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Chapter 349: The Third Battle of Blackfire Pass (3)

In addition to basic casualty insurance, Windlow also launched a completely new type of insurance called pension insurance.

As long as the money is paid, anyone who needs to retire due to injury after the war can find a job to make a living here in Windlow with the insurance policy.

Compared with actual cash, such a pension insurance immediately caused an uproar in the military camp.

What do these imperial soldiers who have been fighting since childhood fear the most?

Not greenskins and goblins, or beastmen and bandits.

Instead, after retiring, they starve or freeze to death because they have no money and no job.

The Empire's military traditions differ from those of all other factions.

In Bretonnia, peasants were only temporarily conscripted, and after the war they would return to their own territories to farm.

In the mountains, dwarf soldiers have their own jobs, and after the battle they can seamlessly transition into miners and craftsmen.

Even if you choose to leave the underground and go to the surface, you can become a ranger and support yourself by hunting and patrolling.

Among the elves, the high elves have a militia system, and each elf has to serve for 20 years before retiring, so the retirement policy is very good.

The Empire is the only country that has a system of full-time soldiers.

This also resulted in the empire's provincial troops having basically no life skills other than fighting.

After retiring, they either joined the free militia to continue serving, or became bandits, had their wealth swindled out by bad women, or had their wallets emptied by alcohol and sex.

This is an indisputable fact. It was originally thought that there was no solution to the problem, but now there is a solution.

That is the pension insurance system.

It can be said that, except for the provincial troops who had never heard of such an insurance, all other soldiers in the border cities had purchased such an insurance.

The post-war settlement of so many people naturally became the most important issue in Windlow's mind.

However, there is no point in considering these things now. The tide of greenskins in the south is about to reach Blackfire Pass, and the Imperial Dwarf Alliance has little time to reorganize.

Imperial Emperor Karl Franz did remember the essence of this so-called pension insurance propaganda.

When the war is about to begin, I can also say a few words in my speech.

I hope the soldiers will not be afraid of getting injured, as they will have insurance if they are injured. They also don’t have to worry about being abandoned by the empire after the war due to missing limbs, as there will be special institutions to provide them with retirement care.

This will further boost the morale of the imperial troops.

Now that everything has been taken into consideration, it is already late, so we should lead the army to Blackfire Pass immediately.

As an old acquaintance and Windlow was also nominally an imperial noble, Emperor Karl Franz generously sent ten new soldiers over.

The task given was also very simple, which was to monitor the left and right sides of the Blackfire Pass and to issue an alarm in time when any force appeared on the mountain that was sufficient to threaten the empire's flank.

Even though he had no military experience, Windlow, who had rich experience in business, knew the basic situation here even though he arrived at Blackfire Pass for the first time.

There is absolutely no space to climb over the mountains on both sides, and the only thing that can come down from the mountains is probably the dwarf's helicopter.

At the same time, as a person who has been working in the empire for so long, Windlo naturally knows the reason why the emperor arranged this job for him.

First of all, it is a stable merit. During the battle, no enemies will run down from the mountain. When the time comes, a powerful reconnaissance military merit can be recorded in the account.

The second is to protect his own safety. If Windlow dies, no one will carry out the insurance and pension he promised.

All in all, after coming all the way from Oster Territory, Windlo got a good sinecure. He can just ride his unicorn around and wait for the battle to end.

The unicorn was in great trouble now. The mountain road at Blackfire Pass was already difficult to walk on, and now it had to carry a person up the mountain. Naturally, it was dissatisfied.

But it is not stupid. It knows that not going to the battlefield is the best situation at the moment, so it just goes up the mountain for a stroll.

As for the ten new recruits from the empire, they felt a little more relieved.

When they received the reconnaissance mission and learned that they needed to obey Windlow's orders, they all showed great dissatisfaction.

Everyone came out to fight in the war to accumulate military merits, all they wanted was to charge, kill the enemy, and return victorious, but in the end they only got a sinecure and were unable to realize their ambitions.

Windlow had traveled a lot so naturally knew what these new recruits were really thinking, and pointed to the top of the mountain.

"In fact, the emperor has assigned us a secret mission. If we can complete it, it will cause considerable damage to the greenskins. Each of you has a great mission."

To employ veterans, you need enough gold coins and a guarantee of victory.

If you want to command new recruits, all you need is one or two nice slogans.

Although climbing Black Fire Pass was such a difficult task, the ten soldiers were very excited and took the initiative to look for various ropes and tools for climbing.

Some places require rock climbing to get up. After all, these recruits have received training and know how to tie ropes to the horses and transport them to higher places by climbing.

The advantage of a small number of people was immediately apparent. In just one hour, such a small team successfully reached the highest point of the entire Blackfire Pass and was able to easily overlook the entire battlefield.

It was at this moment that everyone saw for the first time the enemy they were facing.

Outside the Blackfire Pass, it was almost covered with various green tides, even the original yellow color of the land was completely covered.

Only then did the ten recruits show expressions of fear on their faces.

Just counting the number of greenskins, there are at least 5,000 of them, including giants, Arachnari giant spiders and even wyverns. If the goblins are included, the number of greenskin army may be more than the one Sigmar faced back then.

The troops on the Empire's side were scattered, consisting of twelve provincial armies, a Nuln artillery corps, and the personal greatsword guards of Marius Redolf, the Elector of Ivy.

and cavalry sent by various knightly orders in response to the Empire's call.

The only psychological comfort was that Nunn sent three Imperial tanks.

If these ten new recruits appeared in the front row of the imperial army now, they would probably be terrified and start fleeing immediately.

Now, they are overwhelmed by fear and will undoubtedly unite around Windlow, and sincerely admire Sigma for sending them to this noble baron.

And Windlow, who was on a high ground with a panoramic view of the entire battlefield, was able to immediately draw a comparison of the military strength of both sides.

"This battle, the Empire..."