Chapter 353
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Chapter 353: Troop Deployment and Analysis
A battle analysis meeting concluded, and the existence of those beastman troop types undoubtedly, to a certain extent, overturned the conventional wisdom of the generals present.
However, thanks to Luo Ji’s earlier precautionary measure, everyone, though shocked, was somewhat mentally prepared, simply considering those beastmen to be creatures slightly smarter and stronger than wild beasts.
Moreover, in this meeting, the person who gained the most information was definitely Luo Ji.
After all, he already had the basic concept of ‘Orcs’ in his mind.
Now, after receiving various relatively specific intelligence from Zhao Pan, his understanding and analysis speed far exceeded that of others.
For instance, while individual beastman strength was clearly superior to ordinary human soldiers, their total troop count was inferior, indicating that the fertility of many beastman races was probably relatively low.
Furthermore, in several charges, the beastman army apparently hadn’t used any proper formations, suggesting that the order and discipline within the beastman civilization might also be an issue, which prevented many formations from being executed within the beastmen army.
As for their equipment, according to Zhao Pan and the others, the only well-equipped unit was the wolfman unit that had appeared outside the city.
Even so, their equipment level was only equivalent to that of a regular shield-and-sword soldier in their Myriad Worlds Civilization.
As for other beastman troop types, while the Minotaur infantry’s equipment was crude, at least their vital areas like the heart and back were protected by two pieces of leather armor.
However, the Kobolds had no equipment at all besides their ragged, worn-out spears, and some even carried bronze halberds, unable to even achieve equipment uniformity.
This unequivocally indicated that the beastman civilization had low productivity, or perhaps they couldn’t even produce equipment themselves, and all those mismatched armaments were plundered.
From Luo Ji’s perspective as a player, this undoubtedly meant the system was balancing the beastman civilization’s strength.
At this moment, he had already envisioned a beastman civilization that was technologically backward, had a movingly slow development speed, and whose resources were primarily obtained through plunder.
Of course, they couldn’t be underestimated just because their civilization was backward and their development speed was slow, because this civilization’s advantage was equally obvious and crude, they were incredibly good at fighting.
In any case, to prevent another night raid, the defending troops on the city wall were doubled after nightfall.
Simultaneously, torches or braziers were placed every 5 steps, illuminating the entire area.
Additionally, a few extra night watch squads were added below the city wall as a precaution.
That way, if the beastman night raid unit attacked, even if the soldiers on the city wall couldn’t react in time, the soldiers below the city wall could sound the alarm promptly, alerting everyone.
After assigning the night guard duty on the city wall, Luo Ji issued another major order, to conduct a secondary transfer of the people within Shangyuan City and those evacuated from Iron Wall City, moving them extensively to Great Zhou City further in the rear.
Undoubtedly, after the lesson of Iron Wall City’s fall, Shangyuan City, which was about to become a battlefield, was clearly no longer entirely safe.
Even Luo Ji couldn’t claim to be 100% capable of defending Shangyuan City.
For safety’s sake, it was better to transfer them early.
And Great Zhou City, being the former capital of the Great Zhou Kingdom, was large enough that, with some squeezing, it could accommodate this transferred population.
Luo Ji’s action undoubtedly received the understanding of the people, and the transfer work proceeded relatively smoothly.
The most crucial aspect now was troop deployment.
It was no exaggeration to say that, at this moment, excluding the forces on the grasslands, almost 80% of Luo Ji’s Myriad World Civilization’s military strength had gathered in Shangyuan City.
However, a defensive battle actually didn’t require so many troops.
If you didn’t actively sally forth, there were only two places within the city where troops could be deployed, on the city wall and behind the city gate.
But these two areas had limited space.
Even if you had 100,000 troops, if these two deployment areas could only hold 10,000 soldiers, what good would having 100,000 troops in the city do?
The remaining 90,000 soldiers would have nowhere to exert their strength.
Were they supposed to drink tea, chat, or play cards in the back?
This would undoubtedly be a waste of military resources.
Therefore, Luo Ji needed to deploy all those troops outside.
Their familiarity with the nearby terrain was a major advantage, and there was no reason not to make good use of it.
Thus, a day passed quietly.
Luo Ji, busy with troop deployment, clearly had no time to launch an offensive, nor did he intend to.
He wanted to test the depth of the beastman civilization’s strength with his most familiar defensive fighting style.
However, perhaps after capturing Iron Wall City, the enemy also needed some time to adjust, so after a day, Li Yuanjie made virtually no moves.
For Luo Ji, this was perfect, because his troops had also just undergone high-intensity forced marches, and the soldiers needed time to rest well to alleviate the physical fatigue accumulated from days of forced marching.
Moreover, this was his home ground. While the front-line battle was in a stalemate, his various cities in the rear continued to develop as usual.
Carts of military equipment were being sent over.
The slower the enemy arrived, the more prepared he would be.
It was a win-win situation.
And so, on the evening of the sixth day of the invasion war, in the dark of night, pairs of glowing eyes indicated that a certain wolfman, who had been quiet for a few days, was once again contemplating a night raid.
However, how could Zhao Pan, who had already suffered a heavy loss once before, paying the price of Iron Wall City, repeat the same mistake?
Inside Shangyuan City, the rapidly ringing alarm bells proved that his night raid had been foiled before it even officially began.
Li Yuanjie, still hidden in the darkness, couldn’t help but feel depressed.
As expected, with the same tactic, the enemy would definitely be prepared, and it would be difficult to succeed a second time.
The brightly lit city wall was almost blinding him.
At the same time, the number of soldiers on the wall had clearly more than doubled.
Li Yuanjie, whose Red Fox archers had been completely wiped out by the previous chain explosion, suddenly found himself completely without long-range attack capabilities.
The difficulty of recapturing the city wall in a night raid had probably increased by more than one level.
Just as he was contemplating whether to try a strong assault, leveraging their night vision advantage.
On the city wall of Shangyuan City, dozens of rapidly thrown torches instantly illuminated their current position.
Two rounds of stone projectiles mixed with an arrow barrage directly rained down on them.
A few waves of strong ranged suppression made him decisively abandon the idea of launching a strong assault on Shangyuan City under the cover of night.
When the Red Fox archers were still around, Li Yuanjie disliked them for their short range and poor accuracy, never taking them seriously.
Now that they were all dead, he truly felt a bit unaccustomed.
“Damn it! Retreat!”
