Chapter 604: Retreat Tactics
The Lizardmen had already locked onto the location of the second underground lair of the ratmen when they had fought off the ratmen and successfully breached the ratmen border earlier, but they were unable to attack here at that time.
But this time it was different. Facing the large army of Lizardmen, the ratmen on the opposite side didn't even resist, and let them send out the Shield Ankylosaurs to flatten their nest.
Faced with this result, Li Ce had a clear idea in mind.
[It seems that this claw has some ideas in mind. He knows that the limited troops cannot resist the attack of our large army, so he simply gave up resistance and chose to preserve his troops and retreat. ]
From Li Ce's point of view, it would be best if the other party could resist with limited military force.
Because in this way, he can continuously reduce the opponent's military strength without much pressure.
The opponent's move made him feel a little bit troubled.
Of course, it's just a little bit.
After the ratmen's nest on the border fell, they didn't even bother to defend this second nest and simply gave up. This in itself was proof that the other side was severely damaged and unable to resist.
Although the opponent's choice of this response method can maximize the preservation of the troops on hand, conversely, the loss of each nest will constitute a blow to the ratmen's resource output and even troop production capacity.
In other words, unless the troops accumulated by Claw this time can help him reverse the situation under the attack of the large Lizardman army, he can counterattack in one go and regain the lost territory.
If not, the ratmen will have lost a large amount of territory and their resource output will be greatly reduced, and they will have no chance to fight in the end.
Thinking of this, Li Ce immediately continued to command the troops to advance without saying a word.
The large force had originally penetrated too deep into the enemy's territory. Considering the supply and rear safety issues, even if the large force was in perfect condition, at this point Li Ce would definitely have to slow down to avoid dragging out the battle line too long.
It would be best to wait until the front-line camp is built and the rear supply troops catch up and can provide them with clear rear-line support before taking action.
But things are different now.
The current battle with the ratmen depends on how we fight the last wave.
The faster he moved, the greater his chances of winning. This was just one fight. If he won, the ratmen would have no chance of turning around! It was worth taking the risk! However, after that, the biggest problem became how to find the location of the ratmen's lair.
The ratman's nest is hidden underground and is difficult to find.
The reason they were able to breach two nests so efficiently was due to the intelligence the Lizardmen already had.
However, later on, the Lizardmen had no more intelligence to use, so they could only rely on their own military strength to actively search.
In any case, Li Ce still wrote a report to their king, reporting the latest situation on the front line.
When Zhou Xu received this report, he was in the factory area outside the rainforest, which was where the brick factory was located.
In the past two years, as all the projects of the Construction Engineering Department were fully booked, Zhou Xu has not had the spare energy to carry out construction in this factory area. Until now, there is only a lonely brick-making factory busy here.
In fact, even now, the Construction Engineering Department's schedule is full.
Take the branch here for example, after repairing the post-war border fortress, they will have to prepare to build camps and even fortresses in the original ratman territory.
After all, they had conquered these territories and had no intention of returning them.
Under this premise, if you want to occupy the place for a long time, you must at least have a decent garrison camp.
However, the situation is uncertain now and the project is still in the preparation stage, so Zhou Xu plans to transfer a team of people from the branch here to help with the factory construction.
The factory he was going to build here was a forging factory! To put it more bluntly, it was the ordnance forging department!
As the Great Zhou Dynasty developed to this day, many departments had established branches in various places and expanded their staff, but the ordnance forging department was the only exception.
The reason had been stated long before when he was developing the mountainous areas. He was worried that his subordinates outside might have rebellious intentions.
But as long as they don't have the ability to forge and repair weapons, even if they betray him, he can still restrain them with weapons and supplies.
But it’s different with the Lizardmen.
In the past two years, Zhou Xu has deeply experienced how loyal the lizardmen are to him.
He even couldn't help but sigh that this belief was a truly terrifying thing.
If this kind of religious belief appeared in an ordinary country, it would inevitably endanger the monarchy. Examples like this are everywhere in the history of their original world.
But if the source of this religious belief is the monarch himself, then this problem does not exist at all.
This is basically the situation of Zhou Xu today.
So, even though the Lizardmen joined in later, since they were all his "die-hard fans", Zhou Xu really trusted them.
This was the core reason that made him determined to build the ordnance forging department here.
In addition, another equally important reason is that the territory here is larger.
Simply put, on the original Old World, excluding the mountainous areas, all other territories added together are probably only as big as the original territory of the Lizardmen. The area of this tropical rainforest is really quite exaggerated, otherwise the Lizardmen would not have needed to build so many camps to gather resources.
In fact, even after reducing the number of camps, Zhou Xu has built four villages in this tropical rainforest, including the lizardman’s tribe, to basically ensure his control over this territory.
This does not include the plains farms and the border fortresses in the south.
And now, Li Ce led a large army of Lizardmen to fight. According to the latest report, two ratmen nests have been destroyed.
As a force that has been entangled with the Lizardmen for so many years, the Ratmen’s territory must be quite large.
This can be seen from their size. If the territory is small, where can so many ratmen be packed in?
Now that they have occupied the rat people's territory, the territory of their Great Zhou here can be said to have expanded greatly at once, and at the same time their border line will be pushed further and further away.
Under this premise, if weapons supplies still need to be transported from Black Moon City, the efficiency would be too low.
In this case, it is necessary to build a forge here and set up a branch of the ordnance forging department.
The land planning for the factory area had already been completed. Once the land used to build the forging plant was marked out, he basically didn't have to worry about anything else afterwards.
However, after arranging things here, before he could return to the temple, news from Shi Lei came from the border of the mountains.
After reading the report, Zhou Xu's face darkened slightly.
Over the past two years, the frequency of energy channel generation on the mountain border has basically been reduced to eleven or twelve days.
As the frequency of generation increased, the guys in the other world seemed to be getting restless and took the initiative to send troops through the energy channel and invade their territory...
(End of this chapter)
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