The total number of people in the three tribes and eleven villages is about 12,000, and excluding the elderly and children, it can provide one-tenth of the military supply under normal conditions. But it's still the old saying, if you eat one bite at a time, it may be very expensive for people to turn over the old book, it is better to be like now, Townsend only takes away a small half of the young and strong, does not hurt the muscles and bones, and everyone can get by on face.

Upon getting someone, Townsend immediately began to build the headquarters of Thorn Rose, which could not be delayed.

The team leader is a strategic decision-maker and can't be tied up with chores, so Townsend will have multiple deputies in the future. These deputies correspond to military, commercial, internal affairs, logistics, and other functional organs. For the time being, there are very few professional counterparts, and there are only a few people who can be used, Benneid is in charge of business, the captain is in charge of the military, Monkey is in charge of internal affairs, and Howden is in charge of logistics...... Marcia is still in charge of liaison with the Anomalous Guild, but has been called "Chief Liaison Officer".

Although there are assistants, most of them are chasing ducks to the shelves, so Townsend is still the hardest of all. Not only does he have to manage everything, but he also teaches everything. On the one hand, he is responsible for formulating strategies, and on the other hand, he is responsible for specific implementation, and he is so busy all day that his feet do not touch the ground, and he has to trot to go to the toilet.

The first is the strategic arrangement, which is the most important thing. On his escape from Harvey, he plotted out a series of steps and then implemented them gradually, with minor but harmless implementations.

But Townsend's initial plan had come to an end today, and in the absence of detailed information about the West Coast, he could not make a proper plan, so he could only cross the river by feeling the stones—trembling, walking on thin ice, had come to Townsend.

He has mobilized all his forces to collect information on the West Coast, but the results will not come back so quickly, but time waits for no one, and Thorn Rose cannot afford to waste time. So Townsend had to use his wisdom again to decide the strategic direction of the whole group in advance in such a situation where he couldn't see his fingers, and it had to be correct.

Only by deciding on the correct strategic orientation can we determine the operational focus of the troops, and can we determine the size, establishment, armament, and training of the troops...... This is something that needs to be pushed forward layer by layer, and there is no joke.

Townsend recalled the sketch of the continent he had seen before, and talked to Bennaid many times, confirming that the warehouse town he was in was actually on the side near the end of the northern section of the west coast, and that there was no point in going further north, and that there was no point in going further north, and that the initial goal was to bypass the borders of the Duchy of Jashy, preferably out of the territory of the Andorran Union, so as not to be burdened with pressure.

This is the most fundamental development idea of Thorn Rose, but it is not easy at all, because Townsend does not have an overall impression of the West Coast, as if he is going to the West Heaven to learn scriptures, but he does not know where the Western Leiyin Temple is and how far away...... Fortunately, there was still a little time, and Townsend hoped to get some basic information in this short time, otherwise things would be very bad.

In fact, Towngson's current apprehension is directly related to his previous plan, and the most important thing is the data, the map!

Now, Townsend only has a map provided by Howden, covering the surrounding 300 miles. Don't look at it as a little big, but it is already a summary of all the foreign explorations in the warehouse town in the past ten years! Three hundred miles, what can it be used for? Not even other smuggling ports have been marked!

But the development of the southwest is the only road for thorns and roses, no matter how hard it is, you have to fight to fight, otherwise it is a dead end!

After the strategy was roughly formulated, on the one hand, Townsend had to collect a large amount of information to determine the concept of the campaign, and on the other hand, he had to train an army that was sophisticated and flexible and could adapt to a variety of combat methods. Townsend is going to launch a surprise attack, and he has to use continuous operations to capture a base, to capture multiple smuggling ports!

Therefore, Townsend did not dare to be careless at all, he would rather sleep less and practice less abilities himself, rather than leave certain things to others to do - such as the personnel arrangement of the troops, and then the formation and training of the personal guard troops. These two things were always grasped by Townsend, and no one could intervene.

At present, the total number of armed men under Townsend is four hundred and thirty, but these people cannot all be put into the combat unit. In addition to the old team of all officers, nearly forty people were carefully selected by Townsend to be incorporated into the headquarters to form a large-scale military affairs department, and Townsend would focus on cultivating their military staff and campaign strategy skills, which could be regarded as a precautionary measure.

The real combat force consisted of only three hundred and fifty men, the vast majority of whom were tribal warriors. Among these people, a small half have participated in the Snow Valley counterattack and can be regarded as having actual combat experience. Maybe in other troops, it shouldn't be a problem for veterans to lead new recruits, but the point is that they don't have a solid training foundation, so Townsend still has to start from scratch.

After careful selection, Townsend changed some people from the caravan guards, and finally formed a team of ten thirty people with the officers from his hometown as the backbone. Because it is a seed unit, the ratio of officers is very luxurious. Each team is assigned one lieutenant chief officer, two second lieutenant adjutants, and the headquarters sends two people to observe the team, and then five to six non-commissioned officers or warrant officers with outstanding performance in actual combat are promoted from the team.

In this way, all aspects are taken care of, and once a suitable source of troops is found, the troops can be split and cloned immediately.

The composition of the combat unit is still the same as before, first of all, it is a full-strength reconnaissance team, which is responsible for reconnaissance and counterreconnaissance tasks. Ten of them were light cavalry, wearing leather armor and wielding sabers, short bows and spears, while the others were light scouts whose main weapons were leather armor, round shields, waist knives and short bows. The Reconnaissance Corps had the highest literacy rate of 30 percent.

People who can write and draw are treasures, and Townsend trains them as officers.

A reinforced baggage detachment, who were responsible for the logistical supply of the entire army. Equipped with five four-wheeled carriages and fifty pack horses in the best condition, the thirty soldiers were armed with only the most basic leather armor and waist knives. The reinforced part was made up of civilian personnel, two doctors, five coachmen, five stewards and twenty cooks. The literacy rate of the soldiers in the baggage brigade was the second highest in the army, reaching 20 percent.

The remaining eight formations are the main teams, because Townsend is not familiar enough with this method of warfare, so he can only form traditional troops. According to the basic offensive and defensive requirements, these eight main teams have their own focus, and Towngson's real plan is not to ask them to be very profound in some aspects, but they must be able to maintain the situation - as for the congenital shortcomings, this can only be avoided from the strategic level.