"Chapter Twenty-Nine: Gratuitous Materials"
It's hard enough for adults to understand themselves, let alone for them to understand and guide children based on what they know about themselves.
– Alfred Adler (Austrian psychologist)
Duke's promise to White Peak began to be fulfilled that afternoon, and convoys of goods and supplies drove from the province of Nice to the county town of Bromjansund, and from Bromjansson to the towns.
However, when these convoys left for the county town of Brojansson, they were under the banner of the Westminster Chamber of Commerce, and when they were transferred to the towns of the provinces of Brojansson and Toulon, they were under the banner of the Sophia Chamber of Commerce.
According to the agreement reached between Bai Feng and Duke, the Westminster Chamber of Commerce's convoy should be transporting groceries, but this is not the case, the Westminster Chamber of Commerce's convoy is not groceries at all, but truckloads of food and weapons and equipment!
The first convoy of the Westminster Chamber of Commerce to arrive in Brojansson County brought 50,000 people a month's worth of food and enough weapons and equipment to arm 3,000 soldiers, which was a clear violation of the previous agreement, and the inexplicable cheap Bai Feng would not take it indiscriminately.
Bai Feng, who was just about to leave for Duke on the trading floor of the Westminster Chamber of Commerce, had not had time to leave the barracks, when a guard from the pro-guard team came to report, and Duke, the head of the Westminster Chamber of Commerce, came.
"Your Excellency Bai Feng, this first batch of food and weapons and equipment is just one of the materials that our Chamber of Commerce has given you free of charge, and in the next half month, our Chamber of Commerce will have nineteen batches of materials of the same scale to help you stabilize the situation. ”
"Mr. Duke, do you mean that your chamber of commerce wants to give me a month's worth of food for one million people, and enough weapons and equipment to arm sixty thousand soldiers?"
"Your Excellency Bai Feng, I know that you will be puzzled by giving such a large amount of food and weapons and equipment to you free of charge; Facing Bai Feng's solemn eyes, Duke smiled bitterly with a helpless look on his face:
"Although I am the person in charge of our Chamber of Commerce in the six eastern provinces of the empire, with the current situation in the six eastern provinces, where can I raise such a large amount of food and materials? These materials are transported by the headquarters of our Chamber of Commerce, and the order to give you free of charge is also issued by the headquarters. ”
"These materials transported by your Chamber of Commerce headquarters, or did they let you give them to me?" Bai Feng, who had doubts in his heart, frowned and said, "I have never dealt with the people at your Chamber of Commerce headquarters, and there is always a reason why they give me this batch of materials." ”
In the face of Bai Feng's questioning, Duke said apologetically: "Your Excellency Bai Feng, you know that I was just promoted to a fifth-level member not long ago, and the person who gave me this order this time is an eighth-level member who is three levels higher than me, and I am not qualified to ask her for specific reasons. ”
Man is a creature that loves to lie, but human eyes don't lie, through Duke's eyes, Bai Feng can be sure that everything he says is true, he really doesn't know why the Westminster Chamber of Commerce headquarters sent this batch of supplies to him.
Even so, Bai Feng, who was sincere, still promised Duke who came to explain in person: "No matter why your chamber of commerce wants to send me this batch of materials, I have accepted this favor from you, and if your chamber of commerce needs help in the future, I can send you to me at any time." ”
While accepting the favor of the Westminster Chamber of Commerce, Bai Feng also sent a great credit to Duke, how could Duke, who was extremely clever, not hear the deep meaning contained in Bai Feng's words, and he was overjoyed and quickly thanked Bai Feng for his kindness.
After Luculus personally sent Duke away, all the food sent by the Westminster Chamber of Commerce convoy was transported to the camp of the Eastern Legion, and 3,000 sets of well-forged weapons and equipment were handed over by Bai Feng to Lister and his death battalion.
In the battle with the orc army, the death battalion showed the courage to fight without fear of death and the tenacity of fighting to the end, for such a unit that has made great achievements, Bai Feng will naturally not be stingy to equip them with more sophisticated weapons and equipment.
Generous bonuses, huge pensions, excellent equipment, except for freedom, everything Bai Feng could give him was given to the dead soldiers of the death camp, and the reason why he did not lift the shackles on the dead soldiers was because without this shackle, the death camp would be destroyed.
Why is it difficult for the soldiers of other legions to fight to the end with the orcs on the battlefield like the death battalion, not because the soldiers of the empire are not as brave as the dead soldiers, but because the soldiers of the empire are too worried about the dead soldiers compared to the dead soldiers who deserve to die.
Who is not willing to save one of their lives, go home to accompany their wives, raise their children, and support their parents; soldiers are also human beings, they also have seven emotions and six desires, and they also have family and friends to worry about them, unless they are sure to die, it is difficult for them to fight to the death.
The soldiers of the death battalion were different, they had already been sentenced to death and were bound to be executed in public sooner or later according to the imperial criminal law; rather than die on the execution ground, it was better to fight the battlefield, and maybe there was a glimmer of hope for survival.
Even if they unfortunately died on the battlefield, there was a pension from Bai Feng that was enough for their family to eat and drink without worrying about food and clothing for a lifetime; such a thing as taking advantage of it was like a pie falling from the sky in the eyes of the dead soldiers in the death camp, and they had no reason not to fight hard.
If Bai Feng had removed this shackle that bound the dead soldiers of the Death Battalion earlier, would the dead soldiers of the Death Camp still have the determination to fight the orcs to the end on the battlefield? The answer must be no, so Bai Feng would not remove this shackle from them.
After the redress, all the 2,300 dead soldiers of the whole army wore uniform uniforms and were equipped with bright and bright standard weapons and equipment; the battalion, which had a new look, immediately changed from a rabble to an elite army full of spirit.
The courage and will to fight to the death of the soldiers of the Death Battalion did not need Bai Feng to worry about it at all, but their lack of tactical use was extremely worrying, and how to improve the proficiency of the soldiers of the Death Battalion in the use of tactics was the task that Bai Feng gave to Lister Ster.
After handing over the affairs of the death battalion to Lister, Bai Feng began to deal with the replenishment of the Eastern Legion non-stop; when besieging and annihilating the orc army, each of the four Eastern Legions had hundreds of casualties, and the wounded soldiers could be healed by Hua Mu, and the dead soldiers needed to be replenished.
The most convenient and effective way for the Eastern Legion, which was formed with refugee young men as its source of soldiers, to quickly replenish its troops, was to select some qualified young men from the county town of Brojansson, where there were many homeless families without a small number of homeless people.
The relief food under the banner of the Sophia Chamber of Commerce and in the name of Bai Feng himself was distributed to the people in the county for free, but each family could only get enough food to sustain their family for a month, and there was no more.
In the recruitment office of the Eastern Legion, there are a few lines of writing: All young and strong people who join the army, their families can get the food they need for a year, and families who have no fixed residence or whose residence is destroyed will immediately be assigned a fixed residence by the governor's palace.
Such a generous benefit package for joining the army was even more attractive than the recruitment of the Imperial Military Department in the past, and countless young men with their families flocked to the army when they heard the news, and the supplementary soldiers needed by the four Eastern Legions were carefully selected and recruited in just four hours.