Lord of Hyranza

When they came to the dining room, Natasha brought over hot pancakes and a bowl of oatmeal overflowing with milk. Charlie and Luke were not polite, they were eating milk oatmeal, but the old village chief I have something in my heart, I can't eat anything.

Suldak took a sip of the hot porridge, grabbed a scorched pancake from the plate, stuffed it into his mouth, and then said to the old village chief:

"I have already received a call-up order issued by the Chamber of Deputies of the Province of Bena. In just a few days, I will send the cavalry leading the cavalry battalion to the city of Bena to report to the Marquess of Luther's regiment. This time not only will I take all the cavalry Battalion, we need to recruit some new troops to make up a 500-man cavalry battalion.”

Hearing what Suldak said, Village Chief Brett, Charlie, and Luke all looked at Suldak in astonishment.

They also heard about this matter from Suldak before, but they didn't expect it to happen so quickly.

Suldak tried his best to swallow the food in his mouth, and then said to the three: "Those captured women can be arranged to live in the row houses temporarily. Some of them were originally villagers in the barren land. If you want to go home, tell their family members to come to Wall Village to pick them up. Some of them are family members of Sand Pirates. When I was here, they probably didn’t dare to do anything. Once I lead the cavalry battalion out of Wall Village , Be careful of their retaliatory actions."

The old village chief Brett couldn't help frowning, lowering his head in thought.

Suldak continued: "There are also some women who were plundered by sand bandits from neighboring provinces. They have mixed identities, and I don't have time to identify them. If anyone wants to write a letter to their family, we will It is necessary to actively cooperate and help them contact their families. As for the remaining homeless returnees, it is estimated that they will be reported to the Hailansa City Hall, and it is estimated that they will be assigned in a short time."

I thought that Suldak was going to treat some prisoners of war as slaves and sell them to the slave market.

Hearing what he said, I realized that he had no such plan at all.

This is different from other lords.

Suldak rubbed his forehead, thought for a while, and said, "As for the villagers who have migrated, they need to be resettled properly. If they want to go to other places, at least let them bring enough food. If they want to live temporarily in Wo In Er Village, we are cleaning up some row houses, and those vacant rooms can be used for people.”

I wanted to integrate these people into Wall Village, but I was also worried that the old households in Wall Village would collectively reject these outsiders, so they could only let them live.

Whether it is to accept or be accepted, there is always a time to adapt.

Suerdak told the old village head again: "They may not carry much grain, and some people even have nothing at all. The village can send people to Hailansa City to purchase some miscellaneous grains, and provide them with some grains every day." Free multigrain porridge, stewed dried vegetables, etc., in short, they can’t make them hungry, and if the road construction team and construction team in the village hire workers, they can also give priority to these people, at least let them have some means of livelihood.”

The latter sentence was addressed to Charlie and Luke, who were in charge of the construction team and road construction team in the village respectively. Since Suldak transferred all the horses to the cavalry battalion, the team was temporarily idle.

Charlie is currently managing the construction team in the village. The bricklayers who built the reservoir in the village have all joined Charlie's construction team. The construction team received the first order last fall and gave it to Carl Casement. The baron built a villa. The main body was made of steel bars and volcanic ash cement. The structure is very strong, but the project is a bit of a tail, and it has been procrastinating and has not been completely completed.

"Charlie, didn't you go to Karl's manor, why did you come back so soon?" Suldak asked Charlie who had lost a lot of weight.

Only then did Charlie put down the pancake in his hand, raised his head and said with a 'hehe' smile to Suldak, "The construction of Baron Karl Casement's manor has almost come to an end, and I can't help you with the decoration. , I have been back to Wall Village for almost half a month."

"Some aristocratic lords in the city of Hailansa saw the villa of Lord Baron Karl. It is said that several of them also wanted to use volcanic ash cement to build some houses in the manor. Recently, many people have come to Wall Village. Come here, you have been outside, and we are still waiting for you to come back to make up your mind." Charlie said happily.

"I'll go to Hailansa City in a few days. I'll ask Karl and Bird tax collectors about this matter to see which business can be accepted. Not every noble lord has money, and I don't want to give it to you for free. They build houses," Suldak said to Charlie.

Charlie clenched his fist, waved it vigorously, and said happily: "I ran over early in the morning, just waiting for your words!"

Suldak said to Luke again: "I thought you would delay bringing back the food and grass until today. Without horses, it must be very hard to bring so much food and grass back with the help of kobold slaves alone!"

Luke raised his head, his mouth still full of pancakes, and said vaguely: "I didn't work hard, it was the group of kobold slaves who worked hard..."

After taking a sip of water and swallowing the food, Luke said: "The road from Pustule Mountain to Wall Village is easy to walk, and we set off early, so we arrived outside the village last night. I didn't expect you to bring so many people back. ...and horses, camels."

"Well, in short, this time I went out to gain a lot." Suldak said: "The horses eliminated by the cavalry battalion this time will be handed over to the village. After the team is reorganized, it will be used to transport buildings for the road construction team and the construction team. Materials, before there is no one in charge, Uncle Brett, you will help me manage this team."

"Dark, you brought almost all the villagers in the northern part of the barren land back to Wall Village. Is there still a need to build roads in the barren land?" Luke asked.

"Of course, our goal for the first half of this year is to establish some road networks in the area between Pustule Volcano, Wall Village, and the Great Rift Valley, and to establish some solid outposts at various points. From now on, I will be in charge of the barren land To ensure the security of the land, of course we must establish a garrison army here." Suldak said to Luke. "If I have extra energy, I also want to renovate the mountain road from High Lansa City to Wall Village. Every time I return to Wall Village from High Lansa City, I have to walk a whole distance in Oak Ridge. God, in addition to the long distance, the rugged mountain road will also take a lot of time."

"Besides, you have to take some time to take care of the sulfur mine on the side of Bump Mountain, and the lumberyard at the foot of Pagros Mountain. The future timber will probably be transported back from the lumberyard." Suldak said to Luke again. Said.

Several people in Suldak were chatting in the dining room, and there was the sound of a door being pushed outside.

After a while, Andrew and Samira walked into the restaurant.

Chapter 684 New Army

"It's just in time, I will send someone to the security station to find you two."

Suldak wiped his mouth with a napkin, and greeted Andrew and Samira to sit down and eat together. Rita filled Andrew's plate with a pot of porridge.

Natasha followed Rita's footsteps and brought a plate of fruit and placed it in front of Samira. Those who are familiar with Samira naturally know her eating habits, and she likes fish and fruits.

In the past two months, this half-elf archer has not only guarded the village of Wall, but also insisted on training the members of the militia battalion in archery every day at the security station.

The village also organizes a group of young people who have not served in the military to train. This winter, in addition to practicing basic swordsmanship, the most improved is actual combat archery.

Except for those sharpshooters, the archery skills of ordinary archers on the battlefield are very different from those of hunters. The biggest difference is the control of the overall situation. Usually hunters will hide in the dark like sharpshooters and strike their prey with precision .Ordinary longbowmen pay attention to the coverage of long-range projectile arrows.

Throughout the winter, Samira has been training these young men who have not served in the army in archery.

According to the request of the old village chief, Uncle Brett, even if these boys couldn't become cavalrymen, at least they should be selected to enter the archer battalion.

Samira lifted her hood. Even though the people at the dining table had seen Samira's delicate face many times, when she lifted her hood, she was still attracted by that crystal clear face. Her pale red pupils make her look out of place with other elves.

Every time Suldak would think of the scene on the watchtower on the city wall of Vozmara, with cold eyes, standing on the high watchtower, looking down at the hellhounds under the city wall from a high position, unwilling to flinch even when he was in a desperate situation. Due to the frequent use of blood force in the arm to pull the bowstring, the blood vessels and meridians burst into a bloody mess.

Suldak smiled at the half-elf archer Samira and asked, "How are the young people in the village training?"

Samira curled her lips, showing some dissatisfaction, and then spread her hands helplessly, and said to Surdak, "If you use an alloy bow, you can hit the target almost 30 meters away."

Such a result is no better than that of a novice.

"The grades are really bad!" Suerdak laughed dryly.

To Andrew at the end of the dining table, he said: "Or let the young people in the village form a squadron of longbow archers! Longbow archers do not require high accuracy in archery. They have mastered the most basic salvo, throwing, The training during this period can at least be useful on the battlefield."

Andrew nodded.

Suldak asked Samira again: "What about other training?"

"I learned some basic sword skills and defensive posture, but I can't even ride a horse." Samira said truthfully.

Seeing Village Chief Brett, Luke, and Charlie looking at him with doubts on their faces, Suldak explained: "This time I will lead a cavalry battalion to Bena City, except for the current cavalry battalion I have [-] cavalry, and I need to recruit some cavalry. My idea is to recruit from the barren land first. If there are not enough cavalry, I plan to go to the Hailansha City Hall to ask for some new recruits. There is a squad of longbowmen in the cavalry battalion, and no one should mind."

"How many more people will be recruited?" the old village head asked Surdak.

"I am going to take away a 500-man cavalry regiment, so I need to recruit [-] new cavalry." Suldak said.

"There are less than 200 young people participating in the winter training this time. This is only because some young people from neighboring villages have recruited so many young people. Now it seems that the cavalry battalion is still short of at least [-] people. I will go to the villages to see, it should be There are young people of the right age who are willing to join, or this time they have seen the harvest of the veterans in the cavalry battalion in the desert, and those veterans who have been hesitant before can also figure it out this time and are willing to join the cavalry battalion." The old village chief said.

With such a large population in the Badlands, it is not easy to assemble a cavalry battalion.

Later, Suldak asked about the placement of Andrew's Cavalry Battalion.

……

After breakfast, Suerdak and the old village chief came to the cavalry battalion station - the row house.

The veterans temporarily used grass ropes and tree sticks to form a horse farm near the dry river loop, where Suldak's biggest harvest in the desert was raised—nearly [-] war horses and more than [-] camels. A group of war horses circled around the horse farm, trampling the sandy ground on the river loop into dust for a while, and the horses panted heavily. On such a winter morning, it was like a steaming mist in the horse pen.

Fifteen veterans of the cavalry battalion squatted on the ground cutting hay, and a haystack as high as a hill was beside them. A group of kobold slaves crawled out of the haystack. They slept in the haystack last night. The row houses have been occupied by veterans of the cavalry battalion, but fortunately the kobold slaves are covered with natural fur, so they are not too afraid of the cold.

The kobold slave didn't seem to have seen so many galloping horses, and was stunned by the horses in the racecourse for a moment.

These kobolds were brought back by Luke last night. They pushed a four-wheeled carriage and sent some forage from the side of the pustule mountain overnight. Nearly a thousand animals were kept in the stables, and the amount of forage consumed every day was huge. Er Village did not prepare so much fodder, which is why Luke came back overnight.

The waiting veterans sprinkled the hay cut by the guillotine into the manger in pots and pots. So many horses squeezed up together, and the stables were full of horse manure and urine.

"There are so many horses that can almost form two cavalry battalions."

Standing outside the stables, Luke said with a look of amazement.

He just came from the Pustules Mountain in the middle of the night last night, and he had never seen so many war horses at night. When he saw the horses at this time, he couldn't help but exclaim.

Even if it is to build a cavalry battalion, Suldak still doesn't know how to gather 600 cavalrymen. He has no plans to build two cavalry battalions at this time, so Andrew and the old village chief said: "Then Just pick and choose some of the best physiques and keep them as war horses, the number of these war horses should be controlled at about [-], and the rest of the horses will be reserved for the village to form a team."

Village Chief Bright frowned and asked Suldak, "How many horses do you have here?"

"Almost nearly 900 horses..." Suldak didn't know the exact number, so he could only give a rough number.

"It's 916 horses." Andrew added from the side.

The old village chief, Uncle Brett, frowned and asked, "Then it means that the [-] horses in the cavalry battalion will be removed, and there will be nearly [-] horses left for the village?"

"That's about it." Suldak nodded and admitted.

Uncle Brett lowered his head and pondered for a while before saying, "You don't even want to see if the village can eat it. There are already hundreds of gazelles in the village. The Beigou pasture is only that big. Even in years with sufficient rain, The grown grass can’t support these gazelles and horses at all, so let’s say, the team in the village only needs 100 horses at most, and we can’t support the rest of the horses, Dak, you can handle it yourself.”

I don't know when the ogre Gulitum came up from behind, and suggested to Suldak excitedly:

"The rest of the horses...or are they all killed and dried into horse meat?"

The old village chief, Uncle Brett, was so angry that he blew his beard and stared, and shouted at the ogre with an angry face: "These are war horses, not yellow sheep that can be slaughtered casually. A war horse can at least be exchanged on the battlefield." Forty gazelles, Gulitum, let me let you go..."

The ogre Gullitum was standing behind everyone, he smirked at the angry village chief Brett, scratched his head, and said: "Then we might as well take out the unused horses and replace them with yellow sheep, and then Are you killing it and making it into jerky?"

Suldak felt that Gulitham's idea was good, but of course it was not to sell horse meat, but to buy the leftover horses in the horse market.

Even if [-] war horses were sold for [-] gold coins each, they could be exchanged for [-] gold coins. In this way, all the fees paid to the sea giant mercenary group were earned back, and there was still a surplus.

So Suldak took the opportunity to say: "Gulitham's proposal is good, we will pick out all the good horses, and bring all the retired war horses and injured horses to the horse market to sell."

The old village chief and the others did not expect that everyone just stood in front of the horse pen and discussed for a few minutes, and it seemed that the fate of all the horses would be decided.

Suldak thought about how many veterans in the cavalry battalion were good at raising horses, and they should also be good at watching horses, so he told Andrew: "Andrew, you can find some grooms in the cavalry battalion to come here to choose War horses, first select 600 war horses for the cavalry battalion, and then choose 100 horses for the village team, and we will take the rest to Bena City to sell..."

"Okay, boss!" Andrew quickly agreed.

In order not to miss anything when choosing war horses, Suldak found an empty tent, started the sacrificial ceremony, and added the blessing of the 'Eye of Truth' to himself.

When they walked back to the racecourse, several grooms had already stood in the stables and began to select excellent horses. Almost all the horses they selected, Suldak had to be re-screened to see if there were hidden wounds on these horses. After picking and picking in rounds, it was unexpected that there were less than 600 horses that could still go to the battlefield, and they managed to make up 550 horses for the cavalry battalion.

Then several grooms selected another 150 horses and handed them over to the head of Brett Village, asking him to rebuild the village team.

The remaining 200 or so second-class horses that have been eliminated must be transported to the horse market in Bena City. In normal ways, these horses need to be driven to Bena City by land to be the most economical.

It's just that Suldak was going to lead the cavalry battalion to Bena City, and he didn't have time to transport so many horses back to Bena City by land. Fortunately, he had a call-up order from the Bena Province in his hand. This call-up order was the largest. The function is that it can recruit any magic airship at the airport pier, and carry the cavalry battalion to any place in Bena province. Therefore, this time Suldak led the team to the city of Bena without paying a high ticket, and you can even carry it to any place in Bena province. Privately, two hundred second-class war horses were also brought to the city of Bena.

Suldak's trip to the desert this time can be regarded as training two hundred veterans with rich combat experience. When recruiting new soldiers to join the cavalry battalion, the two hundred cavalry will be broken up and scattered among the various squads of the cavalry battalion. The new army quickly adapted to the way of life of the cavalry battalion.

In the morning, the old village chief asked the villagers to spread the news that the Suldak Cavalry Battalion had recruited new troops.

……

In the afternoon, Suldak returned to the security station in Wall Village.

Fifty young reserve knights have been waiting in the security station all morning, and they have not been idle in the security station. This trip to the desert has touched them a lot. There are many things to discuss and learn, not just Field marching life, as well as combat methods.

The mercenary regiment and the veterans of the cavalry battalion adopted two completely different tactics.

The sea giant mercenary regiment paid more attention to the personal strength of the mercenaries. On the battlefield, these mercenaries faced several robbers at the same time in time, and they basically did not lose the wind during the battle.

The veterans of the cavalry battalion paid more attention to the combat power of the group. Under the halo of the knights of Suldak, they were as brave as chicken blood.

It is also because of the contact in the past two months that these young reserve knights of the guard battalion are completely convinced by Suldak. At least in front of Suldak, those lazy habits have disappeared, and they stand up one by one. When the chest is on, it looks more like a knight.

When facing Andrew and Samira, there is no contempt anymore.

To say that the courses of the knight academy are still useful, at least these young knights are not bad at riding.

Seeing Suldak lead Andrew and Samira into the security station, fifty reserve knights from the guard battalion stood up in unison and saluted Suldak.

Suldak stood among a group of guard battalion reserve knights, and said with a serious face:

"After this period of experience, I think you have understood the cruelty of war. The barren land is located in the most remote area of ​​Hailansa City. There are various bandit groups all year round. The entire area is very vast. The guard camp is here The Security Squadron is set up to maintain the law and order in the barren land. If you plan to stay in the security squadron in the barren land, you must be prepared to fight the bandits. , then I ask you to leave as soon as possible."

"Of course, I also welcome everyone to stay and help me manage the law and order of the barren land. If everyone stays, then in the next period of time, I will work with you in the security squadron."

"Next, let's talk about your tasks. The Badlands Security Squadron currently only has 8 teams..."

Suldak said a lot to these young reserve knights in the security station, and no one chose to quit the Badlands Security Squadron.

If these reserve knights wanted to become official knights, they probably would not give up their status as guard battalion knights easily, and since they all suffered so much in the desert, they had no reason to quit now.

Suldak led the knights of the guard battalion around the village of Wall, and promulgated the system of the security squadron, including punishing vacation duties and so on.

This time Suldak led the cavalry battalion to the Bailin plane, and Samira and Andrew were bound to set off with the army, so the security of Wall Village would fall on these young people.

Chapter 685

Fifty young guard battalion knights from the security squadron of the security battalion are temporarily in charge of the security of the barren land. Suldak selected eight captains from among these young people and let them take charge of the daily work of the security battalion.

The militia battalion was scattered to each village, and Suldak also took out more than [-] horses and distributed them to the militiamen in [-] natural villages, so that the militiamen could patrol around the villages at ordinary times, and they could be dispatched in time when the bandits attacked the villages. Report to Wall Village Sheriff.

Baron Suldak's cavalry battalion recruits young recruits.

As long as the recruits pass the assessment, they can serve in the cavalry battalion in Suldak.

The news is like letterheads with wings, spreading to the ears of young people in various villages. It is a great thing for young people in the barren land. Military service in Baron Suldak's cavalry battalion is doomed. It will become cannon fodder on the battlefield, not to mention that Baron Suldak is the lord of the barren land, and all the aborigines of the barren land are regarded as the subjects of Baron Suldak.

Just talking about the cost of setting up a cavalry battalion, the combined value of a cavalryman's horses, armor, weapons, and daily marching items must be at least sixty or seventy gold. cannon fodder.

Whether it is a cavalry battalion or an archer battalion, they will not be abandoned at will on the battlefield. This kind of recruitment of cavalry has never happened in the barren land, and no noble lord will make a special trip to a remote place like the barren land. Recruit cavalry.

Such news spread from Wall Village, and the villages in the barren land boiled with it.

Young people from all villages who have not yet served in the army are preparing to join the cavalry battalion.