Chapter 304 Response
In the Lizardmen camp, listening to his subordinates' reports, the Lizardmen leader was filled with rage and had nowhere to vent, so he kicked the kneeling subordinate to the ground.
"waste!!"
After briefly venting his anger, the Lizardman leader began to ponder countermeasures.
"Although we brought a lot of Baltu this time, we can't just let the other bastards kill us like this."
While muttering to himself, the experiences of the past few days came back to his mind, and the Lizardman Leader's expression suddenly became even uglier.
Li Ce's strike-and-run tactics seemed shameless to the Lizardman leader! At this moment, he was obviously at a loss as to what to do with the other party.
In the past few days, he had tried to lure the enemy deep into his territory, set up an ambush, and surround and kill them.
But I don't know if they saw through his intention. After the other party finished their attack, they immediately turned around and left without any hesitation, leaving them no chance to surround and kill them.
However, after a period of time, they did gain something. At least they figured out that there were three groups of people attacking them this time.
They are humans, centaurs, and elves! Let’s not talk about humans first. Centaurs and elves are undoubtedly difficult to deal with, but as brave warriors serving the ancient gods, they certainly can’t back down! The lizardman leader, who was sorting out his thoughts at the moment, slowly sorted out Li Ce and his team’s action plan, and then spoke...
"Pass on my order. From now on, all patrols will be composed of five dragoons and twenty 'Balt' infantrymen."
Hearing this, the 'Baltu' lizardman kneeling below was suddenly startled.
"Commander, if this is the arrangement, the number of patrols will have to be greatly reduced."
“Then cut back!”
The Lizardman Leader gave this answer without thinking.
Things have developed to this point, and if the number of patrol teams is simply too large, it will no longer be of any significance.
What he needs now is to increase the combat effectiveness of the patrol team.
According to the intelligence obtained in the past few days, the military strength of these three forces is not large.
He just estimated that the upgraded configuration would be enough to put pressure on the opponent.
If possible, he even wanted to increase the configuration of the dragoons to ten horses.
But this is obviously not realistic.
Considering the casualties suffered by the dragoons in recent days, the number of dragoons under his command is no longer sufficient.
Under this premise, the dragoons also shoulder the important task of obtaining food through hunting. There are not many that can be allocated to the patrol teams at the moment, and increasing each patrol team to five riders is basically the limit.
The order issued by the Lizardman leader was quickly implemented.
Facts have proved that the increase in military strength did bring pressure to Li Ce and his men in the simplest and crudest way.
The increase in risk has made their actions less reckless than before.
Li Ce was not panicked about this situation. As the person who developed this harassment tactic, he had certainly thought about how he would deal with this problem if he were the opponent.
He undoubtedly also thought of the simple and crude method of directly increasing the number of troops.
Therefore, after discovering that the strength of the opposing patrol team had increased significantly, Li Ce restrained his actions slightly, observed for a while, and then completely confirmed his guess and breathed a sigh of relief.
“It is indeed so!”
The reason why he adopted the strategy of 'strike and run, never fight to the end' was mainly because the distribution density and patrol frequency of the enemy patrol team were too high.
When the enemy is attacked, they will inevitably send out a distress signal and call for reinforcements. Once the battle is prolonged, there is a high probability that they will be besieged by the enemy's subsequent reinforcements.
But things are different now.
To give a simple example, in the same area, a patrol team passed through every ten minutes before, but now it is only once every fifteen or even twenty minutes.
The patrols have increased in strength, but decreased in number.
This directly led to a significant decrease in the distribution density and patrol frequency of patrol teams.
In this way, if they launched an attack, the time it would take for the other patrol teams to discover the situation here and rush over would be greatly extended.
As a result, they naturally had more time to fight, and they no longer had to fight and then run away as before.
This shortcoming can actually be compensated.
That is to increase the patrol team's strength while maintaining the original number of patrol teams.
This requires sufficient military support.
The lizardman on the opposite side obviously couldn't do this, which made Li Ce greatly relieved.
Li Ce, whose guess was confirmed, did not rush into action.
Having more time to fight does not mean that the battle will be easier. The risks and threats they need to bear have increased, and this cannot be changed.
Without taking any action for the time being, Li Ce went to find Drogo and his men after dark.
Compared to the elves, who have basically no news since the operation began, their exchanges with the Centaurs are still very close.
They often get together to exchange information, and occasionally when they run into each other in battle, they will cover and support each other. It is through this way that they build up a greater understanding of each other.
"The patrols and hunting teams over there have grown in size. I think it would be safer for us to attack together next time."
"I agree."
Drogo directly agreed to Li Ce's proposal.
Drogo's straightforwardness was within Li Ce's expectations. What he wanted to know more about now was the situation of the elves.
"Captain Drogo, do you know what the situation is like among the elves?"
If possible, Li Ce thought it would be better to bring the elven troops along as well.
Judging from the current situation, they will inevitably engage in a large-scale war with the Lizardmen in the future, and by then the elves will also be an important fighting force on their grassland.
While he can still protect it now, Li Ce still hopes that the other side can preserve its troops and make more efforts when a large-scale war breaks out.
However, faced with Li Ce's question at this time, Zhuo Ge shook his head.
"We had seen each other from a distance before, but they had no intention of interacting with us and left very quickly. We haven't seen each other since then."
Zhuo Ge's words made Li Ce frown slightly.
In fact, as early as when he was discussing tactics, he had vaguely realized that the group of grassland elves seemed to be not very sociable.
Of course, this is not quite true.
A more accurate statement would be that the grassland elves had a high opinion of themselves and looked down on them in their hearts, thinking that if they acted together, they would be a drag on them.
So even though they are now under the name of cooperation, the grassland elves are completely solitary and basically have no interaction with them.
(End of this chapter)
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