Chapter 170: Expansion Plan
The Terran Empire is gone
A new empire called the Templar has been built!
When Lelouch successfully completed the entire enthronement ceremony, he could finally start to carry out the internal construction, he needed to recreate a strong garrison out, and at the same time replenish the personnel for the Praetorian Guard, Lelouch planned to maintain the Guards at about 20,000 people, 6,000 knights, 14,000 infantry, now the knights are available, but the infantry is far from enough.
Lelouch looked at the four people in front of him, four pieces of armor with different characteristics were worn on them, the garrison was a little thicker than before, and also brought some purple patterns, which made them look in addition to the original simple handsomeness, but also added a majestic and mysterious luxury, the Church Guard was the armor designed by Al at the beginning, he can almost be said to be the heaviest armor, it seems that because of the church's unique forging technology, the church knights have a better physique, and in addition to the heaviness, it is the white tone of the knights that is not stained with a trace of lead dust, white helmets and white armor white cloaks。
The last Praetorian Guards are white and purple, the garrison only has a small amount of purple, and the Praetorian Guards are half white and purple, they have a deeper sense of mystery and luxury, they no longer look like mortal warriors, but real guardian warriors, Lelouch has even asked for a body forging method to help these Praetorian Knights exercise their physique.
To tell the truth, Lelouch has been thinking about how the church is exercised, he thought that it was relying on powerful magical power to directly transform the human body, and he couldn't cry or laugh after getting the method, it seems that Middle-earth is really not a powerful magical world, Lelouch only guessed correctly, that is, the church does rely on magic, but its core is still eating.
Their method is actually very simple, the original food, ordinary people may only be able to absorb about half of the nutrients after eating, while the church knight can absorb nine, or all.
So in the end, it's still a lot of money, Lelouch originally wanted to promote it on a large scale, but now there is no way for the time being, before there is no systematic teaching system, Lelouch doesn't have so many magicians to use, and the input and output of magic is too small, except for a few big magicians who can have some effect, the vast majority of magicians, the more lethal may be the great shaman of Mordor, or the kingdom established by magicians who have specialized in lethal magic.
But they all proved that they were nothing more than an insignificant cloud in front of the army.
So Lelouch just let the Praetorian Guards also enjoy the treatment of forging the body, and it is to enjoy it, Al has no opinion on this, and even welcomes it very much, although Lelouch made the position of the church a little awkward, directly making the emperor completely above the church, but also giving the church the long-awaited actual ruling power, even if they will be played by the emperor forever as a price between applause, after all, when the people face the priest and the Son, there is no doubt that they will be more willing to believe in the words of the Son of God.
And after looking at the Praetorian Guard, the fourth person is a little very distinctive, the front three are all white as the main color, only here is the dark red used, the armor looks extremely hideous, even the cloak behind him is also dazzling bright red, and his body is far higher than the previous three, the body is nearly two heads higher, the armor is also extraordinarily heavy, the front is thick, here is heavy, walking on the marble floor, even can make an extremely loud impact sound, not a knocking sound.
Lelouch looked at the four perfect warriors in his mind with satisfaction, and he said with a smile:
"I called everyone here today, mainly to discuss the plan to expand the army, although we have just defeated Mordor, but we can't take it lightly, Mordor will come again at any time, and our enemies are no longer limited to Mordor outside the God-given land, but also internal enemies, so expanding the army is the first priority!"
Lelouch won the approval of the four people below, no general would dislike the size of his army, they would always ask for more, Lelouch continued:
"The specific military plan is initially as follows: the Church and Guard will maintain the current situation, but expand the system of armed priests among the people, and strive for every church to produce an armed priest. ”
Lelouch is not ready to strengthen the strength of the Church Guards in the short term, although the faith of the Guardians has long been changed to the son of God and the Emperor, but after all, it has not been verified by time, and the strength of the Guardians is the most complete and the most powerful, and their needs for expanding the army are not particularly urgent, but Lelouch attaches great importance to the existence of the armed priests of the church who did not pay special attention to before, because Lelouch found that in addition to being a qualified and powerful warrior on the battlefield, these armed priests also have an ability that the whole of Middle-earth has not noticed, and this ability has a special name in the weakly religious earth:
Commissar!
Lelouch even can't wait to put an armed priest in each company of the three armies, they will greatly improve the morale and morale of the company, and can also strengthen the direct control of the upper echelons over the grassroots army, Lelouch maintains that even in the first batch of schools created, half of the places in the military school are given to armed priests, in addition to cultivating them, there is also another brainwashing education, so that they can be completely controlled in their own hands.
As for Lelouxiu's proposal, Qin Chuan didn't say anything, but just spent a cross religiously:
"Everything is God's will!"
To be honest, Lu Luxiu couldn't stand it, he didn't expect Qin Chuan to be a person from the church, and he didn't expect that such a perfect knight would be so pious, even if Qin Chuan understood what the so-called Divine Son was all about.
Lelouch shook his head slightly, and put his eyes on the Praetorian Guard again, Frank's ability is not longer than that of the Great Legion, generally speaking, Frank is not a strategic talent, but a tactical talent, so Lelouch put Frank in the Praetorian Guard, he looked at Frank in the new armor, nodded with satisfaction, Qinchuan came to the church, Nevsky is a barbarian, Libert's identity is blurred, only Frank was found and recruited by himself, loyalty is the best in comparison, combat effectiveness is also good, and Lelouch believes that after forging the body, Frank will be improved again。
Lelouch says:
"The Praetorian Guard will not be recruited directly from the people, except in very rare and extremely special circumstances, the main source of the Praetorian Guard will be directly and regularly selected from the garrison and the Guardian Army, and the number of the Holy Guard Knights is already sufficient, so the Praetorian Guard will be expanded to six thousand first!"
Lelouch also wants to only fill up the number of Praetorian Guards, but at the moment Lelouch has too few veterans in his hands, and the nature of the Praetorian Guards determines that he cannot directly recruit recruits to train slowly like other branches of the military, so Lelouch can only be half of the infantry and cavalry, and in this way, a large number of veterans of the garrison will also be transferred, and the veteran of the Guardian Army Lelouxiu is not afraid, after all, the total number of Guards is there, and the combat effectiveness will not be lost too much.
Frank didn't have much to do with this, he had gone from a flag officer with no actual military power to a commander of the four major armies of the empire, and he would always be by Lelouch's side, which was already a pretty good progress, so a little less Frank could accept it at the moment.
After settling the matter of the Praetorian Guard, Lelouch looked at Nevsky again, Nevsky's legion is actually not Lelouch's standing legion, he is a bit similar to the French Foreign Legion, and the current Nevsky can't really expand the army, before Lelouch comes into contact with the dwarves, or before the entire God-given land is stabilized, it is impossible for Nevsky's people to migrate down, after all, hundreds of thousands of people of nearly one million, such a long migration is extremely resource-intensive.
So Nevsky does not have the possibility of expanding the army at present, except for the five thousand bear horses, there is no army, he just nodded slightly to Nevsky and didn't say anything more, and finally looked at the Libert who he valued the most, the garrison seems to be the bottom of the entire military system, but in fact it is the most important force in Lelouch's future empire, the garrison is a conventional army, and it is also the legion with the largest number of Lelouch in the future, and even the strongest army in the overall combat power, Lelouch will vigorously strengthen the garrison next。
"In the next six months, the garrison will be replenished to the maximum, and after half a year, it is necessary to ensure that the total strength of the garrison reaches 100,000, and there are no less than 15,000 imperial knights!"
Lelouch's words lifted Liebert's spirits, and the other three also showed envious glances, and Lelouch continued:
"Economically, I'll figure out a way, wait for Kainon to pay you the materials and resources needed to expand the army by 20,000 people first, and the rest will be given to you in batches, how to expand the army, you can figure it out yourself!"
After Lelouch finished speaking, he let the four of them leave, and the specific military arrangements can only do this step at present, at the moment it seems that there are a lot of Leluxiu, but in fact there are very few, the main force of the strongest Church Guard Army is guarding the Horn Fort, and 10,000 holy knights are also guarding the White City by Lelouch's side, the Church Guard Army almost does not have any force that can be mobilized, and the remaining Janissaries have just been established, and it is difficult to take them out to make a difference, only one garrison can be used in a mobile way, but after trying their best to survive the bloody battle of Horn Fort, their numbers are already extremely scarce, and such a powerful and tragic war also makes them need a relatively long recovery period, to be honestIn half a year, Lelouch felt that it was a bit fast, and it would take at least a year for them to fully recover.
But time waits for no one, Lelouch doesn't have much time, he must have a strong and loyal army in half a year, this enthronement ceremony gave Lelouch an extremely bad premonition, the heaven-sent land seems to be more willing to support the original old man emperor than the original old man emperor who was only willing to nest in the white city and himself, if it wasn't for the strong military power and the blood of the human emperor who carried the church at that time, he was likely to suffer a battle outside the white city, and the more than 200,000 peasant soldiers who were actually the most important were very likely to be encouraged by those nobles。
Therefore, Lelouch urgently needed a large army, and was able to provide a strong guarantee for the series of reforms he really began to implement in half a year.
After sending the four people away, Lelouch called Wang Zifeng again, Wang Zifeng now has some combinations between El and De Cres, and the job that Lelouch arranged for him is the secretary general, he has to do everything, and things are more complicated, but Wang Zifeng relies on his extremely outstanding ability, but he also does things satisfactorily, showing his extraordinaryness in internal affairs.
"During this time, I haven't paid attention to the production situation in the garrison, and it's not very clear about our current specific situation, so you can analyze it for me. ”
Wang Zifeng, who had already had a draft, returned directly:
"Let's talk about our overall situation first, although our overall situation can't be said to be good, but it is still stable enough, Fort Horn has 50,000 Guardian guards, even if Mordor comes over again, we can block it, and hold on until the reinforcements of the rear line arrive, and in White City, we have 5,000 bear riders, 6,000 Guardian Knights, 10,000 holy knights, as well as 6,000 Janissaries and 14,000 garrisons, nearly 60,000 peasant soldiers in the north and south, mainly with the completion of the throne, a large number of peasant soldiers followed the peasants back to their hometowns, and the north and south also returned a lot, and in the end only these 60,000 people were willing to stay. ”
Lu Luxiu was very clear about this, and the more he waited for Wang Zifeng to continue to talk about the internal affairs situation, Wang Zifeng did not pause:
"In terms of internal affairs, everything is stable, and after the previous bumper harvests, we have ushered in a bumper harvest again this year, and with the continuous increase in population, the scale of the harvest is also expanding, coupled with the monopoly operation of the caravan, we still have extremely strong stamina in food and money, but it has not yet reached the stage of frozen harvest, there is still a three-month interval, and our grain reserves have also been in the recent past."
Speaking of this, Wang Zifeng glanced at Lu Luxiu, and Lu Lu Xiu took a sip of water carelessly, as if he didn't see Wang Zifeng, of course, it was good to mobilize large-scale farmers to strengthen the momentum, but the cost was also extremely serious, how serious was it? What the prince said next made Lu Luxiu a little unable to help:
"The current situation is that the money is still relatively stable and has a certain amount of wealth, but in terms of grain, our receipts and reserves for more than a year have been completely consumed, not the official warehouse, but every grain in the entire system, if you want to redeem the grain, then the farmers in the garrison will start to starve!"