Although the cycle of training soldiers in this world is very short, it is also very particular about the composition of the troops, and the people of this world are not stupider than the people of that world, but the existence of functional buildings has caused them to limit their thinking in terms of development.

In 1066 AD, William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy, and his knights crossed the Channel to beat the Anglo-Saxon barbarians of the British Isles to the teeth, and the Anglo-Saxons had to accept a Norman as their king.

In order to ensure that his rule was stable enough, William the Conqueror issued a strong decree that "all Anglo-Saxon propertied persons shall not possess knightly equipment", and these large estate owners, wealthy yeoman farmers, were knightly class reserves, they had enough money to pay for equipment, and they could become knights if they had the opportunity, and William's hand was to eradicate the English knights.

As the ancestors of the Britons, the Anglo-Saxons were very rebellious, and when they realized that they could not form a strong knightly legion, a large number of English propertied people began to use a less 'noble' weapon, the longbow.

When the old men of the upper class began to practice the longbow, this trend soon affected the middle and lower classes of England, and the longbow suddenly became a noble weapon like a war horse and a riding spear, and it was then that the legend of Robin Hood began to appear.

In order to promote the longbow, the King of England also boldly issued another decree, which required all able-bodied English men between the ages of 12 and 65 to go to the training ground near the church to practice archery after Mass every Sunday.

Archery eventually became the national sport of the British at that time, and some children even began to train longbowmen at the age of seven, and the hard training made the bones of the longbowmen somewhat deformed, but it didn't matter, because in the eyes of the English boys at that time, it was an ambitious ideal to learn archery and follow the brave king or prince out to fight when they became adults.

The well-trained British longbowmen eventually became a blockbuster at the Battle of Crecy, using arrows to shoot the nobles into hedgehogs, and this army spent the next few hundred years proving what an invincible opponent they were, and the Britons used four generations of perseverance and preparation to build the British longbowmen's reputation for 300 years.

But such a thrilling story in this world of the imperial age has been reduced to a national character, only the British can train the national special soldiers, the training cost is forty-five units of gold and thirty-five units of wood, the training time is only ten minutes, and the soldier who wears the equipment can immediately fight like a longbowman who has been trained since the age of seven.

If that's all there is to it, the lords of the Imperial Age should be investing their resources in more trained armies, right?

The key is in the resources, the resources that can make the functional building system work are gold, wood, food and stone, among which the status of stone is more special, it can only be used to build strong military buildings, and there are also smart lords who will use stone to expand and cover other buildings outside the functional building system, but except for the Teutons, other peoples do not have much demand for stone.

Food and wood are the most versatile resources, their reserves are directly related to the operation of the territory, and the people here also need food to survive, even if they are not used as resources to drive functional buildings, the reserve of food is also crucial for any power.

The value of wood is actually reflected in the food, if you want to make the functional building cultivated land and sprinkle the same as the golden mula, you must pay a certain unit of wood to let the cultivated land be activated again, one acre of land sixty units of wood, and one acre of cultivated land can provide you with at least one hundred and ninety units of food, national characteristics and bonuses.

But if you want to get wood, you have to cut down trees, and trees are not leeks, and you can grow another stubble if you cut one stubble, so the wood problem was once the main problem in the world during the imperial era, and people here did not need to expand the area of arable land, nor did they need crop rotation, they needed enough wood to drive the functional buildings to play the effect, and it was not uncommon for the forest to break the head and bleed.

People soon began to consciously choose fast-growing plants for cultivation, the Oriental people chose a bamboo that can run eight meters a year and a paulownia that can grow to half a meter in diameter for seven years, it is said that they also have a magical tree species, which can grow to a height of ten meters and a diameter of 30 centimeters at breast height in three years, similar plants are available all over the world, and people began to produce their own wood.

Later, a genius noticed that he tried to use activated arable land to cultivate plants that could provide wood, and the idea was successful after many experiments, although it took multiple activations to activate the arable land to quickly generate an acre of trees, and the amount of wood that could be harvested was also limited, but it allowed people to grasp the mystery of resource circulation, and everyone no longer had to compete for natural woodland.

Eventually, people turned their attention to gold, a resource that could not be eaten, could not be used to build and strengthen functional buildings, could not be used to activate farmland, and its role was to build several special functional buildings and to train more powerful soldiers.

There are many ways to obtain gold, and in the past, the main way to obtain it was to mine it, but as the open-pit gold mines on the continent were exhausted, people had to start digging down and setting up blast furnaces to refine the gold contained in the underground ore.

In addition, the 'Bazaar' and 'Wharf', which were thriving for trade, could also automatically generate a considerable amount of gold, but this gold could only be taken by foreign merchants, and taxes and trade agreements became the main means of obtaining gold for many lords.

There is also a special existence called 'holy relics' in this world, putting holy relics into the monastery will produce a steady stream of gold, the initial prosperity of religious power has a lot to do with this advantage, gold can be converted into wood, food, stone through the market, having enough gold is equivalent to having enough resources, holy gold is therefore called the gift of God.

In fact, many believers in the Great Light wondered why there was no gold in the blessings of the Great Light, and some believers proposed to invite the little one to live in a monastery, but this suggestion was always rejected, because the fanatical believers believed that they could not limit the Great Light out of greed, and that such behavior would likely be abandoned by the Great Light.

These believers' belief in Dongdong is sincere, so the little one is not taken to the monastery to squeeze gold like a holy relic.

There are three types of soldiers in this world who can be trained without gold: spearmen, scout cavalry, and spearmen.

Training a spearman requires thirty-five units of food and twenty-five units of wood, and their equipment includes a small spear of poor quality, a small wooden round shield on their backs, a helmet, a battle jacket, and a long dagger.

Training a spearman requires twenty-five units of food and thirty-five units of wood, their equipment consists of a javelin, a large wooden shield that can protect half of the body, these hapless children have no helmet, and the armor is only a full coat, although it takes more than four months to train a spearman in the normal way, but because the actual combat value of this class is very low, not many people are willing to train this soldier who seems to be more cost-effective than pikemen, only some poor lords will train spearmen as a ranged force.

Train a scout cavalryman eighty for food, and they will be given a bad horse that suddenly appears from the stable and allows him to drive freely, and a cavalry sword, which is only defended by a leather helmet, and even a shield and a spear for cavalry.

A large number of spearmen plus a certain number of archers and spearmen plus some scout cavalry as a shock force on the battlefield, the above establishment is the standard for the armies of the poor lords of the world in the Imperial Age, and the combat effectiveness of this army is to draw a hundred question marks.

Wealthy lords can strengthen their troops, ordinary soldiers can be strengthened in the barracks to become more skilled warriors, and they can also strengthen their equipment in the blacksmith shop, but the price of the enhancement will make everyone's scalp tingle.

In this case, the militia costs 60 units of food and 20 units of gold to train a regular leader into a militia, and then you can train a militia to become a swordsman, and the upgrade cost is 100 units of food and 40 units of gold......

To get a more powerful swordsman, you'll need to have a swordsman and 200 units of food and 65 units of gold.

To train a swordsman to train a two-handed swordsman, you will pay 300 units of food and 100 units of gold, and if you want to have a champion swordsman with enough combat power to be 100, you will have to pay another 750 units of food and 350 units of gold, the individual strength of the champion swordsman is very strong, they can kill more than eight ghouls, or kill abomination alone.

Well? Do you think that's the end of it? No! This is only an upgrade of the troops, and the upgrade of the quality of equipment also requires a lot of resources, strengthening the infantry steel armor requires 300 units of food and 150 units of gold, and the weapon forged with the blast furnace requires 275 food and 225 gold, which is not counting the resources spent on upgrading functional buildings.

In the end, the cost of training a champion swordsman is 1,985 units of food and 950 units of gold.

Having said all this, the front teeth just want everyone to understand the mode and cost of war in this world, and complain by the way.

No matter which world wars come at a huge cost, even in this gamified world with the convenience of functional buildings, don't think that war is about gathering resources, producing armies and then killing all enemies because you play too much RTS, and don't think that fighting is about wearing good equipment and taking enough medicine to win because you play too many RPGs.

The front teeth are a bit obsessive-compulsive when playing games, and the interest in the game plot is much greater than the interest in the gameplay, and when playing RTS, they will habitually let their troops die as little as possible, and as a result, a simple battle front teeth will be tossed for more than two hours.

These are just the personal attitudes of the front teeth towards the game, and if there is a comrade village, we will be very, very happy!

Hmm~ Here's one last word...... Those guys who watch Horizon of Record and shout that 'people who try to deal with NPCs and get emotionally are brain-dead' are the most annoying! Well! The most annoying!

Real life needs reason and disguise, because there are many things in reality that can't be frank, but if it's still like this in an illusory game, we can only sigh that your life is too tired, friends.

{PS: One accidentally said too much nonsense ~ Please forgive me...... I'm just a person abroad, and my roommates have returned to China for the New Year, so I'm a little lonely~I'm sorry~\(≧▽≦)/~}

"The troops brought by the joining lords have been reorganized...... We now have two thousand pikemen and spearmen, thirteen hundred swordsmen and swordsmen, two hundred two-handed swordsmen, fifteen champion swordsmen with outstanding combat effectiveness, and this is our main infantry. ”

Dio took the statistical report and said to the lords at the venue that many lords did not have a clear understanding of the number of troops assembled by the alliance, and Dio's main thing was to let those who did not know the necessary information.

"We also have one thousand and one hundred spearmen and javelinmen, eight hundred archers, one hundred crossbowmen and two hundred musketeers."

When talking about this, Dio couldn't help but cast a grateful and respectful look at one of the bearded lords holding a turban, this Turkish lord and the Hearn family were just business friends, Dio handed him an invitation in the spirit of coming one by one, but he didn't expect him to come with two hundred Turkish musketeers as promised, this Ottoman bearded man named Selim bin Bayezid was too interesting.

Selim bin Bayezid...... If a real-world person hears this name, he will probably faint.

Selim bin Bayezid bin Muhammad bin Murad, a powerful monarch who was entitled to leave his name as a 'conqueror' in history, and a ruler who attached great importance to scientific research in addition to his conquests, came here not only because he was wary of the threat of the undead, but also because he was interested in Bologna's well-known universities in the fields of navigation and economics.

"Compared to the main infantry of the long-range troops, our cavalry force is relatively thin, we only have eight hundred scout cavalry, two hundred light cavalry, fifty-five hussars, one hundred and thirty-two knights, including twelve hoplites and five Templars, but Lord Tobelisarius, he has brought us three hundred brave and skilled Byzantine ironclad paladers."

The Byzantine general, who was thanked in public, stood up and politely gestured to the surrounding lords, and then said.

"Although the empire is now under threat from the desert barbarians, in order to help the Goths, my Majesty has decided to send the most elite cavalry under his command to assist the alliance in the battle, and the Gothic kingdom has always been a friend of Byzantium."

As he spoke, he looked at Selim not far away, the Ottoman Empire, the Desert Ethnic Alliance, was the main warring country, and when these two met, they didn't draw their swords and slash each other on the spot, which was already a very self-contained performance.

Commander Belisarius's words made the Gothic lords, who were the vast majority of the people in the room, feel good about him and the Byzantine Empire behind him, and Dio didn't have to think about it to know that whether the crusade was won or lost, the Byzantine infiltration of the Ottogoths would go further.

The young lord looked at the commander of the Byzantine Janissary Guard, who was politely sitting back in his seat, and then at Selim, an Ottoman nobleman who had not heard of the harsh words just now, and suddenly felt a terrible pain in his liver.

Belisarius...... Another name that can scare people's jaws, the Byzantine sword, the original creator of the Byzantine ironclad cavalry, a military genius who is good at defeating the strong with the weak, and the gravedigger of the Ostrogothic kingdom, if the Gothic nobles present know that the other party has left a great name in the correct history, I am afraid they will not applaud him.

The chaotic line of history has led many people to appear in a time when they should not be, they are real heroes and geniuses, and Dio is not the only one who can see the threat of the scourge of the undead, he is only the first to call for crusade.

As a modern person, the old god Ning Yi is standing beside the young lord, and the previous thunderous names have not touched him at all, this mercenary does not know much about history, he only knows a little about the history of modern wars.

Dio cleared his throat and continued reading.

"In terms of elite forces, we have seven hundred Gothic guards, sixty Teutonic warriors, one hundred Viking berserkers and thirty Frankish axemen, and our siege armaments are five pushers and thirty ballistas and sixteen heavy crash trucks and three assembled trebuchets...... These are all our strengths. ”

"Hey! We've got 8,000 soldiers! So many troops! We've won! ”

A lord shouted excitedly after listening to Dior's reorganization report.

"No...... Our army is still too small. ”

Selim, who had been silent, spoke, ignoring the unpleasant eyes of some people around him and looking seriously at the map behind Dior.

"The Carolingian family's territory of Udolfinger has a population of 600,000, and there are 3,000 knights trained in the Frankish tradition, and such a large territory will mobilize at least 30,000 troops at one time in the face of a crisis, plus the standing army, the number of Carolingian warriors will reach about 60,000......"

"You shouldn't have forgotten what the brave knight said some time ago, right? With 60,000 soldiers, Udolfinger held out for only a week before it collapsed, the capital was destroyed, and the territory was in chaos! ”

"I want to ask you...... Who still thinks that we have a lot of 8,000 soldiers? ”