Andrew acted decisively and neatly, and in just a moment, the three hundred soldiers were assembled and set off.
What surprised Arthur was that among the three hundred soldiers, there were only 230 combatants, and the remaining 70 were cooks, engineers and other support personnel.
Of course, the soldiers recruited on the road are all warriors with swords.
In other words, the 500 soldiers promised by Hendry were actually only 430.
When I asked Andrew, he said this was what Hendry meant.
Moreover, the food and drink of these five hundred people must be summed up and settled in the end, and Arthur has to pay the sum.
Arthur suddenly had a new understanding of the shamelessness of nobles.
Moreover, these soldiers are wearing relatively cheap chain armor and belong to the low-end arms.
The combat effectiveness is not very strong.
But the good news is that the Blackwoods' house across the street also has the same equipment.
The Westeros continent in Game of Thrones is generally a feudal monarchy of the Western European Middle Ages, but most of the daily necessities, weapons and armor correspond to the Renaissance period.
In other words, iron armor is the mainstream soldier equipment, and chain armor is already relatively backward.
Like the Lannister family in the West, the main force is all black armor, with extremely coquettish red cloaks, and the helmets are also customized in the shape of a lion.
It looks like he can fight very well.
In the Riverlands, only the elite troops of the nobles such as Tully, Doublecloth, Frey, Vance, and Piper could afford to wear iron armor, and the helmets were still round in shape and uniformly produced by the workshops in the West.
Most ordinary troops wear round helmets, chainmail armor covering the torso, leather arm guards, and shoulders, and some may have hanging legs.
As for the cloak, it is for knights.
In the poorer north, most soldiers wear leather armor and iron helmets, and chainmail is only available to elite troops.
These three countries represent the equipment level of Westeros.
In the Riverlands led by the Tyrell family, the soldiers' equipment is slightly lower than that of the Lannister family, but higher than that of the Riverlands.
The equipment of the Stormlands of House Baratheon is roughly equivalent to that of the Riverlands.
Dorne, which has the smallest population, is equipped with the same equipment as the Northern Territory, but in order to dissipate heat, most of them are equipped with cloth armor.
The leather armor is too hot to wear in the desert.
The knights of the valley are slightly different from the above six countries.
Most of the knights wore plate armor and white cloaks, which had a stronger visual impact than the Lannister army.
The equipment is better than that of the Lannister family, but the number of people is much smaller.
Of course, the valley doesn't need too many warriors.
The only way to reach the valley on land is through the Blood Gate, and the rest is blocked by the towering Mingyue Mountains.
One hundred powerful crossbows are enough to guard the Blood Gate.
Thinking of this, Arthur felt that he should find a way to get some armor.
It has only been a few months since the War of the Five Kings broke out. If you want to make a name for yourself in this war that engulfs the Six Kingdoms, excellent troops are indispensable.
An excellent army requires not only strong recruits and extensive training, but also sophisticated weapons and armor.
It’s all money that can be piled up.
The good news is that the mount-and-blade system allows your own soldiers to bypass part of the training, and you can get experienced veterans by upgrading your soldiers.
The bad news is that Arthur has no money.
The greatest wealth that belongs to him now is the 180 golden dragons he just won in gambling.
It is estimated that those seven hundred coins will not be recovered.
One hundred and eighty pieces are equivalent to the breastplates of more than thirty sets of chainmails.
If you want to buy a complete set of chain mail including arm guards, shoulders, slings, leather boots, etc., this amount of money will cost you less than twenty sets.
Better iron armor requires more golden dragons.
And money can’t be bought immediately.
One or two sets can be purchased at the Beauty Market next to the Blue Fork River in the north.
There are about ten sets, and large shops in Junlin City can also provide them.
There are dozens of sets, which can only be made by the weapons workshop under the name of the Lannister family in the West.
And it takes time to make it fresh.
Arthur estimated that he had enough money to buy dozens of sets of iron armor. By the time they were made, the War of the Five Kings happened to break out.
So the Lannister family just kept it for their own use.
There are workshops in the valley that make better plate armor, but most of them are on the east coast of the mainland. It takes months to go there to place an order. By the time it is finished, the Magic Mountain has long since destroyed the banks of the Red Fork River.
Moreover, although the quality of plate armor in the valley is excellent, the price is much higher, which is not cost-effective for poor Arthur.
It’s difficult!
Arthur, who was riding next to the large army, looked at these more than 300 soldiers and suddenly cursed himself for being stupid.
The ready-made armor is right in front of you.
If you can't buy the Lannister's freshly made ones, why can't you buy these existing stocks?
If you can get a lot of golden dragons, armors, etc., it won't be difficult to find a big noble to buy dozens or hundreds of sets.
The Tyrell Rose House, the Hightower House, and the Redwyne House in the Reach are all great nobles with nearly 10,000 troops, and hundreds of sets of armor are easily available.
As long as the price is high enough, are you still afraid that you won't be able to buy it?
But how to make money?
Brynden may not be able to make any money here. If Blackwood's governor, Earl Tytos, is angry, Edmure will just make peace with Arthur and let him go, and then Blackwood will not invade Arthur's territory.
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Arthur thought for a while and felt his head was getting big, so he shook his head and put the matter aside.
In addition to expanding the army, it is also necessary to strengthen the defense of the territory.
Arthur can deal with the Magic Mountain on his own. If he can't defeat him, he can hide in his castle. Even the small army of the Magic Mountain can't take down a solid stone castle.
But there is nothing the thousands of citizens can do.
These territorial citizens are Arthur's basic base in the early stage and cannot be abandoned.
Arthur's castle is not very big and cannot accommodate thousands of citizens like the Tully family's Riverrun.
After much thought, I still have to expand my castle.
It doesn’t have to be strong or high, as long as it can block the impact of war horses.
Coincidentally, Jiabao is located on a small hill, which has a certain advantage of being high up.
This does not cost much money, and can be carried out as long as the citizens are mobilized.
After Arthur decided to finish Brynden's business, he asked Jace and other village chiefs to organize strong farmers to do the work.
As long as it can survive the period when the Magic Mountain plunders the banks of the Red Fork River, Arthur's territory will be safe.
Because when the Lannister army entered the Riverlands in large numbers, only the south bank of the Red Fork River and the Hedong area on the east bank were disturbed by the war.
And Arthur's territory, just on the north bank of the Red Fork River, was relatively peaceful.
In the area east of the river, there are mainly the Bracken family, the Vance family of Travel's Rest, the Piper family of Pink City, and the He'an family of Harrenhal.
After the war began, the Vance and Piper families, under Edmure's orders, assembled four thousand troops to block the Lannister army from crossing the Red Fork.
Although Arthur felt that Edmure's order was too holy, thinking that his territory was protected made him even more fond of Edmure.
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