Chapter 297: Shocking

Lorist returned to Hiroas at the end of November, with ten newly formed slave garrisons. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoIn the coming cold winter, the Sea Corps still does not have time to rest, and they will continue to transport the supplies and grain and grass, soldiers, and emancipated slaves piled up in the Hanea Bada Islands to the island of Hilowas, and the whole process will continue until February next year.

The Sea Corps now has about 45,000 men and nearly 400 sea vessels of various types. Lorist ordered the current commander of the Sea Legion, the Golden Knight Sambarwood, to reorganize the Sea Legion after the end of the transport, set up two armed patrol fleets on the Isle of Hiloas and the Northlands, and a lightning strike fleet dominated by artillery, and set up three more merchant convoys to release one or two hundred medium-sized sea vessels that had been requisitioned, and compensate them, who were responsible for transporting the slaves who were going home to the continent of Guelintea.

Lorist plans to transform the twenty slave garrison battalions established in the Haneyabada Islands into twenty guard battalions, and together with the five guard battalions in the family domain, they will form a large guard regiment, five battalions as a corps, five corps as a legion, with a total number of 75,000 men, which will be the most important guard defense force of the Norton family.

Thanks to the rich capture obtained from the destruction of the kingdom of Haneabada, Lorist has sufficient capital to prepare to carry out military reform of the Norton family forces again, in addition to the upcoming Guards Legion, Lorist will also form two field and attack legions, one is a rock legion based on foot combat, as the main force for the future siege of the city. The other is the Flying Tiger Legion, a cavalry corps that mainly focuses on field raids.

In March, after the New Year, Lorist convened the Knights of the Family New Year at the Rock Castle in the family's domain, announcing the decision to reform the Norton family's armed military. Establish the Rock Regiment, with two heavy armor regiments and a single-wheeled steel crossbow regiment as the mainstay, merge the archery battalion and the scout battalion to form two scout battalions, with a scout battalion, a thunderbolt slingling battalion, and then form three logistics baggage battalions to form a corps. A total of 60,000 men in four corps. The Legion Leader is the Golden Knight of the Clan, Bodfinger, and the Deputy Legion Commander is Malek and the new Mason Golden Knights.

Establish the Flying Tiger Legion, with the clan Golden Knight Tiger Ross as the leader and the Golden Knight Yuri and the Arrow Josk as the deputy captains. The Flying Tiger Regiment is mainly composed of two lancer regiments and chariot steel crossbow regiments, plus a scout battalion, and a women's battalion, and then three logistics baggage battalions to form a corps, which is also four corps of 60,000 people.

Finally, there was the Guards Corps, which totaled twenty-five battalions of seventy-five thousand people. The Legion Commander is the Golden Knight Farea. The deputy commanders were the two Golden Knights, Belunek and the former slave gladiator Jades.

In addition to these three legions, there were three battalions of the Norton Knights under the command of Telman with 9,000 men, and 3,000 men from the guard battalion under the direct jurisdiction of Lorlist. In addition, there are 18,000 men of the Sea Legion of which Sambarwood is the commander. In other words, the Norton family has armed 225,000 regular troops. And that's not counting the garrison battalions, garrison corps, and garrisons of towns and villages, which are more than 100,000 people.

The Rock Legion will be deployed on Hiloas Island as the main force of foot combat, and the Flying Tiger Legion will be arranged between the Xing'an Plain and the Red River Plain in front of the Rock Castle. Twenty-five battalions of the Guards were dispersed and settled, with the 1st Guards Battalion stationed at Rock Castle and the 2nd Guards Battalion stationed in Harbor City, named Northsea City by Master Siropa. The Turtle Mountain Fortress and the Woniugang Fortress, which defended against the mountain barbarians, were stationed in the 3rd and 4th Guards Battalions respectively.

Since the western part of the Northland has become a ranch for the Norton family's territory, Lorist decides to reactivate the smuggling tunnel in the Blade Mountains in the former Beino City at the suggestion of Shi Fatzi and other subordinates. That is, the passage where Duke Lukins, Grand Duke of the Northland, ordered his golden knights Chervaney and Hennell to attack the Norton family's territory, and the vines that had been burned out after six or seven years had regrown, and they could be used to build a new rope bridge again.

With this passage, cattle and sheep from the western pastures of the Northland do not need to make a big detour from the Rock Castle to enter the family territory, and the direct path from the Blade Mountains to the family territory can save two days. Lorist was not going to build a rope bridge, he was going to use the trestle bridge built in ancient Sichuan that he had seen on TV in his previous life to replace the rope bridge woven by vines. Then build a castle fortress in the valley where the Chevani knights died, and garrison it with the 5th Guards Battalion.

The remaining twenty Guards Battalion will train in the family territory, awakening the fighting spirit and becoming familiar with various types of ordnance, and practicing martial arts. Lorist told his knights that within two years, he hoped to make the Norton family an elite and invincible military force, living up to the prestige of the Northland Roaring Bear.

After concluding the military reform resolution, Lorist reflected on the family's achievements in the development of the territory in the past year. This year, the development of Red River Plains and the construction of Beihai City will be completed, and in addition to the construction of the new passage and castle fortress in the Blade Mountains, the big construction project in the family domain is the Nicol Academy, which Miss Teresti is in charge of. Lorist put a second load on Sedercamp, asking him to be responsible for repairing all the roads in the family domain after the opening of the Red River Plain, widening and straightening and flattening the road traffic in the family domain to make the road traffic in the family domain more convenient and faster.

The development and construction of Shilovas Island is still carried out according to the previous plan, and the main labor force is the tens of thousands of displaced people who have been rescued from the Hanea Bada Islands, plus the Rock Regiment of Bodfinger is stationed on the island to help, and it is believed that it will be effective in another two years. Hansk, the head of the family's statistical department, was appointed by Lorist as the new governor of the island of Hilowas.

After the family meeting, Lorist finally had time to spare, and first went to visit his beloved apprentice Schward. Before leaving for the kingdom of Haneabada, Schward insisted on following Lorlist, who said that the soldiers were fierce and dangerous, and the outcome of this trip was unpredictable, and it was difficult for him to take care of Schward. But Schward said that he had been promoted to the rank of Black Iron, which was more than enough to deal with a few soldiers, and did not need to be taken care of by Lorlist.

Lorist smiled, turned around and called Reddy over and asked him to take Schward to practice that artificial motion vision. Lorist said to Schward, "If you come to my door, you must learn this dynamic vision, which is a necessary condition for our practice. Since you are already a black iron rank, then you can't delay any longer, and you can practice this at home first while I am on the expedition.

So Schward was taken away by Reddy. When Lorist returns to the family domain, Reddy reports that Schward has kinetic vision. However, his physical fitness is not as good as Reddy, and even Pat is not as good as Pat, and it took more than half a month of practice to get used to the feeling of being tied to an iron circle and spinning in circles. It would be a mistake to be cautious and refuse to come to see Lorist.

When Lorist went to the back mountain training ground, Schward was practicing swordsmanship, and it was obvious that Schward's swordsmanship had greatly improved after he had dynamic vision. Lorist is very satisfied, and after two more years of training, he will be able to play against the silver-level swordsman Schward.

In addition to carefully teaching Reddy and Schward, Lorist will harass Miss Dressy when she has free time, or go to Maple Grove Villa to find her concubine Irina to settle her own desires. Then, two months later, Miss Theresti and Irina won the bid again, and both became pregnant. Compared with the happy Irina, Miss Dressy is so angry that this year the focus is on the construction of Nicol Academy, and at this critical juncture, she was made big by Lorlist, and how to preside over the construction of the academy, so she declared Lorliste persona non grata and refused him to visit.

After touching the nail, Lorist returned to the Rock Castle just in time to meet Shi Fatzi to submit a leave of absence, he was ready to stay at home and not go out, regardless of everything, and practice hard for two years under the guidance of the great sword master Yingjerek, striving to be promoted to the gold rank.

This is what was promised in the Hanea Bada Islands, Lorist approved Shi Fatzi's leave slip, and then opened a few bottles of good wine and asked for a few side dishes to prepare to get drunk with Shi Fatzi. When the wine was hot, Shi Fatzi finally asked his doubts, why did Lorist vigorously expand the family armament after the destruction of the Haneyabada Kingdom, is there another target for the soldiers?

At present, the family has nearly 300,000 armed forces, and the expenditure on equipment and military expenditure has greatly exceeded the income of the family domain, and it is estimated that the annual overexpenditure is more than one million gold fords. Shi Fatzi is very worried that after a few years like this, it will put a heavy burden on the family's expenses.

Lorist grinned and pulled over the map of the Duchy of Madras, smashed his fist on it, and said with a big tongue: "It's okay, the Duchy of Madras will be ours in two years......"

Shi Fat wanted to ask again, but saw Lorist fall asleep on the sofa.

In less than ten days, more than ten family knights of the silver three-star rank, such as Dores, El, Jim, Vasimma, Pacco, and Pete, all submitted leave applications, asking for two years of leave to prepare for promotion to the gold rank, and even the bearded man of the former bandit of the Thunderbolt Throwing Camp, Ovikis, also submitted a leave application.

"What the hell do you want to do, don't you do it one by one?" Lorist was furious, first found Ovicis to open the knife, and scolded him.

Ovicis said very aggrievedly: "My lord, didn't you give me a high-level fighting spirit cheatbook of fire attribute when you recruited me as a family knight, and I was already a silver three-star at that time." In the past few years, I have practiced this high-level fighting spirit cheats, and now it is the peak of the silver three-star level, and I feel that I am going to be promoted, so I want to take a year off......

"Uh......" Lorist dragged Ovicis over to check, and it was really as he said, this bearded former bandit had indeed reached the peak of the silver three-star peak, and immediately turned his anger into joy, patted Ovicis on the shoulder and said with a smile: "I have approved your leave, work hard, be promoted to the gold rank as soon as possible, and the family can also have one more golden knight, the knight's manor in the Red River Plains is ready for you." ”

Speaking of the knight's manor in Hongheyuan, Lorist suddenly understood why so many knights of the silver three-star family wanted to take leave. The eight knights' estates in Hung Yen have been allocated to eight golden knights, including Bodfinger and Tiger Ross. Next, the three golden knights of the eight knight manors in Red River Plain, Sambarwood, the new addition of Jeders, and Mason, have already booked three, so the remaining five knight manors have fallen into the eyes of those silver and three-star family knights, and everyone wants to be promoted to the gold rank as soon as possible to get a knight manor.

"These bastards, what's the hurry! It's not like the family is no longer building a knight's manor, what is there to grab. "Lorist approved the leave of all the family knights who applied for it, anyway, in the past two years, the Norton family has been preparing to take care of Taoguang, and nothing should happen. At the same time, he picked up the map of the Northland, muttering that he was going to find a place to develop and build something.

On May 23, Lorist, who had come back from a round trip to the gunpowder test field in the Blade Mountains, was sitting in his study and was pondering, in the case of refining the applicable steel, he had stopped the trial production of muskets, and if the foundation was not solid, he could not leap into the era of firearms, and now the family's firearms production is basically bronze cannons, and in the case of not being able to refine muskets on a large scale, a small number of hand-made firearms are more than worth the loss for the family. After all, Gelinthia is a vindictive world, and some cold weapons are more suitable for war than firearms.

Not to mention anything else, just like the steel crossbow equipped by the family armed forces, the range is up to 300 meters, while the effective range of the handmade musket is only 150 meters, which is half the distance, if you line up to shoot, the steel crossbow is guaranteed to be much more effective than the musket.

Schward knocked on the door and came in: "My lord, there is an urgent envoy from Beihai City, reporting that the Flying Fish of Dawn has returned from the island of Hilowas, bringing the latest battle report, and the Fort Business Alliance has sent troops to occupy the province of Cambona of the former kingdom of Redelis, and the 170,000 horses led by His Royal Highness have been trapped in the three provinces of the kingdom of Reidris, and the connection with the kingdom of Andinac has been separated. In addition, the eldest young master of the Chicked Chamber of Commerce, Serriham, arrived on the island of Hilowas, and he was on a merchant ship of the Petersen Chamber of Commerce. He said he had come as a messenger of peace and wanted to see you. The Governor of Hansk left him on the island of Hilovas to await your disposal. ”

"What did you say?" Lorist was shocked, when he went out to conquer the Kingdom of Haneyabada in September last year, he got a battle report that His Royal Highness had suffered a series of defeats in Majik Province, the last province of the Kingdom of Ridlis, but the Second Highness had more than 200,000 troops in his hands, not counting the more than 100,000 defenders distributed in the Kingdom of Andinac and the newly occupied provinces. Lorist thought that His Royal Highness had a strong army and would eventually be victorious.

Unexpectedly, after returning from the destruction of the Haneabada Kingdom, the war report about the Second Highness was still entangled with those noble armies in the Majik Province of the Ridlis Kingdom, and the Second Highness also dispatched 100,000 troops to the two principalities of Handra and Faker to demand that the four central principalities cancel their names and return to the imperial territory. However, this request was rejected by the four principalities, who once again formed an alliance to confront the army of the Second Highness and vigorously supported the noble forces of Majik.

At that time, Lorist was very happy to get the news, and felt that His Royal Highness had finally suffered and understood that any accident could happen. Thinking of meeting in the imperial capital back then, His Royal Highness also swore that the Grand Dukes of the Central Four Duchy were loyal to the former Krisson Empire, and as long as he was at the forefront of the army, the Grand Dukes of the Four Duchyes would enthusiastically defect to his banner and restore the glory of the former Empire.

There will be a battle to be fought, anyway, although Lorist is in the camp of the Antinac Kingdom, he knows very well in his heart that His Royal Highness is very jealous of himself and the Norton family's armament, and has not summoned the Norton family to participate in the war. However, it depends on the situation that His Royal Highness can still support it, so Lorist is not ready to meddle with any idle affairs, and he will be charged with rebellion if he sends troops privately before he gets the official order of His Royal Highness to participate in the war.

Lorist was happy to be idle, and he was not ready to send troops to help in the war, so he hid in the Northlands. Unexpectedly, half a year later, instead of eliminating the noble armies of the Redlis Kingdom, His Royal Highness was stabbed in the back by the Fude Business Alliance, losing the province of Cambona, and the Second Highness lost contact with the Kingdom of Antinac. The provinces of Portoorg and Andwerve, where the royal city of Federiga is located that he now occupies, are both territories of the kingdom of Redlis, and this side is fighting in the province of Majik, and the situation has become extremely bad all of a sudden, and he has lost his rear support, and he is afraid that he will not be able to support it on the front line.

"Strange, where is the strength of the Business Alliance?" Lorist muttered and stood up, and said to Schward, "Tell me to go down, I'm going to Hilowas......"

...... (To be continued.) )