Chapter 257:

The news that Arda sent troops to Emsen alone spread throughout the Northwest Gulf, making the lords look at this earldom with admiration again in the Battle of Bidowburg. Emson is Maltz Kent's old den, which is tantamount to touching the tiger's **** alone.

The other lords in the alliance wrote to Paul anxiously, advising him to proceed with caution. If the battle situation was unfavorable, they might not be able to provide support in time, but Paul wrote back to reassure them.

Paul's self-confidence comes from two points. One is the current combat effectiveness of Arda's army, and the other is the new military service system implemented by the General Staff.

Since last year, the General Staff has sent personnel to various large villages and towns in the territory. These people are either retired officers and soldiers or active soldiers directly drawn from the army. Their task is to organize and train the local militia and make the militia a force Qualified reserve force.

After the start of the new year, these instructors were assigned to a new institution—Military Service Station. In addition to continuing to organize and train the local militia, the Military Service Station also added a new task—regular statistics of the conditions for enlistment in the area under its jurisdiction The military service population, the inspection conditions include age, height, physical fitness, and even the reputation of neighbors, family crime records, etc. The statistics are then aggregated to Lake Township.

When Arda's various armed organizations—the navy, the army, and the internal guards—are short of personnel, such as encountering heavy casualties or forming new troops, the staff will take out the latest list of military service population and distribute them in various places according to the proportion. Select a group and send enlistment notices one by one to the military service stations in various places. The people in the military service stations will take the notices and visit door to door, and finally organize the personnel and send them to Huxin Town to report on the specified date. .

In this way, a new batch of Arda soldiers were born, and after three months of intensive training, they could go to the battlefield with rifles in their hands. If the situation is urgent, they will train for a few days and then go directly to the battlefield. Anyway, most of the enemies they face have just put down their hoes for a few days.

According to the calculations of the General Staff, after the implementation of the new militia system and military service system, under ideal conditions without considering other factors, Arda and Bairdin can mobilize a total of 15,000 troops in an emergency.

As earls, the Greiman family does not have many vassals, and has always been regarded as a symbol of weakness, but it is a great advantage for Paul. Every inch of land in his territory is under his direct management , his decree could reach every town and every village, at least in theory.

However, other lords of the same level as him did not have this convenience. Their decrees could only be unimpeded in their own direct territories, and they had to be approved by their vassals before they could be implemented in their vassals' territory. Of course, this also depends on the relationship between the vassal and the vassal. If it is a powerful vassal with absolute power in his hands, most of his decrees can be enforced on the vassal's territory. As for the effect of the execution, That's another story.

Moreover, the vassal's obligation to the lord is not unlimited. For example, if there are 20 knights in a baronial territory and can recruit 500 soldiers, then strictly speaking, he only needs to provide 5 knights and more than 100 soldiers to his superior feudal lord. Fulfilling their duties as ministers, the lords will only devote all their strength when defending their territories.

However, in reality, no one would be so stupid as to only provide their lord with the minimum amount of troops in the vassal's duty. In addition to showing their loyalty, providing more troops can also gain greater discourse in the distribution of spoils after the war right.

However, the superior feudal lord cannot abuse the loyalty of the vassals. After recruiting the troops of the vassals for a certain period of time, they will either be dismissed and returned home, or be responsible for their expenses, or even pay extra military pay.

Before reaching the deadline stipulated in the obligation, the logistics expenses and weapons and equipment of the vassal army are all resolved by themselves. The obligations in this regard extend down layer by layer. After being recruited, you need to buy weapons and armor at your own expense. Of course, if you feel that you are lucky or don’t care about your own life, you can directly fight the **** and go to the battlefield. No matter what the equipment is, you must come anyway.

As a result, the armies of the local lords are often in disorderly costumes and with various equipment. In Paul Greiman's view, even the battle of more than 10,000 people in the Battle of Pittburg was like a magnification of villager fighting Version.

A few lords with strong financial resources will keep a group of full-time or half-time soldiers, wearing uniform clothing and holding uniform weapons, but the number will not be too many, such as the group of archers who appeared in the Battle of Biduobao, They are the soldiers of the former Duke Ferdinand~www.readwn.com~ and are gathered to train archery two afternoons a week.

Only powers at the national level, such as the royal family of the Gabela Empire, the Aldo royal family, or semi-independent dukes like Giles with large territories and many vassals, can afford to support an organized army.

In the previous march, the Arda army occupied almost half of Emsen's territory. Under the continuous management of the Kent family, Emsen developed into a large earldom, with a population of nearly 10 in half of its territory. Forget it, if the first battalion and the third battalion continue to attack, although the low-level civilians of this era have no loyalty to their lords, Paul is still afraid of any troubles in the newly occupied land, so the southward troops stop at worship Renburg. One of the objectives of the operation was to create a buffer zone between Arda Bairding and Emsen, and this objective has now been achieved.

Moreover, Fort Byron, the residence of the Kent family, is stronger and more well-defended than Fort Bidor. Even with artillery, it will not be easy to conquer it. Paul still intends to wait for the troops of other allies to gather again, and fight with Kent together. Clan battle.

Fighting ahead, building behind. The rebellion in the south sent the royal family buying armor and armor all over the country. Due to the adoption of new technology, Arda's iron production increased sharply, and the cost of ironmaking was greatly reduced. Naturally, he wanted to take a share of the royal family's strong demand for weapons. But what the royal family needs are finished weapons, and the number of blacksmiths in Arda is not enough for its own production in the territory. How can it be possible to allocate a part to produce swords and armor, which are bound to be eliminated in Paul's eyes. And no matter whether it is Arda or Bairdin, there are very few blacksmiths who are good at making traditional weapons.

But there are other people's territories! Time to talk to allies about working together.