After Shu Zifeng gathered more than 1,000 civilians in one place, the conquest system recognized him as completing the first task of recruiting 1,000 servants, and cashed in 100 exquisite arquebuses and their 10,000 matching ammunition.

According to the standard ratio of the European conscription militia in this world, it is generally one out of twenty people, that is, one thousand conscripted militia needs to be drawn from the population of 20,000!

In addition, the power of Grand Duke Yaroslav also needs to expand the army and extract a large number of conscripted cannon fodder, relying on his original direct territories and direct knight fiefdoms is simply not enough.

Naturally, the subjects of Grand Duke Yaroslav were seriously overdrafted!

Fortunately, in order to recruit soldiers with better physique, Shu Zifeng used a paid conscription method, which could be fed in weekday training, and there would be additional allowances in wartime, and soldiers were allowed to keep a part of the spoils after winning the war.

It is precisely because of these measures that the conscripted militia did not flee on the way here, and you must know that the Grand Duke Yaroslav sent the city defense army to pull the strong men from the homes of the civilians in various villages and towns, and almost kidnapped the main male and strong laborers in the civilian homes......

Compared with Shu Zifeng's approach, Grand Duke Yaroslav's behavior was more in line with the 'conscription rhythm' of this era, and in the eyes of the nobles, the army under his command was divided into three levels.

Minor nobles and knights were their close combat partners, the lord's direct troops such as city guards and guards were considered the main force of battle, and the militia and peasants conscripted in time of war were cannon fodder that could be consumed at will.

In fact, most of the time the cannon fodder is used as auxiliary soldiers and logistics transportation, similar to the people recruited by the Eastern countries for free, don't think that the means of the Eastern countries to recruit the people are merciful, when it is really necessary to fight a war, the young and strong people also have to take a knife to play!

Three days later, Shu Zifeng took more than 1,000 conscripted militiamen, a hunter regiment of nearly 100 people, and a hundred soldiers directly under him armed with arquebuses, one-handed battle axes and wooden shields, and drove to a barony that was originally subordinate to the Grand Duke of Yaroslav.

As the Grand Duke Yaroslav expected, under the pressure of the powerful Muscovy, not all the small and medium-sized nobles were willing to accompany the Grand Duke Yaroslav on the road of no return to the confrontation with the Muscovy, and the vassals of the vassals are not my vassals, although everyone knows this sentence, but it also depends on strength!

If Grand Duke Yaroslav had a military strength comparable to that of Muscovy, the small and medium-sized nobles below would naturally respect the 'royal teacher' and use all the troops under his command to obey the command of Grand Duke Yaroslav.

It's a pity that anyone who is not blind can see the contrast of strength between heaven and earth between Grand Duke Yaroslav and Muscovy......

Of course, after the news spread that Grand Duke Yaroslav raised the banner of the 'Qing monarch's side', almost ninety percent of the small and medium-sized nobles immediately expressed a clear position, resolutely allegiance to the orthodoxy of Moscow, and vowed to sweep away the Grand Duke Yaroslav, a traitor who did not know the height of the sky.

As for the remaining petty nobles who did not follow the Muscovy, it was not because of how loyal and affectionate they were to Grand Duke Yaroroslav, but because their territory was too close to the territory of Grand Duke Yaroslav, and they were wiped out by Alibachi, a die-hard Duke of Yaroslav, before they could react......

The living conditions of the petty nobles and the knight class in this era are really miserable, not to mention the knights, it seems that the status is far higher than that of the civilian class, but they have to rely on themselves for food, clothing, housing and transportation, and many knights even have to be busy in their own fiefdoms and farmlands in peacetime, and the poor knights do not have many serfs to support, and the cost of a knight on weekdays is much higher than that of ordinary civilians!

As for a small nobleman like the Baron and Viscount, he doesn't need to go to the fields to farm in person, but on weekdays, there are not many guards and servants under him, and every guard and servant has to eat and pay wages, otherwise who will shed your blood and work every day to guard your family?

As a result, the armed forces of the minor nobles, who had not prepared and conscripted for wartime, were pitiful, and at most a dozen professional soldiers were guarding or serving, worse than the more wealthy merchants.

The most respected place of the aristocracy lies in the power to kill and seize the fief, and in times of war, the fiefdom can be conscripted for free to fight for themselves, so the small nobles who have few younger brothers on weekdays can often pull up a team of hundreds of people in a battle.

Of course, it is debatable how much combat power these hundreds have......

Now the first target Shu Zifeng chooses is a barony, and the town managed by this barony is also very auspiciously named, called Jamaica......

The balance of strength between the two sides is completely unbalanced, not to mention the 100 arquebuses that are considered advanced weapons in the territory of Muscovy, just in terms of numbers, they can directly crush the Baron Jamaia.

Shu Zifeng hurriedly led his troops out to the battle, firstly, to try to eat the 'rebellious' small and medium-sized nobles under the command of Grand Duke Yaroslav little by little, and secondly, to complete the second task along the way, so as to get the task reward to expand the musket team.

During Shu Zifeng's expedition, Dehrim's territory is not idle, and the remaining 500 system villagers in the territory will be rotated in batches of every 100 people to conduct military training under Leonidas, which can not only ensure Dehrim's production work, but also maintain the progress of military training.

It can be said that in the village of Dehrim, except for a few weapons craftsmen who are busy all day, all the villagers will be trained as real soldiers, and the small iron mine will be mined with all its strength under the sufficient young and strong labor, and the pure manual labor such as logging and quarrying will also be handed over to the coolie slaves forcibly pulled by Shu Zifeng.

These coolie slaves worked under the supervision of Dehrim's militia all day long, and Shu Zifeng never planned to let these coolie slaves get out of Dehrim alive in order to prevent the notoriety of enslaving the 'same race' Slavs from spreading!

The size of a thousand men is enough to be called a real army in the territory of Muscovy, and naturally, it is impossible to sneak into the Barony of Jamaica without a sound.

As long as you don't deliberately get into the inaccessible path of the mountains and forests, it is difficult for the flow of a large number of people to escape the ears and eyes of well-informed people, and the lords don't even need to arrange a detailed inspection of the details, they only need to spend a little money to buy the local 'ground rats', and they can get detailed information about the march of foreign troops!

Of course, Shu Zifeng didn't care if Baron Jamai knew about the actions of his army, he came to crush the soldiers along the way, and the strength of the two sides was not at the same level at all.