In the mountains of Sauron.

Under Fan Ming's encouragement, people began to actively prepare for war, the soldiers trained hard, and the farmers worked hard, although it was much harder than usual, but people did not complain, which was all thanks to Fan Ming's war propaganda.

You must know that in this era, there is no concept of the state, let alone freedom, but Fan Ming instilled these advanced ideas from later generations prematurely, so that they have the concept of more unity than others, and let them understand that everything they do is for themselves and future generations.

Fan Ming was not idle, he integrated and reformed the ruling system of Mount Sauron, he asked some hunters to move to the foot of the mountain, so that they could be his eyes, as long as someone entered, he would know first.

As the name suggests, professional soldiers are those who serve for life, and those who serve for a certain period of time can go home or choose to continue to join the army or become a professional soldier. This new system of military service continued until the founding of the Great Empire.

All the original 100 mercenary-turned-bandits were incorporated into the heavy armor, and the best armor in the entire castle was given to them, and each of them was equipped with a large sword and a light axe, just enough to make everyone armed to the teeth. Such a class of troops can be slashed with a sharp and terrifying sword, directly splitting people into several sections, and if it is a close fight, it can also abandon the big sword and slash with a light axe. Such a class is the king of the infantry, almost a mobile pillbox, impregnable. This team is led by him. On weekdays, he also taught them swordsmanship, which was taught to him by Sota.

And the remaining bandits, who came from the peasants, recruited another hundred people from the peasants. A total of 200 people were gathered, and they were organized into a spear team, each with a spear of about six meters. The body of the spear is wooden, and the spearhead is the spearhead of the original spear, because there is no armor, they gave them the remaining hundreds of sets of leather armor in the castle, which looks neat, for this era, the pikemen are the best weapon to restrain the cavalry. If cavalrymen in full iron armor are tanks, then these pikemen are the nemesis of tanks, and pikemen don't need much skill. The most important thing is to be brave, disciplined and in formation!

However, the pikemen were very limited by the terrain, especially the undulating terrain, which greatly affected the formation! This is once restricted. You can pull out a short sword in hand-to-hand combat, and although you lose your advantage, you can also protect yourself. The pikemen were handed over to Lem, who seemed to be popular among the bandits, with some prestige to maintain the pikemen's discipline. So their training program is to work together in formation and teamwork. There is no way to practice courage for the time being, you can only rely on practice on the battlefield!

At the same time, Fan Ming found fifty more thin and short peasants and asked them to have a sickle in their hands. Specifically when the pikemen blocked the cavalry, drill into the first row of the pikemen. Harvest the horse's leg with a sickle, which was also the weakest point of the cavalry, like the tracks of a tank. There is no technical content in this work, as long as you can cut the wheat, you will cut the legs of the horses, and this team will follow behind the team and listen to orders at any time. Their training program is to drill holes and harvest things quickly.

In the name of freedom and fanming, the Orion in the mountains was recruited, and the power of public opinion should not be underestimated! In just a few days, more than 100 Orions came, and Fan Ming selected 100 of them who were the best at shooting, and formed them into an archer team, using the traditional longbow in a unified manner, this kind of bow is not only powerful, but also light, and very easy to carry, remember that in the war between a certain two countries in the previous life, it was this longbowman who defeated several times his own cavalry team!

This army has a very prestigious Orion leader, his name is Green, about thirty years old in this Sauron Mountain hunting for more than ten years, for the Sauron Mountain grass and trees know everything well, their training task is to shuttle through the forest every day to hunt, one to train their field ability, the other to bring fur can increase some income, meat can improve the diet!

Then, he sold the goods he intercepted from Svadia, and all the money obtained was used to buy pig iron and other war resources from Djerkhara, and asked the blacksmiths to recruit a considerable number of apprentices, so that there were only five blacksmiths, one with ten, and ten people as a team, so that there were five teams of fifty people, and let each of these five teams be responsible for a process in the building, and then exchange masters after becoming proficient, so that soon fifty blacksmiths who are proficient in building will be brought out, and there will be no delay in making weapons!

That's because in this era, cavalry is still the overlord, and the mountainous Rhodok may be a paradise for foot combat, but if you go to the plain, or out of Rhodok, the fate of these infantry will not be known, so in order to deal with the cavalry, Fan Ming thought of the famous Mo knife!

Mo knife, is a kind of Tang knife, long and sharp, Xiao Tie is like mud, but he weighs more than 40 pounds, the famous Mo knife general Li Siye led the Mo knife soldiers in the previous life, is the nightmare of the Tubo cavalry.

Therefore, Fan Ming wants to purchase a large amount of pig iron, and train blacksmiths on a large scale, in terms of technology, Fan Ming has to thank the chemistry teacher in his previous life, fortunately he has developed a variety of weapons and firearms in his class, plus Fan Ming has a hobby in this area, so he knows everything about the process of sudden fire and so on, so he told the blacksmith master the methods and precautions.

Optimistically, the first Mo knife created by the blacksmiths was the same as he imagined, and even beyond his imagination, but what was not optimistic was that due to the complexity of the process, even if the division of labor was clear, it could only ensure the output of 20 pieces per month, not to mention that it was necessary to build the arrows standing in the army and so on, so if you want to equip all the heavy armor soldiers, you will have to wait for seven or eight months.

On the production side, he was glorified by itinerant poets and merchants because of his speeches, and was hailed as the protector of the common people, the leader of freedom, and a whole host of titles!

In this way, many serfs from the surrounding noble territories were attracted to his territory, and it happened that there was a large amount of land around the castle, and there was the rarest plain land in the kingdom of Rhodoc, which brought convenience to farming!

Therefore, Fan Ming ordered that all peasants who came here could get a piece of land of their own, and for the sake of fairness, the land should be drawn by lot to see which one they get. Farmers who get the land only need to sign a land agreement with Fan Minh, as long as they are harvested every season. If you pay a tenth of the tax, you will have the right to use the land in perpetuity. This agreement undoubtedly made the serfs who had fled here hail Fan Ming as the god in their hearts, a god who was no less than their holy lord.

In order to encourage joining the army, for those who have family members serving in the army, the family only pays one-twentieth of the tax in each harvest season, and can also receive some seeds for free from Fan Ming in each sowing season.

The salary is also the highest in the whole continent!3 dinars per month. The captain is 6 dinars a month, and you must know that in Cadia, even if the commoners do not eat or drink every month. You can save a dinar.

Not only these, Fan Ming has also created a complete set of military welfare system, all those who are disabled in the army and cannot work, their families can receive 5 dinars per month, and those who unfortunately died in battle. You can receive 10 dinars per month. And regardless of whether he was killed or disabled in battle, the family's monthly food consumption was provided by Fan Ming.

This kind of military system is unprecedented in the entire continent, where soldiers are treated like dogs, and the lives of soldiers are disregarded, and salaries come and go, not to mention any benefits and treatments.

Therefore, for Fan Ming, he is treated generously in the army. and the guarantee of military families, all of them are competing to sign up. Willing to die for Fan Mingxiao! This also achieved the prestige of the strongest army on the mainland in the future.

Merchants were regarded as the lowest professions in this era! The Church regarded merchants as despicable because they would do whatever they could for profit! Therefore, there were many prohibitions against merchants! For example, merchants were not allowed to eat meat, they were not allowed to ride horses, and even in some places the property of merchants was not legally protected. And businessmen are also subject to onerous taxes.

But for Fan Ming, he was well aware of the economic benefits of commerce, so he ordered that the toll of the merchants in the Sauron region should be abolished, and a place on the side of the castle should be vacated to establish a merchant's guild, as long as the merchant license issued by Fan Ming was obtained, he could eat, live and trade here for free, but the only condition was that the goods must be cheaper than other places.

This decision may not be understood by many people, but Jamira deeply understands that it seems to be less and more revenue from tolls, but it attracts more merchants to come here to do business, which can make the economy here prosper rapidly, and can choose a few special merchants to authorize the promotion of Sauron's specialties to other places, greatly increasing income. By the way, you can also collect the latest information from various places!

Due to the large amount of work, Fan Ming handed over the miscellaneous items such as commercial agriculture to Yamila, and he was in charge of the military, not to mention, although Yamila looked very arrogant, but he showed amazing talent in doing this. So, Fan Ming also handed over the logistics to her with confidence.

While all aspects of reform are in full swing, the world beyond Mount Sauron has long been in chaos.

King Haraus of Svadia, who had always wanted to restore the territory of Fùmans the Great, began to invade various countries, starting with the weakest kingdom of Rhodok.

Later historians named the year the first year of the Gregorian calendar!

In January of the first year of the Gregorian calendar, under the leadership of King Haraus and his younger brother, Duke Harengoth, Count Claes, Count de Grana, Count Michaud, Count Lafazi, and Count Dispin. The soldiers were divided into five routes, and a total of 100,000 male soldiers rushed towards Rhodok.

In March of the first year of the Gregorian calendar, the Count of Claes and the Count of Degrana besieged Fort Coolma, and the Lord of Fort Coolma, Count Larouken, asked for help from Count Belandz, Lord of Marasburg, but when he arrived, Fort Coola had been breached, Count Larouken was defeated and killed by random arrows, and Count Bellands was also on the way back, ambushed and captured. Then Marasburg fell.

In May of the first year of the public administration, Count Disping fought with the combined forces of Count Garud and Count Talba on the plain outside Fort Agorlong, and finally Count Disping defeated the coalition army of 50,000 with the advantage of plain cavalry, 30,000 people, captured countless baggage, Count Garud was killed in battle, and the whereabouts of Count Talba are unknown. This was followed by the fall of Agorlon Fort and Gruenwaldberg.

In June of the first year of the public government, the Fifth Route Army besieged Viruga, and the Swadia army continued to attack the city, with heavy casualties on both sides, besieging Viruga for a whole month, and the city was full of corpses and blood, and Viruga also became a dead city. The declining Lord of Veruga, Duke Gertrus, turned to King Grave and Duke Magus for help.

At the beginning of July, King Graveford officially recruited 60,000 troops to fight against the Svadian invasion army, and all the freeknights and lords in Rhodoc were recruited to join the army (to be continued......