These new recruits are lucky. Although they have only been trained for a short time, Xiao Yu has equipped them with the best armor and weapons.
The human equipment produced by the base is much better than those purchased on the market. Not only is the defense strong, but it is not so bulky to wear, and it is very dexterous.
Moreover, the existence of Uther has greatly improved their combat effectiveness. Even if they are just recruits, after their strength attribute has been increased by 60%, they are all elite soldiers.
There is only one thing they lack, and that is the experience of killing on the battlefield.
On the other hand, those robbers, although they also have equipment, are definitely uneven. Some far-sighted bandits will focus on building some arms and improving the quality of equipment and soldiers.
But if the bandit leader has no foresight, just relying on the number of people to help him grab more money will do, and he will not equip these bandit soldiers with very good equipment at all.
Equipment costs money. How much did Xiao Yu spend to arm the 10,000 people? Millions of gold coins were thrown in.
In war, what is fought is money.
Xiao Yu knew that the current number of his army was a weakness, and it would not be easy to develop it so quickly. Moreover, if there were too many, there would be no one to command them. Instead, it would be a mess and useless.
What Xiao Yu wants is the route of elite soldiers.
In a blink of an eye, countless bandits and soldiers began to rush to the top of the city to collect their coveted heads, because a head is like a golden coin.
However, what greeted them were all absolutely powerful armors and absolutely sharp swords.
With a 60% increase in strength, these bandits couldn't resist the condescending slashing of these recruits.
Not to mention the situation of the soldiers in the base over there, the orcs have totems, the infantry have blessings, how many little robbers can still climb up
The fierce battle began, but it was only the robbers who suffered the most. Xiao Yu's army suffered few casualties.
The long-range firepower from behind was still pouring down, harvesting the lives of the robbers under the city.
Even so, the number of robbers is still too much, and they are all red-eyed in front of the powerful bounty, and they climb up densely.
Wearing armor, Xiao Yu stood on the top of the city, watching the battle, couldn't help sighing, this kind of battle involving more than 100,000 people was indeed too shocking.
At this time, unless you have the powerful heavy firepower of a heavy machine gun, otherwise, if you want to kill hundreds of thousands of people, even if the other party is there waiting for you to behead your head, you will have to kill for several hours.
At the Battle of the Somme that year, due to the appearance of heavy machine guns, the number of soldiers casualties reached the largest number in one day of the war, more than 60,000.
In this era without machine guns, how long would it take to kill 60,000 people
The number of people is definitely a huge factor in the victory or defeat of an absolute war. Clausewitz wrote in his "On War" that numerical superiority is the most important and fundamental condition for absolute victory in war.
Although there are many examples of winning more battles with less, they are only superficial, because they are more eye-catching, so everyone pays a lot of attention. In fact, it is rare to have two examples of winning more with less in a hundred battles.
Therefore, although the elite soldiers of the base will be the main force in the future, the development of other soldiers is also essential. Talent still needs a lot of digging.
As the battle continued, Xiao Yu's recruits suffered some casualties, but most of them were mistakes made because they were nervous about killing people for the first time on the battlefield.
Otherwise, with their weapons and equipment, coupled with the geographical advantage, it would be very difficult to damage them.
However, the robbers lost even more.
So far, the robbers have lost more than 6,000 people, but because the number of robbers is too large, it is not obvious.
Among them, the main force of the killing was the orc infantry and the elf archers.
Human infantry, dwarf musketeers, and recruits, even catapults, blade carts, and ballistas, did not kill as much as them.
The number of catapults and bladed vehicles is still too small. If there are a hundred catapults, it will be about the same, and the firepower can be more violent.
But with only ten catapults, the coverage area is too small.
"I don't know if I will be given more authority after being upgraded to the second-level town hall." Xiao Yu looked forward to it. If he had a hundred catapults now, the result would definitely be completely different.
The war continued step by step in this way, the bandits continued to attack the city, but they continued to die, but it also caused some damage to the recruits on Xiao Yu's side.
Xiao Yu ordered any soldiers who were seriously injured to go down for treatment immediately, and they were not allowed to fight any more. As long as they didn't lose their breath, they would be rescued with life potions.
A wounded veteran knows how to cherish life and how to fight better than a few recruits who have just entered the battlefield.
In the distance, Xie Sanlang watched the battle, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he nodded secretly. Everything is developing in the direction he expected.
The strength of the lion king's collar is indeed very strong, and the robbers' desire to attack is also very strong. The number of robbers is slowly decreasing. When the number of these robbers is reduced to a certain level, then his plan can be implemented.
After integrating all the robbers and eliminating the Lion King Territory, then he is the real king of this northwest land.
However, the strength of the Lion King's soldiers was a bit beyond his expectation. According to his news, the number of Lion King soldiers should be very small, no more than 10,000, but how can there be so many now? Moreover, looking at it like this, they are definitely elite soldiers.
Xie Sanlang is also a figure who has been in the northwest for decades, and he knows how difficult it is to build an elite army of ten thousand people.
If he stood in Xiao Yu's perspective, it would take at least five or six years to build an elite army of ten thousand people in such a declining territory.
Moreover, he will definitely not develop the elite at the beginning, he will definitely develop the quantity first, and then slowly build some of them to become the elite.
After all, funding, training, etc., are too complicated.
Just the equipment for 10,000 people cost millions of gold coins, right? Where did he get so much money? How much money did those medium-sized village owners rob for so many years
Moreover, it takes at least a year to train an elite soldier. Could it be that Xiao Yu was hired
Xie Sanlang couldn't help feeling that he had underestimated Xiao Yu. He thought that once these bandits were integrated, Xiao Yu would be wiped out easily.
But now it seems that he needs to re-examine Xiao Yu.
But he didn't know that Xiao Yu's gold coins were earned from gambling, his equipment was bought at the base, and he became an elite soldier only with the blessing of the paladins.
Otherwise, these new recruit eggs will definitely suffer when they meet the bandits who have been killed for a long time.
In this era, there are no paladins who can truly bless power blessings. It is already remarkable for the current paladins to be able to bless some simple blessings of protection.
A strong base and a strong hero made all of this possible. If there is no base, no matter how powerful Xiao Yu is, it is impossible to achieve such an achievement in such a short period of time.
"We have attacked, we have attacked." The robbers made a sound like a mountain roar and a tsunami. It turned out that a few fighters among the robbers rushed forward with the brave fighters and occupied a corner on the side of the recruits, forming a bridgehead and temporarily holding their heels.
A recruit is a recruit, facing the attack of more than a dozen powerful fighters, they couldn't resist immediately, and they were beheaded or retreated one after another.
Seeing that there was hope, the robbers worked even harder and rushed up one after another desperately.
At this time, little Qin Che looked at all this calmly, and suddenly shouted loudly: "The first team of the Musketeers, focus on shooting at two o'clock."
bang bang bang...
A burst of gunfire rang out, and the bridgehead occupied by those fighters was immediately cleaned up.
The fighters who fought with the Lion King soldiers were not shot, but the robbers who climbed up immediately behind were immediately beaten down by the burst of intensive firepower.
"Second team, focus on shooting at two o'clock." Qin Che gave another order, and another round of focused shooting covered it.
The robbers had never seen the powerful lethality of muskets, and they didn't know what was going on when so many people died suddenly.
Panic, as well as death, slowed them down.
At this time, Grom and Xiao Yu had already used Heroic Leap to fly over and slashed.
Xiao Yu, Grom and these fighters exchanged hands, which immediately relieved the pressure on the recruits, while Qin Che commanded the musketeers to suppress the firepower, making that bridgehead temporarily unable to attack others, and the recruits slowly eased off. Come over, rush forward with all your strength, and several people surround a fighter.
At this time, Tyrande was also shooting arrows in the distance to help, and the dozen or so fighters were quickly suppressed.
Seeing that a bridgehead they had just occupied was gone, the bandits felt a pity for a while. As long as they stand firm on a bridgehead, the balance of victory in the war will be tilted towards them.
However, seeing this opportunity, they felt that there must be more opportunities, so they continued to attack desperately.
The bandits seized the bridgehead twice again, but were still beaten down. In the afternoon, Xie Sanlang ordered the troops to withdraw.
At this time, the soldiers are exhausted and unable to attack for a long time, their morale has dropped, and their attacks have not been as fierce as they started, so withdrawing troops is the best choice.
And through today's battle, more than 14,000 robbers died, and Xiao Yu's Lion King recruits also died more than 1,000 people.
The first battle showed the lack of combat effectiveness and experience of these recruits. Although they have good enough equipment, weapons, and the blessings of paladins, they are not invulnerable after all, and everything is completely covered. For experienced robbers, the dagger can easily find omissions that cannot be covered by armor, and stab them in.
However, what made Xiao Yu ecstatic was that through today's battle, his meritorious deeds had successfully allowed him to reach the rank of Master Chief.
That is to say, he can upgrade a main base to level two.
(end of this chapter)