Chapter 486 Armaments

Chapter 486 Armament
“Well, if Lord Liberte is coming, we welcome it. But we must be prepared for war.”

Convocation Speaker Marcus finally made his decision.

He turned to Joe Foster, “My friend, how about you take over the job of entertaining him?”

“I’m willing to take on that tricky task.” Foster nodded.

The Speaker asked again, “Now again, I’ll trouble you to give us an idea of our armament.”

The weapons of the Horned Bay Alliance were mainly purchased from the Northwest Gulf.

At first, the alliance didn’t want to rely too much on the Northwest Gulf as a place, but there was no way that the weapons sold in the Northwest Gulf were really high quality and cheap.

For the price of building or buying a sword from another place, one could buy five to ten swords in the Northwest Bay, and the quality was still very good.

This led to the Horned Bay Alliance to rely more and more on the Northwest Bay when expanding their armory, who all want to do more with less.

The gentlemen of the Convocation couldn’t figure out how the Northwest Gulf managed to keep the price so low, especially the iron, an important raw material for building armaments, could it be that the Northwest Gulf’s iron could come out of the ore on its own?
Foster cleared his throat and said in a confident tone, “My fellow colleagues, although once war breaks out, it is highly likely that the Church of Horned Bay will have the Holy See on their side to back them up, we also have ample preparations to offset this advantage of the Church.”

“First of all, defense equipment, we currently have a total of 30,000 sets of metal armor prepared, which contains over 3,000 sets of high-grade armor, and another 50,000 sets of cortical armor, even if we follow the limit of 150,000 people to expand the army’s goal, we will still be able to achieve at least fifty percent of the batch rate of armor.”

“Secondly, in terms of weaponry, the current armories around the world have a total of 100,000 spears, 30,000 one-handed swords, 10,000 longbows, and 30,000 shortbows in reserve ……”

“In terms of large instruments, a total of one hundred crossbows have been built, thirty large stone throwers, one hundred small stone throwers, and siege wagons ……”

“In terms of livestock, there were a total of over 35,000 horses and 10,000 mules ……”

“In food ……”

The armament deal with the Northwest Gulf was mainly conducted by the eldest son of the Marquis of Foster, and the Lord Marquis was very concerned about this matter, and before this meeting, he specially wrote down various data on paper.

Not long after, Marquis Foster finished reading the various statistics on the paper.

In the end, he concluded, ”If we arm our army according to the numbers on it, we will create a powerful army that has never been seen before in the history of Horned Bay, even outside of Horned Bay, an army of this size is not often seen, and thanks to the weapons from the Northwestern Gulf, we will truly arm every soldier as a murderous weapon that can be attacked or defended, rather than a a bunch of ragged militia with pitchforks.”

“Our army is organized in an extremely advanced manner, and all we need to do to recruit soldiers is for them to come over, and the government will provide them with standardized weapons and defenses and training. Our inland neighbors, on the other hand, require their soldiers to provide their own weapons.”

“Also, we’ve talked to the major mercenary groups in Horn Bay, and they’re all happy to accept our employment – when we need it, of course.”

After listening to Foster’s eloquent talk about the armament situation, the people in the Speaker’s office were all feeling more confident.

Horace waved his fist excitedly, “That’s right, that’s how it should be, with fists returning fists, and swords returning swords, the Church’s army will surely piss themselves in fear in front of an alliance that puts out its full strength. But-“

He suddenly frowned tightly and said in a cautionary tone.

“Be sure to beware of traitors, especially certain fellows who talk about the Church long and the Church short all day long.”

Hearing his words, the crowd all secretly laughed, and everyone knew that Horace was talking about “Pious Simmons”, a councilor with very pious beliefs who was very much at odds with Horace on a regular basis. Recently, because of the tension between the alliance and the church, he stayed at home and didn’t come to participate in the deliberations of the Convocation.

At this time, one of the councilors suddenly asked, “When we fight on the ground, is our fleet scheduled for combat missions?” He had just asked the question when the crowd burst into laughter and made a scene.

Did those landlubbers who grew up inland have battleships? Against a bunch of dry ducks, is there any need to discuss anything about the fleet.

Speaker Marcus answered his question nonetheless, “Though you may not think so, I am prepared to raise a hundred warships in case the unthinkable happens, and with a large number of battle-capable ships already registered and no longer sailing far, our harbor can assemble at least fifty well-staffed ships within three days should the need arise.”

“An untoward occurrence?”

Horace asked, “Is it in preparation for those allies of ours to turn against us and turn to the side of the Church?”

The Speaker replied, “Oh, Mr. Horace, don’t speculate so maliciously about our allies with whom we have already signed an offensive and defensive agreement, I believe in the integrity and character of the rulers of our allies, what worries me is the level of their armaments, they may …… not be as well prepared as we are. ”

“Once …… I mean once, one of their ports is taken from the land, then it can threaten our merchant marine, as long as they have the money, they can still recruit a group of maritime outlaws.”

“Besides!”

Speaker Marcus said as he looked around the crowd.

“We need to beware of the threat of the Papacy, even though their harbor is a bit far from us, it is not to be dismissed.”

……

“Achoo!”

The militiaman on duty sneezed, a little dazed, he covered his nose and blew a handful of snot, casually touching it to the brick wall next to his post.

This was one of the Horned Bay Alliance’s checkpoints located on the border, originally there was none, newly added half a year ago.

Since the conflict with the Church became public, the Horned Bay Alliance had built a large number of such checkpoints on the border, a five or six meter high watchtower made of wood or masonry with a hut for the garrison to rest in, and a single checkpoint was often manned by only two to three guards or local militia.

Their purpose was not defense but vigilance.

The militiamen on duty felt unfortunate that they had caught a cold, but their application to go home and rest was rejected by the higher-ups, blaming it on the damned situation.

Hmm? What’s that?
The guard’s pupils quickly focused towards the far side of the road.

It was a trade road that used to carry most of the commerce between the Horned Bay Alliance and the landlocked country of the Duchy of Sealand, but since the situation had turned for the worse, the road had become increasingly deserted, and to this day, all that could be seen was rabbits scurrying across it from one side to the other every now and then.

However, this time, this road was originally a whole day no one to see the shadow of the road unexpectedly appeared a team of carriages and horses.

Was the landlocked country about to invade?

The militia’s insides got highly tense and stared hard in that direction with wide eyes.

Ask for a ticket!

(End of chapter)