Chapter 438: Tulips' War Potential This mercenary captain is naturally not a stupid person, and he can go south and north to get mixed up until now, of course, he can't be a fool.
But the one in front of him can be called the top slipper in the Roland Empire.
What's more, this guy also holds the gold badge of the Tulip Family, and he is also a magician.
It is clear that he is a noble person in the tulip family.
With such a dual identity in front of him, the captain of the Snow Wolf Mercenary Group naturally has no guard at all.
After a deep conversation, coupled with Chen Daolin's deliberate words, he even drank a few glasses of wine with the mercenary captain in the end.
The mercenary captain let go of all his defenses and naturally opened the conversation.
The Snow Wolf Mercenary Group, as the leading mercenary group in the Tulip Family's territory, is also a top-notch existence even if it looks at the mercenary industry of the entire Roland Empire.
According to this captain, the Snow Wolf Mercenary Regiment alone has more than a thousand mercenaries.
This is just a standing number, after all, the mercenary industry is still relatively dangerous, walking outside, sleeping in the open, encountering robbers and robbers, or exploring deep in the mountains and forests, and encountering Warcraft and the like, as well as the trade route to the northwest grassland, or to the orc kingdom, many chambers of commerce will choose to find mercenaries as guards.
Especially some large mercenary groups, with a good reputation and high credit, are even more favored If it is a small mercenary group, I am afraid that the strength is not enough, and if the credit is not guaranteed, if you run to a remote place in the deep mountains and old forests, and play a black and black, then the bitter master really has no place to cry.
The Standing Armed Forces of the Snow Wolf Mercenary Group are more than a thousand people, and this is just a number on the surface, many mercenaries will choose to retire temporarily after earning enough money, these mercenaries are adventurers from all over the world, and many people have earned enough money.
But they don't know how to run it, and the result is often that when the money is spent, they have to go back to their old business.
So.
Although the Snow Wolf Mercenary Group only has more than a thousand armed forces on the surface, in fact, if necessary, it is not difficult to call on those groups such as those who have temporarily retired to pull out a team of several hundred people.
In other words, just such a snow wolf mercenary group can pull out more than two thousand people alone That's not a small number Two thousand people, although it seems that according to the military system of the Roland Empire, it is not yet the establishment of an ordinary infantry regiment, but don't forget.
These are mercenaries, they are all real soldiers who have traveled from south to north, have seen blood, and have fought battles, not those recruits who only walk through the queue in the barracks.
What's more, in terms of individual combat effectiveness, the average combat effectiveness of mercenaries is often higher than that of regular soldiers and mercenaries in the Empire.
The percentage of groups with samurai rank is very high In the entire empire, the most developed area of the mercenary industry is the northwest, especially in the territory of the Tulip family.
The general meeting of the mercenary guild of the Roland Empire is set up in Loulan City, the capital of the Tulip family.
There are many large and small mercenary groups, such as the Snow Wolf Mercenary Group, and those small groups with a number of dozens or hundreds of people.
As for those adventure groups that randomly pull out a dozen people, of course, there is no shortage of them.
And the entire mercenary guild.
They all depend on the snort of the tulip family to survive It can even be said that it is the territory of the Tulip family, and this soil has cultivated a well-developed mercenary industry in the entire Northwest.
Among these mercenaries, a considerable number of them are actually from the Northwest at all, and most of them are indigenous people from the Tulip family's territory.
There are also many retired samurai in the army, and many are elite soldiers or veterans who have retired from the Tulip family's private army.
These people, there is no doubt that they are emotionally close to the Tulip family.
Or so to speak, in the event of a war.
Once there is an enemy standing on the opposite side of the Tulip Family, then these mercenaries are likely to stand in the Tulip Family's camp overnight.
So how many armed mercenary classes in the entire Northwest are there?
It may be difficult to count the exact number, but according to the mercenary captain, it is: "It won't be less than five or six thousand, and if it is necessary, it will not be difficult to gather seven or eight thousand people."
This is a civilian arm, an armed force pro-tulip.
It is an elite army with a lot of combat experience and a very high proportion of samurai groups When the two of them were drunk, Chen Daolin deliberately chatted with the mercenary captain about the war that was likely to occur The mercenary captain replied with a sneer: Those who dare to provoke our tulip family will die miserably How many armed forces does the Tulip family have?
On the bright side, Chen Daolin is no stranger.
The Tulip family is known as the number one wealthy family in the empire, which is recognized, and naturally no one has any doubts.
The Tulip family's private army is also recognized as an elite.
On the surface, there are a few armies: Chen Daolin is most familiar with the Northwest Independent Division, which sits in the Northwest Fortress, is the border of the country, and is responsible for the northwest section of the Kaspersky Line.
The total number of troops is more than 30,000, of which about 20,000 are soldiers.
In addition, the Tulip family has the strength of two divisions.
One is the first family guard division in Loulan City.
In fact, the strength of this division is not very large, with a full strength of only 25,000 men, and if the auxiliary troops with heavy logistics are deducted, the number of soldiers is even less than 20,000.
However, this division is recognized as the strongest and most elite existence of the Tulip family, although the number is smaller, but they are all selected by the family, the most loyal fighters to the family, and they are stationed near Loulan City all the year round, responsible for defending the family's base camp and deterring the Quartet.
In addition, there is a division, which is called the "Garrison Division" in Tulip Family territory.
This division is scattered in various parts of the family territory, in fact, to put it bluntly, it is similar to the police force in the real world, maintaining local order, similar to the security force, similar to the local garrison in other parts of the Roland Empire.
The total strength of this garrison division is 12,000 men.
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Because it was not a standing army and there was no assembly station, the logistical burden was shared among the various garrisons, and it did not cost much auxiliaries.
If you depict it, these 12,000 people are like pepper noodles.
Sprinkled evenly all over the tulip family's territory, which was the size of a province.
In addition, the Tulip family has two small troops.
One is the "Air Cavalry Regiment", and it is said that the predecessor of this unit was called the "Decepticons".
Well, as soon as he heard the name, Chen Daolin concluded that it was the first Duke Tulip who did a good deed.
This is an air force.
It is said that there are many flying equipment such as hot air balloons and broomsticks.
The number is not large, and it is said that the standing establishment is only more than 1,000 people.
Moreover, this army has rarely appeared in the eyes of people in recent years, because there is no war in the empire, so most of the time, this army is said to be hidden in a secret place of the family.
The face is mysterious.
The other independent force was the cavalry.
That is, the 1st Guards Cavalry Regiment of the Tulip Family.
Yes, Darlinggo heard it right, cavalry, and only one regiment.
This cavalry regiment was stationed in the capital city of Loulan.
The establishment is only about three thousand.
I'm afraid many people will be shocked when they say it As a well-known family for many years, the first wealthy family in the empire, the Tulip family with the strongest private army among the wealthy families of the empire, owns the army.
This is recognized as the strongest class of the era: cavalry.
The family actually only has a standing establishment of a cavalry regiment If you exclude the small cavalry units and scout patrols in the other divisions and garrisons, the dignified Tulip House has only 3,000 cavalry standing regular troops There were only three thousand regular cavalry troops And it is also in the northwest region, which is rich in war horses In other words, the Tulip family, known as the first aristocratic family in the empire and the first private army, has a total standing strength of only seventy or eighty thousand.
If you deduct the logistics system, baggage, auxiliary troops, etc., the pure combat power is full of calculations.
There are only more than 50,000.
This number can only sound "good", but the number of 50,000 is difficult to make people feel "powerful".
Judging from this number on paper, the so-called first legendary giant of the empire, the first strong army among the giants.
It seems a little reluctant, a little unworthy of the name.
But the situation is far from simple.
The armament of the Tulip family took an extremely special route.
The northwest is a vast and sparsely populated area.
Even today, one hundred and forty years after the Tulip Family has taken root in the Northwest, even the powerful Tulip Family has been operating in this land for one hundred and forty years, bringing unprecedented prosperity here.
But there is still no way to get rid of one bottleneck in development: population The territory of the Tulip family is huge.
There is a province in full, and a province in the northwest.
In terms of land area alone, it was much larger than the interior of the empire and the provinces in the south.
But the problem is that most of the land here is wilderness or even the Gobi Dry climate, hot in summer and cold in winter.
Also, the actual arable land here is much less than in other provinces Now it seems that the total population of the entire Tulip family's territory is still only three million.
In recent years, it has slowly hovered around this number, and there has been no significant increase.
This total population is indeed a bit shabby, not to mention the reality of the Celestial Empire from which Chen Daolin comes from, there may be so much population in a prefecture-level city, even in the Roland Empire, compared with those provinces in the south and inland, the population is only a fraction of that of people.
For example, the Rollin family is only an earl, and the territory area is less than one-sixth of the Tulip family.
But the population has exceeded two million.
Although this figure has doubled from when the Tulip family was established here.
According to the general law of the Roland people, an ordinary family is about five or six people, that is, there are only more than 600,000 households in the entire Tulip family's territory.
A standing army of 70,000 or 80,000 has been created, which is already a not very light burden relative to the population base, that is to say, for every seven or eight households, one household has one soldier, and this proportion is not low.
That is, the wealth of the Tulip family can rely on such a small population base to have the strength to make tens of thousands of standing troops.
Perhaps the Tulip family has enough financial resources to feed more troops, but a huge problem that plagues the Tulip family is the population base A sensible leader would never be reckless, and if he really made all the people in his territory soldiers, it would only stir up public anger and rebellion.
But there is no arable land in the northwest This is the biggest constraint that limits the population growth of the Tulip Family's territory.
At that time, Du Wei didn't know what method he used, but he showed a miracle in the northwest and made a Loulan Lake to irrigate a large area of land near Loulan City.
Shengsheng made a Northwest Xiaoping, it turned out that this was already the limit In fact, to this day, the Tulip family needs to import some food from outside every year to meet the needs of the population in their territory.
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The limitation of the population base made it impossible for the Tulip family to produce too many standing professional troops.
Then the tulip family embarked on a different path: Reserve In the territory of the Tulip Family, there is a decree that is unique to the Tulip Family.
It's called the Military Service Act.
The law stipulates that all men born in the Tulip family's territory must enter the reserve after the age of sixteen.
All men who have attained the age of sixteen must obey this law, which is a natural obligation of every tulip family.
Every man who serves in the reserve begins at the age of sixteen and trains in the army twice a year.
This is because it is necessary to avoid spring ploughing in the spring and the autumn harvest in the fall.
Therefore, the reserve training twice a year was chosen in the summer and winter, and the training was carried out in the army once.
Each training session lasts for one month.
One month of training in summer and one month of winter training, and receive a certain intensity of militarized training.
This reserve is not until the man is thirty years old, and he is over thirty years old.
There will be no need to serve in the reserves.
Two months of militarized or semi-militarized training twice a year was enough to ensure that the Tulip family accomplished an achievement that seemed to be a feat of its time: Hiding soldiers from the people Two months of militarized training per year may not guarantee that the person being trained will become a truly qualified soldier.
But at least it is possible to turn a person into a "half-finished" soldier.
And once a war really breaks out, then these large numbers of "half-finished" soldiers, who are hidden in the people, only need to be assembled.
Give them weapons and equipment, and then train them a little to straighten out, and they will be a qualified army And in the entire tulip family's territory, how many men between the ages of fifteen and thirty are there?
More than half a million The Military Service Law is a very strict law in Tulip Territory Whoever refuses to obey the reserves.
They will be severely punished, ranging from fines to cancellations and expulsion from the family territory, since you refuse to serve the family.
Then there is no need to continue to be a child of the family Of course, Du Wei, the person who created this military service law back then, also thought about a lot of questions.
For example, in peacetime, how to make the common people willing to obey the military service law and participate in reserve training without resistance.
The Tulip Family's Military Service Law stipulates that all men who obey the Military Service Law, join the reserves, and undergo militarized training twice a year can receive military salaries or salaries and subsidies during the two-month military training period each year.
That is, training in the barracks, and getting a salary.
And don't forget, the Tulip family is very rich, and the salary paid to the reservists is not low, at least not less than the normal monthly income of ordinary people in the Tulip family's territory.
The entire 500,000 people of appropriate age are semi-finished soldiers who have received militarized training every year, and they are familiar with the discipline in the army, the weapons and equipment used in various operations, and the military orders of the queue Once the war is needed, if the Tulip family is fully mobilized, these 500,000 reserve semi-finished products can be assembled, armed, and reorganized in a very short time And then there is the 500,000 qualified army This amount, just thinking about it, is enough to make people's scalps tingle Half a million The main battle legions of the entire Roland Empire don't add up to so many This is also an important reason why the tulip family has always played a pivotal role in the empire This is probably an important reason why Shiloh is so jealous of the Tulip family and desperately wants to weaken the family It is probably difficult for any emperor to tolerate a certain courtier under him, and he can mobilize hundreds of thousands of troops that do not belong to the emperor himself at any time A day later, in the morning, Chen Daolin got up and walked out of the tent, and saw that the mercenaries were already sitting nervously in the morning training.
The mercenary captain who drank with him last night was actually training with his subordinates in good spirits.
This made Chen Daolin a little impressed by him, and these snow wolf mercenary groups were really strong.
Anicee got up early.
The child's snooze does not seem to be visible in this little girl.
The life of the steppe herdsmen was very hard, and Anicee got up early, and ran to the people in the caravan to get the pots.
I fetched a basin of water from the pond in the oasis and burned a fire outside the tent.
When Chen Daolin came out, there was hot water to wash.
The little girl was born cute, with big black eyes and delicate and snow-white skin, like milk.
In addition, after following Chen Daolin, Chen Daolin is a person who loves cleanliness very much, and he didn't care about anything else along the way, but forcibly made a series of strict personal hygiene rules for Anice.
The little girl's original clothes of a grassland herdsman were thrown away by Chen Daolin, and those clothes that were tattered and full of grass clippings and had not been washed for many days.
Chen Daolin threw him directly, but he didn't want to bring back lice.
Today's Anice, wearing a robe that Chen Daolin helped her change to a smaller one, which was originally a short shirt of Chen Daolin's own, but after putting it on Anice, because she was still too short, the short shirt also became a robe on her.
The little girl came out of the tent early in the morning.
Timidly asked for help from the people around him.
Although she can't speak Roland, the comparison and the big innocent eyes of the little girl, the weak and lovely appearance, always make people unable to refuse.
Anicee was very careful not to say a word, not a word of the prairie.
She seemed to instinctively have a sense of vigilance, in this group of Roland people, although Chen Daolin did not specifically explain her.
But she took the initiative to hide the identity of the steppe people.
Anyway, she is very young, and her appearance is a little special, her big black eyes, especially her skin, which is as white as milk, are very different from most grassland people, and Chen Daolin has already changed her hairstyle.
Without the pigtails that prairie girls often have, it is difficult to judge her prairie ancestry from the point of view of appearance.
In fact, when Anicese was busy, Chen Daolin woke up very early and noticed it.
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He just sat in the tent, thinking about one thing.
"If war does break out, then" There was a strange glint in his eyes: "Then what benefits can Lao Tzu reap?"
Get out of the tent.
Seeing Anice's eyes wide and her face full of eager expressions, the little girl tiptoed and carefully handed a hot wet towel to Chen Daolin.
"Old, Teacher" The word is in Roland, and it's the only Roland word Aenise knows so far.
Chen Daolin looked at Anice, looking at her eager expression, and wiped his face with a towel, although he didn't like the smell of the river after it was hot.
The team continued to rest in this oasis for another half day.
After all, after a fierce battle, after escaping from the grassland, this team also needs to rest and recover.
Chen Daolin was not in a hurry to leave, as if he was thinking about a very important matter.
And all morning, the people in the caravan saw an interesting scene: The young man in the robe had been sitting leisurely by the tent, drinking water and closing his eyes leisurely.
And the little girl, who was just the same, was running up and down and busy, she ran to fetch water, she ran to make a fire, she ran to collect leaves, and then she made a fan, and she knelt beside the man, and carefully fanned him in the cool breeze.
The little girl's expression was serious and cautious, as if she was doing the most pious and sacred thing.
And Chen Daolin, this guy, really regarded himself as an uncle, so he leaned there lazily, closed his eyes and recuperated, as if he was shamelessly enjoying the service of this little girl.
Even when eating, the leader of the caravan took the initiative to bring lunch, and the little girl also took it, knelt beside Chen Daolin, picked out the meat and bones with her own hands, and then broke the dough into small pieces, carefully soaked all the dough with the soup, and then blew hot air with her mouth, and when the temperature was blown to lukewarm, she respectfully brought it to Chen Daolin and invited him to enjoy.
When Chen Daolin was eating while he was distracted, the little girl sat down beside him honestly, with a sweet smile on her face, and just looked at Chen Daolin blankly waited until Chen Daolin had eaten all of them, and the little girl took the tragedy, and then served Chen Daolin with a hot towel to wipe his mouth and hands, and brought hot water to Chen Daolin to rinse his mouth When she was done with everything, the little girl took another piece of food that had been cooled and ate it quickly.
After completing all this, the little girl jumped back and sent back the tableware, and then knelt down beside Chen Daolin again, and seriously fanned this guy It's just fucking shameless Many people in the caravan couldn't help but cast disdainful glances at Chen Daolin A big man has hands and feet, but he wants a small child to serve back and forth And it's so cute, so spicy and beautiful, a little girl who is actually serving this uncle like a slave If it weren't for the leader of the team, who had already warned everyone about this guest's extraordinary status, I am afraid that there would have been a good man who could not see it and would have come to teach this child abuser a lesson.
"Anice" Chen Daolin finally opened his eyes, as if he had just recovered from his contemplation.
"Teacher, I'm here, what do you command" Anicee immediately straightened up, her eyes widening.
Chen Daolin sighed, gently stroked her hair, and said softly, "Actually, you don't have to serve me like this. ” "But my lord, I like to serve you like this.
You are an immortal, an omnipotent immortal, and immortals should be served by mortals," Anicee said cautiously.
"Oh" Chen Daolin thought for a while, and suddenly grinned: "You like to work like this so much, in the afternoon, you go to the pond and fetch fifty pots of water." ” Anicee blinked, and there wasn't even the slightest hint of displeasure or suspicion on her face.
She just nodded vigorously, and then looked at Chen Daolin with those big black eyes, which seemed to be still shining: "Fifty pots, teacher, is it enough?"
In the afternoon, the people in the camp saw the lovely and beautiful little girl, who kept going back and forth between the camp and the pond, fetching water one by one, carrying a heavy basin of water, and staggering back and forth.
The most hateful thing was the water that was beaten, but Chen Daolin glanced at all of it, and then sprinkled it casually in the grass on the side.
Didn't this guy mean to torture people Finally, some young mercenaries with a strong sense of justice couldn't stand it anymore.
Some people have already begun to gear up, and even try to gauge the knife fiercely, and their gaze at Chen Daolin is becoming more and more unkind And Chen Daolin just looked at Anice, looked at the beads of sweat on the tip of the little girl's nose, looked at the flushing on her face, and then listened carefully to the frequency of Anice's gasp, occasionally pulled Anice, reached out and pinched the pulse of her wrist.
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