Frozen Earth Territory.
A large number of captives do not require many houses. Before the ransom arrived, Ryan arranged these captives to support the expansion of Frozen Earth Territory.
Let them clear up wasteland. The terrain at the foot of the mountain is complicated, but these prisoners are still good at paving roads and building houses.
"Just use it hard."
Ryan said this to the housekeepers Bilder and Chief Administrator Eteria.
The next day, Ryan learned that Count Soron was coming to Frozen Earth Territory with an army.
"Is it just Dragonblood Warrior Legion? That's normal."
Ryan was a little surprised, but not too surprised.
There is naturally no shortage of population in Count Soron's territory, but Otherworld Plane lost 1,500 soldiers one after another, and Count Soron did not have many troops under his command.
Instead of bringing over some crooked melons and cracked dates, it's better to go directly to the Extraordinary Legion.
This can be regarded as the few remaining assets in Count Soron's hands.
Don't look at the fact that in previous wars, the two earls easily mobilized tens of millions of troops, but in fact, they mobilized all the war potential and productivity of the entire territory for the next few decades.
How could there be so many soldiers in a non-extreme situation? The count could not bear the daily consumption of soldiers.
Just like Ryan's previous war in the mines, a thousand Earldom soldiers, eight or nine hundred of them, were semi-off-duty and only trained for a few days every month. However, because of the frequent wars in recent years, the nobles put in some effort and these people had become veterans, so they became more elite.
If there is no major war in three to five years, these semi-off-the-job troops will not be considered to have much combat effectiveness.
Under normal circumstances, Count Soron can produce an army of 5,000 regular men, which is already very powerful.
As the situation became more intense, the earl began to mobilize other people in the territory. Most of the young people were recruited, and a considerable number of old people were also recruited to form a scale of tens of thousands.
Count Soron. Strictly speaking, the basic number of soldiers is still more than 5,000. Of course, war is costly. After several years of war, the number has continued to decrease. Every time, serfs need to be recruited to replenish the army.
Under such circumstances, even the earl is under great pressure. Can't all the old, weak, women and children staying in the territory be left behind?
In most situations, the great nobles are not alone. There are many nobles, large and small, around them. In wars led by the great nobles, other nobles will participate.
Only then did a coalition of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of soldiers form.
It belongs to everyone, not just one family.
In short, dispatching Extraordinary Legion in the current situation is a last resort and the best choice.
Besides, isn't it just for times like this to support Extraordinary Legion with such a big economy?
"After you deal with me, you can use the various compensations and conditions after the war to order Zero Crossing Prefecture, influence Iron Mountain County, and change the original situation of Northwind Province to the side of Count Soron."
"In ten or twenty years, there won't be any big changes."
Ryan also had to admit that Count Soron's decision was correct.
After mentally calculating the combat potential of Count Soron, Extraordinary Legion was the final trump card, and Ryan began to calculate itself.
Frozen Earth Territory The current population is approximately 26,000.
But as for war potential, according to the recently assembled roster, Ryan can assemble at most about 3,000 to 5,500 troops.
No, it should be said that they are soldiers. They cannot be called an army.
If a war like the Orcs alien race requires the whole people to fight against each other, it will be difficult to exceed 7,000 people.
Facing the military pressure from Count Soron, it is impossible for Ryan to let seven thousand people, that is, everyone in Frozen Earth Territory except those who cannot hold weapons and those who cannot hold weapons, go to the battlefield.
There is not enough time and it is impossible. This is just a war of interests between nobles.
He couldn't even gather an overloaded army of three or four thousand, because then there would be few young and strong men in the territory.
That's right, Ryan uses conventional, which is the current number of Knight Retainer and militiamen; and the second level, overload, which refers to the young and strong people in the territory who are over fourteen years old and under forty years old with intact hands and feet; and finally the third extreme survival, that is, all-people war, to explain the war potential in their territory.
In a conventional war, if you lose, you may lose your right to speak within three to five years.
In an overload-level war, most of the production and development power in the territory will have to be compromised for the sake of the war. If it loses, there is a high probability that it will be able to hide its tail for ten to twenty years.
Extreme war, if you lose, there's no point in playing. If you're lucky and still alive, go back to the Clayton Family and act cute and coquettish.
As for men over forty? I don't really think that slaves and civilians generally have such a long lifespan and are still in good health after the age of forty.
This can only be a conventional war.
Otherwise, if the war escalates, it will evolve into Ryan leading his own interest groups to start an epic war. But correspondingly, Count Soron has a lot of nobles around him, and it will easily become Northwind Province's second all-out war.
In fact, Ryan is not even willing to start a large-scale conventional war.
Is the field still under cultivation?
Count Soron leads Extraordinary Legion. Extraordinary Legion has experienced blood and fire, and his combat effectiveness is definitely not weak.
War potential describes reality, not Ryan's ambition. He is not afraid of this war.
"Just do whatever you have to do!"
Frozen Earth Territory is very busy. Lord Ryan has taken on a lot of business. He can be regarded as a model for nobles to do business. Ordinary people have no time to chat.
Everyone is thriving.
Therefore, only a thousand soldiers came to the south, outside Mountain Forest, on the wide the Swamp.
It's getting late this year, and the Swamp is much harder. He's here waiting for Count Soron.
Somewhat surprisingly, Count Soron really brought the ransom.
The two-winged flags representing Count Soron, as well as the Dragonblood Warrior Legion that looked extremely heavy from a distance, forced the surrounding aristocrats who were watching the excitement to retreat several hundred meters.
However, what shocked them even more was actually Ryan.
Eight hundred cavalry!
Yes, the nobles almost rubbed their eyes and saw correctly. Eight hundred cavalry, war horses, armor, and spears were all available.
"Where did he get so many war horses?"
In Northwind Province, armor and weapons are nothing, only war horses are the most important thing.
So even Count Soron couldn't help but wonder when he saw this scene, whether Viscount Hogg gave his war horse to Baron Ryan.
"It's not Highland Warhorse, and it's not as tall as Highland Warhorse."
This result made Count Soron feel much better. If it were the eight hundred standard Highland Warhorse, he couldn't help but want to reconcile with Baron Ryan in some way.
But even so, the eight hundred war horses in front of him represent far more than just the concept of eight hundred war horses.
War horses need to be selected. How to choose? Choose from a large and varied quantity.
Unless you bought it.
For example, Viscount Hogg relies on the channel of Imperial House.
What about Ryan?
Did Clayton Family discover Other Plane who gave birth to war horses, or did Baron Ryan own a huge horse farm to produce war horses?
Countless guesses converged into the same answer.
Baron Ryan, not just Baron.
It's not a question about Noble Title, but about the strength.
No matter whether this war is won or lost, Baron Ryan's reputation and prestige start at least as a viscount. Many viscount nobles will lower their noble heads when they see Baron Ryan.
The eight hundred Knight Retainer behind Ryan are not just that simple.
In the distance where others cannot see, in addition to the armor and spears, they are also carrying Beast Bow. The horses under them are covered with horse armor depicting the magic Mystic Runes. The seemingly small-sized war horses are not lacking in strength at all, and they are even still growing.
Compared with the eight hundred Knight Retainer, the remaining two hundred militiamen were much shabby. Each of them had sore wrists. Being able to hold a weapon and being able to stand on the battlefield with a weapon are two different things.
Further back, there are the six hundred prisoners.
"Your Excellency Baron Ryan, I brought Soron Family's ransom, should you release Soron Family's soldiers?"
Fidel came riding a war horse. Of course, Count Soron would not say such a thing in person. He, as the successor, is very suitable.
Ryan was indeed a little surprised. It was similar to what Count Soron thought. Ryan wanted to pay a high ransom to make these prisoners stay. By then, he would kill two birds with one stone, so that these soldiers would not turn around and pick up weapons to deal with him, and he would seize some initiative in the subsequent negotiations.
I didn't expect Count Soron to be so forthcoming, and Gold Coin gave her one hundred thousand as she asked.
"Nobles never break their promises, where is Gold Coin?"
Ryan asked loudly, the wind was already a little cold today, Mithril Armor couldn't block the breeze from Northlands.
But the blood of war can Dispel all this.
Behind Fidel, soldiers came out carrying Ironwood boxes one by one. Ten large boxes were placed in the middle of the two sides. As the sword in the hands of the Noble Title successor made harsh sounds again and again, the golden punk shone in everyone's eyes.
Ryan waved his hand, and the tired and disgraced soldiers at the rear were also released and walked in the direction of Count Soron.
"Gold Coin just stay here for now, Baron Ryan. Maybe you just have the qualification to take a look at them, but you can't bear the price."
Count Soron said in a calm tone, Ryan did not move, with a smile on his face. He finally understood why nobles like to talk trash first in war.
"That's what I thought too, so that I don't have to make another trip after today."
"Two trips, very tiring."
Six hundred prisoners, including three Golden Knight, nine Silver Knight, and thirty Bronze Knight. Don't underestimate this number, because this is the number of knights under Count Soron except Dragonblood Warrior Legion.
It's already quite a lot.
They had arrived in front of Count Soron and knelt in front of the count to beg for mercy. The latter did not say anything. Soon, the six hundred prisoners were standing next to the supplies and began to put on armor and weapons.
This is Count Soron's idea. These soldiers can turn around and become the combat force of the attack Baron Ryan.
He doesn't feel so distressed when he dies, no more than the three thousand Dragonblood Warriors who are behind him.
Yes, three thousand.
At its peak, Soron Family had five thousand Dragonblood Warriors, but the wars over the years, especially the assassination of Count Weiss, led to a sharp decline in the number, and the outside world used this to evaluate the weakness of Count Soron.
But compared to Baron Ryan, the advantage is still huge.
Wearing armor is a very troublesome thing. Six hundred soldiers are not very fast, but while they are wearing armor, the eight hundred cavalry behind Ryan have already moved.
The iron hooves trampled and charged at the Swamp, which had not been solidified for thousands of years, bringing up countless mud.
"How dare you attack first?"
Count Soron was a little angry and commanded his Extraordinary Legion.
"Array up! Let them come back without any chance of return!"
Dragonblood Warrior Legion, who are fully armored infantry, are not afraid of cavalry attacks the most. Their defense and huge strength are enough to be compared with charging cavalry. Once the cavalry are trapped in place by them, they will only be massacred.
However, Northern Warhorse was extremely fast. When it was about to touch Dragonblood Warrior Legion, it suddenly passed by both sides like a river and gathered behind the Dragonblood Warrior Legion formation. Here were the 600 prisoners who had not yet put on their weapons and equipment.
"Kill them!"
Brandt roared angrily, and the energy and blood in his body boiled, turning into a bloody stag roaring forward. The war horse beneath him seemed to have become the stag's war hooves, trampling the front with a wild torrent of air.
Six hundred soldiers, they had not slept well during this period, and their physical strength was exhausted. They were putting heavy weapons and armor on their bodies at this moment. They could not avoid the cavalry charge at this moment. When the two sides collided, even the extraordinary knights among them could not make any reasonable resistance.
Eight hundred cavalry passed by six hundred extremely tired soldiers, as if they were trampling in a wheat field. Wherever they passed, all the soldiers fell to the left and right. If they were even worse, they would be trampled by the iron hooves of the following war horses, and there would be no possibility of survival.
Dragonblood Warrior Legion, as heavy armored infantry Extraordinary Legion, their speed is the most deadly. This speed caused them to react, but they were too late to save the six hundred soldiers behind them.
Boom!!!
The horse stampeded with iron hooves, turned the horse's head a hundred meters away, and then divided into two groups again, running around the Dragonblood Warrior Legion in the middle.
Brandt took out the Beast Bow from behind. For the first time in such a long time, the power of this bow and arrow was displayed in the eyes of the Northlands nobles.
The stag's bloody energy and blood gathered on the arrow, and the energy and blood gathered into combat skills. The moment the arrow left the string, it was like a sharp spear streaking across the sky.
Spear of Heroic Spirits, this Saint Realm-tier and Knight Combat Technique are a bit dry and single compared to many combat skills, but it has an advantage that many combat skills cannot match.
That is, it can act on any means of attack in the form of Qi and blood.
The sharp arrow streaked across dozens of meters of sky in an instant, penetrated the chest of one Dragonblood Warriors, penetrated from the back, brought up pillars of blood, and then pierced the chest of the second Dragonblood Warriors behind him.
There was a faint Dragon's Might in the chest, and Dragonblood Warriors's eyes became as violent as Dragons. One person affected the whole army. All Dragonblood Warrior Legion soldiers became thicker at this moment. The armor that covered their whole bodies actually began to sink a little bit on this the Swamp.
They became stronger and heavier, which also caused them to be slower.
Facing arrows from all directions, they were able to mount an effective defense, but without being able to reach the eight hundred cavalry around them, they could only be beaten passively. In a short period of time, more than a dozen Dragonblood Warriors had fallen to the cavalry fire of several powerful knights.
"Hmph!"
Count Soron snorted coldly, and next to him, Fidel understood and took out a scroll.
Count Soron, do you know the weakness of your own Extraordinary Legion?
This is an extraordinary world, and many weaknesses can be changed.
"Forbidden Curse·Wind Devil Dragon's Sigh!"
The scroll was torn open, and a strong wind rose from the ground for no reason. The strong wind gathered on all the Dragonblood Warriorss. Wearing hundreds of kilograms of burdens, they became extremely light at this moment. They ran wildly on the Swamps and killed the surrounding cavalry.
No matter how fast the cavalry is, they cannot change the direction of 90 degrees in an instant. Dragonblood Warriors directly threw the big sword in his hand. Under the huge force, Northern Warhorse was also torn open and bloody. There was a powerful knight in front. The war horse was split into two. The Frozen Earth Territory knight above also vomited blood and flew out. He could not get up after several attempts.
"Baron Ryan, you still underestimated the existence of the Extraordinary Legion."
"The reason why they are extraordinary is because they have already broken away from the way ordinary people fight!"
Count Soron looked at Ryan from a distance. He was waiting for Baron Ryan to admit defeat, or to give up after most of the cavalry were killed.
"Really?"
"I really experienced it today."
Ryan nodded. Fortunately, he never thought that the current Stag Legion could defeat Dragonblood Warrior Legion who was several times their size.
There is still a gap between quasi-Extraordinary Legion and Extraordinary Legion.
"Mage Luna, from now on, if we enjoy spicy food, it depends on whether you can do it."
Ryan said. Behind him, among the two hundred militiamen, smooth stones moved and condensed into the appearance of stone men under the influence of Golem Emblem.
Golem Puppet Mage Luna, strictly speaking, this is Ryan's biggest trump card.
It is not just Golem Puppet, but also a life with wisdom, Mage Luna's lifelong learning, and the power to fight Northlands Dead Silence's cold winter.
Golem Puppet is not tall, only three to five meters tall at most. This is the change after Mage Luna came to Frozen Earth Territory. The cavalry riding the war horses can almost reach her shoulders.
"I'm not good at fighting."
Mage Luna's voice echoed, and it didn't match the burlyness of Golem Puppet's extraordinary life, but at the next moment, the power that truly matched this Mages came.
She stood on the earth, with the endless power of earth veins and Magic Factor under her feet converging towards her, and punched the ground in front of her. In an instant, circles of ripples visible to everyone's naked eyes rippled on the Swamp.
Then, the Swamp, which was originally strong due to the cold weather, completely softened at this moment, and everyone's feet turned into a real swamp.
That's not all. In this swamp with a radius of several hundred meters, cone-shaped stone pillars are protruding. If it is just like this, forget it, but what if the speed of these protruding stone pillars is as fast as 100 meters per second?
Bang bang bang bang!!!
A man named Dragonblood Warriors had his hard armor smashed into pieces, flew into the air, and then crashed into the swamp, where he was swallowed up and submerged.
The suffocating feeling of not being able to breathe caused Dragonblood Warrior Legion to be in chaos at this moment.
"I'm good at magic."
Mage Luna said this, and then stood up. The two gems at her eyes were shining brightly. In all directions, huge stones floated beside her, and then they smashed towards the two Sky Knight who were rushing over.
The stones are endless. This is the combination of the simplest Floating Stone Spell and some kind of Life Magic. It is poured out by Mage Luna, which is no less powerful than those powerful magics.