Chapter 152: Countdown
Canon pointed to the markers on the map, Morado in the south seemed to be only a thousand kilometers away from the capital, but in fact, at the speed of the orc cavalry, it could travel more than 200 kilometers in a day.
Especially in winter, the giant wolf cavalry is able to exert stronger mobility, if in the hot summer, the wolf cavalry is affected by the mount, and it has reached the limit of walking 50 kilometers a day.
The advance has passed the royal capital, which means that the orcs are not far from Morado, and for large cities that are difficult to attack, the strategy of the orcs has always been to besiege but not attack.
The giant wolf cavalry would not waste their energy on attacking the city, because they knew that even if they took the city, they would not be able to defend it.
Having wiped out the Kingdom of Halfwinter, the Kingdom of Glory, and the kingdom further south, there will be a steady stream of troops coming north to support, and if this northern orc tribe does not want to shed blood, the only option is to return to the wasteland after looting and continue to live their tight life.
"So fast...... Is it only three days? Along the way, Arthur saw many tenant farmers and peasants who had been trained under the guidance of yeoman farmers and aristocrats.
The loose formation and weak arms, let alone three days, even if it is given three weeks, it may not be able to train any combat effectiveness.
But the orcs don't wait for humans to be ready to attack, just like that blizzard, sudden, only the ability to face and pray.
"Don't worry too much, Morado is a remote town after all, and there won't be many orcs who will come here, as long as they can teach these wolf cubs a lesson, they will shift their target."
It's not rough to say, but if the target orcs are transferred, they won't go back, but they will pass on the losses to other towns, and in this race war, this is the only way to protect their relatives and friends more.
That's why there's not much communication between towns, and a lot of trade and exchange is done by adventurers from all over the world.
This is also the unique culture of the northern Halfwinter Kingdom, and the territorial protection is far greater than the southern cities that Arthur saw in the book.
Arthur left the lord's house, but did not return directly to the apothecary, and as a member of the yeoman farmers, he also had the duty of training tenant farmers to prepare for battle.
However, Arthur's situation is more special, and the professional inheritance of the warlock is fundamentally different from that of the local yeoman farmers in Morado.
There is no martial arts and experience to teach, and the only thing that can be done is to use one's brains and command the work of logistics and personnel arrangement.
"Mr. Mario is here." The security team knew Arthur, not only did they know him, but they also came into contact with him for a short time when they caught the goblins.
As soon as Arthur arrived at the security team's station, he saw a more chaotic scene than before, and the rest of the place was nothing more than a little more crowded, but the security team was full of materials needed for war, weapons, leather armor, including some of the collected food were piled up in the open air.
"I don't like to clean up enough, compared to you, it's really far behind." Arthur gently pulls out a 'stick' from under the sweet potato pile, and of course if it is with the piece of iron on top, you can call him a spear.
The weapon could be seen to have been made in a hurry, and the iron pieces were beaten crookedly, obviously not the craftsmanship of the old dwarf blacksmith, and compared with Arthur, who often borrowed the stove, it was more than a notch, but at this time he couldn't take care of it.
As long as it can be used as a weapon, these expensive iron materials can at most be reforged after the war, and it is better to waste nothing more than time and some fuel, rather than nothing at all, and directly take the long stick and go to the orc alone.
"Mr. Mario said with a smile, our security team is so busy, these are all brought in by the tenant farmers and piled up, and we don't know what is there." Morado is only a big man, and after removing the dozen or so people in the lord's guard, the security team that can support is only 2-30 people.
It was enough to drive away the demonic beasts and maintain law and order, but as soon as the war came, the number of people guarding the city gate accounted for more than half of the security team, and the rest of the people were either to help train the tenant farmers or to maintain order, and there were only two or three such kittens guarding the headquarters.
The two or three kittens were apparently just waiting for Arthur to arrive, leaving a dozen or so tenant farmers to command Arthur, and then left the station in a hurry.
It's not that they're afraid to work, it's that there is a lack of manpower in the city, and after the handover is completed, they have other things to do, and they can't be idle for a moment.
"Forget it...... Let's see how many weapons there are. Arthur looked at the chaotic station, and sighed unlucky, he knew that it was better to take the tenant farmer training, it was so simple and didn't need to bother with his brains.
Don't think that the logistics officers are all awesome, where is the score, any homesteaders on Morado's side are considered Arthur's elders, even if Arthur doesn't communicate with them much on weekdays, but he really let him deduct the 'military salary', he doesn't have the guts.
After the war is over, all weapons will be returned to the warehouse, and as for the grain, it will be sold back to the people at a fair price again as rations and seeds, and the rest will also be returned to the lord's palace.
Although the numbers in this can do something, Arthur doesn't have the heart to do this, and using the wizard tower portal to do such a detrimental thing to others and himself, I'm afraid that even Lilia will come to despise him.
"I'm also a demon king, and I'm going to be a management figure in the future, so let's practice these first." First of all, it is classified in statistics, compared to the elite education of the wizarding world, the earth is much more advanced in this regard.
Arthur didn't have to do it himself, naturally there were tenant farmers as laborers to do the manual work, as for the lack of energy? No problem, anyway, there are so many tenant farmers, just ask someone to replace another batch, and you can continue to work.
"There are 322 guns with sticks, 17 sticks without heads, 12 heads, and the whereabouts of the remaining five are unknown." Arthur wrote and drew in his notebook, secretly saying that these guns were fortunate to have experienced this ordeal, otherwise they would have fallen off directly when they were poked out on the battlefield, which would have killed many people.
The guns and sticks had to be sent back to the smithy to be reassembled, and ordinary beatings could not hold the weapons that were going to be used to kill the enemy.
The wooden spear was the most used weapon by the Morado tenant peasant soldiers, after all, the amount of iron used in the head of the spear was small, and the distance from the enemy was so far away that even if the orc warrior was strong enough, he would not risk being stabbed into a sieve and rushed to death.
In addition to the spear head, the most armor is the wooden shield, which in Arthur's opinion is a stump that is not cut into pieces and adds a handle, the psychological comfort effect is far greater than the protective effect, but as the only two weapons in the hands of the tenant farmers, it will also determine the success or failure of Morado's battle.