Mount and Blade: Summon five outlaws at the start

Team: 145/400

14 robber leaders (fifth-tier troops)

6 bandit leaders (fifth-tier troops)

20 veteran robbers (second-tier troops)

30 Vlandian crossbowmen (third-tier troops)

20 Vlandian conscripted crossbowmen (second-tier troops)

15 Vlandian spearmen (third-tier troops)

14 Vlandian light infantrymen (second-tier troops)

26 Vlandian recruits (first-tier troops)

Looking at the data panel in front of him showing that there were only 145 soldiers left, Hod's originally excited mood suddenly became lost.

Especially when he saw that the number of robber leaders who should have been 40 people was only 14 people left, the heartache was like a dagger stabbing into his heart.

You know, these robber leaders are not comparable to those Vlandian soldiers.

Each of them had followed Hod through countless life-and-death tests. They fought side by side, faced many enemies, and after one battle after another, they finally advanced from the initial low-level troops to the fifth-level troops.

However, who could have expected that in this battle of independence, he would lose a total of 26 elite fifth-level troops at once.

"Huh..."

Hod exhaled a foul breath. The last time he felt so heartbroken was when Conrad sent people to besiege the tavern.

At that time, many robbers around him also died.

Hod shook his head, cleared his mind, and planned to think about how many soldiers to station in Rhine Town. However, at this moment, a question suddenly crossed his mind.

He remembered that when he was playing games, as long as he stationed soldiers in the town, he could train the soldiers through the military and political ministers, so that these soldiers could upgrade their levels and become stronger.

Now in this real world, I wonder if I can still train and upgrade soldiers like in the game?

With such doubts, Hood slowly raised his head, looked straight at Ian standing beside him, and asked: "Ian, I want to ask, can you train the garrison soldiers?"

"Your Majesty, I can't do this task directly... But please rest assured, I can recruit a group of excellent instructors and entrust them to be responsible for professional training of garrison soldiers, so that the garrison soldiers can be promoted to a higher level."

After the military minister respectfully reported to Hood, he paused for a moment and then added: "However, Your Majesty, I have to remind you that if you want to successfully promote the garrison soldiers to a higher level of arms through training, this process also requires a sum of money to invest."

"What? It still costs money?" Hearing this, Hood couldn't help but look surprised and blurted out.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, it is true." The military minister nodded in response.

"How much does it cost?" Hood asked with a frown.

"The cost is roughly the same as the amount you personally spent on their advancement, Your Majesty." The Minister of Military Affairs answered truthfully.

"Oh... is that so..." Hood fell into a brief contemplation after hearing this.

After a long while, Hood slowly raised his head, looked at the Minister of Military Affairs firmly, and said, "Ian, I will recruit two hundred new Vlandian soldiers and let them perform garrison tasks in Rhine Town."

"And you need to recruit some experienced instructors as soon as possible and order them to train these new recruits."

"Yes, Your Majesty." The Minister of Military Affairs nodded respectfully, then slowly raised his head and cast his eyes on the Minister of Finance standing on the side.

However, what is strange is that the Minister of Finance seemed to have not heard it, and still stood quietly in the same place, like a silent sculpture.

Seeing this strange scene, Hood couldn't help but frown slightly, and he became curious in his heart.

The strong curiosity finally couldn't be suppressed, driving Hood to open his mouth involuntarily and ask: "Ian, why are you staring at Levi?"

Before Ian could respond, Finance Minister Levi Lattimore quickly took a step forward, and then slowly explained: "Your Majesty, that's because he wants to get funds from me to recruit instructors."

After hearing this, Hood's eyes twitched a few times.

It turned out to be this reason!

"Huh..."

Accompanied by a long exhalation, Hood tried to calm himself down.

After his mood stabilized a little, he opened the system backpack.

I saw the backpack's interfaceThe face clearly displayed the balance of more than 300 gold dragons.

Hod looked at the string of numbers, his eyes flickering. Finally, he took a deep breath, and with a thought, 150 gold dragons materialized from the virtual space in an instant, lying quietly on the ground in front of him.

"Levi, I don't have much money at the moment, so I can only give you these first." Hod said softly to the Minister of Finance standing beside him.

Upon hearing this, Li Wei hurriedly stepped forward, bowed slightly and said: "Your Majesty, these are enough for the time being. I will properly deposit these 150 gold dragons into the treasury for state affairs."

After that, he reached out without hesitation to pick up the gold dragons on the ground one by one and put them into the system silver vault belonging to the treasury.

After doing all this, Li Wei paused for a moment, then materialized ten gold dragons again, turned around and handed them to the military and political ministers who had been standing by and looking forward to it.

The Minister of Military Affairs took the ten gold dragons, and then he closed his eyes tightly, as if doing something.

At this moment, a shocking scene occurred. Suddenly, there was a slight vibration in the air in the hall. In the blink of an eye, ten burly men in leather armor appeared in the hall without any warning.

The ten men all looked solemn. They knelt on one knee in unison, and at the same time, they clenched their right fists on their left chests, and performed a solemn chest-touching salute to Huo De who was sitting above, and shouted in unison: "Your Majesty!"

"Your Majesty, they are the instructors I recruited. When the recruits are in place, I will immediately arrange for them to train the recruits." The Minister of Military Affairs explained.

"Well... I will start recruiting now." Looking at the remaining more than 180 gold dragons in the backpack, Huo De replied, and then opened the recruitment panel.

However, a new recruitable soldier suddenly appeared on the recruitment panel.

[Recruitable troops: robbers]

[Recruitment price: 50 copper sheep/1 person]

[Recruitable troops: Vlandia recruits]

[Recruitment price: 5 silver deer/1 person]

[Recruitable troops: ...]