Chapter 7: Four Great Legions

Well, besides Ling Guang's Sound Voice Camp, we also need to organize a cavalry unit, led by an unparalleled cavalry commander, to turn this cavalry into my ace spearhead!

In a few days, that cavalry commander I have in mind will return; my uncle will definitely be satisfied.

Looking at the still-silly Vermilion Bird, Su Ye shook his head and whispered to Meng Zhang beside him.

In Su Ye's vision, the upcoming new army will be divided into four parts:

Meng Zhang's Azure Dragon Legion will be the main combat legion of the future new army, containing infantry, sword-and-shield troops, spearmen, and archers as the main combat units, responsible for future group operations.

White Tiger's White Tiger War Cavalry will be the future new army's ace unit, comprising light cavalry and heavy cavalry, responsible for piercing, charging, and gnawing through tough defenses.

Wu Xuan's Xuanwu Guard will be entirely composed of heavy infantry, and in the future will also, under the leadership of the top-tier defensive War God Xuanwu, protect Su Ye's safety.

Vermilion Bird's Vermilion Bird Camp, that is, the Sound Voice Camp, will select divine archers from the Nine Heavens Army to roam the battlefield and reap enemy officers.

Moreover, divine archers are also a major trump card against jianghu sects; you know the jianghu sects on the Heavenly Martial Continent are not weak at all, let alone those sects that will later intrude.

But the army cannot focus solely on jianghu sects; therefore, having the Vermilion Bird Camp also provides some convenient ways to deal with these jianghu sects.

But precisely because of this, cultivating a divine archer requires gradual accumulation.

In this regard, Su Ye can only 'shear wool' from the Nine Heavens Army.

Anyway, the Nine Heavens Army is large and prosperous; over time, divine archers are certainly not few, and some even practice volleys together with the archer units.

There's no way; his own War God fiancée is being pampered, so Su Ye can only shamelessly return to the Nine Heavens Army.

He plucked about half of the divine archers under those generals' commands, gathering three thousand for Vermilion Bird's Sound Voice Camp.

Don't think it's few; in ancient times, each archer was a one-in-a-hundred talent, while divine archers were one-in-a-thousand among archers.

An excellent divine archer in the army is basically the sweetheart of generals and colonels.

Without affecting the Nine Heavens Army's combat strength, Su Ye could extract that many precious 'gems' from those generals' hands.

This is all because the Cloud King's prestige in the Nine Heavens Army is too profound; Su Ye, as the heir apparent, has also benefited.

Oh

Then this subordinate looks forward to the cavalry commander mentioned by Jin Yu, wondering what surprise he will bring.

Hearing Su Ye's anticipation of that cavalry commander, Meng Zhang also became interested.

An excellent cavalry commander under an outstanding commander-in-chief can exert 200% effectiveness, sometimes even a decisive blow; its importance goes without saying.

Don't worry, my uncle will definitely be satisfied.

In Su Ye's vision, White Tiger and Meng Zhang will have the relationship of Huo Qubing and Wei Qing.

White Tiger is responsible for charging into battle, using his own martial prowess plus cavalry like a spear to tear open enemy lines.

While Azure Dragon is responsible for overall coordination, gradually consuming enemy forces.

Such a White Tiger-like cavalry commander with unmatched combat power and excellent cavalry leadership, à la Huo Qubing, would be liked by any commander-in-chief.

Moreover, among the future Four Spirits of Heaven, the one who will work longest with Meng Zhang will only be White Tiger.

As Su Ye's future wife, Vermilion Bird certainly cannot follow Meng Zhang everywhere to wage war.

And Wu Xuan, this invincible defensive War God, because his skills and techniques are all focused on defense.

As long as Wu Xuan guards by his side, with a single-minded focus on defense, even White Tiger's base martial 110 heavenly general cannot hope to harm Su Ye.

Therefore, Wu Xuan's final destination will certainly be to guard Su Ye's side with the Xuanwu Guard.

So calculated, aside from these few years when he hasn't yet begun to inherit the Cloud King, the Four Spirits of Heaven might fight together.

When Su Ye inherits the Cloud King and the Nine Heavens Army, the Four Spirits of Heaven, which can be considered the top-tier combination, should then split apart.

At that time, Meng Zhang and White Tiger may go out to campaign, but Vermilion Bird and Wu Xuan will certainly stay by Su Ye's side.

Your Highness the Heir Apparent, thirty thousand troops and their corresponding weapons and war horses are ready.

Would you like to go inspect them?

While Su Ye and the three were chatting idly, a middle-aged officer in the Nine Heavens Army's standard black battle armor slowly approached Su Ye, bowed, and said.

Of course, please lead the way, General.

Hearing that the wool he had plucked from the Nine Heavens Army had arrived, Su Ye naturally felt impatient.

Unlike before, this army will henceforth belong solely to him.

However, he still needs to think about how to squeeze something else out of the Nine Heavens Army.

Ding! Congratulations, host, for exceeding the completion of Main Quest One!

Reward in progress: congratulations, host, for gaining 500 summon points, two faction summon cards, three unlimited random summon cards, one Saint Rank Power Summon Card, one Saint Rank Commander-in-Chief Summon Card, and five random summon cards.

Just as Su Ye was calculating how to shear more wool from the Nine Heavens Army, the system's notification suddenly sounded in his ear.

Huh?

What's going on!

Su Ye was struck dumb by the system's notification, his face full of question marks: how did he suddenly complete Main Quest One?

And he even exceeded it!

I didn't do anything!

No, I was just about to start the task!

How did it get completed?

It ended before it even began?

Wait!

Could it be that the system, when issuing the task, didn't consider his current identity background?

Su Ye's face looked a bit strange; he suddenly had a vague realization.

Although the New Army's Four Legions had just been established, don't think Su Ye easily obtained the thirty-thousand-strong reserve conscription from the Nine Heavens Army.

With the strength of these soldiers, placed outside they would all be top-tier combat troops.

If Su Ye truly were a penniless orphan grassroots emperor star.

Wanting to build such a force with ample armament, steadfast will, and extraordinary combat power—enough to serve as soldiers in an ordinary feudal lord's elite legion—is impossible without two or three years.

This still assumes that under this Imperial Star there exists a top-tier training commander-in-chief.

You should know that building an elite unit from scratch is not something that can be done overnight.

First, there are a series of soldier-related issues: selection of troops, loyalty, physique, and will.

This cannot be solved by simply grabbing a bunch of youths off the street.

At most that would just be a gang of thugs—looks intimidating, enough to scare county militia and miscellaneous troops, but that's it.

When they meet an elite regular army, they basically scatter at the first touch.

Next comes the issue of uniform equipment: uniforms, weapons, cloth and iron armor, and so on.

What is needed is a stable foundation and a highly perfected logistics organization.

Moreover, there is military morale, spirit, and discipline; this requires a wise commander-in-chief and a restrained general.

For a grassroots Imperial Star, wanting to build all this from scratch is truly extremely difficult, with far too many factors required.

(End of chapter)