The Hunter family is very efficient under Richard's management, especially in engineering construction. Because Richard has long attached importance to the construction of infrastructure, the Hunter family has accumulated a large number of engineering talents, and now they have started to work.
With the addition of the tireless kobolds, the construction capabilities of the Hunter family's engineering team are absolutely unparalleled in this era. From the time Richard ordered the construction of the Crusade training camp in accordance with Risel's requirements,
In three days, a training camp covering an area of several hundred acres had taken shape.
At this time, Richard was also taking Ruisel to select qualified soldiers in various military camps.
Silver Wings Camp
Because of Richard's army expansion order, the Silver Wings Legion has expanded from more than 20,000 people to 50,000 people. The new recruits were added this month. Thanks to Richard's strict management of the army and the good supply of soldiers in the North, although
Most of the new recruits have been replenished, but the entire Silver Wing Legion camp still seems to be in order. It has not been greatly affected by too many new recruits, and the structure is still very stable.
Of course, too many new recruits will have a certain impact on combat effectiveness. In the eyes of experts, there is still a big difference between well-trained recruits and battle-hardened veterans.
Just like Risel who followed Richard into the Silver Wings Legion's camp, he began to observe after entering the camp gate, and then kept shaking his head, as if he was dissatisfied with the Silver Wings Legion's troop sources, causing the Silver Wings Legion on the side to
The legion commander had a look of dissatisfaction on his face. This man was simply making him look bad in front of Lord Richard.
"The soldiers are well trained."
Fortunately, Richard's words of affirmation made the commander of the Silver Wings Legion look a little better.
"Thank you for the compliment, sir."
"Sir, there are too few qualified soldiers. Unless you choose from among officers, ordinary soldiers can hardly meet the conditions."
Risel didn't care much about the expression of the commander of the Silver Wing Legion who was accompanying him. He just described it truthfully. After all, he couldn't explain to Richard that he chose unqualified soldiers and failed to train the Crusaders.
"Approximately how many suitable soldiers can be selected from among the officers?"
Richard was mentally prepared for the harsh requirements for soldiers. After all, the Crusaders on the blank slate are also the basic combat capabilities of knights. If the Crusaders can be trained by just giving Risel some recruits, then Risel's
The value is too great.
"If you can choose officers, there are probably more than 200 qualified soldiers."
After wandering around the Silver Wings Legion's station for so long, Risel is of course not a freeloader. He basically got a feel for the Silver Wings Legion. According to his screening criteria, at least one hundred members of the Silver Wings Legion can meet the requirements.
Officers above the rank of captain must be the stronger ones among the centurions. They are all quasi-knights and above, veterans of the battlefield who have participated in several battles. As for officers of the level of captain, they are not in this range.
After Richard changed the military system, the captain of the regiment was in charge of a thousand people, and they were basically all knight-level masters. Crusade training was of little significance to them.
After hearing this data, Richard pondered for a moment. It takes time for Risel to train these people into crusaders. Three months is not a long time, but it is not a short time. If so many people are suddenly removed from the Silver Wing Legion,
The words of senior grassroots officers will definitely affect their combat capabilities.
They can only be drawn from different units, and try not to affect the legion's combat effectiveness too much.
"Deploy thirty people from the Silver Wing Legion, and the rest will be deployed from other legions."
"Yes, sir!"
Soon, Rissel took away thirty lucky people from the Silver Wings Legion. It can’t be said that they were lucky people. The Hunter family was mainly based on military exploits. Among the more than two hundred officers of the Silver Wings Legion who were relatively qualified,
, are also prioritized based on their military exploits.
These people can now skip the hurdle of other would-be knights accumulating insights and successfully become knights in three months.
"Let these people pack up and set off immediately and report to Miracle City."
"Yes, sir."
The commander of the Silver Wings Army felt a little distressed when he saw that Risel had chosen thirty of his best junior officers like this. However, the Hunter family's army was not a warlord's army. Richard gave an order.
Come on, let alone extracting people, even if the Silver Wings Legion is disbanded on the spot, we can only do it.
Then Richard took Risel to gather the first batch of training personnel at the slightly closer Sun Legion and Griffin Legion. Now back to Miracle City, Risel waited for all the personnel to arrive.
The training of the Crusaders can begin. After three months, these trained Crusaders will return to their respective legions, that is, more than a hundred knights, who will be supplemented as grassroots officers. Over time, the proportion of knights in the Hunter family's army will be
It is not impossible for the imperial guards of the royal capital to become like orcs, and each centurion has a knight-level master.
Risel is also a workaholic. Shortly after Richard finished selecting his soldiers, he hurried to the newly built training camp to start work without following Richard to have a few pleasant afternoon teas at the Duke's Mansion in Miracle City.
Preparations are coming.
Richard's salty fish didn't last long, and his cavalry general Adelaide quickly came to find him.
"Lord Richard!"
Although Adelaide is not a legendary hero, he is capable of transforming from an elite knight to a heroic level. Not to mention his personal peak strength, he is definitely good at using cavalry. During this period, he has become a hero for Richard.
The cavalry training has put forward a lot of reform plans that are fairly effective. Although they are just minor repairs, there are still occasional ideas that make Richard's eyes shine, so Richard still pays more attention to Adelaide's visit.
"General Adelaide, there is no need to be so polite. If you have anything to do, sit down and tell me."
Richard pointed towards Adelaide at the seat in front of his desk and motioned for Adelaide to take a seat. However, Adelaide obviously did not have the habit of sitting on an equal footing with his lord, so he stood there and explained his purpose to Richard.
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"Sir, I found that the number of light cavalry in our territory is seriously insufficient, and there are also some problems with our tactics."
"Oh? Please explain it in detail."
"Our light cavalry currently pursues speed too much and is mainly lightly armed. In fact, this is a bit wasteful. Although we currently lack heavy war horses, there is no shortage of qualified light horses. We can completely transform the cavalry into infantry and infantry into cavalry.
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The heavy war horses Adelaide mentioned should be the Western Horses. Although the Hunter family has already begun to cultivate the imported Western Horses, this is a slow job. It will take some time before all the cavalry can be equipped. Now the Hunter family
The Te family's armored heavy cavalry numbered one thousand, the Red Flame Knights expanded to one hundred and fifty, and the rest were light cavalry riding northern war horses.
Although Adelaide's words were a bit convoluted, Richard basically understood what he meant. He seemed to have remembered something important after Adelaide's reminder, and his interest greatly increased.
At Richard's signal, Adelaide continued:
"Our light cavalry should be trained in infantry battle formations like the infantry. When going to the battlefield, they cannot only wear thin armor. Soldiers equipped with heavy armor and crossbows must be able to mount and dismount to fight, and they can also dismount and form formations. They can
Seize key points through higher mobility than ordinary infantry, mount your horse to pursue, and dismount your horse to attack the city."
The more Richard heard about this set of tactics, the more familiar he became. In fact, the early Eight Banners soldiers were cavalry that were prepared for many battles, rather than light cavalry with a single function.
It is naturally a good thing to have such cavalry. At least we can get an elite force that can move fast enough. But will the requirements for soldiers be too high?
Adelaide seemed to see Richard's doubts and said to Richard confidently.
"Sir, as long as you mobilize some more war horses and qualified soldiers for me, I am confident that I can train an army."
Tsk, obviously bringing more than 10,000 cavalry is not the limit of Adelaide's ability. Adelaide, who can be promoted from an elite knight to a hero, also has positive aspirations. This is to add tasks to himself.
Of course, Richard would not refuse this kind of thing. Although there are not enough horses in the Western Territory, after controlling the wilderness, there is still no shortage of high-quality Northern War Horses. Although the Northern War Horses are shorter and thinner than the Western Territory horses, they can also carry more weight.
It's a lot worse, but it's not without its advantages. At least it's not that expensive and has good stamina. It's quite suitable for long-distance running.
"You go to Manager Egg to replenish your cavalry regiment with 20,000 recruits. I will ask the Demon City to deploy war horses. However, we have agreed in advance that not many recruits in the Northland have ridden horses since childhood, but I hope you can
Let them quickly form combat effectiveness."
Richard's request sounds a bit excessive. Training people with no equestrian skills into cavalry is not something that can be done quickly. Richard also requires rapid formation of combat effectiveness, which is not that difficult.
But Adelaide obviously had enough confidence in herself and promised Richard.
"After the war horses and soldiers are in place, I promise to bring you a cavalry that can fight in three months."
Adelaide's confidence is not unfounded. The infantry cavalry he wants to train does not require so high a level of riding skills. As long as he can ride on the road in the early stages, three months is enough to get the hang of it, and then he can lead the way.
After going out to fight a few battles, you can basically gain experience.
After sending Adelaide away, the tea gradually cooled down, and Richard had no interest in continuing to drink tea. Instead of letting the waiter warm the tea, he walked directly back to the desk in the Duke's Mansion and read a few volumes of recent chores.
When Richard handles official business, in addition to some important decisions that he has to personally review, he also requires all administrative matters below to be reported to him. He occasionally takes a few volumes to check, which can be regarded as a warning to the following.
Always keep the officials below in a certain sense of awe.
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"Hurry, hurry, hurry! If someone from the flag regiment can't walk any further, the leader of the flag regiment will carry the person on my back and run without stopping!"
wilderness
An army kept trying to increase its speed under the urging of its officers. Although it carried a lot of heavy equipment, the army's forward speed was not slow at all.
And judging from the uniformity of its military appearance and team, it can be seen that this is an elite division.
This 50,000-strong army is the Flying Bear Army that was ordered to go to the wilderness border to support. Because Quill received the order not only to carry all the heavy equipment, but also to ensure the marching speed and reinforce the wilderness as soon as possible, so the following appeared.
In this scene, Quill is not weak in ability and talent, and he is extremely loyal to Richard. Richard's orders are very good, and he can execute them with great attitude.
Just like now, the Flying Bear Army under his command has been on the road for almost ten days. On the day he received Richard's order, Quill quickly gathered his troops and set off. Now the soldiers are already showing fatigue.
But Quill still kept urging to speed up. Fortunately, most of the soldiers of the Flying Bear Army were old-fashioned. Although they were not as highly equipped as the Dragon Army, their toughness was definitely not inferior to that of the Dragon Army. All the soldiers gritted their teeth and persisted.
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"Sir, we have our scouts ahead."
"It should be the cavalry sent by Lady Elena to lead the way!"
There is a high risk of getting lost while marching in the wilderness. Seeing the reconnaissance cavalry approaching from the opposite side at least means that they are not lost. The morale of the soldiers is greatly boosted. Seeing that the morale of the soldiers is available, Quill immediately ordered:
"Speed up! Work harder and try to reach the destination tonight. We can have a night's rest!"
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Wild frontier.
The vanguard of more than a hundred Snow Giant warriors has approached the original hunting ground of the Ice Flame Tribe. No large or medium-sized tribes would visit this place in the past. This place is cold for humans, but not for Snow Giants.
It is not a comfortable environment, and it is difficult for the mammoths, the iconic prey of the Snowfield Tour, to come here. In the eyes of the snow giants, this is a place of little value.
But today, there was a rare gathering of snow giant warriors, and as the subsequent snow giants continued to enter, the number became more and more.
The actions of the snow giants were basically not deliberately concealed. Their size could not be concealed, and the scouts who had dispersed quickly discovered it.
"Lady Elena, the scouts have discovered the snow giant, which is about fifty miles to the north. They seem to be stopping there to gather their forces, and they may be able to reach us within two days."
"Sir, our scouts have discovered the Flying Bear Army. They will arrive tomorrow at the latest."
"It came in time."
This time, the Snow Wind Tribe not only sent its own warriors, but also recruited some warriors from affiliated tribes. There were thousands of snow giant warriors in total. This power was really not something that Elena's current men could stop.
, there must be enough reinforcements.
Even the Flying Bear Army alone is not enough. She has to wait for the support from Richard. However, Elena will not worry about the support from Richard not being timely enough. With teleportation, Richard must be there.
Able to arrive on time.
"Order the scouts to continue to monitor. Don't get too close. Just observe from a distance. Everyone else should be alert and ready to fight at any time."
"In addition, let Barbarian Bone of the Ice Flame Division also take a few of his soldiers to participate in the battle. Don't compete with those prisoners yet. When the battle is over, he will only think that there are too many prisoners of the Ice Flame Division."