Chapter 365: Imperfect Plans "Don't be nervous, I remember that when the Kingdom Military Department was compiling your teaching materials, Duke Thunder once asked me to write a sentence at the beginning of the article on the formulation and execution of strategy, Miss Betty, do you remember the content of that sentence?"
Zhao Yannian asked the girl in a black military uniform with a smile.
"I remember, it was the famous quote of His Royal Highness the Flame Blade Warlord Silenk, the teacher of the Paladin Derek Grey, the battlefield is full of accidents, and all calculations will bind their strength."
Betty stood up straight after hearing Zhao Yannian's question, and replied loudly to Zhao Yannian in her crisp voice.
"Betty, you are completely correct, the reason why Duke Fury Thunder insists on writing this sentence at the beginning of the textbook on the formulation and implementation of strategy, which is completely contrary to the meaning of strategy formulation, is to remind us that in war, accidents are always an unavoidable part of the implementation of the plan, and if we are too obsessed with the perfection of the established plan, then we are likely to waste our own strength because of the untimely plan."
Zhao Yannian's words immediately made all the reserve commanders frown and think, because in the process of commanding the Reaper War Group in the past, these little guys had done quite beautifully, so they all felt that the war seemed to be no big deal, as long as they could make a perfect plan, then any enemy would be played by them.
And Zhao Yannian's words obviously really reminded them that planning does not make them gods on the battlefield, and even relying too much on the plan made in advance is likely to make them defeated.
"But Lord Dean, since we can foresee that an accident will happen, why don't we invest more strength in advance to completely wipe out the possibility of this accident?"
Betty was different from other teenagers, because she had just raised Zhao Yannian's question about the blockade of the Beastmaster Legion, so in her opinion, Zhao Yannian's words at this moment were obviously denying her thoughts.
Although Zhao Yannian's fame was enough to give him authority in many fields, the young girl clearly did not intend to make concessions in terms of war.
"It's very simple, because our strength is only so much, although the power in our hands in this battle is enough to wipe the orcs directly from this world, but if we want to subdue them, it is still far from enough, at present, most of the kingdom's army has to maintain order in the country, and we can only rely on the military strength of the northwest to conquer the orcs.
It is almost impossible to perfectly control everything on the battlefield with such power.
In fact, a 100-kilometer warning range is already the largest force that the kingdom's secret agents can come up with at present, even if we immediately mobilize forces from the country, the personnel and materials required for each additional kilometer radius of the control range will increase geometrically, if you want to perfectly control Flower's eyes and ears, then the spy airship that needs to be invested is probably ten times the number of the current one, so excessive investment of resources just to plug a trivial loophole is obviously not in line with the cost. ” Zhao Yannian replied very directly after listening to Betty's opinion, and the reason he said made everyone feel speechless.
We have put our greatest strength into it, and investing more is a needless increase in costs, and this answer is very realistic, and it also woke everyone present from the omnipotence of becoming a god of the battlefield.
War also needs to pay attention to costs, Betty proposed the meaning in order to prevent Flower from discovering the abnormality, in fact, Zhao Yannian has already considered it, but most of the power of the kingdom's secret agents at the moment still has to maintain social stability in the country, and all the spy airships are transferred just to keep Flower in the dark, which is obviously an overly ideal luxury.
"Dean, I'm fine."
Betty had already understood what Zhao Yannian meant at this time, although the previous battle situation made them feel that they could do everything perfectly, but there was no such thing as perfection in the reality of this world, and the pursuit of perfection in imperfect reality was the reason why Zhao Yannian taught Betty a lesson.
After seeing Betty sit back in her seat with her head down, Zhao Yannian told these future warlords his understanding of war and materials.
"I think you also know that the current logistics department of the kingdom has been reformed, and when you start to officially command the troops in the future, the supplies are linked to military merit, if you don't want your troops to become bigger and weaker, then you have to be as stingy as a merchant to calculate the capital in your hands, and then at the most critical moment, put the chips in your hands on the table of your choice.
Getting too caught up in the unexpected can make your combat costs much higher, so it's necessary to take a certain amount of risk if you want to make your troops stronger.
As for the problem of accidents, there are many other measures that can be taken to make up for it......"
Then Zhao Yanshi began to continue to explain his plan, in fact, Flower's initiative was also an accident for Zhao Yannian, when he made the initial plan to conquer the Beast Plateau, he did not be able to predict the changes at this moment, but the accidents in the plan did not all happen in a bad direction, for example, at this moment Flor's desperate bet was a rather gratifying accident for Zhao Yannian.
When the Beastmaster Legion immediately arrived at the Beast King City, Zhao Yannian understood Flower's intentions, although it was a bit naïve to say that the idea of destroying the Orc Cities one by one was too naïve, but it was still feasible for Flower to finally take control of half of the Beast Plateau with the help of the forces that swept through other Orc Cities.
The Beastmaster Legion does not have as many invisible airships as humans, so they can't control the spread of news between orc cities, and when Flower breaks through the third city and becomes stronger, the remaining orc city lords may begin to be forced to cooperate, and at that time, although it may take time to unite the remaining orc cities to be breached by one or two more, but when the remaining orc city lord armies are assembled into a coalition army, they can obtain the power to fight with Flor, who is surrounded by a large number of remnants.
The final result is not easy to say, but Zhao Yannian doesn't care about the victory or defeat of Floll, in fact, he is not even worried about whether Flower will detect the actions of humans on the way to the battle, because Zhao Yannian originally planned to use brute force to conquer the Beast Plateau, and now the war of the orcs has saved him a lot of arms funds.
On September 29th, the Beastmaster Legion finally broke the third orc city in a one-day fierce battle, in this battle, more than 200,000 orc warriors who were coerced by the Beastmaster Legion were killed, and in the broken city, although the city lord temporarily recruited a total of nearly 600,000 troops, but after about 100,000 orc casualties, the defense of the orc city was completely knocked out.
The defense system of the orc city is extremely simple compared to the human race, so it is impossible for the orc city lords to fight the exchange ratio of the human defense war, and the narrow city walls simply cannot accommodate a huge number of orc troops, and it is precisely because of this that when the orcs of the beast king legion directly blasted the fragile city walls with mining explosives, the orcs defending the city could only shout that the city was broken, and then fled in panic.
The orcs of the third orc city are not very loyal to their orc city lord, and in addition to the army that has been supported by the city lord for generations, the orcs actually still hope that a beastmaster can appear to lead the orc clan.
Although Flower has become a despicable villain from a small tribe who can only rely on treacherous tactics to become a general in the propaganda of the city lords everywhere, the aggressive behavior of the Beastmaster Legion in recent years has made the orcs feel close to the General Flor.
Since the orcs lost their god and king at the same time, the spirit of the orcs has been in an extremely empty state, and the orc city lord who usually only acts as a prestige and intrigue has long made these orcs disgusted, and the distance has made the orcs have a somewhat morbid sense of expectation towards Flower.
Because of this, after the Beastmaster Legion broke through the city walls, except for a few soldiers who were loyal to the Orc City Lord who were still fighting to the death, the other orcs gave up resistance, and not only that, when these orcs heard that General Flower had already broken through three cities.
They even took the initiative to bring out food and dedicate it to the invincible orc general, and then took the initiative to ask to join the invincible beastmaster army.
The performance of the third city greatly boosted the morale of the Beastmaster Legion, and then after repairing overnight, Flower set off on September 30 to attack another orc city, but this time Flower did not completely plunder the city, after sensing the will of the orcs, Flower left 20,000 orc troops in the orc city to maintain order and organize supplies, and then set off with an army that had swelled to one million to attack the fourth orc city.
On October 2nd, the fourth orc city was breached, and it was at this time that Flower began to notice an anomaly around him.
The beast dragon sent to the third orc city yesterday has not returned today, and more than ten days have passed since he set out to start the battle, and in such a long time, the wolf cavalry he arranged to patrol around the army has not sent back a single battle report.
It is impossible for the wolf cavalry to be lazy, and if the scope of the wolf cavalry patrol is too large a few days ago and the sentinels of other orc city lords are missed, then no sentry has been discovered for more than ten days in a row, except for all the wolf cavalry dereliction of duty and rebellion, there is only one possibility left, there is no orc close to Flower's beastmaster legion.
Although the idea of fighting in the first two siege battles was to rely on concealment and surprise attacks to establish an initial advantage for himself, as the number of the Beastmaster Legion skyrocketed, it became impossible to conceal his whereabouts, and at this time, the other Orc City Lords did not come to monitor him, and this unusual behavior caused Flor's alarm.