I can't believe that when we came, it was relatively stable, and although it was heavily exploited, this large area of land that seemed to be okay was even more chaotic than it was when the Free Cities Alliance was in place! I really can't imagine that within the confines of our garrison, local bandits would dare to openly plunder and attack the countryside. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info and those mercenaries and heroes actually exercised their rights like lords in the land we occupied. And the most unbearable thing for me is that our army can't even enter in front of the city we occupy!

Yes, when the three of us arrived at a city with a small number of escorts, where there were not many garrisons and the head of the city was full of original troops, and saw the banner of our army, and confirmed that it was our coalition army, the defenders at the head of the city did not care and said that we could only enter the city if their lord ordered us to enter the city, and said that this was my order, and even the coalition troops must obey it. (We didn't come in a big carriage, but on horseback, to see what was going on in these cities, but it was unexpected.) ）

Of course, they don't know who we are, that's why they say things like that. But it is precisely because they don't know who we are, that they are so natural to say things in front of us that could kill them.

As a qualified lord, I certainly wouldn't be angry with such a small soldier, and I didn't tell me who I was, nor did I call their lord over. The three of us were very unhappy, so when our army arrived, I ordered the siege of the city on the grounds that the lord of the castle was disobedient and intended to collude with the kingdom's army to rebel.

At this moment, the defenders of the city couldn't sit still, and they were so frightened that they raised the white flag and surrendered, but before their army surrendered, their city lord came out to apologize and explain to us, and a small number of troops in our city camp found out about the situation outside the city, and then immediately rushed into the city lord's mansion, pulling the city lord's collar and dragging him out. Although the city lord had five times as many troops as our garrison (20 barbarians and 30 regulars, plus two bands of goblin gangsters, and a knight in command), they were unable to resist our defenders and did not dare to rescue their lord.

When the lord of the city, dressed in splendid clothes and carrying a lot of gold coins, was dragged to the ground by our magic, he kept asking for our forgiveness, and kept talking about his loyalty, and put the blame on the soldiers who defended the city.

But we didn't listen to him, and when the barbarian told us that the lord of the city had made a mess of the towns and villages under his rule during this time, and left the robbers alone, his fate was already sealed, and we needed a chance to make an example of the monkeys. Yes, we need these local officials to cooperate with us, but I never said they could use the land I gave them for their own benefit. It's okay to be greedy for money, but if he doesn't harm the people and doesn't hand it over to us, then he is already guilty of an unforgivable sin.

I ordered him to be executed on the spot, without even giving him a chance to defend himself, and the trial procedure was spared. A barbarian elite drew his steel sword, and with a swing, the corpse of this guy was separated.

Under the terrified eyes of the local soldiers, we entered the city and turned the city lord's mansion upside down. Although the family members have been crying with the corpses, and the cries of children have made my heart ache, but without standing up, we will not be able to stabilize our rule. So even Fang Zi, who has always opposed killing people for Liwei, acquiesced in my approach at this time, and Zeng Qiang also agreed. Although the death of that city lord will bring grief to a family, he has also indirectly hurt too many families before his death, and he must pay the price.

Then our army marched into the towns and villages of the city, where the militia and the private armies of the landlords and minor lords, as well as the mercenaries, were fighting with the robbers, destroying many villages and leaving thousands of displaced people without their homes. And our arrival quickly solved these problems, under our attack, not a single group of bandits dared to resist, and in a day's work, all the bandits in a city were quelled, except for the robbers who surrendered, the rest were killed. The landlords and mercenary leaders obediently disarmed their troops, handed over their stored grain, and accepted our garrison before our huge army. In order to consolidate my rule over these newly occupied areas, I built a number of tombstones and goblin huts, as well as a handful of barbarian huts and militia barracks.

In order to control these newly occupied areas, we have developed a new garrison program, with an entire force in the cities and militias and our patrols in the countryside to ensure security in the countryside and at the same time reduce the size and burden of the garrison. We can't garrison troops in every village or town, because not only would the troops be too demanding, but they would not be as effective as they should be if they were too dispersed.

After that, our army visited the surrounding cities, cleared them of bandits, and defeated the new local tycoons one by one, and used all the wealth they had collected these days from the city lord's mansion to use in the construction of the destroyed villages and towns. Of course, these city lords and small lords and small nobles would not agree, so we killed a few more "intent rebels", after which they rushed to send us money. The reason is very simple, the crime is very safe, as long as we want to, there will be a bunch of "intent to rebel" to be out, at this critical moment, we have to use extraordinary means. Of course, we can't do it all the time, and we have to rely on them for the time being until we develop our own local government personnel.

But the effect still worked, and after we had been making a big deal for a while, the news soon spread, and the robbers began to flee, or hidden, and the so-called noble lords of those places also spit out what they had eaten, and the various city lords also stopped, and resumed their local affairs seriously under the supervision of our garrison. Of course, our local troops have also found some local officials who support us and are capable, and we have all promoted them, so that even if the army does not move, we have a force that can counterbalance these city lords and those local snakes.

As the army went along, we simply disposed of the cities along the way, and asked the commanders of the garrison to rebuild the ruined towns with our plans. Although the wealth we have found is far from enough to rebuild these areas, at least there is a sense of restoration, not the chaos that was before. 、

Of course, there is also a problem with our rule, that is, everything is based on military means, and we do not have enough economic and popular support, and this will be our focus in the future.