Pioneer Lord: Starting From Daily Intelligence

Chapter 463: Chapter 186: Counting Losses and Spoils of War (2)

This time, Su Li distributed more than thirteen thousand pieces of equipment to the soldiers. Calculated based on merit, even those who receive the least get 5 to 6 pieces of equipment, while the more fortunate ones might get a dozen or so. This will surely attract a large number of Free People to Hesse Territory.

After all, although the battles in Hesse Territory were brutal, the Lord is indeed generous. As long as one survives, the wealth received is equivalent to one or two years of hard work for a commoner.

The Governor Oliver continued, ”At the same time, these weapons and equipment can greatly alleviate our territory’s predicament of equipment shortage. If we smelt all the remaining equipment, we can at least obtain 2000 fine-level weapons and 400 sets of fine-level armor, initially meeting the demand for high-level attendants and knights in the territory to be re-equipped with fine-level gear.”

Su Li nodded, understanding the situation of this demand. In this battle, when the Human Knight Legion, with a scale of over a thousand, launched a charge, the distribution of fine-level equipment was about 60%, still lacking several hundred sets to fully meet the need.

With these smelted pieces of equipment, our territory’s army could at least have a semblance of a formal army, counting as a thousand elite infantry and cavalry.

However, the gap is still too large from what Su Li envisioned!

He felt that the current scale resembled village fights among Kingdom Knights, with elite numbers still around several hundred to a thousand. When he could have three thousand elite infantry and cavalry, he would securely hold the title of Baron.

But as it stands now, this goal is quite a challenge both for Su Li and Hesse Territory.

In the current state of the territory, forming three thousand elite infantry and cavalry is not an easy task, even if there’s still one year next year.

Thus, Su Li said to Oliver, ”These matters need to accelerate in progress. We don’t have much time left this year. If we don’t quickly scale up, catching up next year will be a tremendous challenge.”

Oliver, of course, understood the issue: It’s better to prepare in advance than to catch up later. ”Lord, but all this is not easy. We have already disbanded the Dwarven Thunder Gunners to have them quickly engage in the territory’s equipment and engineering repairs. In this battle, the territory’s soldiers’ swords and knives were blunted, and a large number of battle armors broke down, merely repairing all this requires a tremendous amount of manpower and resources.”

”Perhaps we could spend a large amount of money to hire a group of Dwarves from the Gray Mountain Range? After we have stabilized our relations with the Redbeard Clan, our caravans could fully advance deeper into the Gray Mountain Range, and perhaps we could contact the Dwarf Kingdom in the Dragon Rock Forge to procure a batch of Star Iron Armor.”

Star Iron Armor?

Su Li was also somewhat tempted. Clearing the sizable amount of Dwarf Oath Gold from the Green Dragon’s lair should yield a large sum of funds, capable of greatly enhancing the territory’s strength by purchasing either Star Iron Armor or Cannons.

Su Li then asked, ”So how many treasures and high-grade equipment did we recover among the spoils?”

Oliver immediately replied, ”The wealth on the monsters was much lower than we expected; a single monster doesn’t necessarily have more money than a farmer. Apart from equipment, there’s barely anything valuable, not even a few Silver Coins. But fortunately, their numbers are huge, and the materials and furs are valuable. After sorting, the amount of Gold Coins we acquired is about 6000, but selling them off doubles the value, especially the corpses of the Forest Giants and River Giants, which drove the Dwarves crazy.”

”Additionally, we found over 500 Refined Level pieces of equipment, more than 80 Perfect Level pieces, and smelted 2600 Imperial Jin of Vibranium.”

”2600 Imperial Jin of Vibranium!? How could there be so much?” Su Li was instantly invigorated; with this Vibranium, the scale of the Rune Armor could be enhanced again.

At this rate, it won’t be long before the Sun of Vengeance Half-Lion Griffin Knight Order and Hesse Guards in the Hesse Territory can all be re-equipped with Vibranium Rune Armor.

This armor’s defensive capacity is exceedingly powerful, even taking at least three direct shots from Dwarven cannons to destroy an Elite Knight wearing a Vibranium Rune Plate Armor. Even the Green Dragon’s Dragon Language Magic can’t directly annihilate a knight clad in Vibranium Rune Armor unless it exhausts a great price to use a single target spell on a knight.

In this battle, the death rate of knights wearing Vibranium Rune Armor indeed was exceptionally low.

Even in the final decisive stage, there were still over 80 Hesse Guard Knights able to follow Hilude to launch a counterattack, with over 40 knights surviving in the end.

Among the more than 30 knights who perished, the vast majority didn’t have Vibranium Rune Armor; only 6 knights wearing Perfect Level Rune Armor died in battle, accounting for about one-fifth.

In other words, having such a piece of Vibranium Rune Armor increased the knights’ survival probability by over 80% compared to others!

This even applied to the Griffins. Death’s Claw’s survival was largely due to it being clad in Vibranium Armor, whereas other Half Griffins suffered heavy losses, with over a third perishing in battle.

Oliver explained, ”This scale is very normal. If not for the Green Dragon’s greed, we could have accrued even more Vibranium. It occupied the western Blood Pine Forest for many years, and near Lake Essonide, there’s a massive iron mine, extracting only a few hundred jin of Vibranium Ore each year. Its scale should be close to ten thousand jin. It’s unfortunate they didn’t craft Vibranium Rune Armor, somewhat overlooking it and not deliberately accumulating.”