Chapter 51 The Miserable Fort Kahn

Leiner put down the armor and asked the blacksmiths, "What is the output of this armor? How long will it take to make a pair?"

"Hmm... Lord Baron, although the manufacture of this kind of armor is not as cumbersome as chain armor, it is also more time-consuming. In a month, five blacksmiths here can make fifteen sets..."

As the blacksmith spoke, he hesitated when he saw Reiner frowning slightly.

This output is indeed a bit low in Leiner's mind, but it is also understandable. Of course, the progress of completely handcrafted by blacksmiths is slow, but he knows that this is already the limit. It is estimated that the blacksmith who went to make farm tools to make armor is slower.

Lena nodded and said: "Don't worry, I'm satisfied with this speed, you guys try your best to build fifty sets of armor within three months, but don't worry, what I want is qualified armor "

After arranging this matter, Reiner asked some soldiers to be recruited from the free people of Golburg, and added the ordinary soldiers to fifty.

This made him feel heartbroken again. The salaries of these soldiers are supported by the food after the autumn harvest and the ten gold coins in the system's novice gift pack. At the end of the first month, Leiner must distribute six gold coins to his army. The gold coins are used as the military salary, and now the little money in my hand can last for another two months. After two months, I can't even pay the military salary.

Although the manifested soldiers will not desert or betray at that time, the system will forcibly sell Leiner's current property to pay the soldiers.

In order to prevent this kind of thing from happening, Leiner did not let all the blacksmiths make armor. He assigned two blacksmiths to Goerburg to weave chain armor. After weaving two sets, Leiner sent someone to These two sets of chain mail were sold to the hinterland of the empire to ease the tight economic situation.

But even so, this is just a drop in the bucket. He plans to let people take the trophies obtained from the previous battles to the interior of the empire and sell them to see if he can get more money.

He only needs to last until the beginning of spring. When the spring begins, he can organize people to go hunting in the forest. The merchants who left the Northland for a whole winter will also come back in the spring, and bring back the precious animal skins here to bring those prominent of nobles.

And some big nobles will buy iron materials at high prices here, of course, Reiner will not sell them at all.

At least until Leiner finds a new source of income and has enough financial resources, he does not intend to continue recruiting troops. Although he has a system and a mechanism for exchanging merit points for troops, he wants to use war to support war and use war to catalyze a large-scale army. A large and powerful system army, but money restricted him.

If he wants to rely on this method to expand the army crazily but does not develop the territory so that his economic situation can support the army, then everything will be untenable.

The problem of having no money is that he can't help it even if he turns gray. Therefore, he simply let go of the worries in his heart and started to enjoy life.

From time to time, he inspected the situation of the army, and handed over some of the newly recruited recruits and the former infantry to Sir Leyland. Raising soldiers is a costly thing, and Reiner finally understood this.

Not only did he have to pay the soldiers, but also arm them, in addition to giving them nutritious food to ensure their training.

After all, as long as Reiner supports them for a year or two, each of them is worth more than a dozen gold coins.

Of course, the only ones with high salaries are the soldiers who came out of the system. The salary of the soldiers before him was only one copper coin a month, and it was more than one silver coin a year, and seven or eight coins a year. With the salary of gold coins, and selling some iron materials, the entire territory can be run smoothly.

However, after exchanging the system arms, his financial expenditure doubled immediately, and the only way to improve it was to increase other income.

At the same time, completely different from the bustling scene of Fort Moreland is the tragic state of Fort Carn.

Streaks of black smoke fluttered from the ground of Fort Carn into the sky, rendering the monotonous white world more colorful, but behind these colors was a cruel situation.

Baron Kahn was on the arrow tower in the middle of the castle at this time, looking at the devastated territory with a livid face, the black smoke rising from all directions was one by one burned villages.

If he hadn't transferred most of the residents to the castle before the battle, he, the baron, would have become a polished commander.

Baron Kahn, who thought he could fight against the Klades at the border of his territory like Baron Rainer, suffered a disastrous defeat at the border of his territory.

He asked his serf omens to consume the strength of the Klades first, but he didn't want to, the omens with weak fighting will were no match for the Klades with their crazy desire to survive.

It was about to collapse at the first touch, and even if he led the knights to charge against the Klades, they couldn't reverse the trend of defeat.

If he had been reckless at the beginning and led the knights directly to attack the Klades, he might have defeated the enemy before the horse's impact force was exhausted among the crowd.

But he was smart enough to fear that his knights would suffer too much damage, so he asked the serf omens to consume the opponent. The defeated serf omens directly affected the charging knights and boosted the opponent's morale.

In this way, Baron Kahn suffered a disastrous defeat, only forty or fifty soldiers were left out of the hundreds of soldiers brought out, and only five of the knights who were brought out followed him back to the castle.

In this way, the Klades were raging on his territory, searching for every place where food might be hidden, and looting every grain of food.

He stood on the arrow tower sadly and looked at the entire territory. Now he still doesn't know whether the Baron Rainer who chose to fight against the Kraders, his distant relatives, succeeded or failed.

His mood is as gloomy as this winter day. The situation in the northern border is not peaceful. Now the emperor is seriously ill. Without the emperor's suppression, he doesn't know what will happen to the northern border after the spring. Fort Carn, with its large army and knights, will definitely be the target of public criticism.

He didn't know how to protect his territory and family in the future, and where the nearly two thousand residents in the castle would live after the beginning of spring, all of this lingered in his mind like a nightmare.

Bantu, the old knight who had been persuading him before, walked up the arrow tower and said to Baron Kahn: "My lord, the Klades will not attack us anymore, we have to appease the residents now, they are panicking and don't know Where will I live in the future!"

Hearing Bantu's words, Baron Kahn became even more irritable, but he still restrained his emotions and said, "Tell them, I will help them rebuild their homes, so they don't have to worry!"