Chapter 524 The Value of Giant Plains

"I still have a lot of finishing work to do here. Before that, I can't go back. In order to avoid unnecessary conflicts, you will be temporarily in a comatose state during this period. It won't be long. As soon as I am free, I will go back and make arrangements for you." Gavin did not dare to drag the six-armed snake demon back to Mis Noel.

She was a demon known for being chaotic and evil, and she was very powerful. Delphine couldn't suppress her, and he didn't want a legendary demon to mess around in his territory.

"Okay." The six-armed snake demon couldn't decide whether to agree or not. He couldn't make the decision on his own.

Gavin will keep the six-armed snake demon Night Shadow until the last minute of the duration. Gavin will not be so polite to the six walking Night Shadows.

Although they are all Night Shadows, in addition to special abilities, their attributes, especially the three attributes of intelligence, perception and charm, are affected by the original attributes of the transformer. Even the noble trolls are not much higher. Drag them directly back to Misnoel and leave them to Daphne.

At the same time, the wailing dwarf kingdom was outside the city.

Nora circled around a little anxiously and said: "Your Excellency, Chief of Staff, we haven't seen half of the monster for more than an hour, and there is no movement from the young master's side. There won't be any problems, right? Should we rush in?"

"You have seen with your own eyes the strength of the six-armed snake demon Night Shadow newly transformed by Lord Lord. Do you think it will be useful for us to rush in when she cannot handle the situation?" Although Veranika's height is not as tall as Nora's by three points. One, but the level of stability is far higher than hers, "The lord has many means. If there is really a problem, he would have informed us as soon as possible. No news now is the best news. We just need to wait and complete our own Task."

"But……"

"It's okay, they're coming down." Veranika pointed her finger in the air, flapping the energy dragon wings and coming down, who else could it be if it wasn't Gavin.

The one who landed before him was the six-armed snake demon. She jumped directly from a balcony with the head of the wailing dwarf, and made a free fall. When she was not far from the ground, she performed a short-distance teleportation, and then directly The downstroke speed is offset.

Even if they knew she was an ally, they could not suppress a commotion when they saw a huge six-armed snake demon, whether it was a human heavy cavalry or a hobgoblin wolf cavalry. The war horses neighed and the wargs roared. Humans and The hobgoblin involuntarily clenched his weapon, which shows how bad the devil's reputation is in Faerûn.

"Completely occupy this place." Gavin said with a heavy wave of his hand, "With this place as the center and the Blood Claw Wolf Cavalry as the center, I will uproot all the monster tribes ten kilometers outward.

Cangya, lead your army and clean up this dwarf city from beginning to end. Find all the open and secret caves for me. Collect and count all the corpses and wait for centralized processing. , Carissa, you lead the Goliath Legion to sit here and assist the Cang Fang Legion in their exploration mission. "

His purpose is very clear, which is to prepare to completely occupy this place.

If you don't do this, it won't be long before this place will be occupied by other monster tribes.

Moreover, the structure of the Howling Dwarf City is very special. With only a small number of manpower, it can be built into a three-dimensional war fortress, echoing the Blood Canyon and forming the horns of each other.

After laying out the layout here, Gavin asked Veranika to use teleportation to send them back to Blood Canyon.

Not only has the war in Blood Canyon been completely over, but even the battlefield has been completely wiped out.

"Lord Lord is back. Lord Lord, how is the war on your side? Have you directly captured the opponent's lair?"

"Does this need to be said? We have left all the elite trolls here, and the remaining old, weak, sick and disabled cannot withstand the charge of our elite cavalry."

"Lord, we have won. Not only did we defeat those monsters, we also defeated the demons."

"Long live my lord."

"Lord Lord..."

Returning to Blood Canyon, Gavin clearly felt the change in the atmosphere here.

Not only has the morale here not been depressed due to the continuous bloody battles, but on the contrary, it has reached an unprecedented peak.

In Gavin's view, they paid a high price and suffered a lot of casualties in this war, but in the eyes of the migrating army, this was an unprecedented brilliant victory. After all, they killed tens of thousands of people with thousands of casualties. monsters and demons.

This gave them confidence for the next migration.

As soon as Gavin returned to Blood Canyon, the busy executives of the migrating army automatically gathered together to prepare for a post-war meeting.

As soon as everyone arrived, Gavin couldn't wait to ask: "Has the accurate number of deaths been calculated?"

The existence of the healing magic makes the injured negligible. As long as their lives are saved, the rest is easy. Even broken limbs can be regenerated or regenerated. It is just a matter of the cost.

"Coming out." It was General Copperfield who answered. "Three Goliaths were killed, twelve hobgoblin giants were killed, one hundred and fifty-three goblins of the Blood Claw Infantry Corps were killed, and the Sidecar Vanguard Army was killed. Two hundred and ten people were killed and thirty-two civilians were relocated.”

"With the resources in our hands, how many people can be resurrected?" Gavin turned to look at Anna and asked.

"Only twenty-one people can be resurrected," Anna replied. "We lack diamonds that can be used to resurrect them."

"Is the gap so big?" Gavin frowned involuntarily.

"Are you still prepared to resurrect them all?" Zalanda looked at Gavin in confusion and said, "The only ones with resurrection value are Goliath and the Hobgoblin Giant. The rest will be given pensions to their families and civilian pensions. The gold is about 500, and the mercenary pension is about 1,000. As for the hobgoblin, I don’t think there is a pension.”

Bloodclaw nodded and said, "Yes, there is no precedent for granting pensions here. Death in battle is their greatest honor."

The monster legions, especially the Blood Claw Legion, a hobgoblin legion with a servile nature, are their greatest blessing if they can be treated well during their lifetime, and forget about the generous treatment after death.

Their armor and equipment will be taken back and redistributed, their assets will be confiscated, and their corpses will be burned on the spot to prevent them from becoming food for other creatures. This is a kind of heavy burial.

The only exception is to prove your worth to the entire legion, such as those hobgoblin giants with extraordinary life dice. The legion will naturally find ways to resurrect you when you die in battle.

But the same cannot be said for humans.

Not only must they be treated well during their lifetime, but they must also receive honors and pensions after death.

This is not only for the dead, but also for the living.

Only by handling the aftermath can the souls of the dead be able to rest in peace, and more living people will work for you.

What causes the difference between the two armies is not only the recruitment methods of both sides, but also has a great relationship with the survival models of both sides.

The Hobgoblin Legion is a pure warlord army. They only have soldiers. There are few hobgoblin women and children. Their members are like the Blood Claw Legion. They attack cities and territories everywhere and absorb powerful soldiers of the same race to supplement their own consumption.

Their troops and supplies were all looted, and they were not engaged in production at all.

Human beings are different. Their powerful legions all have territories and cities to support them. They recruit strong soldiers from among them to protect the large number of civilians.

In exchange, these civilians support these legions with supplies. This is the most primitive and basic concept of rule.

These two models on both sides are not static.

When the hobgoblin army is ready to settle down and take root in a certain place, and cannot replenish its military resources through movement, it can only start to recruit its own hobgoblin civilians like humans, and start to establish and improve the reward, punishment, and management systems, so that The entire ethnic group and even the city are booming.

The Blood Claw Legion will face this situation next.

There are also some human legions that will transform into monster legions due to defeat or war needs.

Because this model has its own advantages, that is, purity, easy control and management, and super mobility.

The shortcomings are also very obvious. They basically have no error tolerance. Either they keep winning for a long time, and once there is a big rout, the entire legion will completely collapse and lose the possibility of regrouping.

Territories or countries with a large base of civilians have super resilience and strategic depth. Even if an army is defeated or a city is captured, they can still regroup, reorganize the collapsed army or form other forces. The army launched a new round of war and dragged the war into overtime.

In the end, they are often the ones who win the final war.

Such examples abound in Faerûn.

The war between humans and monsters is basically a war between two army modes.

Gavin's migrating army model is now somewhere in between.

They have adopted many monster army management techniques, but many policies must be based on humans, because after they arrive at their destination, they will take root and establish their own territory.

After summarizing the information he had and clarifying his thoughts, Gavin made a final decision: "We might as well take the opportunity to promulgate a clear military merit system. Whether it is rewards, punishments, or pension standards, all should be carried out according to the rules. Try our best to To be fair and just, resurrection is integrated into this system as an important reward.

We cannot resurrect the dead simply because of their strength. This will not only allow those powerful warriors to waste their lives recklessly during the war, but it will also be unfair to those weak warriors who bravely kill the enemy and have military exploits. After all, powerful warriors also grew up from weak ones. "

It is true that Faerun has many means of resurrection, but the high price is destined to be the privilege of a few people. Even Gavin, who has shown a bit of wealth recently, only discovered this when he faced a large-scale war and suffered a large number of casualties.

It is impossible to resurrect all the dead.

Priests can be trained by themselves, and the hiring commission can be saved, but there is no way to save spellcasting materials, especially diamonds, which take up a lot of money.

The diamond used to resurrect a person is worth at least five thousand gold coins, and it will fluctuate according to market demand. In many cases, it cannot be bought with money.

Many people who care about their lives hoard diamonds, and there are also profiteers who deliberately hoard goods to inflate prices.

The casualties of only a few hundred people were already far beyond what he could bear. If they were all resurrected, diamonds alone would cost more than two million.

If you just use the pension, you only need more than 200,000 yuan.

At the same time, people have to lament how cheap human life is. A civilian’s pension is equivalent to that of a heavy war horse.

This is the cruel reality of Faerûn. Sometimes civilians are really inferior to dogs.

Even Zalanda, who is known for loving his people like his own children, has no intention of resurrecting them all, but directly distributes pensions to complete the matter.

Accepting death is the best option, both for the civilians themselves and their families.

In the final analysis, there is only one reason - poverty.

"It should be so." Zalanda nodded and said, "Not only your side, but also the side where Blood Claw is approaching. After all, you will build a city here in the future and enter the settlement mode. Only by improving the policy will you attract those hobgoblins. Come proactively.”

Blood Claw grinned, his mouth full of blood: "For us, we don't need it for a year and a half. After all, we are guarding the Giant Plains. This is our natural military field. In a short period of time, it will be mainly a military city. , only equipped with a small number of women and children until we subdue all the hobgoblin tribes and actively start to join us. "

"General Blood Claw is an expert in this aspect. I leave it to you to be the commander. You can proceed as needed. However, there are a few points that need to be adjusted on your side." Gavin took the opportunity to sort out the Blood Claw Army and said, "First of all, with the As the legion expands, the types of arms increase. You can no longer set up a separate army, but divide it into different legions according to the arms.

At this point, you have already done almost everything. It is nothing more than completely splitting off and forming a separate army.

Secondly, you have to establish a stable source of income. After we lay the foundation for you, you need to build the city yourself and support the army yourself. We cannot input financial resources to you without limit. "

Blood Claw nodded naturally and said: "The Lord has done enough for our Blood Claw Legion. Next, it will be our time to give back to the Lord. I have thought of several good ideas to make money."

"Oh, tell me." Gavin showed an interested expression.

When it comes to war, Bloodclaw and his hobgoblins are definitely top players.

But when it comes to trading and doing business, they are novices in this aspect.

Bloodclaw was obviously fully prepared, and said enthusiastically: "The fastest and easiest way to get money is to continue sweeping the Giant Plains. Without the Kingdom of the Wailing Dwarves, we will be the largest military force here.

Those monster tribes will either surrender to us obediently and pay tribute, or they will wait to be wiped out by us and let us plunder their wealth ourselves.

Doing so will not only support oneself, but also continuously weaken these monster tribes so that they can no longer become a climate and no longer pose a threat to the surrounding areas. "

The origins of Bloodclaw and the others determined that the first thing he thought of was never peaceful means such as trade, but the burning, killing and looting that he was best at.

Only this time, the targets are no longer humans who are good at accumulating wealth, but the monster tribes.

It is no longer a one-time deal, but a steady flow of blood, a bit like the tribute tax system of nomadic people.

Given Bloodclaw's current unique situation, this method is indeed the most suitable for them.

"Yes, this is indeed an effective method, but the question is, do those monster tribes have so much wealth and resources for you to plunder?" Gavin raised a new question.

“It’s not just humanoid creatures that have grown huge in the Giants’ Plains. This may happen to all animals and plants. That’s how we got our large batches of large wolf mounts.

Here, there are pumpkins bigger than cargo baskets, apples bigger than adult heads, and some bison look like giant elephants.

Therefore, the products are far richer than other places, and the number of monster tribes is also far greater than other places. Many monster tribes already have simple planting and grazing, and can squeeze out a lot of wealth.

What we value most are the gigantic animals. I believe their value is far higher than that of ordinary creatures. Before your lord leaves, we will definitely prepare a batch of gigantic animals for you to help you pull your cart. I believe that with them , the road ahead will be smoother for you. ” Blood Claw further introduces the uniqueness of the Giant Plains.

"Are these animals and plants like humanoids? Unpredictable and random?" Gavin asked with concern. If they can be industrialized, this will become a unique industry for the Blood Claws and an important profit point. , a super-large war horse with different towing capabilities. They are a perfect match for their own floor-type vans and side vans.

"Animals are the same as humanoids. There is no way to detect them before they grow up. Plants are a little bit special. In addition to randomness, all the plants that grow in some lands are gigantic. We once saw a The gigantic farm is said to be run by a dwarf village. We strictly followed the Lord's teachings and did not take action against them without authorization.

That giant farm is right on the migration road. When you go north, you will be able to see the unique landscape there. " Bloodclaw replied.

They did not take action against the villages of intelligent races. At first, they were only limited by Gavin's orders.

But as time went by, especially when I revisited the old place of the Giant Plains, I found that doing so was beneficial.

Even if those intelligent race villages do not have a favorable impression of them, at least they are not full of malice.

Especially after they unintentionally helped them solve some big troubles in the wilderness, they soon started a certain degree of trade with them, which gave them a relatively stable source of supplies.

"Collecting tribute is only a short-term solution. The long-term solution is to open your own huge farm and build your own ranch. I have ordered 10,000 war horses from Avanso. I will give you a few thousand horses as seeds and see if we can build a stable industrial chain."

Gavin firmly believes that it is better to teach a man how to fish than to give him a fish. Building an industry that you control is the right way.