On matters related to "war", no one is more well-informed than the War Gods, not to mention people from other forces. Even many middle-ranking nobles from the Southern Nobles of the Gold Coin Federation cannot get the news as quickly as The God of War.
After all, as long as there is a war, it cannot be separated from war and those who believe in the gods of war.
Whether they are regular soldiers or mercenaries, there are many who believe in the gods of war. The war gods promised that after they fought bravely, their souls could go to the Kingdom of God to rest in peace. If they were qualified, they might even be transformed into immortal envoys to continue their unfinished journey. For soldiers, this is almost one of the best destinations.
So when the noble faction wanted to form a fast mobile force, the war gods quickly got the news, verified it in detail, and continued to follow up.
"They will probably form a fast mobile force with a total of two hundred people." Ogmandine said, "One-third of them will be mid-level, which is an astonishing number."
One-third of the two hundred people are mid-level, which means there are 60 to 70 mid-level people. This number is indeed a bit surprising - if it were in an ordinary army, this would be enough to support an army of tens of thousands of people.
Taking into account the remaining juniors and the spellcasters needed in this army, the formation cost of this mere 200-person team is probably more than that of an ordinary army of 10,000 people.
In other words, the purpose of forming this army is to hope that they can achieve results that are no less than or even better than an ordinary legion. In the same way, if they were defeated or even annihilated, the losses caused to the noble faction would be no less than or even greater than an ordinary legion.
On the mainland of the main plane, defeating or even annihilating a legion is definitely an incredible battle. Generally speaking, in a less intense war like the Gold Coin Federation Civil War, such a battle is enough to decide the outcome of the battle. If you lose such a battle, it is basically impossible to turn around.
Reality is not about playing games. It does not mean that if you lose an army, you can just recruit more troops from several nearby cities, equip them with generals, and transport them over. Rather, it requires long-term training and a large amount of materials to support an army.
Since ancient times, it has been very rare for a capable person to be able to stand up again after losing his entire legion in one battle. Liu Bang relied on the help of Lu Ze and Han Xin to save such defeats twice, and he was called a model of "the good loser never perishes" by later generations. Liu Bei lived on the road for half his life, and was forced to abandon his wife and flee many times, but in vain. Er Jingbing has never been truly defeated and collapsed. This is his confidence in the world. Chen Qingzhi, a powerless scholar general, led the white-robed army across the north and captured Luoyang with only a few thousand troops. However, once the white-robed army was damaged by hard fighting and floods, he had no choice but to disguise himself as a monk. Escape back to the south.
The aristocratic faction is huge, and naturally there is no shortage of famous generals. But no matter how famous a general is, he can't turn ordinary farmers into elite soldiers all of a sudden.
Because of this, Earl House proposed the plan to form a fast mobile force at the meeting of the great nobles, and use an army composed of pure elites to attack the rear of the merchant faction, continuously bleed the merchant faction, and force them to surrender.
At first, not to mention the great nobles from the central faction, even the great nobles from the local faction were opposed to his plan - this plan was really... to mobilize hundreds of junior and intermediate level players to form an excellent team, All equipped with exotic war horses with amazing endurance, they bypassed the confrontational border between the North and the South and entered the vast north, destroying everywhere, with the goal of killing and injuring civilians and destroying production and life in the north.
This is not only dangerous, but also vicious.
"This is not in line with the spirit of the nobility!" A centrist earl said angrily, "We nobles have to fight for honor, and honor is our life! There is no honor in such a fighting method!"
"Everyone is a believer in our lord's Golden Crown (goddess of wealth), why bother to use such cruel methods!" A local earl sighed, "What a good horse, let's forget it."
However, Earl House, nicknamed "Good Horse", had no intention of "forgetting it" at all. He repeatedly emphasized the importance of this war, especially emphasizing that this battle must hurt and scare the merchants in order to ensure that stability for the next few decades.
"To make them afraid, you need to make them feel fear. Instead of annihilating one or two legions on the battlefield, it is better to have mobile troops go around their hinterland, kill their people, and burn their villages and farmland , destroy their caravans and production bases... If you do this a few times, even if the big businessmen can hold on, the small and medium-sized businessmen will definitely be scared to death. At least for one or two generations, they will no longer dare to mention war. !”
Seeing the young earl gesticulating plausibly in the magic projection, the other nobles were a little distressed.
Of course they admitted that what Earl House said made sense, but no matter how reasonable it was, the two issues of honor and risk could never be bypassed.
Needless to say, honor. Attacking civilians is okay if you do it occasionally, but if you do it as a career, it will naturally be a great hindrance to the family's reputation. In the future, when a certain family is mentioned, everyone will think, "Oh, they are those executioners who massacred civilians"... This is simply terrible, and I am afraid that even future generations will jump and curse.
The danger is more direct. Needless to say, the risk of going deep alone. Even if you can win every battle, will the act of killing civilians offend the goddess of wealth? If you offend the goddess of wealth, will you be punished by God
This is absolutely certain! Even if the goddess of wealth disdains to attack those soldiers, the leading officer will definitely be in bad luck!
However, Earl House said that he was willing to lead the team himself.
This time, everyone was choked.
They have taken over the biggest danger, shouldered the heaviest responsibility, and taken the blame for the worst reputation. Do they still have the nerve to push back
After all, it was just a matter of providing money and people. Thirteen earls and two marquises, each family contributed a little, and it was not difficult to gather 200 people.
Of course, they would not send out their loyal subordinates on such a mission that would lead to death. Instead, they would immediately spend a lot of money and recruit mercenaries. If you are too slow to recruit mercenaries, you will send out those marginal figures in the family power without feeling any pain when they die.
As for how to combine this group of people into a whole, and how to take this group of "rapid mobile troops" to fight deep behind enemy lines, it was this man who just took over from his dead father three years ago. The young earl's work was done with the earl's scepter.
In person, everyone has high hopes for Earl House. But behind the scenes, the nobles didn't even have a crazy plan that was optimistic about him.
One of the leaders of the central aristocratic faction, the Marquis of Gem Sachs Youke, once complained to his father, who had semi-retired due to old age and frailty, saying that his teammate was really unreliable. With such pig teammates holding him back, he felt that he should seriously consider whether to change his career and merge into the merchant faction...