Chapter 294: The defeated general (part 2)

Chapter 294 The Defeated General (Part 2)
Tiger said sternly: "Yes, your words are very reasonable! I foresee that there will be major changes in the Roland continent, otherwise your majesty will not be so anxious to replace us back-and it will cost 800 warships. !"
Roddy nodded: "After you return home this time, I guess His Majesty the King will reuse you, and there must be room for your ability to be used."
Tiger shook his head and said, "Although I am a soldier, I am not a war mad. Fighting this kind of thing can still be avoided or avoided. Once a war occurs, there will be countless money, food and human lives."
Roddy was in awe, and said seriously: "Unexpectedly, you still have such a noble idea."
Tiger smiled bitterly and seemed to look left and right, with a somewhat hesitant expression on his face, and whispered: "Your Excellency Earl, if I didn't guess wrong, then your Majesty is so anxious to change us back this time. It is ready to start with the temple! You must also know this... just from your point of view, can we win the fight?"
Roddy couldn't help but smile, and said: "General Tiger, you don't seem to be suitable for asking me this question, right?"
Tiger smiled faintly: "There is nothing inappropriate. Anyway, everyone knows this matter, and I also have some ideas in my heart, but our Sauron Kingdom currently lacks talents, and it is rare to meet you who are familiar with the military. I can't help but ask you for some advice."
Roddy moved in his heart and couldn't help but smile: "General Tiger, these words of yours must have been asked by His Majesty the King to ask me, right?"
"Yes!" Tiger didn't even mean to veto: "Although I don't understand what your Majesty meant, he actually asked me to come to you to talk about these things, and he values ​​you very much in his words. I was a little puzzled at first, but I just talked to you and found out that you really have extraordinary opinions on these things. If I said that I came to you just now on the orders of your majesty, then I am asking these questions out of my personal respect for you. !"
Roddy squinted at Tiger for a moment.
Although he didn't have a good impression of the king, it was obvious that the king was going to use himself for the last time, and dig out the last point of use value from himself before leaving. But the General Tiger in front of him really made Roddy feel a bit good. This guy dared to speak and dare to do, without pretending at all, he was the kind of person Roddy admired.
After thinking for a while, Roddy sighed, forget it, looking at Tiger's face, it wouldn't be troublesome for him.
"General Tiger, if you must listen to my opinion..." Roddy said sternly: "To be honest, I think that even if Roland's more than a dozen countries unite against the temple this time, it may not be able to win the battle. !"
"Oh?" Tiger raised his eyebrows, but didn't show any expression of surprise.
Roddy nodded and said, "I'm being clear about the quality of the army! I admit that if Roland's more than a dozen countries unite, you will naturally have an absolute advantage in the number of troops! The sacred temple The Knight Order, no matter how it expands, it is only 200,000 people. And if the dozens of countries in the Roland Continent really work hard, even if they piece together more than one million troops, it will not be a difficult task... But , The combat effectiveness of the army does not lie in the huge number, but in the elite!"
"Not bad!" Tiger sighed: "If we compare only by quantity, then we won't lose to you. I learned later that your Thor's Whip had just been reorganized before the war. That war In, your Central Cavalry Corps only has 50,000 people on the battlefield. But these 50,000 people, in conjunction with your Northern Army Corps, can actually defeat our huge 800,000 army."
"Yes, the combat power of the Holy Knights is no less than that of Thor's Whip, and more importantly..." Roddy thought for a while, and said: "It's the heart of the people! The temple has ruled the Roland continent for too long, whether it's aristocrats or people. In between, almost most of them believe in temples. Even if the king orders war, the people's hearts will be directed at that time, or two! I even suspect that after the war begins, before your frontline defeats, the people behind will riot! "
"Yes." Taige's face was a little melancholy: "This is also a concern in my heart. The temple has gained people's hearts in a religious way! A war, if we can't get people's hearts, then it is terrible."
Roddy smiled slightly and said: "However, it is not impossible to defeat the temple. It's just..."
Tiger raised his eyebrows and said sternly: "It's just what? You don't have to have any worries, please just say it."
Roddy seemed to look at Tiger with a smile, and slowly said: "I'm afraid that when I say this, you will think I have selfish intentions."
Tiger immediately said proudly: "You don't need to be like this, and I'm not a fool. If you really do something wrong and take care of me, can't I see it?"
Roddy smiled lightly, then put away his smiling face and said with a serious face: "My way is to drag!"
"drag?"
"Not bad!" Roddy's eyes flashed: "Procrastination! The longer the war is delayed, the better! It's better to fight for three years and five years, or even longer, and it's nothing to fight for ten or eight years! "
"What?" Tiger finally showed a surprised look in his eyes: "Ten years or eight years? Do you know how much damage such a war will cause to Roland Continent!"
Speaking of this, his brow showed a bit of anger, and he looked at Roddy fiercely.
"I know!" Roddy said coldly: "The longer the war lasts, the more people will die, and the Roland mainland will be greatly injured..."
"Since you know this, you gave me such advice!" Tiger squinted his eyes and said coldly: "Does your Bright Empire hope to lead the Thunder God after the barbarian attack on the continent of Roland? Did the whip cross the sea?"
"Hahahahahaha..." Roddy laughed wildly, his laughter was a bit shocking, and Tiger couldn't help but feel stunned.
"General Tiger, I just said it. I'm afraid you may not be able to listen to my suggestion. If this is the case, then I will just stop here."
There were complicated gazes in Tiger's eyes, and he seemed to hesitate for a while, before bending over and bowing, raised his head and said seriously: "I am too impatient, please go on."
Roddy looked at Tiger coldly and said lightly: "Don't you doubt my intentions?"
Tiger said: "Doubt! But I want more."
After a pause, the first warlord of the Sauron Kingdom said with a serious face: "From what I have just discussed with you, you can see that your talent is extraordinary. Even if you want to calculate us, you will probably not say so. A plan that can be seen through. So I think you must have a deeper meaning!"
Roddy squinted at Tiger, and suddenly felt something in his heart--if...
If at the time of the war, if Roland's coalition forces weren't ununited within themselves, and their orders were not unified, then it would be really not so easy to defeat this guy by himself!
Roddy finally retracted his gaze and slowly said: "Well... General Tiger, in your opinion, you must have analyzed the war between your country and the temple. What do you think the temple has weaknesses? Can it be used?"
"This..." Tiger only hesitated for a while, and said: "I think the biggest weakness of the temple is that their army is too small. Although the Holy Knights are powerful, if we take advantage of the number of people, we can fight with them. Consumption, there may not be no chance..."
"Hahahaha..." Roddy laughed deliberately, pretending to be dissatisfied: "You are telling me a lie! If your knowledge is only this, then I really doubt the name of the kingdom of Sauron. A commander-in-chief General Tiger, how could he only have such a little knowledge!"
Tiger blushed before gritting his teeth and said: "I...well, my opinion is that the temple lacks a foundation!"
"Oh?" Roddy was slightly surprised. He didn't expect this pure soldier to have seen this too!
According to the truth, the temple has ruled Roland for thousands of years! Its history is even longer than that of many small kingdoms, but Tiger said that the temple lacks "foundation"!
Roddy sighed, "Unexpectedly, you also thought of this."
After a pause, Roddy decided not to go in circles with him anymore, and said sternly: "If you want to hear my opinion, then I will be blunt!"
Tiger nodded, then looked around again, and then he took Roddy to the pool and sat down.
Roddy pondered for a while, then spoke slowly.
"Although the temple is extremely influential on the Roland Continent, it has one of the most deadly weaknesses! It has no territory of its own! It can be said that even the weakest country on the Roland Continent has its own territory and its own. The people have their own grain fields, but these, the temple does not!"
"In other words, the temple has always relied on its own prestige to rule the Roland Continent, and its financial income only relies on the worship of various countries in the Roland Continent, as well as various religious taxes from the people!"
"You also know that in war, there is money and food! Without a territory, there is no money and food! Its holy knights are an extremely elite army, but the more elite the army, the more scary the money will be ...Huh..."
"At the beginning of the war, the temple may still have a lot of money and food to use, but these money and food can't be spent all the time, and in terms of financial resources, the dozen countries of Roland mainland are more powerful than the temple. Huh, I think that at the beginning, the temple may be able to defeat you with a powerful army... but as long as you can lead the army to fight steadily, and delay with the opponent..."
"The temple will definitely feel unable to support it! Once the war starts, the countries of Roland will not continue to tax the temple. The temple loses money and becomes a tree without roots!"
"Why can the temple win the hearts of the people now? I think any worship of gods or blessings of gods is false! Don’t you know, do you know? According to my understanding, the current annual income of ordinary families in Roland mainland is divided into Of the ten shares, four out of ten are taxed by various countries, while the religious tax paid to the temple is only two tenths! The rest is their own. In fact, ordinary people are not too Many thoughts, the temple tax is low, and the kingdom tax is high, so in their hearts, the temple is better than the kingdom!"
"If it were me, I would lower the taxes of the kingdom immediately before the war started! To an even ridiculous level! Then after the war starts, at the beginning, you will definitely lose first and lose some territory. But the temple is to gain The support of money and food will definitely start to collect taxes... In this way, no matter how much tax it collects, it will inevitably lose popular support! According to my guess, the temple’s current financial resources can sustain the war at most in the face of an all-out war on the entire continent. From half a year to a year. When its money and food are used up, taxation is an inevitable ending. In this way, the tax levied by the temple will inevitably be higher than the tax revenue of the kingdom, because if the levy is low, it will not be enough! People will gradually no longer support it. The temple!"
"but……"
Roddy smiled and said: "Human hearts are selfish! For an ordinary family, you let it surrender 20% of its income to worship temples and believe in gods. Maybe they can accept it, but if you want them to give up half or even half To worship the gods with their income, so many people would not be willing... Faced with such big things as survival and eating. Faith and religion become trivial!
Roddy smiled deeply: "I know that maybe some religious fanatics might even donate all of their property, but that kind of lunatic is a minority after all. One religious fanatic among a thousand people is great! Big! Most, um, no, it should be the vast majority of people, who are very ordinary people. In this way, things become much simpler. The temple loses popular support. As long as you persist long enough, then the ultimate victory will not be There is no hope."
"There is another important point. The temple has only two hundred thousand holy knights. Their only way is to defeat your main force in a big battle as soon as possible. Therefore, you might as well give up some territories and avoid the other side. If the temple wants to occupy those territories, they can only divide their troops to handle them, so that their original number of troops is even weaker...You don't have to worry about the issue of military strength, although you can occupy the place, wait until they divide their troops. Just go and grab them back. Those small local defenders, no matter how elite the Holy Knights are, they must be unstoppable! In short, it is a purpose to prevent them from receiving money, food and taxes!"
Roddy sighed: "In fact, the most difficult part of this approach is in the early stages of the war! The guys in the temple are not all fools. Some people will think of these, and they will definitely try their best to end the war as soon as possible. , Your pressure will be very great! So persistence is the only way! If... if you are not defeated by the temple within two years, the situation will get better after two years!"
Tiger took a deep breath, as if trying to digest Rody’s words, he then smiled bitterly: "What you mean is that at the beginning of the war, let us lower taxes and win the hearts of the people, but our huge army also needs money to support. ..."
Roddy sneered: "With the financial resources of more than a dozen countries in the Roland Continent, it will definitely last longer than the temple! Even if your finances cannot support it in the end... Hmph, then the king has forgotten that there is a dwarf nation behind him! People from Roland are not from the mainland of Roland, they can collect high taxes at will! The dwarves don’t even have their own army now, and there is an inner sea in between! Do you think the temple can reach the dwarves? And the dwarves do iron and wood trade For hundreds of years, they are very rich!"
After a pause, Roddy said cautiously: "Even if you are still unable to support it in the end... Our Bright Empire can consider funding you some money and food at an appropriate time... Of course, in order to ensure our position and not to disturb you, We will not send troops directly across the sea!"
Tiger smiled bitterly: "This plan is really weird... But now that I think about it, it is the only way. It's just that I'm not very proficient in finances..."
Roddy's heart sighed, and he simply issued another bad note: "There are so many kingdoms and nobles in the Roland Continent, and the family is often a group of slaves, rich in enemies, if you are really short of money and food, you might as well take a knife against these nobles! Hasn't the king ever done anything about this? Humph!"
Tiger's face was earthy in fright, and couldn't help saying: "This can't work..."
Roddy looked complacent: "When things come to a dangerous moment, everything can be worked around! If you can't figure it out, then the king must be able to figure it out!"
Tiger's complexion was uncertain and seemed to hesitate. He finally gritted his teeth and said bitterly: "Your Excellency Earl's suggestion, I thank you first! Although I personally retain some thoughts about your views, I must These words will be relayed to His Majesty the King... and..."
Tiger seems to have finally made up his mind and said: "I admire your Excellency very much. I wonder if Mr. Earls is interested in staying in Roland and helping me? I will promise to convince His Majesty the King to give you the best treatment...I think ..."
Roddy smiled faintly, Tiger didn't know his identity, but the king did. He simply refused. Tiger didn't give up, and even came up with a relationship between the two allies and invited Roddy to help him as a military adviser, but Roddy refused.
Finally, the commander of the Sauron Kingdom sighed and said slowly: "Unexpectedly, the Duke of the Bright Empire Tulip has a large number of talents. Although I have not seen the strength of the Earl, I am impressed by the discussion today. !"
After a pause, Tiger sighed: "It seems that in my life, I have no chance to find Lord Tulip again on the battlefield! I am convinced of your country's powerful army and talents!"
The general finally bowed to Roddy, and then went away proudly.
Roddy heaved a sigh of relief and was about to turn back to the hall when he heard the voice of Nedis next to him.
Nedith shrieked and said: "Good, you Roddy! I didn't expect you to use such a sinister heart to give the Roland people such a unique attention! If the Roland people listen to your nonsense, even if they finally defeat the temple, I am afraid the whole There hasn't been a hundred years in the Roland Continent.