Chapter 132: Guards
Seeing Mullen's sluggish gaze, Anna was a little proud, but after all, she was an unscrupulous big girl, and soon the blush flew to her cheeks when she was unscrupulously watched by a man, and she forced herself to calm down and said loudly: "Your Highness, it's time to eat!" β
Coming back to his senses, Mullen was a little embarrassed, and immediately interrupted: "Has your father arranged all those officers?" β
Anna replied, "Back to Your Highness, it has already been arranged. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biqugeγ infoβ
"Oh," Malen replied, "you get busy." β
Anna put the food on the table in front of Mullen and bowed down, and Mullen's thief eyes drifted to Anna's chest just as Anna bowed, and saw the deep furrow flash in front of her eyes.
By the time the soldiers had eaten, it was almost five o'clock, but it was still a time of summer, and Mullen summoned all the soldiers to the stage of the martial arts arena.
Looking at the more than 30,000 soldiers under the black pressure, Mullen, who had never spoken in public, was so nervous that he refueled himself in his heart, cleared his throat to relieve his nervousness, and then said into the magic megaphone: "Soldiers, I am King Duran's newly crowned Grand Duke of Roland." Although some of you belong to the army of the city lord of Youlan City, and some belong to the army of the town lord of the thirteen towns, in the final analysis, you are all my army. Although you belonged to different camps before, you are all the people of Youlan City, some of you are villagers from the same village, and some are even fathers, sons, and brothers, but you are fighting each other because of Gullit's brutal rule. Now I depose the lord of Gullitt Urlan City in the name of the lord of Roland, so that the army that used to belong to him is no longer under his command, and I will take over his army. My soldiers, the time has come to overthrow tyranny, and together we will dig up the graves of the brutal! β
Then Mullen waved his right hand and shouted, "Victory!" Win! Win! β
Perhaps it was because of Mullen's speech, perhaps because they were happy that they did not have to serve the brutal, or perhaps they were happy that they did not have to fight with their relatives, all the soldiers shouted after Mullen: "Victory!" Win! Win! β
The officers on both sides heard Mullen's speech to the soldiers in the tents, and they also heard the cheers of the soldiers, and they all lifted the curtains of the tents and looked at Mullen on the platform thoughtfully.
While it was still early, Mullen summoned those officers who were more than a thousand commanders in the camp tents to assist him in reorganizing these soldiers according to the original establishment according to each battalion as a unit, and scattered the battalions with more than forty percent of the battle losses into other battalions, a total of more than 30,000 soldiers into three hundred battalions.
In the era of cold weapons, as a low-level officer, you have to take the lead in the charge, so the casualty rate is very high, and after integrating the army, you can't find enough centurions to manage a battalion.
Of course, there are some opinions on the reduction of the rank of these brigade commanders, but Malen promised that in the future training, as long as his battalion is trained well, he will give priority to these demoted brigade commanders as the new brigade commanders when selecting the brigade commanders, which suppressed the opinions of those who were demoted.
Of course, when the army was being reorganized, Mullen personally selected five hundred fourth-level swordsmen as his guard brigade, and Anna was appointed as the brigade commander.
Anna had a problem with the appointment, believing that her father was qualified to be the brigade commander, but Mullen told her that he needed Anderson to take control of the army for him, so Anna was the best candidate for the Guard Brigade.
Anderson understands that Mullen's appointment of Anna is not the only reason, he knows that Mullen actually still has a rather dirty mind, but Anderson does not object, but thinks that this is not a good thing for Anna.
After reorganizing the army, Mullen promised the soldiers that they would be paid five silver coins per person when they captured the city, a decision that made the soldiers cry out for "long live".
In the Mulan Continent, ordinary soldiers generally do not have the consciousness of loyalty to Mo individuals, and they don't even have the consciousness of the country, and they generally work for whoever pays them, which makes Malen not know whether to be happy or worried.
The next morning, Mullen began to count troops at Dianjiangtai, and more than 30,000 soldiers were arranged under the stage according to the battalion as the basic unit, and Mullen and the officers above the commander of a thousand men sat on the platform.
However, today there were only thirty-eight officers above the commander of a thousand commanders, missing Howard, Henry Mante, and Woodyord, and the guards went to their camp and did not find them, so they must have left at night.
Mullen didn't care about this, and after gathering these soldiers, he ordered them to follow behind the Warcraft army that was ready to go, and waved the flag for the siege of the Warcraft army.
When the army came to the east gate of Youlan City, the city wall of the east gate was already densely packed with people, whether they were dressed or armed, they knew at a glance that they were temporarily recruited.
This time, instead of using the huge Kodomon as a striker, the siege Maren had the horned beemon attack from the air, trying to use the air superiority to suppress the defenders, and then let the horned bee beast fly to the opposite side of the city wall to open the city gate.
When the defenders on the city wall saw the dense horned bee beast flying above their heads, they shot arrows one after another, trying to force the horned bee beast back.
But it is not just a bow and arrow to be an archer, a qualified archer needs to train for at least a year, and the arrows sent by the people on the city wall are either shot by the devil knows where they go, or they are shot at the horned bee beast and are weak and lethal.
The horned bee beast bent its tail over the city wall, and the poisonous needles behind the tail shot out from its body, overwhelmingly shooting on the city wall, although there was only a wave of sword rain, it still beat the defenders on the city wall into a mess and fled, and the officer in charge of supervising the battle not only could not stop the chaos, but was surrounded by the fleeing defenders and fled off the city wall.
Soon the horned bee beast opened the city gate, and Mullen ordered 6,000 demon pigs and 1,000 Kodo beasts and 30,000 soldiers to stay outside the city, and led 2,000 demon wolves and his own guard brigade to enter the city gate with 2,000 horned bees.
The people in charge of defending the city were all locals, and after they fled the city gate, they threw their weapons on the ground, and then ran home to close the door, which changed from a soldier to a common man, but Malen didn't care about this, as long as he didn't resist, he let it go, and led the army to attack the city lord's mansion. However, at this time, the city lord's mansion was already empty, and only a group of servants remained.
As early as last night, when Howard and Henry Mante fled back, they made it clear to Gurlitt that Youlan City could not be defended, so Gurlitt loaded the valuables in the city lord's mansion into the car early, and as long as the city gate was broken, he fled from other doors with his belongings, and now Gurlitt should be on the way to escape.
Mullen, who was a step late, immediately interrogated the servants of the city lord's mansion, and learned that Gullit had already led two hundred wolves out of the city, so he gave up the idea of chasing, and ordered Anna to take the men and horses of the guard brigade to receive the surrendered troops in the city, and put up a notice to reassure the people.
It wasn't until twelve o'clock at noon that the peace of Youlan City gradually returned, and at this time, Malen's guard brigade had fully taken over the defense of the real Youlan City, of course, in the face of adventurers everywhere, the guard brigade of only five hundred people in Youlan City needed the help of demon wolves and horned bee beasts when taking over the defense.
Fortunately, it is now the peak season for adventurers to hunt, and most of the adventurers are in the Youlan Forest, so that Gullit can't recruit the defenders of the city, so he can only replace them with people, so that Malen can quickly occupy Youlan City.
In order to fulfill his promise, Mullen exchanged the gold coins in his space ring for silver coins, still in the barracks outside the city, Mullen was issued ten silver coins for each soldier, and twenty silver coins for officers regardless of size.
As for the civil system of Youlan City, Mullen basically remained the same, except killing a few of Gurlit's accomplices and calming the anger of the persecuted officials and the people.
At the same time, Mullen issued a proclamation to the thirteen towns of Orchid City and the hundreds of villages under these towns, restoring this autumn's tax revenue to eighty percent of the reign of Viscount Bilbo Baggins, the old lord of Orchid City.
On the other hand, Mullen also abolished the various departments established during the reign of Gurlitt to exploit merchants' taxes, and only retained the tax on entry into the city and the tax on the transaction of goods.
A week after Mullen captured Youlan City, the lords of the thirteen towns under Mullan City successively recognized Malen's identity as the lord of Youlan City, and a month later, the prosperity of Youlan City returned to the reign of Viscount Bilbo Baggins.
When the town lords of the thirteen towns recognized Maren's identity, they all faintly told Maren that they wanted to return their lost army in the hands of Maren, but they were all rejected by Maren, joke, if you don't take advantage of the current time to take back the military power in the hands of the city lords, it will be even more difficult to recover the army in the hands of the town lords when it stabilizes in the future.
Of course, these are all later words, and now Mullen is taking over the City Lord's Mansion.
The castle lord's mansion in Youlan City is actually a castle, covering an area of about seventeen or eighteen hectares, and the outside is a circle of moats, connected to the outside by a drawbridge.
The ground building of the castle is more than 20 meters high, divided into five floors, all of which are made of one and a half meters of stone, and the castle also has a layer of underground building, which is divided into more than a dozen huge rooms by a heavy stone wall, and the rooms inside are stored in the other rooms except for one wine cellar, which is the wealth that the Baggins family has collected for hundreds of years.
The castle is divided into two parts, the outer perimeter is a circle of two-story houses made of hand, just like the ancient Chinese city wall, the first floor of the house is the warehouse, the second floor is the dormitory of the soldiers guarding the castle, the top floor of the house has a series of female walls, and the surrounding corners are built with four towers twenty meters high.
The main city of the castle is a five-story building, the lowest floor has a floor area of about seven or eight hectares, and the higher you go up, the smaller the building area is, and when you reach the fifth floor, it is only about 500 square meters.
The first floor of the castle has a huge ballroom with three meeting rooms and a fully equipped kitchen, the second floor is where the servants live, the third floor is the master's bedroom and guest rooms, the fourth floor is the master's recreation room, and the fifth floor is a small banquet hall.
There is a large open space between the main city and the periphery of the castle, except for a square in front of the main entrance of the main city, the rest of the place is covered with gardens and lawns, and there is even a one-acre square swimming pool at the back gate of the main city.
After entering the Lord's Palace, Mullen was struck by the grandeur of the building, which he had never seen in the capital and the city of Lot, similar to the castle inhabited by the feudal lords of the European Middle Ages.
In fact, Mullen did not know that in the Kingdom of Chartres and even the entire kingdom of mankind, every nobleman would build a large or small castle in his fiefdom, and there was no huge wall as a barrier in the countryside, which could not only effectively block the attack of thieves and invaders, but also accept refugees and store food with huge space.
There are more than 1,000 servants in the entire castle alone, and there are usually 3,000 soldiers stationed in the castle to protect the safety of the castle owner, but at this time there are no soldiers guarding the castle, and the servants of the castle are running around in panic.
After entering the castle, Mullen first calmed the servants who were scurrying around in fear and asked them to clean up the castle that had been messed up by Gullit, and then Mullen took Anna to inspect the warehouse inside the castle.
The warehouse is the first floor of a square perimeter building with a radius of 16,700 meters, and half of the 400 houses are filled with grain, and the preliminary estimate is that it is not less than 15,600 catties, enough for 50,000 troops to eat for a year, and the other half of the rooms are not empty, most of them are filled with armor worn by soldiers, and these armors are equipped with 30,000 soldiers.
Seeing so many belongings, Ma Lun smiled, but Ma Lun also knew that now was not the time to be happy, the outside form was still very grim, and whether he could successfully take over the government affairs of the entire Youlan City depended on the result of tonight.
That night, after Mullen had rewarded the troops outside the city, he held a huge ball in the city lord's mansion, and an invitation written by Selwyn and the former officers of Youlan City who had surrendered invited almost all the officials of Youlan City.
Thanks to the fact that Gurlitt often held balls in the castle, although in a bit of a hurry, the servants of the Lord's Mansion still managed to make Mullen's balls sound and impressive.
Due to the suddenness of Maren's entry into Youlan City, the officials of Youlan City still knew nothing about the new city lord, but in view of the strong force of the new city lord, none of the officials dared not to give face to the new city lord, including those henchmen of Gullit who did not escape.
Mullen asked Selwin to select 500 men from his original subordinates to guard the gate of the city lord's mansion, and let the officials of the old city lord enter the gate when they encounter it, and arrest Gurlit's henchmen immediately when they enter the door.
Due to the relatively short period of time Gullitt's usurpation, he did not completely expel the old lord's forces militarily and administratively, and the only important officials were Eukins Stoker, the treasurer, and Hornby Bryan, the chief of administration. (To be continued.) )