Section 243: Preparations for Battle
Marcus's craftsmen immediately distributed helmets and spears to every Glinton soldier, and at first the nobles did not take it seriously, after all, their own fancy helmets, and even the armor of their own servants, were naturally much better than those of the serfs.
But when the Glinton soldiers put on their high-topped helmets and held six-meter long guns, the super-long spears and neat phalanxes filled the clearing.
"Huh?" The nobles were surprised, serfs were usually drafted soldiers, and it was common for them to be loose and undisciplined, requiring the leadership of officers and nobles to form a tight formation, but the Glinton soldiers were so self-disciplined, which made the nobles impressed.
"Horses." Bruce waved to the side, and a young squire immediately brought a brown war horse, and Bruce stepped on the stirrup and rode on.
"Gotta get it." Bruce rode his horse and inspected the Grington phalanx, then stopped in front of everyone.
"Soldiers of Glinton, I am your commander, Baron Bruce." Bruce sat on his horse, and he looked at the neat Grindon phalanx and said loudly to them.
The Glinton soldiers looked at Bruce on his horse, the young baron restrained them with the strictest military discipline in the world, but no Glinton would resent him for this, and when the young baron first arrived as lord, Glinton Village was nothing more than a land of exiles and forsakens.
Oppressed and discriminated against by the local sheriff, every Greenton has given up on the hope of life, and the only hope for many of them is to escape from this cursed place. But Bruce quickly punished the evil sheriff, and united the people of Glinton, and started the construction of the territory, and a stable life is what every Grington person yearns for, so the Grintons love Bruce from the bottom of their hearts.
"When I first arrived, Glynton was a hopeless place, and you were all begging for mercy under the coercion of the wicked, Mickey, do you remember?" Bruce kicked his mount with his heel, and the horse led Bruce to the far right of the phalanx, where Mitch stood with a spear in one hand.
"Yes, Lord Baron." Mickey's chest heaved as he remembered that humiliating day.
"But we worked together, where are those who want to take the land away?" Bruce couldn't help but ask out loud.
“。。。。。。” The Glynton soldiers looked at their lord, and Bruce's words gradually stirred their emotions, but everyone remained silent.
"We've all defeated them, Lord Baron." Mitch shouted to Bruce with one hand on his waist and spear in the other.
"Yes, when my brother tried to take the land from me, how invincible his strong, heavily armed soldiers were, but did I escape?" Bruce continued.
"No, no, no." This time it wasn't just Mitch who answered, the other soldiers shouted in unison.
"We fought side by side to drive them out and protect our homeland, this peaceful homeland, but there will not be only one jackal, the weak will be eaten, and another powerful enemy is eyeing us, Lord Jeffrey, this brutal kin-loving man has a fortified castle, and his talons have poured out, but have I escaped?" The more Bruce spoke, the more agitated he became, and he raised his fist in the air, waving it in mid-air, raising his arms and shouting.
"No, no, no." The soldiers shouted in unison again, and gradually their eyes became determined, and they looked at Bruce with reverence.
"We fought side by side, and we knocked him out, ha, poor fellow." Bruce laughed and said without hesitation.
The nobles on the side looked embarrassed, they were the nobles who belonged to Lord Jeffrey, but they were surprised that Bruce was so loved by the Grintons.
"Hahahaha." The Glinton soldiers burst into laughter, contemptuous of any enemy, and nothing seemed to stop them at this time.
"Soldiers, today someone has come to provoke us again, they have besieged my friend Stukov, they have besieged your neighbors, they want to attack us with impunity, so how should we respond to these villains?" Bruce continued to incite.
"them, them." This time, the soldiers were no longer reserved, they raised their spears and shouted loudly.
"Roar~~~." The morale of the army was boosted, and they could no longer tolerate any enemy aggression, and the soldiers raised their spears and slammed the tail of their spears on the ground, and suddenly the sound of brushing was heard above the open space outside the lord's house.
"Victory." Bruce raised his fist and rode on his horse, his legs on his ass almost out of the saddle, and the horse carried Bruce back and forth in front of the Greenton phalanx.
"Victory, victory, victory~~~." The Glinton soldiers also shouted excitedly, and a raven in the sky fluttered its wings in panic and flew to a tree, its sharp beak opened nervously, and its feathers exploded and quacked.
It is impossible for Bruce not to know the truth that the soldiers and horses have not moved, and the grain and grass go first, Bruce can't be unaware of the fact that Kevin Sr. and Young White are busy in the warehouse, and these two war merchants are under Bruce's account, and Kevin's planning skills can be said to have been used at this time.
"I didn't expect that pile of stones you gave to the Baron to be so useful." Young White said to old Kevin with Erlang's legs crossed, lying on a pile of hay, with a grass root in his mouth.
"It's a priceless treasure, and only the Baron can know him, and he's definitely going to be a big man in the future." Kevin Sr. turned his back to White, he counted the supplies in the warehouse, and said to White without looking back.
"Cut, you old liar, it seems to me that this young baron is a fool, and he actually listened to you." The grass in the mouth of the young man White moved up and down, and he said disapprovingly.
"Roar, roar, roar~~~." But at this moment, the two people in the warehouse only felt that the ground trembled slightly, and then there was an earth-shattering shout outside, so old Kevin and White hurriedly ran to the door of the warehouse, and the two looked cautiously.
I saw that the neat Grington phalanx was like a small forest, spears were like a forest, the momentum was like a rainbow, Bruce wore a simple but sturdy high-topped helmet, riding a war horse and wandering in this steel jungle, the armor shining brightly in the sun, like a real king.
"Hmm." Young White looked at Bruce, his eyes gradually becoming clear and bright, the black cloak floating behind Bruce, the war horse neighing, surrounded by well-trained soldiers, everything like a heroic map in ancient poetry.
"What's wrong with you?" When the soldiers' shouting stopped, Kevin Sr. shrugged his shoulders and prepared to go back to work, only to see Young White smirk in Bruce's direction with adoration.
"Wow, this is the legendary hero! I finally saw it. Young White looked excited, and he excitedly grabbed Kevin's arm and said to him.
"yes, what's wrong?" Old Kevin looked confused, he didn't understand why this slippery White was excited.
"Old Kevin, my dearest friend, I want to be Lord Baron's squire, please help me." Young White said excitedly to Kevin Sr.
"Don't dream, Lord Baron's attendants are all children of nobles, and you are just an orphan I picked up from the battlefield." Kevin Sr. disdained to get rid of White's entanglement, he had a lot of work to do before he set out on the expedition, and he was very busy.
"What, how do you know that I don't have noble blood, maybe I'm just a noble kid orphaned by the war." Young White said unconvinced.
"Hey, forget it, most of the orphans like you are the product of the prostitutes and soldiers in the camp, I can see a lot." Old Kevin opened a wooden barrel, and in it was ale, which was most suitable for soldiers on the battlefield, cheap, and strong, and simply the best drink for rude soldiers.
"You, damn it." Young White was choked by Kevin's words, and he wanted to refute the other party, but Kevin's words were likely to be true, and he turned around angrily and ran out of the warehouse.
"Uh, what the hell is wrong with this guy?" Old Kevin touched the back of his head, he sighed, there was nothing he could do about this hard-working teenager, but it was good that White was very tenacious in surviving and would take care of himself in any situation.
"Oh, that's Baron Bruce's army." At the door of the lord's kitchen, a woman with a basket stopped, and she also saw the lineup of the Bruce army in the clearing, and couldn't help but think to herself.
"Hey, hurry up and get the food." Just then, Anne appeared in the lord's kitchen, and she saw the woman with the basket and said.
"Oh, yes." The woman smiled, and quickly picked up the basket and walked into the kitchen, where the cooks were busy, before the expedition, Bruce would entertain the retainers and nobles, and after a good meal, they would go to Ignas's estate.
"Hey, I wish I hadn't seen you?" When the woman approached, Anne looked at her curiously, this was the first time she had seen this beautiful woman.
"I'm a new chef introduced to work by Danny." The woman laughed, the curvature of the corners of her mouth was like a crescent, the slender white fingers, the milky white skin, the soft waist, even the coarse linen clothes could not stop the beauty, which made Anne envious.
"Danny? Split shield Danny? Only then did Anne realize who Danny was in the woman's mouth, but she was still a little unhappy, because all the servants in the lord's house had to be approved by her, and she was Bruce's butler.
"Oh, because I am a homeless woman, and I am fortunate to have met my fellow countryman, Lord Danny, who told me that the baron's housekeeper is a very kind and beautiful lady." The woman saw Anne's heart and hurriedly said to Anne humbly.
"Uh, really?" Anne's heart was slightly happy, as the woman behind Bruce, the entire lord's house could not be taken care of without her hard work, but the frustrating thing was that not many people paid attention to it, people were attracted by Mavis's beauty and Eve's amazing skills, except for Monica, Anne would basically be ignored.
"Yes, it is said that the Baron is able to live comfortably and work without distractions because of a shrewd, capable and beautiful housekeeper." The woman continued to say flatteringly.
"Yes, yes? Ahem, forget it, the kitchen is busy these days, so you can stay and help the kitchen for a few days. Anne's little face was slightly red, and she coughed softly and said to the woman.
"Thank you, gracious housekeeper." The woman lowered her head and said to Anne, such a thorough etiquette made Anne feel more fond of her.
The woman picks up the basket and pours the berries on the kitchen panel, and the cooks will place the fresh berries on the soft wheat bread to add a sweet and sour taste to the monotonous wheat bread.
"By the way, what's your name?" As Anne walked out of the kitchen, she remembered that she hadn't asked for the woman's name yet, so she turned around and asked curiously.
"Lilith, my name is Lilith." The woman smiled again.
"Lilith, what a strange name." Anne was slightly stunned when she heard this, and she muttered that Bruce was going to go on another expedition, and she was so busy that she quickly forgot about it.
Lilith was like other cooks, she began to be busy in the kitchen, and at first the cooks were very dissatisfied with the woman introduced by Danny, thinking that such a beautiful woman must want to rely on men to enter the aristocratic life, but gradually they found that Lilith was like a natural chef, and she knew how to use some herbs to match complex flavors with every dish, and this magical ability amazed the cooks.
"Wow, how can it smell like this?" A cook asked in amazement as she licked some broth with her fingers.
"It's just a little clover with a little grass juice, and it tastes a little sour." Lilith stirred it with a spoon and said to the cooks.
"Oh~~." The cooks let out a cry of amazement.
"Back kitchen, how is the food prepared, the baron's banquet has begun, we can't let the nobles go hungry to war." At this moment, one of the attendants hurried to the door of the kitchen, and he craned his neck to shout to the people inside.
"It's going to be right away." The cooks hurriedly rolled up their sleeves and began to get busy in the kitchen.
In the open space outside the lord's house, a long wooden table was placed in the open space, and Bruce sat in the master's place, and the nobles sat on both sides, because of the limited space in his house, Bruce could only hold banquets outside.
The soldiers were cross-legged in a circle, they were scattered around, and although the food would be slightly inferior to that of the nobles, it would definitely fill them, barrels of ale were transported out of the warehouse, and the reason why the war was welcomed by the people was the part that could enjoy the feast.