Vol 8 Chapter 861: War loan

Of the entire staff team, Duncan is the most experienced in territorial governance. The old housekeeper, Lord Count Winston, died under the orc's butcher knife last year, and although he was dug up by Roddy, he never said a word. Obviously, without knowing Rody's temperament, he was afraid to express his opinions at will.
But Roddy wouldn't let him continue to be dumb: "Duncan, I know you have some experience in large-scale operations. Come and talk about what I do right now and where it differs from what you have experienced."
Roddy asked directly by name. Where did Duncan dare to resign? He bent down in salute, thinking for a few seconds, and whispered: "Prime Prime Minister, what I have experienced can't stand on the table ..."
"Don't say that. I'm the most efficient here. What can I say?"
Duncan was stunned, but he had a good opinion of Roddy's words ... Most aristocrats like to listen to fake big empty phrases, because they are not good at fighting themselves, they do n’t say that their heads are indifferent, just those complicated ones. Few people can listen to the data. At this time, with permission, he felt that he could not hide forever, and opened the conversation box: "Prime Prime Minister, I have always been very weird ... Are you really not planning to convene these lords in the territory to fight?"
The battle of the Karen Kingdom has always been a summoning order by the great lord. The following little lords flocked with the knights and puppets in their territory. When everyone comes together and announces the battle plan, they usually arrive at a certain place by a certain day, There are no arrangements in the middle of this process. The heavy logistic is usually part of the lord's responsibility. Others must be collected along the way, or rely on other lords to raise money.
Now it is April. As the Prime Minister, Roddy has not issued any "calling orders". The only mobilized army is Soderol. Except that Elson City belongs to Roddy's Guard, the entire current battle The total number of troops is only 15,000. This is the figure after the "logistics system" is included. In other words, the first unit actually put on the battlefield may only have about 5,000.
"Call a group of guys with uneven military literacy to go to war. Before you start, you will bring yourself down. I can tell you clearly that from now on, this kind of thing will never happen again."
Roddy knows that this staff member is good at digital computing, but the simple computing power does not make much sense. He needs the entire team to keep up with the changes of the times. If only the previous experience is used, it will be a waste of effort.
"You must understand that the battle we are going to fight is not the same as any previous war. So from now on, you must not follow the framework of previous wars to calculate data, understand?"
His words stopped the staff in the conference room from stopping their current work. Some people thought, some still couldn't understand. Duncan was obviously thinking about more. He replied: "The steps you have performed now seem to be more efficient. Roads and trucks have increased the speed of logistics by more than ten times. But ... I always feel that you are in logistics The money spent is too high. "
Historically, the food transported during battles can be saved. In other words, the knights should either be responsible for food themselves, and who will give you big fish and meat if you want the lord to pay for it? Black bread and water are the most common treatment. Catch up with famine or special circumstances, and let the knight catch the mice by themselves. After all, productivity is too low in this era.
Now that Roddy builds roads, makes trucks, and "paves the road," the gold coins are enough to fight a thousand-man battle. In contrast, half of the money used to train professional troops with military crickets is not available.
"It's not just logistics, that ... the 'Aircraft' project also cost a lot of money. The Prime Minister, if it's just for reconnaissance, I think that spending so much money on research in this area seems ... not very appropriate."
Duncan's words are actually a mystery that has persisted in the minds of many aides. They didn't understand the significance of Roddy's continuous grants of money to Kardashian to study the plane. Is it really just to please the dragon family?
Although an aircraft capable of carrying people to ascend to the sky has been created, the surprise of this kind of thing is limited to them ... After all, this is an era where the mage can fly to the sky. "Flying" is not a dream that humans can't reach. In Duncan's eyes, several planes could not change the course of the war at all. What can you do besides being able to detect?
"This is one of the important points I want to tell you today." Roddy stood up and pointed to the map next to him. "Whether it is a war of tens of thousands of people or a local war of dozens of people, the one who has the initiative has the better chance Big, you all understand this? "
Everyone nodded, but everyone who knew a little about the military understood that "number" was not the biggest factor in determining victory or defeat, but "activeness" was.
"The" airplane "is the most important tool to help us gain initiative, and you will gradually understand it later." Roddy then swiped his finger across the map from Elson to the temple, and then pointed to the southern imperial city. "You may think that war is going to take you step by step, and cannibalize gradually. But from now on, I hope you understand this new concept of warfare."
"The most important aspect of this new way of warfare is logistics. It can be said that the war is fought against logistics, not the number of automats."
Rody reached out and took a copy of the mountain-heavy document next to it, marked "March Weapons Production Report," one page of which was angled, he opened it directly, and handed it to Duncan: "You think this weapon is a war How big is it? "
Duncan frowned and looked at the output sheet that said "Type III spar energy cannon." For a while, it was impossible to evaluate. For people in the cold weapon era, it would be difficult to understand this kind of "hot weapon" unless they watched it in person. What effect will the equipment have in actual combat ...
"Sir Prime Minister, such a weapon should be equivalent to letting the team fight with the digital wizard at any time, right?"
Roddy nodded. "That's understandable."
"Then ... if it is used on a large scale, compared to the cost of magician training, we can indeed save a lot of funds and greatly improve the combat capability of the army ..."
Duncan's perspective is always related to money. There is no way. Who can make him deal with gold coins in his life?
"But you say war is fighting logistics, meaning we need to focus more on ... the roads, planes, and these armaments?" Duncan was a little hard to understand, but he wasn't dead-headed. Since sitting here, Go all out to understand your boss's intentions. He thought about it and replied: "Now we may face a big problem. If we maintain the current investment ratio, after the war, we will spend more gold coins than any previous battle of the same size."
He then began to list a series of numbers. Since he has been in the aides for more than half a month, he should have known everything ~ EbookFREE.me ~ He is now familiar with budgets such as trucks and airplanes, so he is extremely accurate in determining the consumption after the war.
Compared to Camilla, who has never experienced war, Duncan is obviously more sophisticated in detail. Because many things are the same thing on paper, implementation often turns into another situation. Take the simplest example: On the bright side, the daily diet of all soldiers in the army is bread and broth. However, tens of thousands of troops can take action. Where can I find broth and bread in many places? What should I do if I bring it myself? How much would it cost to use the refrigerated method? How much spar is consumed? What is the possible loss in the middle? If you look for alternatives, who is going to monitor them? How to implement it? How much extra cost?
It is difficult for Camilla to imagine things that have not been experienced. Duncan was familiar with this and supplemented every detail of the military expenditure calculation. But the result is that the initial budget for the entire war is higher than before. According to all expectations, this war will cost at least 8 million gold coins!
This number is very alarming, because wars of the same number in the past may cost so many coins in two years. And with the current gold reserves of the Karen Kingdom, in fact there are not so many gold coins at all, and they can only be replaced by equivalent items.
The most important thing is that this is only about eight months' budget at present, and if there is a change, it needs to be increased at any time.