Chapter 339: Switching Tactics
The old commander is an old commander after all, and he has rich combat experience.
He was a ratman who survived the war years and had experienced far more battles than the young ratmen of today.
For the younger generation of ratmen who like to fight solely by relying on technological superiority, the ratman commander prefers to use various strategic tactics.
Guerrilla warfare and ambush, combined with the advanced weapons of the ratmen, really caused Li Ziyu a lot of trouble.
The old commander was very familiar with the territory of the ratmen. Before launching an attack, he would send people to monitor the movements of the undead, then hold a combat meeting, deduce and predict, make plans, and then send out various types of ratmen troops to make advance arrangements and ambush and raid the undead army.
That is to say, there are too many undead, otherwise it would be easy for the old commander to defeat them using guerrilla tactics.
The main feature is to appear and disappear mysteriously, then run away after hitting.
There are not many places to hide in the wilderness, unlike jungles, mountains and other environments. In many places, there are only some low dead grass and scattered stones. But even in such an environment, the ratmen can still play guerrilla warfare very well, thanks entirely to their innate skill of ambush.
Even though there seems to be nothing there, as soon as the undead pass by, a group of ratmen will suddenly appear and attack while screaming.
By the time the undead recovered, the rats had already escaped and were impossible to catch up with.
The ratmen achieved very good results. They killed many undead without any injuries, which was much more comfortable than fighting the undead head-on on the battlefield.
Such results surprised and anxious the younger generation of ratmen. They had never thought that a battle could be fought like this.
After the ratmen gained a foothold in the central region and entered an era of great technological development, they abandoned their previous fighting methods, believing that the previous methods were outdated and worthless. The ratmen's technological strength was enough to support them in a head-on war with other races.
The small-scale battles that occurred from time to time did confirm this.
With the support of powerful weapons, they can always gain the upper hand in small-scale battles, and continue to deepen the idea that "a head-on fight will definitely win."
The idea that "we will definitely win if we fight head-on" is boosting the ratmen's racial confidence.
This is also the reason why the ratmen did not fear at all when facing the undead in the early stage, and just fought hard.
The younger generation of ratmen think so, but the old commander doesn't think so.
During the time when he was active, the ratmen were far from strong enough. In terms of physical fitness, they had no advantage at all and needed to build walls to resist attacks from other enemies.
But the city wall cannot be built overnight. A city-state is not that easy to build, and people will not watch you build a city-state.
The rat people were faced with the dilemma of having to build a city on the one hand and defend against the outside world on the other.
The battle on the front line was a complete mess.
In almost every head-on battle, the ratmen would suffer a loss of 800 to our own, while the enemy suffered a loss of 1,200.
If the ratmen didn’t have such a large population, they would have been wiped out long ago.
Unable to gain an advantage on the front battlefield, the ratmen learned from their mistakes and changed their tactics.
It can be said that the fighting methods of the ratmen were all developed through experiments on the lives of their ancestors.
Every fighting method passed down, no matter how simple, means the death of countless ratmen.
This is how the old commander came to power step by step. He was also a man who had walked on the edge of a knife and rolled among the dead. He had seen too many deaths and injuries.
As the ratmen developed, they forgot the fighting methods of their ancestors, which was considered extremely stupid by the old commander.
The ratmen's guerrilla tactics are a very classic and were once one of the ratmen's fundamental tactics.
Unfortunately, the current ratmen have abandoned such tactics and only prefer to fight head-on.
An army of 600,000 going to war against tens of millions of undead is unlikely to win no matter how you look at it.
In order to make his troops more obedient, the old commander took them to Takl, where he made them suffer a defeat and face reality.
If you fight hard, you will die.
The effect is outstanding.
Now the nobles' private soldiers are very obedient.
We just follow the old commander's orders, fight wherever he says and fight however he says.
This made the old commander very pleased.
The purpose of his holding combat meetings was not to listen to the opinions of other young officers, but to tell them the combat methods he knew so that they would not forget the classic tactics of the ratmen.
Under the old commander's plan, a lot of undead were indeed killed. This is a fact, an indelible fact, which proves that the previous tactics are still effective.
After winning victory after victory under the command of the old commander, the young officer regained his confidence.
Compared with the young officers, the old commander was not so optimistic. As the person standing highest, he saw clearly that this was a battle that could not be won. All they could do was try to slow down the undead.
The difference is too great.
Even if the ratmen's equipment is more advanced, it cannot make up for this numerical difference.
In particular, the undead have many characteristics that make him feel scared. For example, the undead can move continuously without feeling tired. They do not need to rest or eat. They become stronger at night. They can easily find hiding creatures. They do not have many weaknesses of their own. Unless their heads are smashed, they will not be greatly affected, etc.
After all the comparisons, the only conclusion the old commander could draw was that they would lose.
Guerrilla and ambush tactics can only bring trouble to the undead, but cannot truly resolve the crisis.
The old commander was thinking about creating trouble for the undead army, and Li Ziyu was also having a headache.
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