After the small mercenary group settled down, Balbas and Daqingshan were busy dividing the new recruits of the mercenary group into their professions, and Horns and Chi Aotian checked the terrain near the Broken Ice Harbor every day - this is also a compulsory course at the Imperial Knight School. The teenagers of the small mercenary group are led by their respective captains and vice-captains to train non-stop from morning to night.

His Excellency Amy, the leader of the mercenary group, has become the most idle person in the group, and in his rare free time, Amy soaks in the city lord's meeting hall every day like a fish in water, and becomes a guest of honor for the merchants.

The merchants welcomed Amy's chief, who had never met such a warrior and a well-known figure in the empire, and in front of Amy's angelic smile, they told all the interesting stories about the ice-breaking port, including how the fishermen caught salmon, how the roe was transported to all parts of the continent surrounded by ice ballast, and the price of salmon roe in various countries.

In her spare time, Amy is even more enthusiastic to invite merchants to play near the Broken Ice Harbor, and the merchants like the feeling of being surrounded by the dragon knights in front of and behind, and they have a good impression of Amy, many of them ask Amy's Excellency if he is married.

The cadres of the small mercenary group expressed their confusion that Amy was not doing her job every day and was not even a bubble girl, and at the group meeting a month later, Horns directly raised his own questions.

Amy looked around at everyone with a smile, and crossed her fingers to calculate an account that shocked everyone: the small mercenary group currently has nearly 2,000 regular mercenaries, and there are the same number of family members in the frozen continent, and the small mercenary group is different from most mercenary groups in that they must take care of the lives of the families of the mercenary group members. As a regular mercenary of the empire, each person consumes at least 100 gold coins every year, which includes equipment updates, training, salaries, etc., and the small mercenary group also has a large number of mounts, even the total number of young chicks is close to 600, these mounts in addition to more than 100 war horses, other wild vultures and earth dragons are meat-eating, the annual feed cost of each mount far exceeds the cost of the knight itself; the small mercenary group also has a team of more than 100 magic swordsmen, and the price of various magic supplies is even more amazing.

Conservatively calculated, the small mercenary group needs to earn at least 400,000 gold coins per year to reach dynamic equilibrium.

Now, it seems that the small mercenary group has the richest city in the empire, but in this kind of profitable city in this season, it is almost impossible for the small mercenary group to receive any large-scale jobs except for autumn, and at the same time, the empire is in a state of war, and all commercial activities are restricted, even if the small mercenary group is willing to set up offices in other cities, it will not receive a lot of work.

The small mercenary group will be in a state where consumption is greater than income, and judging from the current funding situation, there will be a negative amount of funds in a year.

Horns, Da Qingshan, Chi Aotian, Balbas and the others were all dumbfounded, and no one could have guessed the true purpose of Amy's recent rì before.

As the manager of the mercenary group, everyone knows the most basic truth of "the soldiers and horses are not moved, the grain and grass go first", but everyone does not understand this truth in a fundamental sense, let alone the urgent economic account behind the small mercenary group.

Balbas walked up and patted Amy on the shoulder: "Boy, okay, better than your father, no matter what the others say, I think you're good." ”

Horns was also inspired by Amy's words: "So, what do you think will be the best way to get the most out of it?"

The economic situation of the dwarf kingdom has not been very good, in the era of war on the mainland, the dwarves can make a lot of money by selling jīng weapons, if the continent has been in a state of peace, the price of weapons is quite low, and the dwarves even need to sell hoes, sickles, kitchen knives and other daily necessities or raw ore to human society to get a meager profit, and it is precisely because of their livelihood that the originally kind and peace-loving dwarves have to make a living by joining the army.

As the supreme king of the dwarven kingdom, no one has yet solved such problems, which is the most fundamental reason why dwarven society has always been confined to poor mountain areas. As one of the heirs to the throne, Horns had not been able to find the true root cause of the dwarven kingdom's inability to develop, and Amy's words made the young king completely understand.

Amy saw more understanding in Horns' eyes than Daqingshan and Chi Aotian: "There are actually many ways, to put it bluntly, give full play to the advantages of the region and ourselves." ”

In the past month or so, Amy has learned from businessmen that Broken Ice Port is a pure resource-exporting city, and there is only one item to be exported - salmon roe. Amy carefully inquired about the production of salmon roe, the sales process, and the role of the mercenary organization in it, and the merchants did not expect that the large mercenary group also had the idea of doing business, and sold almost all their trade secrets during the conversation.

Most of the merchants in the Broken Ice Port have a huge sales network in cities on the mainland, and some of them have a monopoly on the production of salmon roe for local sales.

Amy's idea is simple, fully grasp the law of selling high and buying low, and command the small mercenary group of vulture swordsmen to drive the fish to catch during the salmon season - the small mercenary group has quite a few soldiers who are fishermen. In the mountain near the Ice Broken Ice Harbor, dig a large cave, fish up the ice floe from the Ice Broken Ice Port to build an ice cellar, and let the Ice Demon Swordsman and the Ice Magic Supreme Lord Lu'er release the ice magic to continuously reduce the temperature of the ice cellar, hoping to keep the roe fresh for a long time.

In this way, you can buy a large amount of fish roe during the salmon season to avoid a drop in prices due to large output, and when the salmon season is over, especially in winter, you can even consider using the Vulture Swordsman Camp and the Knight Camp to carry out fish roe delivery business to the surrounding cities within 300 miles, so as to make a steady profit.

In the face of the group leader's astonishing words, everyone in the room felt incredible, and Horns almost jumped up and muttered to himself: "I really don't know how you guys have a long head, and almost all the resources of everyone in the mercenary group have been used." ”

When later generations praise the great role played by the little mercenary group in the war of the gods, there are often people who have a sour heart: If I had been here at the time, I would have been like this. Almost everyone ignored that there were five mercenary groups in the same class as the small mercenary group at that time, and any of them surpassed the small mercenary group in terms of influence and scale, so why couldn't the other mercenary groups reach this peak state?

War is not just a contest between the brave. Most of the people who talk about the army on paper can imagine at will how to command a large-scale army on the continent of Eminole to gallop across the continent to tease and ambush, how to give full play to the role of knights, archers, berserkers, spearmen, and magicians in a battle of tens of thousands of people, and try their best to fight more enemies; And the facts only prove one thing: without the economy as a foundation, no matter how good the start is, the outcome of the war is extremely obvious.

At this point, the generals of the Fanos Continent and the Alcatraz Continent in the War of the Gods felt much stronger than the generals of the Eminole Continent, and after that, the army of the Eminole Continent also suffered a lot. After the War of the Gods, a passage said by the mercenary king appeared in the first chapter of the command course of all knight schools: "Dragons want to eat meat, war horses want * feed, people want to eat, never consider feeding war horses with grass, that is only a plot that will appear in novels;

According to the wise instructions of the captain, the small mercenary group specially set aside a part of the mercenaries to implement the relevant money-making work, in order to avoid causing a bad influence on the local merchants, Amy expressed the above opinions through the city lord. In Shangyan Shang, the opinions of the merchants are strikingly similar, and they all agree that the small mercenary group can maximize the benefits of the Ice Breaking Port, and as long as they do not hate the competition, all merchants will increase their income by at least 2%. In the face of the huge forces behind the small mercenary group, no businessman is worried about someone competing with each other - unless it is the small mercenary group itself.

The term "Golden Brain" soon spread from the imperial superstructure and the mercenary world to the business world, and the merchants believed that only the word gold could describe the intelligent brain in Amy's skull.

On February 15, the 5th year of the magic calendar, Amy and the other leaders of the small mercenary group were training recruits in the camp, and suddenly two wild vulture swordsmen swayed down in the sky, and the young mercenary jumped down from the wild vultures quickly, with impatience in his eyes: "Report to the head of the regiment, there are a large number of white sailing ships 100 miles away from the southwest sea...... paused slightly, and the young man said with some hesitation: "It seems to ...... Seem...... Much like the sailboats we see outside of Xilin Island. ”

The atmosphere on the stage suddenly became tense, and Horns said in an incredulous tone, "No, aren't they fighting Alcatraz soldiers and Imperial soldiers near Xilin Island?

After the reconnaissance of the three Vulture Swordsmen sent later, it was confirmed that the news just obtained was indeed not false at all.

After a whole winter of hibernation, the Phanos Legion stationed on Xilin Island decisively made a leapfrog jump strategy after repeatedly attacking the beachhead of the Lion River, and led by the golden dragon knight Yemoda 20,000 soldiers to cross the 2,500 miles of sea north to attack the largest seaport city on the west coast of the empire. Once the attack was successful, the Phanos Expeditionary Legion would strategically shift the entire line - all the senior commanders of the Phanos Expeditionary Legion reached a consensus that after nearly half a year of war, most of the troops of the Amy Empire had been assembled south of the Sangan River, and according to inside sources, most of the cities were now garrisoned by Imperial mercenaries and swordsman battalions. If this attack is successful, it will pose a great threat to the imperial capital, and the Phanos will also occupy a considerable territory in the north.

In addition to seeing a large number of sailing ships at sea, the captain of the Phanos Norton himself has landed in a small harbor and rushed to the ice floe harbor along the starry night on the west coast disguised as Imperial soldiers - in order to conceal it, this force only moves at night, and the vulture swordsmen who cannot move at night are not aware of this strange force at all.

It's not that enemies don't get together.

Whether it is the main person in charge of the small mercenary group or Norton and Merlin of the Fanos Legion, they can't imagine that they are still familiar opponents in the face of themselves.

The defense of Xilin Island, whether for the small mercenary group or for the Phanos legion, both sides left an unforgettable and unforgettable wound on each other, in the face of such an opponent, there is no need for any commander to say anything to boost morale, there is only one way for the two armies to fight bloodily.

At this time, the mercenaries of the regular imperial army that the small mercenary group could rely on were still thousands of miles away, and the strength of the two sides was roughly as follows: 8,500 werewolf light soldiers on the Fanos side, 3,500 orc heavy infantry, 2,000 bear heavy infantry, 3,000 centaur archers, 1,500 human knights, 67 pseudo-dragon knights, and 150 holy magicians.

Chief: Golden Dragon Knight Yemoda, 10,000 Captain Norton, 10,000 Captain Merlin.

The small mercenary group has 215 members of the Vulture Swordsman Battalion, 250 Bow Battalions, 187 Berserker Battalions, 100 Berserker Knights, 132 Knight Battalions, 158 Demon Swordsmen, 200 Swordsmen, and 612 Great Swordsmen.

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