Chapter 765: The Great Recruitment (Part 1)
Let's talk about two things.
As the monster red tide approaches.
The annual conscription within the kingdom has also begun.
The noble lords who received the order need to recruit enough soldiers within the fiefdom as in previous years, form an army, and go to the border.
The organization of the king's army is not complicated.
Usually.
Ten people form a squad, one of whom will be selected as the captain, responsible for taking care of and supervising his team members during the king's conscription.
The captain will also be punished if the team members are cowardly, escape, or violate military discipline.
The most basic command unit of the king's army, the flag battle formation, is composed of at least 10 squads.
A complete "flag battle formation" includes soldiers temporarily recruited from different squads, "knights" in charge of flags, and possibly "knight followers" of varying numbers.
Those who serve as "knights" are either veterans with rich battlefield experience or manor nobles who were personally appointed by Kenreddin.
For example, when Pete's father, Baron Chinal, responded to the king's call to resist the monster red tide, he would temporarily obtain the duties of a knight and could lead a flag battle formation with about 15 teams and a full complement of about 150 people.
"Knights" can already be an elite unit in the king's army.
At the same time, they have the ability to respond to orders, command teams, and resist high-level monsters.
They are both commanders, supervisors, and special forces.
The personnel configuration of multiple teams is for rotation when fighting monsters.
When the battle is fierce, rotation is very necessary to avoid excessive accumulation of void pollution brought by monsters.
Usually only one-third of the manpower participates in the battle, one-third is on standby, and the last one-third rests.
The flag battle formation is named after the flags used to identify the soldiers for assembly.
There are different emblems painted on the battle flags, which are often unique patterns drawn by noble family emblems or veterans.
The number of soldiers that different nobles in the kingdom need to mobilize for the monster red tide now basically depends on the number of local manor nobles.
Generally speaking, the richer the region, the more nobles there are, and the more flag battle formations can be recruited.
The capital alone sends out more than 400 flag battle formations every year. The recruited soldiers gather under different flags and then rush to the border with the main force.
These flag battle formations are usually assigned to different positions of the defense line in groups of 5 to 10.
As for those powerful mages, or rangers who are good at reconnaissance and setting traps, they are often individually incorporated into the king's army's spellcaster sequence or scout corps, and receive dispatch and command separately.
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For the matter of the king's army recruitment, Kenreddin has been in a very good mood recently, so good that he often can't help humming an unknown tune.
Because the mobilization of the capital this year is much smoother than in previous years!
What was the situation before?
Those nobles who were once canonized by him, one or two, would find various reasons every time this time comes.
"My weapon is being maintained, and it will probably take a few more days!"
"It takes time to sort out the supplies for my followers! Give me a few more days to prepare!"
"I need to spend some time to get familiar with and run-in with the soldiers assigned to me, otherwise my command will be unfavorable!"
"..."
Excuses like these have only one goal, which is to delay time as much as possible without breaking the bottom line.
Compared with the comfortable life in the capital, the long journey to the border and the fierce battle with monsters are very hard and torturous.
They naturally think that they can delay it for a day, as long as they can reach the border before the final deadline.
This year is different.
Don't forget.
Kenredin has not "compensated" the nobles for the gold coins they lost because of the Gilded Club.
The situation couldn't be more obvious.
Kenredin seemed to be waiting for them to show their attitude.
Whoever performs well in the call and war against the monster Red Tide will get the "compensation" first.
What else can the nobles say?
Even if they cursed Kenreddin in their hearts, they could only grit their teeth and roll up against each other!
The more people mobilized, the better;
The faster they gathered, the better;
The sooner they acted, the better!
The mobilization and marching of the King's Army have always been in the mode of "breaking the whole into pieces".
Use flag battle formations as command units for dispatching.
With the dispatching and commanding level of the Kingdom of Reyak, it is difficult to command tens of thousands of soldiers to act in a uniform and synchronous manner.
After all, these soldiers themselves were temporarily recruited, and they could not be expected to have too high military literacy.
Every year, the conscription and mobilization basically means walking for 1 day and resting for 1 day, walking and stopping.
The day of stopping is not only for rest, but also for looking for idiots who accidentally got lost, or fools who followed the wrong flag in a daze.
When passing through different towns, you need to go into the city to collect supplies, replenish dry food and fresh water and other things.
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It's inefficient, but there's no way.
This is the most suitable, cost-effective and best solution for the Kingdom of Reyak.
In a world with extraordinary powers, the enemies that soldiers have to fight are not their own kind, but dangerous monsters.
Maintaining a standing army and training a large number of professional soldiers on weekdays is a loss-making thing.
It's not that there is no money.
Instead, there is little difference between the roles that temporary recruits and professional soldiers can play during the monster red tide.
What they have to do is to operate catapults, crossbow carts, or bows to attack monsters from a distance before the monsters get close to the city wall, and eliminate the low-level monsters among them.
When the monsters start to climb the city wall, they use various city defense tools, such as rolling logs, knife carts, grease barrels, etc., to hinder their climbing.
If the defense pressure is so great that the monsters have already climbed the city wall, they need to hold shields, spears, etc., and fight with the monsters in close combat to delay time.
Wait for the magic bombing of the spellcaster sequence to arrive, or the divine attack of the Crusaders, or several powerful warrior professionals to jump onto the city wall to "clear the field".
The key factor that determines the outcome of this war is still those professionals with extraordinary power.
Ordinary soldiers rely more on the tall and balanced city walls to delay time, or operate various simple equipment to attack.
Expect the spears in their hands to cause damage to those level 2 and level 3 monsters?
Overthinking.
They can't even break the defense.
No matter how carefully a professional soldier is trained, if he can't even inspire anger and is not even a level 1 warrior, then he is not good enough in front of the monsters and can only serve as a "cannon fodder" or a tool to operate equipment.
Calculate the cost.
It is better to maintain this half-civilian and half-soldier route.
Usually they are ordinary farmers, citizens, vendors, and workers.
When the mobilization is called up, just give them a weapon and a shield, and then conduct simple training temporarily so that they can understand a few of the simplest commands, and then they can be sent to the battlefield to resist monsters.
Anyway, the real battle time is only a few days.
As long as they can survive these few days, after the [Past Glory] barrier is restored, they can withdraw from the defense line, receive a fairly generous conscription allowance, and then return to their hometown with the large army and resume normal life.
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