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According to the laws of the Stormwind Kingdom, after the children of aristocratic families reach the Bronze Rank in strength, they can enjoy the right to form private soldiers. The number of soldiers they bring is related to the family's territory and title.

Leiding's family owned a lot of land, and his grandfather enjoyed the title of viscount. Although the territory was remote and the production was not much, according to the laws of the kingdom, as the direct heir, Leiding could own five hundred Private soldiers, but with such a number of people, it is impossible for the Leiding family to equip him with private soldiers.

As a private soldier, of course it is the private force of the nobles. The kingdom will not provide any military expenses and supplies. Judging from the power of Redding's family and Lightning Fort, there are no more than 1000 armed forces at full count. A member of the Kingdom's North Cline Border Patrol Squadron.

And this armed force is only under the jurisdiction of Viscount Storm in name only. If you really want to mobilize the establishment of this regular army, you must have an order from the Kingdom's military department. Otherwise, this army can only be controlled by the Storm family. Territorial Border Patrol cruising.

That is to say, the title of the Redding family looks quite big, but there are only about 500 private soldiers who can support them, and these troops are not only scattered throughout the territory, but also busy all day long, dealing with the vast land. The monsters popping up all over the territory can't form a powerful battle at all.

However, at this time, Leiding has an advantage that the family does not have. He does not have to worry about supplies and equipment. Now Leiding is short of people!

It has been two days since Redding returned to Port Thunder, and he has received a gift from Bill, all of which are equipment hoarded by the Gran family in Port Thunder.

The two hundred sets of cavalry equipment that Bill had promised to donate as gifts had already been obtained, and there were also ordinary infantry equipment for an additional 500 men.

According to Bill, it’s because Lading’s blueprints don’t look fake, so let him use some of the equipment first. Anyway, weapons are not very easy to sell in Port of Thunder, and keeping those equipment is useless except for storage.

At this time, the mercenaries who escorted the luggage with Leiding had already been arranged by Angela.Most of the people agreed to become Laiding's private soldiers—the salary was much better than being a mercenary, with a full fifty silver coins per month, plus room and board.

What tempts these mercenaries the most is that after becoming Lord Redding's private soldiers, they can enjoy the privilege of being taught basic Bronze Rank skills.This is what the mercenaries dream of. Usually they just want to learn it, but they have no place to teach it!These strength-enhancing things are the foundation of getting ahead on the continent of Enfas.

At this time, Redding was standing in front of Bill's trading company warehouse, and the equipment provided by Bill was still stored here for the time being.Angela and Shari accompanied Leding, waiting for Lunos and Laika to lead the transport team to arrive.

"Lord Ledding, according to what you have explained, I have released all the terms for recruiting private soldiers. In addition to the mercenaries we have come along the way, we have also recruited 200 mercenaries. However, the quality of these new recruits It's not very good, most of them are civilians with lower ranks, and compared with the original baggage guards, their skills are far worse." Angela reported her achievements in the past few days to Laidin.

"Don't worry, Angela, recruit people slowly, skill level is not important, but the family affairs must be clean, those will only cause troubles and troubles like drinking, don't let them mix into my private soldiers, it doesn't matter To the honor of the nobility." Ledin urged Angela.

Among ordinary adventurers and mercenaries, there are many rogues and scum, and Ledin does not want these people to be mixed into the private army team he formed, so as to avoid the trouble of cleaning up when the time comes.

The problem of the skill of private soldiers can be solved through training.According to the training method of the regular army, even if it takes a few months to improve the level of personal strength, as long as the basic orders and prohibitions are followed, there is still no problem in guarding the city wall.

"Of course, Lord Redding, I won't let anyone with problems join your private army. As long as the news spreads about such a good treatment, I think many civilians near Port Thunder will be willing to join. "

Of course, Angela would not want anyone. If the recruitment conditions of such a high salary cannot guarantee the discipline of the private soldiers, it will simply discredit the nobles of Leiding.For this, Angela will of course go all out and try to recruit those civilians who are innocent, honest and reliable to train.

Speaking of which, Angela paused for a moment... After a short silence, Angela asked the question she had been wondering all along, "However, Lord Leiding, in our current situation, why are we raising so many private soldiers? Will it still expand?"

"I think things are quite weird. We have seen a few monster lairs in the wild on the way to escort the luggage. From the experience of the usual beast tide, when the wild beast nests increase, it is the eve of the outbreak of the beast tide. , and the appearance of wild lairs is so common this time, it is estimated that the beast tide is not small. But the news from Port Thunder..."

Redding shared his analysis, which was a reasonable analysis based on the intelligence collected on a daily basis. It was impossible for him to tell Angela that the largest animal horde in the history of the Northern Territory was about to occur, and he had to make preparations to resist it first.

"What's more, these days, Lunos and Laika also told me that in the tavern, you can often hear mercenaries discovering new monster lairs outside the city, and there are even some monsters haunting—creature lairs controlled by demons! "Ryding continued, "By the way, is there any news about the regular troops who set off from Kleensus to support Thunder Port? Since we were attacked by Gadri's gang, why have there been no news about those regular troops? !"

"Master Leding, when you talk about this, there is really no news. According to the time, the troops supporting the Northland should have arrived. I heard that in some places far to the west of the city, monsters are raging and no one is there. Many civilians resisted fruitlessly, and after heavy casualties, most of the survivors fled into Port Thunder. Alas, the people in the northern part of the kingdom are now looking forward to the regular armed forces of the county to rescue them!" Anji La sighed.

These civilians are the most pitiful when the beast tide occurs. Most of them make a living by farming and hunting, and their homes are outside the city. Those places are not protected by city walls. In severe cases, people will die.

"Angela, you and Sha Rui should give more support to these civilians and do our best! During this period of time, in addition to the items on the list I gave you, we also try our best to purchase war-related items such as food and iron. So that we can spend all our money, and I will find a way to get some gold coins back." Ledin thinks that we still need to prepare, there will be more and more civilians running into the city in the future, and early preparations can also be used later. There are enough reserves in the time to deal with the siege of Warcraft.

"Unfortunately, the fly in the ointment is that there are no blacksmiths in Port of Thunder! Angela, haven't you recruited anyone who can forge these days?"

This is the most dissatisfied thing about Leiding's situation with Port Thunder. There is not even a decent blacksmith in the whole city.There is no iron ore near Leiming Port, so most of the ironware is trafficked from other places, such as the products of Iron Mountain Bear Head.And local blacksmiths can also make some farm tools and do some small work such as repairing weapons and armor.

"Yes, Lord Redding! If it doesn't work, I'll just take a few people to practice forging skills, and I can handle small repairs and simple equipment. As a paladin, I have systematically studied forging skills, and In the blacksmith shop of Kleensus, I practiced for a period of time and won the title of trainee blacksmith!" Angela said sullenly.

In the past few days, what caused Angela the most headache was that there was no qualified blacksmith in Port Thunder, at least she had never seen that blacksmith whose forging ability was superior to hers.

"That's it... If you really like forging, I have no objection." Sweat broke out on Ledding's head.

It is really unimaginable that the beautiful and noble young lady of the Drake family is in a small blacksmith shed with a group of rude muscular men, sweating and waving a hammer to strike iron!

"Ledin, look, Lunos and Laika are here." Sharui's bright and melodious voice came over.

"Yeah, it's finally here. Let Lunos and Laika bring back all the equipment here. On the south side of the city, the place we bought should be sorted out." Ledin said, and his hands Without stopping, he waved his hand, signaling Lunos and the others to go this way.

Lunos and Laika, who were sweating profusely, approached, followed by more than a dozen carts and dozens of mercenaries—no, these people are now Leidin's private soldiers.

"Lord Ledding, this car is really hard to find. We asked several places, and finally, with the help of Captain Lance, we borrowed it from the warehouse of the Port Guard!" Laika hurriedly let them arrive late The reason for this has been explained, Leiming Port is a remote place, there is nothing there, except for carts used to pull goods, there is actually no place to rent in the city.

"Okay, let's get the stuff into the car. I've seen the equipment, and it's very good. The toughness and strength have reached the upper level of the Bronze Rank. The Iron Mountain Bear Head brand is guaranteed. It's worthy of our Klein County blacksmith. Mining family!" Redding ordered his subordinates to work, and praised the equipment Bill gave him.

"Yeah, in our Klein County, the quality of Xiongtou's weapons and armor is really the best! It is said that even the eye of the storm in the royal capital has their branch, and the customized weapons are sought after by many nobles. Unexpected Yes, the heir to the bear head's territory is actually a slovenly guy, just like him, it's not easy to find a pure-blooded elf to be his wife." Sharui said that he was much more knowledgeable than Leiding when he mentioned this information, and joked Bill.

"Hehe, our Miss Sha Rui doesn't seem to like that kind of person anymore, so she can only take advantage of my type." Ledding joked about Sha Rui. In fact, when it comes to appearance, Ledding is stronger than Bill. .But the temperament and demeanor of the two are completely different, maybe this is the background of the nobility.

"Hmph, who likes you! Sister Angela, let's help." Shy, Sha Rui pulled Angela to help organize the equipment.

Redding looked at the busy scene in front of him with relief. All the things he wanted to protect were here. As long as he could resist this beast tide, he would have enough time to understand the world and deal with everything that happened afterwards.In the future, Port of Thunder will definitely become his territory—Ledding O Storm!

Whether it's the monsters in the lair in the wild, or Diyala's undead, the dungeon forces in the thick earth secret realm, or even the demons and devils infiltrating the cracks in the planes, all of these can't take anything away from him!

Whether it's the person in front of you, the soil, or the city by the sea!