Things Acquired In Others Territories (5)

The current Aquitania Territorial Army was 14,000 men, but this was not a fully regular army.

Looking at the history of China and Europe, the number of elite soldiers is generally around 1% of the population.

This 1% is not ordinary infantry, but special troops such as cavalry and archers.

In the case of the Chinese, however, they often drafted up to 10% of the population, with 1% being a standing army of professional soldiers, and the remaining 9% being a reserve force that was usually engaged in farming and were used as needed.

With the condition that they would normally be engaged in farming, it was possible to conscript a high figure of 10% of the population.

Aquitania 14,000 troops were a mixture of these two.

Currently, the population of the Lunan Kingdom is about 10 million.

And the population of Aquitania territory is 220,000.

With the onset of war, I intend to increase the regular army to 10,000 and prepare 20,000 troops to be engaged in farming.

The problem is that Aquitania is a border region and therefore has a smaller population than the other territories; however, there has been a big change recently.

The original population was around 180,000, but thanks to the tax exemption policy and my fame, the population had increased by 40,000 as refugees from the northern part of the Lunan Kingdom, where the war was taking place, moved into the area.

Even after the tax exemption period is over, if I reduce taxes moderately and cultivate the land, the population will continue to grow, won't it?

Borders are always dangerous, but in times of warfare every territory will have such problems and people will choose the safest place to live.

If I give people confidence that they are safe, the population will grow.

If the population reaches 300,000 I can sustain a force of 30,000.

[Do you want to draft?]

Since I can sustain 20,000 troops for the time being, I have moved towards my first goal.

[Who will you choose to do the draft?]

What's a little interesting here is that the higher the martial strength and command, the more effective it is in increasing the training level, and the higher the popularity within the affiliation of the vassal making the conscription, the harder it is to lower the public sentiment towards the lord.

[Haddin popularity within the ranks 90]

[Zeff popularity within the ranks 50]

[Bente popularity within the ranks 70]

[Yusen popularity within the ranks 50]

[Givens popularity within the ranks 50]

[Miri popularity within the ranks 50]

This is natural since they had only been in the territory for a short time.

I expect that Yusen's affinity and good personality will soon increase his popularity within the ranks but for now only Haddin is suitable for drafting.

[Do you want Haddin to handle the draft?]

[6,000 men can be drafted]

[People spirit predicted to fall by 5↓]

When I selected Haddin, this message appeared.

I thought about it for a while, but this time I decided to do it directly.

"Visigoth continues to increase their forces. Soon the age of war will start even more than it already has with the shattered long peace. The time will come when you must protect your families. Of course, when that time comes, I will do my best to protect Aquitania. But I can't do it alone, I need your help. Thus I enact a draft for the protection of our territory, that is why I am raising this force, but I promise you one thing. I will lead you in battle; you will always have me in front! You will never march into war alone, for you shall have me your Lord with you, and your Brothers by your sides!"

I have a pretty good reputation within the territory, so, as a result of making this declaration to the people in the square.

[People spirit increased by 2]

Surprisingly, the people's spirits went up by two.

Thanks to this, the number of soldiers steadily increased by 6,000, bringing their total to 20,000.

The 20,000 troops were reorganized and training was started anew.

I left the training to Givens, Bente, and Yusen, the number of vassals was small so they all had to work hard.

We were going to select 10,000 from them to form a regular army and pay them salaries.

Out of these 10,000, I would select 2,000 to form an elite unit.

Fortunately, war funds are not a problem, so all I needed was time.

Of course, I will not just sit and wait.

I have many external issues to deal with this year until the story starts, the real story.

As history has it, the Royal Army of Visigoth is very quiet.

That history has been rewritten, but the great conquest will not stop so easily.

The pride of the Visigoth Kingdom is its elite troops, each led by one of the Ten Warlords.

Each unit has a fancy name based on the alias of one of the warlords and they were quite troublesome in the game.

This time I have to deal with them in reality, not in a game.

In other words, I have to use my head.

If I fight purely with my troops, I have no chance of winning.

Of course, in order to utilize my brain I needed troops who could serve as my hands and feet, even if they are small in scale.

Soon, news of war will reach our ears.

It's not a war between Visigoth and Lunan but a war between the southern countries.

Originally, the Lunan Kingdom had already been destroyed when this war broke out and Visigoth wasn't involved since they were preparing for the Great Conquest.

However, history has changed.

Due to the relationship between the country where the war took place and the Lunan Kingdom, something interesting was about to happen, if it did, I would have to play my part.

The opportunity to lay a foundation for my expansion was coming.