Chapter 82 New Army Plan
A tooth-grinding crunching sound was heard, and the wall of the Grand Duke's Palace, which was nearly 100 meters away from me, slowly collapsed in a strange way. A section of the wall about 5 meters long was completely broken into pieces, and along both sides of the gap, the wall about 10 meters long turned into white ice crystals. Terrifying magical power, horrifying mixed magic, no water or wind magic of the same level that I have seen has such horrifying striking power, even the most powerful fire magic does not have this ability.
"Who is it? What happened..." Just as Yaruo and I were standing there in a daze, a large group of soldiers from the Duke's Palace and knight swordsmen rushed over shouting madly, blocking the inside and outside of the wall. At the same time, even Sack, who was dressed in armor, came to the scene.
"Damn it, Hanlong, you are not using my house as a testing ground for your new weapons, are you?" Looking at the collapsed wall that was nearly 6 meters high and more than half a meter thick, and I happened to be standing right in front of the gap, Sack thought of me first.
"Well, I didn't test the new weapon. I just wanted to try out the new magic scroll I bought, but I ended up messing up..." Damn, why am I so unlucky? Who knew this kind of mixed magic was so abnormal? In the previous battle of Waste Stone City, I didn't find that the wind or water magicians would be so powerful. This kind of mixed magic is simply abnormal, but I have to study it carefully in the future.
"You are really cruel. You actually used my wall to test the ice storm magic scroll that can only be bought with 50 gold coins. I wonder if you will use me to test whether you can kill the Silver Knight if I teach you forbidden spells in the future. Forget it this time. If it happens next time, I will use my sword energy to make a hole in your residence. All right, do what you need to do. Sora and his men will deal with this place. Hanlong, follow me. The rest of you can disperse!"
After listening to what Thacker said and looking at his clothes, I knew Thacker should have just returned from the military camp, so he was most likely looking for me because of the killing of those new soldiers in the 6th Division. But looking at Thacker's current appearance, he didn't look like he was going to blame me, so I followed him to the main house with peace of mind, and at the same time took out a dozen ice storm magic scrolls from Yaruo's bag and stuffed them into my arms.
"Hanlong, there's nothing big that I called you here for. The main reason is that someone just wanted to spread the word that your method of killing those new recruits was too violent. Although after my investigation I found out that it was entirely their own fault, and I also responded to the military according to the situation at the time. But in the future I hope that even if you want to execute soldiers, you will pay a little attention to the impact, otherwise it will be very annoying if someone causes trouble for you." After sitting down in Thack's training room, Thack's guards surrounded the entire house. Although Thack blamed me the most for my behavior in the recruit camp, from his tone, I could tell that he had some complaints about my actions this time.
"Sir, you also know that if I don't do this, I may not be able to tame those soldiers in a short time. After all, I don't have the martial arts and strength of other division commanders..."
"Let's not talk about that. Don't take to heart what I said in the military camp today. I was not very confident about a few officers present at that time, so I couldn't tell you directly. In fact, when you were forming that archer cavalry division, I wanted you to be able to transform that division into a siege equipment division at any time, and the kind that can fight with those new weapons you mentioned. In addition, His Majesty asked the Holy Dragon Legion to secretly enclose a piece of land in the suburbs of the imperial capital, preparing for you to manufacture those equipment first and store them secretly for emergency use. Do you understand now?" Sack interrupted my excuses and told me my official mission. It seems that my troops will be used as strategic forces.
"I understand. I will manufacture a batch of trebuchets with a longer range than the current trebuchets of various countries, but still inferior to the trebuchets we use in Huangshi City for training. I will also limit the power of those trebuchets so that even if others understand and learn this type of trebuchet, they can only use it to imitate it, but they lack the ability to improve it.
But my lord, you should also know that I am not very good at fighting with ordinary troops. If I were to lead such an army, would you be at ease? "
"I'm worried, but there's nothing we can do. Unless Your Majesty can immediately take control of all power in the empire and eliminate the threats from the Minister of Finance and the Minister of War, then we can let you raise an army. Otherwise, we're afraid that the empire will immediately fall into war. The forces on both sides will definitely not allow us to manufacture and equip such powerful equipment in large quantities. Looking at this situation, the worst possible scenario is that we need to deal with their siege from both sides, which is something we cannot afford."
"Then... I wonder if you can help me select a group of soldiers who can ride horses and have strong arms? I still want to form an army that can satisfy me."
"You want to form a strong archer? But on horseback, although the strong bow has a longer range, it is not convenient to use and greatly affects the mobility of the cavalry. In battle, your strong archers may only shoot one round of arrows before the enemy archers can reach you. So I still suggest that you use the multi-string strong crossbow you designed, so that when you come into contact with the enemy, you can at least shoot twice as many arrows as the enemy. I think you can consider my opinion."
"Sir, I think you misunderstood. In the army I want to form, each of them will be equipped with 2 bows and 1 crossbow, and each person will need an extra warhorse..."
"Hey, it seems like you're planning something new. But you have to promise that these equipments must be difficult for others to imitate, otherwise I won't agree to your large-scale equipment purchase. Or you can tell me what kind of army you want to build?" Upon hearing what I said, Thack became excited. A legion commander known for his arrogance suddenly turned into a curious naughty boy.