With cavalry and long-range troops, Chu Xiangqian only needed to bring hundreds or thousands of Terran cavalry and thousands of Terran infantry by himself.

Coupled with modern weapons, there is basically no pressure to fight a Terran city with tens of thousands of troops.

But according to some news that Chu Xiangqian heard from the Tavern of Gaoshan Fort, there are very few cities with a population of more than 50,000 in the southern human kingdom.

Even fewer have tens of thousands of troops.

Some lords are just a larger castle, and a ring of walls is built outside, and the total population may only be a few thousand or tens of thousands.

The soldiers guarding the inner city, that is, the castle, can be regarded as a great lord if there are one or two thousand.

However, the royal city is quite large, and there should be more than 100,000 people.

But if Chu Qianqian used mortars, only thirty or fifty mortars were needed, and when there was no shortage of ammunition, the defenders on the city wall could be crushed by shelling alone.

In the end, there is a high probability that you can only surrender.

In this way, the occupation of the land in the south suddenly became simpler.

No, Chu Xiangqian forgot that this world has the extraordinary power of magicians.

And after the city is captured, how to govern it is the biggest problem.

However, it is not very difficult to attack the territory of the Terrans, and there is also a kind of meaning that the nest is horizontal.

Then fight the natural villain of the orc.

Maybe he will lead the dwarves and elves out of the boulder pass and recapture a large area of northern land that has been taken away by the orcs in the past hundreds or thousands of years.

Eventually, if the orcs are driven back to the icy and snowy north, the dwarves, elves, and terrans of the north of Middle-earth will jointly push themselves to become the allies of the north.

Even the king is possible.

This seems to make more sense than attacking southern Terran territory.

Chu Xiangqian signed a covenant with the dwarves and elves on the spot, and it was signed in the name of the family and the heirs.

This is absolutely binding in Middle-earth.

As for the salary after the hire, after paying the elves 2,000 rifles and 100,000 rounds of ammunition, 300 elven horse archers and 200 privately hired marksmen will each have 10 gold coins per month from now on.

This price is in the human realm, even if you hire 10 knights, it is no problem, it is definitely a sky-high price.

The territorial income of some small nobles does not necessarily have 10 gold coins a year, which shows that the purchasing power of gold coins is still very high.

But in the realm of dwarves and elves, this price can only be considered normal.

As a long-lived race, elves and dwarves may not all be rich, but lords and cities are definitely super rich.

Once you become an elite soldier or cavalryman, you basically don't have to worry about running out of money in the future.

Families don't have to worry about going hungry either.

Seeing that the elves had agreed, the three dwarf lords could only sign a contract with Chu Xiangqian.

The mercenary fee and the dwarf's salary are the same as those of the elves.

But the dwarven cavalry could not ride on war horses, so they had to buy 300 large goats.

5 rifles for a big goat is not expensive at all for Chu Xiangqian.

After all, he traded Mosin Nagant rifles with the Celestial Empire, and it was only forty or fifty Celestial Dynasty coins.

But for the dwarves, it is equivalent to selling a big goat for 5,000 gold coins, and the three dwarven lords can't close their mouths with a smile.

And Chu Xiangqian began to think about it, and the dwarf once again purchased an order for bullets from him.

One gold coin and one bullet, although the profit is far less than the pure profit of a hundred or hundreds of times when selling a rifle.

But the net profit from selling bullets is more than ten times that of continuous consumables, and the final profit will naturally be more profitable than selling rifles.

Chu Xiangqian wished that the orc siege would be more intense and lasting.

The best battle is to run out of ammunition reserves for the dwarves and elves.

Thinking about it this way, Chu Xiangqian's idea of helping the dwarves and elves to defend the city in the next battle, killing and injuring a large number of orcs, and ending the battle quickly was immediately gone.

In the celebration banquet afterwards, if it weren't for the orc army outside the Boulder Pass, everyone would have been drunk tonight.

After more than two hours of trouble, the sky was almost slightly bright, and the banquet was over.

Chu Xiangqian excused himself to go home to report the alliance, said hello to the dwarves and elves, and was about to take the red rabbit back to the novice village.

But he was stopped by Garland, the lord of the Vera Elves.

"Stark, while you are going back to the clan, we have also prepared some gifts for your elders and relatives."

The other four lords were stunned for a moment, then nodded busily.

Chu knew at a glance that the gift must have been improvised, but this did not prevent his mood from getting better.

Half an hour later, 3 dwarves and 2 elves held 5 boxes and placed them on the long table.

The three dwarves are normal, just dwarven guards, but the two elves are fair-skinned and beautiful, tall and tall, and the elves are convex and backward.

And the robe on his body is a little big, and the placket is a little deep, and when Chu looks forward, he can vaguely see the headlights in the robe looming.

Seeing this, Bosko and Garland couldn't help but smile secretly.

The three dwarven lords scolded in their hearts, but unfortunately among the young dwarven women, there were very few girls whose appearance conformed to the aesthetics of the human race.

Dwarves really can't compare with elves in this regard.

Chu Xiangqian saw that the faces of the two female elves began to blush, and then he came back to his senses, and then he understood.

Maybe these two female elves are also gifts from the two elf lords.

But Chu Xiangqian hadn't thought about it at this time, and the elf clan was not just thinking about befriending themselves.

People are already thinking about their own heirs.

But even if Chu Xiangqian knew the elf's calculations, there was a high probability that he wouldn't care.

First, he is an outsider, and he has little sense of identity with the blonde and blue-eyed Terrans of Middle-earth.

So for him, his daughter-in-law in Middle-earth is a human race or an elf race, and he is all optimistic about it.

Let's see if you can make a profit.

whether it is conducive to one's own rule.

If the daughter-in-law you marry is an elf princess, and the other party is very beautiful, it doesn't matter whether your heir is a half-elf or not.

And with his own physical fitness, or a hundred years is definitely no problem, then the heir is a half-elf, which is also a good thing to some extent.

lest he be still alive, but he watched his sons and daughters die of old age one by one.

Chu Xiangqian's luck is actually good, the two elf lords have a temporary idea, and they want to find two beautiful female elves with suitable identities, but it is not so easy.

After all, it's wartime, and they don't have time to carefully select the right female elves.

Fortunately, there are not many female dependents and female elf warriors, but once they are qualified to follow the army of female elves.

Either high combat effectiveness.

Either the identity is enough, follow over to see the world, and by the way, mix up the qualifications.

Two female elves, one named Sieve and the other named Luna.

And both are girls who have just turned 120 years old.

The former is the niece of Bosco, the elf of Knor, and the latter is the daughter of the centurion of the Vila elf guard.

However, although Siv and Luna are beautiful and young, they are not all based on relationships and have infiltrated the Guard.

In terms of strength, even though Luna and Sif are much worse than the Noel Elf Riding Archer Iris, in terms of archery, they are much more powerful than Chu Xiangqian.

Because of the huge threat of orcs, the high-level of the Noel elves and the Vera elves do not enjoy the wind.

Therefore, although the elves only reached adulthood at the age of 120, dozens or even seventy or eighty years of practice have made the elves level in archery, just like the nomads who grew up on horseback, all of them are archery masters.

It's a pity that neither of them has a lot of talent in magic, and they really lack experience in fighting enemies.

To put it bluntly, he has participated in fewer battles, and when facing the enemy, he is not as handy as a veteran.

However, if the magic talent is excellent, there is a high probability that the two elven lords will not choose them to win over Chu Xiangqian.

And Riptide Castle is just an empty shell at this time, only when Riptide Castle develops to a certain scale, it is possible for the elves to marry a princess to him.

Chu Xiangqian didn't care about this, it was better to marry a bad-tempered elf princess, than to find a beautiful and virtuous ordinary female elf.

Looking at it from another angle, marrying a female elf with a low status may still be a good thing.

At least you don't have to be pinned down by the upper level of the elves after having a half-elf heir.

However, as Bosco's niece, Sif is only a little lower than Bosco's daughter, the elf princess of Knorr.

Fortunately, the Noel Elves and Vera Elves have very little ambition for outward expansion, and it can even be said that as long as the Elven population does not explode, the Elves basically will not think about external expansion.

This has no contradiction with Chu Xiangqian's core interests.

As for the heir, Chu Xiangqian even planned to let her participate in the management of the territory when he really married a wife he liked and was satisfied with.

After all, it was impossible for Chu Xiangqian to put all his thoughts on Riptide Castle.

The daughter-in-law in the real world, interests, will consume a lot of his time and energy.

——

Nodding at the two female elves with blushing faces, with a wave of his hand, he put all 5 treasure chests into the warehouse of the Novice Village.

At this moment, the eyes of the two female elves looked at him more and more gently.

Chu Xiangqian was originally famous among the dwarves and elves because he led his troops to defeat 3,000 orcs and annihilated 400 wolf cavalry.

In addition, it is rumored that he was alone, killed one or two hundred wolf cavalry, and injured the black mage.

forced 400 wolf cavalry and black magic books, and could only abandon 3,000 orc companions and flee directly.

In the end, he was blocked by Chu Xiangqian on the mountain road of the Boulder Mountain Range.

Combined with the dwarven cavalry and the elven marksman, they attacked from front to back, and completely annihilated the remnants of the wolf cavalry.

This record, even in the history of elves, there are few heroes who can do this.

Now I see that he is 1.85 meters tall, a little taller than most male elves.

Long and handsome, the secret armor shows off his figure even more, and Chu Xiangqian usually shows very kind, which makes people feel more like a commander than a reckless general.

And the two lords had already hinted at it just now, so Siv and Luna's first impression of Chu Xiangqian was very good.

However, whether he can become the hostess of Riptide Castle depends on whether Chu Xiangqian is satisfied with the two of them after getting along.

Otherwise, it will be a fruitless relationship.

——

Saying goodbye to the elves and dwarves, Chu Xiangqian took the red rabbit back to the novice village.

First brushed the wild and substances that were refreshed tonight, and then took a bath to dissipate the smell of alcohol.

Only then did 5 treasure chests open.

The dwarve's gift was simple, gold coins, gems, a small crossbow, a steel dagger, and a steel dagger.

It fits well with the dwarves' style of being good at blacksmithing.

Chu Xiangqian didn't care about gold coins and gems, as long as the dagger and short knife were not magic weapons, they were not as good as the level 20 weapons produced by the Novice Village.

The two short soldiers can only be kept as collectibles.

Hand crossbows are very suitable for sneak attacks, but if you think of the dwarf hand crossbow, it doesn't seem to be as powerful as a revolver, or a pistol.

And he has a pocket storage compartment, and the crossbow does not need to be hidden in the sleeve, and the secrecy and suddenness are the same as the pistol.

So Chu Xiangqian will still choose a pistol in the end.

——

In the treasure chest sent by the two elves, in addition to the gems and two exquisite crown jewelry, and the necklace inlaid with dozens of blue gems, there are actually 2 magic scrolls.

Chu Xiangqian hurriedly picked up the scroll and opened it to take a look, and quickly determined that one of the two scrolls was a meditation method, and the other turned into a magic book with a glittering magic light after opening.

Chu Xiangqian had obtained the meditation method from the elf before, but the new meditation method on this scroll was not a big deal.

Just by trying to practice for 1 hour, I felt that my magic power increased by 1 point.

It's a pity that even if it is an elf, it is impossible to use it to cultivate meditation 24 hours a day, and when Chu Xiangqian cultivates these days, he has to rest after cultivating for three or four hours a day at most.

But even so, at 4 o'clock a day, 120 points of mana in a month, and 1440 points in a year, it is definitely faster than the cultivation speed of the most talented elven magician.

I started meditating again until my head felt a little swollen, and then I ended the meditation.

opened the character bar, and the magic power on it increased from 87 points to 92 points, and Chu Xiangqian was overjoyed.

This effect was several times that of the past, and Chu Xiangqian naturally attached more and more importance to the newly acquired meditation method.

And it only took 5 hours and 40 minutes for 1 hour.

It seems that because of the addition of a lot of physical strength, his magic talent is indeed higher than that of many elves.

When your magic level increases, you may be able to meditate longer every day and gain more mana.

Correspondingly, however, it will take more mana to become a high-level mage.

But as long as the meditation time becomes longer, the speed of leveling up should be much faster than that of elves.

Chu Xiangqian held back the excitement and expectation in his heart, and burned all the magic he knew in the magic book.

In the future, if you want to teach your son and disciple magic, just lend him a magic book.

And after there is a lot of magic, there is a magic book to burn the magic you know, and you can avoid not using it for a long time, and forget how to cast a partial magic.

——

returned to the Qianmen courtyard, turned around and entered the east wing of Hong Kong students.

Hong Kong Sheng, this girl, basically never cares about Chu Xiangqian's affairs, so when he enters her room so late, he won't ask questions about him, and ask him why he came back to sleep so late.

It's just that Chu Xiangqian didn't feel sleepy at all now, and he moved his hands and feet, and soon woke up Hong Kong Sheng.

After that, it was inevitable that there would be another nonsense.

By the time Chu Qianqian woke up, it was already more than 2 o'clock in the afternoon.

When I opened my eyes, I heard that outside the east wing of the middle courtyard, I heard the three daughters-in-law laughing with the little thing Aiqiu.

(End of chapter)