Lord Highlander

   Chapter 685 674. New Army

   "It's just in time, I will send someone to the security station to find you two."

  Surdak wiped his mouth with a napkin, and greeted Andrew and Samira to sit down and have a meal together. Rita filled Andrew's plate with a pot of porridge.

  Natasha followed Rita's footsteps and brought a plate of fruit and placed it in front of Samira. Those who are familiar with Samira naturally know her eating habits, and she likes fish and fruits.

  In the past two months, this half-elf archer has not only guarded Wall Village, but also insisted on training the members of the militia battalion in archery every day at the security station.

  The village also organizes a group of young people who have not served in the military for training. This winter, in addition to practicing basic swordsmanship, the most improved is actual combat archery.

Except for those sharpshooters, the archery skills of ordinary archers on the battlefield are very different from those of hunters. The biggest difference is the control of the overall situation. Usually hunters will hide in the dark like sharpshooters and strike their prey with precision . Ordinary longbowmen pay attention to the coverage of long-range projectile arrows.

  Throughout the winter, Samira has almost been training these young men who have not served in the army in archery.

  According to the request of the old village chief, Uncle Brett, even if these boys cannot become cavalrymen, at least they must be selected to enter the archer battalion.

Samira lifted her hood. Even though the people at the dining table had seen Samira's delicate face many times, when she lifted her hood, she was still attracted by that crystal clear face. Her pale red pupils make her look out of place with other elves.

Every time Suldak would think of the scene on the watchtower on the city wall of Vozmara, with cold eyes, standing on the high watchtower, looking down at the hellhounds under the city wall from a high position, unwilling to flinch even when he was in a desperate situation. Due to the frequent use of blood force in the arm to pull the bowstring, the blood vessels and meridians burst into a **** mess.

  Suldak smiled at the half-elf archer Samira and asked, "How are the young people in the village training?"

  Samira curled her lips, showing some dissatisfaction, and then spread her hands helplessly, and said to Suldak: "If you use an alloy bow, you can hit the target almost thirty meters away."

   Such a result is no better than that of a novice.

   "The grades are really bad!" Suerdak smiled dryly.

To Andrew at the end of the dining table, he said: "Or let the young people in the village form a squadron of longbow archers! Longbow archers do not require high accuracy in archery. They have mastered the most basic salvo, throwing, The training during this period can at least be useful on the battlefield."

   Andrew nodded.

  Suldak asked Samira again: "What about other training?"

   "I learned some basic sword skills and defensive postures, but I can't even ride a horse." Samira said truthfully.

Seeing Village Chief Brett, Luke, and Charlie looking at him with doubts on their faces, Suldak explained: "This time I will lead a cavalry battalion to Bena City, except for the current cavalry battalion I have 200 cavalry, and I need to recruit some cavalry. My idea is to recruit from the barren land first. If there are not enough cavalry, I plan to go to the Hailansha City Hall to ask for some new recruits. There is a squad of longbowmen in the cavalry battalion, and no one should mind."

   "How many more people will be recruited?" The old village chief asked Surdak.

   "I'm going to take away a cavalry regiment of 500 people, so I need to recruit 300 new cavalry." Suldak said.

"There are less than 80 young people participating in the winter training this time. This is only because some young people from neighboring villages have collected so many young people. Now it seems that the cavalry battalion is still short of at least 200 people. I will go to the villages to see. There are young people of the right age who are willing to join, or seeing what the veterans in the cavalry battalion have gained in the desert this time, those veterans who have been hesitant before can also figure it out this time and are willing to join the cavalry battalion." The old village chief said.

  The population of the Badlands is so large, it is not easy to get together a cavalry battalion.

  Subsequently, Suldak asked about the placement of the Andrew Cavalry Battalion.

  …

   After breakfast, Suerdak and the old village chief came to the cavalry camp site - the row house.

The veterans temporarily used grass ropes and tree sticks to form a horse farm near the dry river loop, where Suldak's biggest harvest in the desert was kept—nearly 900 war horses and more than 100 camels. The war horses circled around the horse farm, trampling the sand on the river loop into dust, and the horses panted heavily. On such a winter morning, it was like a steaming mist in the horse pen.

Fifteen veterans of the cavalry battalion squatted on the ground cutting hay, and a haystack as high as a hill was beside them. A group of kobold slaves crawled out of the haystack. They slept in the haystack last night. The row houses have been occupied by veterans of the cavalry battalion, but fortunately the kobold slaves are covered with natural fur, so they are not too afraid of the cold.

  The kobold slave didn't seem to have seen so many galloping horses, and was stunned by the horses in the racecourse for a while.

These kobolds were brought back by Luke last night. They pushed a four-wheeled carriage and sent some forage from the side of the pustule mountain overnight. Nearly a thousand animals were kept in the stables, and the amount of forage consumed every day was huge. Er Village did not prepare so much fodder, which is why Luke came back overnight.

  The waiting veterans scattered the hay cut by the guillotine into the manger in pots and pots. So many horses squeezed up together, and the horse pen was full of horse manure and urine smell.

   "So many horses can almost form two cavalry battalions."

  Standing outside the stables, Luke said in amazement.

  He just came from the pustule mountain in the middle of the night last night. He had never seen so many war horses at night. When he saw the horses at this time, he couldn't help but exclaimed.

Even if it is to build a cavalry battalion, Suldak still doesn't know how to gather 500 cavalrymen. He has no plans to build two cavalry battalions at this time, so Andrew and the old village chief said: "Then Just pick and choose some of the best physiques and keep them as war horses, the number of these war horses should be controlled at about 600, and the rest of the horses will be reserved for the village to form a team."

  The head of Brett frowned and asked Suldak, "How many horses do you have here?"

   "Almost nearly 900 horses..." Suldak didn't know the exact number, so he could only give a rough number.

   "It's 916 horses." Andrew added on the side.

  The old village chief, Uncle Brett, frowned and asked: "So it means that the 600 horses in the cavalry battalion will be removed, and there will be nearly 300 horses left for the village?"

   "That's about it." Suldak admitted with a nod.

Uncle Brett lowered his head and pondered for a while before saying, "You don't even want to see if the village can eat it. There are already hundreds of gazelles in the village. The Beigou pasture is only that big. Even in years with sufficient rain, The grown grass can’t support these gazelles and horses at all, so let’s say, the team in the village only needs 100 horses at most, and we can’t support the rest of the horses, Dak, you can handle it yourself.”

   I don’t even know when the ogre Gullitum came up from behind, and suggested to Suldak excitedly:

   "The rest of the horses...or are they all killed and dried into horse meat?"

The old village chief, Uncle Brett, was so angry that he blew his beard and stared, and shouted at the ogre with an angry face: "These are war horses, not yellow sheep that can be slaughtered casually. A war horse can at least be exchanged on the battlefield." Forty gazelles, Gulitum, let me let you go..."

The ogre Gullitum was standing behind everyone, he smirked at the angry village chief Brett, scratched his head, and said, "Then we might as well take out the unused horses and replace them with yellow sheep, and then Are you killing it and making it into jerky?"

  Suldak thinks that Gulitham's idea is good, but of course it is not to sell horse meat, but to buy those leftover horses in the horse market.

  Even if 200 war horses are sold for 20 gold coins each, they can be exchanged for 4,000 gold coins. In this way, all the fees paid to the sea giant mercenary group will be earned back, and there will be a surplus.

  So Suldak took the opportunity to say: "Gulitham's proposal is good, we will pick out all the good horses, and bring all the retired war horses and injured horses to the horse market to sell."

  The old village head and the others did not expect that everyone just stood in front of the horse pen and discussed for a few minutes, and the fate of all the horses seemed to be decided.

Suldak thought about how many veterans in the cavalry battalion were good at raising horses, and they should also be good at watching horses, so he told Andrew: "Andrew, you can find some grooms in the cavalry battalion to come here to choose War horses, first select 600 war horses for the cavalry battalion, and then choose 100 horses for the village team, and we will take the rest to Bena City to sell..."

   "Okay, boss!" Andrew quickly agreed.

  In order not to miss anything when choosing a war horse, Suldak found an empty tent, started the sacrificial ceremony, and added the blessing of the "Eye of Truth" to himself.

When they walked back to the racecourse, several grooms had already stood in the stables and began to select excellent horses. Almost all the horses they selected, Suldak had to be screened again to see if there were hidden wounds on these horses. After picking and picking in rounds, it was unexpected that there were less than 600 horses that could still go to the battlefield, and they managed to make up 550 horses for the cavalry battalion.

  Then several grooms selected another 150 horses and handed them over to Village Chief Bright, asking him to rebuild the village team.

  The remaining 200 or so second-class horses that were eliminated had to be transported to the horse market in Bena City. In the normal way, these horses need to be driven to Bena City by land to be the most economical.

It's just that Suldak was going to lead the cavalry battalion to Bena City, and he didn't have time to transport so many horses back to Bena City by land. Fortunately, he had a call-up order from the Bena Province in his hand. This call-up order was the largest. The function is that it can recruit any magic airship at the airport pier, and carry the cavalry battalion to any place in Bena province. Therefore, this time Suldak led the team to the city of Bena without paying a high ticket, and you can even carry it to any place in Bena province. Privately, two hundred second-class war horses were also brought to the city of Bena.

Suldak's trip to the desert this time can be regarded as training two hundred veterans with rich combat experience. When recruiting new soldiers to join the cavalry battalion, the two hundred cavalry will be broken up and scattered among the various squads of the cavalry battalion. The new army quickly adapted to the way of life of the cavalry battalion.

  In the morning, the old village chief asked the villagers to spread the news that the Suldak Cavalry Battalion had recruited new troops.

  …

  In the afternoon, Suldak returned to the security station in Wall Village.

Fifty young reserve knights have been waiting in the security station all morning, and they have not been idle in the security station. This trip to the desert has touched them a lot. There are many things to discuss and learn, not just Field marching life, as well as combat methods.

  The mercenary group and the veterans of the cavalry battalion adopted two completely different tactics.

  The sea giant mercenary regiment pays more attention to the personal strength of the mercenaries. These mercenaries face several robbers at the same time on the battlefield in time, and they basically do not lose the wind in battle.

  The veterans of the cavalry battalion paid more attention to the combat power of the group. Under the knight aura of Suldak, they were as brave as chicken blood.

It is also because of the contact in the past two months that these young reserve knights of the guard battalion are completely convinced by Suldak. At least in front of Suldak, those lazy habits have disappeared, and they stand up one by one. When the chest is on, it looks more like a knight.

  When facing Andrew and Samira, there is no longer any contempt.

   To say that the courses of the Knight Academy are still useful, at least the riding skills of these young knights are not bad.

  Seeing Suldak lead Andrew and Samira into the security station, fifty guard battalion reserve knights stood up in unison and saluted Suldak.

  Surdak stood among a group of guard battalion reserve knights, and said with a serious face:

"After this period of experience, I think you have understood the cruelty of war. The barren land is located in the most remote area of ​​Hailansa City. There are various bandit groups all year round. The entire area is very vast. The guard camp is here The Security Squadron is set up to maintain the law and order in the barren land. If you plan to stay in the security squadron in the barren land, you must be prepared to fight the bandits. , then I ask you to leave as soon as possible."

   "Of course, I also welcome everyone to stay and help me manage the law and order of the barren land. If everyone stays, then in the next period of time, I will work with you in the security squadron."

   "Next, let's talk about your tasks. The Badlands Security Squadron currently only has 8 teams..."

  Suldak said a lot to these young reserve knights in the security station, and no one chose to quit the Badlands Security Squadron.

  If these reserve knights want to become official knights, they will probably not easily give up their status as guard battalion knights, and since they have suffered so much in the desert, they have no reason to quit now.

  Suldak led the knights of the guard battalion around the village of Wall, and promulgated the system of the security squadron, including punishing vacation duties and so on.

  This time Suldak led the cavalry battalion to the Bailin plane, and Samira and Andrew were bound to set off with the army, so the security of Wall Village would fall on these young people.

  (end of this chapter)