Chapter 179 Military Reorganization
After defeating the orcs, Richard seized a bottle of dragon marrow liquid.
Because communication was inconvenient during the war, this bottle of dragon marrow liquid has always been in Richard's hands.
After returning to the territory, Richard wrote a letter to inform the Duke Jonathan's family, and decided to exchange a batch of common resources such as iron-horned horses and Tenghui potions with the Duke Jonathan's family for dragon marrow liquid.
At the same time, Richard did not keep the dragon skin of the earth dragon beast, and also used it to exchange for Tenghui potions.
This time, it was still Starerno, the son of Duke Jonathan, who came to the Harland territory.
The price of dragon marrow liquid is not in the market, and it can only be roughly estimated based on the needs of both parties.
The Jonathan family's desire for dragon marrow liquid is much higher, and they can only pay a certain premium.
Richard bargained with Starerno and decided to exchange this bottle of dragon marrow liquid for 65 iron-horned horses and 500 bottles of Tenghui potions.
Duke Jonathan is such a powerful force, with a special magic beast hunting team under his command. The annual production of Tenghui potion does not exceed 2,000 bottles, and the annual output of iron-horned horses is less than 100.
A bottle of Tenghui potion costs 30 gold coins, and a castrated iron-horned horse is worth about 100 gold coins.
This bottle of dragon marrow liquid was exchanged for resources worth more than 20,000 gold coins.
Two years ago, Richard hunted a wyvern and exchanged the dragon marrow liquid with the Jonathan family for life evolution potions and some other resources.
This exchange was a win-win for both parties. The Jonathan family promoted a silver knight, and William was promoted to the seventh level.
Two years later, Richard got the dragon marrow liquid again. Such good luck made Stareno sigh.
The Jonathan family is such a powerful force, but in the past five years, they have only hunted two earth dragon beasts and one wyvern, and got three bottles of dragon marrow liquid.
A year ago, the Warcraft hunters of the Jonathan family entered the Eagle Mountains to hunt the flying dragon and turned over, killing a silver knight and a sixth-level knight.
Because of this incident, Duke Jonathan also fought a legendary black dragon, and in the end, neither could do anything to the other. Only through negotiations, a boundary was drawn, and the Warcraft hunters of the Jonathan family were not allowed to cross the border to hunt.
Especially the dragon vein Warcraft, the Jonathan family was prohibited from hunting and slaughtering.
And every five years, the legendary black dragon would exchange a bottle of dragon marrow liquid with the Jonathan family.
Although there is a stable channel for exchanging dragon marrow liquid, there are many people in the Jonathan family who are stuck at the sixth-level knight. If these people want to advance, they can only think of other ways to get dragon marrow liquid.
The sixty-five iron-horned horses sent by Duke Jonathan are all geldings, which cannot expand the population. But with the supplement of these sixty-five iron-horned horses, the Warcraft cavalry of the Harland territory has finally expanded to a hundred cavalry, which will far exceed Baron Harden.
Baron Harden has only more than thirty professionals and sixty Warcraft war horses under his command.
Now the number of Warcraft horses in Harland's territory has exceeded that of Baron Harden. Although the number of professionals in the cavalry squadron is less for the time being, after using 500 bottles of Tenghui potion, it is estimated that many people will advance and will soon surpass Baron Harden.
As expected, in November, after the veterans in the territory used Tenghui potion, 39 people were promoted to professionals.
Richard added 23 people to the Warcraft Cavalry Squadron, adding 40 professionals to the Warcraft Cavalry Squadron.
Now the number of professionals in the Warcraft Squadron in Harland's territory can be compared with the Warcraft Cavalry Squadron of the main legion.
Richard dispersed the remaining 16 professionals to different infantry squadrons to enrich the personnel.
Six years of experience in leading troops made Richard find that the popular way of organizing the army is a bit bloated.
It is actually difficult for a battalion commander to command more than a dozen squadrons.
Especially in small-scale operations, one squadron has too few people and a battalion has too many people, and it often requires several squadrons to cooperate in combat.
In such a situation, the superiors would often appoint a deputy battalion commander or a senior squadron commander to command several squadrons.
For example, in the first few battles Richard participated in, Lieutenant Colonel Marvin and Squadron Commander Diara were responsible for commanding one direction.
However, the squadrons had different structures and most of the time they did not cooperate well.
After careful consideration, Richard decided to establish several new squadrons and expand the infantry in the territory into several small-scale battalions.
Richard selected 70 veterans from each squadron, supplemented 50 new recruits, and incorporated his own 30 personal soldiers to form a guard squadron responsible for the security of the command headquarters.
Graham's military law system, Hayden's intelligence system, Adrian's military medical system, and Frank's training system are all headquarters command systems. Because there is no qualified chief of staff, they are temporarily under the direct jurisdiction of Richard.
The first squadron, the sixth squadron, the ninth squadron, and a newly formed squadron, the eleventh squadron, formed the first battalion of the territory, and Martin was appointed as the battalion commander.
After the battle to annihilate the Marulande tribe, Martin rested for three months and unexpectedly broke through the bottleneck in October and was promoted to the fourth level.
The captain of the first squadron promoted Julian. In a few years, although Julian's talent was not as good as Jennings, he was promoted to the second level. Two new professionals served as deputy squadron leaders.
The captain of the sixth squadron was Richard's cousin Kent. Kent's talent was very average. Even though he was not short of resources, he was promoted to the second level at the age of 32.
People with outstanding talents like William and Roland would have become mid-level professionals at this age.
Richard, the captain of the ninth squadron, transferred Tyron, the deputy captain of the seventh squadron. Tyron was originally an officer of the Grizzlies Corps and a second-level professional. Later, he became a refugee leader and was recruited by Richard. He also broke through the realm some time ago and was promoted to the third level.
However, Tyron's breathing method was only exchanged to the third level. Without a good opportunity, there will be no development in the future.
The eleventh squadron is a newly formed squadron. Richard transferred Nia, the deputy captain of the third squadron, to serve as the squadron leader.
The captain of the second battalion also has four squadrons under his jurisdiction, namely the second squadron, the fourth squadron, the tenth squadron, and a newly formed squadron, the twelfth squadron.
The captain is the third-level knight Lost, who is a contract slave purchased by Richard. He was originally a noble officer of the Kingdom of Ryan. In the end, he chose to be loyal to Richard. It has been a year and a half.
Lost's loyalty was recognized by Richard. Although he joined the army for a short time, he was promoted to the core position of captain by Richard because of his strong ability.
The second squadron leader is Jennings, who is very talented and is a young officer that Richard focuses on training.
The fourth squadron remains unchanged, and Bradrick is still the squadron leader. Bradrick has been in the territory for six years and has always been diligent.
Because of the limitations of the breathing method, his strength has not improved. A third-level warrior cannot be promoted to a battalion officer.
The tenth squadron has been trained for a short time, less than a year and a half. The squadron leader is Perrin, the former captain of the second squadron. After practicing the breathing method for six years, Perrin has also been promoted to the second level.
The twelfth squadron is also a newly formed squadron, and Robin, the deputy captain of the sixth squadron, was appointed as the squadron leader.
The third battalion is composed of the third squadron, the seventh squadron, the thirteenth and fourteenth squadrons, and Norman is appointed as the captain. Norman is Soros's nephew, and his talent is pretty good. He was also promoted to the fourth level this year.
The captain of the third squadron, Alves, is a veteran in the territory like Bradrick, and has served the Harland family for six years.
The seventh squadron was mainly composed of refugees who were incorporated, and the squadron leader was still Marcus.
The thirteenth and fourteenth squadrons were newly formed squadrons, and Bruno, the former deputy squadron leader of the main squadron, and Charles were appointed as squadron leaders.
The fourth battalion was composed of the fifth squadron, the eighth squadron, and the fifteenth and sixteenth squadrons. The captain was Sofia's uncle Vito, who was over fifty years old and had been promoted to the fourth level two years ago.
The fifth squadron was reorganized from the soldiers of the Stopa territory. After Vito was promoted to the captain, the successor captain was still a member of the Stopa family. This person was Sofia's distant cousin, named Berman.
Claude, the captain of the eighth squadron, was a second-level warrior. He was also a contract slave. After being purchased by Richard, he has been following the Harland family.
The fifteenth and sixteenth squadrons were also newly formed squadrons, with the former deputy captain of the main squadron as the chief officer and the newly promoted professional as the deputy squadron leader.
Among the four battalions, the first battalion is the strongest and the fourth battalion is the weakest.
The second battalion and the third battalion are in the middle. Relatively speaking, the second battalion has more veterans and slightly stronger combat effectiveness.
The combat effectiveness of the two main squadrons of the fourth battalion is relatively average.
The first squadron under the first battalion can defeat the fourth battalion.
For each battalion, Richard also added a 30-man personal guard team to be responsible for the security of the battalion headquarters.
All in all, this reorganization expanded about ten squadrons of new recruits, adding 1,500 soldiers.
The Warcraft Cavalry Squadron was expanded to 100, and the two heavy cavalry squadrons that followed the Warcraft Cavalry were expanded to 200.
The medium cavalry was reorganized into a reconnaissance squadron, which was directly under the command of the headquarters.
The reconnaissance squadron was also a key unit for this reinforcement. Richard mobilized five new professionals to fill the reconnaissance squadron, and appointed Richard's cousin Morgan as the squadron leader.
In this year's war, Soros made considerable contributions.
In the battle, he killed the sixth-level orc Maruland and got a great merit. With the scattered merits, he accumulated one great merit and six medium merits.
Soros also won many merits in the battle to suppress the rebellion. After joining the army of Harland Territory, Soros and his son Kent have accumulated two great merits and five medium merits, plus his original merits. There are already six great merits and seven medium merits, and he is not far from being knighted.
In order to win more merits, Soros wrote a letter to Morgan, asking Morgan to retire from the main army and follow his cousin Richard.
Morgan has good talent and is already a second-level knight. As soon as he came back, he served as the captain of the reconnaissance squadron.
After completing the reorganization of the army, the Harland family already has four infantry battalions, one cavalry battalion, one guard squadron, and one reconnaissance squadron. A total of seventeen infantry squadrons and four cavalry squadrons of military strength.
Including the personnel of the headquarters, the total number has exceeded three thousand. The army is equipped with a large number of enchanted armor and alchemical bombs. If the new soldiers are trained, the combat effectiveness will be very impressive.
There are only 40,000 words left in the manuscript. From today on, the update will be suspended. This month, the state is not good. I have only written 70,000 words today. The chapters uploaded are about 230,000. I can't keep up with five updates a day. Please forgive me.