If we follow the standard classical idea of ????building an army, among the girls who come to sign up to join the army, except for a few exceptions with extraordinary talents, most of them are only qualified to enter the women's camp to serve as camp wives (which is what everyone understands) ).
But William would certainly not be stupid enough to use these female soldiers who are full of dedication and enthusiasm to waste everything. Not to mention that these ladies are the best future mothers, and William alone does not have a military service suitable for female soldiers.
For example, air cavalry and mecha soldiers, in some aspects, women even have some advantages over men in these arms.
There are also racial issues. Some races seem to be inherently incompatible. For example, dwarves and elves always find it difficult to get along. When they meet, they will most likely quarrel. They will then decide whether they should fight based on their respective circumstances. shelf.
What¡¯s more interesting is that the basis for this judgment usually depends on the dwarf¡¯s cognition.
If the dwarves think they can take advantage of the fight, they will usually punch the elves; otherwise, gentlemen will fight without fighting. Regardless of whether the elves have a numerical advantage or not, if a dwarf provokes them, they will do it.
But when the collective impressions of the two races were reflected on the entire race, it turned out that the dwarves believed that the elves were cunning and arrogant, while the elves criticized the dwarves for being stubborn.
However, in the grassroots establishment of the new army, William still mixed together several conventional fighting races. Especially in terms of infantry units, William incorporated the Yuanyang Formation into it.
Of course, Marshal Qi's Yuanyang Formation is not a universal military formation. When used in large army battles, the Yuanyang Formation is not even as good as the oldest Square Formation.
But when it comes to small-scale conflicts and against super powerful individuals, the Yuanyang Formation is undoubtedly more sharp. After all, the original intention of the invention of the Yuanyang Formation was to use the battle formation method of ordinary civilian miners to fight against and kill the elite Japanese warriors who had practiced fighting techniques since childhood, and it had been tested and baptized in actual combat.
And William moved the Yuanyang Formation to Faer?n, which is a perfect match. It should be noted that more than 90% of the conflicts and wars that have occurred and are currently occurring in Faerun are basically small-scale battles similar to the Japanese pirate rebellion level.
It¡¯s just that the people here are fighting against monsters that are more powerful than the elite Japanese warriors.
And the staffing of mercenaries and adventure groups whose battle plan is to kill various powerful monsters is almost the same as that of the Yuanyang Formation.
William¡¯s approach is based on the formation of the Yuanyang Formation, and incorporates extraordinary professionals with Faerun characteristics into it according to their respective characteristics, thus forming an otherworldly magical version of the Yuanyang Formation combat team with Faerun characteristics.
This combat team consists of about twelve people, with a ranger squad leader responsible for command (who also serves as a shooter), two dwarf shield warriors as shield players, and two halflings or dwarfs who use hand crossbows or darts to lure the enemy. , three to five spearmen or archers, and two strong men (warriors or barbarians) holding multiple soft forks instead of the wolf soldiers.
A qualified and powerful team may also be equipped with one or two spellcasters as a supplement.
It should be noted here that the role of the Wolf Soldiers was the most important part of the Yuanyang Formation when it was first invented, but it is not indispensable for the Yuanyang Formation composed of real death warriors.
At the beginning of the creation of the Yuanyang Formation, most of the soldiers under the inventor, General Qi Jiguang, were defeated soldiers who had lost all confidence and morale after being attacked by the Japanese pirates. There were many people who were defeated at the sight of the wind and fled after hearing the name of the enemy. At this time, the Wolf Soldiers It played an unprecedented role in stabilizing morale among the entire array.
The first wolf warriors are those who dare to die. These people may not have excellent martial arts, but they must have the courage to fight without fear of death. When they hold the wolf warriors made of large bamboos, they will face the cruel and ferocious enemies. When dancing, although it cannot kill the enemy, it can greatly delay and harass the opponent, allowing one's own spearmen and gunmen to have enough time and opportunity to shoot the target.
And those shooters or spearmen who lack courage will usually become more courageous and gain some confidence to fight when they see two large groups of twiggy guys protecting them in front of them.
In this way, as long as you win a few battles, the confidence of all the soldiers will be greatly increased, and the will to fight will naturally rise.
This is the true role of the Wolf Soldiers. They do not seek to kill many enemies, but only to strengthen their own courage and deter the enemy. There is no doubt about the role of the wolf pioneer. If you don¡¯t believe it, you can make your own monkey version of the wolf and test it first.
Use a rose branch covered with wood thorns or a jujube branch to make a broom-like shape, and then it is best to take this thing to the streets in the summer when everyone is wearing T-shirts and shorts.
Believe in yourself! As long as you are brave enough and able to remain calm, with this thing in hand, no matter whether it is three or five gangsters with knives or a dozen unarmed men, they will not be able to get close to you for a while.
When William obtained the alien version of the Mandarin Duck Formation, he naturally did not need the Wolf Soldiers to enhance his own morale and fighting will, because his base of soldiers was more than ten times higher than that of Marshal Qi back then.
"However, he still retained this unit for a while. After all, there are all kinds of strange monsters in this world, and there are always some weird ones that make people unprepared. He hopes that the Wolf Soldiers can still exert their due power by then.
In the end, William organized a mixed army of more than 3,800 people.
The basic combat organization of the legion is a mandarin duck formation squad of about twelve people. Three squads form a platoon, three platoons form a company, and five companies form a battalion. The entire legion has a total of six battalions of infantry (the total number is about 3,200 people). about).
In addition, there is an air cavalry company of more than 300 people, a mecha reserve knight of more than 100 people, and a logistics medical corps with about 600 people. The members of these three armies are basically all It's mainly women.
Of course, this initially reorganized mixed army still has big shortcomings. All soldiers basically lack training. Qualified officers are scarce. It can even be said that there are no qualified officers. Many so-called squad, platoon, and company-level officers Basically, they are chasing ducks to get on the shelves. As for the experience of regular combat, they have no experience at all. Most of the officers and soldiers are even illiterate and cannot read a word.
Other issues such as ordnance and baggage are not a big deal. Not to mention that the valley itself is a rare and fertile land, and William has control over the entire flame world's resources as a foundation.
I don¡¯t know when, most of the trees in the jungle became bare, and the once green grass turned yellow. When the cold wave in the north began to spread to the south, only black and white were left in the world, but William and his army were still far away from success.
It is really difficult for a fledgling army to train. William does not lack time or materials. What he lacks is people, people with knowledge and brains. This is more than the entire Flame World and the entire valley combined. It is difficult to solve the trouble for him.
In Faer?n, the only people who can truly be called knowledgeable and intelligent are those magicians.
Every accomplished mage is a true scholar. They are like the academic masters among students, aloof and arrogant, wise and astute. It is easy to make mages become your magic consultants, but to get even a mage apprentice to condescend to serve as a top soldier in the military camp is slightly better than killing him.
In a word, the talents of the mages are very suitable for William's needs, but they will never be willing to come to William's hands in large numbers and act as tool men.
When the first snow fell, the news from Dagger Falls made William very happy. It was the remnants of time brought by William from the Chaos Narrows to the valley. It should be noted that these people are all high-quality talents with a high accumulation of knowledge. If these people can join William's command, then the talent shortage problem in the valley will be alleviated as much as possible.
Of course, it¡¯s just a relief. To really get rid of the problem, William has to establish his own talent training system.
It¡¯s just that all of this takes time. The construction of the army takes time, and the cultivation of talents takes even more time. It takes ten years to cultivate trees and a hundred years to cultivate people. This is not an empty talk.
????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? As long as you have started with all the clues, you only need to follow the steps step by step. At most, it will only take more time.
In order to welcome the arrival of those precious time remnants, William sent out the three best-trained battalions of the army camp in Faunla to open up the Tessa River channel in the north.
The waterway of the Tessa River is mainly divided between two former valley city-states, one is the Dagger Valley that William first controlled, and the other is the Teson Valley that has been destroyed by Zhentil Castle.
Tesen Valley was once the most important valley city-state in the north. She guarded the northern gateway to the valley region and faced the invasion of monsters from the northern glaciers and wastelands.
The direct cause of the destruction of Tesen Valley was the ambition expansion of the Zhentil Fort people. As the valley city-state closest to Zhentil Fort, she would naturally become the first target of the Zhentil Fort invasion.
?????????????????????? However, Tesen Valley¡¯s demise also had its own self-inflicted suicide factor.
As we all know, almost every year there are a large number of monsters, including orcs, barbarians, ogres, ice trolls, frost giants and other terrifying wild monsters roaring from the colder lands further north, and they attack the city wantonly , massacring, plundering, and devouring innocent people, the foundation of the city-state of the Moon Sea generation.The whole world has suffered greatly, and Zhentil Keep alone has been destroyed several times in history due to this kind of invasion.
Not to mention the tragedy of Beipuo that disappeared into the dust of history, leaving behind only the terrifying legend of the Bell of the Deep.
In order to resist the invasion from the north, the city-states around the Moon Sea have united to build a large and connected fortress chain with complete defense facilities at the Raven Canyon, the only passage south from the northern foot of the Dragon Crest Mountains.
This chain of fortresses stretches for more than ten miles, enough to accommodate a large number of armies. It once helped the combined armies of the cities of Far Mountain City, Melwater, Mulmaster, Sentia, Yulas and Zhentil Castle. Repelled the continuous attacks of ogres and orcs.
As the role of the fortress group in Raven Canyon became more and more obvious, and even gradually developed into a kingdom supported by the city-states in the valley and the Moon Sea, conflicts and conflicts between Raven Fortress and the city-states began.
Originally, this kind of conflict was limited to a state of fighting without breaking up. It was just that a certain wise lord of Tesen Valley deliberately blocked the southern passage of Raven Canyon during a winter. .
And then a terrible disaster happened.
It took the monster Kuanglan from the cold land a winter to break through the Raven Fortress, which lacked assistance, and then poured into the warm areas of the south crazily along the Raven Canyon.
This terrible disaster led to the destruction of several city-states in the northern part of the valley. Countless villages and towns were plundered and destroyed by monsters. The North Castle was completely destroyed, and Zhentil Castle was turned into ruins and then rebuilt.
It was the death-seeking behavior of Tesen Valley that led to the disintegration of the alliance of northern city-states that once worked closely together, and the resurgent Zhentil Fort also began to change its stance, gradually transforming from the ordinary city it once was into the evil stronghold it is today. .
When the Zhentilburg people invaded and destroyed Tesen Valley, almost no city-state came forward to stop them. They either applauded directly or secretly sneered in response. There was only one Lord Elle Morne of Dagger Valley (Randall Morne). His grandfather) stupidly stepped forward to "mediate" the dispute, and was then killed by the Zhentil Castle people under the walls of Teswe.
Tesway was once the richest city in the Tesen Valley, with a population of nearly 20,000 at its peak. However, except for a small number of residents who have fled to other places, most of them have become slaves of the Zhentilburg people. Enrich the most grassroots workforce in the city of Zhentilburg.
Today, there are almost no aborigines in Tesway. Only the garrison from Zhentil Castle and their families and servants live here permanently.
The people of Zhentil Keep regard this place as their most important military base and the starting point for caravans and troops on expeditions to the valley.
It can be said that if William wants to attack Zhentil Keep, Tesway will definitely be a stumbling block that has to be removed.
Normally, Taiswei maintains a regular garrison of several hundred people. When necessary, this number can reach two to three thousand, and they are all truly elite.
However, since the Saint of Bane suffered a disastrous defeat in Shadow Valley, and then sent a wave of heads to Taris on the east coast of Dragon Bay, it resulted in the elite garrison of Teswei being depleted, with only a few remaining. Mercenary soldiers were hired to make up the numbers in the local area.
After William's actions of capturing Yulas and Fornla and preparing for war in the Fornla area reached Zhentil Castle, the people of Zhentil Castle immediately realized that the situation was not good, and they sent a large number of spies and The spies went south, intending to grasp the movements of William's hostile force, while recruiting troops and dispatching elites to enrich the strength of Tesway's garrison.
When William led the three battalions north, Tesway's garrison had expanded to 3,000 Zhentil Fort elites, 5,000 auxiliary soldiers, and various defense facilities had been greatly strengthened.
In other words, William and his newly reorganized army faced a fierce and hard battle.