The development of Riptide Fort is actually very simple, you have to fight the orcs in the north.

To the east and west, either the dwarves occupy the mountains or the elven forests.

It is also that the mountain fort is just stuck on the way of the orcs to the south, and if the alpine fort is not captured, it will have to face the problem of the alpine dwarves sneaking up on the supply line from time to time.

Therefore, Chu Xiangqian's development strategy for Riptide Fort can basically only choose to expand southward.

If you can take the territory of 100 miles to the south, you can probably feed 30,000 ordinary people.

Middle-earth is not the real world, and the pattern of grain cultivation is basically similar to that of medieval Europe.

One acre can grow more than 100 catties of barley and oats, which is already a bumper harvest.

Moreover, in the north of Middle-earth, the winter is long, and crops can only be grown for one season.

With the little income grown in the land, it may only be able to maintain an army of three or five hundred people.

But if you rely on trade and real-world food subsidies, let alone three or five thousand armored soldiers, even if it is three or five thousand elites, Chu Xiangqian can easily feed them.

But he didn't want to pay for it himself at all, subsidizing the people and the troops of the territory.

It's not that you can't afford to subsidize it, but if you do it, in the end, there will definitely be problems.

In the future, after your children inherit it, you will lose your absolute advantage in trade, and there will be 100% rebellions.

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After all the orc siege troops disappeared into the big camp seven or eight miles away, Chu Xiangqian went to the lord's mansion in the boulder pass with the two elf lords.

The Boulder Dwarves were also a large clan with a population of 70,000 or 80,000 back then, and 20,000 troops could be stationed in the Boulder Pass alone.

It's a pity that since the Boulder Pass has become the front line against the orcs, the birth rate of the Boulder Dwarves has slowly failed to keep up with the annual casualty rate.

In the past 100 or 200 years, the population has shrunk from 70,000 or 80,000 at its peak to 40,000 or 50,000.

However, because they are on the front line of battle all year round, the combat effectiveness of the boulder dwarves can be regarded as the best among all the dwarves in the north.

And at least half of the population is actually all warriors.

It is not an exaggeration to say that all the people are soldiers, and as for food and armament, many of them are supported by other dwarves and elves.

It is a pity that the stronger the force, the more arrogant and contemptuous the enemy sometimes.

When the Boulder Pass was breached, the orcs killed indiscriminately, and the 20,000 dwarves in the Boulder Pass escaped very few, very few.

The boulder dwarves in the farms south of Boulder Pass and in the mines in the Boulder Mountains are eager to recapture Boulder Pass.

Pull up the mountain, the boulder, the Iron Fist, the red-bearded dwarf, as well as the Noel elves, and the Vera elves attacked the boulder pass twice, not only did they fail to capture it, but they were also seriously injured and wounded.

In the end, the 4,000 or so alpine dwarves who were still alive could only retreat to the mouth of a large lake in the east, and slowly became the valley dwarves.

How many years have passed, and I heard that the population has only recovered to seven or eight thousand.

And because the speed of support from the 3 dwarves was a bit slow back then, the boulder dwarves had no resentment in their hearts, which was impossible.

In these years, unless there is a life-and-death crisis of a certain race, the dwarves of the valley will basically not send troops to help any of their own people and elves resist the orcs.

Since the boulder dwarves of the year were brilliant, the construction of the Boulder Pass Lord's Mansion was also very brilliant.

It's a pity that after being occupied by the orcs, the orcs didn't bother to tinker with the lord's mansion, and the interior decoration was obviously orc-style.

It feels a little shabby and rough when I look at it.

After Chu Qianqian entered the lord's hall, there were already many elves and dwarves who were setting up wine and food, and the three dwarf lords also sat down at a long log table first.

However, not only was no one sitting in the first place, but there was not even a chair.

Moreover, the three dwarves were all sitting on the left, and Chu could understand at a glance that the coalition army did not have a leader.

In other words, neither the dwarves nor the elves are willing to recognize each other as their bosses.

Seeing that the Noel Elf Bosco and the Vera Elf Garland were sitting directly in the first and second seats on the right, Chu Xiangqian couldn't help but have a headache.

Which side you sit on is basically the same as which side you stand on.

He simply sat at the end, separated by four or five positions, and began to talk about his desire to obtain three dwarves and two elves and recognize his rule over Riptide Castle.

The five Great Lords, as well as the more than twenty dwarves, elven upper echelons, and janissaries standing around, except for the two elven lords, were all surprised and thoughtful.

Dozens of seconds later, the result was really as the two elf lords thought, the two dwarf lords of Iron Fist and Red Beard, after figuring out the key to this.

He looked at the Alpine Dwarven Lord Allison and said they agreed.

Allison is not stupid, Fort Riptide has been empty for so many years, it is nothing more than that Allison neither wants others to occupy Fort Riptide, nor does he want to divide it to the high-level of the Alpine Dwarves.

lest he threaten his rule, or the mountain dwarves.

This will remain vacant and abandoned.

Since even a meritorious fellow clansman or even his own son had no chance to be sealed to Riptide Castle, Allison naturally didn't want to see Chu Xiangqian become the ruler of Riptide Castle.

But in the alliance of the five clans, four allies agreed, and Chu Qianqian sold the most rifles and biplanes to the mountain dwarves, and even ten mortars were all bought by them.

If you don't agree to this, if you think about it, you will know that Chu Xiangqian will be 100% closer to the other four allies in the future.

This is something that Allison is equally unacceptable.

But if Chu is allowed to move forward without restrictions, Allison is willing to be a villain.

In the end, after more than two hours of deliberation and arguing, it was determined that Fort Riptide could only recruit one cavalry team and one hoplite infantry team in the future.

As for the number of people, a brigade of 500 people is the same as the number of dwarves and elves.

However, if he goes out to fight against the orcs, he can allow Chu to gather the farmers into an army.

To put it bluntly, it is cannon fodder.

As for the size of the territory, the dwarves and elves didn't care much.

Not only did he agree to Chu Xiangqian's occupation of a hundred miles of territory and 5 great lords in the south of Riptide Fort, but he was also allowed to expand to the south.

And one by one they said very enthusiastically that if Chu Xiangqian had a need, he could recruit their clansmen, help him deal with territorial affairs, recruit and train soldiers.

As soon as Chu Xiangqian heard it, he knew that he wanted to be miserable in his own territory and army.

But instead of refusing, he was eager to recruit hundreds of dwarves and elves as his men.

Anyway, he doesn't have the idea of dominating the northern part of Middle-earth now, so recruiting dwarves and elves will help him develop southward and get through the initial industrial hardship.

Second, if there are dwarven heavy armor warriors and elven marksmen in their own troops, the southern terrans will 100% mistakenly think that they have the support of dwarves and elves.

Perhaps this alone will attract many Terran outcasts, proletarians, and merchants to Riptide Fort.

At that time, the meritorious dwarves and elves will become knights and knights respectively, not only in exchange for their allegiance, but also means that they have defeated the Terran forces in the south and occupied a large area of land.

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However, in recent years, he should not have to worry about conflicts with the Terran forces.

At least two or three hundred kilometers to the south belong to Borderlands.

It's not that the Terrans, dwarves, and elves don't want to occupy it, but it's the productive forces of Middle-earth that seriously restrict the development of agriculture, and therefore the development of population.

A Terran lord with a population of more than 100,000, 200,000 or 300,000 can rule a land with a diameter of 300 kilometers, that is, 70,650 square kilometers, which is already considered a gift.

It is often a large city, with tens of thousands of inhabitants and soldiers, and the rest are scattered in this more than 70,000 square kilometers of land.

It must be vast and sparsely populated.

It can be said that if Chu Xiangqian has the ability to occupy all the land 200 kilometers to the south, after contacting the Terran lord, there is a high probability that the other party will not contradict him.

Instead, I wish he was in front of him and dealt with elves and dwarves.

By the way, when the orcs attack the elves and dwarves, he will represent the human race and resist the orcs together.

To the west and east, a few hundred kilometers to the east are forests and mountains, and another one or two hundred kilometers to the mountains is the sea.

To the west, too, mountains and forests are reached, and then the desert stretches as far as the eye can see.

As for the other side of the desert, there is no record of it in the records of dwarves and elves anyway.

The reason is also simple, hundreds of kilometers of forest, let alone feeding tens of thousands of elves, even hundreds of thousands are no problem.

There is really no need to expand outward, and naturally not many people are willing to venture across the desert and the sea to find other continents in this world.

Not to mention, the small number of intelligent and humanoid races means that there are too many beasts, monsters, and races that are more like orcs than orcs in the wild and unexplored lands.

And Chu Xiangqian's ambition is actually not big, and he will be satisfied if he can have a territory the size of a province in the future.

Hundreds of thousands, millions of people in the territory will basically make him feel that he will consume a lot of his energy.

If you are busy with government affairs every day, it is really better to guard the territory of thousands of miles and be a soil emperor.

And seriously, if you can't return to the real world, you can only stay in the backward world of Middle-earth.

Then when he is bored, there is a high probability that he will spend his whole life on the expedition.

But since he can return to the world of the 60s, the attraction of Middle-earth to him, in addition to magic and immortality, the demand for land and lords is really not high.

However, by the time he is forty or fifty years old, his mind may change.

After Chu Xiangqian was recognized by the five great lords, he immediately remembered in his heart that the 500 dwarf cavalry and 500 elven cavalry archers who had followed him to attack the three thousand orc partial army and wolf cavalry.

After hearing his words, the five great lords refused without even thinking about it.

The total population of the 3 dwarves is only 110,000.

Among them, there are 40,000 mountain dwarves. Iron Fist and Red Beard have not faced the constant attacks of the orcs for many years.

The population is more than 60,000, and less than 70,000.

And even if it is an adult female dwarf, the combat power is not lower than that of an adult orc.

In other words, the number of troops that can be called up for battle, for example, is 20,000.

However, there are only 4,000 heavily armored warriors and shield warriors who train them, and only about 1,000 goat cavalry.

The cavalry of the three dwarves combined is about 3,000.

It's not that Redbeard and Ironfist are reluctant to train more elites, it's that the situation they face is not as dangerous as that of the mountain dwarves.

Therefore, with a population of 60,000 to 70,000, the Red Whisker and Iron Fist only maintained 2,000 cavalry.

As soon as Chu Qianqian spoke, he wanted to hire 15% of all the dwarves' cavalry, and it was an elite goat knight, so only a fool would be willing.

As for the elves, the two lords hesitated instead.

There is indeed no shortage of elven marksmen, and if you ride an archer, you can actually ride an archer if you sit on a big elk.

And the elves don't have many opportunities to fight in the field now, and the importance of cavalry is not great.

The elves have always tried to avoid fighting the orcs on the plains.

In the eyes of elves, even if 1 elf is exchanged for 10 orcs, it is a big deal.

In the forest, the elves jumped on foot in the trees, which was more lethal than when riding a large elk as a cavalryman.

Also more hidden.

Chu looked forward at the three dwarf lords and shook his head, and his eyes couldn't help but look at the two elven lords.

Seeing their hesitation, he suddenly became excited.

Without thinking about it, he said, "I'll solve the problem of the war horse by myself, I only need those 5 hundred-man teams."

As compensation, I, Stark Chu, my family, and my heirs, are willing to sign a treaty of eternal alliance with the Knorr Elves and the Vera Elves.

And of these 500 horse archers, I am willing to take 2,000 rifles and 100,000 rounds of ammunition to make up for the loss of the elves. ”

Chu Xiangqian actually didn't mind at all, and sold more rifles to the elves.

The elves themselves are based on bows and arrows, and even if they don't sell rifles to them, the longbow in the elves' hands is itself a weapon comparable to a rifle.

Bosko and Jialan's eyes lit up when they heard this, in their eyes, Chu Xiangqian didn't just represent himself.

As long as you form an alliance, you can get more food, weapons and ammunition, and even army support from Chu Xiangqian.

And Chu Xiangqian was not worried that the elves would slowly marginalize themselves in his territory.

In the future, there will definitely be human nobles in their own territory, and it is better to believe in elves than to believe in the loyalty and justice of nobles.

Moreover, the elves, human nobles and dwarves are also three-legged, and as the boss, you can live a more comfortable life.

If the three clans all turn against themselves, then their own lordship will definitely be worse than those faint kings in history.

Besides, dwarves and elves are recruited, and it is not difficult to change them every ten or twenty years.

As soon as the three dwarf lords heard Chu Xiangqian's words just now, they immediately stopped doing it.

Although he was still reluctant to give all 500 cavalry to Chu Qianqian, it didn't seem to be a big problem to send 100 cavalry per person.

Bosko and Garland glanced at each other and said with a smile, "Then the Noel Elves and the Vera Elves also sent 300 horse archers under your command?"

If that's not enough, you can privately recruit 200 elves from both of our clans. ”

After hearing this, the three dwarven lords glared at Bosko and Garland with hatred, and then the three of them discussed in a whisper, and said, "We also allow you to recruit another 200 dwarves.

But these dwarven warriors and cavalrymen are only hired by Riptide Castle, not loyal to you. ”

Chu Qianqian nodded regretfully.

200 heavily armored dwarves and 200 elven archers recruited from the common race to defend Riptide Castle, or a larger city in the future.

Chu Xiangqian can rest assured.

As for the cavalry, the 3 hundred goat cavalry is the heavy armored cavalry, and the 300 elf cavalry archers are the best troops to play the game.

(End of chapter)