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Chapter 174: The Army of Anjou

On the border between the Kingdom of Capet and the Kingdom of Anjou, a reconnaissance team from the Kingdom of Anjou was moving through the woods, looking for opportunities to fight for the professional army behind them.

Under the reforms of Alberto, the new king of Anjou, the main combat force of the Angevin army is now an organized professional legion.

This combat capability is more than one level higher than that of the Capetian Kingdom.

Of course, this does not mean that Capet has fewer professionals, but that Capet simply does not have the power to gather these professionals together and make them obey one command.

Capet's combat system is more like a mercenary mode in which one or more professionals fight with a group of ordinary people.

The advantage is that combat effectiveness can be quickly formed in this way. The professionals themselves have enough deterrent power and there is no need to consider whether their subordinates will obey orders. Whether it is to fight against bandits or defend against enemies on the border, Capet's system can quickly pull in combat effectiveness.

This system can even save more money. After all, when you pay military salaries, you only need to pay them to the leading professionals, and the remaining problems can be solved by the professionals themselves within the team.

Of course, the main reason for the formation of this system is that the entire Kingdom of Capet has no unified command system, so those professionals can only fight for their own lords in the form of mercenaries.

It was not until the Lars family reformed the border military system in order to fight against the demons and implemented this system throughout the kingdom.

At least now the border troops are no longer under the command of scattered border lords, but are commanded by the duke families in each territory. Although the form of the army has not changed much, at least the border troops have a unified command system.

Even so, compared with the current Kingdom of Anjou, the overall military quality gap is extremely large, and Anjou does not rely entirely on an organized professional army.

The rise of Anjou did not happen overnight. Before Alberto quickly seized power through bloody means, several generations of kings of Anjou had already laid the groundwork for reform.

The most important aspect is the professional education. In Capet, if a person only knows one kind of magic and has no idea how it works, then he may not even be considered an apprentice. He is a typical waste who is not even willing to work for a professional, and his life may not be much better than that of an ordinary person.

However, Anjou has a special education system to train this kind of "typical waste".

Even if you don't have any talent for magic, you just need to have a little affinity for magic and be able to learn the most basic spell. Even if it takes twice as long, Anjou has special schools and subjects for you to study.

The simplest example is the Eagle Eye technique. Anjou already has the rudiments of a military academy, and it also trains reconnaissance scouts who use the Eagle Eye technique. These students usually undergo normal military scout training, and in addition to these trainings, they will also be specifically taught the most basic Eagle Eye technique.

Generally, students who are thrown here have to spend several times or even dozens of times more time than those regular spellcasters to learn Eagle Eye. Such people are typical wastes who are not suitable for learning magic in the Capet Kingdom. They have an affinity for magic, but that's all.

Unless they are children of nobility, no one in the Capetian Kingdom would invest a lot of resources in such people.

But Anjou already has a relatively complete education system in this regard. You don't need to understand the operating principles behind Eagle Eye, or even what magic is. You just need to learn how to use Eagle Eye.

After learning it, you will be thrown into the military camp and become a reconnaissance scout specialized in Eagle Eye.

This is completely different from Capet's reconnaissance professionals. Capet's reconnaissance professionals not only need to master the most basic Eagle Eye technique, but also many auxiliary detection magics, as well as shadow magic and basic professional skills required for escape. They are professionals in the true sense.

However, the number of such professionals is quite rare. Some small lords, or even lords with a certain scale of private guards, may not have such a reconnaissance professional.

Almost every unit and even every squad of Anjou has a soldier who uses Eagle Eye.

For example, this Angevin reconnaissance team moving through the woods is led by a user of Eagle Eye.

However, Anjou offers more than just Eagle Vision as a subject. Most of them are similar to Eagle Vision and are quite practical magic.

These people then form a very comprehensive reconnaissance team.

The idea in this world can be said to be very advanced. If Lind had a closer look at the military system of Alberto and the Kingdom of Anjou, he would definitely have lamented that the other party was the typical protagonist.

This is indeed the case, Alberto is one of the male protagonists in the second part of this game.

If Anjou really continues to deepen this system, it will only be a matter of time before it annexes Capet.

However, this set is not without its shortcomings. After all, magic is something that depends on aptitude. If you can't do it, you can't do it. The success rate is still questionable. Even if you have really learned the Eagle Eye technique, the level of use of each soldier is uneven.

Someone like Antoine who can use the Eagle Eye technique at will is already a true soldier in Anjou. It is better to say that Antoine has already touched the threshold of a professional. But even so, Antoine can only rely on hard work to become an unknown small leader of Doug's army under Doug's command.

The common man army of Anjou was mainly responsible for reconnaissance, harassment and logistics, as well as cannon fodder when necessary - and now the word has spread to the border between Anjou and Capet.

But precisely because of this, ordinary people's formations were still somewhat powerless in the encounter with the Capetian army. After all, the other side was led by real professionals, especially when the other side was equipped with firearms.

Even so, Anjou was enough to suppress Capet. After all, when there was an Eagle Eye user in every formation, it would be difficult for ordinary formations to engage in a battle with Capet's army.

Now the captain of the Angevin reconnaissance team that was moving through the woods had already used Eagle Eye to discover the Southwestern Coalition Forces of the Capetian Kingdom in the distance.

"How strange! Aren't these turtles from Capet just good at hiding in the city and firing cannons?"

A strange soldier in the reconnaissance team asked.

"This is normal. After all, our Majesty had molested the other party's queen severely before. It would be strange if the other party was not anxious."

The captain who had retracted his Eagle Eye Technique smiled confidently and continued, "I don't know what the queen looks like. If she's ugly, wouldn't our Majesty be at a disadvantage?"

After saying this, the entire reconnaissance team burst into laughter.

"She must be very beautiful. I heard that the current Queen of Capet is the widow of the former King of Capet. How can she become the Queen of the former King if she is not beautiful?"

"Okay, then let's go capture her and make her his majesty's concubine!"

The reconnaissance team went back to report while chatting and laughing.

Although they didn't know the specific reason why the Capet Kingdom suddenly dared to come out to fight, they believed that with the help of the professional army, they could still crush the Capet Kingdom.