Chapter 308
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Chapter 308: A Good Strategy
Meanwhile, after the invasion battle ended, Luo Ji, who had put up his Truce Token and discerned the opponent’s identity and purpose, felt a bit troubled.
The Bronze tier was the home ground of the Zongheng Tianxia Alliance players.
In other words, they had superior numbers, while he was outnumbered.
Rashly attacking would be too irrational.
“When soldiers come, use generals to block, and when water comes, use earth to cover.”
“First, fight a few rounds of defensive battles and focus on development for a while.”
After a period of contemplation, Luo Ji made this decision.
Given his defensive development strategy, he wasn’t particularly afraid of enemy invasions.
“Your Majesty, if the enemy probes again later, should we hold something back?”
Following behind Luo Ji, Zhao Pan quietly asked while inspecting the development of Iron Wall City.
“No need.”
Luo Ji waved his hand.
He knew Zhao Pan was referring to the Triple-Bow Bed Crossbow, but such things couldn’t be hidden forever.
After he successively defeated Wang Luchong and Zhou Dongnan, the Zongheng Tianxia players were undoubtedly alerted.
Therefore, in the upcoming reconnaissance battles, the opponent would inevitably spare no effort to probe his true strength.
However, if they found nothing in the end, it would only make them more vigilant.
An extremely vigilant opponent was the most troublesome.
At this time, it was a good strategy to appropriately expose some information to the opponent, allowing them to make targeted arrangements, while he, in turn, made further counter-arrangements.
“By the way, Zhao Pan, after this battle, the slinger’s tactics will likely be targeted by the enemy. Do you understand what I mean?”
Luo Ji said as he walked, speaking to Zhao Pan, who was beside him.
Zhao Pan, hearing this, remained calm.
As the general most familiar with slingers among all of Luo Ji’s subordinates, he naturally knew what the enemy would do to give him a headache.
“The slinger unit’s advantage lies in the powerful suppression formed by sheer numbers. If the opponent spreads out their formation and chooses a slow-push approach, it will be very difficult for the slinger unit to achieve comprehensive suppression.”
“Yes.”
Luo Ji nodded.
“Since you’ve already considered this, I’m relieved.”
Luo Ji didn’t stay long in Iron Wall City.
After inspecting the development there, he led his people back to Mirror City.
There were still many tasks to attend to.
Take conscription, for example, after the previous war, so many soldiers had died or retired.
These forces certainly needed to be replenished, and Luo Ji even needed to expand his military, given that his number of cities had increased.
But here came the problem, when he issued the conscription order, the effect was not particularly ideal.
Luo Ji’s initial expectation was to conscript 3,000 soldiers.
However, he had issued the conscription order right after the major war, but even now, only half of the 3,000 soldiers had been recruited.
Undoubtedly, this was a troubling situation.
The reason was that within his civilization, those willing to serve in the military had already enlisted when the previous conscription orders were issued.
The majority of the remaining population had little to no desire to join the military.
The total population was fixed, and he couldn’t expect people to volunteer indefinitely.
As for the former citizens of Great Zhou, having just experienced the baptism of war, many of them were even more resistant to military service.
These two reasons had led him to his current predicament of being unable to conscript enough soldiers.
But Luo Ji did not intend to force them, because those Great Zhou citizens had just recently surrendered, and the loyalty of most of them fluctuated between 60 and 70 points.
If he were to impose forced conscription at this time, the loyalty of those citizens would drop rapidly.
If someone then caused trouble, shouting something like, “The Heavens are dead, the Yellow Heavens will rise,” the situation would become much more problematic.
However, the conscription issue had to be resolved sooner or later.
The first thing Luo Ji thought of was ‘military service.’
After implementing a military service system and developing for a few more years, with his current civilization’s population, he should be able to achieve a certain degree of universal conscription.
But to formally implement this system, it would definitely be best to wait another 3 or 4 months, or even, for the sake of stability, preferably half a year or even a year later.
Otherwise, introducing this system at this critical juncture would likely have the same effect as forced conscription.
Being an emperor was truly not easy.
Flipping through the military strength report in front of him, Luo Ji also had a headache.
In his civilization, the treatment of enlisted soldiers was quite good, and it was basically impossible to raise it further in the short term.
Out of helplessness, he could only choose to temporarily relocate troops for now.
For the time being, they could manage the defense.
“Sigh, now I actually hope that the people from Zongheng Tianxia will fight a few more reconnaissance battles, so I can have a few more months to develop…”
Just as he was pondering this, a few chirps suddenly interrupted Luo Ji’s thoughts.
“Your Majesty, it’s time for lunch.”
At the same time, seeing Liu Ye walk in from outside, Luo Ji smiled.
“Little Ye, this little fellow is more punctual than you are now.”
As he spoke, Luo Ji gestured with his chin towards the small eagle with black, shiny feathers perched on a hawk stand nearby.
The chirping sound had come from this little fellow.
Earlier, Bai Ze and Burigude had presented him with a nest of three young eagles, claiming they were descendants of a divine eagle from the plains.
Luo Ji naturally couldn’t disregard gifts specifically presented by two of his generals.
However, he alone couldn’t raise three young eagles.
Thus, he simply awarded the pure white one to Bai Ze, the golden one to Burigud, and kept the last black one for himself.
Luo Ji, who had no knowledge of eagle breeds, had simply distributed them at random, and he didn’t really care about such things.
However, after raising it for some time, he grew to like this little eagle more and more, or rather, developed an affection for it.
He also gradually became aware of this little eagle’s extraordinary qualities.
Picking up the small pottery jar on the tray, it contained small, chopped pieces of meat.
Undoubtedly, this was food for his little eagle.
He picked up a piece of raw meat with his chopsticks, and without caring what his little eagle was doing, he flung the piece of raw meat into the air.
At that moment, Luo Ji only heard a flap of wings, a black shadow rapidly passed before his eyes, and by the time he regained his senses, his little eagle was already back on the perch, its small head tilted back, happily eating the raw meat it held in its beak.
The young eagle, which had struggled even to flap its wings a while ago, had now grown to this extent.
No matter how many times they saw it, this scene always left Luo Ji’s guards and Liu Ye, who brought his meals, dumbfounded.
It was precisely for this reason that Luo Ji named his pure black little eagle Shadow.
