Chapter 52: Conscription Order
When Cecil returned, the old butler of Arcater and the servant Ashan had already fallen asleep, and Sanders had been studying in the Temple of the Earth for the past few days. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Cecil came back in a state of great emotion, and lay down on the bed without even doing the usual compulsory meditation, thinking sweetly about the kiss Anne gave herself, until she fell asleep.
The next day, Cecil was required to report to the Temple of Dawn as usual. Who knows that before going out, the Earl's messenger has arrived. What Ophelina and Anne had said last night had now come true, and the king had officially issued an order to send more troops to the Demon Gate.
This conscription order was issued by four countries at the same time, the Iruk Empire, the Hawata Kingdom, and the Elaya Kingdom issued a conscription order at the same time. Originally, the kingdom had a total of 50,000 troops stationed at the Demon Gate, but this time the conscription actually increased by 150,000 troops, and the two army groups that confronted the Elok Empire on the border, as well as one army group that confronted the Ohata Kingdom, were also transferred to the Demon Gate at the same time. The total number of these three army groups is 100,000 people, and after this requisition, the strength of the Devil's Gate Kingdom alone has reached 300,000 in one go.
I heard that other countries have also carried out this kind of mobilization, and the kingdom of Soroland has the least land and population among the four countries, but the royal family of the kingdom of Soroland is stronger. Therefore, the forces within the order can be mobilized to the greatest extent. In order to meet the requirements of this increase in troops, the nobles were showcased with a huge number of troops.
The messenger said that Count Cassikud was immediately showdown by the king with 1,000 troops, and that more than 200 lords and knights under Cassikud were mobilized at once, and almost all of them were called to battle. Cecil originally owned 2 estates, and he should have at least 6 soldiers, but Cecil was newly promoted, and it was obviously not suitable for him to produce so many soldiers, so as an earl's T-shirt, Cecil only needed to send three soldiers.
Cecil immediately obeyed after receiving the earl's order, he first summoned Sanders back from the Earth Temple, since returning to the royal capital, Cecil rarely saw Sanders, he has been staying in the Earth Temple for practice, when Cecil saw him this time, Sanders's level has been raised to level 65, and there has been a level 5 improvement in such a short time, obviously Sanders's practice for a while is still quite effective.
But the problem is that Cecil and Saunders are only two people combined, and even if the Count is lenient, Cecil still can't get together the three soldiers. Generally speaking, according to the setting of the Lovalan continent, the family of the Lord Knight will generally raise some personal soldiers according to your manor to meet the various military service needs of the kingdom. But this Cecil probably didn't have this habit before, and in the past six months, Sanders has only been a personal soldier. Cecil had no choice but to go to the mercenary market to hire one.
When I arrived at the mercenary association, I knew that things were not so simple, this time the king was obviously a national mobilization, and it was not only Cecil who had a shortage of soldiers, the kingdom had been peaceful for a long time, and generally few nobles went to full capacity to support the number of soldiers of these pro-soldiers on peaceful days, so once the kingdom was full of recruits, these nobles were all panicked, and the price of mercenaries in the mercenary guild was also rising. It rose more than ten times overnight, and even if Cecil wanted to hire it, he couldn't afford it.
Cecil walked home dejectedly, he was going to go to Ophelina to intercede and see if she could help him. It's just that the Earl has exempted half of his military service, but he still can't finish looking for his daughter to go through the back door, which really makes Cecil feel a little ashamed.
Cecil was walking to the door of the house depressed, when suddenly a young man dressed as a magician stood beside him:
"Report to the knight, Private Andy to report!"
The person who came was none other than Anne, and Cecil was obviously surprised, "Anne, why are you here, don't mess around." He said with a straight face.
"I'm not messing around, in order to come to you, I refused Mr. Antonio's invitation to accompany him, and he had no choice but to go to Cabrada to find two senior brothers to help." Anne said with a smile. “
"But it's a little too wronged for you to be my private." Cecil said sincerely.
"Don't be stupid, who cares about this." Anne said nonchalantly.
Cecil was greatly moved when he heard this, and held Anne's hand tightly, and Anne also blushed and did not speak.
Back at home, Annie, Saunders, and Cecil gathered, and Cecil saw that one of his two so-called pro-soldiers was a level 65 Earth Guard, a level 2 professional Earth Guard, and the other was a level 60 legendary Dragon Vein Warlock. In addition, although there are only 3 people in himself, Cecil feels that his team can definitely defeat a team of 300 people of the same level. Sanders' strength may be an average professional, but his and Anne's strength is that he has already crushed too many opponents of the same level.
After assembling the three men, Cecil led the two of them to Count Cassikud's mansion, where the Count's knights and their own soldiers came to report, including Baron Curresta and his daughter Talis, who had divorced him. Cecil glanced at Talis from afar, her eyes were full of sorrow and grief, and it was clear that he was far from Darcy's death. Cecil and Anne couldn't help but feel a little sad when they saw Talis and thought of Darcy.
The Count inspected his knights in his armor, and this time the king mobilized with all his strength, and the count also used all his strength to mobilize almost all his forces, and finally mobilized all the 1,000 troops required by the king. The earl's eldest son had already gone out, and standing beside him was his second son, Yellen, and the king had mobilized half of the men of the Shield Paladins for this military move. Yellen thus returned to her father's side to direct the battle, but Cecil did not see Ophelina, hearing that she had been picked up by the direct forces of the kingdom, and that she should play a more important role in her profession.
The Count organized his troops into five squadrons, marching in small groups of 20 men, each with 20 squadrons. I don't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, but the three Cecil happened to be incorporated into Baron Curesta's team. In addition to Cecil's three, the rest of Baron Curesta's dozen or so soldiers were his own soldiers. The baron was very embarrassed when he saw Cecil, and so did Cecil, and the two hurriedly greeted each other, and Cecil and the three of them automatically entered the queue.
The 150,000 army took half a month to complete the collection, which is still thanks to the system of the kingdom, basically all the nobles and personal soldiers are near the royal capital, and the strength near the royal capital is far greater than the local strength, so such a large-scale conscription can be solved only in the royal capital, and there is no need to gather forces from all over the other three countries so troublesome.
The so-called soldiers and horses did not move, the king of grain and grass first gathered 150,000 troops, but the number of people who gathered to transport grain and grass was as high as 400,000, and every large-scale military operation was a test of the country's financial strength. In places where there was no march, there were magistrates who transported grain to the royal capital through the official roads, and then transported it to various parts of the army from the royal capital, and as the army marched, the logistics of the army were probably more difficult to fight than the command of the army.
The prince of the kingdom, Harold, took on this responsibility, and this duke was a genius of internal affairs, and had a natural and special understanding of the collection and dispatch of war logistics, and under his transfer, the originally troublesome transportation work was carried out in an orderly manner, and the expropriation of various places, which was difficult to implement, was also carried out smoothly under his auspices. The Prime Minister, who had always been the head of the kingdom, had once again shown a powerful role as a mainstay in this chaotic moment.
The kingdom's mage regiment will also accompany the expeditionary force, and under the leadership of the kingdom's chief mage, the legendary archmage Norman, the kingdom's mage regiment will attack along with the kingdom's guards. That's right, the kingdom even sent out its own elite Praetorian Guard. This elite guard regiment is almost all candidates above level 60, the proportion of the number of professional people in the temple is also very high, every ordinary soldier is equipped with black iron level equipment, the commander of the guard regiment The legendary knight Marquis Jean looked at this victorious legion with a smile, he firmly believed that his legion would definitely go to victory after victory.
Princess Freya and Princess Eilelia sat in the luxurious chariot configured for them by the Temple of Life, and Princess Freya added the necklace they obtained, and got a total of 4 pieces of epic equipment with a halo radiation amplification plus 100%, which made his aura radiation radius reach 15,000 meters, that is, 15 kilometers, and truly became a force that could cover the entire battlefield. All soldiers on a battlefield are covered by the War Sacrifice aura, which increases attack, defense, and movement speed by 15%, and does not overlap with other aura abilities. Princess Freya's role on the battlefield can be imagined.
And the reason why Princess Eilea was able to walk with Freya was because she was the only one in the four countries who could take up the hidden profession of the Oracle Knight of the Temple of Bravery, and her skill could make the aura skill of the designated person 100% stronger, and this skill combined with Freya's skill would push the original anti-heaven existence to a more anti-heaven realm. That's why she was borrowed from the Illuk Empire to the Kingdom of Thorolan.