Chapter 16 Return

After eating the barbecue, Jialin and his group extinguished the campfire, packed up the tent, and prepared to set off.

After setting off, Garin rode on his warhorse and let the horse follow the team. Fortunately, the team was not moving fast because of the baggage carts behind, so he closed his eyes and turned his view to the base.

After a nap in the morning, I looked at the Altar of the Kings again and it seemed that the progress was only half completed. It would take some time. The time spent on the barracks has far exceeded that of the barracks.

After spending so much time, Garin guessed that the Altar of Kings might give him a different surprise.

There are now nine more farmers, two infantrymen and four musketeers in the base.

What surprised Garin was that the musketeers were not dwarves, but humans.

I saw that these more than a dozen combat units were divided into two teams: four infantrymen and two musketeers, who took turns patrolling the forest where the base was located.

When I first started training, I went to fight the trolls. When I came back from fighting the trolls, I was too tired and hadn't taken a good look at the newly trained units.

Garin took this opportunity to carefully observe the two existing combat arms in his base from a bird's-eye view.

The infantrymen and musketeers were all about 1.89 meters tall, strong and sturdy, and looked very young.

The equipment of infantrymen and musketeers was different.

Garin felt that the style of armor on the infantry was very familiar. It was a silver-white plate armor suit with red coating on the edge of the armor. He held a white shield with red edges in his right hand and a broad-bladed long sword in his left hand.

After thinking for a while, Garin recognized that this was a suit produced by the forging profession that he particularly liked for a period of time in his previous life: the King's Suit.

He once used his Paladin to transmogrify a set of king's suits, and specially found a similar one-handed sword to transmogrify. As for the last shield, Garen finally dropped the Commander's Shield in the Shadowfang Keep dungeon: a shield with a lion head emblem.

I put a lot of effort into cosplaying as a Stormwind guard, and even pretended to log in every night to patrol the streets of Stormwind.

The armor on the infantry reminded Garin of a memory of his childhood, and he looked very embarrassed. It was a wonderful memory, carefree, mining, riding mounts, playing games, and really loving this game.

The musketeer's equipment was much simpler, with a mail chest, mail trousers, brown leather boots on the legs, shoulder armor made of leather and mail, and a long-barreled musket in his hand.

The reason why musketeers are not fully armed like infantry is that as ranged outputers, they do not have much chance to engage in close combat with the enemy.

However, in order to prepare for possible close combat, the musketeers had a blade installed under the metal muzzle of their muskets, which could be used to chop and stab targets.

Then Garin watched their introduction.

Terran Infantry

Armor type: Heavy plate

Weapons: Broadsword, Heavy Shield

Strength: Level 3

Skills: Martial Swordsmanship, Shield Defense (not researched)

Training cost: 135 units of gold

Consumption: Two units of food per day

Human Rifleman

Armor type: Medium mail

Weapon: Bladed rifle

Strength: Level 3

Skills: Firearm proficiency, aiming and shooting

Training cost: 75 units of gold 125 units of wood

Consumption: Three units of food per day

Although they were surprised that the musketeers were not dwarves, this did not affect their combat effectiveness. Moreover, at this point in time, the Alliance had not yet been established, and the relationship between Stromgarde and the dwarves was limited to trade. It was difficult to explain the appearance of a large number of dwarves in their own team.

It would be best if all the units trained at the base in the future were humans. As the prince of Stromgarde, one of the human kingdoms, my base would be the human race.

In Garin's initial conception, the combat troops trained at the base will be his main army in the future. In terms of the intensity of future wars, he may need to maintain an army of more than 100,000 to face the Burning Legion.

The troops trained by the base do not need military pay to maintain, and the only supplies they need are food. Moreover, they are loyal to themselves, fearless of death, and can be replenished quickly. Now the base has not prompted that there is a population limit for the units being trained, which is a happy thing.

The population of the Kingdom of Stromgarde is too small, so Garin, the kingdom's army, is prepared to serve as an auxiliary.

The current high-end combat force is his father, the legendary King Solastorbain, and his cousin Danas will also be able to achieve the legendary level in the later stage.

Stromgarde's resources are still too scarce. Apart from its famous army, it really doesn't have many talented people. It cannot compare to Lordaeron, which is full of talented people. Even Stormwind Kingdom is richer than Stromgarde.

Garen was envious. Among the five first-generation paladins, four were from Lordaeron, and together with the later Ashbringer Mograine, they were the ceiling of human combat power.

Logistics rely on the magic wheat produced by the farm. In the later stage, you can add other crops and grow medicinal herbs for trade. You can build more farms and store more food and medicinal herbs. Azeroth has been a world dominated by war for more than 30 years. Food and medicinal herbs are indispensable supplies.

With food in hand, there is no need to worry. When the war with the orcs breaks out, the major kingdoms will recruit a large number of soldiers and the labor force will decrease, which will lead to food shortages in the human world.

The magic wheat on the farm has a short maturity period, and only one farmer is needed to harvest the grain. This will be a way to make money.

Garin was not planning to make a fortune from the national crisis. The food gap was so huge that even if he maintained the current price, his own food could be continuously converted into gold coins.

The simple development route was initially determined by Garin on horseback.

Currently, he is only considering the period after the Orc War, which is a turning point that he needs to change his own destiny and the fate of Stromgarde. The future of Stromgarde will begin to decline because of the Orc War.

The team trekked across the highland grasslands after a bumpy journey. Omar and Varokal took turns leading the way, avoiding the wolves and velociraptors on the highlands.

Finally, before dark, he saw the road built by the kingdom. Going west along the road, Jialin could already see some people.

Not long after nightfall, they arrived at the nearest town: Three Forks Town, where Kingdom Avenue splits into two, forming a Y-shaped intersection. It is also the largest population center west of Geshak Farm.

The moment he dismounted, Garin grimaced at the discomfort in his crotch. The long hours of riding had already made him miserable. He could have avoided this suffering and gone to the carriage to rest like the wounded, but he rejected the proposal.

Jialin has always been strict with himself and dared not relax. In the future, riding a horse will be indispensable for marching, and he must adapt. It is impossible for the soldiers to march hard while he, as the commander, can sit leisurely in the carriage, right?

I am not a famous scholar like Zhuge Liang, who sits in a four-wheeled carriage, wearing a feather fan and a scarf, confident and calm.

A man who can pacify the world with his writing and decide the fate of the world with his martial arts, like a king with top martial arts skills like Solas, this is what I yearn for.