Schemes: The Rocks Pirates mobilize

For a Red Line of this size, a mere three million Army soldiers clearly were not enough. However, since the Red Line had not been invaded in many years, the Army's authorized strength had never increased.

If it wished, the Army could swell its ranks to five million or even eight million at any time.

On the Red Line, countless people wanted to join the Army.

For residents born into slavery, becoming a person meant serving ten years in the Army. Only then could they shed their slave status.

This was also an opportunity the World Government gave them, a narrow opening, like a ray of hope in hell. Otherwise, unrest would have erupted on the Red Line long ago.

Even after shedding their slave status, they were still little different from slaves before the Celestial Dragons on the Red Line, but they gained more rights to survive.

Black understood this. Although he disagreed with the World Government's methods, the fighting strength such an Army could unleash was terrifying.

The annihilation of hundreds of thousands of Army soldiers in the Kronos Kingdom years ago had not seriously damaged the Army as a whole. In less than a month, all the vacancies had been filled.

The death of an Army General, however, had been a painful loss.

When it came to recruitment, the Navy could not hold a candle to the Army.

Through sheer numbers alone, it could wear down most of the Rocks Pirates' forces.

Especially since the Army's fighting strength was far from weak.

Although it had no Fleet Admiral position, it possessed three Army Generals, each a top combatant on par with Davis and Puyol.

Below them were sixteen Army Lieutenant Generals, corresponding to the Marine Vice Admirals.

If the Navy needed support from the World Government, it