Although Belisarius was not happy with this Ottoman beard, he was in agreement with the question he raised, 8,000 soldiers was definitely a large army for some small countries, but in the establishment of the Byzantine Empire, this was at best the strength of two legions, and if the Udolfinger region was to be suppressed and cleared, at least three legions of soldiers were needed.

As the orthodox heirs of the Roman Empire, the Byzantines' army formation and tactical training have many shadows of the Roman Empire, and the soldiers who joined the army were trained in strict discipline and battle formations, and then armed with the equipment of functional buildings, forming a legion of about four to five thousand.

Although this kind of artificial discipline training has prolonged the time for the formation of troops, it has greatly strengthened the combat effectiveness, and the legionnaires who attach importance to discipline and cooperation can often easily defeat the expensive armies that have received as many reinforcements, but this kind of combat effectiveness cannot be formed without the dual polishing of actual combat and training, and the 8,000 people of the alliance have only been roughly reorganized, and they are still far from the word corps.

"Lord Dior, we need more legions, and I suggest that you make a mandatory conscription for Bologna to expand the size of your troops."

Compulsory conscription is to capture the men of appropriate age in the territory into the barracks for compulsory training, and the lord who is the highest authority in the territory can force his people to take up arms and go to the battlefield by stopping the operation of functional buildings such as farms, lumber yards, fishing grounds, and markets, which is quite common in war, and in order to strengthen his soldiers, the lord will also squeeze out all the resources in the hands of the lords.

"If we want to improve the combat effectiveness of the troops, we have other methods, and blindly increasing the number will sometimes reduce the combat effectiveness."

Educated from an early age, Dio was reluctant to treat his subjects like a traditional lord, and he was more than willing to see the young people of Bologna go into valuable occupations such as merchants, scholars, craftsmen, blacksmiths, farmers, and sailors.

"Do you mean reinforcement through functional architecture? It takes a lot of resources...... And I can remind you, Lord Hearn, that if you want to fight these monsters with 8,000 soldiers, you'll have to upgrade their overall equipment by two levels. ”

If these units were reinforced to 2,000 heavy halberders, 1,500 two-handed swordsmen, 1,100 heavy javelinmen, 900 crossbowmen, and 1,000 light cavalry, then Belisarius and Selim would be confident that they would be able to use this expensive elite to meet the legendary undead monsters for a while, as the enhancement of the functional building system would save the unit at least three years of training.

Halberds, infantry crossbows, and heavy two-handed swords are all weapons that require a long period of training to be used freely, and the enhanced equipment allows the soldiers to master these combat skills in just a cup of tea, their physical fitness will be stronger, and even their mental strength will be affected by the enhanced equipment and become brave, and the high-level soldiers who have accumulated a lot of resources will definitely have satisfactory combat effectiveness.

However, the resources required to upgrade the equipment of 8,000 people to two levels are in tens of thousands, and even a large empire of Europa's first-class level will take out this amount of resources at one time It will hurt for a long time, and Bologna is just a city-state......

"That's it! Sir Selim, I just plan to use resources to strengthen the soldiers of the Alliance, and this is a good way to do it. ”

What everyone never expected was that Theodoric waved his hand very angrily and said a shocking proposal.

"As the initiator of this alliance, Bologna will take out two million gold and other resources as the military expenses of the alliance army, all spearmen will be trained as heavy halberders, all swordsmen will be trained as two-handed swordsmen, the shooting range troops will be directly promoted to the top, the scout cavalry will also be trained as light cavalry, and the national units that cannot be strengthened will go to the blacksmith shop to improve and carry them."

The young man's sky-breaking trench frightened all the lords and nobles, including some noble and knowledgeable people, what is the concept of two million units of gold? The Byzantine Empire and the Frankish Empire did not have so much of a year's harvest combined.

'Too... What a waste! If I had this gold, I could train eight elite legions in four years, or build another mobile field army for the Empire! Belisarius's two million-pounded mind was all about forming a loyal fatherland.

'Two million gold! Million! If I had this gold, I would have easily defeated all my brothers and ascended to the throne of the Sultan, freeing the Ottomans from this senseless war! Selim's mind is also in turmoil.

'Never heard of gold mines in Bologna?' How much gold is going to be hollowed out! The other lords were quite realistic.

The dry, glittering Theodoric didn't wait for the listeners to regain their strength before he detonated a more exciting promise.

"Of course, even if it is strengthened with resources, the alliance's strength is still stretched, so I hope that you can contribute more backbone soldiers to serve the alliance, and Bologna will give them enough resources to strengthen it, which is the benefit of the alliance!"

"When this crusade is over, the remaining resources of the Reinforcement Soldiers will be a gift from Bologna to the joining companions! Bologna will open its treasury and distribute the remaining resources to everyone, but in order to prevent unpleasant incidents, I am not going to release the total number of troops in Bologna and the location of the reserve warehouse! The Alliance needs elite warriors! The more the merrier! ”

Every lord wants to improve the combat effectiveness of their army, but the expensive expenses discourage them, and now suddenly a local tyrant stands up and says that as long as they are willing to send troops to fight, they will give everyone a free upgrade of their troops, which is simply a pie in the sky!

Dio asked the lords to send experienced soldiers who had actually participated in the battle, although this kind of soldiers were usually very valuable, but they were worthless compared to a set of high-level soldiers' enhanced equipment, because soldiers were easy to die but high-level equipment was difficult to damage, as long as the equipment of the war dead was taken off and put on by a farmer, an elite soldier could go into battle again.

Many lords have the habit of collecting bonus equipment parts, although this behavior is very unseemly, but if you are lucky enough to be able to make a set of functional equipment out of parts, this can save a lot of resources, there are a lot of rags in the basement of Hearn Manor, and there are also lords who use these bonus equipment as training tools for soldiers, so that they can wear crafted products to the battlefield, both methods have their own merits.

"The Byzantine Empire, as the inheritor of the Roman will, has an obligation to protect the peace of the continent! I'll bring more fighters over! ”

Belisarius took the lead in setting an example, and the lords who reacted changed their previous reluctance and actively demanded help.

Now we don't have to worry about the number of troops. Bologna can also gain prestige at the imperial level in this event, and the cohesion of the Ortogothic lords can also be greatly improved, which is worth the limelight! And...... The feeling of the local tyrant is really too happy! “

Bologna itself certainly doesn't have that much gold, which is F· S· The sincerity of the M Order, when Yumemi Okazaki handed over the control of the gold to Dio, the young lord almost fainted when he looked at the row of zeros on the handover documents.

"This ...... How did your Order get so much gold? Oh, my God! Million! Five million gold! What an exaggeration! ”

Yes, the Order's allied funds to Bologna are five million units of gold, and the location of the reserve is unknown, but Dio can call on this incredible amount of gold at any time and place through the resource network of functional buildings—enough gold to turn good people into demons.

"Centuries ago, the Order's predecessors found the corpse of a visitor from another world, and the corpse carried several 'non-divine creations' with very magical functions, including a very special pocket, this pocket has the same effect as the holy relics in the church, but it is much faster than the holy relics, this pocket can produce a thousand units of gold every day, and now it is yours."

Yumemi Okazaki did not hesitate to hand the pocket to Dior, as if the pocket was not a precious treasure but a piece of hoodoo.

"This was given to me directly? Mine? It's so precious! How can you let me accept this thing calmly! Miss Okazaki! ”

Dio wanted to put on a manly attitude and return the treasure pocket to Yumemi Okazaki, but he suddenly found that his hand was not listening.

"You can keep it in peace. This gold bag doesn't have much value to the Order, our organization makes us not have much need for gold, because we don't have many functional buildings that need to be driven, if you want to have a heart, just donate some common currency to the Order. ”

The standard currency of this world is not gold, gold is popular as a high-value auxiliary currency, and the use of gold in many places is illegal, which has led to the F· S· After acquiring pockets and amassing a staggering amount of gold, the Order of M found themselves unable to turn gold into a driving force for the Order's growth, unless they wanted to go head-to-head with the Supreme Inquisition.

"That corpse is one of the most important discoveries of the Order, we have found many miraculous functional creations in him, such as a very beautiful horned cup, as long as you hold it in your hand, you can pour out gems, crystals, sulfur and mercury in a steady stream, and now the elders of the Order are still worried about the hundreds of tons of mercury and sulfur in the storehouse, and we have also found a sword, the gauntlet of this sword is made of red metal that looks like gold, and the blade of the sword will emit a scorching light when wielded, and finally caused a disaster."

When she said this, Yumemi Okazaki had a look of fear and emotion on her face, and it was obvious that this disaster was not that simple.

"At that time, many scholars of the Order were very interested in this sword, and they gathered in the Order's stronghold in the mountains of Vesuvius to study the secret of this sword, and they successfully activated this sword, bringing a terrible disaster to the area around Vesuvius."

"The first huge explosion turned Vesuvius into a volcano, and then a terrible meteor fell from the sky and destroyed everything."

"Only one scholar was spared by the power of a 'non-divine creation,' but a few months later he hanged himself in his room out of guilt, and the research he brought back gave us the name of the sword, and it was called Doomsday."

"This sword... Are you still in the Order? If there is such a sword! It's also easy to defeat the undead, right? ”

Dio's words caused Yumemi Okazaki to laugh, and the head of the female sect patted the little brother on the shoulder and said earnestly.

"The Last Judgment is still soaking in the lava at the bottom of Mount Vesuvius! O brave boy! Go get it out! ”

Yumemi Okazaki's purpose in telling Dio this was not to remind him of the dangers of 'non-divine creations', but her purpose was achieved.

"That visitor from the other world must be a very rich and very high-status person, right? With such a divine sword and such a treasure, I think compared to him, our emperor here is simply a farmer. ”

Theodoric, who was holding the golden bag, was full of emotion for this local tyrant who died in another world.

Christian Dior took the treasure and F· S· The M Order had a lot of gold in storage, and he even figured out the gold claims.

As a territory that has been attacked by the scourge of the undead, the spoils of Bologna after the final victory are miracles, and the fountain of life is one of the miracles of victory, this is indeed the truth, but the people rewarded by the spring are just knocks.

And the gold pocket and the incredible amount of gold in his hand were also the reward for defeating the undead, but at that time, the Hearn family was afraid of being attacked by evil neighbors with bad intentions, so they hid the treasure and gold.

Now, the scale of the attack on the territory of Udolfinger is even greater than that of Bologna, and if you defeat these undead, what kind of valuable treasures will you gain? This is an irresistible temptation for the greedy 'hungry wolves'!

As long as this message is released at the right time, it will not only divert the covetousness of Bologna, but also fully mobilize the enthusiasm of those lords in the alliance, as the advocate and leader of the alliance, Bologna's development will be rapid and fast!

Over the next half month, Dio squandered centuries of the Order's savings, turning gold into wood, stone, and food, and then hired thousands of builders from several joining Teutonic lords to build twenty-six castles around the city of Bologna, and then connected the castle's defensive line with a strong array of battlements and arrow towers, and built a large temporary military district outside the original city of Bologna, tripling the size of the city.

In the real world, this is a big project that would take generations to complete, but in the world of the Age of Empires, with enough resources and the support of workers, these works only took a week.

Although this military district is full of all kinds of functional buildings printed in a mold, these buildings are used instead of beautifying the city, and the soldiers who come to fight will not complain about this.

In addition to the lords whose territories are relatively far away, other lords and power leaders have brought their veterans to Bologna to wear the lowest level of bonus equipment to enjoy benefits, of course...... Because they were afraid of losing a lot because of a small one, they didn't make up the numbers with parallel goods.

Even the Byzantines, who had a great family and had always prided itself on the domineering power of the empire, sent 2,000 elite men dressed in the equipment of the previous era to the headquarters of the alliance - these were indeed veterans who had survived major battles, but now the Byzantium, with its empty treasury, had no way to equip these soldiers, and the empire could only maintain the best regiments in combat effectiveness.

Rather than let these precious elite soldiers be buried in vain as miscellaneous fish on the front line of wrestling with the desert peoples because they do not have enough equipment, it is better to send them to Bologna, where they can take care of food and shelter and equipment, and if the empire encounters a crisis, it can also urgently transfer this army that has recovered its combat effectiveness by the hands of a certain local tyrant back to Byzantium, and it is very convenient for Bologna to go to Byzantium by sea.

In line with the principle of preferring shortage to abundance, Dio only accepted soldiers with combat experience, so the number of alliance troops soon reached the threshold of 17,000 men, because except for the Byzantines who were still fighting and a few Teutons who were electing emperors to fight in a pot of porridge, other territories and forces really could not bring out people with combat experience.

The Alliance's army has taken shape, and Yumemi Okazaki has successfully completed her goal by borrowing Dio's secular aristocratic status, and Dio also seizes the opportunity, but the two are soon plagued by new problems.

"Ning Yi, let me ask you a question......"

"Huh? Dior? What are you looking for me? ”

"Have you ever learned how to lead a soldier? I mean, command corps-sized troops to fight ......"

"Fighting with troops? I don't understand this...... I've commanded infiltration teams before, but you can ask Dongdong, her brother is a colonel, and she may know something about it. ”

"It's not funny at all...... It's true. ”

"Mr. Morgan......"

"Miss Mengmei...... Do you have something to ask me for? ”

"I heard that you used to be a very powerful naval commander, managing three ships and hundreds of men......"

"If you're looking for me to be the commander of the Alliance, you're looking for the wrong person."

The former pirate leader sighed and replied.

"I do know a lot about commanding naval battles, I did command a land battle before, and then ......"

"Thanks, I see."

"Miss Acelia, you are a knight and a high-ranking nobleman, you must have learned how to command the legion in battle, right?"

"I'm sorry...... Although it is true that my family has had generals who are skilled in the art of commanding, by the time of my generation, there was only one down-and-out nobleman left. ”

When she said this, the girl's expression was a little unhappy and lost, if the Mercedes family was really a powerful imperial family, how could she volunteer to go to the Bilmark test site as a guinea pig to undergo that inhumane experiment?

Even with enough strength to sweep away thousands of armies, the experience at Bilmark Proving Ground still gave her a nightmare that she often woke up to.

After Yumemi Okazaki and Dior questioned the people around them, they had to accept this helpless reality.

None of them had ever commanded a battle on the scale of a few thousand soldiers, and Dio was a brave lord, and if he had led a vanguard of a few hundred men to open up the situation for the army, he could do very well, and that number became seventeen thousand......

"My liver is starting to hurt again...... What to do? ”

"No way, I think it's better to hand over the command of the army to professional people at this time."

The Alliance army now has more than 10,000 main infantry, 3,000 long-range strike units such as crossbowmen, heavy spearmen, and musketeers, 3,000 light cavalry and heavy cavalry, and more than 1,000 are all Gothguards—the lords of Otto Goths who have contributed out of trust in the Hearn family and their affirmation of the timing of this rise.

Although the fact that the commander-in-chief of the army was Belisarius upset the Goth lords, Dio convinced the old guys of his uncles and grandfathers with reason.

The simple way to put it is, 'You can do it!' ’

None of the Gothic nobles had the ability to lead an army of tens of thousands to fight monsters, so they all shrunk.