(There is a mistake in the previous article, the salary of the Swiss mercenary is not the floringkin but the happelenkin.) In this era, the annual salary of mercenaries in the Byzantine region was mostly between fifty and eighty high-end goods, and the highest salary was high-end goods with their own weapons and armor. Italy is a little higher. Because it's in the Black Sea, it's only right that salaries should be lowered. ）

Exchanged for an entire army?

Qin Cang didn't know what to do in the future. One hundred and fifty percent of the excess wages could completely bankrupt Qin Cang's small government within a few months.

But just send Bao Yin back? Are you kidding? Qin Cang is not so spineless! What's more, there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain. If you are really short of money, it is not impossible to ask Conrad to advance some of the funds first, or to raise money and borrow money from the rich people in Kaffa.

In the next two days, hundreds of poor men decided to accept Qin Cang's employment and go to the front line to repair buildings and earn a little money.

Qin Siliang resigned from his position as a peasant promotion official and personally arrived at Deshengwei with these broken settlements. For the Greeks, Qin Cang was not so good. Qin Cang directly forcibly recruited more than 300 Greeks into the team of logisticians. Of course, a little salary is still given. For example, one gold coin per month.

In this way, together with a group of Han Chinese who were not able to mix in the victorious guard, five or six hundred people carried a large number of houses to the junction of the Kerch Peninsula and the Crimean Peninsula. This is the narrowest area in the region, with swampy swamps and saltwater, and many saltwater fish live in it. There was grass everywhere that was almost a man tall. At the beginning, Qin Cang's family came over and climbed over against the coastline.

To the south of the area is the city of Kaffa, where Conrado is located, later Feodosia. Kaffa is a coast that faces southeast diagonally, and in the south is one of the Crimean Mountains, with steep cliffs that stretch to the sea, and it is impossible to go further south. If you want to get to the city of Sudak in the southwest, you have to go to the sea, or climb the mountains to the west, or take another mountain road to the southwest.

Here, many saltwater lakes are mixed with freshwater lakes, and large swamps cover most of the area. It also stopped the northern nomads from moving south.

Eight thousand cavalry, at least more than 20,000 horses, and the food that will surely appear with the army - sheep. Qin Cang didn't believe that they would be able to come over if they pulled up a line of defense!

The renovation work is very hard.

Qin Siliang had just arrived here, looking at the long swamp, he didn't believe that those bastards could come over. But Qin Cang's request still had to continue.

Use ceramic pieces to mark out one swamp area after another, and send the broken men to quietly sprinkle the thistle terrestris one by one in the swamp water; Then, behind the dense aquatic weeds, stick sticks are inserted and barbed wire fences are pulled. The half-meter-long iron spikes were stuck diagonally behind the barbed wire.

Bricks were piled up on the land in the swamp. On the kilometer front, the long half-man-high breastwork, as well as the twenty gun emplacements in the rear, were clearly visible. Defensive items such as barbed wire, iron spikes, and thistles, as well as thick horses and wooden fences, gradually built a powerful defensive construction site.

By the way, these large logs were cut from the northern hills of the Crimea. Qin Siliang didn't pay a penny, and he made a small profit from the salt and horse business with the local Tatars.

In March and a half, Qin Cang finally found the landed legion in the southern part of Chizhou.

"Subordinate Chen Hanlin, meet the king!"

Coming on, a handsome man who looked like a woman bowed his head and confused Qin Cang.

[Chen Hanlin, a native of Jingzhou. Chang Huai Jingyi sat in the atrium, and the patio leaked without noticing. However, he studied literature for ten years and tried many times. Then abandon literature and martial arts, hands and feet are not diligent, grains are not divided, but Mount Tai collapsed in the face and did not change color, there is the wind of a general. At the same time, he was sympathetic to the corporal and good at using his soldiers, so he won many battles. 】

Literati generals?

Qin Cang complained a little in his heart. But since the system has already marked the price as a general, it is not good to say anything about it.

"General Chen came in the dust, and he should have rested to calm the sergeant's heart. However, the great enemy is in front, the bandits will attack the west, and the horse thief has reached the porch! It is really urgent, and I ask the general to accompany me to the front. ”

Qin Cang really couldn't afford to wait, after the five thousand stone grain was transported to the front line, Qin Cang didn't even live at home anymore. He lived in the pasture of the West Mountain, and if something happened, he immediately turned over and set off.

"Obey the king's commandments." Chen Hanlin, who looked like a woman, was still very polite in return, but how could Qin Cang manage so much at this moment? After he took out a copper seal and gave it to Chen Hanlin, he pulled Chen Hanlin directly on the horse.

"From now on, you are the commander of the Imperial Guards! Not much else! Let's go now! ”

More than 4,000 people had just come ashore and began their march again. Qin Cang could feel the drop in morale. In particular, the uneven road conditions on the grasslands made it difficult for these two-pounder guns, which weighed hundreds of pounds and were pulled by horses and donkeys. The stacks of armor and gunpowder on the logistics wagons were also quite uncomfortable.

Fortunately, the road from Nanzhouwei to Chizhou to Deshengwei is not far.

The road from Chizhou to Deshengwei is in good condition, and it can basically walk. In the course of a day, the army drove to the victory guard one after another. The artillery last, and the cavalry came first.

Chen Hanlin really didn't expect to start fighting directly as soon as he arrived here. Although he was in a very good state of mind and recovered quickly, many people were bored when the lowly soldiers rushed straight away as soon as they got off the ship.

Morale is declining.

Chen Hanlin decided to find a time to raise this issue with Qin Cang.

After resting for the night in the victorious guard, the Tatar cavalry had already set out for the front in advance. They were actually half-soldiers, half-peasants, with no armor, a knife and a horse on their bodies. On the swamp side, they only need to be in charge of sweeping and guarding.

Now that we have entered the dry season, very little rain falls, and the dry roads are full of dust. The grass on the side of the road drooped on the ground without energy.

Riding a war horse and trotting forward, Chen Hanlin's hand holding the scroll slowly let go.

The morale of the army is okay.

Yesterday, Qin Cang issued three thousand gold coins of Hai Peilun at one time. In China, gold, a hard currency that was far more scarce than in Europe, immediately drove the military into a frenzy. Morale is recovering well.

Suddenly, two donkeys pulling the cannon rolled on their side along with the wagon and went out of the road.

Chen Hanlin, who had a headache, had to beat his horse and turn around and let the whole team of 100 come out and pull the artillery back together. Then the whole team of 100 clapped the team back into the queue.