Don't call me evil god

Chapter 765: The Great Recruitment (Part )
The words are divided into two parts.

As the monster red tide approaches.

The annual conscription within the kingdom also kicked off.

The noble lords who received the order needed to recruit enough soldiers within their fiefdoms, form an army, and march to the border as in previous years.

The organization of the King's Army is not complicated.

usually.

Ten men formed a team, one of whom would be chosen as captain, responsible for taking care of and supervising his men during the king's call.

If a team member is cowardly, flees, or violates military discipline, the team leader will also be punished.

The most basic command unit of the King’s Army is the flag formation, which consists of at least 10 teams.

A complete "flag battle formation" includes soldiers temporarily recruited from different teams, "knights" in charge of the flags, and possibly varying numbers of "knight followers".

Those who serve as "knights" are either veterans with rich battlefield experience or manor nobles who have been personally appointed by Kenreddin.

For example, when Pete's father, Baron Chinal, responds to the king's call to resist the monster red tide, he will temporarily obtain the duties of a knight and can lead a flag battle formation with about 15 teams and a full complement of about 150 people.

"Knights" can already be considered an elite unit in the King's army.

It also has the ability to respond to commands, command teams, and resist high-level monsters.

He is not only a commander, but also a supervisor and a special operations soldier.

The personnel configuration of multiple teams is for rotation when fighting monsters.

When the battle is fierce, rotation is very necessary to avoid excessive accumulation of void pollution brought by monsters.

Usually only one-third of the manpower participates in the battle, one-third is on standby, and the last one-third is resting.

The flag battle formation gets its name from the battle flags that allow soldiers to identify and assemble.

Battle flags were painted with different coats of arms, often noble family crests or unique patterns hand-painted by veterans.

The number of soldiers that different noble lords in the kingdom need to mobilize to fight the monster red tide now basically depends on the number of local manor nobles.

Generally speaking, the richer the region and the more nobles it has, the more flags and battle formations it can recruit.

The royal capital alone sends out more than 400 flag battle formations every year. The conscripted soldiers gather under different flags and then follow the main force to the border.

These flag formations are usually grouped in groups of 5 to 10 and assigned to different positions on the defense line.

As for those powerful wizards, or rangers who are good at reconnaissance and setting traps, they are often individually incorporated into the king's army's spellcaster sequence or scout corps, and receive individual dispatches and commands.

……

Because of the conscription of the King's Army, Kenredin has been in a very good mood recently, so good that he often can't help humming an unknown tune.

Because this year's mobilization in the royal capital went much more smoothly than in previous years!
What was the situation like before?
Those nobles who had been canonized by him would find all kinds of reasons one by one every time this happened.

"My weapon is being maintained, so I guess I'll have to wait a few days!"

"It will take time to sort out the supplies for the followers! Give me a few more days to prepare!"

"I need to spend some time getting familiar with the soldiers assigned to me, otherwise it will be difficult for me to command them!"

"..."

Excuses like these have only one goal, which is to delay time as long as possible without breaking the bottom line.

Compared to the comfortable life in the capital, the long journey to the border and the fierce battle with monsters are all very hard and torturous.

Naturally, they were thinking that the longer they could delay, the better, as long as they could reach the border before the final deadline.

This year is different.

Don't forget that Kenreddin has not yet "compensated" the nobles for the gold coins they lost because of the Gilded Club.

The situation couldn't be more obvious.

Kenredin looked as if he was waiting for them to show their attitude.

Whoever performs well in the call and war against the monster red tide will be given priority to receive "compensation".

What else can the nobles say?
Even though they cursed Kenreddin in their hearts, they could only grit their teeth and fight each other!
The more people mobilized, the better;
The quicker we gather, the better;
The sooner you act, the better!
The movement and marching of the King's Army have always been in the mode of "breaking the whole into small pieces".

Use flag battle formations to command units.

Given the dispatch and command capabilities of the Reyak Kingdom, it was difficult to command tens of thousands of soldiers to act in a unified and synchronized manner.

After all, these soldiers were recruited temporarily and we couldn't expect them to have high military qualities.

Every year during the conscription and mobilization, the troops basically march for one day and rest for one day, going and stopping on and off.

The day we stopped was not only for rest, but also for looking for any fools who accidentally got lost, or any idiots who followed the wrong flag.

When passing through different towns, you need to go into the city to pick up supplies and replenish dry food, fresh water and other things.

It's inefficient, but there's nothing we can do about it.

This is the most suitable, cost-effective and best solution for the Kingdom of Reyak.

In a world where supernatural powers exist, the enemies the soldiers have to fight are not their own kind, but dangerous monsters.

On weekdays, maintaining a standing army and training a large number of professional soldiers is a cost-effective undertaking.

It’s not that I don’t have money.

Rather, there is little difference in the roles that temporary conscripted soldiers and professional soldiers can play during the monster red tide.

What they have to do is to attack the monsters from a long distance by operating catapults, crossbows, or shooting with bows before the monsters get close to the city walls, and eliminate the low-level monsters among them.

When the monsters start to climb the city wall, use various city defense tools, such as rolling logs, knife carts, grease barrels, etc. to hinder their climbing.

If the defensive pressure is so great that the monsters have already climbed onto the city wall, they will need to hold up shields, spears and other things, and engage in close combat with the monsters to delay time.

Wait for the magic bombardment from the spellcaster sequence to arrive, or the divine strike from the Crusaders, or a few powerful warrior professionals to jump onto the city wall to "clear the field".

The key factor that determines the outcome of this war will have to be those professionals who possess extraordinary powers.

Ordinary soldiers simply relied on the tall and strong city walls to delay time, or operated various simple equipment to attack.

Do you expect the spears in their hands to cause damage to those level 2 and 3 monsters?

Think more.

Can't even break the defense.

No matter how carefully a professional soldier is trained, if he cannot even arouse his anger and is not even a level 1 warrior, then he is not worth much in front of monsters and can only serve as a "cannon fodder" or a tool to operate equipment.

Calculate the cost.

It would be better to maintain this half-civilian, half-military approach.

Usually they are ordinary farmers, citizens, vendors, and workers.

When a large-scale mobilization is called up, all they need to do is give them a weapon and a shield, and then give them some simple training so that they can understand a few of the simplest commands, and then they can be sent to the battlefield to fight against monsters.

Anyway, the actual fighting time is only a few days.

As long as they can hold out these few days, after the [Past Glory] barrier is restored, they can withdraw from the defense line, receive a fairly generous conscription allowance, and then follow the main force back to their hometown and resume normal life.

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(End of this chapter)