Chapter Ninety-Six: Mercenaries and Iron Armor

Sixty-seven mercenaries who had surrendered were eating in the open space in front of the manor castle, and what they ate was simply two slices of black bread and a bowl of broth. It's just that there is a big bucket of this broth, and whoever wants to drink it in the bowl will go to the bucket and spoon it himself.

As Lorist and Josk passed, they were greeted by two mercenaries.

"The older one is called Hänsky, and the golden-bearded one in the back is called Jim, and the two of them are now the heads of these mercenaries. ”

Hosky and Jim came up to greet Lorist and Joske, and Lorist waved his hand and said, "Forget it, you two will come with us into the castle and talk about the treatment of you mercenaries." ”

After entering the castle, Lorist found a nearby room and brought two mercenaries in, and after everyone sat down, Lorist was not polite, and said straight to the point: "Although you mercenaries surrendered on their own initiative, I am actually very worried about what to do with you." It's not morals to kill, and if we don't kill us, we will waste manpower to take care of you, after all, you have all awakened your fighting spirit, and the lowest is the black iron rank. If you say that you will take refuge in us, but we cannot trust your loyalty, otherwise you would not have surrendered so easily......"

The two mercenaries blushed, but they had nothing to say, because what Lorist said was the truth.

"I can't kill you, I won't be willing to let you go, maybe in two days after letting you go, you will be hired by our enemies and you will meet us in front of the battle, then we will not be asking for trouble? I don't have so many manpower to take care of you, and after thinking about it, I think I should pay for ......you to hire you," Lorist said.

The leaders of the two mercenaries raised their heads in surprise: "Great, sir, you want to hire us?"

"Yes," Loris nodded, "But don't worry, I didn't hire you to let you deal with your old employer, I believe you don't have that face, and you don't want to." If I force you, you won't be able to do anything, and I'll have to worry about whether you'll fight back. ”

The two mercenary leaders lowered their heads in embarrassment, it was clear that Lorist had what they were thinking. The older Hawsky had also experienced more, and he quickly raised his head and asked, "My lord, what did you want to do when you hired us?"

"Someone, go get a map of the territory. Lorist shouted.

Lorist placed the map of the territory on the table, and motioned for the two mercenary leaders to come over and take a look: "This is our family's manor castle, and this is Kitano Town." We are going to build a new town in this place, on the poplar beach with a small river. As you know, there are often mountain barbarians in the Northland, and those savages like to go down the mountain to raid. In order to prevent us from being attacked by the mountain barbarians when we build a new town, I decided to set up a military fortress here, at the mountain pass where the two mountains meet, as the first line of defense against the mountain barbarians. ”

"I hired you for the purpose of defending this fortress. Of course, I won't ask you to do what you can't do, if there are many mountain barbarians, you will stick to the military village and light the wolf smoke to send us a message, and we will send reinforcements there. If there are few mountain barbarians, then you can destroy them directly. With your Silver and Black Iron Fighting Rank, it should be more than enough to deal with these savages. Of course, I won't let you do it for nothing, a living mountain barbarian savage, we will give you a reward of gold coins for the head of an imperial old man, and if you die, it will only be fifty imperial silver coins. ”

The two mercenary leaders looked at each other, and Hosky asked, "Can we go to that pass first and see the terrain?"

"Of course, depending on the terrain, the location of the military village can also be determined by you, as for the appearance of the military village, you can rest assured, we will not fool you, to create a strong and durable building, this time with the convoy arrived a hundred barrels of rubber rattan juice I am going to use in the construction of this military village. Lorist said.

"Okay, we'll take this job. Hosky said, "But my lord, what about our mercenary money?"

Lorist smiled: "Don't worry, I'm more generous than Viscount Kenmax, one Imperial Old Man's Head Gold Coin per month for the Silver Rank, and fifty Imperial Silver Coin per month for the Black Iron Rank." If you catch or kill the mountain barbarians, the bounty will be given separately. We sign this employment agreement for one year, and after one year, you can renew it or leave it if you want. In addition, there is no hurry to build the military fortress at present, it will take about ten days, and we will also have to prepare labor and materials. But if you sign the agreement today, the retainer will start this month. ”

Husky and Jim jumped up from their chairs, "My lord, I'm here for you." ”

"Well, in that case, I will call someone to sign an agreement with you, and after signing it, the two of you will take the mercenaries to Huyangtan and set up camp first. I'll have someone take you there, and supplies will be delivered. Lorist said.

"But, but my lord, we need weapons and equipment, and horses...... "Hawski said.

Lorist patted his head, how could he forget that these mercenaries were all his own captives, and they were all confiscated except for the clothes on their bodies: "In this way, after you sign the agreement, you can choose the weapons you are good at, and I will provide you with thirty sets of chain mail, fifty sets of leather armor, as well as fifty mounts and four carts." These things are accounted for first, and you can pay them back with the booty and prisoners, as well as the clothes, bedding, camp tents, and other miscellaneous items, which we will give away for free, do you think it will work?"

Hosky and Jim were overjoyed and bowed deeply to Lorlist: "Your kindness and generosity are like the sun in the sky, warming the bodies and minds of our lowly mercenaries......"

"Fuck off! Shut up if you don't slap me up, do you think I won't be able to hear you change a few words of the Sigwa carol on me? Steward Hansk, come and take these two bastards away, and you'll be in trouble with the matter of signing a deal with those mercenaries. Sign an agreement and ask Speer to give them weapons and equipment......"

After the two mercenary leaders left, Lorist breathed a sigh of relief: "One thing has finally been done." Let's go, Joe, and I'll take you to meet Old Boss Cress. ”

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In the evening, in the study, Lorist was talking to Joske about some of the problems faced by the family while drinking the family's treasured wine, of course, Lorist couldn't help but complain, some things are taken for granted in the city of Morente, but here in the family territory is deviant, which makes Lorist very unaccustomed and uncomfortable.

"I really don't understand sometimes, the family has fallen to this point and still clings to the tradition, didn't you see it when we went to see the old manager today, the old manager even scolded me for not allowing so many servants and hired workers to have the opportunity to learn how to awaken the fighting spirit. He said that in the past, the family rewarded loyal servants and hired servants by sending people to teach them to awaken their fighting spirits and then improve their status. To teach all servants and hired servants to awaken their vindictiveness without discrimination like I am to subvert tradition. In fact, I wish that even the maids could awaken the fighting spirit, otherwise how can I improve the strength of the family? Every year, I reward two or three servants and hired workers to learn to awaken the fighting spirit, and it is difficult to say whether it will succeed or not, it is useless to do it like that......"

Lorist seemed to have drunk a little too much and was a little rude in her speech.

There was a knock on the door, and Lorist said, "Come in." ”

Pat came in and said, "My lord, Steward Speer and Steward Hansk are here. ”

Lorist touched his face vigorously to sober himself up: "Please let them in." ”

Lorist didn't expect that Steward Speer and Steward Hansk would come to protest, because Lorist generously allocated thirty sets of chain mail to the mercenaries today, which made the two stewards feel distressed.

"My lord, the armor in the North Metro is so precious, many families are reluctant to take it out and use it easily. Even if we have 170 sets, it would be too generous and wasteful for you to allocate 30 sets to those mercenaries at once. Sir, do you want to get those chain mails back?" said Speer with a reluctant expression.

Lorist and Josk glanced at each other, and the two couldn't help laughing, especially Lorlist, who leaned forward and backward with laughter, making the two stewards laugh inexplicably.

Finally stopping the laughter, Lorist said, "Okay, that's the end of this matter, don't mention it again." Steward Speer, you have to understand that these iron armors are actually the most common equipment. If you look at the castle site on the other side of the Morgen hills, you will see that the guards there are wearing two sets of iron armor, one on the inside and one on the outside. For our family, it is the lives of these guards that are precious, not these iron armors. ”

"By the way, we made all these armors ourselves, because we have a master armor maker, and the only thing that baffles us now is that we haven't found iron ore in our family territory yet, otherwise our iron armor will be in full bloom, and it won't take a year to fill all your warehouses, and then you will be troubled that there will be no more people to wear these armors. ”

The two stewards Speer and Hansk looked at each other, they never dreamed that these iron armors were actually home-produced, and Lorist also said that the family already had a master armor maker, which was too unexpected for them, this, this is really great news.

"By the way, Steward Speer, how many armors did our family have?" asked Lorlist.

"My lord, there are seventeen pairs of iron armor in the family warehouse, and two of them are knights' full-body armor. These two sets of full-body armor are the special armor of the old master and the eldest young master. In addition, there are four pieces of chain mail, seven pieces of chain mail, two pieces of scale armor, one plate armor and one chain mail. "Steward Speer knew everything about the family's collection, and without thinking about the number and variety.

"Well, you bring six pieces of chain mail and two pieces of scale armor tomorrow, and my eight guards here should also change their equipment. The six bronze guards were equipped with chain mail and wore leather armor on the outside. The two black iron tiers of Mos and Aceh wear scale armor. Also, Steward Speer, tell the Pachco Knight to go to the warehouse and pick out a piece of armor. By the way, and Pat, he also went to pick one. The 170 sets of chain mail shipped today, after allocating 30 sets to the mercenaries, there are still 140 sets left, and I am going to use it to equip the 120-strong guard team that has just been formed in the manor castle, and you will distribute the chain mail tomorrow. The remaining twenty sets of chain mail will be stored in the storehouse first, and some more will be brought over from the castle site on the other side of the Morgen Hills in a few days, and I will reward each of the veterans who are over forty years old and are now serving as teachers, in recognition of their standing up and not giving up in the most difficult times for the family. Lorist stood up and said as she walked around the study.

Steward Speer bowed his head: "Okay, my lord, I will arrange it according to your wishes." ”

"Also, aren't there more than seven hundred pieces of leather armor to be shipped to-day? You go and pick out four hundred sets of similar styles in the evening, and prepare four hundred spears, and four thousand eight hundred pieces of Imperial silver coins to be boxed. Then load all of these things into the wagon. Joe, tomorrow you accompany me to Beiye Town again, I have to urge them to send people to me as soon as possible, and I must not delay it for an excuse, so as not to have some accidents after a long night. Lorist thought as he touched his chin.

"My lord, isn't it too cheap to give these weapons and equipment to the garrison in Kitano Town?" asked Steward Hansk.

"You can't reassure them otherwise, it's like fishing, you have to put bait. These weapons and equipment are the bait to lure the garrison into the bait, and after they swallow the bait, we have a way to manipulate them. For now, we can only be patient, rest assured, and then I will let them spit out these benefits again with interest. Besides, our family soldiers are all equipped with iron armor, and these leather armors are useless, so let's use them to appease the garrison. Lorist said.

"Well, my lord, as you are. ”

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