Chapter 1,482 The Sword Points at the Nineteenth City in the East
Mage legions have always been a luxury item in this world.
Even a giant city-level mage tower may not be able to provide a full team of single-type mage.
Most of them are a mixed caster army.
An independent army of spellcasters is very powerful.
Especially the fire and thunder types, large-scale offensive magic can achieve a covering strike.
Even throwing fireballs and thunderbolts at the same time can cause considerable damage.
As for other departments, considering the cooperative and auxiliary characteristics of the arms, they are actually not suitable for forming an independent army.
Arcane magic is a special case in the spellcasting system.
Mainly because arcane magic can fuse and imbue almost all elemental systems.
After forming a legion, you can very well counter the spells cast by the enemy.
Even large-scale natural disaster-level magic can reduce damage to a certain extent.
Therefore, the main duty of the arcane troops is not to kill the enemy, but to be regarded as a magic defense force.
This configuration has also been discussed before.
After asking about the situation, Zong Shen immediately had an idea.
Then he looked at Lexa and Feronas respectively.
As the king of beasts, the former has recently taken over the training of war pets and beast pets in his territory.
Including Bloodtusk Boars, Manticores and Gryphons.
There are also the five dependent ethnic groups that Xiao Heizi brought back before.
Through continuous domestication and cooperation training, they can be more closely integrated with their territory.
Combined with some special training buildings and props, rapid reproduction can be achieved.
It is expected that it will not take long for the territory to form an organic air cavalry and beast cavalry units.
Feronas Sinner's main responsibility in the territory recently is to train excellent scouts and assassins.
Zong Shen noticed that all soldiers who passed his training could obtain the new unit prefix of "Apprentice Hunter" and receive certain attribute improvements.
There is still a big difference between hunters and demon hunters.
Although Feronas cannot transform these trained soldiers into demons, it does allow them to learn some new things.
It is different from the French Lancer training ability that comes with Joan of Arc.
Feronas' hunter training was discovered by Zong Shen accidentally.
Since the Defense Challenge ended, the soldiers' training routine has changed.
It turns out that training soldiers requires supporting military camps and specific level training books.
The same type of soldiers must undergo level-by-level training before they can grow into high-level warriors.
Now the relevant soldier training process has been simplified a lot.
In other words, it is closer to reality.
No longer shackled by some semi-digital conditions.
But not all combat heroes have the ability to train soldiers.
At least not those heroes with low-level talents.
For example, Gugart, Feronas, and Kolbi have their own skills in training soldiers.
Colby can train 1st to 6th level infantry and cavalry warriors of the Wild Wolf Clan.
He just selected 1,200 people from farmers some time ago to form a trial training team.
The current progress is good, but in order to form combat effectiveness, that is, to reach the level of second or third level, it is conservatively estimated to take 6 to 18 months, which is too long.
Let's practice for now, Zong Shen is not in a hurry.
Compared with self-trained soldiers, it is better to obtain ready-made soldiers from the indigenous people.
Anyway, in the training state, those farmers who are gradually transformed into wild wolf warriors will receive varying degrees of attribute improvement.
Regarding this point, it is actually the same as the relationship between robbery and farming.
The former can be done quickly, conveniently and quickly, provided that the force is up to standard.
The latter can achieve freedom in military training and get rid of dependence on external resources to a certain extent.
However, it takes a long time, costs a lot, and greatly increases the proportion of non-working population.
The relationship between the two also needs to find a balance point.
Zong Shen's principle is to try to use both hands.
After all, the current development of the territory has tended to go down the path of militarism.
The focus on military aspects far outweighs the focus on production development.
In terms of production and construction, other than the continuous construction of residential areas, the expansion of urban defense scale, and the development of a few mining areas and forest farms, there are no major measures.
Most resources still come from plunder.
Several grown men gathered together to report their work in a casual chat mode.
After they all left, Zong Shen also had a certain understanding of the current military scale of the territory.
He was soaking alone in the spring pool, his expression slightly solemn.
"Very good, the current combat power of the territory can basically meet the requirements."
"Maybe I should take some more drastic action..."
Leaning on the spring pool, his head was slightly raised.
From 0 to 1 is a hurdle, and every increase in the number of soldiers in the future represents a step to a higher stage.
He raised his hand and took out a medium-sized map from the storage compartment.
The above depicts the main giant cities and terrain distribution of the Kingdom of Avalon.
Although it is not as detailed as his continental sand table, it is still very intuitive when placed in front of you.
The first huge city to the east of the territory is Dagalisni.
Continue to move forward until you reach the sea. This territory of hundreds of thousands of kilometers includes parts of the south and north areas, with a total of 19 giant cities.
Many giant cities are tens of thousands of kilometers apart.
Even the distance between Lentax and Dagalisni is more than 10,000 kilometers.
The territory is located between the two, closer to Lentax.
More than four thousand kilometers to the west is Lentax, while eight to nine thousand kilometers to the east is Dagalisni. This geographical relationship is actually not difficult to understand.
If Zong Shen can defeat these nineteen cities in a row, he can completely open up the territory to the eastern coastal area.
But if you want to form a large area, you have to continue to expand to the north and south sides.
By capturing a total of 33 giant cities in the entire large area, you can occupy a place in the entire eastern part of Avalon.
In a short period of time, Zong Shen only needs to consider those nineteen giant cities.
Starting from the giant city of Dagalisini, the end point of advancing eastward is the two giant cities along the coast.
They are The Hague City and Ellaraya Port.
If it continues to expand, there will also be Whirlpool Bay and Kekalima Islands.
These are all important node cities on the eastern coast.
The nineteen giant cities he listed as limited targets went straight to the east and formed a through shape.
Excluding the giant city of Dagarisne, there were a total of five giant cities under the control of Grand Duke Chloé.
Mainly the ones near the seaside, which are currently Princess Anna's "playground".
Archduke Chloë's influence in the east was actually not as great as he had previously thought, and the core of his power was still concentrated in the southeast.
As long as he captures the 19th city in the east with thunderous force, it will be difficult for Archduke Chloé to restrain him.
The remaining thirteen giant cities all belong to neutral nobles.
Prior to this, it was also the object of competition between Grand Duke Jonathan and Grand Duke Chloé.
As far as Zong Shen knows, there are still some forces from local churches and large knights involved in it.
This is the power pyramid composed of land feudalism, and the phenomenon of local decentralization is obvious.
The wealth system composed of land output, resources and population made feudalism based on land.
The local situation will not be stable.
There are many opportunities to fish in troubled waters.
Zong Shen must have done some careful research before doing this.
It doesn't matter now. Just use military power to push forward. It's best if he brings people in in advance to attack from both inside and outside. There is no need to engage in any fancy plots.
Putting away the map, he closed his eyes and immediately compiled the information on the nineteen cities.
Then export it through the [Primary Spiritual Virtual Network] and pass it to the territory's city hall, who will hand it over to the staff department for research.
As for the giant city of Dagalisini, he had to go there in person first.
It won't be too late to go after he has taken care of the matter with the Blood God of War.
What's more, the 20 million people and more than one million soldiers just brought from Grand Duke Jonathan also need to be properly resettled.
Soldiers, spellcasters and craftsmen are all in place.
Shaking his head, he got rid of distracting thoughts, and while soaking in the [Run Yue Spring], he began to work on condensing clones, so as to create more clones before trouble came.
The next strategy requires him to keep an eye on all directions and listen to all directions.
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Inside the Marquis Castle in the giant city of Dagalisni.
At noon, the weather near Jucheng was gloomy.
The surrounding farms and manors are busy harvesting wheat, and mills can be seen everywhere.
There are several types of mills in the Endless Continent. The most common ones are water mills built by streams and wind mills built on slopes. In addition, there are also manual mills that employ strong laborers and animal power.
After all, it is a world with extraordinary power, so it goes without saying that the strength potential of the labor force is great.
Treating people like animals is definitely not an exaggerated statement.
There are even many strong slaves who are more powerful than mules and horses, and the corresponding purchase cost will be higher.
As for the rarest one, the Mana Mill has the highest overall cost, but it is also the most efficient.
The mills belonging to the Clift family are all magic mills.
The huge magic mill continues to rotate driven by the magic core and a series of mechanical axles.
Produce a large amount of white flour and yellow wheat bran powder.
Most of them are sent directly to bakeries, mixed with a small amount of butter, milk and eggs, and baked into shelf-stable bread bricks.
Divide the remaining flour into two parts.
Some of them are stored in powdered form in high-end storage items.
The other part is baked into soft and sweet exquisite bread, cakes and various pastries.
The mill occupies a huge area, hundreds of meters long and wide.
The Clift family has four magic energy mills of this size inside and outside the city.
There are also a large number of manors, pastures, orchards, etc.
All Clift family properties fly the family flag.
There are long swords and tigers on it, which represent bravery and sharpness.
However, this is only the glory of the Clift family ancestors.
There has been no war here for hundreds of years. The children of the Clift family will choose to follow the great nobles in other areas when they are young and become retinues or waiters.
This is a good way to expand your network and improve your abilities.
But relatively speaking, the children of the Clift family are indeed not as martial as other noble families.
This has been true for recent generations.
Commerce, agriculture and animal husbandry have been the focus of the Clift family in recent years.
At this time, the ruler of the giant city of Dagallisni, Marquis Ekmeledin Clift, was inspecting the family's mill.
Begin preparations for the coming war.
The development model of the giant city of Lentax was presumably regarded by him as a benchmark.
In terms of development progress, the overall scale of Dagalisini is only about three-quarters of Lentax, and the trade volume is far less than the former giant city of Lentax.
Now the giant city of Lentax, which he regarded as a bellwether, was destroyed.
It is impossible to say that Marquis Eckmeledin Clift was not nervous.
While inspecting the operation of the mill, he listened to Hisham Conway, who had just returned.
The chief political officer of Tada Galisni and a baron of the kingdom.
"The other party readily agreed to the alliance request."
"But after entering the new city, I discovered a few strange places."
"First of all, the commercial streets in the city are relatively deserted. Although there are a large number of residents, they are generally engaged in boring labor such as logging and stone cutting."
“Business and agriculture have a weak presence.”
"Secondly, there are many foreign soldiers mixed in the city, and there are even wolf cavalry who have disappeared for thousands of years."
"Those wolf cavalry belong to the Wild Wolf clan, and this clan once ruled the eastern grasslands of Avalon until it was destroyed by a disaster more than six thousand years ago."
"Due to the lack of documents, I am temporarily unable to ascertain more details."
Baron Hisham Conway reported carefully, and he was quite discerning.
To this, Marquis Ekmeledin Clift nodded solemnly.
"The appearance of that new city is so weird."
"According to the reports from the Yellow Daisy Business Group, it was still a wasteland a year ago."
"Because it is adjacent to the Bone Burial Ground, most caravans walked around it."
"There are not many villages around, but in just one year, a settlement comparable to a giant city has sprung up."
"Perhaps what old Bachelor Cole said about the Chosen One is true."
"It is definitely not the ravings he made when he was dying in his later years."
The Chosen Son is not a big secret in the Endless Continent.
But not everyone knows it.
For those families who lack historical background and academic research, this is a very unfamiliar concept.
But after all kinds of information were compiled, Marquis Eckmeledin Clift could not help but make associations and speculations.
Baron Hisham Conway did not comment on the issue.
It is almost impossible to build a giant city-level settlement within one year.
If there was nothing unusual about it, then he would find it strange.
He had also heard a little about the concept of the Chosen One, and it was said that it involved a secret that lasted for more than ten thousand years.
Even though the average life span and time span of people in the Endless Continent are very long.
But for ordinary people, thousands or even tens of thousands of years are still a long time.
In this ancient era, there is an invisible sense of unfamiliarity.
It's hard to connect it rationally with what's happening now.
"Cooperating with the lord who is suspected of being the chosen one is just for testing."
"When will the large mercenary groups we hired arrive?"
"This time, nearly 50% of the normal military expenditure was used to invite hundreds of thousands of reinforcements."
Marquis Ekmeleddin Clift turned to look at Hisham Conway and asked.
His hair was meticulously combed and he looked dignified and elegant.
His tone was full of anxiety and deep reluctance after spending a lot of money.