Chapter 135 March plan!
Although Rock Core City is called a "city", it is actually just a small town simply surrounded by stone walls.
——It is a neutral city established by several large bandit forces nearby.
Bandits also have trading needs.
It's not that easy to get the supplies you want just by looting.
So a "neutral city" like Core City came into being.
Under the guarantee of the big bandit, the little bandits can safely conduct various transactions in neutral cities.
At the same time, the big bandits will benefit.
According to the scout's description, the stone walls surrounding Rock Core City may be able to hinder ordinary people or ordinary beasts, but in front of formal knights, this "wall" can be ignored.
Compare the strength of the enemy and ourselves.
The Sixth Infantry Regiment has nearly 20,000 people, 80% of which are combatants, and the other 20% are support personnel. Every soldier is wearing armor.
Eighty percent of the combatants were excluding half of them who were well-trained but weak recruits.
The average strength of other soldiers is at the level of intermediate knight apprentices.
Putting aside these grassroots soldiers, the Sixth Infantry Regiment also has more than a hundred senior knight apprentices to junior knight centurions, and more than a dozen junior knights to mid-level knights who are thousands of commanders.
Finally, there is Anthony, the senior senior knight.
As for the bandits, if
the entire Rock Core City is not considered old and weak, there are about two to three thousand fighting bandits stationed in it for a long time.
The bandit leaders in the chaotic area still have some strength.
As a bandit leader, he is at least at the level of a junior knight.
Although bandit leaders with the strength levels of intermediate knights and advanced knights are extremely rare, they are not unheard of.
Going further up is unlikely.
If your strength reaches the level of a great knight, you will be treated politely no matter which country you are in.
A powerful empire like the Kaya Empire only has about a hundred knights.
Not to mention those kingdoms and principalities.
With such strength, why stay in the chaotic zone again.
Of course, it's a different story if it's the kind of "Undead Great Knight" that everyone shouts and beats.
But even if there is a "Great Knight of the Undead" lurking in the chaotic area, he will definitely run as far as he can when he sees the standard armed forces of the Kaya Empire.
After all, once their trail is discovered.
Perhaps within two days, a mage who is good at finding traces will come over with several great knights.
Except for the bandit leaders, the strength of ordinary bandits is relatively uneven.
The vast majority of bandits are ordinary people. An ordinary person plus a weapon can be regarded as the basic fighting strength of bandits.
If you have gone out with the team to rob once or twice, you can be regarded as the "elite" among the bandits.
As for whether there are knight apprentices among ordinary bandits...
there must be some, but they must be very few.
Things like knight training are very common in the eyes of the aristocracy.
But in the eyes of ordinary people, it is very high-end.
Even registered citizens of the Kaya Empire need to pass the assessment of the Knight Academy to obtain the knight training method.
Of course, if you have money, you can also go to the auction house to buy it.
It's just that the price is more expensive.
And there is a high probability that it is incomplete. The training method that can barely achieve the level of a formal knight is considered "top quality"!
In addition, even if you really obtain the knight training method, you can't practice it casually.
You must also have enough resources and "knight talents"!
As for mages and the like, there is no need to consider them at all.
After introducing the basic situation of Core City and the Chaos Zone, Louise talked about the military plan of the 6th Infantry Regiment:
"After marching for a day and a half, we will arrive at Core City, and then we will directly attack Core City. .
There are the supplies we need there, and then we will take Core City as the center and radiate to the surrounding areas to capture bandit slaves.
When the supplies in Core City are almost consumed, we will attack the next 'city'."
...
Early the next morning, the Sixth Infantry Regiment began a forced march mode again.
Because there are no smooth roads beyond the national border.
Therefore, the speed of this march was much slower than before.
But although the speed dropped, the bumps intensified.
After walking for only half a day, the merchants' team had already fallen to the end of the baggage transport team.
Of course, this is not a big deal.
They don't have to participate in the battle anyway.
So it doesn’t really matter if you go slower.
Just don’t get too far out of touch.
After all, among the hundreds of merchants, there were only a few small groups of soldiers following and guarding them.
If they were separated too far and encountered many bandits, the Sixth Infantry Regiment might not be able to rescue them in time.
On Brand's side, at this time, he only had Catherine and a few servants of the Holland family following him on horseback.
As for Yersen, because he had just heard that the vanguard had discovered the bandits, he hurriedly rushed forward with Anderson and several attendants.
According to Yersin, he can't wait to experience what it's like in actual combat.
Brand has no such interest.
Although his physical strength was very good, the bumps along the way still made him a little tired.
If the march had not taken too long, he would have given himself an acceleration spell and then dismounted and "walked".
Of course, compared to those businessmen who can't speak out, Brand is still much better.
Perhaps it was because of the enemy ahead.
The team transporting baggage ahead gradually stopped.
Seeing this situation, the merchant team also stopped to prepare for repairs.
Brand also dismounted immediately, moved his body, took a sip of the honey water handed over by Catherine, and finally skillfully took out a chair to sit down and rest.
At this moment.
Brand feels that the study of space rune arrays should be put on the agenda as soon as possible.
Although the progress of learning runes is stuck, the relevant theoretical knowledge can also be learned first.
When the time comes, he will set up a teleportation array in his home and have someone arrange the spatial coordinates outside. He can reach his destination in just a blink of an eye.
Unlike now, I have been out for several days and I am still on the road.
——This is not a mage at all!
Not long after Brand sat down, Louise came over and wanted to chat with him.
Speaking of Louise, Brand felt that she had become much more "normal" since the night before yesterday.
Although there are many girls who like Brand, few are as "outspoken" as Louise was that day.
Most noble ladies are relatively restrained.
From here, it can be determined that her behavior that day must have been instructed by someone.
Combined with what Chris told him about the secret plans of several big bosses.
It is not difficult to guess that it is the "trick" of several big bosses.
Regarding the plans of those big bosses, Brand’s evaluation is: nothing more than that!
No wonder Chris didn't think their plan would have any impact on him.
The main reason for this is the information asymmetry between the two sides.
Many of Brand's amazing deeds in the Mage Academy were given a "silence order" by the dean.
So although there are a few college tutors who know that Brand is very "outrageous".
But they won't spread the word either.
In addition, Brand has always been very low-key in other things except his luxurious life.
Therefore, several elders, including Mr. Holland, do not know Brand's situation very well.
They are still looking at Brand from the perspective of ordinary noble descendants.
Little did he know that whether it was strength, wealth or vision, Brand had already broken away from the level of "descendants of ordinary nobles"!
After sitting down to rest for a while and chatting with Louise for a while, a group of soldiers came over, pulling a long string of "ragged" prisoners tied with ropes.
Yersen, Anderson, and several family servants followed on horseback.
The difference from when they went there was that their armors all had some blood stains on them.
When Yersen came closer, Brand asked with a smile:
"Why didn't you see the loot?"
Speaking of this, Yersen was a
little unhappy and said: "These little bandits are not worth a magic gold coin! You What other trophies do you want?"
(End of Chapter)