Warhammer Fantasy: I Have Total War System

Chapter 81 Martial Arts Competition (3)

Li Lin shook his head.

"No."

Lorenzo's smile froze for a moment, thinking that the deal was going to fall through again.

"I'm very satisfied with the person," Li Lin said slowly.

"I will hire you."

Lorenzo felt like he was on a rollercoaster of emotions.

He relaxed his chest, bowed deeply to Li Lin, and said in a loud voice, "I knew you had a discerning eye!"

They're not like those ordinary mortals!

"You certainly know how to talk," Li Lin waved his hand, indicating he had more questions. "Your full strength should be one hundred people, but only forty-eight have arrived. Where are the rest?"

Lorenzo's smile remained unchanged, but his body paused almost imperceptibly.

How could this Aurora man know about his military organization?

You spotted it at a glance?

is it possible?

Could he really be a military genius like the mercenary emperor Borgio?

"There are others on their way to the assembly," Lorenzo said calmly and confidently. "They have a habit of checking their swords and clothing before setting off."

"But please rest assured, Steward, they will all be here in five minutes, at most five minutes, not a second less."

Li Lin frowned slightly, feeling that these people needed to improve their discipline.

But I'll say it again.

If you find gold in the dung, you're lucky if you find any; you can't expect it to be of high quality.

"You know what you're doing, but I'm warning you beforehand," Li Lin said, holding up one finger with a serious expression, "From the moment you sign the agreement and accept my employment until the Allied Forces arrive in Nangao, you can only serve me. You are absolutely not allowed to take on any work privately."

"Otherwise, don't blame me for being ruthless."

Lorenzo smiled slightly, seemingly not considering this condition a big problem.

He pressed his hand to the short sword at his waist and knelt on one knee.

"We swear by the honor of being war dogs that we will never break our promise as long as you can afford the price."

Li Lin nodded.

With little time left before the scheduled military exercise, it's a good time to end this quest for success amidst the chaos.

He stopped wasting words and led Lorenzo's men back, issuing orders as they went, instructing the staff in the Sinan wagon to draft the contract documents.

Back in the mercenary quarter, Li Lin set up a table and signed contracts with Lute, Alfonso, Lorenzo, and the old shaman Gul'dan of the bear-man army, paying them their dues.

Gul'dan was a tall, thin, hunched old man from Kurgan, wearing a bearskin. He had fierce eyes, huge moose antlers on his head, and his chest and back were covered with teeth and bone fragments engraved with runes.

Behind him followed the strongest bear-man in the unit, carrying a fur banner with the mercenary group's emblem. At 2.8 meters tall, Yi Ge only reached the bear-man's chest, and he was as strong as a small mountain of muscles.

Don't even mention the nine dragons pulling the coffin.

Even a normal human being pulling a coffin with ninety dragons wouldn't grow to look like this.

Chaos is still the best medicine.

"Money," the old man said, his voice like a dull knife scraping across a stone.

He can speak Cinco della Signoria, but he's very sparing with words; it's unclear whether he doesn't know many words or simply prefers not to talk much.

Li Lin had a box of gold brought in, containing fifty horseshoe-shaped gold ingots, weighing five hundred taels.

The shaman glanced at it from afar, nodded without even counting, and told the rider behind him to put it away.

"Weapons," he said again.

Li Lin then realized that their weapons had already been confiscated.

He immediately ordered the craftsmen at the Jizhong camp to move the halberds that had been recovered and repaired from the battlefield to the military exercise site, where the bear-men would be distributed the weapons.

The bear-men in the game wield giant weapons, like giant axes. If you replaced them with halberds... it would be passable, right?

Li Lin had the Jade Courage Sword and Shield to exchange for them, but since the opponent was a heavily armored Zhen Dan infantryman, it was more appropriate to pursue high armor penetration, and the shield was not very useful.

After spending money like water, Li Lin glanced at his finances and almost burst out laughing.

—250 taels of gold

These exorbitant commissions, which would make the mercenary leader regard him as an "Eastern nobleman," were nothing more than a drop in the ocean for him.

【Golfaggle's Devourers 2 (16 players per team)】

Carcassonne Cavalry (60 men)

[Vispero's Blood Feud (100 people)]

【Esno Bear People (100 people)】

Looking at the troop badges that appeared in the system's troop list.

Li Lin checked the data again.

It's a bit of a shame that these foreign mercenaries can't benefit from the bonus of his [Unyielding Lv1] red line; they can only benefit from the aura effects of the strategist's [Tactical Expert] and [Majestic] auras.

However, this is already a very high bonus.

In particular, the melee defense of the [Golfaggle Maneater] was raised from a low 36 points to 41. To give a somewhat inaccurate example, a normal Danish infantryman would need to hit them three times to land one hit. For these big-eater Ryoko who would almost certainly be surrounded by infantry, this is a huge boost.

The morale aura of up to 12 points allows these mercenaries to maintain a fighting spirit as long as they don't actively flee.

Of course, the Carcassonne Cavalry, a cavalry unit from the border princely territory, still has very poor attributes.

But it doesn't matter. Li Lin's main goal is to recruit Alfonso; he doesn't intend to send the disgraceful cavalrymen to the field as a burden.

Excluding this cavalry, he now has 232 men on the field.

Including the 29 garrison soldiers from the south, plus myself, there are 38 military exercise slots left.

Thirty-eight spots are neither a lot nor a little.

It doesn't seem right to ask anyone to fill in the blank, but leaving it blank makes me feel uneasy.

Sigh, if we could recruit those dwarf butchers, we'd have about 300 people, and we wouldn't have to worry so much.

Ultimately, Li Lin decided to participate in the military exercise with this number of participants.

A high-level elite infantry unit, plus two ogre supermodel units and one supermodel Norsca unit.

Unless he, the leader, were to die on the spot, he wouldn't know how he could possibly lose.

When the fight breaks out, his first priority is to ensure his own safety, and the second is to gain some experience. He doesn't need many; killing ten or so people and earning a hundred or so experience points will be enough.

They provided some wine and meat, enough to feed the mercenaries until they were about half full.

Li Lin led his foreign legion toward the military exercise location.

All the patrolling Zhen Dan troops along the way looked at Li Lin's army of miscellaneous soldiers, which was a collection of demons and monsters from all over the country, with expressions of utter disbelief.

It was only because he had enough prestige within the military to keep people in check that no one dared to cause trouble for him.

Li Lin also increasingly felt the importance of power.

His power stemmed primarily from the prestige he earned on the battlefield—that was his hard power.

Secondly, there's the robe worn by the military governor.

Both are indispensable.

He must reclaim Nanli and retain his title of military commissioner, whose legitimacy is still uncertain.

Whether it's for the sake of national sentiment or for the sake of a wonderful life where one can enjoy every night in the future.

Halfway there, before even reaching their destination, about four or five hundred paces away, Li Lin sensed something was wrong.

The earthen slopes on both sides of the plain were covered with a dark mass of officers, along with their warhorses and attendants, who had come to join the fun.

Li Lin recognized several familiar faces from a distance: He Xu, Jian Ping, Wei Zheng, Zhao Yunxiu...

The other officers, whom I had met briefly when I lectured on military strategy at the pass, were probably also present.

Hearing the footsteps of the army passing behind them, everyone turned around and waved wildly at Li Lin, who was leading the way.

It's like a fan seeing their favorite team enter the stadium.

Li Lin found it utterly absurd.

Before he could get close, he saw a group of people rushing over from the other side, each of them as light as a swallow, running as fast as if they were flying close to the ground.

"Steward Li!"

Suddenly, an acquaintance appeared in front of Li Lin. A gust of wind hit his face, causing him to unconsciously shrink back behind Jin Fu's head.

Jinfu was very protective of its master. It spread its front paws and roared twice at the newcomer in a defiant manner.

"I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry."

The visitor was Fu Qinglin from Fuzhou.

He scratched the back of his head awkwardly, then announced loudly, "We've been waiting here for a long time, hoping to join the team and participate in the competition!"

The crowd behind him also bowed in unison, standing rudely, but their voices were all louder than the last: "Steward, I am the head of the Iron Mountain Sect, with the cultivation of the Transformation Realm."

"This humble citizen is also at the Transformation Realm and knows the Overlord Whale Killing Palm. I am willing to die for the Steward!"

"Heh, a bunch of roughnecks! I am Zhao Kangding, the Silver Spear of Taiyuan! True Qi Realm, proficient in three Earth-Rank spear techniques!"

Li Lin's roof is standing there.

What is all this nonsense?