Lord of War

Xiao En's troops quickly withdrew from the unknown forest with the bodies of the northern barbarians and the archers.

William looked at the forest behind him, and the original loneliness on his face turned into regret: "It's a pity that there are too few people."

In this world, everyone is eager to fight a classic battle of winning more with less, especially the Principality of Ryan, because their thundering Valkyrie relied on a classic victory with less to lay a solid foundation for the establishment of the Tonys Territory. foundation.

That's why Tonis is called Tonis, which means the land of hope in the old saying.

But William's command style was different. He wished he had as many troops as possible. He would never use 900 if he could use 1,000 troops, even if the enemy had only 100 troops. Therefore, when his strength is not dominant and he has other options, he will never be so stupid as to confront the enemy head-on, or try to play a classic battle of winning more with less.

In William's words, that is——

"Winning more with less is something you do when you are desperate. People in the world only know the classics of winning more with less, but they never face up to the fact that it is a victory achieved at the right time, place and people. But it's no wonder that those people are ignorant, it's just because they really need a victory to strengthen their courage, so they don't know that most of the time in this world, the side with fewer people is completely wiped out."

"So when I have a choice, I will never do such a stupid thing. It's not that we can't afford to lose, but because we can afford to lose, the less we lose, the better, because the so-called victory is Relying on these small advantages and details in exchange, how many people have been on this chessboard throughout the ages, and they have all lost with one wrong step."

Sean actually agrees with William's point of view.

In this world, there have never been fewer wars and battles in which fewer have won more, but people will always only remember those who succeeded, and completely forget about those who failed. Even these successful campaigns don't even think about why they are successful.

For example, the classic Asuna battle he knew of.

In fact, Asuna raided a viscount's territory with superior forces, and then took down a baron's strategic location through blitzkrieg, and then attacked the opponent's coalition forces with weak forces, and then raided the opponent's coalition forces with superior forces After setting up the base camp, relying on the superiority in equipment, the front and rear attack of the two armies, and the powerful strength of the three great magicians in hand, they directly defeated the coalition army, and chased and slaughtered them for two full days and nights, forcing the earl He fought a decisive battle with himself due to the favorable location, and finally made a time difference - before the coalition forces of the two viscounts and several barons arrived, they completely defeated the earl's private army.

Throughout the battle,

People only knew that Asuna had less than 30,000 troops at that time, but she easily defeated the 100,000 troops of the eighteen nobles of the Dabiang Kingdom. But they don't know that in the first battle, Asuna used 30,000 against 10,000, and in the subsequent blitzkrieg, 20,000 was used against 5,000. There were only 23,000 troops left in his hands, but he defeated the opponent's 40,000 coalition army through bold tactics to gain the advantage of time and harmony.

When forcing the earl's army of the Dabiang Kingdom to fight her decisive battle, Asuna had already restored her army to the size of 30,000 people through incorporation, and then fought against that army while occupying a favorable location and people. The earl's 30,000 private army launched a decisive battle. Afterwards, Asuna used 30,000 fully rested and supplied troops to defeat the 15,000 people of the two viscounts and several barons who were already exhausted from the hasty march.

This battle is indeed brilliant, and it is indeed a classic victory with less.

But in fact, according to the analysis of the battle report, Asuna has a complete advantage in every local war. The only war that is truly gambling in nature is the one where 23,000 vs. 40,000, but even in this war, Asuna has several trump cards in her hands, so she launched From the moment of the war, she was never really at a disadvantage.

Therefore, Sean can understand William's regret when he said "too few people".

To use a second-level army of less than 150 people to face a third-level army of at least 500 people is a suicidal act no matter how you look at it.

When Xiao En and the others exited the forest, the other deputy commander of the Loveland garrison showed a contemptuous and mocking look. In his view, so many people have been evacuated in front, and this time they left with corpses. It is obvious that they are a defeated army that has been completely defeated and has lost the courage to continue fighting. For such an army, as " Of course, he has enough reasons and qualifications to be contemptuous and contemptuous of him.

But Sean, William, and Alfred didn't bother to pay attention to such a clown. Of course, they also guessed maliciously, what kind of expression would he have when he saw that his vanguard army had less than two hundred dead?

The team retreated quickly, but as soon as they returned to Loveland, Sean saw Sir Paro again.

housekeeper. It is obvious that the Sir is very concerned about the development of the battle situation, but at this time, how could Sean have time to deal with the Sir, he directly told the situation in the forest to the steward, and he would answer the Sir, even Very severely condemned this Sir Paro, saying that he did not truthfully tell the truth and the seriousness of the matter.

If Sir Paro really didn't know the situation of the enemy army at all, Sean would not believe it even if he killed him. If a city lord was really incompetent to this extent, then Paro's position would have been revoked by Earl Dunaway long ago .

After hearing Xiao En's narration, the butler's face changed drastically, and he returned to the City Lord's Mansion immediately.

What happened next, Xiao En didn't bother to care about it. In fact, his commission was already a loss-making business to some extent.

In Loveland City, only one temple was built. Although the scale is not very luxurious, it is a solemn building of absolute standards.

Victory Goddess Vinnas, a mid-level deity.

This is a god who was born after the Age of Ashes. Only because her godhead is war and victory, she can quickly gain a large number of believers and become a medium god who is about to charge against the higher gods.

In fact, since the twilight of the gods, many high-level gods have fallen or fell into deep sleep, and their godheads have also lost a lot, so new gods such as the god of courage, the god of war, and the goddess of victory will be born. But in fact, the godheads of these new gods all belong to the system of the law of war, that is to say, they all belong to the godheads of the ancient gods of war, but because the god of war fell in Ragnarok, the godheads were scattered, That's why so many new gods were born.

At this moment, An Nuo is receiving treatment in the temple of the Goddess of Victory.

Although his injuries were relatively serious, the physique of the barbarians in the Northland was enough to ensure that he would not die so soon, but fell into a coma due to excessive blood loss. Fortunately, Sean sent An Nuo back in a timely manner, and he was willing to spend money, so An Nuo's life was completely saved, but it is not something that can be solved in a short time to completely recover.

Although the magic spell can heal his injuries, the lost blood can only be absorbed through nutritional supplements. Therefore, even if the injuries on his body are cured, he still needs to rest for a long time, just like Sean and others It's the same thing that happened to people on the way to the trading capital. However, not everyone is as lucky as An Nuo. Although two seriously injured northern barbarians were sent back, they died of their injuries on the way. At this time, their bodies were placed at the gate of the temple. .

Sean frowned slightly, and he glanced at the corpses on the ground at the moment.

This is not a wild place. Sean actually hopes to bury them instead of directly cremating them under the premise that the environment permits. For the northern barbarians, leaving the ice region is a very happy thing, but it is also a very painful thing not to have a land that gives them a sense of belonging. In the tradition of the northern barbarians, the only way to bury the dead is to bury the dead. Only then can their souls be calmed down.

After thinking about it, Sean said, "Can the corpse... be temporarily stored here?"

Hearing Xiao En's words, everyone was taken aback, and stored the corpse in the temple? And it's also the temple of the goddess of victory, what does Xiao En think of as the temple of the goddess of victory?

An old man who seemed to be a temple priest frowned: "Sir, I can't agree to your request."

"I just don't want to cremate the body, we hope to bury it, but we haven't found a suitable place yet, so I hope it can be stored here in the temple for the time being, and we can retrieve it when we find a suitable place These corpses." Sean said earnestly, "If you are knowledgeable, you should also know that the barbarians in the North believe that only burying the corpses in their hometown can calm their souls, so I hope you can help with this...Of course , I will not let you be busy in vain, I am willing to donate 30,000 gold coins to this temple."

Thirty thousand gold coins!

This is a lot of money!

The prosperity of the gods cannot be separated from the worship of believers, and the spread of believers naturally requires the expansion, construction and promotion of the temple, but the temple is also a mortal thing after all, so if you want to develop, you cannot do without sufficient funds in the end. Most of the sources of funds for the temples are obtained through various magical healing methods and donations from believers, or fighting a war against heretics, lending priests and troops belonging to the temple to nobles, kingdoms, etc.

But in Loveland City, the temple of the Goddess of Victory, there are no pagans around, and the employment of nobles is even less likely, so I don’t know if there are 5,000 gold coins in the annual income. Ten thousand gold coins, this really shocked the old priest. After contemplating for a while, the old priest finally agreed to preserve these corpses for Sean in a special way and place them to rot, but the preservation time can only be half a year.

For such a result, Sean is naturally quite satisfied.

After these matters were dealt with, William had already come to the door before Sean had time to take a break.