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Chapter 11 Procurement Checklist

"All stand at attention! Listen to my password, turn left~turn! turn right~turn!"

The scorching sun was in the sky, and in the open space outside Triumph City, Ronan faced the sun and shouted loudly to the group of people in front of him, giving instructions.

At this time, three days had passed since he received the territorial documents from the Cold Wind Territory.

In the past three days, he was busy buying all kinds of needed materials in the city, comparing and bargaining prices between different chambers of commerce, running back and forth, really tossing him a lot.

In addition to purchasing supplies, the most important thing is to recruit soldiers who go to the fief together.

The distance from Triumph City to Cold Wind Territory is at least 1000 kilometers. Let alone the problems and troubles that may be encountered in this process, even if it reaches Cold Wind Territory, Ronan needs a team that fully obeys his orders to formally control it. territory.

Therefore, the recruitment of soldiers is extremely important.

However, due to limited funds at hand, Ronan's original idea of ​​recruiting a few hundred people was shattered. So far, only a team of 60 people has been formed.

Among them are 10 knight servants who have been trained by knights, who were dug from the wall under the hands of their father, responsible for wearing Ed's armor and serving as Ronan's personal guard.

The other 50 people are warehouse workers nearby who carry goods for the caravan. They are basically young, strong and simple-minded guys.

After hearing about Ronan's treatment and the subsidies given to their family, he immediately left his job and became his subordinate.

After recruiting people, the first thing Ronan needs to do is undoubtedly the military training matters that modern people are familiar with.

He didn't ask how high the military literacy of this group of people would be. In fact, that was unrealistic, and he himself didn't understand it.

Ronan just needed to teach them two things.

He can understand his orders and obey them subconsciously!
Only need to do these two points, this is already a qualified team.

The former has been basically completed during these three days of emergency training, while the latter can be done on the way to the fief, which takes time for them to get used to it.

Ronan opened the list of supplies in his hand, checked the information on it, and felt a heartache every time he saw the price marked on the back.

Affected by the Black Death, all prices are rising rapidly.

Food There is no doubt that although the nobles have a lot of food in their hands, it does not prevent them from raising prices crazily.

Salt and sugar are necessities for long-distance field trips, so naturally they also need to be prepared. As for other spices, Shu Luonan really can't afford them. If they are not necessary, they only choose a small amount of configuration.

Luo Nan has his own medicines, and some purified water is also needed. Even boiling the river water in the wild may not be safe.

Ronan also bought a lot of metal ingots of gold, silver, copper, iron, and gemstones of various colors. These are some of the materials needed for the research workshop. The rare good news is that the jewelry on the market has plummeted, allowing him to prepare all the needs.

In addition to these, here comes the big spender, weapons!
In troubled times, in addition to food, the next thing to increase in price is probably weapons. It is impossible for Ronan to let his men fight the enemy with bare hands.

In this day and age, even a knight, without a weapon, would have to suffer on the spot if he was attacked by a group of people.

Ed's weapon is the broadsword assigned by the family, but Ronan also needs to equip him with a full set of armor, a plate armor suitable for his tall body, and a BMW with the blood of a monster that can carry his weight.

This set of equipment alone cost him more than 3000 gold coins.

As for other people, it is naturally impossible to have this kind of treatment. They can only wear chain armor with weaker defense and cheaper, paired with standard long swords. The average set price is [-] gold coins, and the total cost is almost three thousand gold coins.

The ten knight attendants are each equipped with a seventy-pound horn bow for long-range strikes.

Ronan also equipped each of the ten of them with their own horses. Otherwise, the bow alone would weigh four kilograms. Wearing chain armor and carrying a sword, it would be difficult to maintain combat power after a long journey.

Of course, as a price, his wallet was further dried up.

But Ronan is very clear that these money cannot be saved. The order of the kingdom is now chaotic, who knows what monsters and ghosts will be encountered on the way to the cold wind collar.

Compared with security, gold coins are not worth mentioning.

Ronan watched the sixty fully armed adult men lined up neatly in a phalanx in front of him, and his waving movements were vigorous, and he was relieved a lot after he already had a bit of bluffing momentum.

The real money is spent, and the effect is obvious.

As long as everyone can obey orders neatly, ordinary thieves and rebels in the wild are not qualified to touch porcelain at all, even the armies of many baronies may not be opponents.

When everything is ready, it is time to go.

After Ronan had a farewell dinner with his family, he gathered his men and left Triumph City the next morning.

Three war horses and knight attendants walked in the forefront, scouting for a safe path, and then Ed led the way.

In the middle are three carriages full of supplies and Ronan sitting on them. On the flanks, there are five squads of infantry, each with ten men, each commanded by a knight servant as the captain.

At the end are two knight attendants on horseback.

Ronan, who was leaning on the carriage, looked at the current forward speed, and then opened the map to estimate the time needed for the journey.

At present, their speed is about 40 miles per day, and the distance from Triumph City to Hanfengling is simply two thousand miles, which means it takes fifty days to reach the destination.

To be honest, this speed was a bit too slow, Ronan frowned, a small group of more than 60 people marched, and they were still taking the official road built by the kingdom, the road was smooth and unobstructed, so it was still too slow.

You must know that the beginning of the journey is the easiest, and there are kingdom troops nearby to clean up from time to time, so it is safe enough.

They just had to walk forward with their heads covered, and at night they leaned against each other around the carriage and fell asleep.

After this distance, not only the road has become rough and bad, but there may be hidden dangers around at any time. When resting at night, it is necessary to set up a camp for defense. It will take a lot of time to set up and demolish the camp.

Calculated in this way, whether he can reach the Cold Wind Territory in three months will be a question mark.

Ronan wasn't worried about the so-called three-month deadline. After all, that didn't count as travel expenses. As long as you left Triumph City, no one would care about you.

What he was worried about was the consumption of supplies in hand.

Meat is okay, and it can be replenished by hunting fresh meat in the nearby forests. Wild animals are abundant in this era.

But table salt is more troublesome. Soldiers after a long journey have a much higher demand for salt than he imagined, especially Ed, who is a bottomless pit. The amount he buys can only last for two months at most.

After another ten days of travel.

"It seems that we have to change the route." Ronan thought helplessly.

On the shortest route he planned, there were no large towns that could be traded, and the villages that he encountered occasionally on the road were basically reduced to dead places.

Fortunately, just as he was struggling, the sentinel in front spotted a caravan.

Ronan took out his purse, which was about to bottom out, and then glanced at the soldiers around him who were initially ordered to stop, thinking that the other party should be more sensible.

(End of this chapter)