"Chapter 61: Shogunate Recruitment"
When you are able to enjoy your own life as an individual, you are free, and you are free from dependence on others.
- Osho (Founder of Rajnesh Ashram)
Because almost all of the ninjas and spies in the shogunate palace system were mobilized by Bai Feng to form the Imperial Capital of the Heavenly Dragon Empire to form the Tragic Song Dead Warriors, he needed to recruit another group of ninjas and spies to go to the Luxi tribe to carry out the sabotage plan.
The recruitment price of a second-order ninja with the same strength as a junior swordsman is 200 stones, and the recruitment price of a first-order spy with the same strength as a trainee swordsman is 100 stones.
More importantly, the task of these ninjas and spies who are proficient in stealth disguise is not to fight the warriors of the Luxi tribe head-on, but to secretly burn the food and various material reserves of the settlements of the Luxi tribe in order to weaken the war potential of the Luxi tribe.
Adrien has one hundred and eighty battlefield ghosts whose strength is equal to that of a high-level swordsman, and Ivan also has one hundred and twenty shadow killers whose strength is equivalent to that of a high-level swordsman.
In terms of individual combat effectiveness, battlefield ghosts and shadow killers are undoubtedly a few streets away from ninjas and spies, and among the characters that can be recruited by the shogunate hall system, only battlefield ninjas, geisha, and sword saints can be compared to battlefield ghosts and shadow killers.
Battlefield Ninjas and Geisha, who have an initial experience level of the fourth order, have no difference in strength with Battlefield Ghosts and Shadow Slayers, but their characteristics determine that they are not suitable for performing the tasks of Battlefield Ghosts and Shadow Slayers, which is a reality that Bai Feng has not changed.
As for the Juggernaut, who is more powerful than the Battlefield Ghost and the Shadow Slayer, it is the strongest person that can be recruited by the Shogunate Hall System with an initial experience level of 5th, but the high recruitment price of the Juggernaut determines that it is difficult for them to become cost-effective recruits.
For example, the battlefield ninjas recruited for a price of 1,200 stone are a team of battlefield ninjas composed of a full twenty-four fourth-order battlefield ninjas;
Compared with those middle and low-level shogunate figures, the recruitment cost performance of the Sword Master is still very good, but compared with the battlefield ninjas who are also high-level shogunate figures, the recruitment cost performance of the Sword Master is much worse, which is why Bai Feng has not recruited the Sword Master.
Since none of the shogunate characters who are about or even stronger than the battlefield ghosts and shadow killers do not have the ability to carry out undercover sabotage missions, then recruiting more ninjas and spies to carry out undercover sabotage missions has become Hakuho's only choice.
After some careful consideration and comparison, Bai Feng decided to recruit 400 spies with similar abilities to the battlefield ghosts, and 200 ninjas with similar abilities to the shadow killers, the former costing Bai Feng 40,000 stones, and the latter also costing Bai Feng 40,000 stones.
Shogunate Hall Attribute Table
Shogunate area: Mutsu Province (1,730,000 stone)
Shogunate assets: 98,400 stones
Shogunate income: 17,300 koku (1% of the ruling stone high)
Shogunate Figures (1541): Priest (1st level, 500), Spy (1st level, 575), Secret Envoy (1st level, 75), Ninja (2nd level, 265), Geisha (4th level, 30), Battlefield Ninja (4th level, 4th team)
Shogunate Army (42240): Notai Sword Samurai (3rd Rank, 100 Teams), Monk Soldiers (4th Rank, 20th Team), Infant Sword Samurai (3rd Rank, 10th Team), Spear Samurai (2nd Rank, 60th Team), Spear Ashigaru (1st Rank, 80th Team), Iron Gun Spearmen (3rd Rank, 82 Team)
Shogunate General: Keiji Goto (top special samurai)
Seeing the assets of the shogunate in the shogunate hall system suddenly drop from 178,400 stone to 98,400 stones, Bai Feng's heart was still a little painful; if the entire 80,000 stone of shogunate assets were used for the recruitment of the shogunate army, it would be an army of tens of thousands!
Of course, even if Bai Feng did not continue to recruit the shogunate army now, the size of the shogunate army should not be underestimated over time, except for the 18,000 soldiers of the shogunate camp left in the northern grassland of the Tianlong Empire, the remaining soldiers were still as high as more than 24,000.
However, among the more than 24,000 shogunate soldiers stationed in the military camp outside Rome, nearly 10,000 soldiers were spears that were no different from cannon fodder, and the total number of third-class samurai and fourth-class monks who could be called the elite of the shogunate was only 3,600.
Unlike the Rome City system, where all recruits had a zero initial experience level, the Shogunate Hall system had a very strict hierarchy of Shogunate classes, with the Shogunate Army starting with a low initial XP level for the Ordinary Troops and a high starting XP level for the Elite Troops.
Bai Feng's understanding of this is that the spear abutil, which has an initial experience level of the first level, is a pure cannon fodder unit, and in order to play a role, it must be recruited on a large scale, and the spear warriors and archers with the initial experience level of the second level are the regular army whose combat effectiveness has been improved.
The Notai Sword Samurai, the Infant Sword Samurai, the Archers, the Lancers, the Infant Sword Cavalry, and the Heavy Cavalry, which had an initial experience level of three levels, had gone beyond the scope of ordinary regular armies and belonged to the elite troops, and were the real mainstay and backbone of the shogunate army.
The Monk Soldier, who starts with a level 4 experience, is a unique top class of troops in the shogunate army, with fanatical faith, fierce combat power, and high morale...... The monk soldier with countless halos on his head is undoubtedly the strongest class in the shogunate hall system!
The other two special classes of the Shogunate, which are the same first-class shogunate arms as the Lance Ashigaru, have a very different value from the Spear Ashigaru, and these two units that are highly used and trusted by Hakuho are the Arquebusiers and the Iron Gunners who have performed many miracles in the Sunset Fortress.
The Iron Gunner, which is recruited for 350 stones, is an upgraded version of the arquebusier, which is recruited for 200 stones, and the limitations and fatal flaws of the excessive use of arquebuses determine that Bai Feng would rather spend more money to recruit iron gunners directly than recruit arquebusiers.
After the unification war in the eastern region is over, Hakumine will lead a large shogunate army to the Yamato Empire, and at that time, the remaining nearly 100,000 stone shogunate assets will be used by Hakumine to recruit shogunate troops and shogunate generals.
Prior to this, spending 80,000 stone shogunate assets to recruit 400 spies and 200 ninjas was already the limit of Hakumine, and these 600 newly recruited shogunate figures would leave for the Luxi tribe after the battlefield ghosts and shadow killers were assembled.
Six hundred ninjas and spies of the Shogunate Hall System, and three hundred battlefield ghosts and shadow killers of the Roman system, what kind of movements can be tossed within the Luxi Tribes and the Eastern Alliance, Bai Feng will wait and see.
That night, after dealing with the affairs of the two systems, Bai Feng fell asleep with a satisfied smile, and the next morning, the first thing Bai Feng did when he woke up was not to gather the ninjas and spies recruited last night, but to teleport directly back to the east of the empire.
The battlefield ghosts under Adrien's command and the shadow killers under Ivan's command are all over the six eastern provinces and the six northern provinces of the empire, but the two of them are in the military camp on the front line of the Mengdan Province, which is also the order that Bai Feng gave them early in the morning.