In the specially built school yard in Dortmund, Karl stood on a high platform, wearing the whitewashed gold plate armor given by the Duke of Rizland before, the whole person looked dazzling in the sunlight, full of spirit, and there was a majesty between his hands and feet.

This war, as the supreme commander of the army, will personally go to war, this is a huge war for Dortmund, he must personally command the army, and he must see every part of the front line.

Directly in front of him, thousands of troops have been assembled in the school field, the Thorn Corps, the Hagrid Corps, and the Templar Knights are fully dispatched, plus hundreds of levies, this is already the largest force he can take, as for the Knights of St. John, and some militiamen, he left Dortmund as a defensive force, after all, he could not empty Dortmund.

He took this war very seriously, after all, it was his first real war of conquest as the Count of Dortmund, and before that all his actions were defensive, hoping that he could survive the blows of the Flos.

But now it is different, not only is he really on the ground in Dortmund, but he also has enough strength to wage war outside.

Of course, these thousand troops could not all be soldiers on the battlefield, and the real responsibility for fighting was the two major corps plus the Templar Order, and the main job of those conscripts was to be responsible for escorting food and a series of logistics.

Although most of Dortmund's conscripts have undergone simple military training and are Dortmund's so-called militia, it does not mean that they really have enough combat effectiveness, but even so, it is more than enough to use them as logistics soldiers.

Carl has always attached great importance to the power of logistics, attaches great importance to the power of grain and grass escort, and he deeply remembers a sentence, that is, the war is about logistics.

Once there is not enough food, the combat effectiveness of this unit will definitely be greatly reduced, and there is even a high possibility that there will be turmoil, and he will have to bear the consequences of all this.

When he heard the news of the war, the speed at which the nobles purchased food was so fast that he couldn't react, but fortunately he was prepared, otherwise he wouldn't have enough food for the expedition......

Behind Karl stood Kevin, Sylvia and Boris, who, as the commanders of the army, will also conduct a review of the army with Karl today, and after this review of the army, these troops will be sent directly to the battlefield.

In fact, Kevin and the others never understood why Carl liked to carry out such a gathering of mobilizations, but every time they saw the appearance of their army from the mobilization ceremony, they did feel great confidence.

"Lord Earl, the army has been assembled." A herald came over to report.

Karl waved his hand for the herald to step back, his gaze returning to the army in front of him.

"Raise your chests, my soldiers, and this time we will go to the kingdom of Denmaka and raise our swords to the damned infidels, and tell them that Christians are not to be messed with, and that we will answer the call of His Holiness to spread the glory of the Lord to the land on our shore." Karl shouted.

"Drink!"

The soldiers raised their weapons aloft and responded to Karl with a neat voice.

"But this will be a great war, and the infidels are indeed brave and warlike fellows, but we will only be stronger than them, and only blood will make those heretics understand how stupid their actions are, and let them pay for the killing of our fellow citizens one by one."

This time, the soldiers seemed very quiet, Carl said that the fighting spirit was high, but he could see a little fear in the eyes of the levies, and only the regular soldiers did not have much fear in their eyes.

Most of the conscripts were peasants, or some thugs in the castle, but most of them were at the bottom of society, and although they had been trained by the militia system, they saw the militia as a way to get money.

In addition, these peasants and people at the bottom of society in Dortmund are actually not so many local people, after all, this was the land of pagans before, and the Flo people are multiply, and there are no Dillman people, Karl will not let the Flo people who do not know Dillman language enter the army, after all, a soldier who cannot understand what orders his superiors give is still very terrible.

And most of those Dillmans have immigrated from the territory of the Dillman people in recent years, although Karl has always attached great importance to this matter, and has worked very hard, but this is a long work, and it is impossible to have enough Dillmans to fill Dortmund in just a few years, even if those Dillmans who come here to settle down and work, only a few years, can not make them have any sense of identity and belonging to Dortmund.

And let such people go to the battlefield, it is impossible not to be afraid in their eyes, in fact, Carl's conscripts are quite good, at least they are just afraid, those nobles who directly use the subjects of their own territory as cannon fodder, when they pull Zhuang Ding to the front line, Carl clearly knows how cowardly those soldiers are, and they don't even need to go to the battlefield, those soldiers will be directly reduced a lot because of their escape.

"My soldiers, war is indeed cruel, but it is not terrible, the promise I have made to you is absolutely valid, the merits made on the battlefield will definitely make you proud of them in the rest of your life, you can enjoy the rich life brought by these merits for the rest of your life, you will be proud of the enemy, your children will be proud of you, your wives will be grateful for the bread you have brought to your family, so, fight, my soldiers, let your sword pierce the enemy's chest!"

Carl opened his arms, at first his voice was not high, even a little small, and the more he spoke to the back, the more passionate his voice became, and he even clenched his fists.

For soldiers who don't have much sense of belonging and fear of war, direct benefits are definitely the best way for them.

So not long ago, Karl and his entourage had deliberated and made a set of laws regarding the promotion of soldiers in the army.

As long as ordinary soldiers make enough merit on the battlefield, they can get rich rewards, including direct financial rewards, and there are rewards that can improve their positions, the army needs a lot of lower-level officers, and as a new earl, Karl obviously does not have enough lower-level nobles to serve as his officers, and if there are enough grass-roots officers, the combat effectiveness of this army will not be strong, so he intends to select grass-roots officers through this method, and at the same time motivate his soldiers, and can get enough credit, which means that this soldier has a certain ability, and there will be no big problem as a grassroots officer.

And this is not the most attractive to the soldiers of this set of laws, after careful consideration, Carl added another reward here, soldiers who have obtained military merit can choose to exchange military merit for land, and they will get a piece of land of their own! Of course, the conditions for this exchange are very harsh, and the land exchanged is not too much.

This set of laws quickly spread to the ears of every levy soldier in Dortmund, and many people scoffed at it, believing that it was just a joke of the count, that no nobleman would generously give land to those untouchables, and that other nobles would not give any reward for conscripting his soldiers into battle, and that it would be their own bad luck to die in battle.

And as the subjects of those nobles, they have never resisted, and even they themselves think that it is God's duty to live in other people's territory, obey them, and fight for them, and this kind of life has made them completely numb for a long time, so when they hear Karl's bill, the first reaction is that it is fake, and the second reaction is that the earl is crazy.

Anyway, a lot of people talked about it at the time, and they all ended up taking it as a joke.

Until something happened later and everyone was stunned.

In order to prove that what he said was true, Carl chose to emulate the history he knew in his head - the South Gate Standing Tree.

I won't go into details, but since that day, everyone has believed that their Lord Count was serious, and that the first person to try it can be said to have eaten a very delicious bite of crab.

"Our enemies are very strong, they have a huge army, but the bigger their army, the more military merit will be left to us, we are not afraid of how many of them there are, because they will all be your tools to get rewards!" Karl shouted.

"Kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions!"

"Kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions!"

Finally, the soldiers were boiling, they were shouting one by one, and finally they all converged into one voice, that is, to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions!

Seeing the soldiers who had already mobilized their emotions, Karl breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, this speech was not a simple matter.

"Alright, go and sort out your army, rest and recuperate, let's go straight away!" Carl turned his head to look at the three behind him.

"Yes!"

The three of Kevin nodded, they had already prepared, and walked towards their unit, all three of them were wearing the plate armor that Carl had created for them, although it was not as good as the one on Carl, but it was definitely in the spotlight.

"Expedition!"

Seeing that everyone was ready, Karl drew his sword and pointed out the city gates.

"Boom ......"

The city gate slowly opened, the army opened mightily, the soldiers guarding the city stood quietly on the city wall and watched the distant army, and closed the city gate again, the sun shone on the iron hook on the city gate, reflecting the cold cold light.