The construction of the racecourse outside Bastia began on March 8. It took a total of 9 days to level the land and carry out construction. The racecourse was officially completed at 17:40 in the afternoon.
The racecourse can breed new horses. Placing horse mounts there will automatically increase experience and slightly increase the growth rate. Other types of mounts can also be stored in the racecourse, but they will not have the effect of accelerating growth (the growth rate will slowly increase over time).
(increased, leveling up with mounts only speeds up growth), and you cannot gain experience. You need to pay a feeding fee to store the mount, even if Yun Xiaohan is a lord, you still have to pay, but this feeding fee is less than the cost of feeding the player's own mount.
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The racecourse needs stallions and mares to breed new horses, so Liya gave Yun Xiaohan 600 horses, including 100 stallions and mares, as well as two 9-star breeders, Konlov and Balov.
Horse masters and 9-star horse trainers can continuously produce qualified war horses. Of course, since the quality of horse breeds and mares is not too high, even if there are two extremely capable NPCs, high-quality war horses can be produced.
The probability is still very low.
In addition to the 100 stallions and mares, 100 of the other 500 horses are blue quality horses, and the remaining 400 are green quality qualified war horses.
Further down, there are two grades of inferior horses and inferior horses, respectively of white and gray quality. The inferior horses can no longer be regarded as qualified war horses. They often have various defects, such as insufficient horse speed, insufficient load capacity or endurance, or
The acceleration is poor, but when there is really no horse available, it can barely support it. Yun Xiaohan's original yellow gelding fell into this category. As far as the horse speed was up to standard, the load capacity and endurance were only acceptable, and the acceleration was a shortcoming.
The horse can only pull goods.
Although most of the more than 2,000 horses that Yun Xiaohan looted back then were war horses, he also robbed a lot of bad horses and rogue horses from the towns. This shows that Liya is really good to Yun Xiaohan.
Yun Xiaohan was not given a bad horse or a weak horse, but all horses that could be used as war horses were given to him.
These 500 horses will not have anything to do with players. On the one hand, high-level players look down on blue-quality horses. On the other hand, if players really need horses, they can go to the racecourse in Xueman City to buy them. Yun Xiaohan does not need to ask for them.
They sell horses, so these 500 horses are mainly used by NPCs.
Before the racecourse was built, Yun Xiaohan did not need to bear the cost of raising horses. The expenses for raising horses were temporarily paid by Liya, but Liya would only pay for the player for two weeks at most.
Now that the racecourse has been built, Yun Xiaohan has to raise these 600 horses himself. The cost is quite high, 100 stallions and mares cost 10 gold/day, 100 good horses cost 5 gold/day, 400
An ordinary horse costs 12 gold/day, a total of 27 gold/day. At this price, it saves most of the cost of fodder because there is a horse farm, and it can also be stocked in batches on the horse farm, and the other two nine-star professionals take care of it.
It will also save considerable costs.
If there is no horse farm and no professional care, and you just build stables to raise horses, then the cost of raising horses will at least double. However, this charging standard is normal. After all, raising one horse is equivalent to raising two ordinary soldiers.
(The calculation in the game cannot be too complicated. It is impossible to include factors such as the need to feed refined food during non-war times, so it can only be calculated based on an approximate average value)
High expenditure means high. With these horses and horse farms, Yun Xiaohan can form an NPC cavalry unit. Although the number is a bit small, it is still worth the money. However, Yun Xiaohan still lacks a professional cavalry general.
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In fact, there are many generals in the territory who can lead cavalry. Although none of them have cavalry talents, most of them have cavalry skills. Templar knights like Garibaldi have even more cavalry skills, and even some
He has a lot of cavalry command skills, which can be considered a professional counterpart. However, Garibaldi is obviously more suitable for commanding large regiments, and he is overqualified to lead cavalry.
Therefore, it is okay to mess around in a short period of time, but in the long run, a professional cavalry combat general with talent for cavalry combat is still needed.
The racecourse cannot add additional soldiers, so the cavalry is converted from the territorial soldiers. The cavalry has certain requirements for the quality of the soldiers, and only a small part of the territorial soldiers can be converted into cavalry. Although the racecourse is built outside the city of Bastia,
But it is a public building belonging to the entire Viscounty of Corsica, and can be converted into soldiers for the entire Viscounty of Corsica.
Of course, this refers to the territory directly under Yun Xiaohan. Not to mention that the two fiefs of Garibaldi and Morris have not been completed yet. Even if they have been built, Yun Xiaohan will not consider helping his vassals to form cavalry troops for the time being.
, even if the vassal pays for it himself.
There are currently 3,000 territorial soldiers in the three territories directly under Yun Xiaohan, 1,000 in each territory. Among them, the 1,000 territorial soldiers in Ajaccio City have all been converted into red shirts and can no longer be converted into cavalry. The 500 in Ivas City
The mountain veterans are considered special forces and cannot be converted. The other 500 soldiers in Ivas City can be converted, but they are undergoing mountain warfare training in Insigne. The training process of the mountain soldiers is halfway through, and now they have been converted
Obviously it's not cost-effective, so Yun Xiaohan is not willing to convert them.
So what can really be converted are the 1,000 territorial soldiers in Bastia City, but only 200 of them are suitable to be cavalry, with a probability of 5:1. This probability is based on the region. If it is from the Khanate,
In the region, every territorial soldier can be converted into cavalry. Although the quality of Corsica's soldiers is very high, it is only an island area after all, and the number of qualified cavalry soldiers is very limited. However, after all, the quality of Corsica's soldiers is
This, once it becomes a cavalry, is much stronger than the cavalry converted from normal soldiers.
Only 200 people are definitely not enough. After all, there are 500 horses. Even if you don't form a cavalry, it still costs money to keep the horses in the horse farm, so it is a waste not to use them. Fortunately, Bastia City and Ivas City
After using [Elf Dragon's Colorful Tail Feathers], the barracks have been upgraded to level 4 and can recruit 2,500 territorial soldiers. Yun Xiaohan was worried that the military expenditure would be too high before, so he did not recruit all the territorial soldiers.
There are still 300 cavalry left. According to the probability of 5:1, Yun Xiaohan only needs to recruit all the remaining 1,500 territorial soldiers in Bastia City. But the wages of these 1,500 soldiers plus horse breeding are enough.
In terms of expenses, the territory's expenses will increase significantly. However, no matter how high the expenses are, the necessary measures must be taken, and some money cannot be saved.
The salary of territorial soldiers in Corsica is twice that of normal territorial soldiers. Even if the salary is halved due to the influence of the rare item [Elf Dragon's Colorful Tail Feathers], 1,500 soldiers still need 30 gold/day. Fortunately, because of the maintenance
Because the cost of horses is calculated separately, there will be no salary increase after converting to cavalry, which is good news.