Soon, Sui Xiong received news from Wenner.
He had found the key to the victory of the merchant party.
Sui Xiong hurried over, but what he saw made him a little confused.
A group of people who did not look like soldiers, but more like farmers, were lined up in a neat formation and using long spears to stab the target in front of them.
"Are you talking about this group of people?" Sui Xiong asked doubtfully.
"Yes, my priesthood tells me that they are the key to the victory of the merchant party," Wenner said confidently.
Sui Xiong looked at it carefully and shook his head repeatedly. "I bet that the most experienced person among them will not kill anything bigger than a rooster in his life!"
Although he did not have a priesthood of war, he had a deep understanding of war and combat. After witnessing the life-and-death battle between the two main gods, especially the last sword of the human main god Wuther Rang, he felt a deep sense of urgency. So after getting the inheritance of the former Sun God, he first worked hard to study these things that could immediately increase combat power.
With his ability, he naturally could not see whether there was a war or the trend of the two sides winning. But facing a group of soldiers, it was easy to see how high their combat power was.
At this moment, in his view, the basic attributes of this group of soldiers were good. They were all strong and had good characters. They did not have bad habits, which was good for the atmosphere of the army. But this group of soldiers generally had very little experience, and there was no blood on them. At a glance, it was obvious that they were probably farmers or workers not long ago.
Sui Xiong did not think that such soldiers would have good combat power.
Wenner smiled slightly. "Killing less is not a problem. The key to the combat power of the army is equipment and training. Actual combat is not so important. Anyway, as long as the hard strength is enough, you will have actual combat experience after a few battles. This is actually the least valuable. "
"Eh?" Sui Xiong was stunned and asked subconsciously, "Don't strong armies need to be experienced in hundreds of battles?"
"Armies can be experienced in hundreds of battles, but soldiers cannot. How many people in the world can survive hundreds of battles? "Wenner smiled and shook his head." So there is an important principle in the way of training: training is the most important. In short, problems that can be solved by training should not be solved by actual combat. "
"I thought you were a firm believer in actual combat."
"I've already killed all the staunch fighters."
Sui Xiong laughed at his words and nodded repeatedly.
He did not understand the art of war, nor did he have much experience in training soldiers. Despite Crick's years of practice, compared to Wenner, the real God of War, he was probably at the level of an amateur. Since Wenner felt that these people could become stronger through training, then that should be the case.
"But I still don't understand. Isn't it too late for them to start training now?" Sui Xiong couldn't help but ask after watching for a while.
"It's not too late. Not to mention the fact that the war hasn't started yet. In the beginning, it will only be some small skirmishes at the border. When it develops into a full-scale war, it will take at least a few more years … From the beginning to the end, at the very least, there won't be a real war between the north and the south for the next five years. " Wenner's judgment on the war was undoubtedly the most authoritative. No one would question this. "Five years is enough for them to grow into a reliable and strong army."
Only then did Sui Xiong completely understand and finally felt relieved.
Just like that, they watched the group of rookies who had just picked up their weapons and trained. After a while, Wenner suddenly smiled and said, "Actually, the appearance of this army also has a lot to do with you."
"Ah?" Sui Xiong was puzzled. "What does it have to do with me?"
"Don't you have a Holy Spirit called Crick Keane? This set of training methods was first proposed by him. Several powerful nobles of the merchant party have been looking for reliable training methods in view of the fact that they don't have a real reliable army. They looked around and finally found the Keane Territory. " Wenner's oracles had just sent a report about this matter. "In order to get the secret of the Keane family's training methods, the merchants paid a great price."
Sui Xiong was stunned for a moment. He quickly checked the relevant situation through the clergymen and believers in the city of Keane.
The Church of the Void Mask had a great influence in the Keane territory. The current Baroness of Keane, Anna Keane, was a believer of Sui Xiong. And as the next lord, her eldest son, Louis Keane, was naturally a member of the Church of the Void Mask. He was also a clergyman. Although he wasn't even in the middle ranks, this identity in itself was enough to explain the problem.
More importantly, this time, it was Louis Keane who personally handled the matter of teaching the Keane family's training methods to the merchant party of the Commonwealth of Gold Coins.
About three months ago, when the meeting hall of the General Council was still in a heated argument, several more far-sighted and powerful merchants had already sent people to the city of Keane to try to negotiate with the Keane family. They wanted to learn the training methods of the Keane family.
Unlike the ordinary nobles, the Keane family never recruited adventurers to be converted into an army, nor did they recruit those strong rogues and villains. They always recruited soldiers from civilians with clean backgrounds and good character. Then, after a long period of training, these people were trained to be loyal, brave, and tenacious soldiers.
Over the years, Baron Keane had more than one conflict with the other nobles around him. There were also several occasions where he used his army to fight. In every battle, this army showed a style that was completely different from the ordinary army — they were not particularly strong than those traditional armies, but they were extraordinarily obedient and tenacious. More than once, they fought bravely while withstanding nearly 20% of the casualties, and finally defeated the enemy who might be stronger than them.
The merchant party was not short of money, but they had always been short of a real and reliable army. The combat effectiveness of the mercenaries was unquestionable, but they were really not reliable enough. Usually, it was fine when they were fighting a good battle, but once they were in a bad situation, they would often suddenly collapse and run like wolves.
Of course, there were loyal and reliable mercenaries among the mercenaries. However, even if the merchant party had money, there was no way they could hire too many of such troops — because their number was small to begin with.
For example, the famous "mountain people with halberds," which was an extremely loyal and reliable army. But even if the merchant party had recruited almost all the mercenaries on the mainland over the years, they still could not gather a thousand people.
Of course, this number was enough to fight a small conflict at the border. But if they wanted to completely fall out with the aristocratic party, this number was not even enough for the vanguard.
Therefore, the merchant party paid special attention to the training methods of the Keane family. After spending a lot of money and a lot of political costs to get their hands on it, they made adjustments according to their actual situation. Then, they impatiently formed a few experimental armies and began practical training.
Sui Xiong and Wenner saw one of them.
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