"Ding~, please note that the leader has triggered a large-scale special mission: World War! (Branch 1: Never be a slave!)
Mission description: The noble shamanic teachings have been abandoned. They blindly pursue power and ignore glory, which has brought great pain to both worlds. Defeating them will be your first step to make a strong voice in the world from the perspective of strength.
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Since the last system upgrade, Li De has almost never taken the initiative to call Eureka, which is really a bit frustrating for the astronomical figures that can easily reach hundreds of thousands.
However, the news brought by Eureka today surprised Li De. It seems that after the system upgrade, the tasks have begun to become more diverse, and they will even proactively release tasks instead of post-incident confirmation like before.
And this mission description is also quite interesting. The four words "never be a slave" not only summarize the unruly character of the orcs, but also form a great irony combined with their current situation.
And the three words "branch line one" caught Li De's attention the most. It seemed that there were multiple similar branch lines in the identification of the system.
I opened the system's mission interface. Compared with the perfunctory sentences before, there are so many more details here now. The mission details include:
1. Eliminate the enemy’s effective forces 2. Cut off the enemy’s logistical supplies 3. Compress the enemy’s living space 4. Complete the enemy’s military occupation
After clicking on each item to meet the conditions, some useful information will also be given. For example, after Li De clicked on the item "Destroy the enemy's vitality", a line of red text appeared in front of him.
"Every enemy you kill on the front line will become the driving force for accelerated production in the rear! (For every enemy killed, the leader can gain 10 points of productivity!)"
As time passed, Li De lamented that as his identity changed, the productivity of system rewards when killing enemies also increased.
This is not systemic inflation. As a junior officer, the number of enemies you can kill is insignificant to the entire war. From a micro perspective, you only provide yourself with a little military merit. To put it cruelly,
The loss of a life is only worth so much.
Correspondingly, saving people can get ten times the reward. When a person survives, he can create greater value through labor.
Now, every time Li De and his army kill an enemy, he can get the same productivity as saving one person. This is because his identity has changed.
War can promote production. Every time Li De, who controls the overall situation, kills an enemy, it is the result of the joint efforts of multiple departments on the front and rear, and he will naturally get more rewards.
After receiving this mission, Li De became more confident in defeating the orcs.
Li De admitted that the orcs were very capable of fighting, and if they were to fight face to face, they would have to go all out against the orcs. But he really didn't look down on the orcs at all, at least on a strategic level.
How to fight, where to fight, with whom to fight, and for how long, these problems cannot be called problems for the orcs at all, so that as long as the operation is done correctly, the orcs will be completely led by their opponents.
Li De never believed that a huge race would be full of idiots. Even among the murlocs, there would still be wise men. What caused the orcs' current situation was their culture and history.
Of course, it cannot be said that there are no smart people among the orcs. Fenris and Ner'zhul are the ones who are difficult to deal with. But among others, Li De is still interested in engaging in tactical deception, such as attacking the people stationed at the moment.
Grom Hellscream among Stonard.
After returning to Night Town that day, Li De developed all the photos and marked them on a large map of the Swamp of Sorrows.
The map of Swamp of Sorrows is like an ax with its blade pointing eastward, but because there is a regular circular lake in the east of the swamp, there is a hole in the axe's blade.
Below the ax head, to the left of the center, is the road heading south into the Cursed Land, just like an ax handle, and the orc military camp Stonard is set up east of the ax handle.
From this point, it can be seen that the orcs had no intention of moving westward before, and they built Stonard closer to the northward route.
When Li De led people to reconnoiter Stonard, the orcs were basically in a state of gathering their troops. If the red dragon had not been ordered to blow up the road in time, the consequences would have been disastrous.
"Apart from this big map, we know too little about the Swamp of Sorrows. We must be as familiar as possible with the Swamp of Sorrows."
Then Li De took out two more photos that looked a bit blurry after being enlarged. The current camera technology was still a bit rough, and the photos taken were not as clear as Li De's eyes could see.
"These two people are the local generals, Fenris from the Thunder King Clan and Grom from the Warsong Clan. It doesn't matter if you can't see clearly. Just remember their general physical features.
Starting today, the soldiers with the most superb flying skills and the best eyesight will be selected from the Griffin Knights to be responsible for carrying out reconnaissance missions. We need to be familiar with the combat environment and understand the enemy's movements."
Kurdran stood up immediately and expressed his obedience to Li De's arrangement.
The flying force is on the right track very smoothly, while the training of the ground force is much more steady.
Li De did not act too impatient. The main battles in the early stage were defensive battles. The most important task was to hold the defense line, which did not require too much complicated tactical training.
The speed of building fortifications at Eberlock is still very fast, especially since Li De adopted a round-robin training method for the five thousand troops, and the soldiers had to participate in building fortifications when they were not training.
Sandwiched between the Swamp of Sorrows and the Dusk Forest is the long and narrow Headwind Valley, which can be said to be the most secluded area in the Kingdom Continent.
Before the orcs invaded Azeroth, the Swamp of Sorrows and the Cursed Land east of Deadwind Valley were places that no one ever went to, so it could be said to be one of the dead ends in the Kingdom Continent.
Because of the narrow terrain and roads here, it is also called the Headwind Trail.
Li De built the fortifications to the west of the windward path. The road here is only three or four meters wide and is sandwiched between two mountains. Now it is completely blocked by stones and logs. A road that is more than ten meters high
The fortifications are gradually being built.
It seems that the fortifications were built so smoothly thanks to Dalaran's mage army.
According to common sense, if you want to build a tall city wall building, it is absolutely impossible without spending a lot of effort to lay the foundation and make high-strength adhesives.
After discussing with Kel'Thuzad, Li De came up with a solution: use transformation magic.
Transformation magic is a very large and important type of magic. It is a compulsory course for almost all mages. Even intermediate wizards must learn transformation magic to the extent that they can transform creatures. Therefore, please ask the mage troops to transform stones and logs.
It is very easy to achieve.
In this way, without a large number of tools and adhesives, the mages used deformation magic to fine-tune the building materials to create a mortise-and-tenon structure, and it took only three days to build a solid defense line.
"To be honest, this experience really opened up my mind. I really didn't expect that transformation magic could be used in this way."
Archmage Ansrem said with emotion, and Kel'Thuzad smiled reservedly. This is his role as chief of staff in this team. He is one of the few people who understands both magic and military affairs. With him
It can be very helpful in applying magic.
Li De did not participate in the exchange between the two mages. He was more concerned with practical issues.
"The defenses won't collapse again this time, right?"
This can't be blamed on Li De's nervousness, because when he used transformation magic to build the fortification for the first time the day before yesterday, halfway through the construction, all the transformation magic applied to the building materials failed, causing the half-built fortification to collapse, causing serious damage on the spot.
More than a dozen people were injured, but fortunately no one died.
For this reason, the project had to be stopped. After several hours of discussion, the mages came to the conclusion that the location of the fortifications was too close to the Counterwind Valley.
Karazhan, deep in the Deadwind Trail, is still radiating magical energy to the outside. The closer the distance, the greater the impact. It is due to the influence of Karazhan that the permanent deformation that could be applied to dead objects can only last for a dozen or so.
Hours.
The Kirin Tor had sent mages to explore Karazhan several times before, but not many were able to enter Karazhan, and even those who entered were able to come back alive. At one time, Ronin was almost sent to Karazhan to die.
Hearing the mages talk about Karazhan, Li De also felt a lingering fear. Back then, he was just cleaning out the magic puppets on the lower level and almost lost his life there. He was also deeply aware of the dangers of Karazhan.
So Li De decided to withdraw the defense line five kilometers, and the defense line was finally completed.
"Don't worry, we have found this distance through repeated tests. The transformation magic will definitely not fail again. Of course, to be safe, we have integrated all the transformation magic circuits in the entire fortification into one place, and moved the core to
It extends west to Night Town. In this way, this magic is equivalent to being cast in Night Town, and it will definitely not be affected by Karazhan at such a long distance."
Li De then breathed a sigh of relief and looked at the staffs that extended the magic circuits stuck on the roadside behind him. He lamented the magic and at the same time marveled at the cost of magic.
Just such a measure directly cut the military expenditure allocated by Lordaeron by one-fifth!
But to be honest, Li De can only say that he has made a lot of money by using one-fifth of the military expenditure to build a strong fortification in three days.
Of course, don’t think about building a city quickly using this method. Just such a small section of wall costs tens of thousands of gold coins. If you want to build a large city the size of Stormwind City, you may need hundreds of millions of gold coins?!
Just after the construction of the fortifications was completed, Li De received another piece of good news. His shipload of soldiers from the Hanhai Protectorate finally arrived.