Chapter 57 Under Construction
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The walls of Red Tu City are also completed by hiring magic soldiers. Taking soil and burning bricks is a waste of manpower and material resources for a magical world.
The pattern of the entire Baishan Fortress is that it is a circle smaller than that of Hongtu City, and it is about a five-mile long and wide.
The design of the city wall is thick and sturdy, with the same length and width. In this way, large-scale facilities such as catapult machine tools and crossbows can be installed on the city wall.
Such a city wall can already block most monsters, but it has no effect on flying monsters like giant dragons and flying dragons. It has limited effects on particularly tall monsters such as trolls and monsters with particularly strong bounces.
Even if the entire Baishan fortress is built with magic soldiers, it will take half a year to repair it, including the military camp and main facilities. However, it is still much cheaper than temporarily hiring magic soldiers.
The wall restoration of the Red Tu City was restored by temporarily employed magic soldiers from the Holy Empire. Not only is the price high, but the speed is not fast. Moreover, because the contract has been signed, his magic soldiers cannot stop after they arrive. The reputation of the nobles in this era lies in the signing rights. Breaking a contract or something will ruin the reputation.
Link has been very busy recently. He has to fly in the air during the day to sweep away the surrounding monsters. A legendary master swept here. Even if the dragon comes, he will be hacked to death. Link has a dragon-slaying artifact in his hand.
Not all monsters are going to be killed. The key is to trolls that threaten White Mountain Fortress, and none of them can be left behind. Moreover, the epic dwarf musketeer conceived by Link relies on sacrifices to the trolls.
In just one month, several teams of trolls came to collect salt ore, but they all went but returned. More than one hundred trolls were killed by Link and sacrificed to epic dwarf muskets.
Isn't this Dwarf Musketeer Squadron already there?
In addition, Link returns to Hongtu City once a day, so he naturally uses a portal to go back.
Then through the portal, the eleven soldiers selected from Hongtu City were sent to Baishan Fortress - a team, a captain of a ten-person team and ten soldiers. Each portal can only send two people, and Link needs to open a portal seven times a day. The magic required to open the portal every day is 21,000 magic points.
It doesn’t feel like it’s too many to send eleven people in a day, but over time, 330 people were sent in a month.
Link's idea is that the future Baishan Fortress can accommodate 1,000 to 2,000 soldiers, and more than 10,000 families live and fight here.
Now there are less than 5,000 soldiers in the entire Red Tu City. The ability to put one or two thousand people here is enough to show the importance they attach to here. Moreover, Red Tu City was the forefront of the war with Warcraft in the past. After the Baishan Mountain is built, it will greatly share the pressure on Red Tu City.
As for the Ellen Ada sisters, Link was not sent to the White Mountain Fortress. Hongtu City is now a level 17-level Sacred Domain swordsman Isabel to support the scene. Moreover, as the White Mountain Fortress becomes further strengthened, Hongtu City's defense will further decline.
Sisters Alan Ada are buying war horses and then training the second batch of 400 knights. For the second batch of knights, Link sacrificed another epic spear, which was replaced with a four hundred enchanted spear.
Generally, knights can use enchanted weapons. Most of these new knights have just passed Level 6, and many of them have advanced after the Battle of Red Earth City.
As for the recruitment of new recruits, there is no good way to do this. I can only wait until the non-first sons of each family become adults every year, and some of them will join the army.
According to previous records in the Marquis Territory, six hundred to nine hundred people join the army every year and then receive training. That's right, most of the newcomers spent in training in the first two years of joining the army. Discipline, tactics and physical fitness.
As for the soldiers who can retire at the age of 35 every year, there are about a hundred people. Most of them die on the battlefield or are disabled in the middle and forced to retire. A small number of them wake up once after advancement, and their lives are biochemically, will be promoted. After the promotion, the retirement age will naturally be transferred backward.
War horses are divided into different levels. Real BMW horses are all for the nobles to ride, and the price is that of the nobles. There are hundreds of gold coins per horse at any time.
The second-class medium-sized war horse is much cheaper, and one can be obtained with ten gold coins. The pack horse is even cheaper, one gold coins is two.
Although they are all horses, the price difference is dozens of times, this is the force required by war. As the main force for reconnaissance and assault, cavalry is basically a nobleman who will be equipped with cavalry, and the proportion of cavalry in the territory of Marquis of Raphael is still low. Half or even more than half of the military forces in the wealthy (mines) noble families are cavalry.
In the wild, cavalry can fight, run, and run. Even if the dragon attacks, as long as it scatters and runs, it is amazing that a few unlucky guys were killed by the dragon. Most of the remaining people can still escape.
On one chance to go home, Link approved a note and bought five hundred war horses and one thousand pack horses. Most of the stallions on war horses need to be castrated, but the mare still needs to be pregnant and give birth to the next generation normally. Therefore, four hundred cavalry must be equipped with at least five hundred war horses, just to make the mare pregnant and still use horses for horses.
Basically, each cavalry must be equipped with two pack horses, one for carrying food and grass, and the other for transportation. As for war horses, war horses must rest when marching, otherwise, the war horses that have been carrying people for a day and a half will have the strength to charge?
This is not the price of cavalry equipment, but it can be seen that it is expensive to form cavalry.
Three months after the establishment of Baishan Fortress, the first army's transportation team finally transported the first batch of purified saltpeter to Hongtu City, with a total of 100,000 pounds. After negotiations with the Commercial Guild, the Commercial Guild agreed to acquire this batch of 100,000 pounds of saltpeter at a price of three silver dollars per pound.
In fact, it was just three thousand gold coins, which was not enough for the money spent on buying a horse in the Marquis of Raphael this time.
However, in the past, in the territory of Marquis Raphael, there was never a time when he bought so many gold coins. The 100,000 pounds of saltpeter were produced in the past month and a half because the technology and manpower were insufficient, which also affected the output.
When new personnel become skilled workers, the output will definitely increase, and there will be at least 100,000 pounds of purified saltpeter per month in the future.
There is no technology for saltpeter from mining to purification. Nowadays, the two hundred soldiers who produce saltpeter are the turn of resting places every day in Baishan Fortress. The processing site is just a large workshop.
However, the wealth brought is huge. If there are three thousand gold coins every month, there are 36 thousand gold coins every year. Now we are also a miner. Link is not a stingy person. After selling the first batch of saltpeter this time, from the transport staff to the soldiers in Baishan, each of them was given three or five silver coins as a reward.
Chapter completed!