"The specific situation of Jingcheng..." Aier pondered for a while and said slowly: "First of all, with the export of black-stolen agricultural products such as Youyecao, Jingcheng's economy has barely reached the level of supply and demand balance. In addition, the cultivation team of the Institute also has several hybrid projects in progress. Once a suitable, reliable, non-toxic, and stable new creatures are cultivated, it will be able to enrich a portion of the food rations to supply the troops to the expedition."

"In addition, the group of people in the military ration group have also developed two portable military rations. Compared with ordinary military rations, the same volume can make soldiers last half and twice as long. In other words, they can only last two days of food. If they replace this portable military ration, they can hold on for three and four days. As for the shortcomings..."

Al's expression suddenly became entangled. He paused for a few seconds before speaking: "Just three words: It's too unpalatable!"

Everyone chuckled suddenly, but Hunter nodded: "It's not a problem to eat badly. Change all the emergency rations of the Demon Army to the one with the highest nutritional supply."

"Oh, no!"

Dave wailed, but was slapped on the back of the head by Feiqi: "Don't make trouble, this is something that can save lives at critical moments!"

Dave curled his lips unconvincedly: "I don't believe that those guys can force our demon army to that extent!"

"What if the opponent's legendary powerhouse takes action?"

Feiqi glared and choked Dave out of words.

Seeing that everyone stopped discussing, Al continued: "As for the economy, the current economy of Silent City is based on Uncle Daiwen's Chamber of Arrows. If the Demon Army and the Silver Flame Team need to change equipment, you need to talk to Uncle Daiwen yourself."

“This is OK.”

Divo nodded and responded. Although Feiqi and the seven commanders did not make a sound, they also nodded to express their understanding.

At present, although Jijing City has many specialties for export, most of these specialties are used for food to improve the dietary structure of the residents of Jijing City. Otherwise, if the night grass is used as food, the residents of Jijing City may become a new race - the fluorescent people in the future.

Therefore, although Jingcheng has established research institutes, foundry institutes and other institutions, whether it is various research materials, metals and ores used for casting, they are all collected and purchased by the Lijian Chamber of Commerce from various places and then transported to Jingcheng.

So from any aspect, Jingcheng is very poor, because everything it is injected with funds from the Lijiang Chamber of Commerce to operate normally, and the Lijiang Chamber of Commerce is also very poor. Although the Chamber of Commerce now has an average daily net income of several thousand gold coins, and its monthly net profit is nearly 300,000 gold coins, in order to support the expansion and operation of Jingcheng, the Lijiang Chamber of Commerce has to send various materials worth more than 200,000 gold coins to Jingcheng every month, and only 70,000 to 80,000 gold coins are left.

Among these gold coins, more than 50,000 gold coins are used to manage their positions in different cities and establish good relations with various local forces. This is a disguised protection fee, and this expenditure will become more and more as the chamber of commerce expands.

The remaining 20,000 to 30,000 gold coins will be taken out to build a new caravan and expand the trade route. The only thing that can flow into the hands of Lao Daiwen every month is only a few thousand or tens of thousands of gold coins. The enchanting materials provided to Lina this month were all bought by Lao Daiwen out of his own pocket. As for the capital chain of the Lijiang Chamber of Commerce, it really cannot withstand the tossing.

After briefly introducing the economic situation of Silent City and talking about Old Daiwen's complaints to him, Al then continued to talk about the most concerned issue of everyone: "The army, Silent City is very powerful in the army. Due to the large amount of materials provided by the Liar Chamber of Commerce, the casting station has been operating at full capacity all year round and has created a large amount of equipment. Not only has it completed the installation of Silent Blade, but it also reserved more than 1,200 sets of Silent Blade soldiers, 300 sets of lower-level officer equipment, and twelve sets of commanding equipment."

"In addition to equipment, in terms of military expansion, Silent City has never stopped, the specific situation..."

Al signaled the shadow blade standing behind him. The shadow blade hurriedly stepped forward and saluted everyone first, then spoke: "Now the Silent Blade has expanded to the scale of 8,327 people, divided into eight conventional combat groups and one elite regiment, of which eight conventional combat groups are full regiments, a total of 7,208 people. Among them, ordinary soldiers are elite soldiers who have awakened their "qi". The officers above the squadron leader are all specialized in awakening, and have generally completed the second awakening, and the eight commanders have completed the third awakening."

"The elite group is... the strengthening regiment," Shadow Blade paused, and then said the word "strong regiment" in a twisted manner. "The elite group has a total of 1,119 people. All the types of soldiers awakening are specialized awakenings. Among them, 943 soldiers completed the second awakening for the middle and late stages of the awakening. One hundred and seventy-two soldiers and officers completed the second awakening, and the commander and four brigade captains completed the third awakening."

"so much……"

After listening to the Shadow Blade's report, everyone, including Al, couldn't help but take a breath. The strength of the Silent Blade was too unexpected to them. The elite groups among them were a little stronger than the White Horse Army during the Civil War, and the eight ordinary combat groups were already abnormal enough. Although the strength of a single combat group was still far behind the elite troops in other territories, if two combat groups were combined, they would definitely crush more than 90% of the elite troops in the territory!

In other words, in terms of elite troops, Silent City has already topped five territories that focus on the development of military power!

Take this power out, even the current demon army will retreat!

As the person in charge of the Demon Army, Feiqi knew in his heart that although the Demon Army had expanded to more than 300 people and had completely abused the Silent Blade in terms of individual strength, if they faced the entire Silent Blade in the plains and were besieged by the opponent, their Demon Army would at most fight one or two combat groups, and would be wiped out under the attack of the Silent Blade's sea of ​​attack.

But Al had been in charge of Silent City for so long, and soon calmed down: "You get what you pay for. On the Silent Blade, we spent at least two million gold coins. If it was not strong, it would be unreasonable."

After hearing this, the others laughed, especially the seven commanders led by Feiqi, who also saw a lot of them. Although the Silent Blade is now strong, no matter how hard it is, they are all the power of Silent City. What's more, Silent Blade is still the reserve army of their Demon Army. The stronger the Silent Blade, the faster their Demon Army will develop!

Everyone asked about the nine commanders of the Silent Blade again, but Al only said one sentence: "For the nine commanders, just rest assured."

If the loyalty is not high enough, how can they become the commander?

Al added with a smile in his heart, and then continued to talk about the situation in Silent City: "Don't just stare at the Silent Blade. In addition to the Silent Blade, the city guards of Silent City are also very strong."

"City Guards..."

This time, everyone was silent. In everyone's impression, the city guards were just a group of militias that maintained order. How strong can they be?

Seeing everyone's expressions, Al smiled, as if he had seen through everyone's thoughts, and said jokingly: "You guys, can't you confuse the city guards of our quiet city with the city guards of other territories?"

Everyone was still silent, as if they had agreed to Al's problem. Al was not annoyed and said to the Shadow Blade beside him: "Tell me, let these 'country buns' get to know our city guard again!"

"My dear sirs," Shadow Blade saluted everyone again. He didn't have the courage to call them "land buns" like Al Ail. "The city guards in our Silent City now have more than 1,500 ordinary soldiers, and all members have the strength of serving veterans."

It was a simple sentence, but it was like a thunder thunder that struck everyone's ears: "Veter? More than 1,500 veterans?"

"Yes," Shadow Blade nodded, without explaining, but continued: "In addition, there are more than 200 officers at all levels, all with the strength of elite soldiers."

"this……"

Dave opened his mouth and was about to say something, but he heard the shadow blade speak: "In addition, Silent City also implements a military service system. All young and middle-aged residents have to spend three days every month to conduct military training. If they refuse to participate in training, they need to pay additional military service tax. As of the 15th of this month, in the event of a full-scale war, Silent City can draw a regular army of 5,700 people in one day. If the situation deteriorates, more than 10,000 reserve troops can be drawn."

"Five thousand seven...10,000..."

Seeing everyone's surprise, Al suddenly smiled even happier: "You group of hand-off managers, you are scared now. Don't forget where our Silent City was built, Black Surrender! Although there is no threat from the robbers in Black Surrender, he has to face the attacks of snow elves and underground creatures at any time. This is much harder than those wandering robbers!"

"So, in terms of military class setting, our Jingcheng is one level less than other territories, that is, there is no regular army. We directly organized the regular army into the city guards to resist various threats from the black surrender. This is why the city guards of our Jingcheng at least have the strength of veterans. They fight against underground creatures every day, and those with poor strength have long died!"

"And among the residents of our Silent City, a large part of them were robbers, bandits, or retired soldiers in other territories who had fewer evil deeds before joining Silent City. During the Civil War, the reserve soldiers in other territories had certain combat effectiveness. It is precisely because of this special situation that I will implement the policy of compulsory military service. Each person can spend three days a month to fully maintain their combat effectiveness. Once a war breaks out, we can also come to Silent City with all the soldiers!"

"That equipment..."

After hearing Feilina's question, Al replied without hesitation: "There are eight thousand sets of regular military equipment in the warehouse and two thousand light equipment used in the reserve. Even if it is really necessary to let the reserve on the battlefield, it is enough, after all..."

Al didn't finish the remaining half of the sentence, but everyone understood the cruelty and tragic content. If it was really time to send the reserves to battle, it meant that the Demon Army, the Blade of Silence and the City Guards had been destroyed, and at least one-third of the regular army that had temporarily gathered had been sacrificed. Even if only half of the equipment of the tens of thousands of people was recovered, it would be enough for the remaining reserves to use.

"Hey, don't be so heavy all of a sudden," Al suddenly laughed at everyone's expressions, "Do you think we can really be beaten to that level? Even if our Silent City faces the entire province, we can still play 55, not to mention that we have so many backers."

After hearing this, everyone's expressions became relaxed. They all remembered the two mythical powerhouses who were still living next door, as well as the many legendary powerhouses who came to help. If under such conditions, Silent City was defeated to the point where everyone had to be soldiers, then there would be only one situation left - the battlefield of gods and demons was completely destroyed, and the army of demons broke through the barriers of the Holy Spirit to attack the world of Nain!

However, when you think about it with your toes, you know that it is absolutely impossible to happen, at least it is impossible to see it in their lifetime. Everyone is very sure of this.

Everyone was joking for a while, and seeing that Al didn't mean to continue introducing, Feilina suddenly asked, "Al, you haven't forgotten an army, right?"

"Forgot an army?" Al was slightly stunned, then looked at Filina and smiled bitterly: "Sister, you are not thinking of shadow blades, are you?"

"Why can't it be?" Feilina asked back and started Al's joke: "You don't want to treat Shadow Blade as your own private army, right?"

El immediately cried out: "How is this possible? Sister, my loyalty is a testament to heaven and earth, and the sun and moon can be seen..."

"Stop! Tell me the serious matter!"

"Okay, then I'll just say it. In my opinion, the current Shadow Blade does not have the conditions to go to the battlefield."

As he said that, Al also sighed and explained: "Although the average strength of the Shadow Blades is very strong, and the lowest strength level has also completed the second awakening, in order to ensure the Shadow Blade's loyalty to Silent City and the training of various hidden and infiltrating skills, until now, the total number of Shadow Blades has just exceeded one hundred, and its frontal combat ability is not strong."

"So, at present, Shadow Blade can only serve as an intelligence system for Silent City. Even so, it can only cover the nine territories of Skyrim Province, establish a relatively complete intelligence network, and is unable to expand to the outside world."

As he spoke, Al sighed again. In his opinion, intelligence is one of the key factors that determine the outcome of the war. Now Shadow Blade can only barely be responsible for the intelligence collection of Skyrim Province. In this case, how could he send Shadow Blade to the battlefield?

However, Al's sigh only brought the rolling eyes of Feilina and others. Are you calling complaining? You're just showing off!
Chapter completed!