Santairiku Eiyuuki

The Italian thinker, Macavelli, states this in his book Monarchist Theory.

"Mercenaries and foreign troops, seriously, it's impossible. Magistrate. They'll do anything for the money. Don't trust me. I mean, if you're capable, you're a threat to your country, and if you're incompetent, you lose to your enemies. - Seriously, I don't need it. After all, the times are my own national army, my civic army, my standing army. Hey, I rely on mercenaries and foreign armies. Monarchs and such are really creepy. I knew Rome was psychotic!

* It's pretty chewed up. Macavelli is never a gal.

When I remembered this, Erkühl thought this from the child-specific spirit of disobedience.

You can't have a standing army, so why don't you rely on mercenaries?

He said he emptied the treasury many times to maintain Tercio with the Spanish Hapsburg family, which had a colony in South America and built enormous wealth in Plantation and Potosi Silver Mountain.

Well, Tercio can be described as a 'mercenary' who has been permanently armed, so he's a little different in nature from his own army and the civic army that MacAvelli loves.

There are also examples of Swiss guards who have served their loyalties to the King until their death, compared to the French guards who betrayed them on the citizens' side in the French Revolution, so they are not generally bad mercenaries and can be said to have a good national army. (For the monarch, that means the French guard who betrayed me would have been better.)

Macavelli himself seems to have suffered considerably from mercenaries and foreign troops, so it can be taken for granted that he hates mercenaries. Maybe a third or so of it would be personal.

Fools and mercenaries will depend on how they use it.

The fact is that when Elkhur is certainly one way or another a Macavellian, a rightful manipulative numeralist, but he is told whether he believes in the whole thing Macavelli said, that is not the case, and that Elkhur's personality and ideas have not changed so much in the first place as they did before and after he learned of the 'Monarchy'.

Macavelli himself has no great political merit...

That was Elquille's personal feelings about Macavelli.

Nevertheless, it is generally true that mercenaries cannot be trusted.

So...

"Again, the development of a standing army would be a prerequisite. Galphis."

"I think so too. … mercenaries are useless."

That said, it sounds as if the Lemurian Empire relies on mercenaries for everything, but it's not.

Partly with a standing army.

A heavy cavalry (Crivanarius) composed of 10,000 long-eared (elf) longbow soldiers and 10,000 long-eared (elf) soldiers.

In total, we have 20,000 standing armies.

In addition, it also has a navy with more than a hundred galley ships.

Now, would you have understood why the Empire's finances were in great flames?

In the first place, just one horse is very expensive.

Besides, we have to prepare even armor.

The heavy cavalry (Kribanalius) was a tremendous burden.

Originally, the Empire had a standing army of infantry of about 100,000, and the cavalry made up for it by hiring barbarians such as allied tribes.

But the main force in the coming war will be the cavalry.

That's how Hadrianus III decided to dismantle the infantry's standing army and form a heavy cavalry (Cribanarius) and a long archer.

Erkühr thinks he is off the hook on this.

Because it is self-evident that the main force of the forthcoming war is an assault by heavy cavalry.

Also, the old Empire's standing army sounds good when it comes to old... but it was an infantry with an outdated dagger and shield as its main arm, a heavy-duty infantry (Legion).

Once excellent in flexibility and able to cope on any battlefield, it was also the driving force behind the expansion of the territory of the Lemurian Empire, but the quality had already deteriorated considerably in the days of Hadrianus III.

Besides, tactical changes had made melee warfare with daggers and shields more difficult.

The same infantry...... similarly in infantry armed with swords as the main armies or in opponents equipped with long spears to take dense formations, the army of the Lemurian Empire, with mobility and flexibility, took advantage.

However, many of the barbarians who were enemies began to use cavalry, and the invention of cavalry raids made it harder to prevent this with daggers and shields.

In that sense, I can say that Hadrianus III was able to read the course of the times.

The only miscalculation is that once we strengthened the cavalry and archers, we ran out of money and all the infantry had to be dismantled.

Hadrianus III is never incompetent... but I can say the emperor is out of his mind in a weird place.

Now, what I care about here is how the infantry is prepared.

As a matter of course, cavalry and archers cannot be the only wars.

The answer is simple.

Half are soldiers conscripted from peasants and the other half are mercenaries of barbarians who have broken into the empire.

Soldiers like hairy grown amateurs on the one hand.

The other is a soldier who is completely unwilling to risk his life in war.

You can win this. You can't even win a war.

"I have money in fiscal reform. I can't do 100,000, but I can manage to keep 30,000 or so."

About 70% of the empire's spending is military.

Thanks to Erkühl's fiscal reforms, it is possible to expand the military since tax revenues have increased by an additional 50%.

"So, Galphis. How much force do you need to defend the Empire's territory and, to some extent, wage a lost ground recovery war?

"... well, I just want to say that the cavalry is enough... but not enough yet. Infantry, but you'll need at least 100,000. Speaking of luxury, another hundred thousand or so…"

"You can't do that."

That's what Elquille said. She flaunted her shoulder.

And also ask Christos, another military man.

"What do you say? How much reinforcement does the Navy need?

"If we're going to maintain the status quo, we can keep it that way. However, it is time for a new construction as the lifespan of several ships is approaching. … cutting military spending could jeopardize maritime control"

I mean, don't reduce it because it doesn't matter as it is now.

That is.

About it, Galphis said in a grumpy manner.

"Your Majesty... there has been no naval battle called naval warfare in the last twenty years or so. All we need now is the Army."

Then Christos bit.

"Say what!! Losing control of the sea puts the defense of the Empire in jeopardy! Your Majesty, the Navy is important."

"What's the waste eater... Your Majesty, strengthen the Army!!

The two of us start having gaggy fights.

Erkühl held this one to Carolina, who was staring at him with a bitter laugh from earlier.

"Carolina, the Navy and Army have begun a fight..."

"Isn't it His Majesty's job to arbitrate that?

Carolina laughs bitterly.

Carolina preferred the Elkür, which she held on to something sweet recently.

Things like maternal instincts are tickled.

Damn, this guy can't do this without me...

It's the guy.

No, a woman parasitized by a man is probably this kind of psychology.

"Good luck, Your Majesty"

"If you say so."

Erkühr gets up when he has no choice.

The reason for the early resurrection was that he succeeded in pushing his face against Carolina's chest with sawdust and was able to replenish his energy.

"The Navy doesn't shrink. If you lose control of the sea, it's hard to get it back. The Army will be strengthened by 30,000. So bear with me, Galphis. And get along, or you're out of position."

That's what Elquille ordered the two of us to do.

The two immediately bowed their heads and apologized, realizing the fact that they were fighting at the Emperor's present time.

"Make up your arms."

"What, with this!!

"To, Your Majesty?

Christos and Galphis stare at each other with a gnawed face.

But you can't go against the emperor's life. The two embraced each other reluctantly.

"Chu on the cheek"

……

……

They let their hearts go and pressed their lips against each other's cheeks.

Elquille nodded contentedly at it...

"Oh, my eyes hurt. I feel nauseous!! Apparently, it's because I've seen gross stuff. Help, Carolina!

That's what Elquille says and hugs Carolina.

Carolina gently strokes Elquille's hair.

"What do you say? How do you feel?"

"Hmm, I feel purified"

Elquille stares straight into Carolina's eyes.

Look at Carolina's beautiful face and override the sight she felt bad earlier.

What I feel sorry for is the two people who were made to kiss the person they disliked and were called out to be disgusted by the quote.

For a while, Elquille and Carolina flirted, and Galphis and Christos watched as the bats looked bad.

"I mean, the question is, what do you have 30,000 standing army corporals and what do you have on your weapon? You got a guess?

Ten thousand graduates are easy to gain and one general is difficult.

That said, what is actually harder to get is a corporal than a general.

It is much more important that a good corporal be given that superior order to a soldier than a general who gives a superior order.

"If you're a corporal in an army of about 30,000, no problem. … if you are a corporal to command a mercenary or conscripted soldier, there will always be a certain number"

"Really? Then there's no problem. So, weapons and tactics are next."

Elquille is a good old Legion. Legion had no intention of reviving him.

The tactic of Legion is very advanced and difficult in the first place, on top of which it is now outdated.

It's not the kind of thing you struggle to revive.

"Take enemies with infantry, intercept them with archers, and chase fleeing enemies with cavalry. Or detain enemies with infantry, collapse with archers, and collapse with cavalry assaults. This is the ideal shape."

Combine multiple military disciplines to capitalize on their respective strengths.

That is the basic form of war.

Most of all, such commonplace things were also being forgotten in this world, where tactics were degenerating for a long time.

That's the big thing about Hadrianus III focusing on all the cavalry and forgetting the infantry.

The weak infantry of the Empire allowed us to repel our external enemies because the enemy was also weak by underestimating the infantry.

"Your Majesty, you know very well. With that said, Your Majesty has been through battlefields many times."

"I've never won."

Hadrianus III often took Erkür around to the battlefield because he expected him to be his successor.

And I was losing.

Thanks to this, Erkühl has become first class if it is to escape.

Nevertheless, it wasn't entirely inexperienced.

Rather the other way around...... Elquille is quite familiar with the war because he was doing the opposite...... discussing why he lost by teaching Hadrianus III as a reverse teacher and reading the military code carefully to support his own considerations......

I've never been in command per se, so it's just an airborne theory on the desk.

That's all Galphis has to make up for.

"You can't take it or detain it in Legion. The combination of dagger and shield is powerful... but that was thanks to the high morale and strength of the former Lemurian Imperial Army. After all, it would be a spear from now on"

Galphis nodded agreeably to Elquille's words.

Because Galphis thought the same about it.

The problem is...

"Spear length, and the presence or absence of a shield. That's how the formation works..."

Elquille and Galphis then debated to create a new best infantry standing army.

It was then a year later, when Elquille was fifteen, that the two made infantry would come in handy.