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Chapter 542 Witch
The army that Richard was going to form was composed of spearmen, crossbowmen and cavalry. The training of spearmen was easier than that of Roman legion soldiers.

There are many hunters in the mountains and forests as archers. These people have good archery skills. As long as they change to better bows and arrows, their strength will be no worse than those imperial archers.

The most difficult to train are the cavalry. Most of these exiles are slaves and have never ridden a horse. If they want to train the cavalry, they need to find other ways.

Perhaps Richard could recruit from among those barbarian mercenaries.

Don't think that the barbarians are a monolithic group. In fact, they are also distributed in tribes, and some naturalized barbarians are basically mercenaries of the Roman Empire.

Most of the invading barbarians were from the north. As climate change made the north colder, the barbarians began to migrate forward to survive.

In fact, the strength of the barbarians was not that strong. They were able to eventually destroy the Roman Empire, largely because of the internal corruption and decay of the Roman Empire, as well as the invasion of the Huns.

The invasion of the Huns was also a heavy blow to the Roman Empire.

After successfully producing a set of armor at the iron smelter, Richard's iron smelter was finally on the right track.

However, although the iron smelter successfully produced armor and weapons, its output was not high, and could even be said to be very low.

A maximum of five sets of armor and one hundred spearheads could be made in a month.

To increase production, more time is needed to train qualified blacksmith apprentices and increase iron ore mining. Currently, there are 400 people in Richard's camp doing mining, smelting and other work, and the rest are farming and training.

Richard decided to conduct some foreign trade. He couldn't just sit back and enjoy the food. Obviously he could supply some food, but when the population grew, the food he had would definitely run out one day.

Moreover, living in the mountains, many daily necessities need to be purchased from outside.

Richard didn't have much money in his hand. At that time, the Roman Empire used gold, silver and copper coins, and the main coins in circulation were silver and copper coins.

The last time he killed the barbarian fleeing soldiers, he got some silver coins, but the silver content of these silver coins was not high. Perhaps in order to increase the weight of the silver coins, a lot of lead was mixed in.

According to the Roman Empire, a soldier's annual salary was 225 silver coins, but in reality, not all of these silver coins would fall into the hands of the soldiers.

Corruption and embezzlement are not just Chinese traditions; the bureaucrats of the Roman Empire were equally adept at them.

Silver coins were no longer considered a hard currency, and many places even used barter. Richard was going to trade with salt. Salt was an important commodity in both the East and the West in ancient times.

So if he had salt in his hands, he could use the salt to exchange for a large amount of supplies.

In the mountains and forests of Gaul, there are not only iron mines, but also salt mines. Although the reserves are not large, they are enough for use.

Richard mined a batch of salt mines. Most of the salt was in lumps and the color was not snow-white, but brown. If it were in modern times, it would not be edible, let alone qualified as industrial salt.

But for this era, this is edible salt.

Richard took some people and brought salt to a nearby town to trade. Through the salt, he successfully obtained a large amount of supplies, not only cloth, but also some tools and even a few horses.

A group of people left the town with a large amount of supplies and prepared to return to the camp. At this moment, the sound of horse hooves suddenly came from a distance.

Richard released his mental power to scan and immediately found five people a few miles away, fleeing towards him. Among the five people, four were male guards, and their equipment was relatively complete, with bows, armor and weapons.

The level of sophistication has reached the level of Roman legion soldiers. In the middle of the four is a woman wearing a hooded robe. Although her body is covered tightly, her graceful figure can still be seen when the warhorse is galloping. And Richard also felt some magical power from her.

The power of this magic is not strong, probably about the same as Mia's strength.

"Witch?" Richard raised his eyebrows slightly.

Then his mental power continued to expand outward, and Richard soon discovered who was chasing these people.

A few hundred meters behind these people, a group of cavalry dressed as demon hunters were following closely behind them. Among these demon hunters, there was one person with divine power.

【Priest Templar】

The last time Richard met a monk from the Priory, whose strength had reached level two according to the classification. Coupled with the divine power he possessed, he should be stronger than the Druid.

The strength of the Priory Templar in front of him has basically reached the third level.

In this low-magic world, such strength is basically the ceiling of human combat power. Now such a strong man is actually chasing a witch.

There is no need to guess who this witch is, her identity must be very important.

After seeing this scene, Richard immediately made a decision to rescue him.

"You must immediately form a convoy of vehicles around the city and defend on the spot!" Richard gave the order directly.

Richard then took out his bow and arrow and began to wait. After Richard gave the order, the exiles immediately stopped their cars, formed a chariot formation around the city, and piled supplies on the cars to increase their defense.

In just a moment, the convoy was formed.

At this time, those people had also rushed over. However, after running for a long time, their horses were sweating profusely and foaming at the mouth, and they had obviously reached their limit.

At this time, when I saw a traffic jam ahead, I subconsciously ran towards it.

Richard waved his hand and asked someone to open a gap in the convoy. When they saw the gap opened, the people who had been in despair immediately had a flash of surprise in their eyes and quickly ran over here.

When the witcher who was chasing these people closely saw this situation, he immediately drew his bow and arrow and shot at them.

At this time, the distance between the two sides was only a dozen meters. The person at the back was unlucky and was shot in the neck by an arrow. Then he groaned, turned over and fell off his horse, while the remaining few people rushed into the chariot formation.

Seeing those people entering the chariot formation, several demon hunters chasing behind had no intention of stopping. They sped up their horses and wanted to rush in. Richard shot them directly.

The continuous arrows hit three people in an instant, and the three demon hunters in the front fell off their horses without a sound.

The demon hunters behind were startled and quickly rolled over to avoid it.

Then several arrows were shot at the Priory Templar behind him, but the Priory Templar drew out his sword and quickly deflected the arrows.

(End of this chapter)