The matter of army expansion was settled at Richard's insistence. With the Hunter family's financial resources, although it would be a bit stressful to support a new army, it could still be done by moving here and there. As Egger,
The big housekeeper who was in charge of Ironwood City's money and food always instinctively had some headaches about things like military expansion.
This military expansion was carried out from two aspects. First, to supplement the original two legions. The Flying Bear Army and the Tiger and Leopard Army each expanded a flag regiment of 5,000 people to form a strengthened legion with five flag regiments.
A new legion of 25,000 people was formed, and the new legion was named the Burning Sun Legion, which coincided with Richard's fighting spirit attributes.
The equipment of the Legion of the Burning Sun is still provided by the ordnance factory, but some updates have been made to the equipment compared to the past.
Ordinary bows and arrows have been basically eliminated from the equipment sequence. The long-range troops only retain the bear-hunting crossbow and the Zhangzhang crossbow, two long-range weapons with strong armor-breaking capabilities. The improved partial box truck fleet has also become the current regular army of Ironwood City.
of standard configuration.
In war, one must be good at summarizing experience and lessons. The Hunter family has jumped out of the level of competition among small nobles. The target enemies have become orcs and even snow giants, non-human beings with amazing defense capabilities. Orcs are because of their strong strength.
Their bodies can be covered with thicker iron armor, and snow giants are naturally rough-skinned and thick-bodied, so ordinary bows and arrows cannot break through their defenses. Even the system's marksmen are not effective at damaging them. Only the great elf archers can.
After reading some, it doesn't make much sense to continue to be an ordinary archer.
Sidecars can directly charge into battle against strong fighting races. At least when facing off against orcs, soldiers can rely on sidecars to make up for their physical disadvantages.
Spears, large shields, and armor-piercing weapons have become the main hand-to-hand combat equipment of the Hunter family's armies. Richard's imaginary enemy in building the army has gradually shifted from the human army to the alien army, and everything revolves around the idea of fighting the orcs.
Now, in addition to the system army, Richard will have more than 80,000 professional troops under his command, including three legions: the Flying Bear Army, the Tiger and Leopard Army, and the Lieyang Army, plus a cavalry flag regiment. The Hunter family's previous structure will definitely not be able to sustain it.
There have been so many professional armies, but now the Hunter family is different.
At present, the territory controlled directly or indirectly by the Hunter family already occupies half of the Northland, and it is still eroding the traditional sphere of influence of the Lanster family.
Although there were only more than two million people in the territory directly under the Lanster family in the past, as the overlord of the North, the Lanster family also had considerable influence on other northern lords. The Lanster family could control the territory of other lords.
When it comes to trade and conscription, as long as it doesn't go too far, no one dares to complain.
But now with the rise of the Hunter family and its performance becoming more and more powerful, more nobles are gradually turning to the Hunter family. Otherwise, because of the harsh rules set by Richard, I am afraid that except for the Lanster family in the entire North,
The rest of the nobles have already defected to the Hunter family.
Even though Richard has strict rules now, under the threat of war, many nobles still joined the alliance formed by the Hunter family in order to protect themselves, consciously sent their nephews to Ironwood City to study, and transferred their quasi-knights to Hunter
Served in the family army.
When the ogres marched eastward, the Hunter family performed very well. The nobles who took refuge with the Hunter family were basically spared from suffering. However, the nobles who had obeyed the Lanster family in the past had to fend for themselves in the end. Everyone
You vote with your feet. Since the Lanster family is no longer stable, it makes sense to seek refuge with the Hunter family.
Especially in the last half month, an army of orcs has appeared. There has been such a big movement, and there are giant dragons and sky-level warriors fighting. Everyone is not a fool. It is impossible for everyone to know what happened in Ironwood City.
After fully confirming the tension of the situation and the strength of the Hunter family, more nobles from the North surrendered to the Hunter family despite Richard's somewhat harsh regulations.
Now the Northland's population of more than 10 million people is divided into four and six. The Hunter family accounts for six and the Lanster family accounts for four. Moreover, the Hunter family is still expanding, and sooner or later the Lanster family will be overtaken.
The only area of influence left is its own direct territory, and even more...
And Richard now has a population of 6 million, half of the Northland, and a professional standing army of 80,000 people. This ratio is not actually considered militaristic.
In half a month, apart from keeping an eye on army expansion, army training and territory construction in Ironwood City, Richard did not go to Demon Suppression City for the time being. There were two legions of the Flying Bear and the Tiger and Leopard Army there, and Lin Te coordinated.
Management, I couldn't figure out anything, so I went to the Stone Castle to receive the reward for this mission.
This battle was considered to be an overfulfillment of the mission. The scale of the battle was small but the quality of the enemies was very high. The gain of more than 600,000 experience points was almost the same as the gain in the battle with the orcs. When receiving the mission reward, I was once again rewarded with hundreds of thousands of experience points. Finally, I gained another
Richard was reborn one level.
At present, Richard's level has reached level 19. However, except for the improvement of various attributes, there has not been much improvement in strength for the time being. After gaining a few more skill points, the Lieyang Qi Entrainment Technique is finally in a state where it can be upgraded.
However, considering his current weak state, Richard was afraid of the negative consequences of rashly increasing his strength, so he decided to endure it until his physical condition recovered.
In addition to experience, the other rewards of the mission are also quite rich, including a treasure-type reward and a soldier-type reward.
The golden armor as a treasure reward can provide the wearer with a five-point strength bonus, and provide five defense points for the wearer and his subordinate soldiers at the same time. Coupled with Richard's advanced defense skills, it can be greatly improved.
The basic defense of the Crusaders, which is famous for its defense, is twelve points. With the bonus of golden armor and advanced defense skills, the Crusaders' defense can be close to twenty points. This is really an unbeatable iron on the battlefield.
Canned.
The only thing that makes Richard dissatisfied is this golden armor. It is so beautiful and gorgeous. It is more than ten times more shiny than the white-based gold-edged armor that Richard made to show off. It has red background and gold patterns. The whole armor is legendary.
It's so shiny that it's hard not to be noticed on the battlefield.
Fortunately, the second bonus unit adds a close bodyguard for Richard - the Extraordinary Swordsman, the Extraordinary Swordsman. Richard is not familiar with this unit, but vaguely remembers that they replaced it in a certain version of Invincible Heroes.
Angels have become the top arms of human forces. They are dressed in spiked heavy armor, wearing a cape that looks like Spartan red pants, and hold a giant sword that looks like a door panel. They are two meters tall and look stronger than orcs. At first glance, they look like angels.
He is particularly capable of fighting,
The only thing Richard is worried about is that in the game, the Excellent Swordsman is not a flying unit. If he comes here, he can only move on the ground. As a top-level soldier, it will indeed be a discount. Fortunately, the Excellent Swordsman is also trapped by the system.
With the template of Dou Qi, an outstanding swordsman with mid-level strength in the sky can also use Dou Qi to fly, but his flying ability is weaker than those of archangels and dragons who are born with wings.
After receiving the reward, something happened that made Richard slightly confused. The Congress of Stone Castle did not issue new tasks. After checking several times to no avail, Richard could only give up temporarily and explain it as his recent
I have completed the task and no new tasks have been triggered yet.
