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It wasn't night, because even in the midst of the dark clouds, Dadaran could see his surroundings with his eyes in a faint light. But now he couldn't see anything, his hands were only in the senses, he couldn't see at all, he couldn't even see where he was standing, he only felt that the surroundings were dark and damp. Dadaran groped around, hoping to find something to confirm where he was.

Wall! It's the wall! Dadaran's hand touched a cold stone wall, and it seemed that he was in a secret passage. Since it is a secret passage, then there should be a torch to place, and Dadaran quickly groped along the stone wall, and sure enough, he found a torch. He hurriedly pulled out the flint and steel from his side and tried to light the torch, but no matter how he lit it, the fire would not start. Dadaran was sweating profusely, he couldn't believe that he was so eager for the flame that had burned half of his face to appear in front of him, so he had something more to fear than the flame.

Thankfully, the fire was lit at this time, and the light lit up the surrounding scenery - less than a meter away from Dadaran, a child was looking straight at him!

Dadaran was so shocked that he took a few steps back, and suddenly his feet were weak, and the whole person fell rapidly!

Dadaran sat up abruptly from the bed, gasping for a few minutes to shake off the nightmare. This is not the first time this nightmare has been done, to be precise, it has been haunting Dadaran for four years. At first, there was only the unknown child of Duke Mifra in this dream, but I don't know when, the figure of this child merged with Prince Rudanel of Path, and the two children, who also died at the hands of Dadaran, always haunted Dadaran in his dreams. By day, Dadaran was the acting lord of the glamorous Bataan, the captain of the Paswan Horseman, and the confidant of Basbarne, but in his sleep he was a fugitive haunted by the ghosts of two children with nowhere to hide.

Dadaran let out a long sigh and looked out the window, the night still covering the land. According to past experience, as long as I have this nightmare, no matter how hard I try, I can't fall asleep again. So Dadaran got up, poured himself a glass of wine, and sat down on the windowsill and looked quietly at the distant sky.

In the past few months, Dadaran has made remarkable achievements, although he was hindered by the Tibetan army in the process of sending troops to intervene in the war between the Silk Country and the Tukhe and failed to make any achievements, but he still succeeded in expanding the scale of land trade with the Silk Country as an ally of the Silk Country, so that the trade routes that had been interrupted by the blockade of the Turghe were quickly occupied by a large number of merchants, and the trade energy accumulated for several years exploded into huge energy, and the Badana Territory, as an important part of the trade route, also gained a lot of wealth in a short time.

As the acting lord of Badana, Dadaran quickly sensed the crisis, that is, the huge benefits of this trade route would inevitably attract the covetousness of other countries, and although Tuqi was now in the sunset, the completion of the unification of Tibet and Sindra, which was recovering its strength, would be a threat to the future. As the lord, Babasbahn was far away in the capital of Paz, Jekbada, and most of Bataana's original elite soldiers were brought to the territory of Paz, so it was imperative to quickly strengthen Bataana's military power to ensure control of this trade route, which was what he, the acting lord, should do.

There is an inherent convenience in expanding the army in Bataana, and that is that the territory of Batana has been rich in warriors since ancient times. The people of Batana are naturally brave and skilled in arching and horses, and they can quickly become a formidable force by simply teaching them how to fight in groups. However, Dadaran also faced two disadvantages, one was the lack of population in the Batana territory, and if the army was overexpanded, it would lead to a shortage of personnel from all walks of life in the territory; The other is that he, the acting lord, is not a lord after all, and it is inevitable that expanding the army privately as a retainer of Baibasbar will not attract criticism.

To this end, Dadaran quietly wrote a letter to Babasbarn explaining his concerns, and hoped that Babasbar would allow him to train an army strong enough to defend Bataana. At the same time, Dadaran elaborated a militia training program in which he organized men of appropriate age in the Badana territory for combat training, but did not integrate them into the regular army. The purpose of this was to equip the men of the Batana Command with the methods of group warfare, and to identify among them those who were particularly suitable for military service and able-bodied men, and to make them a separate list as the preferred targets for future recruitment and junior officers.

This move of Dadaran achieved great results, firstly, it significantly improved the technical and tactical level of the people in the territory with little impact on the normal operation of the Bataana Territory, and secondly, he mastered the actual military mobilization ability of the territory in a timely manner. As a result, Dadaran has a potential military force, and it numbers as many as 200,000, which is almost equal to the current number of Paz troops combined.

However, Dadaran is not an ordinary mediocre talent, he deeply understands that the number of troops alone cannot fight, and an excellent army also needs sophisticated equipment and a perfect command system, as well as sufficient food and grass. To this end, he took advantage of the opportunity of trade to seek to collect the finest weapons and armor from all countries, as well as the craftsmen who made them, and at the same time began to gradually accumulate grain and grass for emergencies, and also planned and organized intensive training for the middle and senior commanders of the active army of the Batana Territory.

It was because of his series of positive measures that the Badana Territory became a powerful military presence feared by the surrounding people in the years that followed, but that is another story.

At this moment, Dadaran looked straight at the southern sky, which was the direction of his hometown. Although there were no relatives waiting for him to return to his hometown, and there was nothing to be remembered except for painful memories, for some reason, Dadaran still often looked in that direction and missed that land.

Maybe I'm old, and the old man always misses his past. Dadaran said to himself in his heart. If Dadaran knew what happened after that, then he probably wouldn't have this kind of sentimentality, but thought that it was a kind of inspiration in the dark.