"Haha, the Xiliang Iron Cavalry has indeed lived up to expectations and achieved its established goal. Next, let the Xiliang Iron Cavalry fight with 1 to 6. The 1-6 loss ratio is enough to eliminate the Green Skin Army that penetrates our hinterland one by one.

Tell the Fuxing Army to pay attention to clearing out the defeated small strands of green skin, and never let them enter our human villages and towns to cause damage!”

Richard, who had just received the report of the Western Liang Iron Cavalry, ordered with a relaxed order.

The 5,000 Xiliang Iron Cavalry faced the army with more than 10,000 green-skinned orcs in the wild. It was already a very good record to be able to score a 1-6 loss ratio.

Of course, the battle loss ratio here is only calculated by green-skinned orcs, and not by green-skinned goblins and fart spirits.

This battle loss ratio can only be achieved when the regular human army relies on the city defense system. The Xiliang Iron Cavalry can achieve this record in the wild, which naturally makes Richard satisfied!

However, this war loss ratio seems good, but after getting other human countries, it still dares not waste such a waste with the Green Skin Army!

There is no other reason, green skinned life is far less expensive than human soldiers’ lives!

The Xiliang Iron Cavalry is a real elite cavalry. One such elite cavalry can match 10 regular human infantry, and ordinary human militias are even more incomparable.

If you use such elite cavalry to play a war of attrition with the Greenskin Army, you will feel distressed even if you fight a 1-10 battle loss ratio than the ruler!

Generally speaking, normal rulers will use farmers who have been trained for several months to fight against Greenskin. The popularity of muskets has made this kind of fighting possible. The reason why the Southern Song Dynasty can block the trend of Greenskin is that they have installed muskets on a large scale. Any farmer can shoot and kill a strong greenskin orc, even powerful individuals such as the Greenskin orc, a crazy orc, and a powerful person!

There were not many elite veterans for the Southern Song Dynasty, but ordinary farmers and musketeers wanted as many as they wanted!

The population base of East Asia has always been very high. In the Western Regions, Richard would have encountered tens of thousands of encirclement and suppression troops in a county, not to mention the more abundant local area of ​​the East Asian continent?

What's more, the Southern Song Dynasty also accepted a large number of ordinary refugees from the Central Plains. In order to solve the survival problems of these refugees and eliminate the hidden dangers of refugee riots, Song Taizu simply and neatly organized all the refugees into the army and armed them with muskets.

The training requirements are not high. These armed refugees will use muskets to shoot, understand military orders, and conduct simple marches.

In the shortest three months, military instructors of the Southern Song Dynasty could make refugee armed forces understand these.

In this way, it not only solved the pressure on the Southern Song Dynasty to face the green-skinned soldiers, but also fundamentally eliminated the crisis of refugees rioting and robbing food.

These refugee armed forces are very easy to support. They are willing to work hard for the Southern Song court as long as they eat two meals a day.

Moreover, the refugees who fled to the Central Plains have more or less ties with Green Skin, and killing Green Skin is absolutely politically correct!

Even if you don’t want to kill Green Skin, it doesn’t matter. If you throw it to the front line of the battlefield, can you still surrender to Green Skin?

Even if you are a deserter, you must be able to escape the green-skinned orcs first!

Even young children know that humans cannot beat green-skinned orcs, whether it is short-distance sprinting or marathon-style long-distance running!

Green skin marches with two feet every day, but there is no sign of being dragged down!

Therefore, as long as you are pulled to the front line of confrontation with Green Skin, you will bite the bullet and fight against Green Skin if you want to, otherwise your body will turn into a piece of shit pulled out by Green Skin...

In this way, the morale problem of refugee armed forces has been solved.

He can use muskets, can obey orders, and has a certain morale to fight against Greenskin. In the eyes of Song Taizu, the team that meets these three qualities is enough to play a war of attrition with Greenskin Orcs.

As for the true elites of the Song army, they stayed in big cities and would never be pulled out and consumed by green skin.

As for ordinary farmers and refugee armed forces, they were equipped with muskets by the Song army, and then pulled them out to the wilderness and temporary fortress strongholds on site, connecting the wilderness between the two cities, and creating a line of defense against the influx of green-skinned orcs into the hinterland.

To put it bluntly, the Southern Song army's "infiltration combat" against the Green Skin Army was to fight a stupid battle and form a tough village.

A small fortress is set up every 5 miles, and a large fortress is set up every 20 miles, and mutual reinforcement and mutual assistance is provided. Relying on the defense system of the fortress, the Song militia with muskets can naturally cause huge damage to the green skin.

In addition, the Song State also developed a wide-mouth firearm similar to the tiger squat cannon, which fired shotguns such as gravel iron beads, based on the thunder cannon.

That is, the mortar!

This thing has a short shooting distance of the bowl size, and even the range of the mezzanine is not as good as that of the mezzanine, but it can be a big part of it when sprayed. Under the power provided by the violent combustion of black gunpowder, even the skin of the green-skinned orc could not withstand it!

This is the confidence of the Southern Song Dynasty court to establish a fortress defense line!

Even if the small fortresses were captured by the Greenskin army, the only ones were the refugee armed forces and peasant warriors stationed there. The elite of the Song army was unscathed. This would allow the Greenskin army to be gradually consumed during the advancement and effectively avoid field battles!

However, this approach has one flaw and is extremely expensive!

The labor force for building fortresses can requisition those refugee and farmers for free, but the construction materials must be costly, and the cost of the large mortar cannon arranged on it is much higher than that of the mezzanine gun. Each fortress has several or even dozens of doors, which is quite expensive!

Even though the Southern Song Dynasty could obtain a large amount of fiscal revenue by relying on coastal trade inherited from the Tang State, coupled with the population of the Song State and the influx of a large number of capital in the Central Plains, the consumption of this fortress war gradually made the Southern Song Dynasty feel difficult.

At this time, the military power balance between the Ming and Song dynasties seemed to be not much different from the outside world. The Ming Dynasty had Richard's Taoist soldiers with higher quality, but the Southern Song Dynasty had much more troops than the Ming Dynasty!

The Southern Song Dynasty had more troops than the Ming Dynasty because the Southern Song Dynasty was much richer than the Ming Dynasty!

The rise of the Southern Song Dynasty was not caused by military force. At the beginning, it was entirely a use of the southern governors to attack each other and then use firearms to create huge strategic advantages.

Then there was a devastating war, which quelled the entire southern and southeastern coastal areas without a few tough battles.

Later, the battle against the demise of the Tang Kingdom took advantage of the green skin. Without a single battle, the officials and troops of the Tang Kingdom who were surrendered were all set up...
Chapter completed!