Volume 3 Chapter 27 The Cost of War (2)
"Well, let's discuss the specific combat process. It can be seen that the drill training that Lonely was in charge of before was very effective. In the battles with violent gang members of the same strength, the casualty ratio of our members and the enemy reached 1:5 or higher, giving full play to the efficiency of coordinated operations. Unfortunately, we only conducted defensive training relying on fortifications, and later in the field battle with Ao Shi by the river, we couldn't gain much advantage. We need to strengthen the training of our members."
"I agree. When fighting on fortifications, every ally is familiar with his or her position and can complete the mission orders issued by the commander very well. However, mistakes often occur by the river. It is difficult for each team to reach the designated position in a timely and accurate manner, resulting in many loopholes in the defense. If it weren't for Ao Shi and we were not a well-trained force, we might have been breached before the reinforcements arrived." Xiao Wu said.
Lonely, Bad Bad, Ba Dao, Shi Tou and other personnel who actually took charge of the command tasks in the battle all agreed that if our allies had performed the same in field battles as in fortification battles, the river bank defense line would not have been lost and the garrison buildings would not have been destroyed.
The profiteer objected, "The cost of training exercises is staggering. We have only trained for about a week and have already spent 50,000 gold coins, and that was only for some members! Field training will involve more people and the cost will inevitably be higher. Where can we find the money? You can't just think about improving the strength of the gang. Right now our alliance doesn't have a real fixed income, and the tax on shops won't bring much benefit before attracting a large number of players to settle in our base... In short, I can't provide more training expenses. At this stage, the maximum training fee is 100,000 gold coins per month. As for how to use this money effectively, you can decide."
We looked at each other in bewilderment. The profiteer's words did make sense. Our foundation was to establish a gang and make money. However, so far, apart from relying on my personal ability to earn hundreds of thousands of gold coins from Xuehai Wuya, as far as the gang itself was concerned, there was only investment but no output. Although the situation will definitely be different in the future when the business develops, can I survive until then by relying on myself to make money?
Lonely coughed dryly and said, "Well... defensive training is almost done. From now on, we can use the old members as the backbone and conduct two to three intensive training sessions for the newly recruited members every week. This will reduce the number of training sessions and save a lot of expenses. As for field training... can we take it slow ? Anyway, the Thunder Alliance has no plans to expand externally for the time being!"
Xiao Wu suddenly said, "Alliance leader, speaking of field battles, your cavalry team performed the best in this war! There are only more than 200 high-level knights in our alliance, and you have only trained them a few times. How much does it cost to train more than 200 people? But the cavalry team played a huge role in the battle. First, they defeated the elite troops of the violent group, and then attacked Ao Shi's landing position, which won a lot of time for waiting for reinforcements. I think there are still problems in the division of labor among the members of our alliance. We should set up a special military force. Their main task is to fight. In battle, the power of such an elite force is unparalleled! We can't train all members to be such combat masters. We don't have that kind of energy and money. But we can separate such a special group, give preferential treatment in terms of treatment, and strengthen training to improve their strength. It should be possible, right?"
I was shocked. I had this idea a long time ago, but after discussing it with Lonely, I decided to give up the idea for the time being because some details were difficult to resolve. The most worrying issue was that, as Xiao Wu said, such a military unit must be given preferential treatment and strengthened training. Would the members cooperate with such training? Would the players who were not selected be dissatisfied because of the difference in treatment?
Just as Lonely was about to retort, the profiteer suddenly shouted, "Good idea! Xiao Wu's suggestion is good. There are more than 6,000 members in the Thunder Alliance. We can't train everyone to be a soldier! It would be best to extract some of the strongest ones to form a military force. This way, we can also save a lot of training fees!"
I told him my worries with a wry smile, but the profiteer rolled his eyes and said, "Isn't this easy to deal with? Use your brain. Sometimes, some intangible things are more important than money! When we form this army, we can do more work in publicity, and establish this army as a symbol of honor. It is an honor for the members who can join. We also announce that only those who perform well in training or have made meritorious contributions in battle can join and enjoy special treatment. In this way, no one will have any objections, and every member will rush to join this army! Moreover, the training fees can be invested in this army, and the ordinary members will pay for their own training! In order to improve their own strength and perform well in training, and obtain the qualification to join the army, even if they have to pay for the training themselves, I believe everyone will be enthusiastic and train more actively!"
I was sweating so much that my back was bulging with sweat. Looking at everyone's expressions, they were similar to mine... I was really impressed by the profiteers. For an inexplicable "honor", ordinary members were forced to train at their own expense, and they were willing and actively involved! But if I were an ordinary member, I would definitely rush to join if I heard that such an "honor" organization was to be established, and that this organization would also be responsible for future external combat missions. Once selected, it would be glorious and fun, so why not? Well, you have to be careful when dealing with profiteers in the future. He is definitely capable of selling you out and you have to help him count the money!
Now that my thoughts were open, I had another idea: "Establishing a military force has another benefit - we don't have to worry about not being able to deal with the bases of violent gangs! We can develop the area a little bit. There is no need to build a regular gang base, but it can be used as a military base and the military training ground can be placed there. In that case, the branch will naturally have troops stationed there, and it won't be easy for anyone to attack, right? This won't cost much. Set up a direct transmission array between the headquarters and the branch, which will facilitate personnel exchanges, and if one side is attacked, the other side can quickly provide support!"
Lonely praised: "Good idea! The general members of the alliance stay in the headquarters and give them some defensive combat training to protect the headquarters. The military forces will conduct field combat training and siege training in the branch offices, and they can be sent out to fight externally when necessary. It is very convenient! And each branch is separated. Even if a hostile force plants an undercover in our Jinglei Alliance, it will be difficult for them to grasp our full strength. Not bad, not bad!"
Since everyone agreed, they began to discuss the implementation details of this plan. This is not a small job. This plan completely changed the organizational division of the Thunder League. From then on, the Thunder League was divided into three aspects: internal affairs, general members, and external affairs. Internal affairs include gang construction, store management, etc., mainly involving financial operations, which are of course still in the charge of profiteers. General members are the main body of the gang (but not the core ). What we care about is how to bring them more game fun, and abandon the naive idea of "letting every player who joins the Thunder League gain economic benefits". We only provide services (such as organizing treasure hunting activities), and they have to rely on themselves if they want to make money. The gang will no longer provide direct monetary subsidies for daily combat training. The most favorite fish was appointed as the third deputy leader, responsible for the management of general members. External affairs refer to the military forces to be established: the Thunder Knights, headed by Xiao Wu; and the intelligence group responsible for the lemmings: the wind group. They will become the main force of the Thunder League's external operations in the future. The original four halls of Divine Thunder, Crazy Thunder, Angry Thunder and Rolling Thunder were retained, but in addition to Wenxin and Fatty who still served as hall masters, Badao was transferred to become the deputy leader of the Thunder Knights, and Shitou and Shuijing were promoted to hall masters of the Crazy Thunder Hall and the Rolling Thunder Hall that was formerly under Xiaowu's command.
After everything was arranged, I left the profiteer and lonely and said, "I am worried about one intelligence team. It's not that I don't trust the lemmings, but this incident proves that intelligence work needs to be strengthened. I plan to set up four intelligence teams, Fengyun, Leidian, which are independent of each other to avoid mutual interference. Only the three of us can know the whole situation. The work of recruiting personnel for Huai Huai and A Wei can be completely delegated to their assistants after the number of alliance members exceeds 10,000. At that time, they can each be responsible for an intelligence team, but they are still short of a team leader. You should pay attention to tapping talents."
