Chapter 100: (Self Edited) Onsite Meeting
Peanock Drain, the current Count of Drain, met his subordinates in the forest.
The Drain County had a relatively rich and large area, and the Count household always had about 400 soldiers. The soldiers were rarely used in wars with neighboring nobles, but in most cases, he was dispatched at the request of upper nobles, such as upper dukes, and usually worked to maintain security in the territory.
When he needed more troops, he could impose military service to further increase the troops and became an army of about 1000 people, but he didn’t do that this time. He recruited 400 soldiers, and led 200 among them.
They consisted of fixed numbers of a few Knights in feudal contractual relationships and soldiers mixed with hoodlums.
Hiring hoodlums in the territory could also be a display of permanent soldiers, and by gathering poor men who were likely to be criminals if left alone, they would be instructed to attack bandit organizations the moment they appeared. Such a method was adopted by many nobles because it was a wise rule method due to the change of the war background by the appearance of guns.
Among them, Count Drain’s army might have succeeded in training. While there were many nobles who remained as thugs in bandit organizations, Count Drain’s army gradually created a mechanism to train the thugs through training little by little.
They woke up and trained at regular time every morning, and they were allowed to have a moderate distraction at night, but they had to go to bed by midnight. In addition to such a regular life, if they were sometimes given praised and moderate pride, they would also act with some moderation. In that way, they had been steadily improving the training.
It was also thanks to Prince Zayed’s request that he was selected for the expedition to the Northern Crusade.
If the roots were no different from bandits, they couldn’t be left with the security of the supply. If not, they would steal the supply all at once, stealing bags of gold coins and killing the Knights. Everything would be lost. The origin of the soldiers was only a matter of origin, and although such cases wouldn’t disappear completely, it was within the permissible range in Count Drain’s army.