In the days following the rendezvous of the Grant family's forces with the main force of the expeditionary force, several more noble lords' forces arrived. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Finally, on the ninth day of the arrival of the Crossing Force, and the forty-seventh day after the expeditionary force began to assemble, the last noble lord's army also arrived at the camp. At this point, the Eleventh Demon War Expeditionary Force of the Tristram Kingdom has been assembled. After a brief but solemn swearing-in ceremony on the second day after the completion of the expeditionary force, the whole army marched to the battlefield.

With hundreds of thousands of troops in total, anyone who sees an army of this size can appreciate the formidable strength of the Tristram Kingdom.

"The premise is to ignore quality." Yang Qianyu, who did not stir the reins but let the mount under his crotch slowly move forward, suddenly muttered.

“？？？” The people around who heard this endless sentence looked at each other.

"Old Yang, what are you talking about?" Yang Zhao on the side asked.

Yang Qianyu raised his palm and patted his forehead - breaking the essence of his inner thoughts, and inadvertently blurted out to himself.

"It's just a mess of little things, so there's no need to care about it."

It's a meaningless answer, but no one cares.

"Let's keep going." Yang Qianyu then said another sentence, and then rode his horse to catch up with the team.

Originally, it was just a slight stop in the middle of the march, and it was not left behind. A few people who were behind the group because they were distracted quickly caught up with the group.

Through this expedition, the traversers have a general understanding of the scale of the expeditionary force participating in this battle against demons.

The composition of the expeditionary force was mainly divided into two major parts - the troops directly under the royal family and the troops of the noble lords.

The troops directly under the royal family include all members of the Fourth Corps and the Ninth Corps, the main legions of the kingdom, as well as several elite knights such as the 'Griffin Knights', the 'Golden Armor Knights', and the 'Pegasus Knights', with a total strength of more than 140,000 troops.

The army composition of the Tristram Kingdom is divided into the main army and the garrison corps, and the garrison corps belongs to the guard corps. Each county directly under the royal family has a garrison corps, and the strength of the garrison varies according to the size of the county, usually not less than 10,000 and not more than 30,000 - of course, the exception of the county garrison where the kingdom capital is located, its strength is about 50,000. The main corps is the kingdom's attack force used for foreign warfare, with a total of twelve main corps, numbered in the order of 'first', 'second'......' 'third', 'eleventh', and 'twelfth'. Among the 12 main corps, the 1st to 4th Corps are the first-class main corps, with a strength of about 50,000 in non-wartime and 80,000 to 100,000 in wartime. The remaining 5th to 12th Corps are second-class main corps, with a strength of about 30,000 in non-wartime and can be expanded to 50,000 to 70,000 in wartime. For example, in this battle against demons, the Fourth Corps sent by the kingdom was strengthened to 70,000 troops, and the Ninth Corps was also strengthened to 50,000 troops.

And the elite knights directly under the royal family also sent some of the elites or all of them. For example, the 'Griffin Knights', known as the strongest knight order in the kingdom, sent a detachment of 100 people, the 'Golden Armor Knights', known as the strongest ground defense operations, went out with all their members, and the 'Pegasus Knights' and other elite knights also sent nearly half of their members.

In addition, more than a dozen Saint-level powerhouses under the royal family also participated in this expedition. Among them, in addition to a few newly promoted Saint Rank powerhouses whose reputation is not too loud in the near future, including the famous 'Dancing Flying Flower' (Flower Dance Martial Saint) Rena? Imeria, 'Ripper' (Mighty Saint) Edward? Hallesen, 'White Owl' (Fog Wind Saint) Jane? Houston and other famous powerhouses have participated.

As for the army of noble lords, it is a coalition of more than 100,000 people under the command of hundreds of counts, dozens of marquis and three dukes across the country.

The three dukes and lords sent a total of about 5,000 regular troops, nearly 500 knight-level combat forces (middle and high-level fighters), and seven saint-level powerhouses (three from the Grant family, and two from each of the other two families).

The twenty-nine marquis lords sent a total of nearly 20,000 regular troops, about 800 knight-level combat forces, and eleven saint-rank powerhouses (families with multiple saint-rank powerhouses will generally send one person to take charge, and families with no or only one saint-rank powerhouse will not be sent).

A total of more than 330 earls and lords sent a total of more than 70,000 regular troops and more than 1,000 knight-level combat forces. As for the Saint-Rank powerhouses, there are none of them - although almost all of these Earl Families have had Saint-Rank powerhouses in history (and almost all of these families have prospered by virtue of having Saint-rank powerhouses in charge), but there are almost no Saint-rank powerhouses in the family from generation to generation, and even if there are Saint-rank powerhouses in individual earl families now, they will not be easily dispatched.

The general process of the march of the army is to get up at dawn to make food, the sun comes out to pull out the camp and march, march until noon for a temporary rest and eat dry food as lunch to satisfy hunger (generally do not fire), continue to march in the afternoon until evening, then set up camp to prepare dinner, and camp at night to rest.

It was now noon, and the troops of the expeditionary force began to rest on the spot. As soon as the order to halt the advance was given, most of the soldiers sat down on the spot, leaning back to back on each other or simply lying on the ground, relieving the fatigue of the morning's march. When the fatigue began to subside, they each took out the dry food (mostly dry bread and jerky) and stuffed it into their mouths with cold water in the bladder (some of which contained ale that had been diluted to almost no taste) to replenish the lost energy.

The Prairly Leader and the Alchemy Soldier troops of the Traveling Crowd who accompanied them were no exception, the difference was that the Alchemy Soldiers did not have to rest or eat. In order not to be too abrupt, several companions of the alchemy soldiers under their command also gave the alchemy soldiers under their command the order to 'sit down in a casual posture', but they also said that there was no way for the alchemy soldiers to eat and drink. Fortunately, after half a day's march, the surrounding expeditionary soldiers were almost exhausted, and it was good to be busy resting and eating by themselves, and they would not care whether others were resting or eating, so the alchemy soldiers did not reveal their true bodies this time (miraculously).

However, the alchemy soldiers don't need to eat, and the traversers still need to eat.

Several picnic cloths were spread out on the grass that had not yet been trampled, and the crowd sat in groups of three or five looking for a place to sit on the ground.

"Rice!" Sun Xiaoyu and several other girls carried picnic baskets, soup cans, cups and bowls, and greeted their companions sitting on the picnic cloth.

The greeting elicited an enthusiastic response.

"Wow! Banzai! It's finally time to eat! ”

"Open it up and see what's in it! I'm going hungry! ”

"There's still a seat here, come and sit here."

After a commotion, picnic baskets and soup cans were handed out on each picnic cloth, and then the lids of the baskets and cans were opened, prompting another enthusiastic response.

"Ham Sandwich!"

"Bacon barbecued pork!"

"Cheese rolls!"

"Cream cake!"

"Vegetable egg soup!"

"Oyer - too rich!!"

After a boring morning's march, the people were already hungry. Nowadays, in the face of a large number of delicacies, everyone naturally has no scruples, and laughs and starts a battle for food. For a while, voices such as "this is what I fancy and don't rob", "you eat too much, keep some", "let's guess who wins the boxing", and so on, attracted the sideways eyes of outsiders around.