Lord: Married To A Countess At The Beginning

Outside the city, Gray was on a hill, with an awning built by servants on top of his head.

He sat on a wooden chair, drinking tea and watching the training of the heavy cavalry under the hill.

These people are all warriors who have emerged from the elite ranks of the military.

It was easy to adapt to the training.

Although they had all ridden horses before, they had never experienced charging together in a cavalry team.

A certain amount of cooperation and tacit understanding is required between cavalry.

These cavalry have been training here for ten days, and it can be felt that they already have some tacit understanding and cooperation.

Gray looked at the yellow sand filled sky where the thickly armored cavalry passed, and felt a little stirred in his heart.

Beside him, Anna put on a heroic knight's uniform and tied her hair into a ponytail. She looked very much like a female knight.

Anna: "How about it, Gray, these soldiers are the most elite warriors in my army. With a little training, they can become excellent cavalry. In ten days, they can go out and let them kill some bandits. After the monster becomes familiar with its fighting methods, you can lead it northward."

Anna was very satisfied with the cavalry, and she couldn't help but praise their bravery in front of Gray.

Gray could see that these soldiers had the temperament of veterans. Their training was also very serious, their movements were crisp and neat, and they were able to control horses with ease.

It is indeed what Anna said, with a little training, he will become the master of tiger and wolf.

Gray was also very satisfied, but Gray felt that heavy armored cavalry alone was not enough.

He also needed a light cavalry that was fast, swift, and good at riding and shooting.

Although heavy cavalry is good, it also has shortcomings. The first is that it is slower than light cavalry. It may not be able to outrun those orcs with extremely strong physical fitness during short-distance bursts.

Moreover, from the beginning of the heavy cavalry's appearance to the charge, there is a process of slowly accelerating.

Heavy cavalry is indeed extremely destructive and intimidating on large battlefields, and has a decisive effect.

But if placed in the environment like that in the north, heavy cavalry may not necessarily have the devastating effect as imagined.

There are many jungles and swamps in the north. Once those orcs find something is wrong, they will definitely escape into the jungles and swamps.

Heavy cavalry won't have much combat effectiveness when encountering that kind of terrain.

At this time, the role of light cavalry came into play.

The light cavalry comes and goes like the wind. If paired with soldiers who are good at riding and shooting, the damage to the orcs will be absolutely huge.

Gray knows that many of the orcs cannot wear full-body armor due to their physique and size.

Although those orcs have rough skin and thick flesh, and their physiques are far superior to humans, they can still be severely injured by arrows.

When the time comes, either the heavy cavalry will go up to harvest, or the infantry will go up to harvest, and it will be very easy.

Gray wouldn't think that the orcs would confront him head-on.

But if they really have that strength, the orcs in the north will not just be tribes.

The orcs wandering in the north are relatively scattered now. According to historical records, these orcs are the remnants of a powerful orc kingdom more than a hundred years ago.

Gray had forgotten the specific situation. He only remembered hearing that more than a hundred years ago, monsters rioted once. When the demonic tide entered the sea, not only the Orc Kingdom was wiped out, but also several countries near the Donglet Mountains.

Yes, I heard that more than a hundred years ago, the East Leyte Mountains were not a lair inhabited by monsters.

Just because of the demonic tide more than a hundred years ago, the Donglet Mountains became a gathering place for monsters.

In the following decades, the kingdom spent a lot of effort to build a defense line in the west, and the Field family also built Blackstone City there.

Because of that disaster, the orcs have not recovered yet.

"They are indeed very good, but I think one thousand heavy armored cavalry is enough. Two thousand are not needed. When the time comes, you can put those two thousand in Black Rock City."

Gray thought about it and said.

Anna turned to look at Gray after hearing this, not understanding what Gray meant by that.

In her opinion, if it weren't for the fact that there was some tension in Black Rock City, she would have wanted to transfer the Field family's legions over to clean up all the orcs in the north.

Gray actually said that two thousand heavy cavalry were too many and he only wanted one thousand.

In Anna's opinion, this is no different from suicide.

Looking at Anna's puzzled eyes, Gray explained: "The terrain in the north is complicated, leaving little room for heavy cavalry to perform. However, heavy cavalry is very powerful and can protect my base camp."

"Although I don't want heavy cavalry, I do need some light cavalry who are good at riding and shooting, as well as archers and a group of infantry. If possible, I would also like to borrow a magician and a few knights and warriors. Well, if not If it’s convenient, I’ll go to the Adventurer’s Guild to recruit people.”

Anna nodded and agreed without thinking: "If you don't tell me, I will arrange magicians and knights to protect you, and I will also assign a few soldiers to the army."

"Now that you've decided, I won't say any more. Black Rock City does need heavy cavalry."

Anna was not someone who liked her mother-in-law. Now that Gray had made it clear why, she felt it made sense, so she made the decision directly.

The next few days were a time of frantic operation at Gray's canning plant.

In fact, the canning processing plant had been built long ago and started operating long ago.

It's just that those canned products were not sold outside, but entered Gray's warehouse. These cans were tightly sealed and sterilized, so they had a shelf life of at least half a year.

Very suitable as a military ration reserve.

Gray made a lot of canned meat, canned fish, some canned beans, peas, and even some canned fruit.

When these cans accumulate in a warehouse, they will be sent to Kailan City in the north in advance, where there is also a warehouse that Gray asked Harry to rent in advance.

By the time he sets off, he won't have to worry about food logistics.

Not just these main meal foods, but also some side foods, such as sugar.

Not white sugar, but some candies made from white sugar.

There are milk candies and fruit candies.

Both of these are 100% additive-free.

Although the taste may be a bit off, but who in this world has not tasted it?

Sugar that tastes ordinary in Gray's eyes is a rare delicacy in the eyes of people in this world.

Sugar can make people secrete dopamine, relieve physical and mental fatigue, and it can replenish a large amount of calories, which is a good thing for soldiers to restore their physical strength for a period of time.

So Gray also made a lot of preparations.

At the same time, these unique candies became popular in Fieldland.

This stuff is more expensive than sugar.

But the nobles still flocked to it.

Usually the factory releases a batch and it is sold out immediately.

There are also many orders.

A large amount of gold coins poured into Rose Castle, and then flowed out of Rose Castle, replaced by a large number of bows, arrows, iron ore, horses, and magic materials.

There are also a lot of grains, meats, fish, fruits and so on.

A large amount of meat, fish, fruits, etc. were quickly processed into cans, and various flours, potatoes, and sweet potatoes were also stored.

Food is inherently a strategic material, and Gray has the hoarding attribute inherited from his previous life. Now that he has money, he is naturally willing to hoard more things. After all, I have food in my hands and I don’t feel panic.

Field's army has a large number of troops, so it's better to stock up on more food to be prepared.

During the preparation period, Anna also summoned several small lords. They were the lords of the small cities between Thorn City, Kailan City, and Blackstone City.

They were called mainly to lay cement roads.

After Anna ordered them to go back, they should immediately start preparing for paving the cement road, laying the foundation and laying gravel.

Little Yellow Hat will do the rest.

By the time I finish all this, almost a month has passed.

The development order also arrived as promised.

Just as the heavy cavalrymen finished their training, they returned to their base.

This also means it's time for Gray to set off.

Anna sent Gray outside the city gate, and then asked someone to take out three wooden boxes: "Last time I went to the capital to buy you some magic tools. I heard from Tina that you were interested in magic tools. Now is the time. for you."

As she spoke, Anna began to have people bring out several magic tools that she had carefully selected in the royal capital.

There is an exquisite-looking long sword with a walnut-sized red magic stone inlaid on the sword.

Gray felt the power of the fire element.

There are other necklaces, which have a protective barrier, but they will be lost even if they are not used. In addition, the barrier defense of the necklace has an upper limit. If it reaches the upper limit of defense, it will automatically break.

There is also a storage ring under the body, which is about ten cubic meters in size, and can be used to store some spare items, such as gold coins, secret medicine, clothing, food, fresh water, etc.

Gray quickly figured out the three magic tools. He put the long sword into the storage ring and put on the necklace.

Then, after Gray kissed the Countess in full view, he got into the carriage and headed north with a large group of people.

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