Chapter 48 Undercurrent (Please read! Please recommend!)
Chapter 48 Undercurrent
Although Herman Barkley was full of confidence, his father, Earl Soren, only felt a little uneasy.
But he couldn't tell what was wrong, he just felt that it might not go as smoothly as originally expected.
Idar Territory...
Earl Soren once again set his sights on the map. No matter what, this battle... must be won! ...
Krel happily became a member of Idar's standing army, and then... nothing happened. The extremely heavy training tasks every day almost made him breathless, and he had no time to think about anything else.
As for the immature ideas that Claire had mentioned when he applied to join the army, under the guidance of the military instructors, they gradually evolved into a simple idea of protecting the Idar Territory.
Unify thoughts and seek truth from facts. These are the rules Bruno set for the Idar standing army when it was first established.
There are good things about the idea proposed by Claire, but there are also things that make Bruno worried.
If guided properly, Claire's protection of this hope will turn into protection of Idar's regime, but if it is allowed to grow wildly, Bruno is worried that it may have a bad impact.
Therefore, after a conversation with Clare, a new position emerged in the standing army - instructor.
The instructors are responsible for the daily training of the soldiers, while the teachers focus on the ideological education of the soldiers, so that they understand why they join the army and what they fight for.
In fact, Bruno originally planned to wait until paper was produced using papermaking technology before providing simple cultural education to the soldiers of the standing army.
However, this step has now been broken down, allowing Bruno to start the ideological education of the soldiers in advance.
Every day's training of the standing army is a double test of the soldiers' physical strength and perseverance, starting from the simplest standing at attention, to weighted cross-country running, and finally to the common training subjects in daily life.
But it is worth noting that since Idar is the only noble territory in the eastern part of the Norman Empire that implements the conscription system, the training intensity of the soldiers is much stronger than that of other territories.
Take the regular army of the Norman Empire as an example. Due to the tight supply of food and fodder, they usually train once every two to three days. As for the private soldiers of other lords, it might be normal to train once every five days.
But in Idar Territory, soldiers conduct drills every day, and the rest of the time they stay in the barracks to train in other projects. Training projects such as standing at attention, push-ups, frog jumps, and weighted cross-country running are compulsory courses every day.
Under Sam Layton's special care, Claire was tortured to death, but he also grew rapidly in the high-intensity training.
Fortunately, the food for the standing army was good. Not only was it innovative to provide three meals a day, but it was also enough to fill the stomachs of these soldiers who were exhausted and complaining.
Naturally, these rough men did not get to eat white bread, but they always had as much black bread as they wanted, and every day they had a little meat, either sea fish or wild poultry. Although each person did not get much, they could all taste some oily food.
This is also thanks to the huge income brought by sea salt and sugar production. Without these new sources of income, Bruno would not have been able to reorganize the army and ensure military supplies while building the wonder of the Hanging Gardens.
After these days of training, the soldiers' training subjects have gradually increased, and common training methods of this era, such as archery training, chopping, fighting, etc., have gradually been developed.
It’s not that Bruno didn’t want to directly create weapons that transcend the times, such as muskets and gunpowder, but because Bruno only knew that the production of gunpowder required raw materials such as sulfur and saltpeter. As for the other steps, Bruno was completely ignorant.
However, the price of gunpowder formula in the system mall is extremely expensive, so in the short term, we may have to continue the combat methods of this era.
Fortunately, this is a world with magic, and the concept of enchanted weapons provides new possibilities for soldiers' combat methods.
Enchanted weapons such as swords cannot be manufactured in a short period of time. After all, the requirements for the stability of the magic circle are too high. We can only hope that Aneldo can trick some mages over, and everyone can work together to find a solution.
Moreover, even if we have an idea, how to mass produce it is still a big problem. We can't really treat mages as coolies and make them draw various types of magic arrays all day long, right?
Fortunately, combining the Wind Spell with arrows is not too difficult. The only thing you need to pay attention to is that the arrow shaft is too thin, making it difficult to carve the magic circle.
As a result, Anel had to draw them manually by himself, and at most he could only produce more than 20 finished wind arrows a day.
Bruno specially found an archer in the regular army to test his arrows. He saw the man pull the bow to its full length and then let it go. Bruno only felt a shadow passing through the air, and in an instant, it was firmly nailed on the target in the distance.
The speed of the gale arrow is obviously more than twice as fast as that of an ordinary arrow, and its range has also been greatly improved. If an ordinary soldier can shoot sixty or seventy steps, then if he uses an arrow with the gale spell attached, he can even shoot more than a hundred steps.
It is easy to obtain the achievement badge of Hit the target from a hundred paces away.
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With the arrival of early spring, the soldiers in Idar County gradually began to become nervous.
After all, when the long winter gradually becomes a thing of the past, it will also mean that the test in Sauron's territory is about to begin.
Count Soren was able to obtain information about Idar, so Bruno would naturally have a way to learn about the Soren territory. The Soren territory had already revealed its intention to annex the Gran Highlands, which was one of the important reasons why Bruno was so anxious to establish a standing army.
No one wants someone to act wildly at their doorstep, let alone a time traveler like Bruno.
Before Bruno's soul traveled through time, the Idar Lords had suffered several defeats in the Gran Heights, so that after traveling through time, Bruno had to clean up the mess left behind by his original body.
To be honest, before this, there was indeed a gap in military strength between the Territory of Sauron and the Territory of Idar, but the gap was not big. It was just that the Territory of Sauron had a slight advantage in terms of numbers.
Both sides are of similar level and can fight happily with just a few pieces of black bread.
There was no such thing as tactics. Everyone just let the civilian soldiers who served as cannon fodder rush forward and fight in a mess. When they thought the time was right, they would let their own guards go up and fight.
This combat method, which is similar to a group fight, really has no technical content.
But this year...
Looking at the strong men in the military camp, Bruno felt that he should be able to make up for all the losses he had suffered before.
Second update.
(End of this chapter)
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