Lorist returned to Hilovas Island at the end of November, accompanied by ten newly formed slave guard battalions. In the following cold winter, the Marine Corps will still not have time to rest. They will, as always, transport the materials and food, soldiers, and liberated slaves accumulated in the Haneyabad Islands to Hilovas Island. The entire transportation process will continue. It will not end until February next year.
The Marine Corps now has about 45,000 people and nearly 400 sea-going ships of various types. Lorist ordered the current captain of the Marine Corps, the Golden Knight Sambawood, to reorganize the Marine Corps after the transportation, and set up two armed patrol fleets on Hilovas Island and Northland, and a lightning strike fleet mainly based on artillery, and set up three more Transport the merchant fleet, release the requisitioned one or two hundred medium-sized sea ships, and give compensation, and they will be responsible for transporting the slaves who want to go home to the Galintia continent.
The twenty slave guard battalions established in the Haneyabad Islands, Lorist planned to convert them into twenty guard battalions, and form a large guard regiment with the five guard battalions in the family territory. The fifth battalion is a corps, and the five corps is a legion. The total number of people is 75,000. This will be the most important defensive force of the Norton family.
Thanks to the generous capture obtained from the destruction of the Kingdom of Haneyabad, Lorist already has sufficient capital to prepare for another military reform of the Norton family's armed forces. There are two field and attack legions, one is the Rock Legion, which is mainly based on foot combat, and will be the main force for future siege. There is also the Flying Tiger Legion, a cavalry regiment mainly engaged in field raids.
The days passed quickly in a busy manner. In March after the new year, Lorist held the family New Year's knight meeting in the rock castle of the family territory, announcing the Norton family's resolution on armed military reform. Established the Panshi Legion, mainly composed of two heavy armored regiments and a single-wheeled crossbow regiment, combined the archer battalion and the scout battalion to form two scout battalions, and formed a scout battalion, Thunderbolt sling battalion, and then formed three logistics battalions. A regiment. A total of 60,000 people in four corps. The head of the legion is the golden knight of the family, Bodfinger, and the deputy head of the army is the two golden knights of Malek and Mason, who has just joined the family.
Establish the Flying Tiger Legion. The head of the legion is the family's Golden Knight Tiger Ross, and the deputy head is the Golden Knight Yuri and the God Arrow Josk. The Flying Tiger Legion is mainly composed of two Lancer regiments and chariot steel crossbow regiments, plus a scout battalion and a women's battalion, and three logistics battalions are formed to form a regiment, which is also four regiments with 60,000 people.
Finally, there is the Guards Corps, with a total of twenty-five battalions and seventy-five thousand men. The leader of the legion is the Golden Knight Farea. The deputy commanders are the two golden knights, Berunek and Jades, a former slave gladiator.
In addition to these three legions, there are three battalions of the Norton Knights headed by Terman with 9,000 people, and the guard battalion under the direct control of Lorist has 3,000 people. In addition, there are 18,000 sea corps led by Semba Wood. In other words, the regular army armed by the Norton family has reached 225,000 people. This is not counting those garrison battalions, garrison regiments, and more than 100,000 garrison troops in towns and villages.
The Panshi Legion, as the main force of the infantry battle, will be deployed on Hilovas Island, while the Flying Tiger Legion will be deployed between the Xing'an Plain and the Red River Plain in front of the Panshi Castle. The twenty-five battalions of the Guards were dispersed, and the first Guards Battalion was stationed in Rock Castle, and the second Guards Battalion was stationed in the harbor city named Beihai City by Master Si Luoba. The Guishan Fortress and the Woniugang Fortress defending the mountain barbarians were stationed in the third and fourth battalions of the Guards respectively.
Since the western part of the Northland has become a ranch owned by the Norton family, Lorist decided to reopen the secret smuggling channel in the Blade's Edge Mountains in the former Beiye City under the advice of Fatty Shi and his subordinates. It is also the passage where the Duke Lukins, the Duke of the Northland, ordered his golden knights Chevany and Henned to attack the Norton family's territory. The burned vines have grown back in the past six or seven years, and these hanging vines can be used again. The downed vines build a new rope bridge.
With this passage, the cattle and sheep produced in the pastures in the west of the Northland do not need to take a big detour from the Rock Castle to enter the family territory, and directly enter the family territory through the path of the Blade's Edge Mountains, saving two days of time. Lorist is not going to build a cable bridge, he is going to use the trestle bridge built in ancient Sichuan that he saw on TV in his previous life to replace the vine-woven cable bridge. Then build a castle fortress in the valley where the Chivani knight died in battle, and the fifth battalion of the Guards is responsible for stationing it.
The remaining 20 guard battalions will conduct training in the family territory, awaken their fighting spirit, familiarize themselves with various types of ordnance, and practice martial arts. Lorist said to the knights under his command that he hoped that within two years the Norton family would become an elite and invincible military force, living up to the reputation of the Roaring Bear family in the Northland.
After finishing the resolution on military reform, Lorist reviewed the family's achievements in territorial development last year. This year, the development of Hongheyuan and the construction of Beihai City will be completed. In addition to the construction of the new passage and the castle fortress in the Blade's Edge Mountains in the family territory, the big construction project is the Nico Academy that Miss Teresti is in charge of. Lorist put a heavy burden on Soderkamp and asked him to renovate all the roads in the family territory after the opening of the Red River Plain, widen, straighten and flatten the road traffic in the family territory. Convenient and faster.
The development and construction of Shilovas Island is still proceeding according to the previous plan. The main labor force is the tens of thousands of refugees rescued from the Haneyabad Islands. In addition, Bodfinger's Rock Legion is stationed on the island to help. I believe It will take another two years to see results. Hansk, the head of the family statistics department, was appointed by Lorist as the new governor of Hilovas Island.
After the family meeting was over, Lorist finally had some free time, and first went to visit his lover, Schwader. Before going to the Kingdom of Haneyabad, Schwader insisted on going with Lorist. Lorist said that the battle was fierce and the outcome of this trip was unpredictable, so it was difficult for him to take care of Schwader. But Schwader said that he had been promoted to the Black Iron Order, and he was more than enough to deal with a few soldiers, and he didn't need Lorist to take care of him.
Lorist smiled, turned around and found Reddy, and asked him to take Schward to practice the artificial dynamic vision. Lorist told Schwader that to join my school, one must learn this dynamic vision, which is a necessary condition for our practice. Now that you are already a member of the Black Iron Rank, you can't delay any longer. You should practice this at home while I am going out.
So Schwader was taken away by Reddy. After Lorist returned to the family territory, Reddy came to report that Schward already had dynamic vision. However, his physical fitness was not as good as Reddy's, or even Pat's. It took more than half a month of practice before he got used to the feeling of being tied to an iron circle and spinning around. It would be a mistake for Xiao Si not to come to see Lorist.
When Lorist went to the Houshan training ground, Schward was practicing swordsmanship. It was obvious that Schwarder's swordsmanship had improved a lot since he had dynamic vision. Lorist was very satisfied, and after two more years of training, he would be able to easily face the silver-ranked swordsman Schward.
In addition to carefully teaching Reddy and Schwader, Lorist would harass Miss Teresty when he was free, or go to Maple Forest Villa to find his concubine Irina to resolve his dissatisfaction with desire. Then two months later, Miss Teresty and Elina won the bid again and both became pregnant. Compared with the joyful Elina, Miss Teresty was so angry that this year the focus was on the construction of Nico Academy. At this critical moment, how could she preside over the construction of the academy when she was getting pregnant by Lorist, so she announced that Lorist Rist is persona non grata, and he is denied visits.
Lorist, who had hit a snag, returned to the Rock Castle just in time to meet Fatty Shi to submit an application for leave. He was going to stay at home and not go out. He would train hard for two years under the guidance of the great swordsman Injerek and strive to be promoted to gold. order.
This was something that was promised in the Haneyabad Islands. Lorist approved Fatty Shi's request for leave, and then opened a few bottles of good wine and ordered a few side dishes to get drunk with Fatty Shi. When the wine was hot, Fatty Shi finally asked his doubts, why Lorist wanted to expand the family's armed forces after the destruction of the Kingdom of Haneyabada, and did he have another target
Now the family is armed with nearly 300,000 people, and the expenditure on equipment and military expenses has greatly exceeded the income of the family territory. It is estimated that the annual overspend is more than one million Jinford. Fatty Shi was very worried that after a few years like this, the family would be burdened with a heavy expenditure burden.
Lorist pulled the map of the Principality of Madras with a smile, punched it, and said with his tongue out, "It's okay, the Principality of Madras will be ours in two years..."
Fatty Shi wanted to ask again, but he saw Lorist fell headfirst on the sofa and passed out.
Fatty Shi's request for leave was approved, and a chain reaction occurred. In less than ten days, Dolles, El, Jim, Vasimma, Pachico, Pete, and more than a dozen family knights with three-star silver ranks all offered their leave. An application for leave, asking for two years of leave to prepare for promotion to the golden rank, even the bearded ex-bandit Ovekis of the Thunderbolt Slingers camp also submitted an application for leave.
"What the hell do you want to do, don't you all quit?" Lorist was furious, first he called Ovekis for surgery, and cursed at him.
Ovekis said aggrievedly: "My lord, when you recruited me as a family knight, didn't you give me a high-level battle qi cheat book with the fire attribute? At that time, I was already a three-star silver star. In recent years, I have used this high-level I have mastered the fighting qi cheats, and now I am at the peak of the silver three stars. I feel that I will be promoted, so I want to ask for a year off... "
"Uh..." Lorist pulled Ovekis over for a check, and it was true as he said, the bearded ex-bandit had indeed reached the peak of the Silver Star, and immediately turned his anger into joy, and patted Ovekis on the shoulder with a smile He said: "I'm sure of your fake, work hard, get promoted to the golden rank as soon as possible, and the family will have one more golden knight. The knight manor in Hongheyuan has already prepared it for you."
Speaking of the knight manor in Hongheyuan, Lorist suddenly understood the reason why so many family knights with three silver stars asked for leave. The eight knight manors in Xing'anyuan have been assigned to the eight golden knights including Bodfinger and Tiger Ross. The next eight knight manors in Hongheyuan, Sambawood, the newly joined Jades, and Mason, the three golden knights, have already reserved three, so the remaining five knight manors will fall into those families with three silver stars In the eyes of the knights, everyone wants to be promoted to the gold rank early so as to obtain a knight manor.
"These bastards, what's the rush! It's not that the family no longer builds a knight manor, so there's nothing to snatch." Lorist approved the leave of all family knights who applied. Anyway, the Norton family has been keeping a low profile for the past two years. Nothing should happen. At the same time, he picked up the map of the Northland, muttering to himself that he was going to find a place to develop and build something.
On May 23rd, Lorist, who came back from the Gunpowder Experimental Field in the Blade's Edge Mountains, was sitting in his study and meditating. He had already stopped the trial production of muskets when he couldn't make suitable steel. If the foundation is not solid, it is impossible to jump into the age of firearms. Now the family's firearms production is basically bronze cannons. In the absence of large-scale refining of firearms, a small amount of handmade firearms is not worth the candle for the family. After all, Galintia is a vindictive world, and some cold weapons are more suitable for war than firearms.
Among other things, just like the steel crossbow equipped by the family armed forces, the range is as far as 300 meters, while the effective range of handmade muskets is only 150 meters, which is half the distance. Guaranteed to be more efficient than muskets.
Schwader knocked on the door and came in: "My lord, Beihai City has sent an urgent envoy, reporting that Dawn's Flying Fish has returned from Hirovas Island and has brought the latest battle report. In the province of Campona in the Kingdom, the 170,000 horses led by His Highness the Second Highness were trapped in the three provinces of the Kingdom of Ridleys, and the connection with the Kingdom of Antinac was separated. In addition, the Chicod Chamber of Commerce The young master Theliham arrived at Hilowas Island on a merchant ship of the Petersen Chamber of Commerce. He said he came as a peace envoy and wanted to see you. Governor Hansk left him in Hilowas On the island, waiting for your disposal."
"What did you say?" Lorist was shocked. When he set off to Haneyabad Kingdom in September last year, he received the battle report that the Second Highness had lost consecutive battles in Magik Province, the last province of the Ridleys Kingdom. There are more than 200,000 troops, which is not counting the more than 100,000 defenders distributed in the Kingdom of Antinak and the newly occupied provinces. Lorist thought that His Royal Highness had a strong army and could win in the end.
Unexpectedly, after the Kingdom of Haneyabada was destroyed and came back, the battle report about the Second Highness was still entangled with those nobles in the Majik Province of the Kingdom of Ridleys, and the Second Highness dispatched 100,000 troops Adjacent to the duchies of Handela and Faker, the four central duchies were required to cancel their national titles and return to the territory of the empire. But this request was rejected by the Fourth Principality, and they once again formed a coalition to confront the Second Highness's army, and vigorously supported Magik's noble armed forces.
At that time, Lorist was very happy when he got the news. He felt that the Second Highness had finally suffered a lot, and understood that any accident could happen. Thinking back when we met in the imperial capital back then, His Royal Highness still swore that the grand dukes of the four principalities in the central region were all loyal to the former Krissen Empire. The glory of the former empire.
There will be more battles to be fought. Anyway, although Lorist is in the camp of the Antinac Kingdom, he knows that the Second Highness is very afraid of himself and the Norton family's armed forces, and has never called the Norton family to join the battle. However, it seemed that His Highness the Second Highness could still hold on, so Lorist didn't plan to meddle in his own business. Sending troops without the Second Highness's official order to join the war would be charged with rebellion.
Lorist was happy to be at leisure, and he didn't plan to send troops to help in the battle, so he hid in the Northland. Unexpectedly, half a year later, instead of destroying the aristocratic armed forces of the Ridleys Kingdom, the Second Highness was stabbed in the back by the Ford Business Alliance, losing the province of Campona, and the Second Highness lost the Kingdom of Antinac. connect. The Porto-Org Province and Anderwolf Province, where the Royal City of Federica is currently occupied by him, are both the territory of the Kingdom of Redlis, and here they fought again in the Magik Province. The situation suddenly became extremely bad, and they lost their rear. Support, I am afraid that they will not be able to support them on the front line.
"Strange, where did the business alliance come from?" Lorist stood up muttering, and said to Schward, "Order me, I'm going to Hilovas Island..."
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