Mage legions have always been a luxury item in this world.
Even a giant city-level mage tower may not be able to provide a full team of single-type mage.
Most of them are a mixed caster army.
An independent army of spellcasters is very powerful.
Especially the fire and thunder types, large-scale offensive magic can achieve a covering strike.
Even throwing fireballs and thunderbolts at the same time can cause considerable damage.
As for other departments, considering the cooperative and auxiliary characteristics of the arms, they are actually not suitable for forming an independent army.
Arcane magic is a special case in the spellcasting system.
Mainly because arcane magic can fuse and imbue almost all elemental systems.
After forming a legion, you can very well counter the spells cast by the enemy.
Even large-scale natural disaster-level magic can reduce damage to a certain extent.
Therefore, the main duty of the arcane troops is not to kill the enemy, but to be regarded as a magic defense force.
This configuration has also been discussed before.
After asking about the situation, Zong Shen immediately had an idea.
Then he looked at Lexa and Feronas respectively.
As the king of beasts, the former has recently taken over the training of war pets and beast pets in his territory.
Including Bloodtusk Boars, Manticores and Gryphons.
There are also the five dependent ethnic groups that Xiao Heizi brought back before.
Through continuous domestication and cooperation training, they can be more closely integrated with their territory.
Combined with some special training buildings and props, rapid reproduction can be achieved.
It is expected that it will not take long for the territory to form an organic air cavalry and beast cavalry units.
Feronas Sinner's main responsibility in the territory recently is to train excellent scouts and assassins.
Zong Shen noticed that all soldiers who passed his training could obtain the new unit prefix of "Apprentice Hunter" and receive certain attribute improvements.
There is still a big difference between hunters and demon hunters.
Although Feronas cannot transform these trained soldiers into demons, it does allow them to learn some new things.
It is different from the French Lancer training ability that comes with Joan of Arc.
Feronas' hunter training was discovered by Zong Shen accidentally.
Since the Defense Challenge ended, the soldiers' training routine has changed.
It turns out that training soldiers requires supporting military camps and specific level training books.
The same type of soldiers must undergo level-by-level training before they can grow into high-level warriors.
Now the relevant soldier training process has been simplified a lot.
In other words, it is closer to reality.
No longer shackled by some semi-digital conditions.
But not all combat heroes have the ability to train soldiers.
At least not those heroes with low-level talents.
For example, Gugart, Feronas, and Kolbi have their own skills in training soldiers.
Colby can train 1st to 6th level infantry and cavalry warriors of the Wild Wolf Clan.
He just selected 1,200 people from farmers some time ago to form a trial training team.
The current progress is good, but in order to form combat effectiveness, that is, to reach the level of second or third level, it is conservatively estimated to take 6 to 18 months, which is too long.
Let's practice for now, Zong Shen is not in a hurry.
Compared with self-trained soldiers, it is better to obtain ready-made soldiers from the indigenous people.
Anyway, in the training state, those farmers who are gradually transformed into wild wolf warriors will receive varying degrees of attribute improvement.
Regarding this point, it is actually the same as the relationship between robbery and farming.
The former can be done quickly, conveniently and quickly, provided that the force is up to standard.
The latter can achieve freedom in military training and get rid of dependence on external resources to a certain extent.
However, it takes a long time, costs a lot, and greatly increases the proportion of non-working population.
The relationship between the two also needs to find a balance point.
Zong Shen's principle is to try to use both hands.
After all, the current development of the territory has tended to go down the path of militarism.
The focus on military aspects far outweighs the focus on production development.
In terms of production and construction, other than the continuous construction of residential areas, the expansion of urban defense scale, and the development of a few mining areas and forest farms, there are no major measures.
Most resources still come from plunder.
Several grown men gathered together to report their work in a casual chat mode.
After they all left, Zong Shen also had a certain understanding of the current military scale of the territory.
He was soaking alone in the spring pool, his expression slightly solemn.
"Very good, the current combat power of the territory can basically meet the requirements."
"Maybe I should take some more drastic action..."
Leaning on the spring pool, his head was slightly raised.
From 0 to 1 is a hurdle, and every increase in the number of soldiers in the future represents a step to a higher stage.
He raised his hand and took out a medium-sized map from the storage compartment.
The above depicts the main giant cities and terrain distribution of the Kingdom of Avalon.
Although it is not as detailed as his continental sand table, it is still very intuitive when placed in front of you.
The first huge city to the east of the territory is Dagalisni.
Continue to move forward until you reach the sea. This territory of hundreds of thousands of kilometers includes parts of the south and north areas, with a total of 19 giant cities.
Many giant cities are tens of thousands of kilometers apart.
Even the distance between Lentax and Dagalisni is more than 10,000 kilometers.
The territory is located between the two, closer to Lentax.
More than four thousand kilometers to the west is Lentax, while eight to nine thousand kilometers to the east is Dagalisni. This geographical relationship is actually not difficult to understand.
If Zong Shen can defeat these nineteen cities in a row, he can completely open up the territory to the eastern coastal area.
But if you want to form a large area, you have to continue to expand to the north and south sides.
By capturing a total of 33 giant cities in the entire large area, you can occupy a place in the entire eastern part of Avalon.
In a short period of time, Zong Shen only needs to consider those nineteen giant cities.
Starting from the giant city of Dagalisini, the end point of advancing eastward is the two giant cities along the coast.
They are The Hague City and Ellaraya Port.
If it continues to expand, there will also be Whirlpool Bay and Kekalima Islands.
These are all important node cities on the eastern coast.
The nineteen giant cities he listed as limited targets went straight to the east and formed a through shape.
Excluding the giant city of Dagarisne, there were a total of five giant cities under the control of Grand Duke Chloé.
Mainly the ones near the seaside, which are currently Princess Anna's "playground".
Archduke Chloë's influence in the east was actually not as great as he had previously thought, and the core of his power was still concentrated in the southeast.
As long as he captures the 19th city in the east with thunderous force, it will be difficult for Archduke Chloé to restrain him.
The remaining thirteen giant cities all belong to neutral nobles.
Prior to this, it was also the object of competition between Grand Duke Jonathan and Grand Duke Chloé.
As far as Zong Shen knows, there are still some forces from local churches and large knights involved in it.
This is the power pyramid composed of land feudalism, and the phenomenon of local decentralization is obvious.
The wealth system composed of land output, resources and population made feudalism based on land.
To be continued...