Black Iron Crown

The Scarlet Griffin Knights were all dressed in heavy armor, and the tall war horses under their crotches were a head taller than ordinary war horses, standing in front of everyone like wild beasts.

Earl Redmara looked at the knights and followers passing by below, and couldn't help but be speechless. After observing the Scarlet Griffon Knight at close range, he finally had a clear understanding of these almost invincible forces on the battlefield.

When the Scarlet Griffon Knights arrived, the onlookers were even more excited, shouting loudly, these invincible knights are no different from stars in their hearts.

Reiner smiled contentedly at Earl Redmara and said, "How is it? What do you think after watching my military parade?"

"Haha, the military strength of the Grand Duchy of the Northern Territory is truly well-deserved. Today, after seeing it up close, I realized that the army under your command is stronger than the rumors say. I admire your ability to govern the army very much!"

"Haha!" Reiner said with a smile: "I am also proud of my loyal soldiers, they are the same as my dear vassals, they are the capital of my rule, of course we must treat them well, you said Woolen cloth?"

"Your Majesty is right..."

After another question-and-answer session between the two sides, the military parade finally came to an end.

Earl Redmara turned down a small banquet that Reiner had prepared for him, and nestled in his room thinking about future plans.

Today, I really observed the army under Leiner's command at a close distance, but it brought him a lot of pressure.

Leaving aside how firm these people's discipline is, their excellent equipment alone is enough to make Earl Redmara drool with envy.

What's more, those soldiers are all elites who have experienced battlefield testing, and their combat effectiveness is absolutely beyond doubt.

Although the newly formed army in the imperial capital completely followed or even surpassed the imperial army in the old emperor's reign in terms of training, it was still inferior in the final analysis.

Ignoring the extremely important armor for an army for the time being, their physical fitness, training level, and bravery are far inferior.

At the beginning, the army under the old emperor's command only trained for four hours a day, in order to maintain their combat effectiveness and prevent their combat effectiveness from declining. Their own combat effectiveness was extremely strong.

Because they were all strong yeomen from the northern border, the severe cold tempered their tenacious and fierce characters, and their identities as yeoman or even country gentry endowed them with strong physiques.

In addition, many self-cultivating farmers have trained some simple martial arts in addition to farming since they were young, so as to survive or even win meritorious deeds on the battlefield.

In this way, they only need to be a qualified soldier as soon as they join the army. As long as they have seen blood and experienced real combat, they can immediately become elite soldiers.

But the army in the imperial capital can't do this. Before joining the army, they were just a group of serfs.

Earl Redmara spent more than four months just to recuperate their bodies.

In the past, the old emperor's army was trained to maintain combat effectiveness, but now these people are trained to possess combat effectiveness, the two are completely different.

In recent years, due to land annexation of self-cultivating farmers, there have been a lot fewer, and some time ago, when the squires and self-cultivating farmers besieged the imperial capital, the Kingdom of Bukeden intervened, and the royal family has lost the support of this class.

The northern border is completely different. In the past, the productivity of the northern border was not developed enough, so Reiner needed to recruit soldiers into the army for collective training, but now that the productivity has improved, it is not a problem for everyone to have enough food.

In this way, except for the militia system organized by Leiner, even if it is not during the militia training time, these men will practice in their own yard or against their neighbors.

Not to mention the half-grown teenagers, they are the group of people who most hope to gain meritorious service on the battlefield, and their usual jokes are to fight with pointed spears or wooden swords.

What he saw during this period of time completely made Earl Redmara see the war potential of the northern border, which was simply not comparable to that of the imperial capital.

In terms of manpower and material resources, one imperial capital can support five northern regions, but when it comes to war potential, it is far inferior.

If the army in the northern border loses too quickly, it will take half a year, and a combat-capable army can be rebuilt soon.

However, the imperial capital couldn't do this. If the army lost a little, it would be less. If the loss was too large, it would take another two or three years to retrain a group of similar soldiers.

In this way, if the emperor wants to have some conflicts with the northern border, then he really needs to think about it.

Temporary happiness is nothing, and the real long-term peace and stability is what Earl Redmara wants.

Even if the conflict with the northern border takes the upper hand, the speed of the imperial capital's replenishment of troops is far behind that of the northern border. If someone takes advantage of it, it will be even more worth the loss.

Earl Redmara, who had figured this out, was even more unwilling to have conflicts with the northern border, and he vaguely began to regret the previous move of sending spies.

After assuring that the terms agreed between the two parties would be sent to the northern border within the agreed time, Earl Redmara left the northern border in a hurry.

Before he left, he also talked with Reiner about the possibility of steel trade, but Reiner completely refused and did not give Earl Redmara a chance, and he had no choice but to return disappointed.

After Earl Redmara left, Rainer saw that his vassals gathered together once in a while, so he proposed an autumn hunt.

This kind of autumn hunting can maintain the physical fitness and martial spirit of the nobles, and at the same time, it can also strengthen the relationship between the lord and the vassals, and it costs less than a banquet, and it is also a very interesting sport .

Reiner's dog breeder is very neat, and he has trained a lot of good dogs for him over the years, and now it's finally time to use them.

Reiner was riding on the back of a tall horse, and behind him were his dog breeder and two apprentices. They helped Reiner lead six slender but muscular bulldogs. They looked agile and powerful. excellent hound.

As a result, these hounds once again allowed Leiner to have the capital that others envied, and his vassals surrounded Leiner and kept praising his dogs.

Afterwards, Reiner held a hunting competition, and whoever had the most and the biggest prey would get fifty sets of excellent full-body chain armor.

Although fifty sets of full-body chain armor are not extremely precious in the northern region, they are still a moderate wealth, and it is a good fortune.

More than a hundred nobles brought their retinues and hounds, a total of five or six hundred people and five or six hundred dogs, and entered the mountain in such a mighty way.

Including Wende and Lumbare, in order to avoid something like Wende from happening again, Reiner asked these two people to take their fiancées to hunt together, not asking how many prey they can cast, at least they can cultivate Feelings are always good.

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