The Knight's Journey to the Empire

September 4877, 10 in the Knight Continent calendar.

In the early morning, when it was still light, Soran had already led the Knight Guards to conduct daily intensive training!

Now, under the organization of the experienced territorial military officer, Knight Martin, after a rigorous screening and assessment, the territorial guard has successfully completed the expansion and recruitment work.

Currently, the territory guard team has been expanded to five squadrons with 150 people.

If we add the personal guards that Martin, as the captain, has equipped himself with, the total number of the entire territory guard team will reach 160 soldiers!

Similarly, after layers of rigorous selection, 20 soldiers from the territory guard finally stood out and were incorporated into the Baron's knight guard.

Currently, Soran's Knight Guards have also been expanded to more than a squadron, with 34 people.

There are three official knights:

The one brave knight is Doug Johnson;

The two knights who entered the rank were Ramos and Sad.

The other members are apprentice knights, such as Allen, Gobolo, Hall, etc.

Now Soran is ambitiously preparing to form a powerful knight group of his own.

And in this plan, with its status as the Knight Guard, it will play a vital role!

Because they are not only Soran's elite troops, but also the rock-solid cornerstone and unshakable foundation of the entire Knights Templar.

And for them, strength is not the most important thing, loyalty comes first.

Therefore, in order to ensure the absolute loyalty and outstanding strength of the Knight Guard members, Soran needs to carefully select each member and give them rigorous training and assessment.

Only the winners who have passed layers of tests and screening can become a member of this knightly order.

Similarly, in order to improve their strength and combat effectiveness, Soran was willing to pay.

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First of all, the knights' weapons and equipment.

The knights' weapons and equipment are diverse and varied, and each of them has a unique use.

First, there are long-range attack weapons, such as bows and arrows, which allow knights to accurately shoot enemies at long distances and kill targets;

Medium and short-range attack weapons, including throwing axes and short javelins, enable knights to exert powerful lethality when they are close to the enemy.

As for close combat, knights usually choose to use huge and powerful knight swords to demonstrate unparalleled courage and strength.

When a knight launches a charge, he needs a sturdy knight's lance in his hand, using the powerful impact brought by the horse's galloping to give the enemy a fatal blow!

Of course, this alone is far from enough.

Because each knight must be equipped with an extremely sturdy full body armor.

This full body armor consists of a helmet, breastplate, hand guards, hem guards, shin guards, boots and gloves, which can protect the knight's body from harm in all directions.

Not only that, even the Knights' horses needed to be covered with corresponding armor to enhance their safety on the battlefield.

And usually, every knight must be equipped with a warhorse of his own!

But it’s best if one person has two horses, or even more than one horse!

It also needs to be equipped with a comfortable saddle and iron stirrups, which can make the cooperation between the knight and the horse more tacit and further enhance the combat effectiveness.

As for the above-mentioned things, Soran needs to prepare a set for each of them, and they must be of high quality and complete quantity.

Bows and arrows, throwing axes, short javelins, knight swords, charging knight lances, all the attack weapons added up, the conservative price is 50 gold coins.

A set of high-quality knight's full body armor would cost at least 100 gold coins.

A warhorse plus armor, as well as other trivial items, will cost more than 100 gold coins in total.

All these items together cost 250 gold coins per person.

And these are just the beginning.

In addition, there are knights' wages and salaries, daily maintenance of weapons and equipment, feeding of war horses, training losses, pre-war mobilization fees, etc. There are many items, all of which are linked to gold coins.

Therefore, the cost of training a formal professional knight is at least 300 gold coins per person.

And for more than thirty people, that's a gold coin.

This is another huge sum of money!

But do you think this is the end?

How is this possible?

Don’t knights need money for food, clothing, housing and transportation?

Doesn’t a knight’s daily training cost money?

Here are the 10 primary body strengthening magic potions purchased from the Netherlands Chamber of Commerce.

Two of them had been diluted by Soran and given to them to take to assist in their practice!

Unfortunately, after being diluted, the efficacy of the primary body-strengthening magic potion was weakened, and the duration of its effectiveness was reduced to three days.

But it doesn't matter. One primary body strengthening magic potion can last for three days, and 10 of them can last for 30 days.

So during these thirty days, Soran will take them through devilish training!

Let them truly experience what it means to "train until death."

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Of course, such high-intensity training definitely requires good logistical support.

So Soran specifically instructed Javier to prepare enough meat and bread every day to supply them with food at any time.

Fortunately, after several months of nourishing the body, making up for the deficit, and continuous physical exercise, these people's physical fitness has recovered very well!

Otherwise, if we continue to refine them like this, several of them will definitely be ruined!

In the end, it was too late for Sauron to regret!

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September 4877, 11 in the Knight Continent calendar.

Today, the first batch of 30 war horses purchased by Adam finally arrived at White Bear Territory after a long journey.

They hold their heads high, their hair is as soft and shiny as silk; their eyes are as sharp as torches, revealing their determination and courage, and their cries are as loud as thunder, shocking everyone!

You can tell at first glance that this is a superior variety.

Because the Kingdom of Essex has deployed troops in the southern part of the Kingdom of Midburg, the situation in the Kingdom of Midburg has become somewhat tense.

The people were all worried, fearing that war might break out at any time.

In this context, the price of war horses, as an important strategic material, naturally rose sharply.

The price of a warhorse, which originally cost only fifty or sixty gold coins each, has now soared to eighty gold coins each, an increase of one third.

So this batch of war horses finally cost 2400 gold coins.

Fortunately, Soran got back 10 gold coins in cash from Countess Katis, and there was also some surplus from the previous snowflake sea salt business.

Otherwise, White Bear Territory will once again be in a situation of insufficient financial funds!

But just 30 war horses are not enough!

Soran also had to instruct Adam to continue buying more war horses!

In Soran's plan, all the official knights who have cultivated fighting spirit and officials in important positions in the White Bear Territory are considered as reserve personnel of the Knights Templar.

These reserve personnel, together with the main officers of the territory guard, need to be equipped with at least one warhorse and a complete set of sophisticated knight equipment each!

And the regular members of the Knights Templar also need two war horses each!

And as time goes by, the size of the Knights Templar will expand and absorb fresh blood.

Therefore, for a scarce strategic material like war horses, the more the better.

Of course, it would be nice if we could raise our own war horses!

But Sauron was just thinking about it!

Because White Bear Ridge has neither a place to raise and train war horses, nor a master skilled in raising war horses, and there are not even stallions with good genes!

How to feed this?

So just spend your gold coins to buy it!