Although it is true that many of the minor nobles will be dissatisfied with the tough attitude just now, as long as they win and the benefits are properly distributed, then they will gradually get used to Luo Ming's rule.

This is similar to taming dogs and horses.

It just so happens that this coincides with Luo Ming's strategic thinking - to send troops first to eliminate the Beran army behind him, which not only removes the threat in that direction, but also boosts morale and confidence. Next, we will fight against the main force of the Beran army.

From the previous group of prisoners, Luo Ming learned that the army of Belan approaching from the back this time was about 1,600 people, of which 400 were the soldiers and horses of a viscount, and the other 1,200 were mercenaries.

Of course, if you dare to send them to such a key battlefield, it is impossible to find 1,200 miscellaneous mercenaries to make up the number, these 1,200 people are actually well-trained, from a professional mercenary group "Jiaertai", and they also have a certain reputation in the world.

However, no matter how you say it, it is only 1,600 people, and the two troops are mixed, and the combat effectiveness will be discounted.

Luo Ming pondered, he was now fully capable of urgently summoning an army to defeat them, why did the Berans take the enemy so lightly?

Although Hudek only has the title of knight, as a swordsman, he still has a lot of right to know in the Beran army. He said in his confession that Luo Ming had attracted the attention of Bei Lanjun, but this so-called "height" made Luo Ming laugh.

Belanjun believed that Luo Ming could only control a population of 10,000 people, and even if he was to recruit troops according to the limit, he could only make up 1,200 to 1,600 soldiers, and almost half of them were peasant soldiers who were temporarily brought in to fill the number.

Although he had some allies, those allies could only retreat to the castle to protect themselves when Beran's army was overwhelmed, and it was impossible to divide their forces to support him.

Then the Beran army will press at least 3,500 men on the front, and if necessary, it can continue to reinforce, and kill 1,600 men from the back to attack in front and rear. No matter which side is head-to-head with the Luo Ming army, it will not lose, and the total strength of the two sides is at least three times the gap with the Luo Ming army.

It has been less than a year since Luo Ming opened the mountain road, and the fortifications built are not very strong, and they can easily be crushed under such a huge difference in strength.

At that time, Luo Ming wanted to laugh when he heard it, it turned out that the so-called "high attention" of the Belan Army was only to this extent.

But it's no wonder that although we all know that information is important in war, there are really not many people like Luo Ming who also attach importance to secrecy and release false information to muddy the waters in peacetime, and it is no wonder that the people of Belan have some beautiful illusions.

- In fact, the mountain people of Mount Carlo not only did not have any enemies or widespread resentment towards him, but even had some admiration for him.

- In fact, many of the noble allies in the vicinity of Schönbrunn had followed Lomin's advice and migrated to the Hills, where they had taken refuge with their lords and troops.

-- As a matter of fact, Schönbrunn's all-people military training system has been in operation for three years, and the mobilization mechanism is relatively complete.

- In fact, relying on some advanced technology and strategic and tactical thinking, the actual combat effectiveness of Luo Ming's army is much stronger than that of ordinary troops of the same number.

In this way, Luo Ming has an army of 4,000 people in his hands!

It sounds like an incredible number, and if he told someone who didn't know the truth, he would think he was crazy, but if he had a good and correct understanding of Schönbrunn's situation, it would be easy to understand, and it was basically the difficulty of elementary school math problems.

With the addition of the Carlo mountain people, the actual population under Luo Ming's rule is actually about 18,600, and young and middle-aged men basically account for one-fifth, of which 40% of young and middle-aged men are well-trained enough to join the regular army, that is, 1,500 people.

Another 40 per cent of the second-line troops, or 1,500 men, were able to join the second line of troops—of course, they were poorly trained, mainly as auxiliaries to defend the city or armed men to transport baggage, and even then they were many times stronger than the kind of peasants captured by Ra Zhuangding.

Many of the minor nobles took refuge in the hill with their population and soldiers, and they could provide a regular army of 500 men and an auxiliaries of 500 men—to be honest, the quality of the regular army they provided was probably a little higher than that of Lomin's, but it was relatively uncooperative and undisciplined.

In this way, it is 4,000 people, and if it is squeezed again, Luo Ming can even make more than 2,000 militiamen of inferior level, but much better than nothing.

Anyway, now he is fighting around the territory, and he doesn't need to maintain a long logistics line at all, and these troops can basically be directly invested in the front-line battlefield.

Of course, if these 4,000 people attack with the whole army to shake the main force of the Belan Army in front, although there is a little chance of victory, this chance is still not big enough, and it is not worth Luo Ming's bet.

But it was more than enough to deal with the 1,600 people approaching from the back!

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Early the next morning, the north gate of the city of Carlo Mountain.

An army had been assembled and lined up in a neat phalanx to welcome Luo Ming's review.

Luo Ming wore only a robe that symbolized his status, rode his horse and galloped around, and then returned to the front of the battle satisfied.

Twenty-five nobles, big and small, followed him around the formation, and looking at the well-trained appearance of these soldiers, they also gained a lot of confidence.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this time there are 1,400 enemies, and our army has sent 1,600 troops. Most of you have fought alongside General Ben, and you know that I have not lost a single battle in dozens of battles. Even if I led an army of 1,000 against 1,500 monsters, I won in the end, and I also killed a great swordsman in front of the battle!

Now that the enemy is outnumbered and we are on an expedition of laborers, what reason do they have not to be defeated? What reason does our army have not to win?"

Luo Ming quietly confused a few numbers, and although the number of enemies would not really change because of his words, the morale was subtly boosted.

If both sides are 1,600 men, they will seem evenly matched, but if the number of enemies is 200 less, there will be a big gap in people's judgment - just as 968 seems to be much cheaper than 1000.

He raised his sword and shouted, "Not only will we win, but we will win if we win, and it will not be a small victory, but a big victory!"

The locusts of Beran want to take over our land, take our food, and enslave our families and children and grandchildren – phew!

Only their corpses will get a small piece of graveyard! The military rations they bring will only become a supper in our mouths!

And when the war is over, I hope that everyone present will be able to tell their families and children and grandchildren about the glory of this war!"