Chapter 3 Military Intelligence

Klaus' team was stationed on a plain about a hundred miles away from the village of Kali, guarding a road from the 'Qingfeng Plain' to the capital of Xili Province. In peacetime, the road was the main thoroughfare for transportation and commerce in the mainland, and the party was stationed there.

, which can facilitate tax collection and garrison. However, during the war, the opponent's army will not march on the road obediently, so such garrison troops are actually useless, and it even makes it easier for the opponent's army to judge the location of the garrison and encircle and suppress it.

This was originally an obvious problem, but Duke Green still ordered the private troops stationed in the local area to remain fixed in his military camp to train the newly recruited recruits. When he thought about it, he had already sent more than 20,000 people anyway.

The "Green Field Corps" has gone to reinforce the front line. The more than 10,000 people standing army in his territory should be able to sustain him for two months, allowing him to train the new recruits a little.

Duke Greene thought very well. Now the south of his province is already densely populated with 500,000 new recruits and more than 20,000 less elite private troops used to train them. If the Smart Empire attacks directly from the border,

, you can use the human sea tactic to drown them.

Just as his financial controller shouted: "Your Excellency, each fallen soldier only needs a pension of five gold coins. We can continue to recruit people and exhaust the magicians of the Smart Empire."

Duke Greene asked with deep confusion: "Well, let's not talk about this for now. The problem is that the big lords near me are unwilling to send troops to assist me. This is their duty. They don't need to waste themselves on me.

The strength of the private army. But why hasn’t the empire’s army arrived yet? Huh? Does His Majesty Shagru really want to do that?”

No one could answer his question, so amidst all these doubts and uneasiness, the training of recruits in Xili Province began.

Klaus's military camp was originally only large enough to station a team of 1,000 people. Later, in order to expand his strength, Duke Greene reported that a team actually had 1,500 troops, so it was already a bit crowded. This time he

He was also sent to recruit soldiers. There were nearly 30,000 new soldiers recruited from all over the country. How could the small garrison accommodate it for a while? Fortunately, Duke Green was willing to protect his territory and power at any cost.

It had been distributed, and with the wooden houses built by the soldiers who arrived first, a dense new garrison appeared next to Klaus's small castle, and the 30,000 recruits could barely live in it.

Klaus stood on the small tower and laughed: "Now, I am more majestic than the commander of the Green Field Corps. I have more than 30,000 people under my command. Haha, the actual number of troops is more than him.

However, I can't guarantee this combat effectiveness. If these soldiers are all black iron knights, even if they only have one wolf fang, more than 30,000 people are enough to sweep through any regiment of the Smart Empire, right?" Klaus also said

Have a sweet dream.

However, his sweet dream was immediately interrupted by Lei. Lei ran up to the city with a little hesitation. After being inspected by several of Klaus's soldiers, he cautiously approached Klaus and asked: "Sir, this

Should we start training?"

Klaus waved his hand: "Of course, it's not just training, but training hard. Look, this is equivalent to the size of a legion. You have to work hard and train seriously. I will make those real

Soldiers, train yours well. Hahahaha..." Klaus's eyes were full of enthusiasm. If he could lead this army to achieve certain results, he should be promoted to an official rank anyway, right?

Lei nodded quickly, hesitated for a while, and asked in a low voice: "But sir, what kind of training should we use?"

Klaus was stunned for a moment: "What? What training is used for what?"

Lei's face was full of smiles: "Well, we have no weapons and no armor, how can we train? Some of my friends are classified as spearmen. They can train with wooden sticks, but I am classified as

The light infantry ranks don't have any swords. There are some new recruits who want me to tell you that they can only shoot arrows, but are not good at using swords and guns. You see... there is no way to train them."

Klaus's face immediately turned gloomy, and he murmured in a low voice: "Damn it, don't you have any weapons? How could I forget this? Oh my god, how is it possible to replenish 30,000 weapons at once? And what's more?

Armor, yes, and food. Food is not a problem. The nearby cities can provide so much food, but combat weapons... Well, young man, are you called Lei?"

Lei nodded repeatedly, and a smile appeared on Klaus's face: "Well, tell your companions that there will be weapons, armor, and everything you need. Don't worry.

, Haha, the Duke will definitely mobilize weapons and other things as soon as possible. Well, you go to train first and train yourselves well, so that you can be worthy of the weapons in your hands."

Lei was stunned by Klaus's words. Yes, don't soldiers have to be worthy of the weapons in their hands? An untrained soldier, even if he is holding a peerless sword in his hand, cannot defeat the enemy, right?

So, Lei stood at attention, saluted a military salute that he had just learned, but was not yet very standard, and then walked down the tower.

Just as he turned around, a fat, almost spherical, white and plump middle-aged man climbed up the stairs on the city wall with a smile on his face. Lei saw that he had filled the entire passage.

, he obviously couldn't go down, so he had to stop where he was. At the same time, in order to give him enough space to stand, Lei had to take a few steps back.

Klaus's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly greeted us with a warm greeting: "Mr. Deputy Manager Wenleys, may I ask, are you here to deliver supplies to us?"

Wenless stretched out his hand, grabbed Klaus's wrist, panted and struggled out of the steps, sighed and said: "Aha, dear Captain Klaus, you have to take care of yourself tonight.

If you want to treat me to a meal, this journey is too difficult, but His Excellency the Duke requires us to personally deliver these things to your Lordships, so I can only make this hard trip."

Klaus quickly lost his smile: "Of course, this road has not been repaired for a long time, you must be exhausted, right? Ha, the cider in the nearby village is very good, do you want to try it? Although it is better than

It's not as good as the wine stored in the Duke's Palace, but it has a different flavor... What did you bring me?" Klaus's eyes were full of expectation.

Wenless raised his fingers: "Well, three thousand swords each, two thousand spears, five thousand sets of light leather armor, three thousand sets of medium leather armor, one thousand five hundred bows, and thirty thousand arrows. Phew.

,That's all."

Klaus was stunned: "Mr. Deputy General Manager, are you right? I have recruited nearly 30,000 new soldiers."

Wenless rolled his eyes and sighed: "There is no way, I am really too nervous, and the equipment is too tight. The entire territory has recruited more than 500,000 recruits, and it would be good to be able to guarantee equipment for 150,000 people. This is still

The Duke bought it from several other territories at a high price. Those damn Dukes are sucking our blood. I know they are jealous of the wealth of our Xili Province, but they really go too far.

An ordinary steel knife costs seventy silver coins, which is more than twice the normal price...Team leader, dear Team Captain Claus, you must understand our difficulties."

Before Klaus could speak, Wenless had already begun to complain: "In recent years, in order to make friends with the ministers of the imperial capital, our Duke has spent a lot of gold coins, recruiting half a million new soldiers, and spent one million

Gold coins, and then marching tents, another 1.7 million gold coins were used. In addition, the "Green Field Corps" needed to replenish the belemnites, armor, and weapons used on the front line, and they also had to pay three months' military pay in advance. At the same time, each soldier

I took an extra twenty gold coins to improve my morale, these are all money."

Klaus stared blankly at the sweaty Wenleth, speechless. Wenleth also seemed to feel that the equipment he sent was too embarrassing. When the territory was in trouble,

We should try to win over the remaining team leaders. He couldn't help but smile and said: "Well, actually, the Duke has tried his best. Several nearby provinces do not have such a large amount of weapons stocks. We have to wait for the emperor's death."

Only when we arrive can we have a large amount of equipment support... We have to let the new recruits adapt to this situation."

Wenless lowered his voice and whispered: "Actually, if those recruits hold sharpened sticks, they can kill the enemy. If we exchange three recruits for the life of one enemy soldier, we still have something to gain."

It’s profitable, isn’t it? How many troops can the Smart Empire send to invade us? Think about it? If we can use these new soldiers to destroy the invading army, wouldn’t we all get a lot of credit?”

Klaus thought about it for a while, glanced at the stunned Lei, and suddenly laughed: "Then, these will be given priority to the recruits in Kali Village. There are not many of them, and the others will also be given priority to the ones I recruited.

Those recruits from the mountainous areas, their quality is much better than that of the citizens in the city. Good weapons should naturally be given to them, what do you think? Lei?"

Lei nodded, and just as he was about to speak, Klaus pushed his shoulders and sent him off the city wall, and whispered an order in his ear: "You didn't hear anything just now, understand? This is military information.

You have to know the secret military information. If the enemy knows about our lack of equipment, we will be in danger, do you understand?"

Lei felt a sense of honor for being trusted, and he couldn't help but puff up his chest and replied: "Don't worry, sir, I will definitely not tell anyone...but can you give me a bow and arrow? I

I am good at archery."

Klaus replied casually: "Of course it's no problem, Lev, Lev, where did you bastard go? Take Lei to get the weapons and let him choose the best weapons to equip the young men in Kali Village. Right

Okay, when you assign the queues, the young men in Kali Village can serve as squad leaders, do you understand? You first send people to the squads. Okay, I will see that the new recruits have exercised this afternoon. Let them

Give me training when you're full, and don't be lazy, lazy people... You can do whatever you want, this is a time of war, military law is engaged."

Lev, the leader of Klaus's personal soldiers, nodded after hearing this and took Lei away. Looking at Lei's retreating back, Klaus shrugged helplessly: "Oh, he is such an easy boy to deceive, but I don't have any

What a way, I also want to have enough weapons... Just kidding, using sharpened wooden sticks and weapons made of steel to fight, it would be nice to exchange five people for one. Alas!"

When Lei happily returned to the tent where his villagers were stationed with a bunch of carefully selected weapons, he happened to see a group of recruits from other villages surrounding Bit and the others, and there was a dispute. Only one person could be heard.

The rough voice roared with dissatisfaction: "Why can the people from Kali Village be the team leader? Aren't we good? Are we weaker than them? Look, many of them are children whose hair has not yet grown.

.”

The crowd burst into laughter, but the soldier sent by Lord Lev to deliver the order was holding his sword, which weighed less than five kilograms, and stood by with a smile watching the fun, not caring about the so-called maintenance of order.

Lei quickly asked a few soldiers who were helping him to carry weapons to stop. He squeezed into the crowd and asked loudly: "Bit, Bit, what's wrong?"

While Lei was still squeezing in the crowd, a strong force suddenly came from behind him, which seemed to be the result of someone kicking him hard on the butt. The crowd in front suddenly gave way, and as a result

Lei flew out like a cloud and mist, and fell heavily and awkwardly to the ground. After rolling a few times, he lay down right in front of Bit and the others who clenched their fists.

Bit and his group of young people who got along well with Lei were furious and shouted loudly: "What does it mean to kick someone in the back?"

Immediately, a tall man came out, waving his fist and shouting: "Well, boys from Kali Village, how about we come and play head-on? Let's also learn the style of those knights, hahaha, let's have a fair duel.

Oh, oh, the little knight of Kali Village, haha..." The recruits around him laughed again, and ruthlessly laughed at Lei, who was lying on the ground and rarely got up for a long time.

Before Bit could make a move, Ole, a short and sturdy young man, had already rushed out and struck out in the fifth form of the 'Punch Punch' in a decent manner. While his right hand struck the big man's shoulder, his left elbow had already hit the big man.

At the same time, he used the force of his right foot to kick his knee hard. As a result, the big man could only lie on the ground in front of him in embarrassment, while Ole mercilessly kicked him on the back of the head.

He stepped hard.

In the blink of an eye, Ole won a great victory. The surrounding recruits made a commotion, looked at each other, and stopped talking. They could see that Ole's skills were different from theirs and had undergone special training. Maybe they

Their strength may be much greater than that of Ole and the others, but if they really take action, they will definitely lose.

The soldier who was delivering the order laughed: "Okay? Well, I've seen you new recruits too much. You have to fight for it every time. Anyway, someone is unlucky. Don't care about me. This is the order of the team leader.

Yes, let these young people from Kali Village be the team leaders. If you are not happy, forget it. If you can defeat them anyway, the team leaders will be yours... But don’t be like that stupid bear who was knocked unconscious in the blink of an eye.

Already."

Ignoring the annoyed looks of the new recruits, the soldier said hello to Bit and said with a smile: "Sir squad leader, I'm going back to resume my duties. You should quickly select people and form your own squad. A squad of ten people,

That is to say, in addition to yourself, you must have nine soldiers under your command. The command of the team leader is that training must start after lunch, otherwise military law will be imposed."

Lei finally got up from the ground in embarrassment and asked puzzledly: "Military law practice, what exactly is military law practice? The team leader also said this word just now."

The soldier drew his long sword, made a beheading gesture, laughed loudly and separated from the crowd and walked out. There was a commotion among the recruits around, and they discussed with each other in low voices and did not dare to speak. After all, there is only one head, and beheading is

How can you eat if you lose it?

Taking advantage of the free time after lunch, Bit and the others learned the news about the shortage of ordnance from Lei's mouth, and they all immediately became stunned. Steko had told them about the importance of a good piece of equipment on the battlefield.

Without equipment, half of the battle is lost. Now, of the 30,000 new recruits, less than 10,000 can be armed, and several thousand of them are without armor. How will the battle be fought then?
To be continued...