The Beiguan Military Fort, the arsenal of the legion, the soldiers came and went, and distributed weapons and armor to each team according to the pattern and quantity recorded in the weapon book.

A young man who looked like a scribe held a rough piece of papyrus with a clear list of weapons, armor, and military supplies that each team was rated to be distributed.

The young arsenal clerk had just finished handing over the weapons and armor distribution of an infantry squadron, and when he saw Bangeda, the captain of the fourth banner of the first company, personally leading three soldiers to push a two-wheeled cart towards the arsenal, he hurriedly stepped forward and greeted him warmly, "Commander Bangeda, why did you come to collect the armament in person?" Wouldn't it be okay to let a few squadron leader brothers come over? ”

Bangeda's mood is not very good, this time when he and Pats were assigned to the combat mission, the two flag teams were arranged to attack the southwest manor, once as the main force of the battle, he actually became a non-main team, although he will never disobey, but this makes Bangada quite frustrated, this time Bangeda personally came to the arsenal to get some cotton armor and cut weapons for the new soldiers, at least so that the soldiers on the battlefield can each have a weapon.

Bangada glanced at the Legion's heavy infantry team in the arsenal, which numbered no more than thirty but was strong and powerful. The team of thirty men was equipped with the finest infantry weapons and armor of the Welsh Legion—ordinary soldiers were each issued with half-body plate armor with shoulder and arm guards and a mid-helmet with chain mail and neck guards, and even the cotton armor lined with five layers of linen, and the weapons in their hands were also heavy axes, war hammers, halberds, heavy swords, iron round shields and other high-lethal weapons.

Although the number of soldiers in the Fourth Banner Brigade of the First Company has reached 55 after two replenishments, which is basically full, the shortage of weapons and armor is even more serious......

"Okay, seventeen sets of cotton armor, twenty-eight simple saucer-shaped light helmets, twenty iron-headed short spears, and a dozen fragmentary short knives and short swords, this thing can't fit a cart at all, what is Fei Na doing~" There was an irrepressible sadness and loneliness in Bangda's tone, which was also the reason why he lazily came to get it with a few soldiers when everyone else was about to finish receiving the equipment.

When the scribe heard that he was wrong, he took the draft paper and looked at it carefully, and replied with certainty: "Commander Bangada, it is true that you only had these weapons when you handed in them a month ago, but this time the weapons issued to you are not these."

"Huh?" Bangada is unknown.

"Yes, you see, this is the weapon equipment book sent by the regimental command camp, and the armor issued by the fourth flag team of the first company is: one set of plate chain mail, four sets of half-length long-sleeved chain mail, eight sets of double-layer leather armor, and fifty sets of four-layer cotton armor for chest protection; The weapons are: 60 short spears, 13 broadswords, 50 short swords, and 30 hand axes; The rest of the military resources are also fully equipped. ”

"Dude, are you amusing me?" Bangada thought he had misheard.

"This is the armament book signed by Lord Odo himself." The scribe handed the rough piece of papyrus to Bangada, who was suspicious.

Bangada took it and scanned it carefully several times, and there was no doubt about it.

"Aren't we~ legions lacking weapons and armor? How~"

"Commander Bangada, the valley weapon workshop has been able to make weapons and armor, during this time, the Northland caravan specially went to southern Provence to buy a large number of weapons and armor parts and semi-finished products and sent them back to the weapon workshop to assemble and rush to make them, and the legion arsenal has been replenished with two batches of weapons and armor in the winter. And this time, Lord Otto ordered a batch of weapons to be distributed to you from several other flag teams. ”

"This, so that's it!"

Bangda's mood immediately rose a lot, and he turned around and said loudly to the soldiers who were pushing the cart and following behind: "The legion has specially equipped all the infantry equipment for us to capture the southwest farm in one fell swoop!" Kagan, go back and have each of the four squadron leaders bring two people to collect the weapons and armor of their respective squadrons! ”

This clever man named Kagan was a soldier, a herald, and a flag captain's personal soldier, and he was always with Bangda, so of course he knew the mood of his own commander, so he simply answered and ran to the flag team's barracks......

While the Wells Regiment was preparing for battle at Fort Beiguan, the Barony of the Valley also entered a wartime mobilization.

After the Dean family sent 120,000 pfennig's "settlement fee", the army was not short of money for the time being, so the mobilization of civil affairs was mainly material and manpower.

The material problem is because the war is not expected to end for a long time, so the bread, wheat flour, camp tents and other materials prepared by the legion baggage team are basically enough, and the civil affairs side is mainly to bake some rye bread and bacon vegetables to supply the army, in addition, the textile workshops and the peasant women in the territory have to sew a batch of winter clothes, shoes and socks for backup.

After the materials are ready, it is the manpower requisition.

There are only about 30 peasants on the standing guard of the valley garrison corps, and they also play the role of security team, once the Wells legion is immediately over, the Beiguan military fort will have a garrison corps to defend until the legion comes back to take over.

In order to defend the Beiguan military fort and rush to the army and the border, several places in Boulder Town at any time, the valley garrison corps will immediately recruit the peasant soldiers to assemble, the operation is not expected to be long, and the battle will not be too difficult, so the legion command camp decided to levy twenty peasant soldiers in advance to assemble and garrison Beiguan, plus those trained recruits of the recruit team, it is more than wrong to guard Beiguan.

The matter of the conscription of the peasant soldiers was handled by the commander of the garrison corps, Bass, and the cantonment officer, Scott, who had already registered the peasant soldiers in the valley, and only needed to send out the list of the determined assembly.

The second aspect of manpower requisition is the requisition and distribution of labor with the army, the army has a baggage team, but if it encounters a large-scale battle or the war lasts too long, the food, drink and Lazar of hundreds of people in the army has become the most difficult problem, at this time, it is necessary to levy a large number of laborers to follow the army service, such as transporting grain and forage, making siege equipment and other miscellaneous work to the laborers to complete, and the soldiers can accumulate strength to kill the enemy.

In the southern valley of Woodfort, near the third newly built village in the Workshop District, Lynn is selecting the first batch of spare laborers in the village.

This village is the latest to be built and has not yet been named, and most of the people living in it are new people who have not yet been allocated land for cultivation, they still eat the food provided by the civil administration, and the huts they live in are also grass huts built by the civil administration, and these young men and women are cultivating the land under the leadership of the canton.

Lieutenant Lynn is dressed differently today, and civil affairs officials are different from army officers, they do not have uniform clothing for the time being, and the clothes of civil affairs officials depend on the money they spend on clothing.

However, the lieutenant and the lieutenant were also members of the peasant corps of the valley garrison, so the garrison also issued them with a set of cotton armor, a belt, a short sword, and a valley homemade burqa. On weekdays, the cantonment officer rarely dressed up like this, after all, when leading the farmer to plough the fields, a coarse linen coat with tight trousers is more suitable.

However, after the Barony of the Valley entered the state of war readiness, his identity became that of a civil official serving the war, and this outfit was more suitable for the occasion, and in order to protect Lynn from the cold, he also specially wrapped a sheepskin jacket over the cotton armor.

In the open space in front of the gate outside the fence of the new village, twenty or so young farmers were scattered, chatting and laughing in groups of three, all of them new residents of the new village, most of whom were between seventeen and eighteen to thirty-five or sixteen.

Unlike those peasant households who have been allocated land, who still need to serve the land even in winter, these people basically have nothing special to do except follow the cantonment officer to reclaim the wasteland, and they are relatively idle after the winter, so when the other two villages were levied for labor, only ten people were levied in each of the other two villages, but this village was requisitioned twenty-five young and strong.

"Guys, can you please give me a little more lineup, don't be like a bunch of rats. Come, all come to me! A man in a thick woolen winter coat with a short stick in his hand shouted to the scattered young men.

This man is about twenty-five or sixteen years old, named Jeff, was originally a farmer in the valley village, and was also one of the first few groups of "lords" during the patrol team, after the village chief of the new village was punished as a slave because of greed for ink food, Jeff was elected by the cantonment officer Scott to be the village chief of the new village, he was originally a registered peasant soldier of the peasant corps, and after becoming the village chief, he naturally became the captain of the peasant corps. Therefore, during the period when he was the village head, he let the young people in the village practice the military formation posture when he had a little free time.

But now it seems that the effect is really not very good, because Jeff's command only squeezed the young men scattered everywhere into a large pile.

"You fools! Haven't you taught them all before? The people in the back look at the back of the head of the person in front of them, and the people on both sides are shoulder to shoulder! Fast! ”

The crowd moved slightly, but there was still no sense of "array".

Jeff saw that Lynn, the adjutant of tun affairs, was holding his hands and looking at this side, and felt that he had lost face, and said loudly to this group of young people: "Who is not standing in order, and when the land is allocated for rent in the spring, they will be in the back!"

As soon as the young men heard that the "array" was directly linked to the subleased land, they immediately became nervous, and they hurriedly recalled how the village chief Jeff had taught the array before, and the twenty or so people finally barely had a little bit of the array.

Jeff shook his head and threw a helpless look at Lynn.

Lynn smiled and nodded, walked over to Jeff and patted him on the shoulder, "After all, they are just recruited homeless farmers, take your time." ”

After speaking, Lynn straightened his clothes, put his hand on the hilt of the short sword at his waist, raised his chest and back, and said to the twenty-five young men in a loud tone: "Guys!"

Twenty-five people immediately stopped whispering and looking around, and looked at Lynn nervously. In their eyes, Lynn was already a very big official, after all, in the previous village, the village elders were already very dignified existences, and the people standing in front of them were even more dignified than the village chiefs, and the appearance of wearing a military uniform and carrying a weapon at his waist was even more majestic.

"I think the village chief Jeff has already told you in detail about the matter of this conscription and labor, today I will take you to Beiguan to assemble and stand by, if the army war ends quickly, you don't have to go to the battlefield, just follow Jeff home when the time comes. If the army needs our support, everyone will follow us to the north, the labor levy in the valley does not require you to bring your own food and grass, during the service period by the civil administration to provide food, after the victory of the battle, the civil administration will also give everyone a reward, and the men who have made meritorious service in the battle will also have another reward! ”

The young men were very excited, and serving the lord not only provided food and supplies, but also had the opportunity to get a reward, such a good thing was really unheard of. When Village Chief Jeff said this, they were still a little skeptical, but now even Lord Lynn, the lieutenant of the cantonment, has promised, and the distress and worry in everyone's hearts because of the war and service have been diluted a lot.

Lynn simply said a few words to the laborers, and then instructed the village chief Jeff beside him: "Let everyone go back and pack up a little, get the bedding and utensils, and we will leave immediately." ”

"Yes, Lord Lynn." Jeff turned and ordered the young men to go down and prepare......

In a short time, a procession marched north along the newly repaired carriageway, and as it passed through the villages of Kutim and Gujiandi, two more laborers joined it, and more than forty laborers led by Lynn and several village chiefs headed towards Beiguan Junbao......

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Chapter 268: Conscription and Forced Labor