Pioneer Lord: Starting From Daily Intelligence

Chapter 190: Chapter 111: Hesse Territory’s Army Size

After West High Merchant and Su Li reached an agreement, and stayed in the territory for one more day, Master Kote officially departed with the caravan.

Their caravan had an extremely fruitful harvest in the Hesse Territory, completely filling their pockets. Initially, when they arrived, they were chased by forest bandits, suffering heavy casualties among guards, were nearly wiped out supplies, numerous personnel injuries, leading to scattered morale. But now, when departing, they had almost 400 carriages full of various timber, fur, furniture, armor, apples, and witchcraft tools.

The caravan returned fully loaded, and the abundant provisions filled everyone with satisfaction, alleviating their physical emptiness significantly. During these days, the workers and guards of the caravan almost had their bodies drained by the prostitutes at the brothel in Hesse Territory.

Now in the Hesse Territory during the capital accumulation phase, not only is the business of prostitutes highly active, but Su Li has also greatly improved the brothel’s business model and customer experience. Trained prostitutes bring a perfect experience and noble enjoyment that cannot be compared with other territories.

More importantly, during these days, Hesse Territory frequently experienced magical events, firstly with the appearance of the Sadistic Desire Demon which ignited the brothel’s business in Hesse Territory to a boom. At that time, among the caravan’s guards, a few had seen Shire’s lust-fueled body, corrupting and polluting their minds, forcing them to vent frantically in the brothel.

Coincidentally, during this process, a prostitute stole the Love Potion, causing them to fall madly in love with Lanode’s Priest.

Though thanks to Su Li’s precise judgment, the knights quickly identified the prostitute and retrieved the Love Potion.

However, the potion had already taken effect, and many caravan workers and guards had invested a copious amount of money and effort into this prostitute.

When the prostitute was captured, the merchant members almost erupted into a near-riot, appealing to the knights responsible for the capture.

Oerstein had to urgently mobilize two squadrons of soldiers into the city to suppress the riot.

Eventually, Chief Judge Frederick declared that the prostitute wouldn’t be executed, opting instead for her to be auctioned and banished, thus successfully quelling the commotion.

To acquire the rights to dispose of the prostitute, the caravan members pooled together 22 Golden Crowns, bought the prostitute, and took her along, henceforth as the caravan’s company prostitute.

This almost emptied the caravan members’ last savings.

Thus, when the merchant alliance departed, aside from the convoy being full, every member’s pockets were empty, as were their bodies.

Only those left behind to continue managing investments and developing the Scag Plateau mining industry had some savings remaining, but they were expected to be drained of the essence shortly, so their corruption was inevitable.

And energy is conserved; with their wealth drained, Su Li’s wealth flourished even more!

On the second day after the merchant alliance left, Su Li also led the troops officially to set out toward the Bloody Highlands.

The territory’s attitude toward this battle against the Demon Army was very determined.

In a military meeting in the Hesse Territory excluding the dwarves, Rong’en, Priest of the Sun Goddess, declaimed passionately, ”Although this battle belongs to the dwarves, we should also be fully committed.”

”We must defeat the Demon Legion at the lowest cost and fastest speed, and the correlation between allied casualties and our participating troops is absolutely positive. Every squadron we increase, reduces allied casualties by a batch!”

The notion of this former Divine Chosen Knight received widespread approval from many knights in the territory that more troops from Hesse Territory participate, the fewer casualty numbers needed to defeat the Demon Army.

After all, the main fighting force of Hesse Territory is various knights; the more knights make ferocious charges, the more demons crumbled, thereby reducing the damage of direct battlefield clashes between the armies.

Therefore, apart from leaving behind the necessary guards, Su Li led the main force of Hesse Territory’s knights into action.

This included 24 Hesse Forbidden Guard Knights, 30 territory Elite Knights, 120 ordinary knights, and as many as three squadrons of Armed Attendants! Additionally, it included one squadron of Half-Elf soldiers.

This army scale is close to even one-third or half a baron’s territory! A baron’s territory, depending on its prosperity, ranges from about a thousand to two thousand soldiers.

Besides the directly subordinate army of Hesse Territory, the battle participants also include the Knight Order of the Sun Goddess Church, Sun Goddess, Medical Goddess Convent priests.

These knights from the church include two Champion Knights from the Corona Knight Order, 61 Elite Knights, 118 Attendant Knights, and 11 priests from the church, who are also knights skilled in martial arts.

To support the dwarves, in total, 300 fully armed, splendid knights, and 500 archers, Armed Attendants, and Half-Elf chariots were dispatched.

This generous assistance instantly altered the dwarves’ impression of Su Li. They do have some understanding of the strength of this big friendly territory.

This scale of aid definitely amounts to full strength. Making many completely dispel previous doubts about Su Li’s reluctance to deploy troops.

Honest dwarves do not have many tricks up their sleeves; most dwarves, upon seeing this scale of cavalry, immediately believed the big friendly territory’s constant claims that they truly considered reducing dwarf casualties.