"Lord Arte, the mission given to me by the court of Jonah has been completed. This is the first batch of grain baggage and forage, and every half month in the future, I will lead someone to cross the Frontier Legion's supplies for half a month, and as for the distance from Bramont to your Frontier Legion station, you need to send it yourself. ”

In the barracks tent of the regiment in the church of Bramont, the granary of the court (Jonah court) from the city of Jonah touched his fat chin without a few beards, and said respectfully to Art.

Just now, fifteen carts of hulled wheat, barley, rye and other grains and three carts of vegetables and fruits have plagued the garrison camp of the Wells (Frontier) Regiment in Bramont City, which is half a month's food burden for the Wells (Frontier) Legion, and five carts of black beans and wheat bran and other war horse fodder will be supplied by Bramont City and the surrounding territories, and the forage and hay must be prepared by the Wells Regiment itself.

The situation in the east was extremely critical, and at the critical time, the officials and subordinates from the court to the county and the lords at all levels still showed extremely high efficiency, and after receiving Balwin's order, the grain baggage allocated to the eastward support army was immediately loaded and transported out.

The treasurer opposite Yat is just an ordinary official in the granary of the palace treasury, and he is not a high-ranking official or a high-ranking official without a noble status, but he is a person sent by the court, so he is naturally a little arrogant, but this person has heard of Arte's fame, so he is still very polite to Art, and the food and materials of Yue Bramont are also in full amount.

The people did not compromise on all the food and baggage in the camp and their attitude was quite respectful, of course, Art also had to treat people with courtesy, he took the wine glass that Ron had poured on the simple wooden table in the tent and handed it to the treasurer, then turned around and raised another glass to the treasurer, "Your Excellency, thank you for all you have done for the frontier army, if we can be lucky enough to resist the invasion of the foreign race, it will definitely be your credit, and I will mention your outstanding deeds in the castle court and in your great merit book." ”

The treasurer very politely raised his glass in return, and said two kind words, and then said that he would leave Brammon at once and return to the city of Jonah to resume his life.

"Ron, Your Excellency the Treasurer is busy, and you will send him out of Brammon City for me." Art turned his head and glanced at Ron beside him.

"Master, I will immediately send His Excellency the treasurer away." Ron took two steps forward and made a gesture of please to the treasurer, turned his head and made a "How much?" with his lips. The shape of the mouth.

Art stretched out his right hand and made a circle, then spread five fingers.

Ron understood what Art meant, and on his way out of the city as a gift, he had "quietly" put five silver marks worth sixty pfennigs into the treasurer's arms

The unusually affectionate attitude of the treasurer when he left proved that Art's "wisdom" was worth it, and it was believed that the next delivery of food supplies to Brammon should be on time and in quantity.

Soon after the treasurer left the tent, Otto, the lieutenant of the legion, walked in sweating.

As soon as he entered the door, he grabbed the wine glass that the treasurer had just taken a sip of, tilted his neck and poured it into his stomach, put down the wine glass, wiped the corners of his mouth, and said to Art, who was sitting in the camp tent and looking at the grain and grass reserves: "My lord, I have taken the conscription team to all the villages, estates and large settlements around Bramon, not to be selected according to the requirements of the Wells Legion, but no one has made any requests, and those farmers have left as soon as they heard that they are going to follow the army to the east to fight the Schwabians. We recruited less than thirty young men after one turn, and the recruiting points outside Bramont City were about the same, and more than a dozen young men were recruited in the whole one, and two guys with full stomachs ran away in the evening~"

Angus had already personally led the cavalry and task force to the eastern outpost to spy on the enemy, and the recruiting of the forthcoming Yonah Frontier Regiment was to be taken care of by Adjutant Otto. On the second day of his arrival in Brammon, Otto divided the recruiting team into five recruiting teams and scattered around Bramont to recruit new recruits.

The result did not surprise Art, and a whole fifty people were not recruited.

Art threw down the charcoal rod he had just picked up, and a row of vertical numbers that Otto couldn't read was drawn on the birch bark.

After hearing Otto's words, Arte did not answer, he turned to a map of the eastern territory of the Count of Burgundy hanging on a wooden shelf on the left side of the tent, this map of the terrain from the hall of the Lord Bramont was too rough and abstract, and Art had to modify and improve the map according to the local oral description in order to get a rough idea of the layout.

"The nearest castle near Bramont is Tenua, but according to the Eastern Frontier Army stationed there, the elite has just been withdrawn, and they have basically incorporated all the young men who can be recruited (forcibly recruited) into the army nearby."

"There really aren't many people left nearby for us to recruit."

In order to form the "Border Legion of Jonah Province" as soon as possible, Yat had lowered the recruitment conditions of the army, but all men between the ages of fifteen and forty who dared to march east with the army were among the recruits, and they did not care whether they were young and strong, and whether they were honest or not.

And then even under such conditions, soldiers could not be recruited. The reason is very simple, the men who can fight and dare to fight have been conscripted to the Western Front to fight with the Western Army for the city of Besançon, and the men who can fight but dare not fight have also been forcibly pulled into the army by the lords and the eastern border army when the Swaben invaded the territory, and those children and old men who can't fight and don't dare to fight don't need to be forcibly recruited, maybe there are still some young people hiding scattered in various places, but they can't be searched out one by one and stuffed into the army, not to mention that there is no such time.

Just as Otto was sweating profusely and Art was anxious, a commotion sounded not far outside the tent, disturbing the two people in the tent.

"Matthew! Matthew! Art shouted to the door.

Matthew, Art's personal bodyguard, opened the tent door and entered.

"Go and see what's going on outside the tent, and what mongrels are making a lot of noise."

The guard Matthew ran out of the barracks in a puff of smoke.

"Your Excellency, can we, in the name of Jonah's court, have the counties and lords of the East send troops to us? They can always squeeze out another four or five hundred. "Otto thought of pulling out the tiger skin of Jonah's court and ordering troops to be drawn from all parts of the East.

"If there is no war on the Western Front, the problem is that the legions on the Western Front have already transferred a large number of soldiers and taxes in the East, and now the East is facing a great enemy, who is willing to hand over the life-saving shield to you?" Art rejects Otto's proposal.

"So what else can I do? Even if we draw troops from the valley, it will be too late, and we can't drain all the defenders at home. ”

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When the two people in the tent were at a loss, Matthew ran in, "My lord, it was the Brammon City security team who executed us next to our barracks, and they caught five more refugees who were robbing the village settlements outside the city, and they all beheaded them, and the people were cheering just now. ”

"Are these beheaded men?" Otto asked suddenly.

"It's all ~ and those guys are fierce, they don't look good!"

Art's eyes suddenly lit up, and he smiled knowingly at Otto and Matthew.

"Otto, I think I've found the source of soldiers~"

"My lord, who are you~?"

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"You're letting all the prisoners out? No way! Absolutely not! Baron Art, have you ever wondered what we are going to do if those people are released and then run away? Send someone to catch it again? When Viscount Brammon's lord heard of Art's plan to release prisoners from all over the country into the legion, his first reaction was that Art had gone mad.

Brammon's lord is named Jon? Brammon is an old viscount in his early forties, his old immortal father lived to be almost sixty years old before he was taken away by God, and he had a brother in front of him, but Jorne's brother died before his father's death, and as the second son, Jon, was fortunate to become a viscount and heir to the realm.

Jon's succession to the viscount was not long, and he was always cautious in his actions for many years.

Art put the wine glass in his hand on the wooden table and said, "What else can I do?" The court asked me to use Brammon as a base to form the Jonah Frontier Legion and named Brammon to provide me with a hundred elite soldiers, if not in this way, can you send me a hundred soldiers? There are less than two hundred private soldiers left under your command, so what do you have to give my hundred soldiers? Fill up with refugees and the elderly? Don't forget, Lord Jon, that I'm defending the eastern frontier, and if I can't lead an army to stop the Swabians, you'll have to meet the enemy's sword. ”

The roots of Jon's neck were red, and the Jonah court did order Brammon County to provide soldiers for the border legion that Art was about to form, but after two skinning of the Liberation Army and the Eastern Frontier Army Corps, there were less than three hundred private soldiers at all levels who could pick up arms in his hands, and less than 100 people could fight in battle, and there were still so many castle fortresses and village estates in Brammon County that needed to be garrisoned, and Jon was already overstretched.

"But how can you guarantee that those who are released will follow your orders and fight with you? How can you be sure that they won't run away? How can you guarantee that they won't become bandits who plunder the county again? Viscount Yorn asked several "how" in one breath.

Arte's answer was very simple, just two words - "No." ”

"I can't guarantee you everything, but I have no other way, compared to those old and sick who can't even hold a spear, the prisoners who do evil everywhere are at least elite, and I believe that they are more willing to go to the battlefield with me than to die in an iron cage. I will definitely die in an iron cage, but I may be able to pick up a rotten life if I go to the battlefield with me~"

Viscount Yorn stopped Art, "You just picked up a rotten life, what do you mean?" ”

“......”

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"According to the calculations of the magistrates and judges of Bramont alone, there were more than 230 prisoners in the various prisons in the county of Bramont alone, of whom 68 were about to be beheaded. Tuba and Wez have already taken people to various places in the army to pick up people, and they will be able to bring them back tomorrow. ”

"The number of prisoners in several county castles around Bramont County The cavalry team has already taken your order letter to deliver the order, I estimate that there are more than twenty castle fortresses in the two counties in the entire eastern border, how can there be thousands of prisoners. According to your request, if anyone who has been convicted of capital crimes or is considered young and strong, I estimate that there will be at least four or five hundred people. ”

Odo's analysis makes sense, in this era, no one who can be imprisoned is the old and weak, and those untouchables who are caught for defaulting on taxes or offending their lords have long since become serfs, and there is no need to waste money to build prisons, only those who have committed serious crimes and are extremely dangerous can enjoy this honor.

These people were extremely dangerous people, and it was impossible for the lords to trade them as slaves, so most of them were beheaded after being convicted. So when Art gave orders to take the prisoners to the Janah Frontier Legion, he did not resist, which was not the same as conscripting them into peasant soldiers and servitude.

"My lord, Viscount Jonn is right to be worried, these guys are easy to recruit, but it is always dangerous to bring wild wolves and jackals and dogs around." Otto was born into a good citizen, and he was disgusted with the prisoners who were locked up in prison.

"Don't worry, Odo, I can't guarantee that everyone will be compliant, but I can guarantee that most people will fight for us, and that's enough."

Otto only thought that Art had a proper plan, so he didn't ask any more.

"Ron, you go and ask Dr. Thomas if he's ready for what I asked him to prepare."