After the small mercenary group settled down, Barbas and Daqingshan were busy classifying the new soldiers of the mercenary group into their professions. Horns and Chi Aotian checked the terrain near Duanbing Port every day - this
It is also a compulsory course in the Imperial Knight School. The young men of the small mercenary group, under the leadership of their respective captains and vice-captains, train continuously from morning to night.
Your Excellency Amy, the leader of the mercenary group, has become the most leisurely person in the group. Using her rare free time, Amy enjoys herself in the city lord's meeting hall every day and becomes a guest of the businessmen.
The businessmen all expressed a great welcome to Captain Amy. They had never met a warrior who sincerely asked for advice and was a well-known figure in the empire. In front of Amy's angelic and pure smile, they spoke endlessly.
After hearing all the interesting facts about Duanbing Port, including how fishermen catch salmon, how fish roe is transported to all parts of the mainland surrounded by ice, the price of salmon roe in various countries, etc., Amy seems to be the best listener to listen.
In her free time, Amy even enthusiastically invited businessmen to play near Duanbing Port. The businessmen really liked the feeling of being surrounded by the crazy knights of the dragon, and they had a better impression of Amy. Among them, there were many big people.
The businessman asked Amy about your marital status.
The cadres of the small mercenary group were puzzled that Amy was not doing her job and picking up businessmen (not even girls) every day. At the group meeting in the evening a month later, Horns directly raised his questions.
Amy looked around everyone with a smile, and made a calculation for everyone with her fingers that shocked everyone: the small mercenary group currently has close to 2,000 regular mercenaries, and there are the same number of family members in the frozen continent.
The mercenary group is different from most mercenary groups in that it must take care of the lives of the mercenary members' families. As a regular mercenary in the empire, each person consumes at least 100 gold coins every year, which includes equipment updates, training, salaries, etc.
The small mercenary group also has a lot of mounts, and the total number of chicks is close to 600. In addition to more than 100 war horses, these mounts include other wild vultures and ground dragons that eat meat. The annual feed fee for each mount
Far more than the cost of the knight itself; there is a small mercenary group and a team of more than 100 magic swordsmen, and the prices of various magic supplies are even more astonishing.
Conservative calculation shows that a small mercenary group needs to earn at least 400,000 gold coins every year to reach dynamic balance.
Now, it seems that the small mercenary group owns the richest city in the empire. However, in this seasonal profitable city, except in autumn, it is almost impossible for the small mercenary group to receive any large-scale work. At the same time, the empire is in a state of war.
, all commercial activities are restricted, and even if a small mercenary group is willing to set up offices in other cities, it will not receive a lot of work.
The small mercenary group will be in a state where consumption exceeds income. Judging from the current funding situation, there will be negative funds in one year.
Horns, Da Qingshan, Chi Aotian, Barbas, etc. were all dumbfounded. No one had been able to guess Amy's true purpose these days.
As a manager of a mercenary group, everyone knows the most basic principle of "before the troops and horses are moved, food and grass go first". However, no one understands this principle in a fundamental sense, let alone the idea that in a small mercenary group,
Behind the turmoil are pressing economic issues.
Barbas came up and patted Amy hard on the shoulder: "Boy, okay, better than your father. No matter what others say, I think you are good."
Horns also gained a lot of inspiration from Amy's words: "So, how do you think we can get the greatest benefits?"
The economic situation of the dwarf kingdom has not been very good. In the era of war on the mainland, the dwarves could earn a lot of money by selling high-quality weapons. If the mainland had been at peace, the price of weapons would be quite low, and the dwarves would even need to sell to the human society.
Only hoes, sickles, kitchen knives and other daily necessities or raw ores can earn meager profits. It is precisely because of livelihood that the originally kind-hearted and peace-loving dwarves had to join the army to make a living.
As the supreme king of the dwarf kingdom, no one has solved such problems. This is the most fundamental reason why dwarf society has always been confined to remote mountains. As one of the heirs to the throne, Horns has never found the dwarf kingdom unable to develop.
The real root of the problem, Amy's short words made the young king completely understand.
Amy saw more understanding in Horns' eyes than Daqingshan and Chi Aotian: "There are actually many methods. To put it bluntly, we can give full play to the region and our own advantages."
In the past month or so, Amy learned from merchants that Duanbing Port is a pure resource export city, and the only exported item is salmon roe. Amy carefully inquired about the output and sales process of salmon roe.
As well as the role of mercenary organizations in it, the businessmen did not expect that large mercenary groups also had the idea of doing business, and almost betrayed all their business secrets during the conversation.
Most of the merchants in Duanbing Port have huge sales networks in various cities on the mainland, and some merchants have monopolized the output of salmon roe for local sales.
Amy's idea is very simple. She fully grasps the law of selling high and buying low. During the season when salmon is on the market, she commands the Crazy Eagle Swordsman Battalion, a small mercenary group, to drive fish schools for fishing. There are quite a few soldiers in the small mercenary group.
Fishermen. Dig a large cave in Shanyin near Duanbing Port, fish out ice floes from Duanbing Port to build an ice cellar, and let the Ice Magic Swordsman and Ice Magic Supreme Lord Lu'er use ice magic to continuously lower the temperature of the ice cellar.
In order to keep fish roe fresh for a long time.
In this way, purchase a large amount of fish roe during the salmon season to avoid price drops due to large quantities of output. After the salmon season is over, especially in winter, you can even consider using the Wild Eagle Swordsman Camp and the Knight Camp to conduct sales within 300 miles around.
We have launched a caviar takeout and express delivery business in many cities, and we are guaranteed to make a lot of money this way.
Faced with the leader's amazing words, everyone in the room felt incredible. Horns almost jumped up and muttered to himself: "I don't know how you got such a big head. You almost lost the mercenary group."
Everyone and all resources were utilized.”
When later generations praise the huge role played by the small mercenary group in the War of the Gods, some people often have sour grapes in their hearts: If I had been here at that time, I could have done this. Almost everyone ignored that at that time
There are five major mercenary groups in the same class as the small mercenary group. Any one of them exceeds the small mercenary group in terms of influence and scale. Why can't the other mercenary groups reach this peak state?
War is not just a contest between brave men. Most armchair strategists can freely imagine how to command large-scale regiments to gallop across the continent of Eminor, and how to make full use of knights, archers, etc. in a battle involving tens of thousands of people.
The role of berserkers, spearmen, and magicians is to fight as many enemies as possible; most generals have left the logistics work to the imperial military and to the army staff. But the facts only prove one thing: without economy as a basis, no matter what
No matter how good the start was, the outcome of the war was extremely obvious.
At this point, the generals of Fanos Continent and Alcatraz Continent felt much stronger than the generals of Eminor Continent in the War of Gods. Afterwards, the army of Eminor Continent also suffered a lot. In the War of Gods
Later, a passage said by the mercenary king appeared in the first chapter of all knight school command courses: "Dragons need meat, war horses need feed, and humans need food. Never consider using grass to feed war horses.
, that’s a plot that only appears in novels; a soldier without an economy and a sense of supply lines will never be able to become an army commander!”
According to the wise instructions of the leader, the small mercenary group specially set up a part of the mercenaries to implement related money-making work. In order to avoid causing a bad impact on local businessmen, Amy expressed the above opinions through the city lord. In business talks,
, the opinions of the businessmen are surprisingly similar. They all believe that the small mercenary group can maximize the interests of Duanbing Port. As long as there is no vicious competition, all businessmen will increase their income by at least 20%. In the small mercenary group
In the face of the huge power behind them, no businessman is worried about vicious competition - unless it is the small mercenary group itself.
The title "Golden Brain" soon spread from the imperial superstructure and the mercenary world to the business world. Businessmen believed that only the word "gold" could describe the brain full of wisdom in Amy's head.
On February 15th, spring of the 5th year of the magic calendar, Amy and other leaders of the small mercenary group were training new recruits in the camp. Suddenly, two wild eagle swordsmen suddenly fell from the sky. The young mercenaries jumped down from the wild eagles quickly, with expressions on their faces.
With impatience in his voice: "Report to the leader, a large number of white sailboats appeared 100 miles away in the southwest waters..." After a slight pause, the young man said hesitantly: "It seems... it seems... very similar to what we saw outside Xilin Island.
sailboat."
The atmosphere on the stage suddenly became tense. Horns said in an unbelievable tone: "No way, aren't they fighting with Alcatraz soldiers and Imperial soldiers near Xilin Island? You can't read that wrong, right?
A mirage, right?”
After the subsequent investigation by three groups of Wild Vulture Swordsmen scouts, it was confirmed that the news just received was indeed not false at all.
After a whole winter of dormancy, the Fanos Army stationed on Xilin Island failed to attack the Lion River beachhead many times, and decisively made a leapfrog strategy. The Golden Dragon Knight Yemoda led 20,000 soldiers to cross 2,500 miles north.
The sea attacks Duanbing Port, the largest seaport city on the west coast of the empire. Once the attack is successful, the Fanos Western Expedition Army will make strategic shifts across the board. All senior commanders of the Fanos Western Expedition Army reached a consensus and believed that after the past close
After half a year of war, most of the Amy Empire's soldiers have gathered south of the Sanggan River. According to insider information, most cities are now garrisoned by imperial mercenaries and swordsman battalions. If this attack is successful, it will be a serious blow to the imperial capital.
Posing a great threat, the Fanos Army will also occupy a considerable territory in the north.
The small mercenary group, the Vulture Swordsmen, only obtained part of the information through investigation. In addition to seeing a large number of sailing ships on the sea, the Thousand-man team led by Norton, the commander of Fanos, had already landed in a small harbor, dressed as imperial soldiers.
The west coast rushed towards the floating ice port at starry night - in order to stay concealed, this force only moved at night, and the mad eagle swordsmen who were unable to move at night could not detect this surprising force at all.
It's not that enemies don't get together.
Whether it was the main leader of the small mercenary group or Norton of the Fanos Legion, Merlin could not imagine that he would face a familiar opponent.
In the defense battle of Xilin Island, both the small mercenary group and the Fanos Army left unforgettable wounds on the other side. Faced with such an opponent, there was no need for any commander to say anything to encourage morale. The two armies
There is only one way out: bloody battle.
At this time, the Empire's regular army mercenaries that the small mercenary group could rely on were still thousands of miles away. The strength of both sides was roughly as follows: 8,500 Fanos werewolf light soldiers; 3,500 Orc heavy infantry; and Ursine heavy infantry.
Chief Officer: Yemoda, the Golden Dragon Knight, Norton, the leader of ten thousand people, and Merlin, the leader of ten thousand people.
The small mercenary group consists of 215 people in the Wild Eagle Swordsman Battalion; 250 people in the Archer Battalion; 187 people in the Berserker Battalion; 100 people in the Berserker Knight Battalion; 132 people in the Knight Battalion; 158 people in the Demon Swordsman Battalion; and 200 people in the Blocking Swordsman Battalion;
The Great Swordsman Battalion has 612 people.
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