Speaking of which, the impact of the battle seventeen days ago was beyond Roddy's imagination. He wasn't surprised by the 4,600 XP from the "Raid on Orc Camp (Completed)" mission, but he was surprised by the upgrades of all the scouts in Nolan Village.

After this battle, all fourteen scouts had increased their level by two levels, from an average of 3 to an average of 5, and Ruger had reached 6 - at this rate, Roddy found that if he took them into battle constantly, and the armament and food could keep up, he could really train an elite cavalry force after a complete transfer!

In the game, no "player" has ever done such a thing, because NPCs don't do missions to kill enemies in order to "level up" like the player - there is only one life, and they can't be "resurrected" in the graveyard, so no one will risk death every day to find the orcs for bad luck. Moreover, they need about 15% more experience to level up than players, and cultivating NPCs is a completely thankless task.

Roddy had thought about building up his own power before, and this team had put a lot of effort into it, but to be honest, he didn't expect that such an investment would immediately see such obvious results...

After Luo Di's calculations, he understood that the experience required for their current upgrade was the same as his own!

Almost immediately, countless longings popped up in my heart - what would happen if I built this team in the direction of "elite soldiers"?

Sodrore transferred to "Guardian Knight", Ruger went to "Gun Knight"... The remaining scouts transferred to different knights according to their respective strengths, and assisted each other with different skills, auras, and attributes to create a powerful team with a small number but terrifying combat power...

Turning a low-end scout from the frontier into a mighty knight order that the Duke doesn't necessarily have - this kind of thing sounds incredible, but no one knows that the parchment on Roddy's desk has already begun to plan for this long-term project.

How to promote, how to change jobs, where to change jobs, what kind of tasks to do, and the materials needed were all sorted out by him. While these scouts didn't have much to plan for the future, Roddy had already begun to plan for their growth.

Of course, the premise of getting to the ideal step is that you can constantly find opportunities to train these scouts, and do your best to ensure that they do not die on the battlefield.

With this in mind, the scouts' morning training had just ended, and the patrol team from the grassland not far away had returned safely, bringing a reply that "everything is normal at the border".

"Assembled, ready for lunch. ”

Roddy shouted at Sodrore, and a "yes" was heard in the distance, followed by orders such as "assemble" and "stand upright".

If it weren't for the fact that the scouts were all dressed in medieval-style leather armor, Roddy would have felt that this was the barracks of his time.

Scout No. 30 was divided into two teams, the captains were Ruger and Sodlore, and the "political commissar" Carter usually participated in training as a special formation, and Roddy became the commander of the entire team, because the military rank was not recognized by the Roussiflon family, so he directly hung himself up with the title of "instructor".

At this time, looking at these young people who were neat and neat, and collectively sang "unity is strength" after reporting the numbers, Luo Di seemed to have seen a group of powerful knights whose future strength could completely overthrow the "Royal Guard".

However, after seeing more than 30 people eating a "spiced" lunch of large pieces of beef, he still sighed secretly: To do those things, he must first have money!

The slaughtered orc camp didn't contribute much loot, and apart from the scimitars, only forty wolves were worth a fraction of the money. Luo Di didn't have the idea of treating them as his own mounts, he couldn't afford to raise them and couldn't ride them, so he simply slaughtered most of them, sold wolf skins, wolf claws and wolf bones to subsidize the funds, and threw the rest directly on the grassland for the group of Concedon's cavalry to "pick up" as military merits, which can be regarded as leaving an explanation for the disappearance of the group of wolf cavalry.

So far, he has ordered all scouts to strictly prohibit the news of the killing of the wolf cavalry from leaking out, so the whole kingdom is still kept in the dark as to the real reason for the disappearance of the wolf cavalry.

The discipline at the dinner table was very strict, and all the soldiers were burying their heads in eating, and they could not hear half of the small talk. In the past, "food" had little effect on the player, but Roddy understood that "daily diet" had an additional effect on NPC stats - so in order to keep the attributes of these soldiers uncompromised, the food in front of the scouts was not a bit of a bluff.

Twenty minutes, the table was clean, and Luo Di clapped his hands and signaled that he had something to say:

"Guys, let me briefly talk about the next steps. ”

"It's the end of June, and we're going to train for about a month, so I'm going to tell you what we're going to do now, so you'd better be mentally prepared in advance. ”

The soldiers in the left and right rows turned their heads to look at each other, their tanned faces revealing the same fortitude.

"The plan is simple: in mid-August, we're going to the orc kingdom. ”

When Roddy finished saying this, he seemed to be able to clearly hear the sound of several people struggling to swallow their saliva.

"It sounds scary, but it's a lot easier than you think. From tonight onwards, I'm going to start telling you what to do, what you're going to encounter there, how to deal with it - so... Study hard, and remember, I don't want to lose a brave soldier, and I don't want to spare a damned orc. ”

In the past, not many people would have listened to such words, but the soldiers had thoroughly accepted the concept of "obeying the orders of their superiors" in training, and coupled with the strength and prestige that Roddy had shown in previous battles, no one of them even thought about whether this matter was "feasible" at this time, and they had already begun to think about how to "study hard" at night.

From here, we can see what role Roddy's previous militarized management and the existence of Carter's "political commissar" played.

"I can assure you that our actions are not to commit suicide. We've got good horses, we've got you, the best soldiers on the entire frontier who know how to fight! Those wolf cavalry can go straight into the ravages and walk away, why can't we go to the orc kingdom and do the same?"

"It's been almost seventy years, and since Emperor Conn the Great drove the orcs to the rear of the steppe, which army in the Karen Kingdom has done what we do today?"

"Flattening the entire camp of the orc advance force, and slaughtering thirty-three wolf cavalry in full formation—what did the nobles do to do such a thing? Did Lord Kirk, who hid like a turtle, do one thing for the dead villagers of Cree?"

These words have been brewing in Roddy's chest for a long time, and they can be said to be extremely inflammatory. The soldiers were not highly educated, and most of them were illiterate, so it was too easy for Roddy to "fool" him. After a few words, the soldiers' expressions became slightly excited, and the blood in their chests was agitated.

After all, there is one fact that cannot be denied: they are indeed the first humans to resist and triumph against the orc invasion in decades!

Using the facts of the battle to tell them that "orcs are not terrible", and then planting the seeds of "making meritorious contributions and serving the motherland" in their hearts, in this era when knights value honor more than life, these scouts gradually have the courage and belief that ordinary people can hardly match, and take the "first step" on the theoretical basis of the "knights" expected by Roddy.

Roddy didn't use a negotiating tone when he was informed of such a thing, and after another impassioned speech, he let the agitated scouts go to the dormitory to rest. Then he called Sodlore and Carter to his study.

"That's the way it is, what do you think?"

It was only then that Roddy would speak in an inquiring tone, and the soldiers could have a small grievance, but the management had to be unanimous - Roddy didn't want to be held back by uncooperative subordinates as he navigated the dangerous orc kingdom.

"I couldn't agree more. ”

As a Ruger who watched Roddy complete a "miracle" and "feat", he had no objection to all of Roddy's decisions at this time, so he directly expressed his position without thinking about it.

Sodrol, on the other hand, frowned slightly, and said in a low voice, "Attack the orc kingdom... Such a plan is simply insane. ”

"Because of madness, no one would have thought that it was possible, and that was the first guarantee of our success. Roddy had already had the answer to his question, so he reached out and pulled out a large roll of parchment and slowly spread it out.

What appeared in front of Sodrol and Ruger was a precise military map that had never been drawn before by the Cullen Empire's military. Roddy drew a map of the former orc kingdom from memory, and modified it based on the information he had received from the orc Xhosa—the final product on the table, mapping the locations of all the tribal villages in the entire northeast of the orc kingdom, and even indicating the approximate population and number of troops.

Sodrore's eyes narrowed, he knew very well what such a map meant militarily. When he thought about the past, he couldn't help but feel sorry for the orcs - these orcs probably still couldn't figure out the exact location of Hollier City, right?

"If it were you, where would you choose to raid?"

Like in battle, Roddy always has an easy grasp of the conversation. Sodrore, who had forgotten the purpose of his coming here today, immediately began to think about this question in his mind as if he were a student being asked by a teacher.

Ruger bent down and looked, saying that he was just a qualified warrior, but not a commanding talent, he couldn't read all the words on it, he shook his head, and directly spread his hands and said that he didn't know, and instead gave up his position to Sodrore.

The latter was obviously quite interested in this, and after thinking about it, his fingertips fell somewhere, and then he followed the map towards the interior of the orc kingdom - "The orc tribes are sparse, and from here deep into the interior of the orc kingdom, we can almost choose the weak tribes to attack without worrying about the other party's retaliation... If it's fast enough, you can even raid here, here, and here in two days. ”

Roddy nodded secretly, and was amazed by this guy's keen observation and judgment, because everything the other party said was exactly what he had planned: to stab the enemy in the soft underbelly when the orcs were defenseless!

But what only Roddy himself knows... In the first three years of the server, the orc kingdom was always in a state of "civil strife". Like the human noble lords, the barbarian races of these tribal systems are not as united as they might think, and are even more chaotic than the kingdom of Karen in some ways.

This civil strife lasted for three years, and it was not until the pre-Conquer was unified by the Great Chief Sauron, the "King of Ten Thousand Axes", that these barbarian creatures gradually developed ambitions for the human kingdom. Before Sauron conquered dozens of tribes, large and small, most of the friction on the borders of the kingdom was caused by the greed of small tribes such as the "Hammer of Rohar", not the unification of the orc kingdom.

In this context, Roddy can do the whole thing unnoticed, so that the other party only thinks that it is a provocation from other tribes and will not be discovered - such a trip, the orcs killed are definitely enough to make the team and himself rise several levels in a row, and when he returns, the strength of the team will increase, not to mention, he should also have enough strength to find trouble with Francis.

Getting rid of Francis was the next goal on this trip. While other lords and nobles may have been just "pig teammates", Francis can be directly classified into the unforgivable "enemy" column - this "traitor" must be killed for Roddy.

Sodrore pondered for a moment, then finally nodded in approval of Roddy's plan, and then asked his final question:

"There's no problem with such an attack, but -- why in mid-August? That's..."

"It's the rainy season, and it's the rainiest time. ”

Roddy narrowed his eyes slightly, and pointed to the grassland near the border of the orc kingdom, "So I tell you not to worry about the enemy's pursuit, because when the rainy season comes, we have a safe way back." ”

"Back?"

Sodrore and Ruger both looked puzzled, for Roddy was referring to an empty prairie area.

"Before the rain, it was the grassland. But after the rain, it took on a new name..."

Roddy's eyes narrowed slightly, and he tapped the parchment lightly, and said the name of the place that Sodrore had never heard of-

"Swamp of death. ”