king of the castle

Chapter 455

Although she returned to Roger's territory, Anna's mood was not much better. 【】She has not yet recovered from the grief of losing her father, and often stays alone in the room and grieves.Although the others sympathized with Anna, they didn't know how to comfort her.There are many wounds that can only be healed by time, not just a few words of persuasion from others.

Roger also often went to stay with Anna for a while, and most of the time the two of them didn't talk much, just stayed together quietly.Roger expressed his concern for Anna in this way, and Anna was very grateful for it, but the sadness of her father's death did not disappear so quickly, so she often looked sullen, which made Roger very distressed. The desire to avenge Hamilton also grew stronger.

After Roger returned to Kent Town, it was not just as simple as comforting Anna, he was not idle in other aspects.

From Alonso III's reaction after knowing that the Duke of Hamilton was not dead, Roger knew that this guy would not let it go, and would find an excuse to trouble himself sooner or later.Therefore, we must actively prepare during this period, so as not to be caught off guard when the war really breaks out.

Roger's preparations focused, of course, on the castle.A city wall was damaged during the battle with the undead creatures. After returning to Kent Town, Roger quickly repaired the damaged part of the city wall using the town's stone and wood materials, plus the power of the soul.

While repairing the castle, Roger also put the castle at full power to train soldiers.In the recent battle against undead creatures, Roger knows that there are many times when you may think that your troops are enough, but it is only when you fight that you realize that such a small number of troops is not enough at all.Especially when encountering cruel battles, the more troops you can control, the better.

That's why Roger asked Castle Hub to try his best to train soldiers.Whether it is infantry or cavalry, crossbowman or magician, as long as it can increase Roger's strength, it can be said that none of them will fall.

Ten days after returning to Kent Town, the number of soldiers under Roger not only returned to the level before the battle, but also increased significantly.Now he has nearly 4000 heavy spearmen and more than 2000 half-armored swordsmen under his command. The number of infantry alone is close to [-].In addition, there are [-] heavy crossbowmen and [-] longbowmen, plus more than [-] light cavalry and nearly [-] chain armor heavy cavalry, and there is even a mage support team composed of nearly [-] junior magicians.

That is to say, Roger currently has close to [-] troops, and he is not satisfied with this, so he still lets Castle Hub continue to train soldiers.According to Roger's meaning, he must have at least [-] soldiers in his hands before he can feel a little bit bottomed out.After all, if he really fell out with Alonso III, Roger would most likely face the attack of the entire Thorne Kingdom, so [-] soldiers were actually not too many.

That is to say, Roger can have the confidence to directly set the number of troops at [-].If he was just an ordinary lord, with such a barren territory in Kent County, even one-tenth of its [-] soldiers would not be able to support it, and it would be considered militaristic to have [-] soldiers.

In fact, not to mention that a small lord can support [-] soldiers, even a big country like the Thorn Kingdom would struggle to support so many soldiers.After all, to pull up an army is not just about finding some people, but also training them, equipping them with weapons and armor, and providing food, drink and military pay for the soldiers, each of which is a very large expense.

What's more, the soldiers under Roger's command are not only elite, but even the weapons and armor are not inferior to the high-quality products produced by the dwarves. It will cost more to maintain such an army.In fact, the Kingdom of Bethorn claims to have a standing army of 12, but only its best-equipped and best-trained royal guards have the strength to compete with Roger's soldiers.The royal guards only have a total of more than 1 people, and the other more than [-] troops are far inferior to Roger's men in terms of equipment and training.

Fortunately, these soldiers under Roger only consumed a certain amount of soul power during the initial training. Not only did they not need to be paid, they didn't even need to eat. That's why Roger was able to support so many troops.And this time he wiped out nearly 30 undead creatures, including high-level undead creatures such as liches and death lords, who have already harvested extremely amazing soul power. Double is more than enough.

According to Roger's order, Castle Hub trained soldiers day and night to strengthen the defense of Kent Town.However, Roger's preparations were not limited to this. He also contacted the dwarves of the Hammer tribe, willing to exchange more distilled wine with them for a powerful ballista.The good performance of the ballista in defending the castle left a deep impression on Roger, so he wanted to get more of this weapon for defending the city.

The dwarves had long regarded Roger as a good friend, and agreed to his request without hesitation.The dwarves also gave Roger hundreds of sets of weapons and armor for him to help sell. The dwarves only trust Roger in humans, and believe that he will not deceive themselves.For Roger, these weapons and armor were what he wanted most, and he immediately bought the dwarves' goods with his own money.

After more than ten days of trekking, Ralph and his soldiers also came to Kent Town one after another.Roger paid special attention to the number of people, and was satisfied to find that nine people from 820 came to Kent Town one by one, indicating that these soldiers did intend to follow him wholeheartedly.

Roger organized the new soldiers into the town's garrison, put Phil in charge of command, and Chris in charge of training.With the addition of more than 800 people, not only Kent Town itself and the nearby docks have enough manpower to maintain order, but even several other outposts in Kent County can also send people to guard them.

In addition to the town's guard, Roger did not forget the team of Griffin Riders.He went to the island to watch the training of the elves, and found that they had made great progress during this period.The elves can not only accurately launch attacks on the ground, but also perform very well in air combat.Although the Griffin Riders can't chase each other in circles like fighter jets in the air, after a long period of training, they can already rise and fall in the air proficiently, and turn left and right sharply. With the spinning crossbow and arrows, the ability of the Griffon Knight in air combat should not be underestimated.

Roger was very satisfied with the progress of the Griffon Knight, and greatly praised Elvira.The half-elf girl was as indifferent as ever, and she just nodded her praises to Roger.But Roger didn't care too much about it, as long as the Griffon Knight had the fighting power and obeyed his own orders, all other issues were not important. . .

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