400,000 people at a time, he would definitely be shocked.
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Three days later, his scouts had made contact with the enemy outpost.
And his main force was still five days away from the enemy.
Through the scout's investigation, psychic link, and sand table skills, he and several counselors mapped out the enemy's advance route and camping location.
"The enemy's 200,000-strong army came from south to north and divided into east and west routes along the river bank to support each other." Advisor A pointed at the map and said.
"They communicate back and forth through the fleet. The advantage of this is that when we attack one of them, they can send a fleet from the other route to outflank us from upstream and downstream, putting us in a logistical isolation situation," said counselor B.
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"No matter how good a card player is, he can't go without food for three days. Once we cut off our logistics, we will be doomed." Advisor A said.
"They want us to divide our troops, but we can't." Lancelot shook his head.
"We can attack one group first, pretend to be defeated, lure that group away from the river bank, defeat them, and then cross the river to defeat the other group." Counselor A said.
"That's too slow. We know that the magic tide will come at any time. We should take the boat down the river and use remote card players to burn their fleet and cut them into two pieces. The fleet is gone.
, they will have no supplies, and the 200,000-strong army will collapse in two days. We can kill them like chasing rabbits." Counselor B gave a completely different approach.
One is safe, the other is risky.
One is low efficient and the other is high efficient.
