total war rise of empire

Chapter 112 The Use of Prisoners of War

Under systematic evaluation, the upgraded Spartan Janissary has nearly twice as much combat power as the elite Wei soldiers. Obviously, the Spartan Janissary is not as good as the original Spartan trousers. It's as simple as adding a set of heavy armor!
This is the dominance of the total war system. Basically, as long as the "resources" are sufficient and do not exceed a certain limit that Lei Zihao cannot understand, this total war system can continuously improve the physical fitness of the soldiers produced, or in batches. That kind!
Since coming to this world through time travel, Lei Zihao has roughly figured out what the "resources" needed by the Total War system are!

Whether it is the power of war belief or the currency attached to the equivalent spiritual power of the world's natives, it is all related to the mysterious and mysterious soul power of intelligent creatures. The spiritual power derivatives of intelligent creatures are inseparable!
Perhaps in the dark, the total war system also obeys some incomprehensible law of conservation of matter.

In addition to the intangible soul power, it seems that the physical power of the dead creatures in this world can also be captured by the total war system, which is the so-called killing experience extracted from the essence of life!
However, in Lei Zihao's eyes, the purification rate of this kind of 'resource' seems to be too high. To extract a single drop of energy and blood essence that can promote ordinary people to apprentice knights, at least one has to kill hundreds or even thousands of times. Only trainee knights can do it, and there is absolutely no condition for producing masters in batches. At most, it will benefit Lei Zihao himself, enhance his physical fitness, and prolong his lifespan.

And there is also an unsolvable sequelae of being unable to have offspring!
However, that arena seems to be able to more efficiently utilize the life essence collected from dead creatures. The Total War system says that the arena cultivates warriors by consuming the lives of slaves. In fact, it is a disguised form of combining the life essence of a large number of ordinary creatures. It’s just the process of gathering killing experience into a creature!

It was a very cruel act, but to Lei Zihao, it was beneficial and harmless!
The current number of slaves in Longhan City is close to 10, and the labor shortage has already been overflowing. Lei Zihao feels that the efficiency is too low if they are all used for massacres in exchange for killing experience. What's more, the current Longhan City is extremely short of Funds, even conventional arms can't afford it!
Looking at it this way, it seems that there is no need to spend gold coins in the arena, and the way to cultivate slave warriors is also very good!

After experiencing the defensive battle of Megara, Lei Zihao naturally started the rapid construction mode of the small arena. After the war, Lei Zihao's military strength was greatly damaged. If it were not for the prestige of defeating the Crusaders and refilling the upgraded blood Due to the intimidating power of the Crusaders and Spartan Guards, the large number of slaves may have already rioted!

Lei Zihao urgently needs a small gladiatorial arena that can transform slaves into usable soldiers. Even if it only produces slave gladiators with the combat power of trainee knights and champion gladiators with the combat power of formal knights, that would be good!

As for the high slave cost, it was ignored by Lei Zihao. Even if a hundred slaves were exchanged for one slave gladiator, Lei Zihao would accept it!
There are a hundred slave units here, not all slaves meet the requirements, they must be physically strong soldiers with military experience, preferably veteran-level slaves!
Otherwise, we can only rely on quantity to make up for the gap in quality...

In this way, in fact, this exchange ratio is very deceitful. In the human world, the role of an apprentice knight on the battlefield is at most equivalent to 10 ordinary soldiers, and sometimes it is not as good as a group of soldiers in formation. use!
But here, it takes a full hundred slaves who have undergone rigorous training and can serve as soldiers of the noble standing army, so that it is possible to train a slave gladiator who is only equivalent to the combat power of an apprentice knight!
This has at least 10 times the additional loss!

In Lei Zihao's eyes, this is completely inconsistent with the law of conservation of 'combat power'...

However, there is no way to do this. It is already the limit of the total war system to be able to achieve this kind of slave conversion that consumes a lot of money. If the nobles and lords know that Lei Zihao has such a bug-like building, they don’t know what to do. Jealousy too!

After all, no matter how many enemy soldiers and prisoners of war are, they are not as useful as one soldier who is loyal to him, right? !
Loyalty is often more important than combat power to a ruler!

However, with so many slaves who had participated in the battle, Lei Zihao felt that it would not be worth it if they all threw themselves into the gladiatorial arena and consumed a lot of money at a loss. Therefore, he asked his "professional counterpart" Li Si to select from the Crusade prisoners of war. Select prisoners who are willing to be loyal to you and reorganize cheap and useful cannon fodder soldiers!

The young and strong males of the Siris were too severely damaged in this battle of attrition in the city of Megara, and they could no longer pull out a revival army of Siris. The situation where there were more males than females in Lisbon has become a situation where the ratio of males and females is balanced...

According to incomplete statistics after the war, from the beginning of the defensive battle of Megara City, more than 1 people died in Seris, including soldiers!

Among them, many Seris civilians were residents of Megara City, who were smashed into meat paste with their people and houses by the huge boulders that fell from the sky...

The Seris nation now regards Lei Zihao as their king. Naturally, Lei Zihao can no longer recruit the small young population of the Seris nation. If all the Seris men are dead, will he still give a group of Seris men? Is the widow having trouble finding a partner?
Therefore, selecting cannon fodder soldiers who are willing to serve from the prisoners of war is a must!

There is no patriotism and nationalism in this era. The soldiers at the bottom have little loyalty to the aristocratic lords. Common interests, a knight class that values ​​its own honor and status!
It is a real knight with explosive combat power, not a noble knight in the history of the earth!
Therefore, it is very common to recruit those who know the current affairs among the prisoners of war, even in the noble civil war in the human world. They must not be allowed to serve as the main force in combat!
Li Si is a general with mediocre attributes in other aspects, but his eyesight is comparable to others. As long as the prisoners he selected are trained, their combat effectiveness may not be improved too much, but the chance of defection can basically be eliminated!

(End of this chapter)