Chapter 85 Preparation for the War (Part 1)

The existence of magicians is not known to ordinary people. They are rare and mostly live alone in the world and rarely appear in the sight of ordinary people.

Therefore, in the mouths of ordinary people, magicians are called wizards.

However, in some major events related to the direction of human history, the figure of magicians can still be seen. After all, they are still humans. They have far more powerful power than ordinary people and cannot ignore anything.

Although they are not clear about the abilities of these magicians, their arrival undoubtedly increased Murphy's bargaining chips a lot.

Moreover, from these magicians, Murphy also found that the strength of the werewolves seemed to be stronger than he expected. He had always believed that the high zombies who fought in the former site of Athens towns were already the top combat power in the entire Kazart zombie tribe. Now it seems that this is not the case. They seem to have some special powers, like high priests.

If this is true, then Murphy's previous plan would have to undergo some changes.

The Governor's Office, at night.

Murphy was holding a quill pen and circled it on a map. Two innocent and charming maids stood behind him and fanned him. The bell, who was only fourteen years old, seemed to be a little sleepy and yawned from time to time.

"Bell, if you are sleepy, go to bed first. Just have Angela here." Fourteen years old is the time when your body is growing and developing, and the demand for sleep is also increasing. Murphy looked like a bell with a sleepy look on his face but a strong spirit, and said softly.

It's already past nine o'clock in the evening.

The entire Governor's Mansion was quiet, with only Murphy's room still lit.

"No, the bell is not sleepy." The little girl was shocked when she heard this. She shook her head and slapped the fan in her hand hard.

Since she was going to stay, Murphy didn't force her.

He continued to draw many data symbols on the map with a quill that others could not understand.

This map was copied by him through the auxiliary system of "Total War" in his mind. The terrain on it is much more detailed than that provided by Mrs. Elizabeth. The canyon connecting the Zangala Mountains and the Karazan Mountains is about 500 meters long, which is nearly half a kilometer of defense. He is now planning how to arrange the defense line and narrow the left and right holes. The five hundred meters of defense line is quite large, and there is no problem in investing thousands of people in battle. He has to find a way to create a narrow space to give full play to the advantages of the Greek spear square array.

Murphy doesn't know much about military strategy.

He had only learned about some things, but he had basically no idea about the classic strategies of his previous life. Relying on the advantages of the information explosion era in later generations, he could only come up with some simpler methods.

Use your own strengths to attack your weaknesses!

This is the strategic center that Murphy is thinking of at present.

In war, perhaps anyone can tell some truth by speaking, but to do it, one must consider issues such as the background of the times, civilization level, geographical environment, weather factors, military quality, general talents, etc.

How could a few plans decide?

Although the Greek heavy infantry, which is the main battle force of our side, is powerful, the number of Spartans is too small, and can only be invested in decisive local wars. Other militias, such as poor discipline and quality, are still OK as auxiliary legions, and they are basically dispersed in a few strokes. Murphy’s first step was to list his strengths in writing.

The powerful frontal abilities of the Greek infantry phalanx and the intensive shooting ability of the 2,600 archers.

On a large battlefield, the flexibility of the infantry phalanx is too low and it is difficult to exert its advantages. However, in areas like the canyon, it is the strongest place for the infantry phalanx, so Murphy took the risk of playing games and gambled all!

The 500-meter defense line is still too long.

Murphy had to reduce the defense line to about three hundred meters, which would allow the Greek heavy infantry of 1,200 men to have a rest time under the enemy's wheel battle impact.

On the map, Murphy marked the length of the horse with small forks.

Among the knowledge Murphy has been exposed to, the first one to be screened out is the horse-rejected horse. Rows of horse-rejected horses can block the zombies' charge, and the attack distance advantage of Greek spears can also attack enemies outside the horse-rejected horse. The most important thing is that horse-rejected horse-rejected horse-rejected horse-rejected horse-rejected horse-rejected horse-rejected horse-rejected horse-rejected horse-rejected horse-rejected horse-rejected horse-rejected horse-rejected horse-rejected horse-rejected horse-rejected horse-rejected horse-rejected horse-rejected horse-rejected horse-rejected horse-rejected horse-rejected horse-rejected horse-rejected horse-rejected horse-rejected horse-rejected horse-rejected horse-rejected horse-rejected horse-rejected horse-rejected horse-rejected horse-

Although there are many construction concepts for defense facilities in your mind, there are not many that can be used.

There is a zombie unit in the canyon, with an unknown number.

From taking down the canyon to being discovered by the zombies, there is only one night to build fortifications for Murphy. And in this night, most of the time is free to give the soldiers rest and maintain their combat effectiveness. After a night of fatigue, even the most powerful system will be in poor energy the next day. So the only thing that can be used is only half a night.

This time it was destined to be a rushing march. Apart from the necessary supplies, there were not too many things to carry.

Then the construction of defense lines must be based on local materials.

After some hard thinking, Murphy came up with a stupid solution.

It's just a sack!

As long as there are enough sacks and fill them with soil, a wall of earth can be stacked in one night.

There should be no problem with eight thousand people using sacks to pile a small earth wall of 200 meters long, five meters high and four meters wide. Although the gnolls of this thickness are powerful, they are not so easy to push down without siege facilities. Moreover, behind the earth wall, a slope can also be stacked to allow archers to stand on the earth wall to shoot. This line of defense can be reinforced and raised by the gnolls' corpses. The reserve militia will place them behind the earth wall to deal with the gnolls who cross the defense line or support the front battlefield at any time.

Five meters, about one and a half floors in height, which means that the gnolls without many ranged weapons must first climb up the earth wall if they want to attack.

If you stabilize the wings, the key to victory or defeat is the frontal battlefield.

After thinking hard for a long time, Murphy had no choice but to find that due to the problem of civilization level, many ideas could not be realized at all.

For example, fire attack, zombies have lush hair, and the lethality of fire attack is quite terrible.

However, the oil used by civilizations in this era is all animal oil, and the oil is very expensive, and other plant oils are very rare, and the open-air petroleum Murphy can't find it at all.

You can't expect oil to suddenly pop out from the ground, right?

Murphy created a batch of rockets, but he could not make up the oil needed for large-scale use of fire attacks.

In such an era, before the "tool" developed, the war fought against the will and combat power of soldiers, as well as the combat methods used.

The strategy is basically useless for creatures like gnolls that cannot communicate.

The only thing that can be used is tactical arrangements.

This night.

Murphy has been looking for something useful to him from fragments of his past life memories.

Then record them, find the essence of them and include them in the details, and list them one by one.

He was busy until one or two o'clock in the morning before he made all plans and planned to take them out tomorrow to discuss with everyone to see if there is a better solution and whether there are any loopholes.

When he put away the map, the bell was already asleep on the table.

Raising his hand, he signaled Angela to not wake her up. Murphy gently picked up the girl's delicate and light body and placed it on his bed.

Then, he took the girl's priest's hand and lay on the bed with his clothes.

The bed is big, so it won’t be crowded if you sleep for three people.

soon.

Murphy fell asleep.

Get up early the next morning.

The girl sleeping beside her is no longer there.

However, there were neatly placed washing tools on the table. Murphy rubbed his head, which was a little drowsy because he was sleeping too late, picked up a towel and wiped his face.

"Governor General, the army sent by the noble council has reached fifty miles away." The loud voice of the commissar sounded outside the door.

Already arrived?

Murphy suddenly woke up a lot when he heard this. He sorted out his clothes and said in a deep voice: "Let them camp ten miles away from the city."

"Yes." The commemorative officer left.

Since Murphy asked for more archers, the troops sent by human city-states were slower than baggage.

Because all skilled archers have to be recruited from hunters, it will take some time.

"Wait a minute, and hand it over to the high priest by the way." Murphy took a piece of information and handed it to the messenger outside the door.

At this time, the two maids had already returned.

They walked into the room with a sumptuous breakfast carefully. For some reason, the girls' cheeks were slightly flushed.

After a simple breakfast, Murphy took General Leodal to the barracks.

All the troops sent by these noble parliaments need to be retrained, at least to let them understand how to cooperate with the Greek phalanx battle. Murphy's plan was to hand them over to the priests of the god of war Kratos, and then Murphy personally led several military trainings. The initial running-in will inevitably cause some problems, and these problems can easily inspire conflicts by solving them by Murphy. This requires the priests of the Temple of War to act as executioners to deal with the soldiers who are unruly and disobey orders.

Although he has the power to execute soldiers who do not obey orders.

But the meaning of executing death in person is different from the meaning of being executed by subordinates.

Murphy didn't have too long to tame these soldiers, so he had to use iron-blooded means to capture several targets.

At least we must let these indigenous people understand that the Greeks' military minutes are far stricter than theirs!
Chapter completed!