Iron Harvest: When Farming Becomes Conquest

War, in essence, is a series of exchanges.

For example, the enemy uses conscripted soldiers to exhaust their strength until they are weary, then press on with extraordinary units; even if they don’t break through the enemy’s lines, they are bound to inflict damage. That’s how the soldiers on the Heavenly Pegasus Plain were gradually diminished.

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The conscripted soldiers of Black Iron Land are endless, yet each River Valley warrior is precious and limited in number.

Efficient mobility and organization must be employed.

With less force and smaller losses, one needs to crush more enemies, creating greater military achievements.

The two armies confronted each other, flags fluttering in the wind.

Makor had over fifty thousand troops in his main force. The overall quality was better than that of the conscript army.

Tents stretched for ten miles, the formation was set, with large flags swaying on long poles, divided into the right army, central army, and left army, each of a grand scale, stretching miles away. They were not neatly arranged as they simply could not be organized so, spread across several combat units, some stationed on hillslopes, others on hillocks, and some in the wilderness and plains, presenting a scattered pattern.

Excluding logistics and miscellaneous services, the surface ratio was five to one.

Roman had once defeated thirty thousand of the Holy War Army in a sweeping battle, yet those forces were essentially impoverished believers with very low combat literacy, so one could press them all at once since any hit would do.