With the addition of graduates, the ranks of middle- and lower-level officers suddenly became bloated. Especially at the battalion level, there are several deputy positions.

Except for a few outstanding graduates, who can directly serve as battalion commanders or regimental staff officers, the rest are deputy positions. (100 people in a battalion)

The specifications can't be lower, the graduates are all knights, and no matter what, they can't be called officers.

A higher-level position is not something that these recruits can do for the time being. Although many trainees participated in the battle against pirates and bandits during the internship, they were still far from commanding thousands of troops.

What's more, the army is also a turnip and a pit, and the officers in front are all killed from the battlefield with a knife and a shot. The cultivation potential is a little lower, but people can also be qualified for the current position.

Compared with these young military academy graduates, they are only a few years older and more than teenagers, far from the age of retirement.

Lord Hudson's fame and fortune have been obtained, but the gang of people who followed him to fight the country just drank a bowl of soup, and it is impossible to give up their place and go home now.

In fact, Hudson also took a lot of effort to arrange the personnel, and basically made good use of people.

Those with excellent cultural performance are arranged to serve as officers in infantry regiments or cavalry regiments after enlistment; Only the guy who has a good cultivation talent and a mess in the cultural class has entered the Knights.

The final result was: the three knight regiments were all fully established, the five cavalry regiments and the two infantry regiments had a bunch of deputy positions, and after adding the Warcraft Legion, the total number of officers and soldiers directly exceeded 30,000.

According to the habitual statistics of the outside world, this is a proper 50,000 soldiers and horses. If you lead an army to fight and claim to be an army of 100,000, there is nothing wrong with it.

For example, the Southern Expeditionary Corps, which had just set off, had a total strength of only more than 70,000 people, but it claimed to have an army of 200,000.

If there were really 200,000 troops, it would not be to help quell the rebellion in the past, but to want to occupy the magpie's nest.

"50,000 soldiers and horses" is 50,000 gold-swallowing beasts. Relatively speaking, the cost of the infantry legion is slightly smaller, and the cavalry regiment, the knight regiment, and the Warcraft legion are more expensive than the other.

In order to save money, Hudson abolished the knights. Feed your own war horses, maintain your own armor and weapons, and wait until you become a regimental officer!

Although somewhat unseemly, these people were all cultivated by Hudson himself. Most of them are children of serfs, and they have nothing to do with decency in themselves.

Even if he is a noble child, he is the second son and collateral of a small nobleman who has no inheritance rights, and even the life essence has to be provided by Lord Hudson, and he has no arrogant capital at all.

Even with such frugality, the military expenditure of the territory still accounts for seventy percent of the fiscal revenue, and this proportion is still on the rise.

In peacetime, there is still such a huge amount of military spending, which obviously carries out the reckless use of military force to the extreme.

Fortunately, there are many graduates in the first class, and the number of cadets behind is only more than 6,000 per year, and after all the way out, hundreds of new officers are added every year.

Placement is difficult, just the first few years. After a few years, every year an officer of who has reached the age is transferred to the reserve, and naturally there will be a vacant position.

In the era of cold weapons, you need to rely on physical strength to fight on the battlefield. If you weren't a cultivator, your physical strength would have started to decline in your thirties.

According to Hudson's rule: unless the ability is particularly outstanding, ordinary soldiers will be transferred to the reserve at the age of 28, and non-cultivator officers must not be more than 30 years old.

Warriors below the third rank, transferred to the reserve at the age of 35;

Warriors of the fourth to sixth ranks, transferred to the reserve at the age of 50.

And then there was no then, because of the lack of the seed of life to nourish the body, Hudson had never seen a warrior over the age of fifty.

Naturally, it is difficult to produce a strong person with a short life, and the strongest warrior under Hudson is only a third-order. If it weren't for the low life expectancy, it is estimated that no one would choose this dead end.

In contrast, knights have served for much longer.

knights below the third rank, transferred to the reserve after the age of 45;

knights of the fourth to sixth ranks, transferred to the reserve after the age of 60;

Knights of the seventh rank and above are not subject to the limitation of the length of service.

Of course, these are theoretical figures. The actual retirement time will definitely be several years in advance. Unless you perform well as an officer, it is difficult to survive until the final service time.

Frankly, these rules are not fair. The command ability of many ordinary officers also surpassed that of most knights.

Taking cultivation as the determination of career development time is almost a one-size-fits-all rule, with obvious tendencies.

To a certain extent, it will also affect the appointment of officers. When it comes to promotion, generals who are higher will obviously have more advantages.

However, the military has never been a place to consider fairness, and what is needed here is the strong.

Relatively speaking, it's still the best of times. Because of the frequent wars, there is also the core indicator of "military merit" as the first criterion for the promotion of officers.

In peacetime, personal cultivation will play a greater role in the appointment of officers, and there will even be an unspoken rule directly: you must first cultivate to a certain level before you can take up the corresponding military position.

It's not a bad habit. On the contrary, it is the best means to avoid the army getting into inbreeding.

To a certain extent, it can ensure the combat effectiveness of the army. Even if the command ability is very average, at least the officers themselves are good and can take the lead in charging into battle.

It's better than a group of people, and it's not the second generation in a high position.

In this regard, reference can be made to the Kingdom of the Franks. In the counter-offensive orc war a few years ago, Hudson had contact with them, and what impressed him the most was the difference in strength between the superior and junior officers.

Those who are highly cultivated may not be able to serve as high-level officers, but those who are low in cultivation will definitely not be able to rise.

It is said that in some regiments, there is a tradition of officers taking up their posts and being challenged by generals. Only when the fight is won can we officially perform our duties.

Under such an atmosphere, it is difficult to evaluate the command ability of the officers, but the combat effectiveness of the troops will definitely not be weak.

Under this system, the big nobles still have the advantage, but the small and medium nobles also have the qualifications to participate in the competition.

After all, talent is all about innocence. Although the resources of the day after tomorrow can be compensated, the price that needs to be paid is too great.

The resources of the great nobles did not fall from the sky, and they also need to consider the cost performance when using them.

The resources required to cultivate a waste are not more expensive than the consumption of cultivating hundreds of geniuses, and this account is easy to calculate.

The children of the gentlemen were basically excluded. It doesn't matter if you lose in the same realm alone, if you are counterattacked by a subordinate general who has been cultivated to a lower order, it will only be embarrassing.

Generally speaking, the protagonist in the bard's mouth crosses the border and wins, and the background board is all them.

……

After signing the appointment, Hudson stretched. Most of the work can be decentralized, but there are others that have to be done by yourself.

Although Hudson did not personally meet every one of the more than 3,000 cadets who had just graduated, he read all the dossiers before signing the personnel appointments.

Background, personal strengths, performance in school, and behaviour are all factors that take into account future appointments.

Generally speaking, it is impossible for an officer with a complex background to enter the core management of the territory. Although Hudson hired a large group of spies to key positions in the course of his beginnings, that is a thing of the past.

In recent years, it seems that nothing has been done, but in fact, every personnel adjustment in the territory has been purifying the team.

The once hard-working spies have gradually faded out of management. Those who take the initiative to explain can also get a tedious but unimportant job, which can be regarded as a recognition of their past contributions.

Those who carried it to the end and were identified were all killed by the attacks of cult believers.

After all, cults are all over the world, and there is no reason why there is trouble everywhere else, and Hudson's territory is as quiet as water.

Undoubtedly, this is already a good result for a group of spies.

Otherwise, Hudson remembered the old and gave them a decent way to die, and now they are all ruined, and the whole family goes to hell together.

……

"Marshal, news from the steppe: the orc tribe is moving.

Many orc races are gathering and are suspected of invading the kingdom.

However, the four major royal families and the seven major royal families have not yet carried out all-out war mobilization, and only a few tribes are preparing for war.

……”

As he spoke, Zero directly handed the collected documents to Hudson.

After a general glance, the content was similar to what Zero said. To sum it up, the conclusion is: the orcs are invading the kingdom!

Hudson wasn't surprised in the slightest, orc invasions of the Alpha Kingdom were never new. Being able to hold back until now is enough to prove that this orc emperor is stable enough.

According to the initial estimates, Hudson did not expect that the Near East would be peaceful for so many years.

Since the end of the Spring War in 99993, five years have passed in a flash. The once barren land of the Near East has changed dramatically.

It will take some time before the land is fully developed, but the military facilities have already been perfected.

Of course, compared to the castle-fortified Northlands, the Near East's defenses were still very immature.

However, this is not the same as in the past, and the military superiority of the Orc Empire over the kingdom no longer exists.

Judging purely from the data on paper, the Orc Empire can indeed overwhelm the kingdom, but it's a pity that their 1+1+1+1+...... The pattern is not done well.

In the end, the combat effectiveness that can be exerted is less than half of the sum of the numbers, and may even be lower.

When it comes to competing for military strength, it is still unknown who is stronger and who is weak between the two countries. After all, the war is not a paper data, but a comprehensive consideration of all aspects.

After putting down the paperwork, Hudson fell into deep thought.

After autumn is the peak of the orc invasion of the kingdom, and it has been more peaceful in recent years. According to the records in the kingdom's historical records, in the past three hundred years, ninety percent of the orcs will invade the kingdom after the autumn.

It's just that most of this kind of invasion is raided by orcs in the border areas without authorization.

There were only nineteen major wars that really broke out between the two sides. On average, the interval between each all-out war is less than twenty years.

If you count this time, then in the last ten years, it is the third time that the two sides have met.

With such frequent wars, no country can stand it. If it weren't for the last resort, the orcs wouldn't have fought so hard.

"Tom, relay the news to the lords of the land, and let them prepare for the fortification.

After the outbreak of war, I don't want the orcs to be able to get a grain of grain, a bundle of hay from the land of the kingdom.

If you don't do well, you will be directly punished as collaborating with the enemy! ”

Hudson said murderously.

This order is undoubtedly very fatal to the latecomers who have just come to expand. Almost let them abandon everything they have now and evacuate directly to the city.

If there was a better option, Hudson didn't want to do that. However, most of their castles and fortresses are still under construction, and they have nothing to do with the fortified city.

Forcibly staying where you are is not only not responsible for your own life, but also for the safety of your people.

Fortunately, these territories scattered outside the defense line of the Great Wall have not yet been registered by the kingdom, otherwise it would be difficult to give them up.

It is the responsibility of the lord to guard the land. If you want to give up your territory and withdraw to the safe zone, Hudson's order as the front-line commander is not enough, and it must also be approved by the royal government.

At this moment, Wang Duzheng is fighting fiercely, tossing back and forth, not knowing how long it will take.

Of course, the Orc Empire launched an invasion at this moment, which also saved the kingdom politics to a certain extent.

Referring to past experience, it is estimated that when this news reaches the royal capital, it will be time for the major factions to compromise with each other.

……

On the prairie, the Stark patriarch who received the all-out war mobilization order, cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

Having just gained a foothold on the border, he was originally glad that the water and grass on the shore of Xueyue Lake were abundant, and even if he encountered a drought that was rare in a century, the grasslands along the coast were not greatly affected.

This kind of treasure land has always been owned only by the royal family. If it weren't for being on the front line, everyone wouldn't want to be neighbors with the Great Demon King, and this kind of good thing would definitely not be their turn.

Coupled with the previous secret contact, he reached a tacit agreement with the Great Demon King of Harbin, as long as he survived the border period, he could return to China.

I never thought that the war would come so soon!

Once the flames of war are ignited, they, the front-line races, will definitely be the first to be unlucky.

Before the Empire's army arrived, the enemy struck first and cleaned them up.

He had just ascended to the position of patriarch, and before he had time to make a big show, he encountered such a bad thing, and Stark just wanted to cry!

In the dispute between the two countries, the little minotaur clan was caught in the middle, and the slightest carelessness was the disaster of extermination.

"The order goes down, and the chiefs of the tribes are summoned to a meeting at once. Tell them that 100,000 is urgent, it is a matter of life and death for our clan, and they must come here in person! ”

Stark commanded the guards with a solemn expression.

The newcomer patriarch is a bitter force, and before consolidating his position, he wants to convene a meeting of various tribes, and he is worried that someone will not buy it.

"Yes, Patriarch!"

With that, the middle-aged minotaur guard turned around and left, leaving Stark alone in deep thought.

War is a combination of "risk" and "opportunity". At this moment, he only saw the "danger", and he couldn't seize the "opportunity" at all.

The order of the imperial court has come, and with the current geographical location of the Niutou clan, this war is destined to be unavoidable.

If you can't avoid it, you can only participate.

The outcome of the war, Stark did not care.

Referring to the past practice, the victory of the Orc Empire is not the same as the victory of all races; Conversely, the defeat of the empire will not be the defeat of all races.

Almost every time after a great war, there will be a race fall in the orc empire, and there will also be a race rise.

At present, six of the seven major royal families have risen because of the defeat of the Empire, and Stark has long been greedy for it.