"Guard, Guard!" Holding a one-handed sword in his right hand and the tip of the handle of a one-handed battle axe hanging from his belt in his left hand, Todd kept shouting loudly to keep his mercenaries in defensive formation, and his eyes glanced carefully at the knight who was slowly stopping not far in front of the wooden fence, "Well, why are they all wearing burqas with black crosses on a white background...... Huh?"

After Todd saw that the robes of these overweight knights, all of whom were riding immensely sturdy horses, depicted black crosses on a white background, he realized what this meant, and quickly turned his head and shouted to the mercenaries who were full of vigilant expressions: "Don't be nervous! It's the sign of a black cross on a white background! It's the knights of the same camp as the knight who signed a contract with us and paid the first month's commission in advance!"

After hearing the shouts of their own mercenary captain, the mercenaries who originally thought that it was possible to fight with a group of super-heavily armed knights armed to the teeth early in the morning breathed a sigh of relief, and couldn't help but loosen the weapons and shields they held in their hands: although these mercenaries don't have much knowledge, they are not less, even if they don't know what kind of armor these over-armored knights are wearing, but judging from the fact that this kind of armor on their bodies can completely protect the wearer from beginning to end and even the war horses under their crotch are no exception, the knights wearing this kind of strange armor are definitely not easy to mess withIf they really want to fight, even the wooden fence made urgently may not be able to completely block their frontal charge, so after learning that these perverted super heavy knights are in the same group as the knight who hired them to make a very bold move, they all invariably relieved themselves, after all, useless battles are not good for anyone, especially for these mercenaries who make money on blood and sweat. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Excuse me...... Who are you?" Todd asked cautiously, looking at the over-healed knight in a black cross robe on a white background. Even if he was 100% sure that these over-armored knights, who were also wearing black crosses on a white background, had no ill intentions in coming here, he didn't let the simple shield wall formed by his mercenaries spread out but continued to maintain it, so as not to be defenseless when something unexpected happened.

"It's me, Todd, and it seems that after I changed into a different kind of armor, you really don't recognize who hired you yesterday. Feng Longde shrugged his shoulders and replied, his voice sounding quite cold after being cut off by the metal armor of the Demon Ringed Wing Barrel Helmet, and I could still tell who he was after being with him for a while, and I really couldn't tell it if I was an outsider, "I'm Feng Longde, the Teutonic knight who hired you all yesterday and led you here to re-encamp. ”

"Von Ronder?" whispered the name a few times, Todd carefully observed Feng Rond, and quickly recognized it from the demonic ring-winged barrel helmet he was wearing on his head, "It's you, my lord, I'm sorry, the armor you're wearing today is completely different from yesterday's, I almost didn't recognize you......"

"It's nothing, I've been in this situation a lot before. Waving his hand to show that he didn't care about such a trivial matter, Feng Longde jumped off the back of the undead war horse, took off his demon ring-winged barrel helmet and put his left hand on his waist, and walked towards the entrance of the wooden fence, "It should be exactly nine o'clock in the morning, you can use the alarm clock I gave you yesterday to see the current time to determine if I and my guard knights are late, Todd." ”

"Uh-huh, okay. Todd was slightly stunned, and after reacting, he quickly took out the alarm clock that Feng Longde gave him yesterday from the small backpack hanging on the belt behind him, and after looking at it twice, he respectfully held it in both hands and handed it to Feng Longde: "It's exactly nine o'clock in the morning, you are really a punctual and trustworthy nobleman, my lord." ”

"Keep it for yourself, I don't need it much now. Feng Longde waved his right hand, motioning for Todd to take the alarm clock back and use it himself, and then continued to ask, "Are your people ready?"

"It's all ready, my lord, all of them are great lads with full weapons, shields, and armor, and there is absolutely no unequipped person who cheats the commission. Todd nodded heavily, "When are you going to start the formal call-up review?"

"For now, now that the sun has begun to burn people in sweat, hurry up and get it done, everyone is relaxed. Feng Longde waved his right hand in reply, then turned to Yarman and the other guard knights, who were still standing still in a neat line on horseback outside the wooden fence, and shouted, "All dismount! Enter the mercenary camp! Prepare for the conscription review!"

"Your will, Your Majesty!" yarman and the other guards shouted in unison, and then jumped down from the backs of their undead horses in unison, tied their undead horses outside the wooden fence and entered the mercenary camp in a neat line, and began to stand behind Feng Longde.

"Hmm?uh...... 'Your Majesty'?" Originally, Todd was also going to call his mercenaries to prepare for a recruitment review, but he happened to hear the chorus of Yarman and other knights of the guard, and suddenly heard a somewhat informative word in his ears, "Wait, my lord...... Are you a king, my lord?"

"The King, it should be about the same, but they used to call me the Immortal King, or the honorific title of Your Majesty. Hearing Todd's question, which was full of surprise, Feng Longde shrugged his shoulders as he replied, "I don't know what the world you used to live in is...... But in this case, the meaning of the undead king should be almost equivalent to that of an emperor, or higher, although I personally feel that I am nothing more than the leader of all the Teutonic here......"

Before he could finish his sentence, Todd felt his head boil like boiling water in a small iron pot on a campfire—in the world where he and his mercenaries had been staying, kings were not particularly rare, but they were also of the rare type, like the emperor....... It has to be said that as far as Todd's experience as a middle-aged mercenary captain is concerned, he has at most dealt with an earl in terms of mercenary, but now he is having close conversations and contacts with a Teutonic knight who is almost equivalent to the emperor, which makes him feel like he is not having an absurd dream.

"Ha, you don't care if I'm a knight, a king, or an emperor, anyway, I'm a nobleman, or a nobleman who hired all of you, and it's better not to think too much about superfluous things. Looking at Todd, who was a little stupid, Feng Longde snorted, "Let's start the review quickly, or are you going to wait until the sun rises to its highest point?" ”

"Oh, oh, my lord, I'm sorry, I'm going to get everyone ready to go. Realizing that the employer in front of him seemed to be starting to get a little impatient, Todd quickly bowed deeply to Feng Longde and apologized, and then beckoned his mercenaries to line up according to their respective classes.

"Your Majesty, these human mercenaries from the outside world are still a little too loose, but slightly better than the Teutonic recruits who have just been drafted into the army, do you really plan to hire them under the command of the Teutonic camp?" asked Von Longde as the mercenaries lined up in a chaotic line.

"There is no way, we need to expand the size of the Teutonic army now, but there is a limit to the number and number of new soldiers recruited from the human world, and the corresponding long-term research and development plan from Caroline will take some time to bear fruit, so it is very necessary to hire these outside human armies as our mercenary force. Feng Longde replied to Yarman, the captain of the guard, within the soul connection, and after thinking about it, he continued to transmit a new soul message: " I saw them yesterday, and their organization and combat effectiveness are certainly not far from the regular Teutonic army, but the advantage is that they can be quickly formed, and we can also extract the elite of them after a few battles to disperse and reorganize into new formations, and after a period of regular militarization training and subtle influence, most of them can become regular troops who are truly loyal to me and the Teutonic camp, and the rest can also be fired and paid a severance pay to let them take root in the Teutonic camp, and can also supplement the population hole that has always existed in the Teutonic camp in disguise...... The most important thing is that in battle, we can send them to do the most dangerous combat missions, and their death can only be regarded as dead money at best, and the financial situation of the Teutonic camp can withstand such a situation, but if there are many casualties of the Teutonic soldiers, we will need to spend more money, and the replenishment of troops is also a small trouble, far less convenient than the replenishment and expansion of more or less external human armies at almost all the moment. ”

“...... That's true, Your Majesty. After a moment of silence analyzing what his own immortal king said about himself, Yarman returned a soul message of approval within the soul connection, "Then everything will be done according to your will, Your Majesty." ”

"I don't need to say anything, just get the things in front of me right. Feng Longde shook his head slightly, focusing on the mercenaries who were about to line up, "I hope these guys can have a value that makes me worth breaking the bank......

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In the prehistoric era before and after the establishment of the Teutonic Empire, in the late European Middle Ages or the Renaissance in this era of human civilization, or in most other medieval-like worlds, employers in need of mercenaries would usually sign a "contract of attorney" with a "gentleman of war" , on which the detailed terms and legal relations are set out and the corresponding budget is determined, and the gentleman of war becomes the corresponding mercenary leader, who can identify his lieutenants and the leaders of the formations, and when these preparations are complete, the mercenary leader enters the village or town with the drummer, beats and beats the recruits with various musical instruments. The recruitment of such mercenaries is generally very difficult, because there are always many people who want to go to the battlefield and make a fortune, and the mercenary leaders with a little fame and achievements can easily pull up an infantry force of more than 20,000 men on the spot in a few weeks, and the thorny problem they often have to face is to drive out a considerable number of them, so that the old, weak, sick and invalid and the ill-equipped do not fish in troubled waters to cheat the commission; in terms of the selection process, the mercenaries are basically just to check the corresponding physical condition and the weapons and equipment they have, and no one cares about their origins, so their sources are naturally varied: mercenary penniless vagabonds, Bankrupt peasants and students who lost their land or could not afford to pay taxes came for commissions and booty, and many of them were wealthy children of nobles, but the vast majority of them usually planned to make achievements on the battlefield for the honor of their respective families, and many noble children who were not the eldest sons of the family chose to use their weapons and blood to win wealth and even land for themselves in order to obtain a stable life in the future.

After a sufficient number of conscripts have been recruited or the employer has signed a corresponding employment contract with the mercenary leader, all conscripts who intend to become mercenaries or mercenaries who are hired by the employer will meet at a fixed time and place notified by the drummer for a conscription review: during this process, the employer and the mercenary leader will order them to stand in two horizontal columns facing each other, and then at the end of the line they will build a simple arch with two halberds and a spear, and all conscripts who will become mercenaries or mercenaries hired by the employer will walk through this weapon arch in turn, while employers and mercenary leaders stand by to see if they are in good spirits, in good health, and eligible for the ranks. When the selection of recruits is complete, the mercenary leaders are organized according to the corresponding company size of the corresponding branch, and usually at least a quarter of the veterans are assigned to each team, and they are often paid at least twice as much as ordinary mercenaries. (To be continued.) )