Chapter 17 Expedition
The second mercenary group hired by Lin Kaixin is called the Hak Mercenary Group, and the third mercenary group is called the Al Mercenary Group.
Among them, the settlement fee and monthly salary of the Al Mercenary Group are higher than the previous two mercenary groups. The mercenary equipment is similar, and it depends entirely on the level. If the level is high, there will naturally be rich in combat experience.
During the practice, Lin Kaixin, who is at level 19, can barely tie the mercenaries at level 20, of course, practice with the same equipment. Because of the skills, Lin Kaixin can suppress all mercenaries at level 19 during the practice.
Such exercises played a great role in Lin Kaixin’s understanding of himself. His grandson said that we should know ourselves and our enemies.
After hiring two mercenaries, the dressing work began. First, Lin Kaixin, who had taken the data, returned to the 21st century and placed the orders to factories - they were all small private enterprises, and if you have money, just do it. The Qing Dynasty has been dead for hundreds of years, and it is not a death sentence to privately harboring iron armor.
What you need to customize is steel armor and helmets, and the facial shield of the helmet is made of organic bulletproof glass.
As for weapons, they are purchased in a unified manner. The weapons have nothing to do with their size. Basically everyone can use them. Each pulley bow is one, and the bow string is used for backup. 1. Sword, dagger, long sword, long spear is used according to personal habits.
Then there was the team training. The yard of the store was still smaller, and only sixty or seventy people were allowed to train each time. Although more than one hundred people could enter, the space could only allow everyone to do radio gymnastics. The sword could not be played anyway.
The mercenary group had to be divided into three waves and took turns to train. The training matter was arranged by the leaders of the three experienced mercenary group.
After the half-body steel armor of the mercenary group of Lin Kaixin was in place one after another, the mercenary group also worked together for more than half a month.
In time, spring comes and summer comes, and the kingdom begins to recruit soldiers from all over the country to prepare for battle.
Simply put, the farmers had to serve in the military during this period and went to the city to be garrison soldiers. As for the previous garrison soldiers, most of them were taken to war by the king and the city lords.
In order to make up for the shortage of troops (no one would think that their own troops were large), they also recruited free mercenaries registered in China for a paid time. For example, when they signed a long-term contract with Lin Kaixin, they could completely ignore paid recruitment from such countries. After all, the country does not have much money, and the settlement fee and monthly salary that can be paid are not too high, which is not as good as the caravan.
The only benefit is that it will definitely be paid recruitment for half a year when it first started, and when many mercenary groups were not in business, they survived by paid recruitment twice a year.
As for the kingdom, mercenaries are also regarded as some kind of reserve troops. Although their combat effectiveness is not as good as regular troops, they are much stronger than the peasants who were temporarily recruited. Moreover, when defending the city, they are not recruited for a fee, but are forced to recruit for a fee. If the city is broken, the enemy will always rob, and then the merchants will be the focus of robbery.
As for why not joining the mercenary group into the regular army, the answer is very simple. The lord does not have that much money. For example, the lord of Marin City has a direct population of about 100,000 and has developed commerce in the territory. It seems that the commercial and agricultural tax can be collected a lot, but how many regular troops can be raised? The answer is about 1,000 people.
This is equivalent to one hundred people raising one soldier. In the feudal era, the productivity was low and the materials produced by one people were limited. Moreover, the main fostering of Malin City was not only the regular army with more than one thousand people, but also civilians who managed cities and villages. There were also more than a hundred civilians in Malin Town. Taxation and litigation, public security, notarization, etc. must be done by civilians.
In the wars twice a year, no matter how you win or lose, you have to pay a large amount of military expenses and consume a lot of materials.
A city like Malin City with a commercially developed city can still support a regular army of more than 1,000 people. The city lords in some poor places can only support a few hundred regular army, but they still have to respond to the king's call and participate in the war every year.
As for why every year, you naturally have to punch one punch to avoid a hundred punches. Besides, in the level world, elite troops with high levels are produced by fighting. Although they can be upgraded during practice, the speed is too slow. Before level 10, you can still use practice to upgrade. After level 10, the experience gained from practice is very small.
Without an elite force, it is not uncommon to destroy a country and a clan in this world.
In addition to paid conscripts, powerful people in some places can also bring their own private armed forces to participate in national wars.
For powerful people in these places, they do not even need the Kingdom to pay salary or settlement fees. Strong people do not need this little money, but powerful people lack military merit. In this world, relying on military merit to award titles is a normal way to advance.
Lin Kaixin led his troops to fight with him as such a powerful person. In order to prove that he was a powerful person, Lin Kaixin donated 10,000 kilograms of salt to the army.
Not long after the summer entered, the king of the Warling Kingdom, Vorin, led four Counts and two marquises to join the Duke of Marin in Marin City. Although the Duke of Marin had more than a thousand troops, he would not take them all away, but took about half and six hundred regular troops to fight.
In this way, the regular army of the Warling Kingdom went to fight exceeded 3,000, and there were also two thousand auxiliary troops - that is, the mercenaries hired and private soldiers of local powerful people.
The scale of the march was more than these 5,000 people, and the number of travelers with nearly 10,000 people also followed the troops to provide support to the troops along the way.
Lin Kaixin's troops, in addition to the more than 100 mercenaries, each had a mule, and dozens of mules were carrying some supplies. The merchants could buy some supplies, but Lin Kaixin did not expect these merchants who followed the army to do so.
As for the salt shop, the store is still open, leaving only three 12-level mercenaries of the Hak Mercenary Group, one 16-level mercenary of the Molin Mercenary Group, and one 16-level mercenary of the Ail Mercenary Group.
These five people are the weakest in this team. They have money to get without fighting, which means that Lin Kaixin has basically given up the role of these five people on the battlefield.
Now Lin Kaixin has 189 people under him, plus one of them, a total of 190 people. Not bad for these five. In addition, there are two hostesses in the yard of the salt shop. One is Rose, who has been pregnant for more than a month, and the other is Peony, who has just been pregnant for half a month. These two girls are famous flowers in hotels, and under the influence of a level 10 waist, they won the bid without surprise. Since they have won the prize, the choice between the two girls is naturally to quit their jobs and become a future wealthy young lady.
Chapter completed!