On the first day of the second month of the Christian New Year, Art announced the reconquest of the four eastern cities in the name of the military officer of the border of the province of Jonah, and when the herald spread the news, the entire eastern Burgundian breathed a long sigh of relief, and a sharp sword hanging over the heads of the 200,000 people in the eastern frontier was finally lowered.

In fact, the recovery of the four important towns in the east does not mean that the crisis is all over, there are still scattered Swabian troops in the military fort villages and manor farms located on the border line, but the enemy army is very small, and there are less than 30 enemy troops in the most garrisoned military forts in the north, and these Swabians really can't give up the military forts and the surrounding fertile land.

The military achievements of Art and his officers were sufficient, and he had no intention of spending his troops fighting for those scattered territories, so the task of recovering the scattered lost territories on the border was entrusted to Sir David, who had rushed to the east from the western front, and some minor lords on the border.

On 3 February, Arte appointed Sir David as Adjutant of the Eastern Frontier in the name of the Governor of the Frontier of Jonah, giving him the power to summon the army of the lords on the border to fight, and at the same time petitioning the court of Jonah to transfer to David's army a share of a hundred men of the food and supplies allocated to his army.

David's command and combat ability is very strong, but he does not have the strength of Art, Art knows that once he leaves, it will be difficult for David to get the actual support of Jonah's court and Brammon County, so he squeezed out a hundred people from his already small military food and material reserves and gave David a half month's share, and lent him Wanfenni's military expenses, David brought twenty heavy cavalry and one hundred elites from the command camp of the Liberation Army are not his private soldiers, these people will not easily obey the dispatch because of David's excellent command, Art lent David Voffinne to give David enough to command them.

Sure enough, these cavalry and infantry belonging to the Central Army of the Liberation Army did not have a strong will to fight, and they were ordered to assist Yate in recovering the four cities, and now that the four cities have been recovered, they are not willing to waste their troops for those small military achievements, so in the end, only twenty elites are willing to follow David to break through, plus David's own twenty-five young and strong peasant soldiers, the army under David's direct command is less than fifty people in total.

It is worth mentioning that the Baron Caitland also extended a helping hand to David, and he asked one of his leading knights to fight with David with fifty elites, and the military consumption of fifty elites was also provided by himself.

David did not disappoint Art, and the day after he was appointed as adjutant of military affairs, he led more than 90 infantry and Tyuki towards the border line, and he would also gather some local lords' private soldiers to fight along the border line.

On February 6, the snow melted.

After receiving the good news, the court of Jonah sent a court dignate to Bramont with twenty carts of wine, meat, fruits and vegetables and three hundred soldiers temporarily recruited by the court, accompanied by Banting, the adviser of the Jonah Border Garrison.

Banting was disappointed, and he missed all the important battles for Yat to reclaim the four frontier cities.

More than a month ago, Banting returned to the city of Jonah with the gold and silver goods given to him by Art to gather reinforcements, but at that time, when the battle for Besançon was at its fiercest, the Jonah court sent all the troops that could be mobilized to the city of Grief to fight, and even most of the city guards of Jonah were transferred.

Banting's 120 urban militia were forcibly requisitioned by the command of the Chinese army of the Liberation Army, and by this time he had almost spent the 50,000 fennigs that Art had given him, and he could no longer recruit soldiers.

Feeling sorry for Arte's Banting, he had no face to return to the east to share the military merits, so he could only run around the Jonah court to raise food as much as possible for Art, who was fighting fiercely with the Schwabians in the east, and he used his connections in the Earl's Court to borrow 15,000 pounds of grain from the noble and wealthy families in Jonah City and handed it to Art's baggage team that was raising food everywhere, which was regarded as an explanation to Art.

Banting, who had been living in the city of Jonah and was extremely lost, received a private letter from the Yat sent the day after learning of the recovery of the four eastern cities, summoning him to rush to the city of Brahmon immediately to discuss the matter of reporting military merits.

Banting was overjoyed and excited, and in order to thank Art for his generosity, he tried his best to persuade the miserly Jonah court treasurer to take twenty carts of wine, meat, fruits, and vegetables from the palace storehouse and transport them to Bramont with the army to celebrate Arte's victory.

These twenty carts of wine, meat, fruits and vegetables have solved Yate's urgent need.

The army has not seen fresh fruits, vegetables, wine and meat for half a month, and Brammon's material supply capacity is limited, and the baggage team can barely maintain the army's more than 2,000 people and horses for five days of military rations.

After the recovery of the four border cities, Art transferred 600 local border troops to the four cities to garrison, those castles are in need of food reserves, no one wants to enter without more than a month of military food reserves, once Swabia suddenly comes to besiege again, the castle will be starved to death without food. So Art transferred 30,000 pounds of wheat from Brammon's already scarce warehouses and sent it to the four cities, and the army left behind in Brammon could only eat one meal a day of clear soup and wheat cereal and half a pound of rye bread, except for the wounded soldiers and a few troops preparing for battle.

When the team of Jonah's court arrived at Brammon, Art was talking and laughing with the soldiers around the campfire in the open space outside the city, holding clear soup and wheat cereal, nibbling rye bread, and the soldiers were originally prepared with additional food in the room, but Art ordered all the senior officers to temporarily eat the same food as the soldiers, on the one hand, to set an example to boost morale, on the other hand, to let the officers always keep track of the physical strength of the soldiers.

As soon as he rode a fast horse into the garrison camp outside the city, Dawson, the deputy leader of the task force, hurriedly stopped in front of the campfire, jumped off and rode off and reported to Arte: "My lord, the team sent by the palace has arrived three miles northwest of the city, and Captain Stanley is accompanying him, will you go to meet him?"

Art stood up suddenly, "Quick, let Otto and Angus get ready, and come with me to meet you." ”

"Ron, go to the city and get Viscount Jonn and Baron Caitland with you."

After giving the order, Art glanced at the food in his hand, and put the wheat paste and half of the rye bread into the wooden bowl of the soldier beside him, "Man, don't be full, save your stomach for the night to eat meat and drink!" ”

"Matthew, prepare a horse for me." With that, he smiled and walked towards the barracks tent

That night, the bonfires inside and outside Brammon were bright, and the atmosphere of victory in the war in the east broke out that night, and Art distributed ten carts of grain to the garrisons of the four border cities, and half of the remaining supplies were used to hold a celebration dinner.

Five cartloads of wine, meat, fruits and vegetables were distributed to more than a thousand soldiers, that is, a little oil, meat and a few vegetable leaves floating in the wheat paste, but the morale of the army was high.

What makes the soldiers happiest is not only the oil and meat leaves in the food, the war is about to end, and they can finally change their guards and go home to enjoy the dividends after the war

On the 4th of February, Art handed over the affairs of the eastern frontier to the troops sent by the court of Jonah, and along with the border guards, the command of more than a thousand conscripted frontier troops, and the employment period of these frontiers had expired, and it was not a question for Art whether they could continue to fight under the command of the leading dignitaries of the court.

On the same day, in his capacity as commander-in-chief of the Jonah Border Garrison, Yat announced the dissolution of the Jonah Border Garrison Corps, and the restoration of the Wells Regiment to the army directly under Yat, with all officers and soldiers in place.

The officers and soldiers of the 2nd Infantry Regiment of the Jonah Frontier Garrison Regiment and the Deadpool Corps belonging to the Wells Regiment were transferred, and the prisoners of the 2nd Infantry Regiment were declared free by Art.

These prisoner soldiers have been fighting with Art for several months, and most of them are brave and strong, regardless of their strength, so Art has no intention of dismissing them all.

Immediately after the prisoners were freed from charge, Art announced that soldiers would be recruited among the free prisoners.

During the time that these prisoners were fighting with Art, they experienced first-hand the preferential treatment of the soldiers of the Yate army, most of whom had no family and were not afraid of war, so Art flocked to the army as soon as he announced the recruitment of soldiers.

Of the 325 surviving prisoners, 252 of them were drafted, including Hans, who had been a successful soldier, and Burry, the newly wounded butcher, who would follow Art back to the south, where they would become the source of Art's expansion after being trained.

The rest of the free prisoners who were not selected or who had no intention of fighting due to family ties were allowed to receive some military rewards and leave on their own, and the more than 100 prisoners stationed in Vaal City would be treated equally.

On the third day after the disbandment of the army, the Welsh Legion was about to leave the eastern frontier after all the general affairs, and according to the military order of the Jonah court and the command camp of the Chinese army of the Liberation Army, the Welsh Legion would temporarily return to the garrison for repairs and standby, and they would return to Tignets from the south of Glaru County to Andermatt Fort along the road they had come from Otto and Angus, and Brammon's few reserve rations were left for the troops who came to take over, and the supply of the Welsh Corps could only rely on temporary collection along the way.

Arter, commander of the Wells Legion, was ordered to meet Flender at the court of Besançon.

The war has spread across the eastern border, the homes are destroyed, the land is deserted, and there is a lot of erosion, countless civilians began to return to the border from the hinterland of refuge through the King's Road, and the civilians whose homes were destroyed are easy to recruit, Yate has already begun to plan for the development of the post-war period, he sent Bob "Baron" and the ideological and political officer Dunnis, who belonged to the command camp of the Chinese army, and several Chinese military officials along the King's Road to recruit homeless people and bring them back to the south to cultivate the land and manage the territory.

Art himself led the Baron's Guard and Task Force on fast horses towards Besançon, and accompanied him to Besançon, along with Baron Caitland and Sir Banting

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Chapter 370: Returning Home