At noon, the soldiers returned to the big wooden hut to rest for a while, so as to accumulate physical strength for the heavy individual combat skills training in the afternoon.

Back at the big wooden house, two laborers who had just come to the wooden castle fell headlong on the ground covered with wheat straw, and a big-nosed fellow rubbed his swollen shoulder with a wooden stick, and complained in a low voice: "The red-headed ghost is a liar, and he has enough to eat, wear, and a good salary, and he doesn't say that he needs such heavy training, and he practices every day, and the palace guards of the Marquis are not so trained." ”

Seeing that the person next to him did not respond, the big nose continued to complain: "Brother Odo is too, saying that he will take good care of us, but I didn't expect that the "care" he said was to grab our tails and hold on, and see if he beat me up~"

"Big nose, I said don't call Big Brother Odo, call him Chief Odo, why don't you have a long memory." A short-haired and wide-faced laborer beside him glanced at the other soldiers in the wooden house, and whispered to the big nose: "We are already good, you see the patrol officer beating those veterans, that is called ruthless, do you see that the veterans have a complaint?" Besides, the Border Patrol Officer has said that it is better to be beaten more often than to be stabbed in battle, and I saw the scars on the bodies of those veterans yesterday, which is called a scary. ”

"Brother Weiz, I didn't complain, but I was afraid that I would not be able to bear the thought of having to train like this every day in the future." Big Nose laughed.

"Can't afford it? How can those miner brothers eat? Who licked his face and asked Kazak to intercede with the Border Inspector? Since you're here, don't embarrass us brothers. The Border Inspector said early on that you must obey the rules, and if you want to escape, don't pull me. There was still a stalker tied up at the gate of the fort. ”

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While the soldiers were resting in the house, a meeting was being held in the small courtyard of the wooden fort.

Art sat upright, fiddling with a quill in his hand, and Cooper, a coarse short brown cloth with a piece of birch bark in his mud-stained hand, reported on the situation in the wooden fort.

"Sir, since we have obtained enough wheat seeds, more than 100 acres of cultivated land and 20 acres of military tun have been sown, and we have sown more than 18,000 pounds of wheat seeds, and we estimate that we will be able to harvest 50,000 to 60,000 pounds of wheat at the time of this autumn's harvest, and in addition to the wheat seeds reserved for next year, we will have nearly 40,000 pounds of grain left; According to your previous arrangement, there will be no tax for the first year, and we can only take back the wheat seeds we have borrowed from the farmers, and the wheat seeds we get back from the farmers will be enough to support the food of fifty people for a year. The farmers themselves will be able to last a whole year with their own surplus grain, and the first farmers will need to exchange their winter wheat for this year's grain, which will not be determined until autumn. In addition, the seventeen displaced people you recruited last time have not yet been allocated land, and these people are temporarily cultivating the military camp. ”

"At the moment, the grain reserves in the wooden fort are not optimistic. After the spring planting, we only have more than 8,000 pounds of grain left, and there are still more than five months before our autumn harvest. We already had sixty-five of the burgers, and the patrol party included two wounded soldiers, a total of thirty-one, and consumed at least one hundred and forty pounds of food a day, which was only enough for two months. ”

After listening to the report of the grain from the land of Cooper, Art said to him: "Now that we have a little more money, we can continue to buy food from outside, and you must make sure that there is at least three months' food reserves in the wooden fort." ”

"Okay master, I will continue to organize people to go outside to buy."

"Well, if you want to go out to buy goods, you have to tell me in advance, and I will send someone to escort you. Go on. ”

"In terms of money, we have enough money to support military spending and food consumption for at least one year." The money had always been managed by Art himself, and Cooper couldn't say much.

"In terms of livestock, there were four military horses, four ploughing oxen, one donkey, three mules, a donkey, four pigs, and eight sheep in the seized and purchased wooden forts."

"In terms of farm tools and supplies, we have five four-wheeled carriages, four two-wheeled pack carts, eight heavy ploughs, fifty sets of iron farm tools, and a large number of iron tools, as well as salt, cloth and other daily items."

"All the farm tools and livestock are in the wooden fort, and I am responsible for lending them to the farmers for the time being, and when the farmers harvest the grain, they can use the grain to rent for farm tools, livestock and materials."

"In terms of construction, a barn was built in the wooden fort, and I moved the crude stone mill into the small mill. There were now two large huts and three or four small huts built by the peasants on the other side of the valley, and I asked them to fence the gentle slope with thorny trees to prevent wild beasts from attacking. ”

"As for the prisoners of war, the prisoners brought back from Alsburg were kept in the huts outside the fort, and Odo sent two soldiers to guard them outside the huts every day, knowing that they were more honest than they could do without worrying about their lives."

"That's the overview in the wooden castle. "Sir," said Cooper, putting away the birch bark and bowing his head.

"Cooper, I'm relieved that you're in charge of everything in the Wooden Castle. The spring planting has ended, and now there are three more important things in the wooden fort, one is to continue to reclaim the wasteland, and another hundred acres of wasteland will be reclaimed before the autumn harvest; The second is to open the road from the wooden fort to the edge of the northern jungle, where our carriage has been parked, and the supplies have to be carried into the wooden fort by hand, which is very inconvenient. The laborers who built the carriageway were the fifteen prisoners of war. Although these prisoners of war did not do much evil and had hope of restoring good people, they still had to be kept under strict supervision, and they were not allowed to be fed on weekdays, and they were told again after a month according to their performance. The management of prisoners of war can allow Lawrence to assist you, there are four prisoners of war who were originally villagers in Alsburg, Lawrence should be familiar with and easy to manage; The third is to organize people to go out to buy grain one after another. You can arrange these three things yourself, and if you don't have enough manpower, I can ask Otto to arrange some soldiers to help you. ”

"Lawrence, tell me a little bit about the Castle Guards."

Lawrence, who was sitting at the end of the table on the left side with Scott, was rubbing the dirt on his feet with his hands, he didn't expect Art to ask him about the Fort Guard, he stood up nervously and bowed to Art, "Big ~ people, you let me say?" ”

"Lawrence, don't be nervous, you say."

Lawrence quietly took a breath and said slowly, "Okay lord, according to your order, in addition to the Scott brothers, I have selected five stronger men from the farmers to join the fort protection team. There were seven men in the Guardian Brigade, two short swords and seven short spears. We trained intensively for three days before spring ploughing and sowing, but this time was too busy, I could only take the team members to take time to do some simple training in the rain and at night, and I was not ~ not very good at training, and the fort team could only drive away the beasts and prevent them from attacking. ”

"Well, it's okay, the original purpose of the Fort Guard was mainly to protect everyone from the attack of wild beasts, but I will give you one more task - to assist the old butler to maintain the law and order of the fort people, and there will continue to be homeless people coming here in the future, there must be unruly guys among them, you have to help the old butler deal with these miscellaneous pieces. In addition, you can also organize some training among the young people in the castle during the slack time, which is not mandatory for the time being, and you can discuss it with the old butler. ”

"And have Scott serve as the Guardian Vice-Captain. The two of you usually assist the old butler in managing the wooden castle and leading the people in the work; The training of the fort team should also be grasped, after all, you will have to protect the safety of everyone in the valley when the patrol team leaves. Your salary will be increased by one level, according to the head of the combat team of the patrol team. ”

"Thank you, Lord (Master)," Lawrence and Scott thanked in unison.

After arranging many chores in the wooden castle, Art took a sip of the wooden cup full of water on the table, and the topic turned to the several patrol team commanders sitting on the right, "Odo, you are the deputy of the patrol team, let's briefly talk about the situation." ”

Otto was not like Cooper, who could write everything down on the bark, so he carefully recalled it for a while before he said: "My lord, when the patrol team went to Alsburg, there were a total of twenty-one people, and in the reconquest of Alsburg, we killed three soldiers, of which the first squad killed two in battle, the second squad was seriously wounded two, and the third squad was killed in the battle. Of the two soldiers who were seriously wounded, one returned from his wounds, and the other was blinded in his left eye due to a slash on his face. The original number of soldiers on the patrol remained, four officers and twelve enlisted men, plus two wounded. Several of our squads are short of personnel, and the newly recruited twelve laborers and miners have started basic training in the past two days, and they are easier to train than the original recruits recruited from the homeless, and I think they can all be included in the patrol team. ”

"In terms of weapons, our weapons in the Alsburg reconquest were more seriously worn, especially the wooden shields and swords, the disadvantage of our shields in this battle was obvious, after the battle, there were thirteen wooden shields damaged, four armed swords could not be used, five short spears were broken, and two sets of leather armor and ten sets of burqa cloak were damaged, we had no blacksmith, and the damaged iron weapons could not be repaired. However, we also replenished two sets of damaged leather armor, seven short spears, four short swords, two chain hammers, a cotton armor, a batch of quilted boots, belts, and a batch of badly damaged weapons recovered from the battlefield. After some tinkering afterwards, our current weapons leather (cotton) armor and burqa cloak can barely fit twenty-five soldiers, and the old carpenter is also hurrying to make wooden shields and spear shafts~"

"In terms of military resources, we currently have four military horses, two green mules and an iron-inlaid four-wheeled carriage, as well as three military tents and some odds and ends for the soldiers, such as belts, water bladders, military boots, grinding stones and cutlery."

"In terms of military salaries, we have paid nearly 2,000 pfennigs in the past two months since we started paying salaries."

There wasn't much that Odo could say, and he ended his speech with a brief report on the situation in the army.

Art also listened to the reports of Bas and Cazakrohn, respectively, and they summed up the lessons learned in the battle of Alsburg, as well as the recent training and the state of the soldiers, and made suggestions for an appropriate increase in the soldiers' salaries.

"Well, I've called you here today because I've decided to go out tomorrow to recruit outcasts and soldiers for Baron Antayas, and I'm also going to survey the border checkpoints, and I'll also have to go out and find out about the situation of the bandits and bandits. I have already arranged the affairs in the wooden fort just now, and now I will arrange the affairs of the army. ”

"First of all, it is necessary to distribute the military rewards for the battle of Alsburg, and double the military rewards for the battle at Wincheston Manor. The second is to arrange for the training of the army, and from tomorrow the army will begin to strengthen training, focusing on training in battle formations and training in individual combat skills. After half a month of recruit training, Otto will be in charge of temporarily organizing into various squads, and the final staffing will be arranged after I come back from outside. I had already told Otto about the training program and schedule in the morning. Finally, there will be a military banquet tonight, which will be attended by all the soldiers who participated in the reconquest of Alsburg, as well as Cooper, Lawrence, Scott, Bard, and the two wounded soldiers, and the new laborers and miners will not participate but will make them some meat. I've already arranged this for Emma. ”

"That's it, let's go back to our work."

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