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Chapter 1624 Training
The ambition in my heart is beating, glory, gold coins, land!A lot of farmers pushed and jumped into the carriage to choose their own weapons. Starn, who was leaning on the wall in a daze, looked at the back of Zhao Hu who turned and left, feeling a bit apprehensive, "Is this a genius, or an idiot!"

"My lord, we don't need those crappy short swords. We have our own sharp hunting knives. Those heavy javelins are not suitable for us. We have sharp arrows stained with devil blood. As long as we have enough arrowheads, we can shoot through all The enemy's throat!" The hunter leader Mengda found Zhao Hu who was about to return to the hall.

As the leader of a mountain hunter, Munda has been leading his tribe of mountain hunters to hunt in the nearby mountains. Recently, he heard that the local leader posted a summoning order for a high reward and led more than a dozen hunters from his tribe to drive away. Come to earn a bounty, winter is coming, and this money is just enough for my tribe to survive the severe winter.

"Demon blood?" Zhao Hu stared blankly at the muscular hunter leader Meng Da.

"This is the magic blood. We hunters usually carry some with us. As long as the arrows are soaked in the magic blood before the battle, the enemy shot by the arrow will not die, but the injured part will be cut off." Hunter leader Meng Seeing the astonished expression on Zhao Hu's face, Da Da took down a long hollow wooden barrel from his waist, and uncovered the cork that blocked the mouth of the barrel. The pungent burnt smell from there made Zhao Hu wrinkle sadly looks.

Seeing Zhao Hu staring at the small wooden barrel containing the devil's blood with a strange expression, Meng Da couldn't help but smile. Meng Da didn't know, but Zhao Hu was already completely overwhelmed with excitement.

The familiar pungent smell made Zhao Hu resist nausea, took the small wooden barrel from Mengda, poured some black glue-colored liquid from the wooden barrel and smelled it.

That's right, this is the smell of raw tar. I didn't expect that there was oil exposed in the mountains near here, so I couldn't help asking anxiously, "Is there a boiling black liquid exposed in the Devil's Valley, and there are four seasons? Endless eruptions of flame?"

"My lord, how do you know that! Could it be that your lord also knows about the Devil's Valley? It's a place only us mountain hunters can reach." Mengda looked at Zhao Hu in panic. The biggest secret is that it is said that there is a place where the world and hell are connected. Does this legendary lord also know about that place?

"I'll give you one hundred gold coins, and you prepare 500 barrels within half a month, a small wooden barrel that you can carry with you just now, and it must be filled with the magic blood you mentioned!"

"Really? My lord, are you sure what you need is magic blood?" Zhao Hu's words made Meng Da shout out in surprise.

Many aristocrats who have come into contact with in the past have already angrily scolded the hunters as minions of the devil just when they heard that the hunters were infecting their arrowheads with demonic blood. It is even more impossible for Zhao Hu to show such great interest in demonic blood like Zhao Hu.

"Yes, it's the devil's blood in your mouth! I'll keep this barrel as a sample, lest you cut corners for me." Zhao Hu closed the cork of the small wooden barrel, although Mengda looked at the small wooden barrel taken by Zhao Hu reluctantly. Barrel, but still went down happily.

"With these raw tar, I can organize a phalanx infantry that can throw incendiary bombs. At that time, no matter what heavy knight you are, the elite infantry will turn you into a roast pig..."

Zhao Hu weighed the small wooden barrel in his hand, and heard the sound of "cuckoo" liquid shaking inside, he couldn't help but feel complacent and distracted.

"Raise the shield, move forward three steps! Stab!" The [-] peasant soldiers lined up in ten rows on the castle playground raised their huge shields in unison under Starn's command, forming a tight shield wall to move forward. Push, although these peasant soldiers have only been training for more than half a month, they already have a bit of a regular army flavor.

"Everyone remembers that when approaching 20 meters, javelins are used, and when approaching [-] meters, draw a short sword and stab close to the body. Regardless of life or death, stab ten times in a row. If the stab is not full, you are not allowed to turn back." Starn shouted at the peasant soldiers screamed, these standardized action breakdowns and standards were thought up by the idiot lord he looked down upon.

Although Starn believes that an outstanding soldier should be a heroic warrior, not a soldier who only knows how to make uniform actions according to instructions, but he has to admit that for these farmers who have never been on the battlefield, their own heart The various fighting skills taught are still not as good as the few simple assassination moves taught by the idiot lord, which are more memorable to these farmers.

"My lord, on the battlefield, we really only need to follow the password to survive, and there are rewards?"

Although Starn was still a boy, but when the peasant soldiers knew that this limping, disabled boy was once a retinue knight who fought with the most fierce Kazakh cavalry in the north, no one dared to look down on this stern-faced boy, The adjutant screaming at himself.

"Yes, as long as you follow the method taught by the lord, I believe you will definitely get back a lot of gold coins."

As the departure time approached, the dozen or so peasant soldiers who surrounded him during the break asked Starn anxiously. The eager and longing eyes made Starn, who had always been tough, had no choice but to comfort him. .

After nearly a month of training, Starn found that he had a sense of trust in these peasant soldiers he had trained.

Starn didn't say it clearly, but he also knew that this time he was attacking the Locke barbarians occupying the western mountains. According to this training method, he might really be able to get a bargain from those barbarians who have no fighting skills. Rangers, then you have to wait for death.

"I don't know how those mountain hunters are being trained by the adults?" Starn looked at the scorching sun above his head. In the corner of the side wall of the castle in the distance, dozens of recruited mountain hunters were standing there in vain. Under the command of the fat idiot lord, he practiced shooting. I really don't know what good training the lord has for these hunters who have been hunting and archery since they were young.

Due to the relatively remote isolation, Starn did not find that all the hunter's arrowheads were covered with a layer of packets, and the original arrowheads were hidden inside.

Due to the changes in the original sharp arrows, these hunters are still unable to control the new type of arrowheads very accurately, and often shoot around due to insufficient estimation of the strength and wind speed.

This makes these hunters who are proud of their superb archery skills call this special arrowhead the "Wanderer's Arrow".

Although the hunters were not yet able to accurately grasp the arrowheads that were going to be used to launch tar bombs, Zhao Hu was already very satisfied with the arrowheads that could fly nearly [-] meters.

This is originally a range attack weapon. As long as the arrow collides with the target, the small packet wrapped in tar will be pierced by the sharp arrow inside, and the tar inside will scatter and splash. The raging fire that cannot be extinguished can definitely catch the enemy off guard and suffer a great loss.

"How are the materials prepared? We will be leaving in a few days." Zhao Hu returned to the bedroom and looked through the list of materials sent by the old housekeeper.

According to the practice of the empire, the army of the nobles had to bring ten days of food to the assembly point, because during these ten days, the nobles were considered to be serving the emperor, so they had to bring all the food and supplies they needed.

But after ten days, the emperor had to bear the food for all the noble troops by himself, so the emperor's wars were not always long, and the longest one was only more than 100 days.

The thousands of noble troops gathered that time not only ate up His Majesty's grain, but also moved a lot of royal things as grain to pay off debts.

This system has effectively restricted His Majesty's right to recruit lords from various places at will, and it can be said that it has played a big role in the stability of the current empire.

"I have prepared food for 200 people to eat for 20 days. Tomorrow, I will ask the kitchen to put the pickled food on the supply carriage. Just now, the patriarch of the Liu family brought his two daughters. I have already put They are arranged in the guest room of the castle, I wonder if you are free to meet them in person?" The old butler looked at Zhao Hu who was looking through the list with flickering eyes, and Zhao Hu was curious with his hesitant expression.

The old butler seldom arranged his itinerary on his own initiative, but this time he unexpectedly asked if he wanted to meet the other party's messenger, which clearly hinted that there was something he couldn't say.

"The Liu family? What's the matter with them? Take me to see them." Zhao Hu still has a little impression of the Liu family. It is a small lord on the edge of his territory, and he only manages a few small villages. In terms of title, he is only a small lord, far from his own marquis.

"I think they may have come to discuss the marriage contract." Seeing the puzzled expression on his young master's face, the old butler looked at Zhao Hu hesitantly, and what the old butler said made Zhao Hu, who had just stood up, stand there in a daze.

"Marriage? Who does the Liu family have a marriage contract with?" Zhao Hu looked at the embarrassed old butler suspiciously. The sudden appearance of a poor relative really surprised Zhao Hu who thought he was still the "Diamond King and Fifth".

"Last year, when the master was seriously ill, it was decided that the nearby Liu family made a marriage contract for the young master. Although this aroused great opposition within the family, the master still insisted on entering into a marriage contract with the Liu family." The old housekeeper Explaining with a pale face.

(End of this chapter)