Paine Town's barracks were actually Baron Charles's castle, because this army was his private force and obeyed him completely.
The king of the Salion Kingdom, Ulrich, was more like a sovereign who merely wore the title here.
When Zhang Yang arrived at the barracks, the first thing that caught his attention was the stretch of stone-paved road and the drainage ditches on either side. In an age when streets were little more than cesspits, such infrastructure was even rarer than a castle.
Following the stone road forward, he came upon a stone wall more than six meters high. Its construction and sturdiness were absolutely beyond comparison with Paine Town's outer walls. On top of it, Zhang Yang even spotted what appeared to be defensive weapons, such as catapults or ballistae.
The soldiers responsible for patrolling the wall were all extremely elite. The worst of them wore chainmail or iron armor, and one even wore a suit of refined-steel plate armor. It was downright terrifying.
Once he rounded this section of wall, the view suddenly opened up. A military camp and training ground covering nearly a hundred mu appeared before Zhang Yang.
It was a rectangular area. Three two-story stone buildings had been erected near the fortress, with the crest of the Charles Family hanging above them. It seemed to depict an eagle.
At that moment, more than two hundred noisy recruits were gathered on one side of the Training Ground. On the other, over thirty archers in chainmail were practicing their shooting. Near the buildings, several dozen fierce veterans were fighting with weapons.
Farther away, around twenty cavalrymen were jogging at a slow pace.
By then, Zhang Yang had more or less estimated Baron Charles's armed forces.
There were around five Lion Knights, ten to fifteen Salion Knights, more than