After finishing the barbecue, Galen and his group extinguished the campfire at the campsite, packed up their tents, and prepared to depart.
After setting off, Galen rode his warhorse, letting it follow the team.
Fortunately, because of the supply carts at the rear, the team's speed was not fast.
He closed his eyes and turned his perspective to the base.
After taking a nap in the morning and looking again, the progress of the Kings' Altar was only half complete, and it would still take some time.
The time spent had far exceeded that of the barracks.
Having taken so long, Galen guessed that the Kings' Altar might give him a different surprise.
Within the base, there were already nine farmers, two footmen, and four riflemen.
What surprised Galen was that the riflemen were not dwarves, but humans.
These dozen or so combat units were divided into two squads: four footmen and two riflemen in one squad, taking turns patrolling the mountain forest where the base was located.
He had gone to fight trolls as soon as he started training, and when he returned after fighting the trolls, he was too tired.
He hadn't had a good look at the newly trained units.
Galen took this opportunity to carefully observe the two existing combat units in his base from an overhead perspective.
The footmen and riflemen were all about 1.8 to 1.9 meters tall, with strong and sturdy builds, and looked very young.
The equipment of the footmen and riflemen was different.
Galen found the style of armor on the footmen very familiar.
It was a set of silver-white plate armor, with red coating on the edges of the armor.
The footmen held a white shield with red edges in their right hands and a wide-bladed longsword in their left hands.
After thinking for a while, Galen recognized that this was a set produced by a blacksmithing profession that he particularly liked in his previous life: the Monarch Set.
He once used his paladin account to transmogrify a set of Monarch armor, and he also specially found a similar one-handed sword to transmogrify.
Finally, for that shield, Galen farmed Shadowfang Keep until he was sick of it, and finally, the Commander's Crest Shield dropped: a shield with a lion's head crest.
He put in so much effort just to cosplay a Stormwind guard, and he even pretended to go online every night to patrol the streets of Stormwind.
The armor on the footmen reminded Galen of a chuuni (delusional) phase in his past, and the expression on his face was awkward.
What a beautiful memory, carefree, mining, farming mounts, raiding dungeons, truly loving this game.
The riflemen's equipment was much simpler: chainmail vests, chainmail leggings, brown leather boots on their legs, and the shoulder armor was made of leather and chainmail.
They held a long rifle in their hands.
The riflemen were not as fully armed as the footmen because the riflemen, as ranged damage dealers, did not have much opportunity to fight enemies in close combat.
However, for possible close combat, a bladed knife was installed below the metal muzzle of the riflemen's rifles, which could be used to chop and thrust at targets.
Afterward, Galen looked at their introductions.
Human Footman
Armor Type: Heavy Plate Armor
Weapons: Broadsword, Heavy Shield
Strength: Adept
Skills: Military Swordsmanship, Shield Defense (Unresearched)
Training Cost: 135 units of Gold
Consumption: Two units of Food per day
Human Rifleman
Armor Type: Medium Chainmail
Weapons: Bladed Rifle
Strength: Adept
Skills: Rifle Proficiency, Aimed Shot
Training Cost: 75 units of Gold 125 units of Wood
Consumption: Three units of Food per day
Although Galen was surprised that the riflemen were not dwarves, this did not affect their combat effectiveness.
Moreover, at this point in time, the Alliance had not yet been established, and the relationship between Stromgarde and the dwarves was limited to trade.
It would be difficult to explain the appearance of a large number of dwarves in his team.
It would be best if the units trained in the base in the future were all humans.
As a prince of Stromgarde, one of the human kingdoms, his base was the human race.
In Galen's initial conception, the combat units trained in the base would be his main legion in the future.
In terms of the intensity of future wars, he might need to maintain an army of more than 100,000 to face the Burning Legion.
The army trained in the base did not need military pay to maintain, and the only materials consumed were food.
Moreover, they were loyal to him, fearless of death, and could be replenished quickly.
The base had not yet prompted that the trained units had a population limit, which was a gratifying thing.
The population of the Kingdom of Stromgarde was too small.
Galen planned to use the kingdom's army as an auxiliary force.
The high-end combat power was currently his father, King Thoras Trollbane of hero rank.
His cousin Danath would also achieve hero rank in the later stages.
Stromgarde's resources were still too scarce.
Besides the army, which could be considered famous, there were really not many talents, not as many as in Lordaeron, which was full of talents, and even the Kingdom of Stormwind was richer than Stromgarde.
Galen was envious.
Four of the five original paladins came from Lordaeron, plus Mograine, the Ashbringer later on.
These were all the ceilings of human combat power.
Logistics relied on magic wheat produced by farms.
In the later stages, other crops could be added, such as planting medicinal herbs for trade.
He could build more farms and hoard more food and medicinal herbs.
Azeroth would be a world dominated by war for the next thirty years, and food and medicinal herbs were essential supplies.
With food in hand, there was no panic.
When the war with the orcs broke out, the major kingdoms would conscript a large number of soldiers, and the reduction of labor would lead to a shortage of food in the human world.
The magic wheat on the farm had a short maturity period, and only one farmer was needed to complete the harvest.
This would be a source of wealth for him.
Galen was not prepared to make a fortune from national disasters.
The food shortage was so large that even if he maintained the existing price, his food could be continuously converted into gold coins.
A simple development route was initially determined by Galen on horseback.
He was currently only considering the period after the orcish war, which was a turning point for him to change his destiny and the destiny of Stromgarde.
The future of Stromgarde would begin to decline because of the orcish war.
Bumping along the way, the team trekked across the highlands.
Omar and Varokal took turns clearing the way, avoiding the wolf packs and raptors on the highlands.
Finally, before dark, they saw the kingdom's built road.
Along the road westward, Galen could already faintly see signs of human habitation.
Not long after nightfall, they arrived at the nearest town: Crossroads, where the kingdom's road forked into two, forming a Y-shaped intersection.
It was also the largest population gathering place west of Go'shek Farm.
The discomfort from his crotch as he dismounted made Galen grit his teeth.
The long hours of riding had long made him miserable.
He could have avoided this suffering and rested in the carriage like the wounded, but he refused the suggestion.
Galen had always been strict with himself and dared not slack off in the slightest.
Riding a horse on marches in the future would be indispensable.
He had to adapt.
He couldn't have the soldiers marching hard while he, as the commander, was leisurely resting in the carriage, right?
He was not a a great commander like Zhuge Liang, sitting in a four-wheeled carriage, waving a feather fan, with a confident and calm demeanor.
One who could secure the country with a pen and pacify the world on horseback, like Thoras, a king with outstanding martial power, was what he aspired to be.