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Time alone is destined to be short-lived. There are still a lot of things in the army waiting for Hudson to arrange.

After bidding farewell to his fiancée, Hudson's actions in carving up prisoners of war became even faster.

Not only did he take away his own share, he also quickly arranged the shares that his nobles should receive.

Even relatives and friends, big nobles in the country, and local snakes who provided help to the army all took a share.

This quick approach to cutting through the mess made Earl Laurent look livid with anger, but it was a pity that Hudson didn't buy it at all.

The king has to abide by the rules of the political game, let alone just a foreign envoy. You must get the favor yourself, how could Hudson give it to others?

He did not touch the share allocated by the king. At first glance, they are all "model loyal ministers", and there is not a single step beyond them.

The 600,000 prisoners of war captured in the country have been divided up. There is no need to record the prisoners of war who are being captured truthfully.

According to the "September 1st" principle, only one-tenth of the prisoners of war who fought cross-border chaos were counted, and they were still the worst one-tenth.

For the other 90%, Hudson still didn't eat alone and divided it up according to the old rules. It's just that the amount in the accounts is less than "100 million".

The camp of the Southeast Front Army soon became lively. It can be seen from the various cries that these sellers are not qualified slave traders.

The kingdom lacks labor, but that does not mean that all noble territories lack labor. The noble territories of the Southeast Front are all in the south. Except for a few unlucky ones who were affected by the chaos, most of the noble territories suffered little population loss.

For noble lords, excess population was also a burden. Taking it out for trading is a matter of course.

But judging from the situation on site, it doesn’t seem that optimistic, and the transaction rate is pitifully low.

Everything was caused by price. Hudson also sent people to visit the market. The selling price of prisoners of war was generally more than twice the normal price of slaves.

Dare to mark such a sky-high price, the seller is obviously not selling sincerely. It is estimated that everyone is still thinking about the issue of fiefdoms, imagining that if they are lucky enough to get a large fiefdom, a lot of manpower development will be needed.

Now that they are selling them, their only remaining rationality tells them that the kingdom's losses this time are not big, and there are not so many carrots left in the pit. Leaving a large number of prisoners behind will only waste their precious food.

Even if you can get a fiefdom, there is a high probability that it will be the Northern Territory that everyone despises. Many people are not sure whether they want this kind of shabby enclave.

On the one hand, he despises the danger in northern Xinjiang, but on the other hand, he still holds a trace of fantasy, in case the human alliance really destroys the orcs.

Driven by this complicated mentality, the price of prisoners of war was quickly pushed to the sky.

After all, there are only a few who are taken advantage of. After this war, most of the nobles in the country are not very wealthy and cannot afford such a sky-high price.

It is the freedom of all nobles to dispose of their own wealth. Others can sell as much as they like, and it is not something that Hudson can interfere with.

As the biggest beneficiary of this war, Hudson received a total of 80,000 prisoners of war, plus the 20,000 he had embezzled earlier, the population of the Mountain Territory + 100,000.

The doubling of population growth also puts considerable pressure on the territory. The employment problem is easy to solve, just send them to open up wasteland.

The biggest problem is food. If it weren't for the money in Hudson's pocket, he really wouldn't be able to feed so many people.

Faced with three times the price of food before the war, it was not something that ordinary people could afford. Regardless of the fact that a group of nobles have a large number of people in their hands now, they will definitely flow to the market in the future.

Theoretically, all the nobles of the Southeastern Front came back from the Principality of Moxi to make a fortune, but most of them had a pile of war bonds in their hands.

Except for coach Hudson, there are very few nobles in the military who hold a lot of cash.

It is true that bonds have high interest rates, but they also have a settlement period before they can be officially redeemed. Even if it is the interest income that is settled once a year, it will take time to go to the Principality of Moxi to pay it.

If war bonds are used as gold coins, someone must dare to accept them. Although war bonds are anonymous, not everyone who holds them can be redeemed.

Hudson is looking for a successor, but it will be even harder for these ignorant little nobles to cash in.

"Send the order and ask the people below to deal with the prisoners of war in their hands as soon as possible. The army will move north in twenty days."

This time is already the limit of what Hudson can delay. If the delay is too long, it will be difficult for the king to explain.

Wanting to deal with so many prisoners of war in such a short period of time is also a test for the little nobles below.

This competition is all about personal connections. If you have a strong connection, as long as you send someone to escort the prisoners of war, the nobles along the way will provide the logistics supplies.

It would be embarrassing if the connections could not keep up. Not only do they have to send more soldiers to escort them, they also have to face blackmail from local snakes along the way.

There is no need to deliberately create difficulties, just raising the price of materials is enough to make them bleed.

There is no doubt that the most unlucky ones are definitely the Northland nobles in the army. Other nobles can find a few relatives and friends through their connections; if they declare their family status, there is a high probability that they can find a group of enemies.

The culprits are the five major families in the north. Those who hang out with the five major families can be regarded as accomplices.

From this point of view, after the decision was made that day, it was undoubtedly a wise choice for Sith to decisively run away.

It doesn't matter if you suffer. If you don't suffer, how do these people know the importance of holding on to Master Hudson's thigh?

…

In the Orc Empire, the Northern Expeditionary Army, which was focused on its journey, finally collided with the Orc army returning home.

The two armies faced each other directly on the endless prairie. No one launched an attack rashly, it was like a breath competition before a showdown between strong men.

Marshal Campbell's face was very ugly. The enemy came too quickly, and this was not a good place to camp.

When encountering the enemy on the vast prairie, whether it is to continue to advance or to retreat strategically, it is not a good choice.

There was only one day left to reach the battlefield he had planned. Unfortunately, the orc cavalry arrived too quickly and blocked the Northern Expeditionary Army's path ahead of time.

Commanding an army to kill them seems to be a good choice, but it is actually not feasible.

The infantry cannot catch up with the cavalry. The only ones who can compete with the cavalry are the cavalry. It seems that the number of cavalry on both sides is almost the same, but the innate physical fitness of the human cavalry is inferior.

Even if there are more than a dozen knights in hand, they cannot reverse the strength gap between the cavalry on both sides. If you can't win, you won't be able to take the initiative.

"Marshal, are you just going to fight the enemy like this?"

Earl Pierce asked unwillingly.

Accompanying the orcs here, other nobles could hold their own, but he couldn't. Bringing Hudson back to the country to hide in the snow seemed to be a great success, but now it has turned out to be a failure.

If Hudson continues to serve as the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces in the Principality of Moxi, he can still urge the other party to send troops immediately, but don't think about it now.

The Moxi people also have their own interests and demands. Being able to send troops to rescue them is to give them face. It would be too embarrassing to expect speed.

He was the one who took the lead, so the responsibility naturally fell to him. The sarcastic looks from his political opponents put a lot of pressure on Earl Pierce.

If he wins this battle easily, everything will disappear with the wind; if he causes heavy losses to everyone, he will be the target of everyone's anger.

Even before taking action, all the great nobles recognized it.

"Earl, calm down first. Besides fighting the enemy here, do you think we have a better choice?"

Marshal Campbell said angrily.

When meeting an enemy in this situation, no one in his position would have a better choice.

Essentially, the competition now is about hard power, and any strategy and tactics are based on the opponent's mistakes.

Now it's just that the enemy's army is still on the road, and just the cavalry has come to block the door. No matter how full of strategies he has, there is no room for him to use them.

After receiving some "shock", Earl Pierce quickly calmed down. If you stand still and don't know what will happen next, but if you take the initiative, you will definitely suffer heavy losses.

All the wealth of the Alpha Kingdom is here, and if it loses, it will all be lost. This kind of risk is not something everyone can bear.

Perhaps because he felt that the tone just now was too strong and had some damage to the morale of the army, Marshal Campbell immediately added: "Don't worry, Earl Pierce.

The kingdom has taken action. The original expeditionary force to aid the Principality of Moxi has been reorganized into the Southeast Front Army and will head to the front line soon.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has also reached an agreement with the Mossi people. Now it's time for them to return the favor. They will only wait for the alliance reinforcements to rest for a few days before they will come together for reinforcements.

When the two reinforcements joined together, the offensive and defensive momentum was reversed. We just need to wait now. After two months at most, it will be our turn to counterattack again. "

As soon as the words to appease the soldiers came out, the faces of the nearby senior officials of the Northern Expeditionary Army looked much better. Only Earl Pierce's face became more and more gloomy.

The one with the same gloomy face as him was Duke Pias. A moment of negligence that year unexpectedly caused the Koslow family to become a disaster again.

If he was just hanging out in the circles of small and medium-sized nobles, Duke Pias wouldn't care. There are still a lot of such low-level enemies in the Rocknard family, and it is impossible to deal with them.

But once you cross the threshold of a great noble, it's different. This kind of enemy may be able to give them a fatal blow at a critical moment.

Compared with the potential conflicts of interest between the Koslow family and the Dalton family, the Locknard family is the real feud of the other party.

No direct action was taken because there was no opportunity to kill him with one blow. In order to interrupt the rise of the Koslow family, he did not hesitate to reconcile with the Dalton family, which had had conflicts.

It's a pity that Earl Pierce is not a fuel-efficient lamp. Even if he takes action to suppress the Koslow family, he still uses political methods instead of direct confrontation.

There was no blood on each other, and the conflict between the two families still remained a potential conflict of interest, and had not yet escalated to the stage of an unending blood feud.

Once Hudson achieved a high position in the military, the Locknard family was in far more danger than the Dalton family.

No matter how hard it is, within the rules of the game, it is not convenient for everyone to directly start a war of genocide. Most of the methods used were to kill people with borrowed knives.

The Dalton family is in the southeast of the kingdom and has little to worry about foreign enemies; the Locknard family in the north is different. Orcs are the best swords.