Chapter 553

Three thousand mercenaries of the second Legion attacked all the way, and the battle was soon over. Fishmen fled back into the water, afraid to show their heads, leaving only hundreds of bodies on the beach. Victor and Nelson rode away from the front camp of the second Legion while Lord jomoson commanded the soldiers to clean the battlefield.

"Ha ha, I haven't had such a good time for a long time."

Nelson changed into ordinary leather armor, rode on the horse and waved his fist excitedly. He was still immersed in a hearty excitement.

In fact, the fishermen fled as fast as they charged, and the armored mercenaries couldn't catch up with them. The fleeing fish people were one in the East and one in the West. Nelson rolled all the way from the camp to the river and only killed more than 20 fish people. The mercenaries behind didn't even get a fish head. But this did not affect the excitement of the soldiers.

Although it tests the mercenary's ability to control the battlefield situation, the vigorous recruits are very eager for a devastating victory. Victor's gorgeous appearance, invincible fighting posture and the fact that one man defeated the fish man wave far exceeded all the fantasies of Randall's mercenaries about the knight Lord, left an indelible impression in the hearts of every soldier participating in the war, greatly boosted the morale of the mercenary corps, and finally became the driving force to move forward bravely and kill the enemy.

Victor won the support of mercenary soldiers. It's so simple that he doesn't need to eat and live together and love soldiers like children. As long as he shows his extraordinary strength in battle, no one can shake the loyalty of family soldiers to him.

For thousands of years, the ideas of clergy redemption, Knight protection and public dedication have long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. For family soldiers, it is their own glory to offer faith to the glorious Lord and loyalty to the Lord. When the lord appears on the battlefield as a guardian, the family soldiers will never collapse in the face of heavy pressure and will defend the Lord at any sacrifice.

According to the earth world, family soldiers are the brain powder of family guardians.

In terms of legal principle, the mercenaries of the first and second legions are not soldiers of the Randall family, and the ideas and concerns of abandoning the family and being abandoned by the family still have a living soil. To train these 6000 mercenary soldiers as the backbone of the family army, Victor needs to let them feel the glory of following the family guardian in advance.

Of course, this is not without cost.

Nelson smacked his mouth and said with regret: "in the next few months, the training ground of the Second Corps will not be used for the time being... Sir, can you let other families lend us their river beach position for a few months? When the fishmen in that water area come back, we will return the River Beach position to them..."

Randall led the Jinshui River to have 11 large and small fish man beaches. The families of the man horse hills responded to the call of the fish man war order and sent vassal troops and mercenaries to attack the fish man on the river bank. However, the average number of mercenaries under their command was less than 400, and they could only attack a few smaller beaches. The two largest river beach positions are in the charge of the mercenary corps of the Randall family. Now one river beach battlefield has been maimed, and Nelson began to use the brains of other river beach battlefields.

Victor smiled and said, "you have to train mercenaries in actual combat, and other families are also training their own mercenaries. I think it's good. At least it can save me a lot of military expenses in recent months."

Nelson's expression stiffened, turned his eyes and said, "Sir, the craftsmen of Jinshui city have built the combined chariot according to your wishes, which is in the military camp of Pinghu Town. Would you like to have a look?"

Victor suddenly became interested and said, "Oh? Take me to have a look."

The two men led the Lord's guard along the road and rode to Pinghu Town. Before noon, they arrived at the military camp on the east side of the town. After the guard saw the riders on the horse, he lifted the guard of the sentry tower and opened the gate of the barracks.

Nelson and Victor rode directly into the camp gate and galloped back and forth to the drill ground behind. In the open space, Victor saw a unique building.

It is more a fortification than a building. It is 4.7 meters high, 4.5 meters long and 2.3 meters wide. It is stacked by two carriages. The surface is wrapped with a layer of red copper shell. The lower carriage is thick and solid. Three fine iron hooks, sickles and spears protrude from the outer wall. The upper carriage has no top cover. The carriage wall is similar to the castle women's wall. A medium-sized crossbow gun and a small catapult are erected. Together, they can attack far and defend near. At the same time, they have the advantage of commanding shooting. They can be called small fortresses.

Nelson motioned the guards to take the horse away and introduced Victor:

"Sir, I'm a layman in making a carriage. I only know that this thing is very strong and easy to use... Its lower carriage is a baggage carriage with a maximum load of 7.6 tons. It has three shooting holes, which can accommodate three heavy crossbows and can also be replaced with sickle and spear. Once a large monster like an ogre approaches the carriage, he stabs it in the stomach and must pull out his intestines... The upper carriage It is a light fighting vehicle with a load of 2.3 tons. It has a rotating wheel chassis crossbow. It can freely turn the firing direction and use a refined iron armor breaking crossbow. It can fire once in 20 seconds at the fastest, with an effective range of 500 meters. The small catapult is specially used to shoot foot nails and small fire bombs, with a range of only more than 230 meters... In addition to these two weapons, the fighting vehicle is often equipped with Two Heavy Crossbow men. If it is fixed, it can be used again Add 2 heavy crossbows. "

Victor came forward and knocked on the side wall, felt its firmness, activated the surge again, tried to push it, and the tiny wires in the carriage didn't move. He was very satisfied with this. Many large monsters had amazing power and could easily overturn ten tons of heavy objects. However, the friction area of the car touching the bottom was 10 square meters, and the self weight exceeded the weight of most monsters. The result of the monster's force is to push himself out. It is almost impossible to overturn the car. Naturally, it can't hurt the soldiers in the car.

He jumped onto the top of the carriage and entered the body of the chariot. He noticed that there were five locks at the bottom, which were connected with the lower carriage to ensure the firmness of the chariot so that it would not be pushed down by the monster. At this time, Nelson also jumped up, pointed to the triangular bracket on the car wall and said:

"The craftsman master of Jinshui city told me that this little thing can make the car wall resist the big stones thrown by the ogre... Hey, hey, on the premise that they can cross the shooting range of the crossbow alive. Moreover, they have to be careful under their feet... I don't think they will be careful."

Nelson took out a three spike foot nail made of refined iron from the bag next to the small catapult, weighed it, and said with a grin: "this little thing can charge monster jumped up with his feet, rolled into a ball, and was directly trampled to death by his companions behind... Adults and craftsmen are full of praise for your idea, saying that you are a real genius."

Victor smiled but said nothing, patted Nelson on the shoulder, jumped to the ground and entered the lower carriage. There is also a tripod structure in the carriage, and four load-bearing columns are added in the middle. The small space becomes narrower and filled with sacks. Nelson said outside:

"The sack is filled with soil, which can increase the weight of the car body to 11 tons. When the car is running, replace it with material supplies. As long as it is no more than 7 tons, the car will have no problem driving. Moreover, the parts of the car are of standard structure, which can be replaced and repaired immediately."

"Standardization is the most important." Victor got out of the car and asked, "how long and how many people will it take to reassemble the wheels of the baggage car and chariot to start?"

"It took 30 trained soldiers two hours to unload the wheels and splice the fixed fortifications. It took only more than 50 minutes." After Nelson answered, he asked eagerly, "Sir, do you want me to have someone show you?"

Victor shook his head with a smile and said faintly, "no, it's my idea of mobile camp."

The concept of mobile camp is a tactical concept designed by Victor for the South expansion strategy. Learning from the strong crossbow strategy of vehicle array in ancient China, it can flexibly expand the circular vehicle array, build fortifications, quickly occupy key geographical locations, calmly collect natural resources and build a stable camp in unfamiliar areas and difficult supply.

Humans are suppressed by large monsters such as centaurs and ogres. They lack the ability to resist the enemy directly and rely heavily on solid fortifications. However, the construction of the castle camp takes time, and the beautiful terrain of water and grass must be the living area that both humans and monsters want to seize. Without a fortress, humans will directly face the attack of monsters. Even if elite Rangers defeat monsters and orcs, ordinary mercenaries will still be harassed and raided by monsters. This not only increases the casualties of the mercenaries, but also slows down the time of building the camp. The human army will fall into a tug of war and consumption war with monsters. Because monsters and orcs try their best to prevent humans from building fortifications in resource rich areas.

But if the human army already has strong fortifications, the situation will be reversed. If monsters can't attack for a long time and suffer heavy casualties, they will give up the competition for territory.

According to Victor's vision, each mobile camp is composed of 40 fence trucks, 70 baggage wagons and 70 chariots, equipped with 1000 mercenaries, more than 100 craftsmen and doctors, and a 300 strong Ranger. A baggage car and a chariot are spliced together to form a defensive sentry. 70 sentries are connected with 40 grid trucks. In addition, the simple fortifications built with local materials are enough to form a temporary camp.

In addition to the catapult, catapult and Heavy Crossbow of the chariot sentry, the camp also has thousands of long bows and foot crossbows, which can let the incoming enemy taste the dense arrow rain and precision shooting.

The three mobile barracks are a full legion of mercenaries. Together, they are medium-sized barracks, and scattered are horns for each other, which can establish effective defense depth.

The high-ranking Knights of the York family admired the military concept of the mobile camp. Sylvia gathered a group of excellent craftsmen to build baggage carts and light chariots according to Victor's requirements. They worked hard in Pinghu Town for three years and finally made the samples.

What remained was the question of standardization and details. Victor asked, "do you feel that there are any deficiencies in baggage cars and light combat vehicles?"

Nelson replied, "my Lord, it's mainly about animal power. The baggage car has been the largest. No matter how big it is, there will be problems with the chassis. No matter how small it is, there is not enough internal space. However, with a load of nearly 8 tons, one horse is too hard to pull, and there are too many two, which consumes a lot of supplies in vain."

Victor's eyes twinkled and nodded, "I know. I'll find a way... Anything else to add?"

Nelson scratched his head and smiled: "My Lord, a baggage car costs 280 gold sol, and a chariot costs 700 gold sol. All these are to hire the Legion to place orders with the hill secret castle and purchase military expenses... You entrust the family's affairs to Mrs. Nicole. Mrs. Nicole especially likes Lilia, who is a cheapskate. Lilia must deduct the military budget... Look, do you make a rule for Lilia , the annual budget of 55000 kinsol of the mercenary Corps shall not be reduced? "

Victor couldn't laugh or cry and asked, "won't I come back? Even if I don't directly intervene in family affairs, you and Maureen can see me and make suggestions to me."

Nelson muttered, "I'm not afraid that Mrs. Nicole can't compete with you. At that time, she will anger me... You set the rules in advance, and Lilia has no reason to ask Mrs. Nicole to cut the mercenary's budget."

Victor nodded and said: "You're right... I really should respect Nicole and Lilia and not easily overturn their policies... Drawing a bottom line for the mercenary's budget in advance can avoid a lot of trouble. However, the budget of 55000 gold sol is a little high, and I'll set a minimum budget of 49000 gold sol for you. If the budget is insufficient, you have to negotiate with Nicole yourself... If If there is a surplus, it will be accumulated to the military budget of the next year. "

"Why 49000, not 50000?" Asked Nelson in confusion.

"The minimum military budget is less than 50000. It's nice to hear and say... Lilia's men are not too jealous“

"Thank you, my Lord!" Nelson was overjoyed, right boxed his chest, gave a military salute, paused, and said, "my Lord, Mrs. Judy has no maid to serve her. She has been living in the front-line camp. After all, it's not decent. Do you have any arrangements for her?"

As soon as I come back, I will rearrange Judy, which will only make Nicole look disgraced. They will not be able to get along and work together in the future... Victor said with a disgusting expression: "I don't want to be a vase from beginning to end, and now I don't need a vase... Judy has changed a lot, but I want to hang her for a few more days."

Victor didn't care about Judy's current mood. Of course, Nelson didn't care. He saluted and said, "as you wish, my dear master."

"Well, I'll go back to Yinyue manor first. The night after tomorrow, you go to mercury manor. I have something to tell you."

"Yes, sir!"

Patting Nelson on the shoulder, Victor called the pro guard, boarded the war horse and galloped to the silver moon villa garden.