Soon after the end of the fair, Richard began to frequently enter the new brigades.

The combat effectiveness of the new brigade is not strong, and many soldiers have not yet integrated into Haaland's leadership. In order to improve his combat effectiveness, Richard thought of many ways.

The first is to provide logistical support, and we should do our best to ensure that the soldiers are well fed and clothed, and that there is no discrimination, so that the logistical support of the newly formed brigade can be raised to the level of the main force.

The second is to ensure the morale of the soldiers, and half of the 10 new brigades are captured by the United Kingdom on the East Coast. Far from their parents, wives and children, these soldiers were reduced to slave soldiers, and their morale was very low. However, among the newly formed brigades, they have the best grasp of techniques and tactics, and their combat effectiveness surpasses that of recruits who have never seen blood.

In order to stabilize the morale of the army, Richard selected a group of female slaves from the indentured slaves captured this year, married the captive soldiers who performed well, and formed a new family. This method worked very well, allowing the East Coast United Kingdom captives to quickly integrate into the Haaland territory.

The third is to draw the backbone from the old army and lead these people. When war comes, whether an army can fight or not depends on the backbone veterans. A good squadron leader can lead dozens or hundreds of people, and sometimes even decide the outcome of a war.

By the time he went south, Richard had already drawn 300 men from several old units and incorporated them into the new army. After returning to Haaland, Richard transferred another 300 veterans from the remaining troops into ten new brigades.

In order to allow the new brigade to form combat effectiveness as soon as possible, Richard successively transferred 600 veterans to the new brigade, with an average of 60 veterans in each new brigade.

Fourth, it is necessary to strengthen training, speed up the running-in, and uniformly teach the soldiers the first three layers of breathing methods, so as to improve the technical and tactical level of soldiers.

Although many methods have been come up, the combat effectiveness of the soldiers of the new brigade is still slow to improve.

The biggest problem is that the soldiers of the new brigade are divided into three countries, and they do not understand each other's languages, and they also need translators to help communicate. The Chinese literacy rate of soldiers was very high, the illiteracy rate of soldiers recruited from the Delong Kingdom was 100%, and there were few literate prisoners. Of the 4,000 recruits trained by Haaland alone, there were 100 primary school graduates.

But it was difficult for Richard to make up his mind to abandon the United Kingdom prisoners on the East Coast. After all, these soldiers have completed the recruit training and can master the combat skills proficiently, and if they are integrated into the Haaland leadership, it will reduce the training cost a lot.

In addition, Haaland's army also needs a group of people who master the Chinese language of the United Kingdom of the East Coast and are familiar with the internal affairs of the United Kingdom of the East Coast.

In this southern expedition, there were many soldiers from the Delong Kingdom in the army led by Haaland, who were familiar with the geography of the Delong Kingdom, easily adapted to the local environment, and were able to communicate with the local people skillfully, which played a great role in the war.

War broke out between the United Kingdom on the East Coast and the Kingdom of Grant this year, and there will inevitably be great conflicts and contradictions between the two countries in the future. If the territory is integrated with a group of captive soldiers of the Delong Kingdom, it will be able to take the lead in future wars and play a very big role.

After a few months of running-in, the prisoners of the United Kingdom on the east coast have mastered a lot of vocabulary in the northern Xinjiang language, can communicate simply, and at least understand military orders.

After Richard entered the newly formed brigade, he mingled with the soldiers all day long, ate and lived with them, trained together, and came forward to solve some small problems for the soldiers, and it was easy to win the hearts and minds of the soldiers.

Richard was a very strong learner, and in just a few months he mastered the Chinese language of the United Kingdom of the East Coast, and could communicate with the captured soldiers without barriers. His performance won the respect and recognition of the captives.

I spent a month in the barracks, and it was the middle of December.

After an extra month of running-in, Richard felt that the military morale of the new brigade had become more stable, and its combat effectiveness had also improved slightly.

According to the plan, the ten newly formed brigades will be divided into the counties on the front line after the goddess's birthday.

With the addition of ten newly formed brigades, the Harland Command already has twenty-five infantry brigades, two cavalry reconnaissance brigades, two Warcraft cavalry brigades, plus the headquarters personnel, the regular army has more than 40,000 people and 3,000 people.

More than 40,000 regular troops, enough to form two corps.

At present, the Haaland Command does not have a corps, and the soldiers are mainly distributed in three areas, namely the Grotta River area, the Tani Canyon area, and the Lothar Basin-Fort William area.

According to the plan of the headquarters, three new brigades will be stationed in the Grota River area, and the garrisons on both sides of the Grotta River will have ten infantry brigades, three magic hot air balloon squadrons, one Warcraft cavalry brigade, one reconnaissance brigade, plus the headquarters staff, guards, and logistics personnel, and the regular army will have 18,000 people.

Six infantry brigades, a squadron of magic hot air balloons, and a regular army of nine thousand people were stationed in the area of the Tani Gorge.

In the direction of the Lothar Basin - Fort William, there are nine infantry brigades, one reconnaissance cavalry brigade, one Warcraft cavalry brigade, four magic hot air balloon squadrons, and a regular army of 16,000 people.

In the Pratos direction, now it can only rely on the territory vassals, the alliance of the nobles of the province of Geda.

Richard thought about it for a long time and decided that the time was ripe for the formation of a legion, and the garrison in the Grotta Valley would be organized into a legion, and the commander of this legion would be given to Soros.

Soros is only a seventh-order, and according to the unspoken rules of the Grant Kingdom, he cannot hold the position of legion leader. But Haaland is not enough high-level talents, and William is a very suitable person, but William is unwilling to retire from the Central Army and come back to listen to Richard's orders, so the commander can only let Soros, who has the most seniority, act as his agent.

The regular army of the Tani Gorge was organized into a detachment, which was headed by Jennings.

The troops in the direction of the Lothar Basin-Fort Wilhelm were also organized into a corps, and the commander of the corps did not have a suitable person, and Richard concurrently served as the commander.

At the end of the year, the army was organized, and Haaland led the regular army, organized into two corps and one detachment.

After entering December, Harland led to another good news, Richard was successfully promoted to the seven-ring magician before the goddess's birthday, becoming the second high-level spellcaster of the Mage Association.

Berica and Bonova were also successfully promoted to become the Three Ring Mages.

Although there are not many breakthrough potions in the Mage Association this year, the Mage Association has also had six advanced apprentices who have succeeded.

During the Southern Crusade, only one official member of the Harland Collar Mage Guild was killed, the number of mages increased by five, and the number of apprentices increased by twenty-seven this year.

Today, Haaland has built more than a dozen new primary schools, and more than a few thousand new students are enrolled every year, and these new students need to pass qualification tests, and the Harland Mage Association has a large number of new blood replenishments every year.

According to the statistics of the roster at the end of the year, there are more than 200 reserve members of the Mage Association, 47 formal magicians, 3 middle-level magicians, and 2 high-level magicians.

This scale has far exceeded the mage tower where Sophia worked back then, and when it is placed in the Magic Kingdom of Makholm, the scale is medium.

This year, the new territory has been expanded, and the hospitals and schools will be greatly expanded, and with the talent base of Haaland Collar today, it is very easy to build a few new primary schools every year.

According to Richard and Rogge's plan, three new elementary schools and a middle school will be built in the Grotta River area in the spring of next year.

After the magic level was promoted to the seventh ring, Richard's mental power has improved again, and through the attribute panel prompt, Richard found that his mental power attribute has been increased to 52 points, and the magic attribute has reached 1248 points. By reading the magic notes of his predecessors, Richard knew that such a level of spiritual power and magic power was no less than that of a magician who had just been promoted to a legend.

Richard had several adventures, which greatly improved his mental power, and the average seven-ring magician had just 24 points of spiritual power, which was less than half of Richard's level.

Even a gifted mage like Sophia had an adventure in the Magic Kingdom of Makholm, used a high-grade potion, increased his spiritual power by four points, and put on the Starlight Necklace, his spiritual power was only thirty-six points, and his magic power was only one-third of Richard's.

If it is encountered on the battlefield, it is very easy for Richard to defeat a mage of the same rank.

When the mental power exceeded 20 points, Richard awakened the talent for danger perception, and when the mental power exceeded 30 points, Richard awakened the powerful spell, and when the mental power exceeded 40 points, Richard awakened the magic power multiplied.

Under the effect of the three talents, Richard's combat effectiveness is doubled.

This time, his spiritual power exceeded fifty points, and Richard awakened the talent of the body of flames, and awakened this talent, which not only doubled his fire attribute magic resistance, but also doubled the speed of refining the fire element. When the fire attribute magic is released, the power will also increase by 30% out of thin air.

Richard had experimented and consumed the same mental power, and the three-ring magic fireball technique he released now was a few points more powerful than the destructive power of the five-ring magic fire cage released by Sophia.

After being promoted to the seventh ring, the time has reached the end of the year, all departments are doing year-end statistics, and the year-end meeting is also in preparation.

Although he was very busy every day, attending various meetings and coordinating various conflicts, Richard tried to find time to visit the research institute in his territory to see if there were any new inventions this year.

He spent most of this year fighting in the south, and only returned to Haaland in October. After returning to the territory, he either inspected the local area or stayed in the barracks, and did not have time to care about scientific research institutes at all.

Only at the end of the year can I spare a little time to inspect the institutes in the territory.

The performance of the Institute of Optics this year is average, although a higher magnification microscope has been manufactured, there are no new scientific discoveries, and optical research has temporarily come to a standstill.

The results of the chemical research institute are very amazing, the preparation process of three acids and two alkalis has been completed, the factory is also under construction, and three kinds of yellow and purple red have been found in chemical dyes.

Most of the researchers at the Magic Energy Research Institute led by Wendy are mages, and many of them are involved in the war, and the research has come to a standstill.

This year, the Metal Research Institute has created a new kind of magic metal, which uses blood steel and oralcosus, and smelts small amounts of Mithril and zinc. It is very hard and has an excellent ability to conduct fighting energy, making it ideal for making armor-piercing arrows and blades.

After the new alloy was successfully manufactured, the formula immediately became a top secret for Haaland, and all the scientific researchers who studied the new alloy entered the secret list, and the intelligence department specially arranged people to protect and monitor it.

To make this new alloy, special alchemy furnaces were required.

After years of development, Haaland has led the alchemy furnace to be very level.

With the success of the steam engine, it will also be very helpful for the manufacture of the magic alchemy furnace.

The researchers of the Alloy Research Institute found that the blowing effect of the steam engine far exceeded that of artificial, and in order to exert a greater ventilation effect, the Metal Research Institute also found the Mage Association, and used super magic metal on the pipe where the steam engine was installed, and engraved the wind element magic array.

Blood steel, orichalcum, and mythril have different melting points, and in order to fully fuse the alloys, the inside of the new alchemy furnace is divided into four spaces, and different magic arrays are drawn inside. When the furnace is heated, the temperature in each space varies. Because the melting point of oralcose is very high, superalloys are also used in the manufacture of alchemy furnaces.

Today, there are more than a dozen middle school students in the Alloy Research Institute.

The middle school students of the Haaland Collar have mastered a high level of knowledge, and they are also smart people selected from the millions of people in the territory, and after entering the scientific research institute, they will soon become the backbone core.

Richard came to the Metal Research Institute, looked at the metal alchemy furnace that was too high to be two meters high, and found that this alchemy furnace needed to be powered by magic crystals.

Richard talked to the investigators for a few words, and soon figured out the reason, smelting this alloy requires a very stable high temperature, and using coke for smelting, the temperature control is not very stable, and it is not as good as using magic crystals.

The magic crystal is transformed into a flame through the magic circle, the burning process is very stable, and it is easy to control the temperature, and most high-level alchemy furnaces will basically use magic crystals for energy.

Today's Harland Leader not only has magic crystal charging technology, but also found magic crystal ore in the Lothar Basin, although the output of magic crystal ore is not high, only less than a thousand pieces can be dug every year, and thousands of magic crystals have been saved in the treasury, enough for magicians and scientific research institutes.

"Salamo, how much does it cost to refine a new alloy."

Salamo is the first middle school student of Haaland, he is only sixteen years old, he is a famous genius student of Haaland, he has completed the primary school course in one and a half years, and the middle school course in one and a half years, and has become the most important person in the alloy research institute less than three years after graduation, and the new alloy is his invention. In the alchemy furnace that was used to study the match, Salamo also played a very large role.

In fact, Richard's eldest daughter, Margaret, is also a gifted child, only ten years old this year, and is already a second-year student in high school. Her magical talent followed her parents, and her magical qualifications were also superior, and now she is only ten years old, and she has only been learning magic for a few months, and she is already a medium magic apprentice.

"Returning to Lord Duke, not counting the cost of researching and manufacturing an alchemy furnace, refining a new alloy takes three days and consumes six magic crystals, because the raw materials use a small amount of Mithril, and the material cost is about forty gold coins. Each furnace costs 100 gold coins, and can refine about 12.5 kilograms of alloy, and on average, one kilogram of new alloy costs about 8 gold coins. ”

Richard pointed to the alchemy furnace and asked, "How much money does it take to build an alchemy furnace?" ”

"Not counting the cost of research, it takes 4,000 kilograms of superalloy to make an alchemy furnace, plus 1,200 gold coins for labor."

Hearing Salamo's answer, Richard reacted very quickly and immediately asked, "So an alchemy furnace needs to invest 13,200 gold coins to make 1,500 kilograms of new alloy a year. On the whole, the output is somewhat low, the cost is too high, and it is not suitable for equipping the whole army, so only a few sophisticated weapons can be manufactured for use by middle and high-ranking officers.

Is it possible to expand, improve, expand the alchemy furnace, increase production and reduce costs? ”

(End of chapter)