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Roland, who had no demand for other slaves, did not buy it.

After leaving the slave market, Roland said goodbye to Baron Leon, and at the same time instructed him to bring the survey team and prospecting team as soon as possible.

Baron Leon said that he would try his best, because this matter ultimately depends on the decision of Duke Osborne.

Roland nodded understandingly, and after saying goodbye to Baron Leon, he went directly to the treasury of the Osborn family.

He asked to exchange all the remaining gold coins directly.

Although he had met Roland before and verified his withdrawal documents, the steward still followed the procedure and found out the authenticity.

Only then did the staff go inside to get the remaining coins for Roland.

Soon the two guards came over with a box, and the steward came up to check the serial number and confirmed that it was the box of gold that was opened and took away a thousand gold coins just today.

"Sir, this is the remaining nine thousand gold coins, please check."

"No need, the reputation of the Osborn family is known to the world."

After Roland finished speaking, he put the remaining gold coins into the big box. Roland thought that holding a huge box like this would be too conspicuous and would be easily missed.

Then he asked: "This steward, can you provide a carriage, it's too conspicuous to go out of the city like this."

The steward nodded understandingly and arranged for a servant to prepare a carriage for Roland.

After a while, the carriage arrived.

After rejecting their request for help, Roland lifted the 200-pound box with both hands and put it on the carriage.

When he got into the carriage, he realized that his horse was not easy to carry, so he had no choice but to go to Baron Leon's mansion, intending to store the horses at Baron Leon's mansion.

What surprised him was that Baron Leon was still in the mansion. Baron Leon laughed and said that he could just hold on to the reins and let him follow.

Roland patted his head before he realized it. The carriage was running so slowly, there would definitely be no problem with the horses following him.

And he also brought 30 imperial knights in armor. With their superb horse skills, there must be a way to bring this war horse back.

But this also reminded him of one thing, that is, the matter of buying war horses. He plans to buy 700 war horses.

These horses are enough for him to recruit noble soldiers for a year at his current family rank. As for the Imperial Private Cavalry, he is not planning to recruit them now.

Because in his opinion, most of the time, the cavalry archers are more harassing, diverting, or scout work, and it is difficult for them to achieve the purpose of making a final decision.

Unlike most people's imagination, the distance of riding and shooting is very short.

Under normal circumstances, archery is only started twenty or thirty meters in front of the enemy's formation. The accuracy of this distance does not need to be considered at all. You guessed it, it is the legendary random arrow method.

Don't say that cavalry can contain heavy cavalry and destroy them slowly. The heavy cavalry can ignore you and directly cooperate with the infantry to charge the enemy square.

You thought you restrained him, but he actually restrained you!

In addition, mounted archers often face counterattacks from enemy archers. Generally speaking, the poundage and size of a horse bow are smaller than that of a foot bow. The foot bow and horse bow shoot against each other. In terms of strength, accuracy and distance, it is often the horse bow who suffers.

On the one hand, the short distance of riding and shooting is due to the consideration of the hit rate. On the other hand, the farther the arrow travels after it is shot, the lower the kinetic energy, and the worse the armor-piercing ability. With the increasing level of armor protection and the rising rate of army armor, close-range shooting is also a choice that cavalry shooters have to make.

As for how close the riding and shooting distance is, we can get a glimpse of it through the modern riding and shooting competition. For example, in the FITE China International Riding and Archery Competition, the vertical distance from the target to the center line is 9 meters.

The heavy cavalry charge is different. In the case of a small number, of course, the heavy cavalry should be considered.

When horse archers form large-scale clusters, they can indeed cause a lot of damage, but to raise so many thousands or even tens of thousands of horses, it consumes more than the same number of people.

Moreover, they were all horses that could not be used for production. To support so many masters at home, Roland's nascent territory did not need to be developed at all.

"Can you buy some war horses from Duke Osborn?"

Roland's question made Baron Leon a little embarrassed. He asked tentatively, "How many warhorses do you need?"

Roland, who saw Baron Leon's embarrassment, said, "Not much, just 700 warhorses."

"Seven hundred war horses are not many? If you want one or two hundred, I can think of a way. If you want so many, I can't do anything about it."

Baron Leon's remarks did not disappoint Roland.

"Why don't you ask Duke Osborne? Buy seven hundred if you can, or one or two hundred if you can't.

Anyway, you will come later, so just bring it for me. "

Baron Leon took a serious look at Roland, and only now did he realize that this guy is thick-skinned enough to drive everything to himself.

But he still had to say what he had to say.

"Okay, that's it, the cost is 2 gold." Looking at Roland's painful expression, Baron Leon continued: "A war horse needs at least 3 years of training, and the price of the horse's food is almost the same. Don't think it's expensive, if it wasn't for Duke Osborn's good looks at you, he wouldn't be able to buy it."

After hearing Baron Leon's words, Roland nodded in agreement, mainly because he was used to being poor. Even if he got 10,000 gold coins, he found that he couldn't help spending it, and he couldn't help but plan to spend more economically.

After Baron Leon said goodbye to Roland, he kept watching Roland disappear outside the city. He was not very worried about the cash on delivery that Roland said, because Roland has money.

What worried him was how to talk to Duke Osborn, this Roland really gave him a problem.

But these have nothing to do with Roland.

Because it was a carriage that was rented to someone else, the family crest on the carriage had been removed.

After showing the development documents on his carriage, he passed the city gate smoothly under the awe-inspiring eyes of a sergeant.

Roland did not rush to leave first, but put the gold coins in the box into the storage space first, and then came to the military camp outside the city.

He took the cavalry and left the barracks first, and then came to a remote place, considering that the speed of the carriage was not fast, and it was not easy to approach the road to open the map.

He took out the bag they had prepared long ago, and asked them to put some stones in it, pretending that they had already bagged the gold coins in the box, and drove the carriage and cavalry to the city gate.

After Roland, who came to the city gate, explained the situation to the sergeant, he left the carriage at the city gate.

In the eyes of others, this squad of cavalry seems to have nothing unusual in the eyes of others, and their cloth bags may be carrying supplies and the like.

There may have been some attention-grabbing carriages in the past, but no one will care about them now, because there is not enough interest to lure them.

This will keep them safe along the way.

And in the eyes of insiders, it is a 'purse' containing gold coins, but those insiders will not make up their minds about it.

Because there are only a few well-known people in the know, if you really want to track it down, it can be said that there is no way to escape.

Apart from Duke Osborn and Baron Leon, there are only those who manage the treasury, and those who can manage those places must have their loyalty guaranteed.