Knight Lord: Start with Daily Intelligence

The current situation doesn't allow Su Li to complain. As the commander of the entire army, if he still harbors despair and negative emotions, the morale of the entire army will inevitably waver.

So Su Li patted Schwartz on the shoulder and comforted him, "Relax, my knight. Look on the bright side, most of the Green Tide monsters are only at this level. They are all soldiers, and most of the five thousand are weak monsters from the goblin tribe. As long as these slaves can be trained to be slightly decent, they can gain an advantage in battle."

Schwartz nodded heavily and said, "You are right, wise Lord. But we need more soldiers, otherwise even the weak monsters in the goblin tribe can overwhelm us if they swarm us."

Su Li turned to look at Fandal and asked, "How many more slaves can we conscript?"

Fandal looked at the teams of slaves being led into the training ground in the distance, calculated slightly, and said, "These are already the strongest of the slaves. If we lower the standards further, we can recruit at most two more teams, but there will inevitably be women and children among them. After all, our territory's total population is only over 600 people. Except for those who are too weak to go to the battlefield, we are now almost all soldiers."

Su Li's mood was like the weather at the moment, completely covered by dark clouds and haze. Calculating like this, there are only 600 people at most, which is really difficult to resist the terrifying tide of monsters.

When will a ray of sunshine break through the dark clouds and illuminate the sky?

As he was thinking, an excited voice suddenly came from the entrance of the training ground: "Lord, good news! Good news, I have brought reinforcements."

Su Li immediately looked in the direction of the voice, and it was the Seal Chancellor Raun who was walking quickly, ignoring the heavy rain. Beside him was a stranger, a middle-aged man wearing black plate armor, with a thick beard, and a very burly figure.

Raun walked quickly to Su Li's side and introduced to Su Li: "This is Knight Beckman, the leader of the Orlando Steel Nail Mercenary Group. He has decided to lead the mercenary group to join us in the fight against the Green Tide. At the same time, there are more than 50 brave caravan guards and workers who have decided to take up arms and fight against those damn forest monsters."

The caravan guards and workers are also willing to join the battle?

Su Li was so excited that he immediately stepped forward and shook the right hand of this ranger knight, saying, "Knight Beckman, your joining is really a timely help to me. I welcome you to join on behalf of the territory."

Knight Beckman swiped his index finger across his navel and the collarbones on both sides, drawing a "V" on his chest, which is the standard salute of the Redema knights, using it as a shield against evil and monsters.

After saluting, Knight Beckman said firmly, "Fighting against evil monsters is the bounden duty of us followers of Redema!"

"Besides, Lord, you will pay a high commission for this, won't you?"

Raun secretly gestured five fingers to Su Li, and Su Li suddenly took a breath of cold air, 50 gold coins!

This mercenary group is really taking advantage of the situation.

But considering that the other party, an elite knight and at least five apprentice knights or more extraordinary people, are helping him fight a bloody battle with nearly a hundred strong men, he accepted the price.

So Su Li said solemnly: "Of course, as long as your battle is worthy of your honor, I will pay the full cost of hiring you to fight this time."

Su Li still knows something about the mercenaries in this world. This is a high-return, high-risk profession. All kinds of people may be mixed in the mercenary group. These people may be rich children who pursue excitement and glory, or poor people in dire straits, or even desperate thugs.

In other words: In most mercenary groups, as long as you are a human and can wield a weapon, you can join. This also leads to the uneven qualifications of mercenary teams. Most miscellaneous mercenary teams are untrustworthy. They may take all your money and collude with bad people, or run away like cowardly ratmen in battle.

But the remaining mercenary groups are warriors worthy of your trust and hiring with a lot of money. Although the atmosphere, hobbies, and prices of these teams may be unsatisfactory in some aspects, in order to survive in a dangerous world, people mostly choose to spend money to avoid disaster.

After Knight Orstein took Knight Beckman away to arrange their tactics, Raun walked to Su Li and said, "Lord, fortunately you didn't bargain with Knight Beckman. This is a reliable mercenary group and it is worth paying a lot of money to hire them."

Su Li asked curiously: "Do they have any famous achievements?"

"Yes, when I went to negotiate, I inquired about the information of this mercenary group from the Wester Merchant Guild to understand whether they were reliable."

"Their nickname "Steel Nail" comes from a battle near Haimen Pass, when the allied forces of the Empire and the Dwarves fought against a swarm of green skins. The bloody and cruel battle lasted from noon that day to dawn the next day. When the Dwarves' helicopter formation arrived, the only human team still fighting side by side with the Dwarves was this group of Orlando men holding halberds. Even the proud Dwarves expressed their appreciation to this group of humans, calling them "nailed to the position like steel nails"."

"Therefore, the Steel Nail Regiment gained the friendship of Haimen Pass, where they have a considerable base. They have absorbed many excellent mercenaries there and become a large mercenary group, developing several teams as bounty hunters, operating in high-risk areas many times, and have rich experience in fighting orcs. This mercenary team is one of their subordinate mercenary teams."

"It is said that their Grand Commander · Skinner · Ferdinand is a powerful champion-level knight. In his private collection room, there are also his trophies from the first half of his life: a necklace made of a hundred black orc tusks, an emerald chipped from a Ushabti, the right claw of a Skaven assassin and its still tightly held weeping blade... and Ferdinand's special hobby - 13 scalps of Chaos Champions, to commemorate 13 unforgettable champion duels."

Then this is really a trustworthy mercenary team, not the kind of villain without principles for the sake of profit that Su Li had in mind.

The joining of this mercenary group gave Su Li a little more confidence in the victory of the battle.

Su Li checked the training of these caravan mercenaries and workers in the rain. Their fighting will was very high, and even their belief in fighting monsters was stronger than that of the slaves in the castle.

Su Li was puzzled for a while, then roughly guessed the reason. If the people of the territory really can't win, they can retreat back to the castle.

But these mercenaries and lumberjacks have to enter the forest anyway. If they don't take the opportunity to unite with the Black Forest Territory army to defeat these monsters, they will have to face the harassment of the huge goblin tribe alone when they enter the forest in the future. At that time, the risk of them being attacked and killed will be greater. Therefore, their desire for victory is no less than that of the soldiers of the Black Forest Territory.

Time quickly came to the afternoon in the soldiers' high-spirited training.

The heavy rain stopped at noon. The summer weather is fast to come and fast to go. Less than half an hour after the rain stopped, the dark clouds in the sky all dissipated, revealing a clear sun.

At this time, the territory was full of bustling scenes. In order to encourage morale, Su Li did not hesitate to use up his family fortune.

He personally instructed Raun: "Increase the training intensity of the soldiers, and nutrition must keep up. Before the war, we must sharpen our swords and provide the soldiers with the most abundant food. Ensure that every soldier, even a slave, can eat half a catty of meat, a fish, two bowls of milk and three bowls of rice a day. Also, don't lack vegetables, distribute the berries and vegetables collected by the hunters. If it is really not enough, harvest some of the cabbages first."

The maturity period of cabbage is generally 60~90 days. The territory's cabbage has been planted for more than a month now. According to the three crops a year here, it is actually more than halfway through the cycle. Although the cabbage leaves are relatively small, they can still be eaten. Anyway, if the maturity period is all down, it will not be finished in a short time, which is not a waste.

The so-called sharpening of swords is these preparations before the war. If the soldiers are not full and strong, where will they get the strength to fight?

Raun nodded in response and said, "We will do our best to do all this, and ensure that all warriors are fed and drinked before the war."

"There is also one thing, four adult young men from the territory's freemen are gathered outside the Sun Goddess Monastery construction site, requesting to join the territory's team to defend their homes."

Those people from Phyllis's hometown?

Su Li replied directly: "Let them join, I believe in their courage."

Although this world has never put forward the saying "those who have constant property have constant heart", nobles have similar evaluations of the freemen regiment composed of freemen.

An imperial marshal once said: "Perhaps in the eyes of knights, they may be a mob lacking discipline, but a person can often fight with twice the strength when defending his hometown and family."

These people spent most of their savings to buy a large farm in the Black Forest Territory. They must not let all this be destroyed by the monster invasion anyway.

Then Su Li remembered Phyllis again. This girl is related to the possibility of ascending to the throne. But he is too busy to think about confessing to her.

At least survive first, and then think about the possibility of ascending to the throne!

While he and Raun were discussing supplies, a burst of rapid hooves came from afar. Judging from the sound, a cavalry, at least no less than a dozen strong warhorses, were approaching rapidly!

Soon, Hild's heroic voice came: "Lord, I have brought you a combat pilgrimage group of more than 60 people!"