Chapter 147 Selecting Troops and Generals (Wishing Everyone a Happy National Day and a Prosperous China)

"Aha, nice to meet you, my student, I hope my knowledge can help you."

After personally burying ten gems under the Wisdom Tree, Xu Lai gained the experience of the Wisdom Tree, and his newly upgraded level was increased by one.

Next behind Xu Lai was Su Ya, who also brought a shovel, but she only needed to bury 2,000 gold coins, which was much cheaper than Xu Lai.

There was no need to upgrade Dill Rogers, as his several characteristics had already reached the limit, and 2,000 gold coins were also a considerable amount of money.

However, only Xu Lai knew that it was just a superficial reason. In fact, it was because Dill did not have a die-hard effect, so Xu Lai had a knot in his heart.

At this time, the situation in the Stone Castle was changing, and the shadow of war was looming over every grasslander.

A few days ago, the orcs had just urged the thunderbirds to launch a sneak attack, but they did not expect that the elves' fast troops had arrived.

More than a dozen golden dragons ignored the thunderbirds' lightning and thunder, and led dozens of green dragons to fight, biting nearly a hundred thunderbirds and rocs to death.

This was the only time in dozens of battles that achieved significant results after the orcs' reinforcements increased and humans directly gave up the outer territory.

But it could only be like this. There were so many rocs and thunderbirds in the stronghold that neither the golden dragons nor the green dragons dared to go far away from the fortress.

There were also crossbow carts and elf archers on the fortress, with the support of human archers. The golden dragons and green dragons were immune to the thunderbirds' lightning and thunder, but the other troops in the stronghold camp could not provide support.

Relying on the air advantage, the orcs saw all the human actions.

The orc commander had also considered dividing his troops. The grassland was so large that he could use the mobility of the evil wolf fighters to bypass the fortress in front and slaughter the continuous reinforcements in the rear.

However, after trying several times, the orc commander found that he could not take advantage at all.

Relying on his own talent, the wolf cavalry, under his leadership, could indeed easily attack the reinforcements in the rear.

The wolf cavalry has a fast attack speed, and the combat effectiveness of the wolf and the evil wolf is not comparable to that of the warhorse.

However, even if he has the talent of the evil wolf knight, he cannot change the fatal weakness of the wolf knight's poor endurance. Several attacks were cut off by the knights of the temple.

If he had not decisively cut off his arm to survive and left some evil wolf knights to contain him, the wolf cavalry under his command would have suffered heavy losses.

As cavalry, the advantages of war horses are too great, with good endurance, high load, and fast running. The envious orc commander's eyes are red.

Later, the beast king and the chiefs of many large tribes in the stronghold unanimously decided to suspend the offensive and give humans enough time to assemble.

After all, it takes a long time for the stronghold to transport siege equipment and supplies from the rear.

The beast king and the chiefs want to achieve success in one battle and use the military advantage of the stronghold to fight a decisive battle with humans.

The human race still has a great advantage on the grassland. Almost everyone can ride a horse, everyone can shoot arrows, and there are a large number of horses in every village.

If they divide their troops to clear the enemy bit by bit, it will not only be difficult, but also cause heavy casualties.

Besides, the orcs have always advocated attacking. Since humans are willing to fight a decisive battle, how could the orcs refuse?

The orcs not only agreed to the invitation of the temple to fight a decisive battle, they even released the captured human prisoners of war. Of course, they also got back many of their own people.

Moreover, since they agreed to the decisive battle, no orcs have crossed the defense line of the Stone Castle. Instead, humans often sent scouts to conduct reconnaissance.

From this point of view, orcs are more disciplined than humans, and they respect ancient traditions more, because it is this tradition that allows them to survive tenaciously in the bitter cold land.

The date of the decisive battle of the temple was set three days after the war mobilization order, firstly to give the reinforcements time to rest and form a team.

Secondly, it is basically impossible for the human race to have more reinforcements, so the orcs should not be given more time to gather the troops in the rear.

With the launch of the war mobilization order, more and more troops gathered in the Stone Castle, including many heroes.

Except for those who have died or are still prisoners, all the heroes born in the grassland have basically come to the Stone Castle one after another, including Wang Chao who left Xu Lai before.

There is no way. Almost all the adults in the town where Wang Chao hangs out have been recruited into the army. Wang Chao had to use the favorability he earned to get the status of captain from the mayor.

Wang Chao is relatively miserable. Although there are hundreds of soldiers behind him, he is only the nominal commander, used to give these people the specialization effect. The actual leader is the short winter melon next to him who is less than 1.7 meters tall.

He is the son of the mayor. Before leaving this time, he also got a promise of a future lord from Earl Aini. If the townspeople behind him don't listen to him, will they listen to Wang Chao, an outsider?

But although he is miserable, he is much better than when he met Xu Lai at the beginning. At least with Xu Lai's 1,000 gold coins, he now has a few more loyal spearmen around him.

Since the entire grassland was mobilized this time, although there were not many towns on the grassland, there were at least a dozen of nobles, big and small.

Add to that the knights who had no fiefdoms or only had a manor, and the barons of one or two villages, and the assembled troops would be at least tens of thousands.

Most of them were just ordinary young men, who had received some militia training at most, and the rest were spearmen, infantrymen, and archers recruited from towns.

However, only nobles can lead these troops, and the lowest-ranking nobles must be knights or lords.

Even though Earl Aini has promoted several knights and lords in succession during this period, he still cannot gather all the soldiers from all the towns.

To gather these people together, they must be organized into teams, otherwise the mess will not only fail to increase combat effectiveness, but will affect the main force of their own side.

Although the Stone Castle is just a fortress, it spans three towns, two of which are large towns, covering a large area, which is a few points larger than Earl Aini's castle.

However, due to resource constraints, in addition to a moat and stone walls in front of the fortress, the entire defense line of dozens of kilometers is at most the only chevaux de frise to block cavalry.

Even if Earl Aini only uses these low-level troops as cannon fodder, he cannot let all of them die casually, otherwise even if he wins this battle, the grassland will become worthless due to the large loss of young and strong people.

Therefore, Count Aini began to select commanders in large numbers, organized a large number of low-level soldiers into legions of thousands of people, and appointed knights and heroes to guard battlefields.

In fact, if Aini had not too few people under his command and he did not want to withdraw the commanders of his own troops, he would not have been willing to delegate command to those heroes.

But the temple had explained to him the role of heroes. Without these heroes, there were not enough nobles to lead the troops in those barracks.

If Aini continued to be deaf and dumb, even his own men would no longer be on his side.

Of course, even if Aini had agreed to let those heroes serve as commanders, it was not something that could be done casually. They had to be selected and appointed by him personally.

Aini had come into contact with many heroes, and the temple had also come into contact with many of them. He knew that they were originally ordinary people, but were only selected by the rules of creation, and they did not have much military literacy.

If a commander who did not understand military orders was appointed, or a commander who understood but was unwilling to execute them, what would happen even if he was brought to military court afterwards?

Therefore, Aini proposed to examine and assess these heroes, and then he would appoint and dismiss them. Whether from a legal perspective or from a practical perspective, the temple had no reason to object.

When Xu Lai arrived at the Stone Castle, it was already the sixth day since the war mobilization order was issued.

The troops on the grassland were basically assembled in the first four days, and a large number of knights had been appointed and dismissed on the fifth day. This day happened to be the assessment day for heroes, also known as the day of selecting generals.

Of course, Xu Lai arrived in the afternoon of the sixth day. He completed the final preparations yesterday and set out early this morning. When he arrived here, it was already 3 or 4 o'clock.

After he handed in the order at the temporary command post, the commander of the last thousand-man regiment was also appointed and dismissed.

There were 50 thousand-man regiments, each led by 30 knights and 20 heroes. Viscount Norton and his direct troops were responsible for commanding and dispatching these 50 thousand-man regiments.

There are also some selected elites, such as retired veterans from various villages and towns, like Village Chief Lazi, who were selected into the main force.

No one knows how many main forces the human race has now, except for those people mentioned above.

Even Wang Chao only knows that some elf reinforcements have arrived, which must be the main force, and the reinforcements from the tower have not appeared yet.

Count Aini brought two fully staffed knight groups and a large infantry and archery group. Other nobles on the grassland jointly formed a knight group of more than 3,000 people and a large infantry and archery group.

As for how many there are on the temple side, no one knows. It is only known that the temple side is full of real people, and there are no so-called monster soldiers, because they have no one who can lead them.

Therefore, although the number of people on the temple side cannot be determined, it is certain that the temple's knight group and priest group are the most powerful and terrifying.

The timing of Xu Lai's appearance was really unfortunate. The assessment of the heroes has all ended, and even the temporary awarding ceremony has begun.

When High Priest Ryan and Xu Lai appeared in the training ground, there were two radiant heroes on the stage, holding up the Commander's Blade awarded to them by Count Aini himself.

This Commander's Blade is a third-level weapon, and its damage is much higher than their initial weapons. Many people were delighted.

However, Xu Lai almost laughed out loud after taking a look, because these Commander's Swords were almost all modified from bandit sabers, and Xu Lai was very familiar with the marks on them.

Of course, Count Aini and his men had no choice. Count Aini was reluctant to give out good things, but it would be embarrassing to give them away, and the styles had to be unified at least.

It happened that there was a batch of such weapons in the temple, and Count Aini took them directly and asked the blacksmith to modify them slightly, so that they could be used immediately. Why not?