Chapter 384

Two months later, in front of the Damon palace, Nord looked at the assembled army and felt infinite emotion. He was about to embark on the road of dominating the mainland. The next battle with the Ximan kingdom was inevitable. Nord had to strike first before the Ximan kingdom could breathe in the last war.

Two months is not enough for the Ximan kingdom to re-establish a large number of troops. All the 40000 troops that entered the Duchy of Bethel last time remain on this land. Now Nord has thousands of prisoners working on roads every day.

Even if the Ximan kingdom is strong, the casualties of these 40000 people will definitely hurt their muscles and bones. Moreover, Nord has not been idle for two months. He has recruited 4000 soldiers in the West and south, which should not be called the West and south.

Because Nord adopted the reform of the new system, at present, the kingdom of Damon has five provinces, namely Jon Province in the south, Molly Province in the west, Belem Province in the middle, Devon Province in the East and TEWIN Province in the north. Nord adopts the provincial system.

Controlling the whole area through the largest city in a province can also make the changes in the early stage of the kingdom easier, because as long as we manage the five large cities first, we can achieve the purpose of controlling the whole country, especially under the condition of shortage of manpower.

Nord's Kingdom also has a military minister, but this position is still vacant. Nord originally wanted old Moore to take this position, but his experience and ability are not enough to take this position, although what he is doing now is a division of labor of the military minister.

Nord has been asking old Moore to train soldiers all this time. The troops in Jon Province in the South were recruited by Marco, but old Moore did the unified training. Moreover, in the last battle, Marco also broke through the limit and became a general, but Nord didn't expect the exclusive soldiers he drew.

Marco's exclusive weapon is the sarion lion knight. Like the Swadian knight, this knight belongs to heavy armor cavalry, mainly because they use different weapons. The sarion lion Knight uses heavy armor, hard shield and lion nail hammer. They are more suitable for close combat and have great lethality to heavy armor enemies.

However, the selection of personnel is the same as that of Lehman's knights. They all need soldiers with strong close combat ability, but there are very few senior close combat soldiers under Nord's command, because the upgrade speed of these close combat soldiers is far lower than that of the long-range troops standing behind.

Now there are many high-level long-range arms under Nord, but they can't be transferred to become more powerful knights, which makes Nord a little depressed. Therefore, the construction of Marco knights can only be temporarily stranded. Let him form it when there are appropriate people in the back.

Nord also thought about whether to let those noble knights join Nord's team. They are also very eager to make meritorious contributions to Nord's battle. Finally, Nord gave up. At present, it is not the time to let these Knights join the army.

However, in order to divert attention, Nord has prepared a competitive competition for Kingdom knights, so that all the knights in the field of Damon Kingdom have the opportunity to participate. The top ten knights who win can get the title of honorary Knights of the Kingdom conferred by Nord, and the knights who stand out in this competitive conference also have the opportunity to join Nord's forces.

Since the release of the news of the annual Knight competition conference, it has attracted the pursuit of knights all over the country. With the wide spread of the news, more and more knights rushed to Bellon from all directions, and then made Bellon very lively.

In this case, Nord led the army to the battle. In addition to the soldiers left in Bellon, Nord took a total of 20000 troops to the battle. Two months ago, a steady stream of materials were transported from various places to Jon City, which will become Nord's logistics base for the war.

The materials needed by the army were sent to the front line from Jon city. Therefore, Nord specially transferred Lowell to Jon city to ensure that the battle can go on smoothly. Nord has made sufficient preparations for the battle with the Ximan kingdom.

During this time, Nord also had some knowledge of the terrain of the Ximan kingdom. The Ximan kingdom is a kingdom in the north central part of the continent and a very rich country. It occupies the two plains on the continent, Shiloh plain and mam plain. It is the country with the highest grain production on the northen continent and is known as the granary on the continent.

The size of the kingdom of seaman is about the size of two kingdoms of Damon. The land area is very large and the terrain is very flat. It is a typical plain country. The soldiers of the kingdom of seaman are mainly light infantry and archers, including a small number of light cavalry, but the scale is not very large.

Moreover, the population of Ximan kingdom is also very large. Due to the very high food production, although the civilians in Ximan kingdom are very poor, they do not have the risk of starvation. However, under the pressure of these Ximan nobles, the lives of the civilians are not very good.

After Nord led the army to leave Jon Province, he saw an endless plain. The border line between Ximan Kingdom and Damon kingdom is this one after another mountain range, which is like a dividing line, dividing the mountain and plain into two countries.

After entering the territory of Ximan Kingdom, Nord felt very novel, because the scenery here was very different from that near the Yameng mountains. The Yameng Mountains gave people a feeling of vastness and grandeur, and the Hilo plain gave people a feeling of peace and stability.

The breeze blows, the wheat waves rise one after another, the farmers in the village work hard in the fields, and there are children playing in the fields, but all this is imagined by Nord. The villages across the border in Nord are empty, and the houses have been vacant for a long time.

Nord can see from the ruins of this village that the reason for the abandonment of these villages is war and looting. This is the place where the Principality of Bethel has committed crimes before. No wonder the civilians of the Ximan kingdom are very hostile to the Principality of Bethel, because the soldiers of the Principality of Bethel have committed many crimes on them.

In fact, this is also an important reason why Nord is unwilling to let those nobles and knights join his army. Nord is afraid that they will spoil the atmosphere of Nord's army. A mouse shit will spoil a pot of good soup. Nord's requirements for the army are still very strict.

From the very beginning when he joined the army, Nord began to strictly demand them. Nord's discipline requirements for soldiers far exceeded that of this era. Moreover, Nord recruited recruits and did not have any veteran oil. Although they had strong combat experience, they were also contaminated with some bad habits.

In order to maintain the purity of the team, Nord had to bear the pain to exclude these people. Therefore, now the soldiers of Nord's army are very simple and obedient to Nord. There will be no such behavior of robbing civilians. Once found, Nord will deal with it severely and will not let those unhealthy tendencies grow in the army.