Warlord: King of All Clans

When it comes to enthusiasm for achieving success, Roman is no less than Strong.

But he inherited Rigolav's style and never fought a battle without confidence. When he heard what Strong said, he began to look through the information in the box.

The earliest record in this box of information dates back to three years ago, almost when Leo captured Isenbol.

In addition to the regular intelligence from the River Bay Lord's Mansion and the Isenbol City Lord's Mansion, there is also a large amount of intelligence provided by the foreign tribes in the Buck Mountains, the Isenbol caravan, and even the Talhan tribe in the west.

It contains not only the military deployment of the Gustav family, but also information on the mayors of major branch cities, biographies of characters, and the political inclinations of local banner families and local tyrants.

The more Roman looked, the more shocked he became, and only then did he realize that Strong was not a simple person.

He was also a military enthusiast, but after taking Isonpore, he worked hard to protect Isonpore, and after taking Arbroath, he worked hard to suppress Arbroath.

He was very familiar with the situation around the two cities. He could accurately predict where there would be alien crises and possible rebellions, but he rarely set his sights on other earldoms.

After all, he was just a mid-level general in the Earldom of Riverbend, and had only recently been promoted to the position of deputy commander of the garrison corps, barely stepping into the core of the Riverbend army.

Subconsciously, conquering other earldoms is something that only the lord should consider.

Since Strong captured Fort Buck, he violated the taboo of mobilizing troops without authorization, and was left out by Leo, serving at most as a military advisor.

Roman knew that this minotaur had something, but he didn't expect that he had much more than he imagined.

Looking at this information, Roman also became eager to act. Fortunately, he still remembered Leo's instructions, so he continued to object with a stern face.

"The elite Earl's Legion of the Gustav family is hard to stop. We only have one garrison legion now. It is too risky to send it out to fight. Let's wait for the main legion of the River Bay to come back."

Si Zhuang was extremely anxious. "The main army is still thousands of miles away. It will take at least a month for them to return. By then they will have to rest and reorganize. Another two months later, it will be the autumn harvest time. What's the point of fighting a war?"

Luo Meng just shook his head and said, "Then we can fight after the autumn harvest. There is no need to rush."

Seeing that he couldn't convince him, Strong could only change his thinking, "Aren't you worried about Gustav's main army? What if the other side's main army is not here?"

Luo Meng looked at him, not knowing what he was up to.

Szhuang waved his hand and called a Rose Knight over, "Hurry up and send a letter to the Tarhan tribe, asking Ajina to send troops. I want to hear the news that Gustav's main army is heading west within a month, otherwise cut off their ammunition supply."

This Rose Knight was arranged by the Big House to read and write letters for Strong, because they were afraid that Strong, who could only understand four out of ten words, would make the wrong words or misunderstand the meaning.

The Rose Knight was also a close confidant of the big house. Hearing this, he was shocked and said, "This is not something you can decide, right?"

Strong said shamelessly: "Just write it, I will talk about it, whether they believe it or not is up to them."

Luo Meng's eyes lit up as he looked at the map and judged: "The musketeers of the Tarhan tribe are enough to defeat the local legions in the opposite branch city and force the main legion to go west. We can just cross the river downstream of the city of Abros and capture their northern area."

But he carefully judged the fighting power of both sides and said, "But there is still a problem. Now that the mistress is pregnant, Freya must stay by her side. Not to mention going to battle with us, even if my father is besieged in Arbroath, she cannot go to rescue him."

"Without high-level combat power in the army, we can't deal with the enemy's decapitation tactics."

Si Zhuang also felt a little troubled. He scratched his head and thought of someone. "I'll take care of this. You go and organize the army first. Within a month, I want to see 6,000 human soldiers."

Luo Meng had no choice but to nod, "Okay, I'll try my best to arrange it, but whether to start the war or not is still up to me."

After Strong saw Roman off, he left the barracks and went to the River Bend House to seek help.

After Hewan's guns and artillery entered mass production, the only thing limiting the number of troops was qualified soldiers, but artillery was difficult to produce and musketeers were too easy.

Although Rio had complete firearms, he still followed the elite troops route of the North. When fighting, he did not forget to consider the development of the territory. In addition to the necessary standing army, the military training of the reserve forces was carried out during the slack season.

After taking Arbroath, the standing army of River Bend expanded slightly. In addition to the main force of 5,000 expedition, there were still 5,000 standing troops at home to garrison in various places.

Five thousand people may seem like a lot, but in fact, there are two cities and more than a dozen small towns, each with only a few hundred people, and militiamen need to be recruited to assist in defense.

The ratio of military to civilian is thirty to one, which is just at the threshold of militarism. Any higher will affect production.

Of course, in order to deal with external threats, the Earldom of River Bay has not given up its reserve forces. Every year's military service is consumed in the form of military training during the slack season. Tens of thousands of reserve militiamen have had experience in firing guns, and drill and assassination training is held regularly.

When Leo was deceiving outsiders, he always said that Hewan did not have enough guns and ammunition, and that the soldiers were trained with wooden poles.

This is not a lie, but it refers to reserve soldiers.

But in Strong's eyes, this was too conservative. The entire Earldom of River Bay now had a population of 300,000. It would be easy to train 30,000 new musketeers in half a year through forced conscription.

If five fully-strength legions were to charge forward at the same time, which earl could withstand it?

So now Hewan has over 10,000 standing troops, plus tens of thousands of conscripted militia. In Strong's opinion, the force is too small.

Although Strong is the commander of the River Bend Garrison, in reality only Roman can command the human garrison. The most Strong can do is incite other alien legions to fight against him.

Once Romon has separated out 3,000 regular soldiers and 3,000 conscripted militiamen to form a human musket corps, and Strong has brought in the alien corps at the river bend, there will be no need to wait for the main corps to return home to fight this battle.

When he arrived at the lord's house, Strong ran into Olivia who had just returned from a walk.

At this time, Olivia's belly was not big at all and her movements were normal.

But she deliberately carried a bulging belly and was surrounded by a large group of servants. Even when she went out for a walk, elite soldiers were required to clear the way.

The effect was surprisingly good. Everyone was very excited to see Olivia appear in front of them as a pregnant woman. They were even happier than when their own wives were pregnant. They felt that there was hope for the future of Hewan.

Strong did the same. When he saw Olivia, he hurried over and shouted, "Madam, how are you!"

Olivia was still very young, but she imitated the demeanor of a mature lady and raised her hand, "No need to be polite."

Seeing Si Zhuang rushing over excitedly, Olivia knew that he was up to something, and frowned and asked, "What are you going to do?"

Strong didn't want to tell Olivia, he just touched his head and said honestly: "It's nothing serious, go out and play with Six!"

Meanwhile, inside the big house, a farce was taking place while the mistress was away.