In the city of Tignets, the troops assembled by the conscription to the north of Besançon arrived one after another, and the farthest patrol party had been stationed in the temporary military camp outside the city of Tignets for a day, but the son of the merchant named Dean had not arrived, not because he himself was unwilling to go on the expedition, but because the displaced people and serfs who had been temporarily gathered had fled a lot.

It turned out that a month ago, in order to be able to bring enough troops to Tignets to be appointed as a trainee knight, Dean coaxed a group of homeless people and serfs to go with him to Tignez, but later several homeless people knew that they had to follow Dean to the north to serve and even fight, so they fled with other serfs and homeless people in fear of war......

At this time, Dean was desperately recruiting homeless people and farmers, and even his family's caravan guards were drawn into the expedition.

After a day of stationing in Tignats with several other armies, the soldiers of the patrol team really felt the strength of their military discipline and combat power.

Needless to say, Viscount Pierre's garrison army in the county is the standing professional legionnaires of Tinets County, with the supplies and food of the palace and the entire Tinies County, and they receive strict training every day, of course, their combat strength will not be weak, but this standing army of about 100 people is the last line of defense of Tiniez County, as long as it is not a large-scale invasion of the enemy, they will not easily leave the county town of Tignets to fight.

The army recruited by the other three probationary knights is very different, the apprentice knights have no territory and people, and no one gives them military service, so the probationary knights have to recruit everywhere, these temporarily recruited soldiers are mostly fleeing homeless, local bankrupt peasants and even forcibly captured serfs, they are weak and disheveled, except for a few apprentice knights' retinue who are barely equipped with spears and short swords and leather armor and iron helmets, most of the weapons of the soldiers are short iron spears, wooden spears and even wooden chain flails, wooden forks and firewood knives and clubs; Their camp was also in disarray, and the cadet knights and retinues brought their own tents, but the soldiers were left alone, and they were left to fend for themselves, except for a few bowls of wheat cereal that they received twice a day from their commanders. The smell of wheat and meat wafting from the Patrol at every meal attracted a large number of drooling soldiers, but the fully armed sentry posts around the patrol camp discouraged these poor fellows.

On the first Sunday of July, Dean's army finally arrived in the city of Tignats. Dean's army was much stronger than the army of the other three apprentice knights, firstly, because the weak and timid outcasts and serfs had fled, and the rest were slightly stronger soldiers; Second, in order to make up the number of people, he drew seven or eight guards from his own caravan into the Northern Expeditionary Army; Finally, because Dean was quite wealthy, he recruited the army with a small salary and an adequate food supply.

After the conscription army arrived, Viscount Pierre appeared, he took Tiniez's clerk to register the conscripted army one by one, and the conscripted army was more than 100 soldiers and more than 40 miscellaneous soldiers brought by five trainee knights, which was much more than the number of troops provided by the court's requirements for the trainee knights of Tiniez, so Viscount Pierre was still very satisfied. Viscount Pierre was pleased that the troops stationed outside the city were given half a fan of pork and two barrels of inferior fruit wine, which were the only supplies the conscripts received from the county of Tiniets.

On the Selective Service Paperwork, Art brought with him five cavalry and a caravan. There were many armies with heavy soldiers and miscellaneous servants, but there were few who went out with caravans with them, but Viscount Pierre did not embarrass Arte on this issue, and issued a certificate for the caravans to transport military assets, with which the caravans could pay less or even be exempted from paying all kinds of commercial taxes in the territory of the Count of Burgundy.

"Art, your army obviously has twenty-five hoplites and ten servants, why do you only report five cavalry?" Viscount Pierre did not understand why Art underreported the number of soldiers, because the amount of food and grass given by the court to the various armies was determined according to the number of people reported by each army, and many commanders falsely reported the number of troops in order to eat more empty food, but Art underreported the number of soldiers.

Art pointed to the soldiers who had not been registered, and said, "My lord, the court has already said that I will be paid for my own army, and I can neither get a salary from the court, nor can I expect the court to provide me with a pitiful amount of food and forage. I have now gathered five armed cavalry, and the rest are all troops hired by me in my own name, so that the court can only command my five cavalry. I don't need to give the court another batch of hoplites to serve, lest my infantry be used as cannon fodder by the commanders. Besides, there were caravans in the hoplites, and eleven of the remaining hoplites were sent to the county by Baron Galvin of Sappburg, and they were not my soldiers. Besides, it's easy to misunderstand a midshipman with too many troops, and I don't want people to suspect me. ”

Viscount Pierre glanced at those soldiers, who were obviously soldiers of the Yat Patrol Team, he despised it in his heart, and said: "That coward of Galvin, I thought he would have to bring a few soldiers to Tignets this time to deal with it, but I didn't expect him to be a soft egg."

Art also wanted to explain that Galvin still had to deal with the military service of the lord and therefore could not come to serve in the county himself, but Viscount Pierre obviously did not want to talk about it.

Viscount Pierre glanced at Art and chuckled, "You're a Ranger Knight now?" Go around as a mercenary? The last time I suppressed bandits in southern Sapp, I took Galvin's money, right? ”

Art didn't deny it, he didn't feel ashamed to do things with money, "Lord Viscount, you have also seen that my patrol team has excellent soldiers, excellent weapons and equipment, and sufficient supplies, and the palace and county have not paid me much food and materials, these things need to be solved by myself." Besides, I took the money and did it seriously! ”

Viscount Pierre didn't really mean to reproach Art, he patted Arte's shoulder and said, "Art, I'm just reminding you that you are a knight, even if you are a probationary knight, you should cherish the honor of a knight."

"Thank you for the reminder. But now that I've said that, I still have to tell you that you promised me to exchange money and weapons for bandits, and I haven't forgotten it......

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On Monday, the conscripts departed from Tignets, and Viscount Pierre personally led a procession of more than one hundred and fifty men from the north gate of Tignets to the court of Besançon.

For the Count of Burgundy, which had not been at war for many years, an army of more than 150 people was already quite large, and many villages and villagers along the way left the thatched huts to watch on both sides of the road; Some sharp-minded small traders saw the business opportunity, carrying baskets and pushing carts to follow the back of the northbound team to sell fruits, vegetables and vegetables purchased from the countryside, chickens, ducks, fish and geese, as well as bacon and eggs, and other goods.

When it was dark to set up camp, several scantily clad working women followed the army to the scent of silver coins, and they wandered around the barracks waiting to do some skin business with the soldiers who sneaked out of the camp......

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Spencer, who was officially promoted to the rank of baggage officer of the patrol team, has been very busy lately. He was not only responsible for the three meals a day for thirty or forty soldiers in the army, setting up camp, assisting the doctors in treating the wounded, calculating and distributing military salaries, and many other miscellaneous tasks, but also responsible for managing the labor of the two prisoners of war assigned to him; In addition, before the caravan was separated from the army, he had to be responsible for the caravan's food, drink, and lodging. Spencer, who was originally tired of training and fighting on the battlefield, is now even more tired, but perhaps because he has been a merchant apprentice, he is quite comfortable with these trivial chores in the army, and he does it a little bit, so Art made him this baggage officer at the same level as the battle leader.

Spencer, the baggage officer, was directing two prisoners of war to cook for the soldiers and the caravan, and he took half of a carrot from the peddler in his hand, put it in his mouth, and chewed it, and said to the busy laborers by the fire: "Listen to me, you two chop, follow me as God's favor for you, and look at the hard work of those who are sent to cut down trees, dig ditches, and build camps?" You two only need to collect firewood here to make a fire and cook a meal, and you will have a chance to eat two more bites of hot food, and if you make meritorious contributions, I will go and tell the adults to restore your free status...... Where do you go to find a commander like me? ”

The two prisoners of war were of course a great thank you to Spencer.

Spencer picked at the crumbs of food in his mouth with his thumb, ignored the two guys by the fire, turned his head to look at the busy soldiers and eight prisoners of war around the camp, and muttered, "There are no enemies around, why are you working so hard to build a camp?"

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A pit was dug every foot around the patrol barracks, and four feet long sharpened wooden stakes were placed in the holes, and the wooden stakes surrounded the entire camp, leaving only a six-foot-wide camp gate, and Art checked whether the stakes were firm, and said to several commanders around him: "Don't question me for letting you practice building camps, we have been attacked by bandits and bandits on weekdays, and besides, this expedition is facing the army of the enemy country, if you don't practice more now, you don't know how to set up a camp on the battlefield."

Art touched a stake of rotten wood, turned his head and asked, "Who found the wood for this fence?"

Kazak stood up with a red face and replied: "My lord, our team found it, I don't think there is any enemy around and no one comes to attack the camp, so I didn't choose more~"

"Take your men to the forest to find ten sturdy logs and come back, and the second team is not allowed to drink broth for dinner." Art kicked off the stake and walked straight for his tent.

Embarrassed, Kazak waited for Yat to leave, and roared at the soldiers of the squad, "Didn't you hear that? Go cut down the trees for me! ”

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Jerry, the knight of the Inner Palace, who was standing at the door of the tent not far from the camp of the patrol team, said to Viscount Pierre: "My lord, what do you say this Yat wants to do?" He keeps tossing his soldiers all day long, and those guys still listen to him~"

Pierre replied with a smile: "I have inquired clearly, and the salary of the ordinary soldiers under him alone is twenty pfennigs per week, and the salary of the commander is even higher. If you can pay such a high salary, people will listen to you. ”

The knight of the Inner Mansion asked incredulously, "Such a high military salary?" Also supply weapons, equipment and food supplies! Where the hell did this guy get so much food??? ”

Viscount Pierre shrugged his shoulders and turned into the tent.