At noon on the second day after the Tarburg dinner, Yate summoned three stewards of the caravan with him.

"The three of you have done a good job in dealing with the guild, and I also know that the guild people are not so easy to deal with, since the trade route of Besançon cannot be opened for a while, the caravan with the army will not go to Besançon for the time being to trade southern goods, you will rest in the Tarburg for a few days."

"There are three things you need to do in the coming period, the first and most important thing is to bring the supplies of Tarfort to the valley with our captured craftsmen, rescued innocent prisoners, and willing prisoners of war; The second thing is to send people along the edge of the northern theater to recruit a group of displaced people who have been affected by the war and break their homes, and bring them back to the valley wooden fort to open up the wasteland and farm, and if there are craftsmen who are willing to go to the valley, they can be paid a higher salary. The third thing is to recruit a group of twelve or thirteen-year-old half-old orphans, not too many for the time being, fourteen or fifteen will do, and you can recruit them again later, there are many such orphans in churches and monasteries all over the country, you can choose in the name of caravan charity, and the selection criteria are only three - boys, strong in body and flexible in mind. ”

Lawrence asked curiously, "My lord, what do you want these half-grown orphans to do?" You can neither cultivate the land to produce food, nor can you go to the battlefield with a spear and a sword, and you can especially eat it if you don't need it, and it costs too much money and food to raise most of these children, so it is better to buy middle-aged slaves directly, and now that the war is raging, you can recruit young and strong homeless people to plow the fields and even march to fight for you. ”

Art took a sip of the wooden bowl full of water on the table, and replied with a smile: "I don't plan to let these half-grown boys plow the fields, and I don't expect them to fight for the time being. ”

"Then you're going to ~?" Lawrence asked, and Cooper and Salter listened.

"I intend for them to learn the general language in the valley, teach them combat techniques and tactics, teach them arithmetic and medicine, and give them the faith of the Holy Spirit." Art's words brought him through the purpose of recruiting orphans.

"Do you want to raise a group of boys like knightly squires?" Salter somewhat understood what Art meant.

"That's what it means, but it won't be as complicated as the training of knight squires, I just want them to be the backbone of my future army and territory." Art said calmly.

Several people didn't speak anymore, and Lawrence may not have understood it very well, but Cooper and Salter understood what Art meant, and they knew that Art was going to "forge" a batch of "weapons" that he had trained since childhood, and that these "weapons" would become his sharpest blade in troubled times years later......

"Well, yes, one more thing"

Art's voice interrupted the musings of several people, and several of them came back to their senses to listen to Art's arrangement.

"In the process of completing these things, you will take Kazak's bedridden father and Andrew's family back to the valley, and ask them two for details. Kazak's father was supported by the wooden fort, and when he recovered, he was given an easy job as a storehousekeeper, and Andrew's family was given priority in allocating land between the valleys. If there are other relatives who want to be taken to the valley, you can also receive them in the valley, and Odo will help you deal with this matter. ”

"Good!" Several people replied.

"When these things are done, you will stay in the south for the time being to do some simple trading, as for what you buy and sell, you are up to yourself, if you really feel that there is no way, go to Sapp and ask Baron Galvin for help." Art said to the stewards of the caravan.

Several people made a note of Art's arrangement.

Salter nodded after hearing this, and then said with a worried face: "My lord, if you want to feed the army by trade, we must get involved in the southern goods trade, and no matter what kind of goods along the way are not as profitable as the southern goods trade, and the money will come quickly." ”

Art picked up the account book of the caravan on the table and glanced at it, a caravan of thirteen carriages could make a net profit of 24,000 fennigs in less than a month from a trip to the southern goods trade, which was enough to sustain the wartime salary and food consumption of the Yate army for four months, and even the daily expenses of an army of forty men for half a year (except for weapons and armor) in peacetime. If you can seize the route of the southern goods trade before the end of the war, and then form a larger caravan, the caravan can make money to expand its army several times.

"Salt, I understand what you said, and when I finish my military service in Talburg and officially canonize knights, I will personally go to shovel the obstacles on this trade route." Art spoke calmly, but there was murder in his eyes.

Salter knew that Art had his own arrangements, so he didn't say anything more, and was ready to continue to report to Art on the accounts of the caravan and the entry and exit of goods.

"Salt, I won't listen to these bits and pieces, since I dare to hand over the caravan to you, then I just rest assured of you, you just do it yourself." Art only cared about the caravan and didn't want to worry about the details, and he didn't have much energy to worry about it.

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Three days later, the caravan left Talburg with a dozen wagons laden with supplies and more than thirty attachés (laborers, prisoners, artisans, prisoners of war, etc.) escorted by sixteen armed guards (and coachmen), and returned to Fort Andermatt through the southern mountain road through Geraru, after which Cooper would leave the caravan and return to the valley, for the time of sowing the most important winter wheat in the valley was approaching, and Art had given Cooper the task of expanding the soldiers' barracks at the fort and building new shacks in the valley. Because after the garrison of Tarburg ended, Art would soon return to the valley with the expanded army, and there would be more and more people joining the valley in the coming days. So Cooper had to go back to take charge of the Wooden Castle of the Valley and the Valley, and prepare for the next expansion of Art.

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This side of Tarburg.

On the first day of November, Baron Jeffrey of Biltenberg sent his chief of guard to Tarburg with 46,000 finneys and two horses, and Arte was not a man of disrepute, he took the money from the messenger, took the horses, and then handed over the only son of Baron Jeffrey, who had been raised for nothing, to the messenger and brought him back to Biltenberg.

In the following time, there was a tacit calm between Tarburg and Biltenberg, the defenders of Tarrburg did not cross the edge of the mountain, and the army of Biltenberg did not step into the mountains.

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When he entered Tarburg, Art brought with him thirty soldiers, plus ten prisoners of war to serve, and fifty peasant soldiers sent by Earl Balwin.

In the past few months of sneak attacks, raids, and defensive battles, more than 20 soldiers and peasants stationed at Taal Fort were killed and wounded, of which five were killed in battle alone (including a combat team leader and a sentry cavalry), three were seriously injured and could no longer fight (including a combat team leader), and eight were slightly injured and healed (including two squad leaders); Five peasants were killed, two were seriously wounded, and one was slightly wounded; Even the laborers were killed and slightly wounded in the defense of the city.

Art arranged a simple and solemn funeral for all those who died in battle, whether soldiers, peasants, or peasants, and paid a consolation fee of 100 pfennigs to each of the dead and wounded peasants and peasant laborers who had families in the Yat army, and Art thought that the money was worth it, because the returning peasants and laborers would spread the heroic deeds of the Yates army against the enemy in the southeastern frontier region and the kindness of their commander Art.

Two of the soldiers who died in the battle had relatives in the wooden fort of the valley, and Art specially instructed Cooper to give the two families two hundred pfennigs as a consolation fee when they returned to the valley, and Art also decided to allocate one acre of land for each family from the land reclaimed in the valley as a permanent land for the families of the fallen heroes, and this acre of land was permanently free from taxation.

The few soldiers who were too badly wounded to fight would be made according to their recovery after the army returned to the valley, and if they could no longer fight for the army, the valley wooden fort would also pay a consolation fee according to their military rank and military exploits, and allocate between one and three acres of land for their cultivation, which would not be subject to any tax for ten years.

Other non-combatants who participated in the war also enjoyed the preferential treatment of the valley wooden fort to varying degrees.

Yat's actions were unanimously praised by the military, because they no longer had to worry about their own or their families living in a situation after being killed or wounded in battle. Of course, Art also explained to everyone that the premise that this preferential treatment can be implemented is that he can successfully obtain the land in the valley in the future, but everyone has at least one hope in their hearts.

There are attrition and addition.

Before the Battle of Talburg, Art received a group of prisoners and craftsmen in Birten, and after the Battle of Talburg, the caravan with the army also brought seventeen young warriors, and after the departure of the caravan and the selected peasant soldiers, in addition to the wounded soldiers placed in the city of Glaru, there were still twenty-two soldiers in the fort, twenty-six recruits (including the remaining peasants and prisoners of war selected as soldiers), as well as five remaining miscellaneous servants and a few enemy prisoners of war who were not easy to dispose of in the dungeons of the inner fort.

In the following time, Art trained his army while guarding against the enemy in the east.

The time soon entered December, and after the training of the recruits was completed, in order to facilitate the coordination and command of the army, Yate made a temporary formation of all the soldiers in the Tar Fort.

After completing the training, there were forty-eight soldiers (including commanders) in Talburg, and in order to maintain the combat effectiveness of the army and guard against possible enemy situations, Yate did not disrupt the formation and mixed formation of recruits and veterans for the time being, but transferred eight excellent recruits to make up for the lack of the original several combat squads, and then temporarily formed a new squad of the remaining recruits, temporarily called the recruit squad (the original squad is called the soldier squad).

The 1st to 4th Squads and the Sentinel Cavalry have remained unchanged for the time being. The remaining recruits formed three squads, and the temporary commanders of the three recruit squads were a few peasant soldiers with combat experience selected by Art and Odogus Angus after consultation or outstanding performance in training, and the officer salary of the recruit squad was temporarily one level lower than that of the commander of the combat squad; The average soldier in the recruit squad was paid fifteen pfennigs per week, which was also a little lower than that of the soldiers.