Chapter 573: Choice
The construction of the camp went unexpectedly smoothly, since the road was built on Linton's side, materials and manpower have been continuously imported into the gold mine camp, and of course, the gold ore in the gold mine warehouse has also been continuously transported to the outside.
Originally, Garseen was more worried that the enemy might come to harass and cause trouble, but the actual situation was that the Grint's army on the other side did not seem to move.
Garseen couldn't figure out what the situation was, but the difficulties on the other side were bigger than they had imagined. After the defeat of the Grint side, although the situation was temporarily stabilized, the losses of the troops were extremely large. There was nothing they could do but report to the main city and ask for support again.
King Covicla's eyes were also black when he heard the new battle report, and he really wanted to order Materazzi's guy to be cut down on the spot. However, the question now is not to cut people, but what to do. The gold mine was impossible to give up, and it had to be recaptured, so he had to respond to Grint's request for support.
However, now there are not many troops under King Covica, after all, they are only a small kingdom, unlike the St. Willan Empire, which can easily pull up tens of thousands of troops, just sent 2,000 troops, and he can't distinguish people, otherwise the main city will not be defended? If there were not enough soldiers left in the main city, he was worried that without the help of Garthine's men, the underground rebels might overthrow him.
So King Covicla also tried his best to gather about 1,000 troops, and according to Grintor, he probably still has an army of less than 1,000 people on his side, so that at least the number of troops on the other side can be comparable, as for more, King Covicla can't help it.
In addition to the replenishment of troops, more important is materiel. Yes, this time it was Grinth's turn to have a shortage of baggage supplies, and most of their baggage was left at the base of the gold mine, and that base was stolen. At that time, they didn't bring much supplies when they went to the rescue, and they rushed to save people, but now they have a supply problem, so they can only be transferred from the main city.
King Covicla gritted his teeth and took out some of the baggage supplies, plus 1,000 reinforcements, and sent them to Grinth, and ordered them to recapture the gold mines. However, what everyone didn't expect was that this support force was actually attacked halfway.
It was not Garsein's troops who attacked them, for Garseen had no time to take care of and did not know the route of the enemy's support forces. This army was also worried that Garseen would choose a hidden path by himself, but what they didn't expect was that they encountered a wave of displaced people.
This tributary of the people was originally going in the direction of the main city of Dithorne, because there was no food, and they didn't know where to go, so they could only blindly go to the place where they thought there was food, and the main city was naturally the richest place, and there was definitely food to go there, so they could only think so. However, what they didn't expect was that they met this support force head-on.
Seeing the carriage transporting the baggage, the eyes of the displaced people lit up, and the carriage was definitely filled with grain. Then there was a riot, what do you say? Army? I'm sorry you're going to starve to death, who cares who you are. I don't know who shouted "rob", and the whole scene was instantly chaotic.
In order to calm the scene, the officer who led the team directly killed several homeless, but it was useless, the hungry homeless people surrounded them like zombies out of the cage, and they didn't fight with these soldiers, but just rushed to the baggage truck like crazy, caught something, grabbed it and ran.
The whole scene was chaotic, although the non-commissioned officers wanted to stop the homeless, but the number was ten times different, the number of this group of homeless people was close to 10,000, it was really impossible to stop. In short, after an inexplicable bloody battle, the non-commissioned officer could only order the soldiers to flee the scene with the supplies they could. And when they arrived at the Grint side to converge, there were more than 600 troops left, and there were no supplies or anything left.
What else could Grint do, he could only send a letter to the main city for the third time asking for supplies, King Covicla was really vomiting blood, but what could he do? Settle accounts with homeless people? Now it would be good if the displaced people did not rebel. Can you do without the gold mines? Of course not. So while vomiting blood, he had to raise new support.
So the current Grint is really hard to protect themselves, and they don't have time to make trouble for Gasain and them. Compared to them, the work on Garsen's side is really smooth. First of all, in terms of troops, after having money, Garsein's troops soon recruited another 3,000 people, and there could have been more, but Garseen did not continue to expand, but began to recruit mercenaries.
The people sent to contact the mercenaries quickly recruited 4 mercenary groups of about 1,500 mercenaries, and they are already coming towards this side, and it is expected that they will arrive one after another, and then Garthine's troops will expand to 4,500 troops, which is already a terrifying number.
As for the coolies and miners, they have taken about 1,200 people in the vicinity, and hundreds of them have been sent from all over the empire, and many more are on the way, in short, about 2,000 coolies are now working in the base. Compared with the coolies sent from his own country, Garsion felt that the captured prisoners were more obedient, as if no one needed to watch, as long as they were given food, they would work by themselves, very consciously.
Everything felt smooth, except for ...... Linton's side didn't know what was going on. Yes, the stronghold was transformed from the original stronghold, and the renovation work is not known why Linton's side led the team, at first Gasein thought there was no problem, but then it began to be strange.
"What is the official position of the Battlefield Honor Exchanger?" Garseen couldn't help but say, he asked because Linton pulled a soldier to ask Garseen to give him this position, where did he get this official position, it was unheard of.
"I thought about it, in short, it's a stimulus policy, it's not a long-term confrontation, and there are other mercenaries in our army in addition to our own soldiers, they don't apply to the army's rewards and punishments, and they can't be promoted, so I thought about it and invented something called honor points, which is to calculate the enemy's head and the like, and after reaching a certain point, you can exchange it for some materials and the like, and even some people have made a lot of meritorious contributions, so we can recruit him directly into the army, right? (That is, exchanging honor points for military ranks)"
"Well...... "Garsein could understand, it was indeed a way to stimulate the mercenaries, "but isn't the name of this official position too strange?" ”
"No, no, no, I think it's okay for this official position." Linton said.
"Okay, okay." Garsein waved his hand, but still signed the order, and Linton also put a tick on his little notebook.
I looked at the projects I recorded in my notebook, most of them have been implemented, and the next thing is to wait for the completion of some buildings, and then I should be able to hand in the task. Although it is the first time to do the task of battlefield construction, it does not seem to be so difficult now, but the requirements for forming a battlefield are relatively high.
The rest of the building is expected to be built in a few days, and Linton is already preparing for other tasks. Naturally, several tasks have been brushed out in the past two days, but Linton is not very satisfied. First of all, it is a medium-sized city construction task, this task Linton has done before, he has experience, but he can't do it now, because most of the manpower in the territory has been pulled to the battlefield, and it is more troublesome to let them pull back to build a city.
On the other hand, it is still the most troublesome problem of the teleportation array, as I said before, the construction of the teleportation array is more troublesome, and Linton can currently contact the people who built the teleportation array. However, it is not appropriate to go to the church people now, and I said before that Linton will go when he prepares the annual report meeting, and then reach a cooperation agreement with the church people.
In short, the task of building the city is now put on hold, and Linton did not take it. A few days later, Linton received another task to build a level 7 dungeon. Linton looked at his list of buildings that could be exchanged, there was no level 7 dungeon at all, and the authority was not enough, so Linton didn't answer again.
Then, a few days later, Linton received the task of building a novice village. This task can be completed now, but looking at the task requirements, the construction of five novice villages, the time given is 30 cycles, is this task too anxious? After thinking about it for a day, Linton didn't take it until it disappeared.
As for why he didn't pick it up, the main reason was that he was busy building a gold mine base during this time, and Linton said that the work was too hard, and he had to run five novice village construction tasks just after he was busy here, which was not too busy.
Then the system Ji seemed to be angry, and he didn't brush out a task for three whole days, until this morning, Linton found that a new task had appeared. It's just that this task is a very ordinary task, and it just requires Linton to advance 10% of the exploration degree in any world, and the time given is actually 90 cycles.
This task is obviously easy to complete, and Linton estimates that the contribution value will not be too much, this kind of task was very common before, but with the unlocking of his own permissions, there are more and more demanding tasks, and Linton has not seen such a task for a while.
After a little consideration, Linton took on the task. On the one hand, I am really not interested in doing construction tasks now, and on the other hand, this task seems to be relatively easy, and it seems that I should be able to rest for a while.
After waiting for another three days, all the buildings needed for the battlefield were built, and Linton quickly confirmed it, and then clicked to complete the task. After submitting his battlefield mission, Linton was ready to go.