Rise In Calradia

"Although it is only temporary, it feels good to be a lord once."

Among the stone towers in the center of Serendil, Byron leaned comfortably in his chair, flipping through the documents in front of him.

Baron Zico and Baron Phyllis have returned to their own territory, and Baron Edmond also led the troops back to Fort Gruenward after confirming safety. This time, Byron suffered a great loss. The number of troops was reduced from their early 500s to 320, and there were more than a dozen people who were too severely injured to continue the fight.

The horses also lost more than a dozen horses. This was due to the rocket igniting the stables during a Roddock attack and burning these good horses to death.

As for weapons and armor, Byron has accumulated a lot. Every time the Rhodoks attacked, they would leave behind some corpses that they had no time to take away. Although the two sides would exchange these corpses for the other's burial the next day, the armor and weapon Byron had no intention of returning. After a great battle, the remaining equipment and the captured weapons and armors in the town were enough for Byron to arm another 500 soldiers who were not inferior to the Swadia light infantry.

The Rodoks suffered a great loss from the plague in Gruen Ward, and they will not attack again in a short time, and Serendil is also safe for the time being.

Byron needs to find a way to expand his army and maintain his army strength. In addition, as a temporary lord, he still has a lot of things to deal with, although it may not benefit him in the end.

In the first few days, Byron’s focus has been on replenishing troops. He talked to James for a long time and sent people to the north to purchase various expensive medicines so that the wounded soldiers could get better as soon as possible. Can restore full combat power in a month.

There is also the upgrade of soldiers. Because of the existence of the town of Serendil, the system determines that Byron can upgrade some of the level 3 soldiers, such as upgrading Swadia light infantry to Swadia infantry, and upgrading mercenary swordsman to Hiring infantry can also upgrade guerrilla shooters to crossbowmen.

However, the heavy cavalry was locked, and Serendil could not mass produce a suitable cavalry breastplate, nor could he find a good horse outside of Byron's army, and could not meet the equipment needs of the heavy cavalry. Moreover, most of the light infantry's cavalry skills are only one or two levels, which is also not up to the standard of heavy cavalry.

However, it is always good to be able to upgrade soldiers. After an upgrade, Byron spent 3,000 dinars and a large amount of equipment on hand to upgrade 140 soldiers. Therefore, although soldiers lost a lot, the combat effectiveness of Byron's troops was not significantly reduced due to the general increase in the rank of soldiers.

In addition, after the battle, Byron's level has also increased by one level, and Byron is also very happy to increase his charm to 12.

Similarly, the victory of the battle and the appointment of the interim lord also increased Byron's reputation by 30 and his influence by 10 points. Although I don't know the direct use of these things in reality, it doesn't hurt to have more.

Paying pensions and war rewards is not a small amount of money. The reason why Peony mercenaries can be stronger than the same number of kingdom lord troops depends on Byron's dinar. High wages bring high morale and allow them to bear higher war damages. Moreover, the cheating general system upgrade mechanism coupled with the autonomous provision of equipment allows Byron to train troops in only half of the normal time, allowing soldiers to quickly accumulate experience.

As long as Byron invests enough, he can maintain this army, which consumes more than twice as much as the regular noble army of the same number, and guarantees the normal supply of supplies, the number of post-war bonuses and pensions, and that of the Peony Mercenary. Strong combat power can continue forever. Even this expense always gives Byron a terrible headache.

Before and after, Byron spent far more than 10,000 dinars, and because this battle was mainly defensive, there were not many opportunities for looting and blackmailing, except for a small number of prisoners who could demand a ransom of one or two thousand, and some Apart from the captured equipment, Byron had no other direct gains in the battlefield battle.

But even so, Byron still has to replenish his own troops, and even more so, he has to set up guards to protect his fief. And because many caravan guards and hired riders have reached the conditions for upgrading, Byron has to buy a batch of horses that can fight.

At the present moment, both of these are difficult to supplement, or it will take a lot of money to supplement.

Because of the enemy on all sides, the lords of Swadia need an army, and Haraus needs more troops to help him defeat the Nord army.

The mercenaries suddenly became popular. During Byron's time guarding Serendil, all the famous mercenaries in Swadia were hired away. Those scattered mercenaries were also hired by little nobles and rich merchants. Byron now travels all over Swadia and estimates that he cannot recruit 100 mercenaries, and the price has doubled several times.

Those veterans with combat experience were also semi-compulsively conscripted into the army. They were forced to leave their wives and children and took up arms and rushed to the battlefield. The citizens in the cities who could bring their own weapons were also conscripted. In a short period of time, there were no ready-made soldiers in all parts of Swadia to recruit Byron, the little nobleman who was sealed to the south.

There are also horses, also because of the war, the price of horses has also risen sharply, and they are often priceless. As a cavalry power in Swadia, there are horse farms of different sizes throughout the country, and there are also baron nobles who are specifically responsible for the management of horse breeding and trading. In the myths and stories of my hometown, the unwelcome "Pima Wen" in the heavenly palace is a rare fat difference in Swadia.

But even so, Swadia does not produce many military horses. Coupled with this time of war, King Haraus conquered war horses across the country, which made it very difficult for even the nobles to buy good horses.

Many aristocratic children are therefore unable to participate in this year's knight competition and obtain the title of knight, because their financial ability cannot afford such an expensive war horse.

Byron has money, but he doesn't want to spend wrong money. If the old road fails, he tries to find a new way.

He brought Fatis and Eleon ~www.readwn.com~ to let them do the work of the villagers in his territory. Regardless of the small populations of these two villages, there are many people who have nothing to do or want to make quick money. In addition, in the previous battle, although the Rhodok army did not persecute these compatriots, it also forcibly collected all the supplies in the nearby area. Under such circumstances, there should be many people who can't live their lives to find another way out.

These farmers can only start from recruits, and Byron also has to provide them with weapons and armors, but they are also potential combat power, and they are determined by the system to belong to the Rhodok branch tree, and can be upgraded to Rhodok's spearman and crossbow. Byron also seized a lot of hands, equipment, etc., so it was easy to solve.

Among the people in the town, perhaps some people can be armed as urban militias, responsible for patrolling and maintaining law and order, and giving them a certain amount of subsidies, which should also relieve some of the pressure on public security and city defense.

Horses are a little bit troublesome, but Byron still knows that there are two racecourses and there should be a lot of horses. King Harrods could not afford a few horses. Those bosses are now selling good horses. The price is higher. Byron can still get these horses before other nobles.

And by the way, Byron can also choose a suitable good horse for himself, a good horse that is docile and strong, capable of fighting and giving himself face. ()