Chapter 609: After the victory (Happy Chinese New Year!)
There is a saying that when the battle is won, the real trouble begins.
This is a bit pretentious, but now the traversers agree with it.
Because, they feel very troublesome now, and the trouble is big in the end.
The Thracian Expeditionary Force, which attempted to invade Tara Khan, was defeated, the cavalry troops fled in embarrassment, and the undead masters fled in embarrassment.
So the question arises, what should we do with these thousands of people?
"What should I do? Take it back." Locke said, "Although these are not necessarily young, they are still strong, and they are all labor! Although some have been lost before, it is estimated that there are still at least 7,000 people. 7,000 When the labor force is sent to the door, do you still have to refuse?"
Sanyu nodded: "I will definitely accept it, but the question is...how to bring it back?"
"Open the map and you'll know. From here to the nearest village, it's about 300 kilometers away. It's not a long road. We'll run as fast as we can, and most people can get there before dinner. .But they can't, at their speed, at least fifteen to twenty days!"
"Fifteen to twenty days is not a long time." Locke said, "If you are worried about rations, then you don't have to. I have seen it just now, they still have a lot of rations left, even if the rations are insufficient, we The northern region has a bumper harvest of cassava this year, and a large amount of dried cassava is stored, which is enough for them to eat."
Panda couldn't help rolling his eyes when he heard it - this guy, Locke, had clearly dragged these 7,000 people to the north.
(Brother, it's not you who divide up the spoils, you are too greedy!)
"The problem is not here, but... Now that they are like this, if no one is in charge of ordering, they may not even be able to eat." Sanyu sighed, "We need to crack the method of commanding them, and then we must have enough People stay in command - the latter is the key."
Locke was stunned for a moment, and finally understood the reason for his frown.
Due to the influence of magic and secret medicine, this group of Thracian infantry had basically lost the ability to think independently, and turned into walking dead who could only execute orders. If you want to control their actions, someone must be constantly directing. That means... even if the traversers work together, on average, each person will have to command thirty or forty people.
Moreover, it is absolutely impossible for the traversers to do this together. The battle is over, and many of the homecoming factions have left in a hurry. There are only fifty or sixty people left on the battlefield. On average, each person has to command more than 100 talents. Row.
One person commanded more than 100 people, and took them on a long journey across all kinds of bumps along the way to the hinterland of Tara Khan... Just thinking about it made Locke feel a bit of a headache.
"I knew it earlier... We should wait for them to rush near the village before we start." A traveler sighed, "Now that you are like this, you have put the trouble on yourself for nothing!"
"Yes! Seven thousand people!"
"The key is not that there are too many people, but that they are completely fools... I have to travel thousands of miles with so many fools and walk back... God! A thunderbolt kills me!"
"President, my stomach hurts, can I take a sick leave?"
In the chaos, several more people ran away.
Sanyu's face was ashen, but there was nothing he could do—this kind of thing, no one would want to do. Even if it is himself, he is actually a little reluctant in his heart. It is really not good-looking in face, so he has to fight to the end.
Fortunately, there are only a small number of people who are not loyal. At the end of the count, there are 29 people who stay - in fact, 30, but Yuneruo said that he can only stay here for a short time, and the lizards over the South China Sea. Human forces want him to be at the helm.
Speaking of which, he was also very unhappy. He originally wanted to fight a battle, but it turned out that there was a big battle. However, the one who was in charge of the battle was the huge earth-walking dragon. Except for a few long-range ones, almost all of the melee-fighters were in charge of the battle. I didn't get a decent chance to get out, and it was really boring.
But there is no way to be suffocated, the battle is over.
It didn't take long for the battlefield to be cleared. During this battle, the Transmigrators (and their animal companions) killed more than seven hundred Thracian soldiers—all infantry, not a single cavalry. Nearly 100 people were severely injured, just 200 were slightly injured but in need of urgent treatment, and the remaining uninjured people were slightly injured but did not affect their movements. There were a total of 6,509 people.
In addition, they also captured twenty-three prisoners of the Necromancer, all of them Necromancers, all of them specializing in control and wind spells. These guys were in the front position and had no time to escape, so they had to hide on the ground and pretend to be dead. Their technique of pretending to be dead is actually really good, but there are "judges" in the traversers who are as fiery as the monkey brother in the face of demons. recognize it.
So none of them escaped, they all became prisoners. The ropes that have been baptized with divine power are tied into a string, and each one is dejected, waiting for the hair to fall.
Sanyu chose to interrogate them immediately, asking how to control this group of Thracian infantry. The necromancers have no backbone at all, and they don't need to be served with severe punishment at all. They are just like pouring beans in a bamboo tube, and they tell all the information they know.
It turned out that they were subordinates of a force called the "Walking Dead Wasteland" in the Necronomicon. What this force is best at is mass-producing walking dead that have no intelligence and only know how to execute orders. They have been specially trained since their apprenticeships, except for A professional "Walking Dead Commander" with no expertise in anything other than controlling the walking dead and escaping.
Hearing what they said, the traversers immediately reacted - so this is the "Necromancer" in the Necromancer profession!
This profession is not very good on offense or defense, and its auxiliary abilities are also very general. The advantage is that it can control a large number of undead, and it belongs to an alternative summoner. However, the "Reckless Crossing the Earth" guild does not have players of this profession, because this profession is a famous single-player profession of wretchedness, which is completely contrary to keywords such as reckless, bloody, and confrontational, and does not conform to their aesthetics.
I don't like it, I don't like it, they are still very familiar with this profession - in the regular competition of the game, there are always a few such wretched experts among the top 100 masters each time, such as Yuneruo, Panda, etc. People who won't miss out on competitions, I don't know how many times I've played against them.
"What's the use of them?" asked Anka, who usually finds someone to lead the training and follow the dungeon. He knows almost nothing about various professions, especially those that are not in the guild.
Panda didn't even think about it, and immediately replied: "They are all a bunch of shameless gangsters. One counts as one, and they are all dragged out and killed. Not a single one is unjustly, falsely, or wrongly convicted!"
Hearing this, the originally pale faces of the captured necromancers suddenly turned paler...