On 22 February, the day after Viscount Pierre left Tignez, the new lord of Tignez, Viscount Frontier Arte Wood Wells, finally moved out of the inn called the Free Bison and moved into the hall of Lord Tignez.

The military was so busy that Art did not have time to light three fires for a while, so he only symbolically sat on the top chair of the hall of the lord of Tignets to meet with the bishop of Tignets and several of the leading officials of the city.

Arte let a squadron leader named Wall of the county soldiers, this squadron leader is the tax soldier who gave Yat a gift at the south gate of the county town of Tignats, and later went to the south to send a letter to Yat, Yat also privately hired him to collect information about the palace for himself, he is a familiar with some roots, and this guy is a native of Tignats, and he is relatively mixed in the county soldiers, after Pierre left with his cronies, the county soldiers had no commander, so Yat temporarily let Wall take charge of the two hundred county soldiers, And Yate also personally paid a month's salary to more than 180 county soldiers to appease.

This Wall was also quite knowledgeable, and immediately after receiving the order, he went back and handed over the roster of the county soldiers, along with the key to the arsenal, to the camp of the commander of the Welsh Regiment outside the city.

The biggest problem after settling the soldiers was to settle down, as for the other officials in the city to remain as they were for the time being, Art just told them to do everything according to the rules established by Viscount Pierre when he was in office.

After arranging the affairs of the county, Art returned to the garrison camp in the open space south of the city.

By this time, Art's heartstrings were still tight, because the battle for the stone fort of the Sapp Collar was still going on, and Angus had already led his troops to the Sapp Territory ten days ago, and six days earlier the good news had been sent back that the ninth offensive of the Kodor army had been defeated, but the battle was still not settled.

As the commander of the army and the newly appointed military officer of the southern territory and the commander of the southern garrison corps of the palace, Art had to go to the stone fort to see it in person, so he could only suppress his thoughts about the valley and prepare to take a small number of men and horses from the mountain road to the stone fort.

The temporary garrison camp outside the city of Tinies, the tent of the Chinese army commanding the camp.

“...... The main task of the army during this time is to recuperate, and you should seize the time to restore the soldiers of the army. I have asked Cooper to transfer the supply of military rations during the garrison from the South-West Farm and Wincheston Manor, and Spencer has taken care to connect with the civil administration. ”

"The main purpose of my army here is to control the county, and now that Tinets is our own territory, we can't act as before, so I emphasize once again - the legion decree, violators will be punished! No one is allowed to leave the camp without the permission of the commander and the sentinel officer of the Chinese army, except for urgent military situations and military orders. For the time being, the security of the county town and its vicinity is handled by the county soldiers and security teams, and the Welsh regiment does not have to be dispatched for trivial matters. ”

"Yes!"

"Yes~"

The officers responded one after another.

"Ron, let the guards prepare, and we'll leave for Sapsburgh early tomorrow morning."

After a brief arrangement of military affairs, Art waved off the officer, asked the man to bring a plate of food, and after dealing with the two of them, he was about to get up and tie his belt to see the recruitment of laborers outside the city, and rode a fast horse from the South Avenue.

After a while, the sentry officer Bangada ran towards Yate's tent with a parchment roll, "Good news, my lord! My lord, Sap good news! ”

............

Fifteen miles west of the Sapptiao Stone Fort, on the road east of the hills to the east of Kodor that merge into the mountains, a long procession marched.

The first four of the team were Angus, the lieutenant of the Wells Legion, Bass, the commander of the Valle Garrison, Baron Antaas, lord of Fort Andermat, and Felix, the commander of the army of Fort Sap.

Behind the four were only 200 soldiers, and the soldiers marched slowly in more than 30 wagons, loaded with grain, cloth, salt, spices, farm tools, weapons, and some furniture and goods, and behind the ranks were some miscellaneous laborers who drove mules, donkeys, ploughing cattle, pigs, sheep, and livestock, and more than 50 prisoners of war.

Just four days earlier, shortly after the end of the Ninth Stone Fort, Angus had planned a battle to attack the southeastern county of Kodor Province.

Thirty light and heavy cavalry, one hundred and thirty infantry, thirty crossbowmen, and thirty miscellaneous soldiers, two hundred men appeared in Kodor border county overnight.

The Kodor army, which had just returned from the Stone Fort, was in the south dealing with the hill people who had rushed down from Midsummer, and it was not surprising that the army of Sapburg would follow closely and stab him in the ass.

The stab wasn't too deep, but it hurt.

This small county on the southeastern border of Kodor has relied on the southern goods trade imported from Sap Fort in recent years, coupled with the relatively flat terrain, the relatively fertile land, the castle manor and the village settlements are relatively rich, when the county soldiers are looking forward to the south and the local troops are weak, the two hundred fierce and vicious troops in armor are like entering a no-man's land, and there is hardly any favorable resistance wherever the soldiers go, and more than 200 "Sappu coalition troops" took less than two days to hit the county seat.

However, the Angus people did not take any risks, and the main thing was that Felix knew that this place was the only way for the Sapnan goods trade, and he didn't need to do things desperately, so Felix, who was familiar with the situation, chose some wealthy merchants and lords and squires who had business grievances in the past, and looted the manor farms of the lord squire, and after obtaining a lot of money and materials, they decisively withdrew their troops and drilled back into the mountains before the Kodor army came to their senses......

“...... He seized 680,000 pfennigs of gold and silver, more than 70 sets of weapons and armor, 20,000 pounds of grain, 10 carts of salt, spices, cloth and other goods, 50 sets of farm tools, 30 oxen, mules and donkeys, and countless pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks......"

Ron read aloud the message from Sapburg, and all the officers in the tent were smiling, they didn't expect that the army would return home and get another good fortune from their neighbors.

Art smiled and waved his hand to stop everyone's heated discussion, "Everyone, we have to be like a sergeant major to fight, it is not easy for us to raise soldiers, but whenever we go out to fight, we have to think about how to rip off a piece of fat from the enemy, otherwise what will we do to make up for the huge consumption of training the army and purchasing armaments?" ”

There was a burst of laughter in the tent.

"But you have to think carefully before taking advantage, you have to think carefully, this time the sergeant major is expected that the enemy will not expect us to stab their ass so that he quickly and unexpectedly sent troops, and then bite off the fat and scatter his legs and run, so that the enemy can't even smell a fart, and get the maximum benefit at the minimum cost. Yes, that's the long-term solution. ”

The crowd smiled approvingly again.

"Alright, command the camp to give orders to the Wells corps that reinforced Sapp, and let them withdraw to the North Pass Forts in the valley as soon as possible after the defense of the stone fort is stabilized to recuperate the army, the soldiers are too tired, it is time for them to rest. Also, tell the sergeant major to give Felix half of the share of the booty captured from Kodor, especially the weapons, armor, and food baggage, which I have allocated to the Sapp Collar to strengthen the defenses, and tell Felix to repair the stone fort as soon as possible and fill the gap in the defending army. As for the share of the war profits that should be given to Baron Antayas, we will not say anything, and they will do whatever they want. ”

Robert, the priest of the army, temporarily received the letter of the command camp of the Chinese army, so he got up to take the order.

Art glanced at the officers in the tent, "Okay, just let you be happy, now that the military discussion is over, go back to do things." ”

............

After the war at Fort Sap was settled, Art didn't have to go to the town himself, so he stayed in the county town of Tinets for the next two days, surveying the granaries, arsenals, and vaults in the city, and he also personally inspected several manors and farms directly near the county.

Five or six years later, Tignets was still as poor as ever, and after a round of inspections, Yat came to the conclusion that all the money, food, supplies, weapons and armor in the county town of Tinets could barely sustain the operation of the small city itself for half a year, and there was absolutely no extra strength to cope with the slightest major event.

It was the first time for Art to take over a county, and he didn't have a mature system of governance strategy for the time being, so he could only write down the county and think about it slowly in the future.

In view of the risk that the Northland refugees may be homesick and absconding in the future, he proposed that the recruited lords sign a five-year contract, within which the recruited lords must work diligently and steadfastly for the lord, and if they flee during the contract period, they will be regarded as defectors, and will not only be deprived of their liberty and automatically reduced to slavery, but also will be pursued and punished.

According to Art's plan, 2,500 people were to be recruited from the refugee area outside Tinetz, of which the 500 of the youngest and most reliable were to be brought back to the valley for resettlement, and the remaining 2,000 were temporarily resettled in the three territories that were already under the actual control of Lane Manor, Wincheston Manor and Southwestern Farm to reclaim wasteland and rent farmland.

As for the refugees that Bob and Dennis brought back from the eastern province of Jonah, most of them may be brought back to the valley for resettlement, and a few of the less well-off will also be resettled in a few territories outside the valley.

Art ordered Lynn, the lieutenant of civil affairs, to continue to preside over the recruitment of the laborers, and let Otto lead two hundred Welsh legion soldiers to garrison outside the city, and ordered the two hundred county soldiers to patrol the county in five teams, and then return to the valley with the remaining men.

Arter missed his wife and children very much, he rushed to lead the guards to ride his horse before the return to the south, and when he passed through Wincheston Manor, he happened to meet Scott and Gehr, who were organizing the repair of the road, and Art still asked Gell to preside over the repairs, and then ordered Scott to wait for the team behind him to return to the valley together.

It is worth mentioning that the construction adjutant Gehr was very concerned about repairing the road, and he knew that Art would rely on this north-south trade route to control the southern trade of the entire northland in the future, so he was very strict when repairing the road - in order to solve the problem of muddy and slippery roads on rainy days, he asked the laborers to dig drainage ditches on both sides of the road; In order to solve the problem of the collapse of the road surface due to the old load, he asked the mechanics to dig up the collapsed roadbed and refill it with stones, cover it with earth and rubble, and strengthen the bridges along the way.

According to Geer's plan, the road from the county town of Tignets to the border post will be repaired. However, he also knew that the project was time-consuming and labor-intensive, so he only came up with the idea of requisitioning labor from the village estates along the route every year during the off-season......

Of course, Art would not refuse the good offer of his subordinates, and praised Gehr all the way.

After that, Yate didn't delay much along the way, he and the guards rode all war horses and fast horses, and it only took a day and a half for everyone to pass through Lane Manor, pass through Boulder Town and return to Beiguan Military Fort.

When I arrived at Beiguan Military Fort, I basically arrived home, and the army that came back from Sapu Fort had just arrived at Beiguan Military Fort.

Art stopped for lunch at the Beiguan Military Fort, ordered all the conscripted peasant soldiers to be released from the conscription, and asked the valley garrison commander Bass to take the lead in calculating the military merit and military rewards for the conscripted peasant soldiers, and paid the salaries of the conscripted peasant soldiers in full first, and then disbanded all the conscripted peasant soldiers, and let them go home to rest and devote themselves to spring plowing and spring planting as soon as possible......

Before the end of the night, Arte, who had been on the expedition for more than half a year, returned to the valley wooden fort that he had been longing for day and night with the glory of a triumphant man and the fatigue of the journey, and entered the second floor of his mansion, which was not luxurious but extremely warm......