In a tent in the middle of the camp, Edgeless Blade Egbert was listening to his lieutenant's report

"Now that there are more and more people in the camp, we have less than seven days of food left in the early stage, and if there are soldiers from other areas coming to support, our food reserve time will be even shorter. ”

"However, we have actively communicated with the city lord of Karl City again, and he has promised to raise a batch of food to support us within 3 days, of course, the amount is not very large. ”

Egbert nodded when he heard this, food is the key to an army, it seems that he can't delay much time, and he must take the initiative to pass through as soon as possible, thinking of this, he asked his adjutant: "How many troops have arrived in the support of the major provinces now?"

The adjutant replied without hesitation: "Now there are less than 4,000 people in the three major provinces, these data are all about half an hour ago, and there is still a steady stream of personnel coming to support, the specific number may have to be added a little, but it is roughly not much different!"

"Among the three provinces, the most support personnel from the west province of Kensas arrived, with a total of about 2,500 people, about 1,000 people from the city defense army, about 300 people from the security team, and about 1,200 people from the militia. ”

"Maple Leaf Province is second, now there are about 1,200 people, of which there are about 300 people in the city defense army, about 100 people in the security team, and about 500 people in the militia, in addition to the troops of Viscount Simpson, the lord of Side City in Maple Leaf Province, who responded to the call to support, there are about 100 people directly under the lord's troops, and about 200 serf soldiers. ”

"As for the province of Lunsa, because it is far away, and the last city of the kingdom in Scanza Province, Hercynian City, was also broken by the armies of the four lords two days ago, and now the entire province of Lunsar is mobilizing troops to support the north to prevent the armies of the four lords from attacking the province of Hercynian from the direction of Hercynian City. ”

"In this way, the number of people who supported us was greatly reduced, so they also had the least number of people, until it was about less than 300 people, and most of these 300 people were all militiamen, only a small number of soldiers from the security corps and the city defense force. ”

"However, a day ago, Lord Duke Duck had already received the news that a conscription order had just been issued to the province of Lowe to the west, and it is estimated that they can also gather some troops there, but they are further away than the province of Rensa, and there is no guarantee that they can gather as much as possible. ”

These data are in the adjutant's mind and can be reported at any time.

Egbert sighed, if the major armies of the Nader Kingdom are listed as a level, then the three major armies of the kingdom, plus the direct troops in each lord's territory, are considered to be the first level.

The first-level army is exceptionally outstanding in terms of equipment, training, honor, and actual combat effectiveness.

Then there are the city defense troops, security teams, and mercenaries in the major cities of the kingdom, which are counted as the second level, and these troops are not even worse than the first level of troops in some aspects, but because of equipment reasons, or lack of actual combat reasons, etc., these can only be regarded as second-line troops.

As for the militia and serf soldiers established by the lord in some towns of the kingdom in order to place the raids of bandits, they can only be regarded as the third level, because these militias and serf soldiers are actually ordinary civilians most of the time on weekdays.

It is only at the request of the town mayor or the lord of the city or the lord that he uses the leisure time of his daily work to carry out simple military training and then trains, and this kind of simple military training not only cannot be fixed for a fixed time, but often does not last long, and even a few people who have given up training are no longer few.

In addition, most of these militia and serf soldiers only have inferior equipment, and even have no combat weapons, so they can only use hoes and kitchen knives at home as substitutes, coupled with the problem of extreme lack of training, it can be seen that their combat effectiveness is not at all high.

So when Egbert heard that among the total 4,000 soldiers who came to support, there were more than 2,200 soldiers, and more than half of the places were militia and serf soldiers from the major provinces, he couldn't help but sigh.

And what's even more troublesome is that most of these armies are in a state of their own affairs, if there is no large number of reorganization, he will not dare to casually pull these people to the battlefield, when these people die is still a trivial matter, if it affects the layout of the entire battlefield, it will be more than worth the loss.

Therefore, Egbert instructed the adjutant: "In the next two days, integrate the city defense army, security team, and militia as soon as possible, and seize the time, train as much as you can, and try to improve their combat effectiveness." ”

"As for the troops of the major lords' troops, whether they are the lord's direct troops or the serf soldiers, you don't have to worry about it, if you come, you can arrange them to a special lord's camp. ”

The adjutant nodded and said: "Understood, Lord Egbert, I have already arranged everything according to your wishes, the militia who came early before has already begun to arrange training, as for the lord's problem, whether it is Viscount Simpson who has arrived in front or Lord Simpson who will arrive later, I will arrange it." ”

"Don't forget to find someone to keep an eye on the lords' quarters, there are already four lords in front of them who are going crazy, I don't want a fifth lord to go crazy!" said Egbert with a frown.

However, after waiting for the adjutant to reply affirmatively, Egbert breathed a sigh of relief, but the reason for the low combat effectiveness of the support troops was still not solved, and it seemed that he needed to visit the city lord of Karl City in person to see if he could get some obsolete weapons and equipment or something, at least simply arm the militia of thousands of people.

So while frowning, he asked, "By the way, how is the recruitment of mercenaries, has there been any new progress in the past two days!"

The adjutant hesitated when he heard this, but after thinking about it for a while, he still said truthfully: "It's still that situation, and it's even more serious, so far we have only recruited less than 50 mercenaries in total, and most of these mercenaries are free mercenaries, as for those large and medium-sized mercenary groups in the north of the kingdom, they have all been recruited by the four major lords and joined the army of the four major lords." ”

"Obviously, in the mercenary world in the north of the kingdom, most of the large and medium-sized mercenary groups have been infiltrated by the four major lords! When these large and medium-sized mercenary groups make a choice and choose the four major lords, this is like a weather vane, causing a large number of small mercenary groups and free mercenaries to follow suit and join the army of the four major lords. ”