Act XIX The Knight and the Blacksmith II
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Brando was depressed for a moment, but then rejoiced, and suddenly it occurred to him that although Beru and Tamar of this era were not the best in the whole of Vaynd, they were still first-class masters in Eruin. In the past year, with the support of the two of them, the two elite troops in the territory have been armed with two elite troops, the Wind Shooter and the White Lion Guard, and now, the armament of this small place of Tonigel has long been among the best in the kingdom, which other lords have never dared to imagine before.
In the past six months, with the massive influx of refugees from all over the country during the War of the Black Roses, Brando began to have a large number of reserves in the training camps of Tonigel, and he could raise an army of no less size than the private armies of the nobles under Jean Denel or Duke Vieiro whenever he wanted. However, Brando came from later generations and personally experienced the epic and magnificent slate war, and he simply looked down on the so-called armies under the northern and southern aristocracy, and in his opinion, the army below the third order could only be called a militia regiment, which could be responsible for local security, and it was impossible to use it for war. It is for this reason that for Toniger, the issue of armaments has now become the main problem to prevent the expansion of the army, and only the non-commissioned officer corps of the White Lion Guards can wear inferior magical armor, and even the production of inferior ordinary white lion armor is still limited, and the fir territory is full of production of only more than 100 sets per month. The Wind Shooter was even stricter, as the Wind Shooter had to match the Wind Shooter chain mail and longbow, and due to the limited production, the expansion of this army was surprisingly slow.
For this question, Antitina and Curlan both felt that Brando's idea was too naïve, and could even be said to be a kind of profligacy, which was purely to pile up an army with money, but the staff lady thought deeper, and she faintly thought that her lord might care about the opinion of Her Royal Highness the Princess, after all, an elite army of more than a thousand people sounded much more reassuring in name than an army of thousands of other nobles. Brando's reputation for 'profligacy' soon spread among his own subordinates, and even several of Yoda's former mercenary group leaders privately discussed whether the lord was too deeply influenced by the Bugas, but how could mortal wealth be comparable to that of wizards? What happens if the crystal deposits in the Black Forest are exhausted? This kind of discussion once became noisy, and even the red bronze dragon Leto came to persuade him.
Brando also smiled bitterly at this. Fortunately, he didn't dare to tell these people his true purpose, otherwise he wouldn't have scared them all to death. In his plan, the core force of the future army of Eruin is the White Lion Infantry, which is also the foundation of the Eruin army, which is equivalent to the second-tier local army with the largest base in the current Eruin Kingdom. As for the fourth, fifth, and sixth order troops in the back, they also have to find a way to cultivate, as Eruin's characteristic elite army, and now he has a quasi-fourth-order army like Wind Shooter in his hands. If he can convince the centaurs to join his army, and he can get the blueprints of the armor and halberd of the Silver Crowned Guardian from Elranta, with a little training, Eruin will have a true fourth-order army; The fifth-order army is sure that the Druid's Elder Guards or Ancient Tree Guards are too old-fashioned, and it is safer to consider making decisions from Naga. Although the four-armed Kraken and Poseidon Guard are weaker than most fifth-order troops on land, they are also a type of fifth-order troops after all, the important thing is that Naga has no core conflict of interest with the land-based people at all, and the kingdom has a fleet that can be their staunchest ally at sea, and Naga should not be stingy with the troops in his hands, Eruin can hire these overseas troops in the name of mercenary, and he chose to ally with Grayfin Naga in the first place. And after the First World War of Ampesel, the empire must exchange the design drawings of the frigates, in fact, there have been plans for this for a long time.
With the fourth-order and fifth-order troops, the strength of Eruin should be comparable to that kingdom in the era of the ancestor Eke Dynasty, and at that time, Her Royal Highness the princess can completely rely on the military power of the central government to subdue the whole country, so that the power of the kingdom is highly unified, so as to realize the transformation from local feudal to centralized. As for the sixth-order troops, Brando doesn't have a clue at the moment, and there is only one type of silver elf temple guard in Eruin's history above the sixth order. And there are no more than a hundred, and his only hope now is Valhalla's power. But once Eruin has a sixth-order class, then he can already be in front of Madara in terms of strength, after all, Madara is not only facing an enemy in Eruin, it is impossible to fight the threat of such a frontier land with the strength of the country, once Eruin has such strength, it can completely force Madara to turn the direction of expansion to other countries. And this ancient kingdom will be restored to its heyday.
But these plans were undoubtedly fantastical for Antitina, who saw the Kingdom of Eruin as a relatively independent kingdom around Cruz, whose military strength was not weak, but not strong either. To know the Cruz Empire to the north. Although the basic arms of the four major armies under the direct control of the central government are the fourth-order Imperial Guard, in fact, the third-order imperial noble cavalry and the second-order imperial spearmen are still the main force in the aristocratic private army and local garrison forces, which account for the largest proportion of the empire's total strength, and these local troops are facing the same problem as the kingdom, that is, the long-standing training process of the peace guide zhì is low and the discipline has collapsed, except for a few border areas, the army in most parts of the empire has more or less such problems, and in the evaluation of the Flame Temple, in the past two years, the combat effectiveness evaluation of the imperial noble cavalry has fallen below the lower limit several times and is on par with the second-order troops.
Of course, the empire also has fifth-order Pegasus Knights, fifth-order Holy Grail Knights, sixth-order sword-wielding crusaders, sixth-order holy oil knights and temple ascetics, and even royal griffins, royal astrologers, temple priests and other more than seventh-order troops, as well as high-level high-level powers such as the Flame Knights and above, but these armies are all deterrent forces, and the number is often small, and just like the huge empires of Faenzan and St. Osor, high-level troops are the prerogatives of the empire and a game between great powers. Once the troops above the sixth order are owned by a small country like Eruin, it is basically to change the current order of the continent, why Eru is so famous, even the Bugas have paid attention to such a small kingdom, it is precisely because he once had a complete system of white lion infantry and temple guards.
But it was short-lived, and nearly a decade later, nothing like it happened in Vajnd's history.
So Antitina, Curran, and the mercenary captains under Brando. They didn't think about these aspects at all, they just felt that their lord's actions were a little too idealistic, and the elite soldiers were good, but this was too much. Brando didn't bother to explain to them, his goal was never in the moment, and such a goal of purging the country was no longer worth mentioning in his mind, and the nobles of the north seemed to be very threatening. But as Valhalla grows stronger, it is important that Eruin can build such an army or not, and whether or not the kingdom can finally emerge from its predetermined destiny in the future.
Brando never forgot that the kingdom had been brought to ruin by the decaying nobles of Eruin, but it was the dangerous enemy that was rising to the east that had brought it to an end.
He's in power. Arbitrarily and unhurriedly carried out his plan to expand his army, but the anxiety in his heart under the apparent stability was actually better than one day, and time would not stop waiting for anyone, in fact, all kinds of signs on the surface of the development of history did not stop waiting for him but developed more rapidly because of his arrival, Eru's surrounding countries have begun to move, but the development of his territory is still slow. Antitina saw this, and secretly reminded him to relax his requirements. It is the right thing to do to expand the army, but he doesn't understand, but the question is what is the point of recruiting those cannon fodder?
They simply didn't understand what kind of opponent Eruin was facing.
The kingdom is still looking at the coming era of war and chaos with the same old eyes, but in fact, Madara, Cruz, and even the Wind Elves and Faenzan are all rapidly completing military reforms in the era of upheaval before the arrival of the Great Demonic Tide, with the Bromandal Rose in the darkness leading the way, and the Faenzan people following closely behind. Next came St. Osor, who was a direct enemy of Mardara, and the Cruz people finally completed the reform under the auspices of Lenarat the Great, and thus suffered the greatest loss in the war. But he is an empire, and the foundation of the empire and the strong support of the Flame Sanctuary allowed it to fail for a while, but Eruin did not have this strong strategic depth.
The only thing Eruin can learn is Madara, and he must be one step ahead, otherwise he will only perish.
This war is a harbinger. The real beginning of Wind and Rain originated three years later in the Second War of the Black Roses, but that was a historical event, and Brando could not guarantee that the Second War of the Black Roses of this era would not start sooner. But in this war with the Blood Staff, he must do his best to find out how far the kingdom is from the Madara of this era. Of course, it's best to give Mardara a warning that the kingdom isn't so weak and deceitful, and those skeletons may have some more time to think about it before choosing to launch a second War of the Black Roses.
Every minute of time is a hope of salvation for Eruin.
Therefore, Brando had to be cautious and strengthen himself as much as possible before the war, and now the addition of a group of master craftsmen like Babu undoubtedly injected him with a shot in the arm, and he was simply overjoyed. Tonigal suddenly had more than a dozen craftsmen at the same level as Beru and Tamar, and that meant that the output - especially the production of magical equipment had increased exponentially, and the meaning of this increase meant that the first step of his plan could finally be put on the right track.
Make the White Lion Guards the foundation of the Kingdom's central army.
Brando thought for a while before he came back to his senses, as if he had come to his senses from a long period of thought, before asking, "Lord Babu, can the Valulun Warrior Hall be operational now?" ”
"As long as there are materials, they can be at any time." Báb replied.
Brando immediately took out a set of white lion armor from the dimensional cave, pointed to the armor and asked Babu, "Lord Babu, how long does it take you to produce a hundred sets of armor like this?" Brando took out the unenchanted white lion armor, Babu only glanced at it, shook his head contemptuously and said: "We won't produce this kind of armor, I don't think this kind of papier-mâché armor has no value at all." ”
Brando couldn't help but shout in his heart, thinking that although this set of armor was a little shabby, it was also the latest double hinge armor designed by Berau, and the defense of up to 5 was not even superior in the tabula rasa armor, but he didn't expect it to be like a paper paste in Babu's eyes. Just kidding, why don't you take a piece of paper and paste a set of plate armor for me to see? He was guilty in his heart, but he didn't show the slightest abnormality on his face, and took out a set of enchantment armor for non-commissioned officers and asked, "What about this?" ”
"Barely visible," replied the Báb, "I remember that I once made a set of toys for my son, and it was about the same as this one." ”
Brando almost spurted out a mouthful of blood, and he finally understood. It turns out that although the experience and level of these giant craftsmen are limited, their knowledge is still very high, and they are simply evaluating these armors with the eyes of their own times, so according to the eyes of the era when the cloud giants still exist on the earth, the white lion armor of the tabula rasa can indeed only be regarded as papier-mâché. I'm afraid these giant craftsmen were surprised before, they probably have never seen armor unenchanted before, this is simply too bad.
Brando suddenly felt a sense of frustration that he was despised by the local tyrant. I couldn't help but say weakly: "Lord Babu, how many of these armors can you make, I urgently need such armor to arm my army now. ”
"Your lordship, you should call me a craftsman," replied the Báb, though he was a man with a higher eye. But he is not a fool who is not familiar with the world, and when he saw Brando's expression, he probably guessed what kind of mistake he had made, and hurriedly replied: "My lord, please rest assured, the forging technology of these armors is really simple for us, and it should be no problem to build two thousand sets of such armor in a month." ”
Brando was stunned, he looked at the entire Valulun Warrior Hall, and then at Babu. If it weren't for the other party's fame, he probably felt that this guy must be fooling him. In such a hall, there are a dozen craftsmen, even if they are divine craftsmen, but is it possible to create two thousand sets of magic armor in a month, even the lowest kind? Even if Beru and Tamar do it themselves, it will take at least half a month for the two of them to complete an armor, you must know that the output of the fir territory is not only supported by the two of them, and there are a large number of craftsmen from refugees from all over the country in the fir castle.
"Two thousand sets. More than a dozen of you? He asked, a little dryly.
"Oh, that's not it," Babu shook his head, "Your Excellency, you think it's bad, there are many Heroic Craftsmen in this hall besides us, we can harness the Heroic Spirits to work for this warrior hall, although the scale of this hall is still very shabby, but two thousand sets of magical armor of that level a month is still no problem." ”
It took Babu's explanation that Brando understood. It turns out that this Valulun warrior hall is similar to Monica's Vortex of Light, and it can also be used to work with heroic spirits. Unlike the Vortex of Light's lair, though, the Hall of Warriors can only have more artisans when it scales up, and Babu them. It is the leader of these craftsmen. He became excited, two thousand sets of white lion armor every month are still enchanted, which means that the white lion army can finally expand its recruitment on a large scale, although the newly expanded army source may not be as reliable as the veterans, but as long as you wear these enchanted armor, at worst you have the strength of the second-order troops, otherwise why did the third-order noble cavalry of the Cruz people degenerate into such a second-order strength? Isn't it just relying on equipment, the magic equipment that the local troops of the empire and the private armies of the nobles can afford, and now the basic troops of Eruin can finally be popularized, although this requires a lot of money, but at least the problem that money can solve so far is not enough for Brando for the time being.
After all, there are some things that money can't buy.
And as long as this production is tilted in half to the wind archers, then the army composed of fourth-order archers will soon be able to form an army, and even a little hurry, it seems that it is not impossible to double the number of people before the end of this war. An army of 1,200 archers composed of fourth-order troops, this is the year of the sword, Brando almost drooled down his face, but in order to avoid image damage, he hurriedly wiped the corners of his mouth, causing Medisa on the side to sneer.
But at this time, discordant notes sounded in the hall. "Lord Lord, with all due respect, you are wasting the value of this sacred hall by creating these useless things, and there is no point." The voice of the person who spoke was rough and high-pitched, which provoked Brando to look back, only to find that the person who spoke was the magician named Gorju whom Métisa had mentioned earlier, and he had never heard of the name of this person, but after listening to the other party's disdainful tone, he understood that this guy's reputation among the cloud giants was probably no less than that of Babu, and he hurriedly asked, "What advice do you have?" ”
In fact, Brando was also a little depressed, of course he knew that it would be overkill for them to let these craftsmen create these 'toys', but the question was what could be done? On the one hand, he didn't have more advanced drawings and materials, and on the other hand, according to Babu, their level of experience was limited by Valhalla, and in fact, they were now about the same as Beru and Tamar, and according to Brando's idea, what they could do now to help Tonigel the most was to expand the size of the two elite troops as much as possible.
As for the rest, it may be possible for them to spend half a year or a few months working together to create an ancient or even fantasy-level equipment, but what is the point of that? He doesn't want someone's combat power.
Unexpectedly, Gorju shook his head: "Lord Lord, it seems that you still don't understand our true value to you," he paused for a moment, then pointed to Beru and Tamar not far away and replied: "We haven't returned to this land for a long time, and we don't know what has happened in Vahnde's history, but at least we understand that these two master-level craftsmen should not be uncommon in the world, even if they are everywhere, and if you want to recruit, ten or eight should be no problem-- Do you think that's all there is to this hall for you? ”
Brando was slightly stunned, realizing that this rough guy might have something to say, and he couldn't help but look at Babu on the side.
The craftsman of the gods nodded slowly, and said, "My lord, as I said before, this hall is called the Valulun Warrior Hall, and it is a resting place for warriors in mythology, and providing weapons and armor for warriors here is just a subsidiary function of it. ”
Brando finally reacted, and he suddenly became excited: "You mean, the forge is just one of the functions of this building...... Is it—Or is it a nest? ”
"The lair needs to be supported by a pool of mana, my lord." Babu shook his head.
"What does that mean exactly?" Brando was confused.
"So, my lord, have you ever heard of the name Valkyrie?"
Báb asked, word for word.