Chapter 463: The Return (I)
What do you want?
There is no doubt about food, money, iron.
There is no shortage of these things in Harrenhal now, but as they grow bigger and bigger, there will definitely be a huge gap in the future if you don't plan ahead. When the time comes, it will be too late to make amends.
So Li Lingyi was very frank about the resource needs, and Robb was also very generous, and directly agreed to let him take away half of the storage in the city.
The other vassals did not object to this, because the excellent location of the Twin Rivers allowed it to constantly collect tolls, which was a steady stream of money, which accumulated more than the storage in the city.
In addition to resources, Li Lingyi asked for something else.
That's people.
"How about I take some of these captives?" As soon as Li Ling finished speaking, the northerners all looked at each other.
"You want to surrender?" Robb frowned, "The loyalty of these people is not to be trusted, I can give it all to you if you want." ”
Give it all to me?!
Li Ling was shocked when he heard this, and said in his heart, this Robb is too generous, right? But then he figured it out after thinking about it.
Now Robb, all he thinks about is to hurry back to the north to take Winterfell back first, and cut Theon to take revenge. As for the Twin River City, it was just an extra gain, and because it had never been coveted, it had never been thought about how to plan for this city.
However, this is all a problem that Robb needs to worry about, Li Lingyi has no energy to manage it now, and three hours after the end of the battle, as soon as a bright color appeared in the sky, he rushed to Harrenhal with the flagless army and a large number of material prisoners.
In comparison, the Flagless Army as a whole seemed more excited, after all, it was a victory. Of course, casualties are inevitable, and according to the provisional statistics before, there were almost 300 casualties, close to one-third of the total number.
Although Li Lingyi is also very distressed, this is also an unavoidable thing, at least the remaining people can reduce casualties in the next battle, and only after this kind of thing can they cast an iron army.
Back in Harrenhal, the medical team immediately began to pick up people, which was established by Gavin, and all women and nurses except for him can be regarded as the characteristics of the Flagless Army.
"Are these the Freys?" Soros walked over quickly, glanced at the soldiers who were being escorted forward one by one, and asked, "What, the Twin Cities have been taken?"
"To Robb. Li Lingyi said, "The persuasion of these people will be handed over to you, no problem, right?"
Soros was shocked when he heard this, "So many?"
The length of this captives was hundreds of meters, and the number of people exceeded a thousand when roughly counted, and it was not easy for such a large number of people to persuade them to surrender. Of course, these people are in a state of surrender now, but what Li Lingyi wants is that they can also go into battle to kill the enemy without complaint.
"Scatter and distribute, I think you have learned my essence?" Li Ling said with a smile, indeed his persuasion method Soros has learned a lot, basically breaking everyone up and dividing them into various squads, and then the group leader will conduct psychological education.
"Alright, leave it to me. Soros nodded helplessly, turned around and stopped for a moment, "By the way, Berry has brought in a large number of people in the past two days, and now there are almost 20,000 people in our city." ”
Twenty thousand?
Li Ling nodded, and immediately went to find Berry, who was arranging the construction of the city at this time, he was better at internal affairs than Soros, and now that he had a territory, he could give full play to his talents in this area.
"Ivey, you're back. When Berry saw Li Lingyi, his face was happy, he groped around on the table, took out a booklet and handed it over.
"This is the situation in the city in the past few days, including population, resources, buildings, etc. ”
"Well, it's hard work. ”
Li Lingyi took the booklet and glanced at Berry's obvious dark circles and haggard face, knowing that the latter had probably been tidying up all night in the past few days, and his heart was also very moved.
"It's nothing compared to you. Berry smiled, it was true that they had hardly seen Li Lingyi sleep, as if the latter was an iron man who didn't need to rest, and this also inspired many generals.
As for Li Lingyi himself, he didn't care much, and he was even a little embarrassed, he didn't sleep because he wasn't sleepy at all. With his current physique, it is no problem to endure three days and three nights without sleeping, and the situation is relatively urgent during this time, so he almost only takes a nap for about an hour every day.
I took a closer look at the booklet, and the population on it has exceeded 20,000, of which about 7,000 are young and middle-aged people between the ages of 18 and 40, and about 5,000 are the elderly, and more than 8,000 are women and children. This ratio is not bad, if young and middle-aged people can be trained to become qualified soldiers, then it can be regarded as a very strong force on the mainland.
As for resources, food consumption has also increased dramatically as the population grows, and according to Berry's statistics, Harrenhal has barely enough to eat for half a year. This is not a small amount, after all, it is impossible to provide everyone with free food all the time, there is no free lunch in the world, and people in the city need to work.
"I've brought back a lot of supplies, so you can have them counted. Li Lingyi said.
"Yes, I heard. "It's a good thing you didn't want the Twin Cities, otherwise we wouldn't have been able to separate people." Dozens of buildings in the city are now being demolished and built, and there are barely enough people. ”
"Well, I've taken that into account as well. Li Ling nodded, "Let's turn Harrenhal into an iron bucket first, and it's certain that when King's Landing stabilizes, the Lannisters will definitely bring in troops to attack immediately." ”
"Yes, Tywin can't tolerate our growth, but as long as there is another month, then I am confident that Tywin will not bring tens of thousands of people, and there will be absolutely no chance at all. ”
"That's good. ”
Li Lingyi didn't say much, returned to the inner fort, came to his room, rested for a while, and then began to think about the next situation.
Because of his participation, the bloody wedding did not happen, which is definitely a drastic change, which means that the strength of the northerners is still there, and the Iron Throne will definitely not be able to sit still.
And once Robb returns to the north with his troops, Theon will definitely not be able to hold Winterfell, he was tortured by the little skinning in the original plot, but maybe he doesn't have to suffer that pain now. Because it is more likely that Robb led his troops to break the city, and then grabbed Theon and slashed him directly.
Of course, maybe he would run away and flee back to the Iron Islands, but that wasn't something Li Lingyi had to think about. He didn't care if Theon was dead or alive, after all, the latter didn't affect him.