king.

With the addition of graduates, the ranks of middle and lower-level officers suddenly became bloated.Especially at the battalion level, there are several deputies.

Except for a few outstanding graduates who can directly serve as battalion commanders or regimental staff officers, the rest are deputy positions. (one battalion of one hundred people)
The standard cannot be lowered, graduates are all knights, and they cannot be called officers any further.

Higher-level positions are not yet qualified for these recruits.Although many students have participated in combating pirates and exterminating bandits and bandits during their internships, they are still far from commanding thousands of troops.

What's more, the army is full of carrots and pits, and the officers in front are all killed from the battlefield with one knife and one gun.The training potential is a bit low, but he is also capable of taking up the current position.

Compared with these young military school graduates, they are only a few years older, teenagers, and far from the age of retirement.

Master Hudson has obtained fame and fortune, but the group of people who followed him to fight in the country just drank a bowl of soup, and it is impossible to give up their positions and go home now.

In fact, it took a lot of thought to arrange personnel for Hudson, and basically managed to know people and make good use of them.

Those with excellent cultural performance were arranged to serve as officers in infantry regiments or cavalry regiments after enlisting in the army; those who only had good cultivation talents but were a mess in cultural studies were admitted to knight regiments.

The final result is: all three knight regiments are fully staffed, five cavalry regiments and two infantry regiments have a lot of deputies. After adding the Warcraft Legion, the total number of officers and soldiers directly exceeds [-].

According to the customary statistics of the outside world, this is a proper [-] soldiers and horses.If you lead troops to go out to fight, claiming to be an army of [-], there is nothing wrong with it.

For example: The Southern Expedition Corps that just set off has a total strength of only 7 people, but it claims to have an army of 20.

If there were really 20 troops, it would not have been to help put down the rebellion in the past, but to want to occupy the magpie's nest.

"Fifty thousand soldiers and horses" is fifty thousand gold swallowing beasts.Relatively speaking, the infantry regiment is slightly less expensive, and the cavalry regiment, knight regiment, and monster legion are each more expensive than the other.

In order to save money, Hudson canceled the knight retinue.Feed your own horses, maintain your own armor and weapons, and wait until you become a regiment-level officer if you want a subordinate!
Although somewhat unseemly, these were the men Hudson himself had produced.Most of them are serf children, which has nothing to do with decency.

Even if they are the children of the nobles, they are the second sons and collaterals of the minor nobles without the right of inheritance. Even the life essence must be provided by Master Hudson, so there is no capital for arrogance at all.

Even with such frugality, the military expenditure of the territory still accounts for [-]% of the fiscal revenue, and this ratio is still on the rise.

In the peaceful age, there is such a huge military expenditure, which is obviously the extreme of the militarism.

Fortunately, the number of graduates in the first class is large, and the number of students in the latter class is only more than 6000 per year. After being eliminated all the way, hundreds of officers will be added every year.

Resettlement is difficult, just a few years ago.After waiting for a few years, every year, officers who have reached the age are transferred to the reserve service, and positions will naturally be vacated.

In the era of cold weapons, it is necessary to rely on physical strength to fight on the battlefield.If you are not a practitioner, your physical strength will start to decline in your 30s.

According to the rules set by Hudson: Unless the ability is particularly outstanding, ordinary soldiers will be transferred to the reserve service at the age of 28, and the service age of non-practice officers must not exceed 30 years old.

Fighters below Tier 35 will be transferred to the reserve at the age of [-];

Fourth to sixth-tier fighters, transferred to the reserve at the age of 50.

Then there is no more, because of the lack of life seeds to nourish the body, Hudson has never seen a fighter over 50 years old.

Naturally, it is difficult to produce a strong man with a short life, and the strongest fighter under Hudson's command is only Tier [-].If it weren't for the low life expectancy, it is estimated that no one would choose this dead end.

In contrast, the service life of the Cavaliers is much longer.

Knights below the third rank will be transferred to the reserve after the age of 45;
Knights of the fourth to sixth ranks will be transferred to the reserve after the age of 60;

Knights above the seventh rank are not limited by the number of years of service.

Of course, these are theoretical numbers.The actual retirement time will definitely be several years earlier.Unless you perform well as an officer, it is difficult to make it to the final service time.

Frankly speaking, these regulations are not fair.The command capabilities of many ordinary officers exceeded that of most knights.

The almost one-size-fits-all regulation of determining career development time based on cultivation base has obvious tendencies.

To a certain extent, it will also affect the appointment of officers.When it comes to promotion, generals with higher cultivation levels will obviously have an advantage.

But the army has never been a place to consider fairness, what is needed here is the strong.

Relatively speaking, now is still the best time.Because of the frequent occurrence of wars, there is also the core indicator of "military merit" as the first criterion for officer promotion.

If it came to a peaceful age, personal cultivation would play a greater role in the appointment of officers, and there would even be an unspoken rule: one had to reach a certain level of cultivation before being able to take up the corresponding military position.

This is not a bad habit.On the contrary, it is the best way to avoid inbreeding in the military.

To a certain extent, it can guarantee the combat effectiveness of the army.Even if the command ability is average, at least the officers themselves are good enough to take the lead in the charge.

It's better than a group of people who are nothing but the second generation in high positions.

In this regard, reference may be made to the Kingdom of the Franks.During the war against the orcs a few years ago, Hudson had contact with them, and what impressed him most was the strength gap between the superior and inferior officers.

Those with high cultivation bases may not be able to serve as high-level military officers, but those with low cultivation bases will definitely not be able to go up.

It is said that in some legions, there is still a tradition of officers accepting challenges from the generals when they take office.Only when the fight is won can he officially take up his post.

Under this kind of atmosphere, the command ability of the officers is not easy to evaluate, but the combat effectiveness of the troops will definitely not be weak.

Under this system, the big nobles still have the advantage, but the small and medium nobles also have the qualifications to participate in the competition.

After all, talent is mainly determined by nature.Although acquired resources can make up for it, the price to pay is too high.

The resources of the great nobles did not fall from the sky, and the cost-effectiveness also needs to be considered when using them.

The resources needed to train a waste may be more expensive than training hundreds of geniuses. This account is easy to calculate.

Playboys are basically excluded.It doesn't matter if you lose in a one-on-one duel with the same realm, but if you are counterattacked by a general whose cultivation level is lower than that, it will only be embarrassing.

Generally speaking, the protagonist in the bard's story wins across realms, and the background panel is all about them.

……

After signing the personnel appointment, Hudson stretched himself.Most of the work can be delegated, but some work must be done by yourself.

Although Hudson did not meet all of the more than 3000 students who had just graduated, he read all the files and materials before signing the personnel appointment.

Background, personal strengths, performance in school, and behavioral habits are all reference factors for future appointments.

Generally speaking, it is impossible for officers with complex backgrounds to enter the core management of the territory.Although Hudson had appointed a large group of spies to important positions in the process of starting his family, that is already a thing of the past.

In the past few years, it seems that nothing has been done. In fact, every personnel adjustment in the territory is purifying the team.

The spies who worked hard in the past have gradually faded out of the management.Those who take the initiative to explain themselves can still get a tedious but unimportant job, which is regarded as recognition of their past contributions.

Those who survived to the end and were identified again all died of attacks by cult followers.

After all, cult organizations are all over the world, so there is no reason why the territory of Hudson is as quiet as water when other places are making trouble.

Undoubtedly, for a group of spies, this is already a good result.

Otherwise, Hudson was nostalgic and gave them a dignified death. Now each of them would be ruined and the whole family would go to hell together.

……

"Marshal, there is news from the grassland: the orc tribe has changed.

Many orc races are gathering, suspected of invading the kingdom.

However, the four major royal families and the seven major royal families have not yet mobilized for a full-scale war, and only a few tribes are preparing for war.

......"

While speaking, Number Zero directly handed the collected documents to Hudson.

After a general glance, the content is similar to what No. [-] said.To sum up, the conclusion is: the orcs are going to invade the kingdom!
Hudson wasn't in the slightest surprised. Orc invasions of the Alpha Kingdom were nothing new.Being able to hold back until now is enough to prove that this year's orc emperors are stable enough.

According to the original estimate, Hudson never thought that the Near East could be peaceful for so many years.

Five years have passed since the end of the war in the spring of 99993.The once barren land of the Near East has changed drastically.

It will take some time before the land is fully developed, but the military facilities have already been completed first.

Of course, compared with the Northland, which is full of castles and fortresses, the defense line in the Near East is still very immature.

But today is different from the past, the military advantage of the orc empire over the kingdom no longer exists.

Judging from the data on paper alone, the Orc Empire is indeed able to overwhelm the Kingdom, but unfortunately their 1+1+1+1+... mode is not well done.

The combat power that can be displayed in the end is less than half of the sum of the numbers, and may even be lower.

When it comes to comparing military strength, it is still unknown who is stronger and who is weaker between the two countries.After all, wars are not compared to paper data, but a comprehensive consideration of all aspects.

After putting down the paperwork, Hudson fell into deep thought.

After autumn is the peak period of orc invasion of the kingdom, and it has been relatively peaceful in recent years.According to the historical records of the kingdom, in the past 300 years, [-]% of the years orcs would invade the kingdom after autumn.

It's just that most of this kind of invasion is the orcs in the border area, who initiated the looting without authorization.

There were only nineteen battles between the two sides.On average, the interval between each full-scale war is less than 20 years.

If you include this time, it is already the third time the two sides have met in the past ten years.

Such frequent wars are unbearable for any country.If they were not forced to, the orcs would not fight like this.

"Tom, forward the news to the lords everywhere, so that they are ready to fortify the wall and clear the country.

When the war breaks out, I don't want the orcs to be able to get a grain of grain or a bale of fodder from the land of the kingdom.

If you can't do it well, you will be punished directly as collaborating with the enemy! "

Hudson said murderously.

This order is undoubtedly very fatal to the latecomers who have just come to expand.Almost let them abandon everything they have now, and evacuate directly to the city.

If there is a better option, Hudson does not want to do it.However, most of their castles and fortresses are still under construction, and they have nothing to do with Jiancheng.

Forcibly staying where they are is not only irresponsible for their own lives, but also irresponsible for the safety of the citizens.

Fortunately, these territories distributed outside the Great Wall defense line have not been registered by the kingdom, otherwise it would be difficult to give up.

The lord is responsible for guarding the land.If you want to give up the territory and retreat to the safe zone, the order of Hudson, the front-line commander, is not enough, and you must get the approval of the Kingdom government.

At this moment, the royal capital is in a fierce internal fight, and it takes time to deal with the back and forth.

Of course, the orc empire launched an invasion at this moment, which also saved the kingdom politics to a certain extent.

Referring to past experience, it is estimated that when this news reaches the capital, it will be time for the major factions to compromise with each other.

……

On the prairie, the Stark patriarch received the mobilization order for all-out war, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

Having just gained a firm foothold on the border, he was originally fortunate that the lakeside of Xueyue Lake was lush with water and grass. Even in the severe drought that was once in a century, the pastures along the coast were not affected too much.

This kind of treasure land has always been owned by the royal family.If it weren't for being a front line, everyone didn't want to be neighbors with the Great Demon King, and such a good thing would never happen to them.

In addition to the previous secret contact, they reached a tacit agreement with the Great Demon King, as long as they survived the border guard period, they could return to China.

Never thought that the war would come so soon!
Once the flames of war ignited, they, the frontline races, would definitely be the first to be unlucky.

Maybe before the army of the empire arrives, the enemy will strike first and clean them up.

He had just ascended to the position of patriarch, and before he had time to show his ambitions, he encountered such a terrible thing, Stark just wanted to cry!
In the dispute between the two countries, the little tauren clan was caught in the middle. If they were not careful, it would be the disaster of annihilation.

"Send the order and immediately summon the chiefs of each tribe to come over for a meeting. Tell them that it is an urgent matter and it is related to the life and death of our tribe. They must come in person!"

Stark ordered to the guard with a solemn expression.

The new patriarch is a hard worker. Before consolidating his position, he wants to call a meeting of all the tribes, but he is worried that some people will not buy it.

"Yes, patriarch!"

After finishing speaking, the middle-aged tauren guard turned and left directly, leaving Stark alone in meditation.

War is the coexistence of "risk" and "opportunity".However, at this moment, he only saw "danger" and could not catch "opportunity" at all.

The imperial court's order has come, and with the current geographical location of the Niutou clan, this war is destined to be inevitable.

If you can't avoid it, you can only participate.

Stark didn't care about the outcome of the war.

Referring to past practices, the victory of the Orc Empire does not mean the victory of all races; conversely, the failure of the empire does not mean the defeat of all races.

After almost every war, the orc empire will have races fall and races will rise.

Of the current seven royal families, six of them rose up because of the defeat of the empire. Stark has long been envious.