Chapter 5: Systematic military types and materiel

Chapter 5 System Troops and Supplies

When he calmed down, Owen took a closer look at the two troop types.

Swordsman belongs to the basic soldier type in the Age of Empires, although he is not very tall, but his physique is good, wearing an iron helmet, wearing leather armor, equipped with a one-handed sword and a round wooden shield, able to fight and resist and also able to run, able to adapt to a variety of complex combat environments, belonging to the kind of all-purpose oil.

In contrast, the rifleman is a bit taller, wearing a vest-style leather armor, revealing a pair of sturdy arms, holding a wooden bow, carrying an arrow pouch, bright-eyed and in good spirits.

Owen compared the soldiers of the imperial era with the soldiers under his command, and found that the former is much stronger than the latter, not to say a level higher, ten against ten, a sure win, ten against twenty, even if they don’t take advantage of the terrain, they can still have a miserable victory.

This judgment is not unfounded.

Although Owen has not been in the military, has not been in a fight, but he knows that people are in fact very fragile, regardless of whether you are a martial arts champion or heavyweight boxing champion, waist to get a knife have to kneel.

Especially in ancient times, there is still hope of surviving the damage to the tendons and bones, but if the internal organs are damaged, it can almost be equated with getting a ticket to the ghost gate.

Otherwise, the ancient why allow folk to hold weapons, hidden armor is the great crime of rebellion, is because the person again powerful can not carry a few rounds of arrows, on the contrary, if you wear a good set of armor, with a body of brute force to kill a three into three out is not impossible.

Although the soldiers of the territory is not as elite as the system soldiers, but the equipment is not too bad, and as long as he is the lord of the order is really dare to fight, up a spear a charge, get on the basic dead, so the soldiers of the imperial era, although more elite some, Owen still make this judgment.

So also remind himself not to rely on the system soldiers are unselfconscious, the system soldiers are not invincible, once in the war to make such a mistake, he is afraid that there is no chance to start again.

Owen placed these system soldiers into the long wooden huts, because this place was originally used as a barracks, each wooden hut can be placed ten soldiers, at first this place was full.

For the arrival of the system soldiers, the original soldiers didn’t have any doubts, didn’t probe, and didn’t have any hostility, instead, they were quite happy, because it meant that they were stronger, safer, and more relaxed.

After the castle had ten more soldiers, the daily food consumption was a lot bigger, but at least it was much safer, and the days of four people patrolling the castle were gone, now doubled.

As for food consumption, because not only food, many supplies are able to use progress value to exchange from the game, Owen heart is not really panic.

Of course, all of this is exchanged with progress value, and progress value needs time to recover, so it looks like unlimited resources, but in reality, Owen still needs to be careful and plan ahead, otherwise once something goes wrong, the problem will not be small.

So he first needed to calculate the consumption of soldiers and serfs, in order to reserve enough supplies in advance as an emergency, at least in the case of no system supplies to replenish the situation can be maintained for a month, this is the minimum.

However, he didn’t know until he did the math and realized that the problem was really not small.

Because of the lack of animal protein and fat, both soldiers and serfs have a large meal.

Soldiers are better, at least one catty of food a day, but this is still the limit, if not, three or five catty a day can not fight.

The problem is that a pound of food a day, or coarse food, not to mention the training, even the normal physical strength is difficult to maintain, so the next soldier’s food can only increase not decrease.

In contrast, the serfs are even worse, half a catty of grain boiled into porridge is a day’s food, no wonder the memory of the territory will buy serfs every year, but has not seen an increase in the population, this eating method is not dead people is a strange thing. In addition, we must also take into account the salt, vegetables, fish and other food supplements, which is not only related to health issues, but also related to morale.

At the same time, clothing, shoes, equipment and other consumables should be prepared in advance some, Linlin total counting Owen’s head is big.

A soldier, not counting combat and intense training, at least a year to consume thousands of kilograms of food, thin and thick four sets of clothes, eight pairs of shoes, equipment, at least one set of spare.

Serfs to be much less, but how little, one and a half pounds of food a day must not be saved, at least one set of thick clothes, otherwise a winter can die half.

All the expenses add up to make Owen can’t help but frown straight, no wonder the Hydra family only had thirty semi-discharged soldiers before, not that they don’t want more, mainly because they can’t afford to feed them.

Knowing the approximate consumption, then calculate the problem of resource replenishment.

Although the system is able to exchange supplies, it is not free, a progress value can only exchange ten units of food, that is, one thousand pounds of wheat, equivalent to the consumption of a soldier for a year.

This is only infantry, if the cavalry consumption is greater, after all, the war horse is not just feed grass on the line, grains, beans, eggs, salt, eat not only more than people, eat better than people.

In addition, it seems that the progress value exchange food ratio is very high, very cost-effective, but a thousand pounds of food represents a loyal soldier who is willing to die for him.

How to think how to feel loss, Owen immediately crossed out the previous part of the plan, civil this aspect also can not relax, planting must be early.

Not only to grasp the food planting, as soon as possible to get rid of the dependence on the system of food, but also have to reserve more craftsmen, such as carpenters, stonemasons, blacksmiths, these are not only closely related to the life, but also very important for the military.

With enough farmers and craftsmen, Owen would greatly reduce his dependence on system resources, so that he could save more progress value to exchange for soldiers, because the loyalty of system soldiers was irreplaceable.

Interestingly, the cost-effectiveness of the miscellaneous type of exchange in the system exchange was even higher than food.

Cloth, candles, pottery, as long as they weren’t metal, the exchange wasn’t much higher than food, but if they were taken and sold, they could definitely make a big profit, and by doing so, they could instead purchase more food and other supplies.

However, considering his own strength is insufficient, coupled with the lack of suitable talent, consider for a long time, Owen still gave up this idea, because what he needs now is more accumulation, rather than attracting too much attention by making a splash.

The appearance of the system can be said to let Owen get rid of the growing panic inside, so he deliberately spent a little progress value to buy items to arrange the castle, to save the whole day with living in the historical relics like, set up, more or less a bit of liveliness, sleep is also a little more down-to-earth.

In fact, Owen did not buy many things, except for the candles and lamps which were purchased in boxes, but more spices and food, because food will always make people’s mood better.

In addition Owen also purchased a pig hair toothbrush, green salt for cleaning teeth, and bath beans for bathing, and after changing into new clothes, the whole person was refreshed.

Other than that, Owen didn’t waste any more progress value.

(End of this chapter)