Each country on the mainland has its own distinctive military forces, Desik has Steppenwolf Riders, San Jose has ironclad formations, and the Shang Alliance is no exception.

The history of the countries of the continent can be traced back to the First Continental War, when various races united to resist the tyranny of the Magic Empire.

The rebel coalition is mainly composed of several large parts, the elves and dragons, these special races, naturally left after the war, the northern barbarian tribes, after the war established the huge Desik Empire, and the human scholars, strategists, on the "corpse" of the magic empire established the southern overlord of the continent, the San Jose Empire.

The last part of the Rebel Alliance, the merchants who provided military supplies for the Rebel Alliance, some neutrals, and the rebels of the Magic Empire, were not suitable to join any other country, nor did they belong to each other, so after some fighting (in fact, a war that lasted for hundreds of years), nine independent kingdoms or city-states were finally established in the southwest and northwest of the continent, united to form the "Nine Nations Business Alliance".

As a result, the Shang Alliance's army retained more of the form and imprint of the First Continental War.

For example, the Manning Kingdom, their predecessor was the forward heavy infantry regiment of the rebel coalition army, so the main military force of Manning was the heavy infantry axemen.

Another example, Nan Madol, this is a small kingdom in the northwest of the continent, there is only one city-state, South Madol City, his origin, in fact, is a rebel nobleman of the Magic Empire, this nobleman, the whole family was killed by the last ruler of the Magic Empire.

The nobleman of the Magic Empire, who escaped from the pursuit, was rescued by a minority girl by the Sunset Mountains, and after recovering from her injuries, the girl married him, and the same was given to him, along with a thousand indigenous warriors from the girl's tribe. The nobles, with these thousand indigenous warriors, joined the rebel coalition. Therefore, Southern Madur, too, has maintained the tradition of this tribal army.

Each country has its own special types of troops, but the number is actually not large, and when dealing with foreign wars, there will be various delays due to the problem of inconsistent coordination between countries. In order to solve this problem, the Shang Alliance** will simply ask each country's own army to be responsible for solving the security of each country, and ask the Adventurer Guild to hire a large number of mercenaries to form a merchant alliance mercenary garrison. These mercenaries are paid to do their jobs, and they can apply for withdrawal at the end of five years of service. As a result, the mercenary group became the number one army of the Shang Alliance.

Before the "Manning Incident", the number of the entire mercenary group was about 20,000, stationed along the Grand Canyon and in Manning City, where the ** group of the merchant alliance was stationed.

The Kaman's characteristic army is their Kaman Guard, which during the First Continental War, was a type of hoplite who was wrapped in a "tin can" and was good at defense. In fact, they were originally the personal guards of the Grand Priest of Kaman, who were responsible for the safety of the most important medical officer in the rebel coalition.

Later, after the establishment of the Kaman state, the Kaman guards were retained as a guard team, and a security team was set up in the Kaman country, that is, the red robe that Koster was familiar with, which was responsible for the security of the country.

Within the business alliance, it has not been long-term peaceful. The earliest merchant alliance consisted of about 14 kingdoms and 6 independent city-states. There are constant wars, wars, alliances, and sometimes betrayals between nations. More than 100 years later, the nine larger kingdoms and independent city-states eventually formed a three-legged trend.

A few countries that could no longer move sat down and went through a long period of negotiations, and finally formed a strange situation in which the business alliance would make unified decisions and each country would govern the country on its own.

It is not surprising to say that in the years when the countries of the Shang Alliance were fighting together, the San Jose Empire in the east and the Desik Empire in the north were immersed in development, and in their own ways, they quickly grew into powerful empires in the world.

In the face of the pressure of the two empires, the countries of the Shang Alliance realized that with their own strength, they would sooner or later become the meat of the big empire. As a result, the establishment of the Shang Alliance was actually a last resort, and the chaotic western part of the mainland finally stabilized.

And this stability is hundreds of years.

Compared with the Desik Empire and the San Jose Empire, the military technology of the Shang Alliance seems to have been crooked from the beginning. The Desik are known on the mainland for their strong individual combat ability of the Wasteland Samurai, while San Jose is a superior weapon and engineering equipment to confront the northern barbarians. As for the Shang Alliance, their soldiers have neither strong personal ability, nor the technology of the Shang Alliance, nor extremely high scientific research ability, they only have one thing, that is, gold coins.

As a loose alliance that founded the nation on commerce and defended it with mercenaries, the military officials of the merchant alliance believed that they could build a perfect army if they smashed enough gold coins.

As a result, the mercenaries of the Shang Alliance, who wore the thickest iron armor in the whole continent, had countless chariots and horses to help transport the overweight armor when they marched, and their weapons were extremely large in number of bows and crossbows as the main output. In order to buy the hearts of the mercenaries, the Shang Alliance prepared a full set of armor for each mercenary, a pair of iron crossbows, and various living and entertainment materials.

The soldiers of Desik once laughed that the soldiers of the Shang Alliance, they did not come to fight, but to go on vacation. Once, after the military friction between the Shang Alliance and the Desik, on the corpses of the dead mercenaries of the Shang League, the Desik people found a large number of military cans, which contained various pickled beef and mutton.

You must know that the Desik border guards eat wheat bread and longevity fruit soup all year round, and they can only drink broth once during the New Year's holidays. All of a sudden, a few canned beef and mutton caused a big fight among the border guards, and there was almost a mutiny.

But that's not the most exaggerated thing, there are even more exaggerated. It is a fact that Desik soldiers like to loot the corpses of mercenaries of the Merchant Alliance, and many soldiers will fight for a package on a corpse, and Desik officers also acquiesce to this fact. However, many times, after a group of hungry wolf-like soldiers fought, the victor opened the package that he had managed to grab, and when he opened it, he saw that there were actually a bunch of "tarot cards", which is a popular entertainment toy in the territory of the business alliance. A deck of cards, dozens of cards, is not light.

The soldiers of Desik couldn't figure it out, why did the soldiers of the war carry such things?

How did the Shang League survive between the two great powers, Desic and San Jose, with such an army? The secret was the most noticeable thing, the gold coin.

The Shangmeng produced a huge amount of commercial materials, and always relied on commercial trade to open the way and seek peace with the two great powers. As for the big countries, they are not willing to exploit too much, and they are afraid that the business alliance will completely fall to the other, so the situation of the three countries can barely be maintained.

If you want to say whether the business alliance understands people, there are. But why has this situation not been changed all along? It has to do with the form of the loose alliance of the business alliance. After all, fighting a war is about killing people, and the dead people in your country are always better than the dead people in your own country, so there is no way, mercenaries are still reliable.

That mercenary can satisfy the heads of all countries, but it's a pity that the mercenaries who love money can do their best for the business alliance.

So this time, in the face of the aggressive Desik Empire, the Shang Alliance ** will make up its mind to expand its armament and form an army that can fight and win battles.

According to the requirements of the first meeting, the countries of the business alliance should double their own armies, and the newly formed armies should be apportioned according to the proportion of the population of each country, and a total of 40 new brigades and regiments need to be formed, a total of 14 new regiments, of which Kaman was divided into three regiments.

The three regiments of soldiers, each with 3,000 men, a total of 9,000 men, were all counted as infantry, and only needed to provide armor, ordnance, food and grass, and a small number of chariots and horses. This is not a small amount, for a small country like the Principality of Kaman. Even though Kaman was still wealthy, it took two years to scrape together the formation of a new army, their armor and weapons, and an interesting thing happened before the deadline in the armament order of the ** meeting.

The Business Alliance, this time made a big decision, dozens of mercenaries with rich combat experience selected from the mercenary regiment were sent to the three newly formed regiments of Kaman as instructors and mid-level officers, and the candidates for the three regiment commanders were appointed by the Duke of Kaman out of respect for the Duke of Kaman.

The population of the Principality of Kaman is not small, but it is not particularly large either. These 9,000 people were mainly voluntarily signed up by farmers in the territory of Kaman, the major nobles also contributed some domestic slaves and servants, and the officers were mainly voluntarily applied by the children of the major families who had no inheritance rights.

This was still not enough, and in the end, Xiao Mu had to let some of the red robes and some of the local garrison soldiers retire and join the newly formed army.

Knowing that Xiao Mu did this, Kerst was a little surprised, didn't this tear down the east wall to make up the west wall, but Xiao Mu smiled and said, "Our Kaman people are so simple, you look like your Kerst Manor, there is no way to leave it behind." There are so many people in the red robe crowded in the royal capital, and there is no need, just send them to fight. ”

In this way, after putting things together, Kaman's new army was formed. There are enough people, and it is not easy to equip them. You know, it's not just 9,000 people who can go to war, they have to be equipped with weapons and armor. In this regard, Karman is even less of a strong point. The Kamans are only good at making wine and farming, how can they make armor?

As a result, Kaman's financial officer was directly tired and sick, and looking at the empty treasury, Xiao Mu and the officials were helpless. In the end, Princess Monica Mu, who was still living in seclusion in the Royal Capital Academy, heard the news and gave Xiao Mu an idea.

Xiao Mu, the regent of Duke Kaman, sent a letter with sincere wording to the headquarters of the Business Alliance and the ** Society, the gist of the letter is, we Kaman have no money, I have all the people, I definitely don't have money to buy the equipment, either help us make up for it, or you can use it, don't be verbose, you all know the situation of our Kaman.

Of course, the business alliance knew about Karman's situation, and Karman accounted for the majority of the previous share of the reparation. Now that Kaman's regent has come over to be a very shameless scoundrel, the Shang Alliance ** will have to agree to Kaman's request out of guilt, and the next day, the armor and weapons of the two large ships will be shipped from Manning to Kaman.

This incident made Princess Monica proud for a long time, and she thought that she was indeed Karman's greatest genius. Of course, having achieved such a great achievement, of course Xiao Mu would not refute it, in fact, he did not dare.