Year: I had a good time when I was young

Chapter 659: Greeting the elite dwarves and elf warriors

The development of Stromgarde is actually very simple. You have to fight the orcs to the north.

To the east and west, there are either mountains occupied by dwarves or elves' forests.

In other words, the Alpine Fort is just stuck on the path of the orcs' southward march. If they don't capture the Alpine Fort, they will have to face the problem of the Alpine Dwarves sneaking into the supply line from time to time.

Therefore, Chu Xiangqian's development strategy for Stromburg Castle was basically to expand southward.

If we can capture the territory a hundred miles south, we can probably support 30,000 ordinary territorial citizens.

Middle-earth is not the real world. The food cultivation model is basically similar to that of medieval Europe.

A hundred pounds of barley and oats can be grown in one acre, which is considered a good harvest.

Moreover, in the north of Middle-earth, winter is long, and crops can only be grown for one season.

Relying on the little income grown in the land, it may only be able to maintain a force of three to five hundred people.

The Stone Dwarves were also a large clan with a population of 2 to people back then, and troops could be stationed in Big Stone Pass alone.

Over the past one or two hundred years, the population has shrunk from 70,000 to 80,000 at its peak to 40,000 to 50,000.

Unfortunately, since Stone Pass became the front line against the orcs, the birth rate of Stone Dwarves has gradually failed to keep up with the annual casualty rate.

Pulling up the mountain, the boulder, the Iron Fist, the red-bearded dwarves, and the Nor elves, and the Vera elves attacked the boulder pass twice. Not only did they fail to capture it, but they also suffered serious casualties.

After so many years, I heard that the population has only recovered to seven or eight thousand.

This will keep it vacant and abandoned.

After Chu Xiangqian entered the lord's hall, there were already many elves and dwarves setting up wine and food. The three dwarf lords were also the first to sit at a long log table.

He simply sat at the end, four or five seats away, and started talking about how he wanted to get three dwarves and two elves to recognize his rule over Stromgarde.

The boulder dwarves in the farm south of the Boulder Pass and in the mines in the Boulder Mountains are eager to take back the Boulder Pass.

Allison is not stupid. Stromgarde has been empty for so many years. It is simply that Allison does not want others to occupy Stromgarde, nor is he willing to entrust it to the high-level mountain dwarves.

But he didn't want to spend his own money to subsidize the territorial people and territorial troops.

Unfortunately, the stronger the force, the more arrogant and underestimating the enemy sometimes becomes.

After more than two hours of final discussion and quarreling, it was determined that Stromgarde could only recruit one cavalry team and one heavy armored infantry team in the future.

If he doesn't agree, you can imagine that Chu Xiangqian will definitely be closer to the other four allies in the future.

The last four thousand or so alpine dwarves who were still alive had no choice but to retreat to the mouth of a valley in a large lake in the east, and slowly became the valley dwarves.

Unfortunately, after being occupied by the orcs, the orcs had no intention of tinkering with the Lord's Mansion, and the interior decoration was obviously in the style of the orcs.

Since the Boulder Dwarves were glorious back then, the Jushiguan Lord's Mansion was also built very brilliantly.

However, four allies of the 5 tribes alliance agreed, and Chu Xiangqian sold the most rifles and biplanes to the mountain dwarves, and even ten mortars were bought by them.

It feels a bit run-down and rough at first sight.

Since even the meritorious kinsmen and even his own sons had no chance to be granted the title of Stromgarde, Allison was naturally even more unwilling to see Chu Qianqian become the ruler of Stromgarde.

Tens of seconds later, the result was exactly as the two elf lords thought. The two dwarf lords, Iron Fist and Red Beard, figured out the key to this.

It’s not that we can’t afford subsidies, but if we do this, problems will definitely arise in the end.

But if it relies on trade and real-world food subsidies, Chu Xiangqian can easily support even three to fifty thousand elites, let alone three to five thousand armored warriors.

Whichever side you sit on is basically the same as which side you stand in line with.

In these years, unless there is a life and death crisis for a certain clan, the river valley dwarves will basically not send troops to help any of their clansmen and elves resist the orcs.

So as not to threaten his rule, or threaten the mountain dwarves.

And because the support of the three dwarves was a bit slow back then, it was impossible for the boulder dwarves not to have any resentment in their hearts.

Moreover, the three dwarves were all sitting on the left. When Chu looked forward, he understood that there was no leader in the coalition.

However, not only was there no one sitting in the first place, there wasn't even a chair.

In other words, neither dwarves nor elves are willing to recognize each other as the boss.

As for the number of people, there are 500 people in a group, which is the same as the establishment of dwarves and elves.

In the future, after my children inherit and lose their absolute advantage in trade, there will definitely be various rebellions.
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After all the orc siege troops disappeared into the camp seven or eight miles away, Chu Xiangqian and the two elf lords went to the lord's mansion in Jushiguan.

And at least half of the population is actually warriors.

Seeing Bosco, the Nor elf, and Jialan, the Valar elf, sitting directly on the first and second seats on the right, Chu Qianqian couldn't help but have a headache.

The 5 great lords, as well as the more than dwarves, upper elves and guards standing around, except for the two elven lords, were all surprised and thinking.

When the Great Stone Pass was breached, the orcs slaughtered them indiscriminately, and very few of the 2 dwarves in the Great Stone Pass escaped.

He looked at the mountain dwarf lord Allison and said they agreed.

However, because they are always on the front line of battles, the fighting power of the boulder dwarves is considered to be the highest among all the dwarves in the north.

This is something that Allison also cannot accept.

But if Chu was allowed to develop without restrictions, Allison would be willing to be the villain.

It is not an exaggeration to say that all the people are soldiers. As for food and weapons, many of them are supported by other dwarves and elves.

However, if he goes out to conquer the orcs, Chu Xiangqian can be allowed to gather farmers into an army.

To put it bluntly, they are cannon fodder.

As for the size of the territory, the dwarves and elves didn't care much.

Not only did they agree to Chu Qianqian's occupation of a hundred miles of territory south of Strom Castle, the five major lords also allowed him to expand southward.

And they all said enthusiastically that if Chu Xiangqian needed it, they could recruit their tribesmen to help him handle territorial government affairs, recruit and train soldiers.

When Chu Xiangqian heard this, he knew that he wanted to cause misfortune to his own territory and army.

But instead of refusing, he was eager to recruit hundreds of dwarves and elves as his subordinates.

Anyway, I have no idea of ​​unifying the north of Middle-earth now. Recruiting dwarves and elves will help me develop southward and survive the initial difficult period of industry.

Secondly, if there are dwarf heavily armored warriors and elven sharpshooters in your own army, the human race in the south will 100% mistakenly think that they have the support of dwarves and elves.

Maybe relying on this alone, we can attract many human refugees, proletarians, and businessmen to Stromgarde.

At that time, the meritorious dwarves and elves would be ennobled as knights and knights, which not only gained their allegiance, but also meant that they had defeated the human forces in the south and occupied a large area of ​​land.
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However, in recent years, I should not have to worry about conflicts with human forces.

At least two to three hundred kilometers to the south is unclaimed land.

It's not that humans, dwarves and elves don't want to occupy it, but that the productivity of Middle-earth has seriously restricted agricultural development, and therefore population development.

A human lord with a population of more than 7.065 to 7 to people can rule a land of kilometers in diameter, which is square kilometers, which is already considered a gift. It is often a large city with tens of thousands of residents and soldiers, and the rest are scattered throughout the more than square kilometers of land.

It must be a vast land but sparsely populated.

It can be said that if Chu Xiangqian had the ability to occupy all the 200 kilometers of land to the south, there would be a high probability that the human lord would not have any conflict with him after he came into contact with him.

On the contrary, he wished that he would be in front and deal with the elves and dwarves.

By the way, when the orcs attack the elves and dwarves, he will represent the human race and jointly resist the orcs.

As for going west and east, a few hundred kilometers to the east are all forests and mountains, and another one or two hundred kilometers to the mountains is the sea.

To the west are mountains and forests, and then endless desert.

As for the other side of the desert, there is no relevant record in the records of dwarves and elves anyway.

The reason is also simple. A forest of hundreds of kilometers can support hundreds of thousands of elves, not to mention tens of thousands of elves.

There is really no need to expand outwards. Naturally, not many people are willing to risk crossing deserts and seas to find other continents in this world.

Not to mention, the small number of intelligent and humanoid races means that there are too many ferocious beasts, magical beasts, and groups that are more like orcs than orcs in the wild and unexplored lands.

In fact, Chu Xiangqian's ambitions are not very big. He will be satisfied if he can have a territory the size of a province in the future.

The hundreds of thousands or millions of citizens in the territory will basically make him feel that it will consume a lot of his energy.

If you are busy with government affairs every day, it is really better to guard thousands of miles of territory and be a local emperor.

And to be honest, if I can't return to the real world, I can only stay in the backward world of Middle-earth.

Then when he gets bored, he will most likely spend his whole life on conquest.

But now that he can return to the world of the 60s, the attraction of Middle-earth to him, apart from magic and immortality, is that the demand for land and people is really not high.

However, when he is in his forties or fifties, his ideas may change.

After Chu Xiangqian received the approval of the five great lords, he immediately thought about the 5 dwarf cavalry and 500 elven cavalry archers who had followed him to attack the three thousand orcs and wolf cavalry.

After hearing what he said, the five great lords refused without even thinking.

The total population of the three dwarves is only 3.

Among them are 4 mountain dwarves. Iron Fist and Redbeard have not directly faced the constant attacks of the orcs for many years.

The population is more than 6 and less than 7.

And even adult female dwarves have no lower combat effectiveness than adult orcs.

In other words, the maximum number of troops that can be recruited for battle, taking the mountain dwarves as an example, is 2.

But training heavy armor warriors and shield warriors is only 4, and goat cavalry is only about 1.

The combined cavalry of the three dwarves is only about three thousand.

It's not that Red Beard and Iron Fist are unwilling to train more elites, but the situation they face is not as dangerous as the mountain dwarves.

Therefore, Red Beard and Iron Fist, with a population of 6 to 7, only maintained 2 cavalry combined.

As soon as Chu opened his mouth, he wanted to hire 15% of all the dwarf cavalry, and they were elite goat knights. Only a fool would do so.

As for the elves, the two lords hesitated.

There is indeed no shortage of elven marksmen. As for mounted archers, riding a big elk is actually a mounted archer.

Moreover, there are not many opportunities for elves to fight in the field now, and cavalry is not very important.

The elves have always tried to avoid fighting with the orcs on the plains.

In the eyes of elves, even if one elf is exchanged for 1 orcs, it is a huge loss.

In the forest, elves jumping on trees on foot are more lethal than riding a large elk as a cavalry.

It's also more discreet.

Chu looked forward and shook his head at the three dwarf lords, and couldn't help but look at the two elf lords.

Seeing their hesitation, he suddenly became excited.

Without thinking, he said, "I will solve the problem of the war horses myself, I only want those 5 centurions.

As compensation, I, Stark-Chu, my family, and my descendants are willing to sign an eternal alliance treaty with the Nor elves and the Valar elves.

And for these 5 mounted archers, I am willing to use 2 rifles and 10 rounds of bullets to make up for the loss of the elves. "

Chu Xiangqian actually didn't mind at all and sold more rifles to the elves.

The elves themselves rely on bows and arrows. Even if they don't sell rifles to them, the longbows in the hands of the elves are as powerful as rifles.

Bosco and Jialan's eyes lit up when they heard this. In their eyes, Chu Xiangqian didn't just represent himself.

As long as they form an alliance, they can get more food, weapons and ammunition, and even military support from Chu Xiangqian.

And Chu Xiangqian was not worried at all that the elves would slowly marginalize him in his territory.

In the future, there will definitely be human nobles in your territory. Instead of believing in the loyalty and justice of the nobles, it is better to believe in the elves.

Moreover, the three parties of elves, human nobles and dwarves can be regarded as a three-legged alliance. As the boss, life will be more comfortable.

If all three clans turned against him, then he would be worthy of being a lord, and he would definitely be worse than those foolish kings in history.

Besides, dwarves and elves are recruited, and it is not difficult to replace them every ten or twenty years.

When the three dwarf lords heard what Chu Xiangqian had just said, they immediately stopped working.

Although he still couldn't bear to give all 500 cavalry to Chu Xiangqian, it didn't seem to be a big problem if each man sent 100 cavalry.

Bosco and Jialan looked at each other and said with a smile, "Then the Nor elves and the Vera elves also sent 300 horse archers, under your command?

If you think it's not enough, you can privately recruit 200 elves within our two tribes. "

After hearing this, the three dwarf lords glared at Bosco and Gloriosa hatefully, and then the three of them discussed in a low voice and said, "We also allow you to recruit 200 more dwarves.

But these dwarf warriors and cavalry are only employed by Stromgarde, not loyal to you. "

Chu Qianqian nodded regretfully.

2 heavily armored dwarves and 2 elven archers recruited from ordinary races will be used to guard Stromgarde or a larger city in the future.

Only when Chu Xiangqian can rest assured.

As for the cavalry, 3 goat cavalry are heavy armored cavalry, and 3 elf cavalry are the best troops for playing games.

(End of this chapter)