Wizard Lords: Building an Empire starts from the panel

"How many dragonweeds were picked here?"

"Lord Baron, we have searched this river valley three times and only picked 17 Myrtle Grass plants."

Levi looked at the seventeen clay pots transplanted with dragon grass in front of him and couldn't help but frowned.

"Seventeen plants? Including the previous thirty-nine plants, it's still a lot short. Yaqis, it seems we have to go to Qihua Valley."

"Okay boss, I will arrange for manpower to go to the front station to check the situation."

At this time, Li Wei had been setting off with his men for more than three days. Under the leadership of Yaqis, their group visited three areas where the mythical dragon grass was densely distributed.

It's a pity that Levi's luck is really bad. A valley that has always been rich in mythical dragon grass was affected by the aftermath of a fight between several powerful magical beasts. The magical vegetation in that valley was completely destroyed, and Levi could barely find three remaining plants. of dragon grass.

For unknown reasons in the other two locations, the amount of Mysterious Dragon Grass collected by Li Wei was also very limited. As a last resort, Li Wei had to lead his troops to the deeper and more dangerous Qihua Valley in the Evernight Forest to seek enough Mysterious Dragon Grass. Dragon grass.

According to Levi's original idea, if he could pull out the three largest orc strongholds in this operation, he would have successfully achieved his strategic goal. If he wanted to trigger a large-scale beast tide, even if he used the black rose potion, at least Thirty or forty flowering myrtle plants are needed.

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Yorkshire, Snow Dragon Fortress, Military Command Hall.

At this time, it was another routine daily morning meeting, and the heads of each department reported yesterday's battle reports and various data in turn.

After a series of long and formulaic reports, there were even a few sporadic yawns in the command hall.

At the beginning, everyone was very interested in the reported data and conducted various research and analysis.

In particular, there are some parallel import officers who rely on connections to get in, always thinking that they can find something extraordinary from these complicated data, and use this to prove their abilities.

It's a pity that these parallel imports who make "astonishing remarks" often only receive ridicule from everyone, or everyone says "I can't comment".

Looking at the essence through the phenomenon, the current war situation between the Orc Empire and Fontaine Kingdom is very simple.

The old Beast King hopes that the orcs can crush the enemy from the front. After all, the Snow Dragon Fortress is a hurdle that the orcs cannot get around anyway. The orcs must win here before they can carry out the next battle plan.

The situation in the Fontaine Kingdom is similar. Marquis Ashan's strategic idea is to send highly mobile elite forces to harass the orcs' retreat and increase the logistical pressure on the orcs while ensuring that the Snow Dragon Fortress can continue to hold on.

Marquis Ashan tried every means to make the old Beast King "retreat". After all, in a war of this scale, no one could afford to lose. It was a very good choice to end the war with dignity.

Strategically, there is not much room for change on both sides.

Now the two sides are competing for patience to see whether the Fontaine Kingdom will bring down the Orc Empire first or the Orc Empire will be the first to penetrate the Snow Dragon Fortress.

"Master Marquis, I have a little doubt." As soon as the prince's brother, Grand Duke Soros, spoke, everyone present immediately became energetic. Everyone knew that this Grand Duke was a big shot promoted by the royal family and wanted to compete with the Marquis of Ashan for command.

If such a big shot suddenly spoke, it must not be aimless. He must have his own deep-seated purpose.

"Your Majesty, please speak."

“During this period, we were fighting head-on with the Orc Empire in the Snow Dragon Fortress, and at the same time we dispatched a large number of highly mobile elite troops to harass the enemy’s food routes.

Although the logistical pressure of the Orcs is several times that of ours, the Orc Empire is vast in area and has a large number of inhabitants. In such a confrontation, we may not necessarily be the opponent of the Orc Empire.

Moreover, the Orc Empire has gradually adapted to our style of disturbing food routes. At the beginning, we sent troops to attack the two grain roads outside the orcs from both wings, and the results were indeed gratifying.

But during this period, the losses of the highly mobile cavalry we dispatched were increasing day by day, but the results obtained were shrinking.

The cost of cavalry is relatively the highest among many arms. The selected knights not only need to be equipped with expensive horses, but also spend a lot of time, energy and financial resources on training.

It's not worth it for these expensive cavalry to die in the hands of the enemy's second-line garrison during the raid on the orcs' food routes. "

"Your Majesty the Duke, what you said is indeed true. The orcs are not fools. They will not simply be passively beaten. After so many actions by us, the orcs are indeed on guard. Our cavalry troops want to attack the orcs on the food road. The results are definitely not as easy as before.”

"Lord Marquis, in this case, how about we find a way to defeat the enemy on the frontal battlefield and achieve a quick victory?"

"My Lord Duke, I also want to win a quick victory, but the strength of the troops on Snow Dragon Fortress means that we can only be on the defensive."

"Lord Marquis, my brother told me that the royal family can send another elite legion, the hinterland county can also deploy ten more levy legions, and the kingdom can support two more powerful saints.

I think, with such a force, we should be able to defeat the orcs head-on. "

In the final analysis, the land and population controlled by the northern noble group made the royal family and the other three nobles uneasy, and they desperately wanted to add sand to the northern border.

As long as the royal family and the other three nobles invested enough capital in this war, the northern nobles would not be able to obtain full war dividends.

For example, in the current situation, once the Kingdom of Fontaine wins and the orcs return to their original borders, a large number of non-Northern nobles will emerge in the northern border, especially in the unowned fiefdoms of the newly expanded five counties.

It is reasonable and legal for these members of the royal family and other nobles of the three realms to gain military exploits in the northern border and obtain fiefdoms in the northern border. In this way, the purpose of the royal family and other nobles of the three realms to add sand to the northern border will be achieved.

Moreover, it is not impossible for the royal family to unite with other great nobles of the three realms to turn against the guest and take advantage of the Marquis of Ashan.

Therefore, the Marquis of Ashan hopes to get the support of the royal family and other nobles of the three realms, but this support should not be too strong, at least it cannot allow the reinforcements to divert the local army. .

"Haha, Your Majesty the Duke, I think Snow Dragon Fortress can no longer accommodate more soldiers from the kingdom. Every additional soldier we have here will be a terrible logistical pressure for the rear.

If we really came to support so many people, maybe our logistics system could not support it first and then collapsed.

And I don’t think there is much room for modification in my combat strategy. Our highly mobile cavalry units can greatly reduce the pressure on the front line while attacking the Orcs' logistics and food routes.

In order to protect his food routes, the old Beast King transferred many troops from the front to the rear to assist in defense. Doesn't this mean that our strategy is effective? "