Summoning Total War

Chapter 18 Mobilization Order (Part 2) ()

Ever since he discovered that gnolls began to gather in large numbers, Murphy sent a general guard knight out to detect their movements every day!

The auxiliary system of "Total War" can bring him overall convenience, but in some details, the auxiliary system still has some shortcomings! Murphy needs to pay attention to these details and spend some time to deal with them.

In the past few days, there have been frequent movements of jackals.

Otherwise, Murphy would not have trained five armies in succession. To prepare for the next attack by the Jackals.

However, everything went much faster than Murphy expected.

Before going to bed last night, most of the Jackals on the strategic map were still scattered around. But today, they were all gathered under the command of the largest gnoll clan. When Murphy checked through the strategic map, this group of more than 3,000 gnolls had already camped 30 kilometers away from the town of Athens.

There are about fourteen scattered gnoll clans around the town of Athens. The population of these gnoll clans basically ranges from 300 to 600. Because the competition within the race is also extremely fierce, a five-hundred-person Jackal clan has approximately one hundred adult male Jackals and two hundred adult female Jackals. In addition, there are the old jackals and jackal cubs.

It takes about ten to twelve years for a jackal pup to reach adulthood, and its body develops faster than humans.

In terms of clan composition, gnolls are roughly similar to humans.

In the human social system, a family of five people has about two adult males, who are generally the grandfather and the father. These two adult men are the pillars of the human family and the center of the entire family!

The composition of the gnoll clan is a little more relaxed than this. The gnolls have no clear spouse except the leader. But the characteristic of the race is that one adult male Gnoll possesses two adult female Gnolls. Except for the leader's exclusive right to his mate, the mates of other male gnolls are subject to change. All gnoll cubs born belong to the clan, and there is no clear parental relationship. The entire clan works together to feed the gnoll cubs.

Most jackals give birth to triplets, and the gestation period is eight months, but the mortality rate is very high.

Only one or two out of ten gnoll cubs will survive. If there is a shortage of food during the cold winter, these dead gnoll cubs will be used as food to survive the cold winter for a period of time.

So generally speaking, the maximum combat strength of a wolfman clan of 500 people is only about 300 people.

Not counting the gnoll clan that Murphy surrounded and suppressed. It was obviously the merger of two clans that had experienced battles and had a large number of surviving adult gnolls. The number of Jackals gathered thirty miles away from the town is definitely more than 3,000, but if we talk about adult Jackals with fighting power, Murphy thinks there are only about 2,000. One race, two-thirds of combatants, this is already a quite high ratio.

From last year to the present, the Khazart Gnoll Tribe has fully invaded human city-states, and only one hundred thousand adult Gnolls have invaded.

Without enough civilization to ensure food, medical safety, etc., it will become very difficult for a species to reproduce. This can be seen from the fact that the entire Jackal clan has a population of only a few hundred thousand.

And this is also the reason why humans still firmly believe that they can defeat the jackals even though they are being beaten by the jackals.

In the southern plains, humans have a population of more than three million. In terms of population war alone, humans are already in an invincible position.

It's a pretty primitive world.

It is also an era of survival of the fittest. On the premise of the survival of the race, all sacrifices are allowed.

Without reinforcements, all strategies are greatly compromised when the enemy is an inhuman creature. The only thing Murphy can do now is to head-on and defeat these jackals who are more like beasts than intelligent creatures!

There are about three times the strength of our own troops, which means that if we form an array in the wild, the Jackals will far exceed us regardless of depth.

Based on Murphy's exploration of war in the cold weapon era during this period, if the length of the frontal formation is much shorter than that of the enemy, it will face pressure from three sides and eventually be wrapped into a dumpling.

Eat it in one bite!

The biggest difference between reality and the game is that if you mess up your formation in the game, the enemy will give you time to regroup.

But in reality, if the formation is messed up, the enemy will face the most ferocious attack!

Therefore, when marching and forming a formation, movement is worse than stillness.

As a general who is not very experienced in tactics, Murphy has always been accustomed to stopping with silence.

Since the all-out war mobilization order was issued in the morning, the entire territory has been extremely busy.

Women and children were moved to the port, where there were many fishing boats. If the front line fell, they would be immediately sent to the other side of the Nidoria River.

Weapons were distributed to the men, as equipment was given priority to the warriors.

Most of these drafted men were assigned a short sword. Of course, only men with certain combat skills could be assigned a short sword. The others were organized into auxiliary corps by Murphy and used as distant troops to attack.

The auxiliary arms of the Greeks had limited combat effectiveness, at least before the emergence of archers, and throwing arms such as javelin cavalry and harpooneers were very weak.

Javelin throwing was something that every Greek man was exposed to. Although not up to the level of a harpooneer, he is better in numbers. As long as the strength of more than a thousand adult men who have been recruited can reach the level of throwing a javelin, they can cause great damage to the jackals even without aiming.

The requirements for javelins in wartime are not that high.

A wooden stick about two fingers thick, about one meter to one and a half meters long, the wood should be hard and the tip of the gun should be sharpened.

Since he had no professional training in javelin throwing, Murphy shortened the javelins used by the townspeople to make them easier to throw.

Eight hundred Greek infantrymen were able to set up a line of defense in the town.

Regarding the layout of the defense line, Murphy already has a plan in mind. If the gnolls are determined to win their own town, then this plan will be more feasible.

Now, grown men all over town are tearing down houses.

They sharpened all the wooden sticks that were close to the shape that could be used into javelins, and then piled them in piles in the central square of the Greek town.

If each of the 1,200 adult men throws ten javelins in battle, then a total of 12,000 javelins will be needed. This is already a large number!

Fortunately, the supply from the lumberyard has not been cut off, and all that needs to be done now is to process the wood.

Taking some time off, Murphy went to see the Marquise Elizabeth. Murphy politely told her that the jackal army was about to attack.

If they have anything to do, they can leave first.

He will prepare a usable ship for them.

At this critical moment of life and death, Murphy would never put his hope in anyone else. If these aborigines are not willing to stay and help fight, Murphy will never retain them.

But what surprised him was that Marquise Elizabeth actually categorically stated that she would stay and help him deal with the Jackals.

"Your Majesty the Governor. I hope to stay and help you deal with those ferocious beasts. Moreover, my attendants also know something about their fighting methods." Marquise Elizabeth stared at Murphy silently, with an inexplicable brilliance in her sea-blue eyes. Flashed.

If only I had such fearless courage back then!

Then your territory will not fall, right?