Chapter 1830

And it's very stable, not easy to fall off.

They were all wearing armor and carrying weapons.

You could say fully armed.

Although their combat power and level weren't necessarily higher than the slaves they watched over, combat power with equipment bonuses and combat power without equipment bonuses were completely on different levels.

Generally, one female overseer watching over 10 slaves was appropriate; any more than that and it became somewhat dangerous.

After all, Zhao Chi's overseer system here was very crude, very primitive.

So the efficiency wasn't high.

But there was no need to invest a lot of energy into this kind of thing right now.

Good enough was fine.

Zhao Chi nodded: "1000 overseers are of course not enough, but among these new captives there are still close to over 4200 female slaves, all considered rescued by me, with a decent base obedience level, and can quickly become new female overseers. And as long as 2000 of them successfully convert, that's enough. A total of 3000 overseers guarding 20000 captives is still no problem, and I have enough food too."

Su Qin sighed and shook her head.

"I never imagined it could be like this… you're still the impressive one."

"Impressive, right?"

"Mm, impressive."

"Next time keep swallowing, swallow it clean."

"Honestly, when have I not sucked you clean, even cleaner than if you washed it yourself."

"Since you're so good to me, I'll give you the over 1500 pieces of fashion I captured too."

Su Qin said in surprise: "You captured fashion too?"

Zhao Chi said: "There's a female lord called Zuo Yan, her combat power isn't much, but she has plenty of fashion. She also uses elves, and all the fashion adds agility-related stats, might suit you better."

Su Qin smiled: "Great, send me the stats to look at."

Zhao Chi sent them over.

Su Qin laughed as soon as she saw them.

"This fashion is way too different from the ones you made, right?"

"Yeah, so I don't want them, you keep them as backup."

"Alright, can only use as backup then, even the stats on this super-improved fashion are much worse than yours."

"Of course."

"But… actually these fashion pieces are all qualified fashion, I can equip them to the second-line troops. Since you handle my food, I can expand the army."

Zhao Chi nodded: "Mm, feel free to increase, but you still need to train a batch of capable craftsmen, and select soldiers from among the captives."

Su Qin smiled: "Of course, I understand, with so many captives, of course we have to select from among them."

Zhao Chi sent over some more lists.

"Take a look at these too."

"There's more?"

Su Qin curiously tapped it open to look.

Her eyes went wide on the spot.

"My god! This many? You captured this much equipment this time?"

The list included all equipment from the two battles with Meng Meng and Zuo Yan.

Close to 4400 sets of leather armor.

760 sets of iron armor.

13000 iron weapons and shields.

Over 750 refined iron bows, over 1800 iron bows, over 80000 arrows.

Leather armor was truly useless to Zhao Chi.

Even those female overseers were equipped with Mystic Maiden Armor.

Now the female soldiers all used extreme-weight Mystic Maiden Armor; many of the previous standard Mystic Maiden Armor had been phased out and all given to the female overseers to wear.

Ordinary iron armor and weapons were also useless.

Ding Dang and those blacksmiths had produced quite a bit before, but now the female soldiers all used extreme-weight weapons, so those were considered phased out too.

But what Ding Dang and the others made were all brand-new weapons, so Zhao Chi temporarily stored them in the warehouse as reserves.

But the captured ones were truly useless.

Just pack them up and deal with them.

Zhao Chi said: "Take a look at these weapons and equipment, take whatever you need, and help me sell the rest, you set the price. I've already given you the detailed list, you can send it to the other party when you sell too."

Su Qin asked: "I want to keep these refined iron bows and iron bows, and also want to keep these 80000-plus arrows, if we're expanding the army later they can be used directly."

Zhao Chi nodded: "No problem, take a look at the leather armor, keep what you need, sell the rest, I'll leave it all to you to handle."

Su Qin asked: "I think we could actually keep all this equipment too, aren't you transferring me a few thousand slaves to convert into an army? This equipment can be given to them to use, weapons and armor all covered, when the time comes just equip them directly, won't they immediately have combat power?"

"That works too."

"You won't mind if I take it all?"

"What's there to mind, the stronger you are the stronger I am, I don't lack money, take the equipment freely, keeping it here just takes up inventory."

"Great, I get it, this is practically getting rich."

"I'll transfer you roughly 5500 slaves, but not all will be converted into soldiers, among them are quite a few craftsmen, you arrange things according to each person's situation."

"Mm, understood!"

"That's all, nothing else."

Su Qin smiled: "This is my capture list, take a look, see if there's anything you need, if there is I'll send it to you."

Zhao Chi also received Su Qin's list.

It itemized every single piece of war loot in meticulous detail.

Though her attitude was commendable.

And her intentions were clear.

There really wasn't anything on it that Zhao Chi could use.

Just some rare materials that were decent.

But there was no need…

Zhao Chi smiled and said, "I don't need any of this. I can see your inventory, so if I need anything I'll let you know."

Su Qin grinned, "Alright, I'll come back tomorrow to haul the equipment and fashion. We really don't have enough hands right now. Anyway, keeping it here versus keeping it with me makes no difference."

"Sure."

"Then I'll head back first. You're not coming to find me tonight, right?"

"Tonight… I really don't seem to have the time."

"Okay, bye-bye!"

"Mm, bye-bye."

Su Qin vanished.

Actually, Zhao Chi himself hadn't expected that one day he would end up with so many captives.

Keeping over twenty thousand captives really does require a massive investment of manpower and resources.

Unless you treat these captives as reserve food — that would certainly work too.

But if he wanted to convert these twenty thousand captives into usable soldiers, even slave soldiers would require no small investment.

And it would be a sustained investment.

Fortunately, Zhao Chi had grain.

With grain, you have manpower; with plenty of manpower, soldiers naturally multiply.

Once this batch of captives is fully converted into slave soldiers — or even regular soldiers — Su Qin's combat power will see an explosive surge.

Su Qin's combat power rising is Zhao Chi's combat power rising.

In a certain sense.

Su Qin could actually be considered Zhao Chi's "hidden combat power."

When the time comes, her combat power will definitely be stronger than today's goblin horde — after all, Su Qin's side has elven archers who are equally specialized in ranged combat.

Fighting those 26,000 goblins today, Zhao Chi wasn't really engaging in a head-on battle.

It was entirely a strike from behind.

If it had been a straight-up head-on clash… the outcome might have been very much in doubt.