Chapter 223 Magic Engraving
Although Raven basically gave full power to Eric for the daily training of the army, it did not mean that he did not care about it.
More than half of the forging factory's production capacity is used for the Eagle Army.
After the establishment of the business alliance, various livestock and poultry were purchased on a large scale in order to allow the army to maintain high-intensity training and have reliable combat capabilities.
Why are many nobles and elite private soldiers not large in scale?
And why, even after experiencing the war of the Order of the Death Hand, the nobles paid attention to military construction, but the most purchased weapons and equipment were inferior weapons and equipment?
Because I can’t afford it.
If you want the army to maintain combat effectiveness, it requires long-term, high-intensity training. To maintain high-intensity training, you don’t just need to provide bread, wheat porridge, and pickles. It also requires a large amount of protein and fat supplements. .
Otherwise, just daily training can exhaust people to death!
In fact, the cost of food for the Eagle Army alone is more than 500 gold coins per month, which is already half of the annual income of many barons.
What's more, thousands of gold coins of sophisticated equipment are provided to this team every month.
Based on the average level of the Nord province's army, Raven's Eagle Army is well armed to the teeth.
"So, I would like to ask the Baron to personally test the results achieved during this period." Eric said.
In response, Raven readily agreed and came to the military camp.
The military camp of 5,000 people not only has a residential part, but also a venue for daily drills. Its scale is no less than that of most towns today.
The soldiers gathered in the martial arts field.
The sky is as clear as water, the sun shines on the earth, shining on the armor and weapons of the soldiers, and the white mist exhaled by the soldiers is intertwined.
No matter how rich Raven was, it was impossible for all the troops to be equipped with heavy armor.
So the entire Eagle Army, except for the 500-man personal guard brigade directly commanded by Eric, and the officers of all levels above the centenarian who wore full-body plate armor, were all covered in iron powder. leather armor.
A legion has 5,500 people, consisting of eleven brigades of 500 people, and has quite a complete range of arms.
The entire cavalry of the Guards Brigade is also the most intimidating and destructive heavy cavalry on the battlefield in this era. Each person is equipped with a lance, a round shield, a long sword, and three throwing spears.
In addition, there are two brigades of light cavalry, two brigades of spearmen, three brigades of sword and shield soldiers, two brigades of crossbowmen, and one brigade of archers.
Since each brigade is composed of three detachments, when necessary, a legion can also be divided into smaller units with fully equipped arms.
With the sound of horns and flags, the troops dispersed and began to practice formation changes.
The Adien phalanx is used for frontal attacks, with pikemen as the vanguard and sword and shield soldiers as the flanks.
With sword and shield soldiers as the outer layer and pikemen as the inner layer, it looks like a giant hedgehog and is used to defend the Spanda Circle.
There are also sword and shield soldiers on the outside and pikemen on the inside. Everyone squats down to make room for the archers and crossbowmen. The light cavalry protects the Rachel phalanx on both sides.
With heavy cavalry as the blade and light cavalry as the flanks, the Shanxon wedge formation advanced with the cover of the rain of arrows from the archers.
The formation changes quickly and without hesitation. If they can show this level in actual combat, they can be called elites on the entire continent.
Looking at the changing formations, Raven nodded slowly: "Eric, you have worked hard during this time."
"It's all what I should do, sir." Eric said: "If it weren't for the queue training method you taught before, let alone just over a year, even if I was given another year, I might not be able to train to this level. .”
Eric wasn’t all flattering Raven.
In this era, the more people have military experience, the more they value discipline.
The power of the mercenary guild is spread all over the mainland. The personal qualities and equipment of the mercenaries who live through life and death are undoubtedly far superior to regular soldiers.
In wars, various countries and forces have had precedents of buying mercenaries to fight for themselves.
But throughout history, mercenary groups have never played a decisive role in any large-scale war.
In the final analysis, it comes down to discipline.
The queue training brought by Raven is the best way to cultivate discipline.
Strictly disciplined soldiers may not have the outstanding personal martial arts skills of mercenaries, but in large-scale legion operations, personal force is the least important.
The simplest example is that in the face of the magic of the magician, the reality of sound effects, light effects, and the mass death of comrades in arms, the mercenary group may collapse at the drop of a hat, but the trained soldiers can still hold on. On the battlefield.
This is also the reason why, although Raven has adopted the empire's current military system, the underlying construction still uses the three-three system.
A formation that is too dense will become a target for the opponent's magicians on the battlefield!
Not only Raven was paying attention to the battlefield, but also the orphans in a small field that was separated next to it.
There are a total of 100 people, all of whom are carefully selected from the orphans. In addition to studying in the orphanage on a daily basis, they also come to the military camp for intensive training every weekend.
Compared with the real swords and guns of the regular Eagle Army, their training content seems a bit miserable. They use wooden equipment. In addition to queues, the daily content is basic sword and gun swings. , blocking training can be called boring.
If there is something interesting, it is the competitive spear throwing training. Whenever this happens, the orphans will jump forward very excitedly and compete with each other to see who can throw more accurately and further.
But the projects that usually follow are not that fun and make them quite uncomfortable.
Their instructor, Simon Knight, will have many wooden horses brought in - although they are wooden, they are different from ordinary wooden horses. They have thick iron springs attached to them, and they wobble when you sit on them. Often shakes people's lunch until they spit it out.
The training requirement is to persist as long as possible without having your feet touching the ground.
Sometimes when they finally reach a balance, the instructor will come over and give them a kick to let them experience what it means to be spinning!
This kind of training is boring and difficult, and it always turns out to be ugly, making them less excited about the future.
But today, the Eagle Army’s collective training was an eye-opener for them!
They were lying on the fence at the edge of the field, their eyes shining.
There are more than five thousand people, and when they move, they seem to be a whole. Everyone's face is full of perseverance and seriousness, and they look so...
Handsome!
Raven also noticed them and asked: "What is the quality of these children?"
"The children who can survive the war are all good." Eric said: "Except for a few It’s really impossible to train them all, most of them can last for more than half an hour on your specially made wooden horse.”
The reason why we do this is because Raven wants to train these orphans into the first batch of hippogryphs. cavalry.
Although the female hippogryph that he strengthened is docile, a bird is a bird after all, and flying is still bumpy, especially since it often needs to fly high, fall low, and turn.
If you can't adapt, it would be great fun to spit out a hippogryph in the sky. After the battle formation drill was completed, Lei Wen gave a routine speech. The content was also very simple. It was nothing more than adding extra food tonight and encouraging them to continue to strengthen their training.
At the same time, a carrot is thrown out that cannot be eaten for the time being: those who perform well can be qualified to take the god-given potion.
When leaving the military camp amidst the cheers of the soldiers, Eric wanted to say something several times, but he was too embarrassed to speak.
Although Lei Wen saw what he meant, he didn't point it out.
As time goes by, the extraordinary abilities of his subordinates have improved.
The first batch of Simon, Link and Volaf to become extraordinary have all reached the first-order nine-star and ten-star levels and are on the verge of breakthrough.
Eric himself has also reached the second-level ten-star level, and is only one step away from a third-level mineral before he can start trying for promotion.
He did not let Eric send him back to Eagle Castle and sent Volaf away first. Raven enjoyed the rare alone time.
The breeze blew, picking up the uncompacted snow on the dead trees on the roadside. Fine snow foam flew up, got into the collar and cuffs, and melted away in Raven's breath.
If you widen your field of view, you can see a silver field, mottled with dots of dark golden light, which are the remnants of fallen leaves in autumn.
Further in the distance, there are capped mountains. Under the vast snow, the pines and cypresses reveal dark green color.
Just looking at this scene makes Raven feel much relieved.
Looking across the mountain top, he thought of Lux again, and didn't know where she was now or how she was doing.
The branches on the roadside suddenly swayed, and the snow slapped on Raven's shoulders. When he looked up, he saw a squirrel jumping between the branches. As soon as his eyes caught it, it disappeared in the blink of an eye.
A smile appeared on Raven's lips, he urged his horse again, and hurried back to Eagle Castle.
After changing his clothes, Raven came to the secret room with coffee, opened the dark blue platform, and started shopping according to the planned content.
The first is the simplified version of the Magic Network of Knowledge with 570,000 gold coins - if you buy it, you will not be able to obtain the formula for the magic potion.
But the Magic Network of Knowledge is a production tool that can bring more profits. In a short period of time, Raven's magic power will not reach the third level and ten stars, so there is no rush to upgrade the magic potion.
Then there are the combat skills used by various knights.
It is embarrassing to say that the combat skills inherited from the Griffith family are all dedicated to bloodthirsty fighting spirit, but none of Raven's men have mastered bloodthirsty fighting spirit.
For a long time before this, Raven was too poor to afford fighting skills. By the time he could afford it, the war had ended.
Nowadays, all the extraordinary people around me are trying to break through. It’s just a good opportunity to buy some fighting skills. Otherwise, it will be spread that the knights of the Griffith family are paupers who don’t know any fighting skills. That’s not true. It sounds so good.
Four breakthrough materials, a total of 3771 gold coins, the bulk of which belongs to Eric.
In addition, there are also earth, water, fire, wind, ice, darkness, and shadow, each of the first to second level combat skills of the seven series.
Earth, water, fire, and wind are the most common and have the widest range of applications. Gore, who died in the bloody highlands, is the earth grudge; Volaf has ice grudge, and the dark grudge belongs to another soldier, Otto. As for the shadow combat skills, they were prepared for Manseni.
Moreover, Raven has not forgotten his ambition to establish the Zodiac Legion.
Even though combat skills are much cheaper than magic of the same level, buying 14 combat skills also cost Raven 9773 gold coins.
Finally, Raven added 600 second-level magic cores with various attributes, spending 35,771 gold coins.
After doing this, the gold coins on the book dropped to just over two hundred thousand.
Leaven was even a little used to this and could only silently convince himself that there would still be opportunities to make money in the future.
After placing the order, it’s just a matter of waiting.
During this period, Raven was not idle either. While meditating and accumulating magic power in his magic core, he began to try to choose the magic he wanted to engrave in the magic pool.
For most magicians, this step is actually very simple. After all, the elements of affinity are limited, and the magic that can be mastered at the third level is also quite limited. Four or five types are already great.
But for Raven, this is not the case at all.
Among the magics he has mastered, there are 5 first-level magics, 8 second-level magics, and counting the six types purchased last time, there are as many as 11 third-level magics!
Other mages have more low-level magic and less high-level magic. Raven is completely upside down.
This is the advantage brought by full attribute affinity. It can use the most appropriate magic according to different battle situations.
But sometimes the advantages are also disadvantages. Choosing one type of magic from a total of 24 types is really a waste of brain cells.
Necromantic magic was the first to be ruled out. Not to mention that the Church of Light cannot accept this kind of thing, and its reputation among the five major forces of the human race is also very poor. Unless Raven wants to establish a kingdom of the dead, he must not use it. be taken into consideration.
In this case, there are still as many as 16 types of magic to choose from.
He has affinity with all attributes, so he has never thought of choosing one type of magic from each type and engraving it on the magic pool. However, after studying "The Way of the Mage" and other classics, he has left this idea behind. .
The above describes many adverse consequences of engraving two or three types of magic. The lightest one is that the advancement speed is greatly slowed down. The most serious one may even be reversely contaminated by magic power and turn into an indescribable monster. .
So for several days, besides meditating and working, Raven lined up these 16 kinds of magic in front of him and considered them carefully.
When it comes to the future, you can’t be careless.
This is still the case today.
Raven sometimes laments why he doesn't have a teacher.
None of the powerful people he knew were magicians. Anno was a witch, Crouch was a magician, and Tyrone and Montreal were both knights. No one could give him advice or help at this step.
Took a sip of coffee, and suddenly, with a meow, Xikreit came out of nowhere, glanced at the magic in front of Raven, raised his paw slightly, and threw one of them on Raven's hand.
Leiwen took it and took a look, and he was suddenly in a daze.
It is the most common first-level magic on the mainland and can be mastered by any magician with an affinity for fire
Fireball.
"You let me choose it?" Raven asked.
"If you want to build a castle, you must start with the foundation." Xikret said casually: "Of course, this is just my suggestion."
Raven frowned and remained silent. language.
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(End of this chapter)