Summoning Total War

Chapter 38 Massacre (Part 2)

Most of the jackal clans currently operating within the territory have a population ranging from 200 to 600.

Although there is map information released by Murphy, the slave merchants can't make those jackals hurt at all by just relying on the slave merchants to engage in sneak attacks. To deal with a creature like a jackal, which has a naturally high combat power, you must concentrate your efforts and attack with focus!

In this era, the strength of slave merchants was not as exaggerated as the legend said.

After all, the noble council is the leader of the entire human system, and they will not allow slave merchants to have too much force!

Generally speaking, slave traders were agents of the nobles.

And the armed forces they control are mostly private soldiers of the nobles. The real fighting power lies in the army, so the number of private soldiers of these slave merchants is not large, and their fighting power is also average. It's okay to deal with weak creatures like kobolds and goblins with insufficient innate resources, but to deal with creatures like gnolls that have a size advantage over humans, the situation is not optimistic.

Most of the slave traders who came to the port had private armed forces ranging from dozens to hundreds of people.

They are equipped with weapons and leather armor, have received certain military training, and do not know how to march and form formations. However, they have developed a tacit understanding and cooperation through their past combat experience, which makes them more advantageous in small team battles!

If thrown into a battle with less than ten people, even the Greek infantry may not be their opponent.

But if placed in a battle involving more than ten people, these mercenaries would be a bit unsatisfactory.

the reason is simple!

--discipline!

After discussing with Lady Elizabeth, Murphy decided to organize the slave traders who came to the port with stronger armed forces, and use himself as a link point to let these slave traders cooperate once.

Because only cooperation can reveal the numerical advantage and form suppression when dealing with jackals.

As long as enough benefits are obtained from this cooperation, these slave traders will naturally find ways to seek cooperation with others to reduce losses in the future.

But at the beginning, you still need a matchmaker.

The best candidate is of course the lord of the town of Athens - Murphy!

The armed force of slave merchants can only be one or two hundred people at most. Once this number exceeds, it is already beyond the range tolerated by the nobles. Unless they are a people like the Pusaians, the average slave merchant can only recruit private armed forces of less than two hundred people at most, and they are subject to many restrictions and need a letter of guarantee from the local nobles!

These restrictions include that they cannot be equipped with crossbows, cannot own iron armor, cannot be transferred at will, the list must be registered, etc.!

Murphy plans to gather these slave traders to destroy one or two large gnoll gathering points.

The first is to reduce the effective strength of the jackals, and the second is to train troops and deter these slave traders!

You can't expect a group of slave traders to be good people.

Right?

In the wild, these people also often act as bandits.

Therefore, while urban trade is developing, showing force to deter the enemy can save a lot of trouble!

Murphy has no intention of getting involved in the profits this time except for doing it himself. His purpose is to integrate the slave merchants and tell them that cooperation can obtain the greatest benefits. As for the specific distribution of benefits, let them fight for it themselves.

Murphy doesn't mind some conflicts that 'should occur' between these slave traders!

The rainy season is a good weather.

Because the hunting range of jackals will be greatly reduced, and because of the rain, the sensitive sense of smell of these creatures will be greatly affected.

A few days ago, Murphy sent a large number of cavalry out to inquire about the situation where the Jackals gathered.

Murphy had already had a plan in mind to organize manpower to clean out the Jackals. However, he only started to make arrangements until the town construction was on track. In the past, it was because of lack of manpower that the lost population could not be replenished as quickly as possible. But now with these slave traders as the vanguard, Murphy doesn't have to worry about these problems.

Although these slave traders cannot be used as cannon fodder blatantly, it is still okay to use them as cannon fodder in a subtle way.

The strategic map provided on the auxiliary system of "Total War" is just a hazy data. Specific attacks must also consider various issues such as terrain, time, weather, etc. Because he was afraid of problems with these details, Murphy sent General Leo Dallie to personally inspect several large gnoll gathering places three days ago, and mapped out the general topography of the gathering areas and the distribution of gnoll activity ranges. , and then bring it back.

Since we want to encourage the enthusiasm of slave merchants.

That naturally requires a brilliant victory!

The best thing is to destroy the enemy in one fell swoop with little loss to yourself.

Only in this way can those slave traders be mobilized to the greatest extent.

In this way, there is skill in selecting enemies.

The gathering place for the gnolls should not be too remote or too far away, because this is the first time they have cooperated and they don't trust each other very much. The population of the Gnoll clan cannot be too small. If it is too small, there will be no sense of achievement, and there will not be much profit at all. But it cannot be too many. Once there are too many gnolls, even if they win, they will suffer a lot of losses, which will not achieve the effect of encouraging slave traders.

Moreover, Murphy doubted whether these private armed forces would be in disarray when faced with a large group of jackals.

Therefore, the following conditions must be met when selecting enemies.

First, it’s not too far from town. Second, it has terrain advantages, which makes it easier to encircle and suppress the Wolfmen to expand the victory. Third, for large and medium-sized gnoll clans with a population of about 400, the number of adult males with strong combat capabilities is rare.

Murphy's purpose is just to regain the confidence of those slave traders.

He only wanted to reduce casualties and expand the results. It didn't matter whether the enemy was strong on the outside but hard on the inside.

It was precisely because of so many requests that it took him three full days just to get information about the gathering place of jackals.

"Your Majesty the Governor."

In the military camp, Leo Dalie, who was covered in mud and dust, handed a map to Murphy. The general was still stained with blood, and it seemed that he had gone through a fight on his way back!

Murphy took the map and looked at it, then nodded with satisfaction.

With such detailed information, he was basically able to achieve his intended purpose. The territory's armaments are still relatively tight now. It is necessary to keep these slave traders as much as possible and use their power to contain the gnolls!

Once summer is over and autumn comes, life will be better.

"Did you encounter any trouble when you came back?" Murphy asked, looking at General Leo Dallie, who had a few white hairs in front of him.

Although he has entered middle age, his long-term military life still makes Rio Dalgliese full of strength. He has a resolute face and the scars all over his body are like medals. He tells everyone about the wars he has experienced. and glory!

"I met a few gnoll sentries, but I cut off the heads of those beasts!" Liodaglisi showed a bloodthirsty smile. He licked the corners of his chapped mouth, his tone full of murderous intent.

The pain of losing his son made him hate the gnolls! But his discipline as a soldier allowed him to know how to restrain himself!

This formed the current Leo Dallie - the tyrant!

A general who combines bravery, violence, cruelty and discipline.

The self-control brought by the Spartans made him an extremely good commander, allowing him to be brave but calm on the battlefield!

"Soon, we will make those beasts look good!" Murphy patted General Leo Dallie on the shoulder, then turned and walked out of the barracks.

Now that I have got what I was waiting for.

Then it was time to kick off a feast of slaughter.