Chapter 39: Since ancient times, spearmen had luck E.

The weather after autumn was still hot and dry. In the wilderness outside the territory, over a thousand Goblins, Kobolds, and Gnolls were reclaiming farmland under the sun. Dozens of overseers from various races stood nearby, lashing out with whips whenever they saw anyone slacking off.

Su Lun placed a lounge chair under a large tree and lay on it leisurely. He wore a pair of sunglasses made of black crystal on the bridge of his nose. A cup of freshly squeezed juice sat on the small table beside him. Behind him, Cleaner One and Cleaner Two were like two small fans working at full power, whooshing as they blew out gusts of wind, bringing cool breezes under the autumn sun.

On the other side, on the already reclaimed cultivated land, a group of strong women and children were driving oxen to plow the fields. On the other side of the city wall, on the riverbank of the Red Sand River, the fertile black soil had already been cultivated on about two thousand acres of land. At the current pace, it would take at most half a month to finish planting all five thousand acres of Potatoes.

“Ding! The Military Camp Training Ground has been completed! Data importing! Importing militia training content! Importing infantry training content, importing archer training content… Data import progress 10%, 20%, 30%…”

The sudden System prompt in his ear made Su Lun slightly stunned.

The Military Camp Training Ground was already built? Su Lun quickly opened the System interface to check.

[Military Camp Training Ground: The Military Camp Training Ground trains qualified Soldiers for the territory. Every Soldier trained here is a qualified Warrior. They are important personnel for defending the territory, having undergone strict military training. They only need some experience to become elite Soldiers. Soldiers are the foundation of a Lord’s rule over the territory. (Weapon proficiency +2, training time shortened by 20%, discipline +2, morale +15, territory stability +15)]

Seeing the attributes of the Military Camp, Su Lun was secretly pleased. With the Military Camp, he could continuously train qualified Soldiers. Of course, the prerequisite was having sufficient money and Freeman, as training Soldiers required money.

Currently, the territory’s Military Camp could only train three types of troops: one was the Barbarian Soldier, one was the Spearman, and the other was the Archer. Among them, the Spearman had the lowest training cost, only one Gold Nar. The Barbarian required three Gold Nars, and the Archer required two Gold Nars. However, only Barbarians could become the Barbarian troop type.

As for cavalry, crossbowmen, and heavy infantry, they were all in an unlocked state. The simplest way to unlock these troop types was to obtain the corresponding Military Token for that troop type. If there was no Military Token, then recruit a Hero who could train that troop type. Of course, these methods could only recruit regular troops. As for those special troops, they could only be trained with a Military Token.

Su Lun also wanted to form a powerful Knight Order, but given the current situation, that goal was still very far away.

He went to the Military Camp, which was located in the west of the territory, outside the city wall. The city wall Su Lun was currently building was actually the Inner City of the city. The Outer City and Outer City wall would only be formally built next year when the territory’s population increased. Su Lun planned to keep the Inner City as his own private land.

The Military Camp covered a large area, divided into four parts: barracks, warehouses, Training Ground, and Training Ground. The Training Ground and Training Ground accounted for seventy percent of the entire Military Camp.

Currently, the Training Ground only had some targets and straw dummies, as well as some weapons and equipment for training.

The army formed by newly recruited Freeman was not recognized by the System. Only the strong were recognized, such as Barbarians. The army formed by Freeman was still considered civilians. Only after a period of training could they become Militia. With the Military Camp, after training there, they directly skipped the Militia stage and became new recruits.

Although the Military Camp was successfully built, Su Lun did not recruit Soldiers. The territory’s population was too small now, consisting only of Barbarians and those Mercenaries. To train Soldiers, they had to wait for the slaves that Ji En’s Caravan would bring back from Karlt City.

After inspecting the Military Camp, Su Lun did not go back to rest. Instead, he went to the Blacksmith Shop. In the previous battle with the Ragewind Magic Tiger, his weapon was damaged, and now he needed to forge a new one.

Because his strength was great, his weapon had to be sturdy and durable. For example, with spears, ironwood spears were too light in his hands, so he used iron spears. However, even iron spears could not withstand such abuse from him.

As for why he did not use other weapons, it was because spears looked cool. Well, actually, it was because of his System’s template. Only by using a spear could he unleash his full power. As for the saying that spearmen had luck E, Su Lun did not feel it at all. In fact, his luck was quite good, because he inherited Zhao Yun’s template.

There was a saying: All the luck of the world’s spearmen amounts to one stone, Zhao Yun alone took twelve dou, and the other spearmen owed two dou. Su Lun now had the twelve dou of luck.

The saying that spearmen had luck E was based on facts. Looking through historical records and classical works, it was found that most of those who used spears in history did not have good endings.

Han Xin, Marquis of Huaiyin, was enfeoffed as a marquis and appointed as a chancellor, receiving an imperial decree that he was beyond the control of heaven and earth, yet he ended up being beaten to death with random sticks. Sun Ce, the Little Conqueror, was ambushed and assassinated by a few petty thieves, seriously injured, and eventually died from an infected wound. In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, he was cursed to death by the sorcerer Yu Ji. It was just pitiful for the girl Da Qiao. Ma Chao, one of the Five Tiger Generals, died of illness in his prime. Zhang Fei, another of the Five Tiger Generals, was betrayed by his subordinate and beheaded while sleeping. Luo Cheng in the Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties fell into a trap and was pierced by ten thousand arrows.

The Yang Family Generals of Tianbo Mansion, whose Yang Family spear technique was peerless in the world, yet almost no one in the family had a good ending, ending up with a household full of widows. Lin Chong, the Leopard Head, toiled all his life, separated from his wife and children, and finally died dishonorably from a stroke at the Six Harmonies Pagoda. Xu Ning was one of the first leaders sacrificed on Liangshan Marsh’s campaign against the Four Bandits. Yue Fei, the national hero, was killed by Wanyan Gou and Qin Hui on false charges.

So many vivid examples told us that spearmen really had low luck. Now look at Zhao Yun, who fought in countless battles throughout his life but lived to over eighty years old without illness or disaster. His ending was much better than theirs. The single-rider rescue of his master was simply a miracle. “The true lord of forty-two years, Zhao Yun thus displayed divine might.”

Therefore, Zhao Yun’s twelve dou of luck was historically based.

Since he was forging a weapon for himself, he naturally used the best materials available. The best material in the Blacksmith Shop now was the Hundred-Tempered Fine Iron. Besides the Hundred-Forged Steel, Su Lun also took out two pieces of Refined Iron rewarded by the System. These two pieces of Refined Iron were much better than the Hundred-Tempered Fine Iron in the Blacksmith Shop.

If there had been enough Refined Iron to forge a spear, Su Lun would have used all Refined Iron. Now, he could only use a mix of Hundred-Tempered Fine Iron for forging.