Chapter 709 106. Three major legions
“I don’t know what you are talking about... I just finished chatting with Khamis VI. He is very interested in alliances and trade. For the sake of the next negotiations, I will not I'm going to leave it to you to hurt our friendship."
"I know."
"Abby! "What did you call me for just now?"
Annan suddenly said to the maid Abby who was passing by the door, and walked out and closed the door naturally.
Click——
Abby looked at him blankly.
"It's okay, go and do your work." Annan breathed a sigh of relief.
"Well, Master Annan, our ancestors asked me to call you."
Annan made a mistake, and he actually had something to ask him. It was bad news——
The ancestors are going back to the Montreal Mountains.
From June last year to May this year, my ancestor stayed in Liberty City for a long time, so long that many people in the Montreal Golden Family were jealous.
The young people in many tribes do not receive such care from their ancestors.
Annan expressed his reluctance to leave, but did not beg his ancestor to stay. He could not always stay under his ancestor's wings. The first floor of the mage tower, three musketry teams, arcane energy cores... Liberty City is ready to face the real and cruel world.
“Do you have a way to restore the princess?”
Annan saw the maid Abby leading the princess while wandering in the sunflower field.
The ancestor shook his head: "The soul is the firewood for our will to burn. Without the soul, the body is just an ember."
After announcing the outcome of the princess's death, the ancestor brought another A glimmer of hope: "There are many ancient ways to give birth to a new soul from the body."
"Rebirth..."
It's just that the consciousness that is born is both a princess and not a princess.
"Let's talk about it later... What if they come back?"
Annan finally gave up on the plan to rekindle the princess's old body with a new soul.
He picked up Olin from the Montreal Mountains and hadn’t seen her for several months. Olin still had the same look as if she were in armor, keeping out strangers.
However, Annan found some traces of battle on her armor.
Olin pushed her ancestor through the portal in a wheelchair.
"Be prepared."
After handing the ancestor over to the old servant, Olin turned around and said to Annan.
"Prepare?"
"The emperor believes that you are a member of the Holy Council, and you are no exception to the conscription after the autumn harvest."
"Conscription?" Annan was even more confused.
He had kidnapped his ancestor for nearly a year, and Annan was not surprised that the King of Bones knew about him.
"Withstanding the approaching tide of ratmen and demons, all lords have the responsibility to protect Middle-earth."
......
"Clever idea."
< br>Contrary to Annan's worries, Olmedo gave a very high evaluation. "I thought there would be a third expedition as rumored, but it turned out to be just a joint defense?"
“This is the smart thing about the Tatooine Empire. If they just form an expeditionary force, the lords will be lazy and feel that it has nothing to do with them, but when it comes to protecting Middle-earth, everyone must contribute.”
Annan thought of another thing and frowned: "You mean their plan is similar to the Kingdom of Ruikan'er?"
Roughly speaking, this is indeed the case. In order to expand its territory, the Kingdom of Rekaner allowed the McKean clan to invade the northern border. As a result, the rat tide got out of control.
Now, in order to unite Middle-earth, the Tatooine Empire allows the McKeon clan and the northern demonic tide to attack Middle-earth...
Annan was already worriedly thinking about how to escape and surrender, but where could he escape to, Wilhelm? Or float to the sea and become a floating city on the sea?
“Take a look at this.”
Olmedo didn’t know what Annan was thinking, so she pushed a piece of parchment in front of him.
Annan picked up the parchment, which contained plans for the restructuring of the three musketeers.
The three musketeers in Liberty City: the First Guards, the Second Hellfire, and the Third Musketeers will be expanded for the second time, from 2,000 to 5,000 people, and their responsibilities will be broken down:
The Guards Musketeers were renamed the Guards Corps, and the regiment commander Losey was responsible for guarding Annan, Free City and officials.
The Hellfire Musketeers were renamed the Hellfire Legion, and their commander, Fermi, was responsible for external operations.
The Third Musketeers had no name, and they were used to calling them this, so they simply changed their name to the Musketeers Corps. Because they were formed in the shortest time and do not have many veterans, they are mainly responsible for maintaining order and protecting Liberty City's industries across the continent.
In addition, Parchment also planned a fourth legion, composed of professionals.
The reason is that the retainers, knights, and guards who followed Olmedo from Breeze City formed an exclusive circle. Olmedo believed that this would plunge Liberty City into internal strife, making Annan suspicious and wanted to Disperse the soldiers who are loyal to you.
Olmedo is a competent deputy mayor, but just as Olmedo trusts Annan, Annan also trusts Olmedo.
As long as they listen to Olmedo, Annan will not have any worries.
But the most important thing is that Annan and Olmedo agreed after discussion that the number of professionals in Liberty City cannot support the fourth legion now, but there will definitely be one in the future...
Who can resist a soldier carrying an artillery fire?
As for some "trivial" problems caused by expansion, for example, the number of residents in Liberty City is less than 80,000, but it actually recruits 15,000 soldiers aggressively. For example, the cost of these soldiers will make any lord Can't afford it...
The latter, given Liberty City's "abnormal" profits, Annan could afford to recruit all of them, not to mention nine thousand soldiers. The former is a bit troublesome.
After the initial period of brutal expansion, Liberty City no longer needs thousands of workers to start construction everywhere, so except for retaining two thousand workers to continue the construction of Liberty City and build the Great Wall in the north and in the mining fields, everyone else Gradually transformed into normal city-state citizens, doing all kinds of work.
Those outside industries are also the work of people in Free City. About forty theaters and several streets in the North, Middle Earth, and South alone provide more than 2,000 jobs.
So the current population of Liberty City can only be said to be sufficient. Even if 10,000 refugees come today, they can all be digested tomorrow.
In view of the increasingly tense situation in the north and the conscription coming in a few months, Annan decided to keep the other two legions unchanged at 2,000 people and only expand the Hellfire Legion for the time being.
And...
"Let your retainers and knights do something, select some instructors to teach the soldiers breathing techniques."
Annan has been coveting breathing techniques for a long time...
He has long wanted to popularize this mysterious breathing method that allows ordinary people to become professionals, but the physical fitness of the previous musketeers could not support the huge consumption of breathing method.
Now, after a year and a half of recuperation, it’s almost time.
Although the musketeers are too old and probably cannot even produce a hundred professionals out of the eleven thousand soldiers, they can still strengthen their physique.
Annan returned the parchment to Olmedo: "I'm going to see if the Scarlet Witch has repented."
(End of this chapter)