Surdak broke the news of the formation of the militia battalion, but the reaction of the villagers surprised him a little.

He waited in the police station for three days, and only three veterans from the village of Guta, who had a slight cripple in their legs, arrived and offered to join the militia camp in Surdak.

As for the villagers of the village of Wall, so far no one has wanted to join the militia battalion.

Even some villagers had to stay away when they saw Surdak, for fear that Surdak would find him by recruiting militia.

Surdak did not expect the villagers to be so repulsive to the militia battalion...... He thought about it for a long time before he found out why.

One is that the dark side of the national conscription system has made the villagers lose the last bit of confidence in the army.

It's just that Surdak can't figure it out, when the bandits attacked the village, these villagers all had the courage to fight, and some people died in order to defend the village of Wall, but no one wanted to join the militia battalion.

Second, it is the busy season for farming.

Many villagers were worried that their work in the fields would be affected, and some villagers tactfully expressed their support for Surdak to establish the militia group, but not many actually joined the militia group.

The villagers preferred to run to the construction site in the village and earn a temporary salary of 100 copper coins a day, and none of them wanted to join the militia camp.

The old village chief did not tell everyone that there was almost no training in the summer militia battalion.

The old village chief was worried that once he said this in advance, Surdak would not be able to command the recruited militia in the summer season, and some things would be difficult to change back once they had become a habit.

When Surdak walked to the Vol Village Children's Home, he saw Selena standing in front of a wooden plank, teaching a group of children to practice writing letters with charcoal.

Seeing Surdak coming, Selena asked the children to disband and play around the village square for a while, but don't forget to have lunch later.

The children, large and small, dispersed in a hurry, and the makeshift children's home was suddenly empty and immediately quiet.

Surdak sat down on a small wooden bench in front of the podium with some depression, looking up at Selena standing next to the podium.

Selena crossed her arms around her chest, a gentle smile on her face, her elbows leaning diagonally on the podium and staring at Surdak.

The situation at the children's home has improved, and most of them are village children.

Because of the long distance and the busy farming season, the adults did not have time to send them over, so they had to stay at home.

In the summer, wild vegetables and some berries grow one after another, and the villagers from other villages do not need to send their children all the way to eat because of a mouthful.

The children's home was not disbanded because of this, but Surdak often came here in person to teach the children basic swordsmanship and combat skills.

Selena leaned her face closer to Surdak and asked him with a smile:

"Why do you always look sad lately?"

Surdak rubbed his temples and complained to Selena:

"I really don't understand why the villagers reject the militia battalion so much."

"Oh, it's because of this!" Selena smiled, she knew that Surdak had been busy with this matter recently, and after thinking about it, she comforted him and said: "Everyone is busy building houses, who will run to join your militia camp at this time, this kind of strong and sheltered house, once it is built, it can probably live for a lifetime, who will run to you to join the militia camp at this time!" I can't hide from ......."

Surdak looked at the small buildings rising one after another in the village, and said with a stunned expression:

"Is that so?"

Selena smiled and nodded, her plump figure emerging gracefully under the long skirt, and whispered to Surdak:

"Otherwise, you recruit me, and I'll be your soldier......"

……

The ogre went to the Beigou Ranch to herd sheep, and he was worried that someone would steal the yellow sheep in the village.

After the rainy season came, the sea buckthorn grass and thirsty immortal in the Beigou grassland grew wildly for so many days, and the entire hillside was lush and green.

The yellow sheep in the village of Wall eat from morning to night, just to store a thick body of fat for themselves before autumn, so that they can survive the next winter.

Recently, Gulit has eaten a lot of salamander meat left behind by Surdak, and before he knows it, Gulit has grown in size again.

……

Surdak waited for more than half a month in the village of Wall.

When the villagers of other villages saw that three veterans from Guta Village who had some dark problems in their legs joined the militia battalion, Surdak did not refuse, and some veterans from each village who had retired from the battlefield with injuries ran to Surdak to sign up, saying that they were willing to join the militia battalion.

Of course, not all veterans are recruited, and most of the veterans recruited are some who can be cured.

The Greene Empire has a universal recruitment system, and male citizens of the Empire join the army between the ages of 16 and 20 and serve 4 years of military service.

If you do not join the army before the age of twenty, you will be forcibly drafted by the local law enforcement team.

These men would be labeled by the military as 'people trying to evade military service', and as punishment for evading them, they would be sent to the infantry battalions with the most dangerous fatalities.

As a result, many civilian youth join the military after the bar mitzvah of 16.

There are also some noble junior colleges after graduation, and then go to the senior warrior academy for further study, these people enter the army as the lowest officer, so as to avoid some unnecessary casualties.

In these villages in the barren land, a group of young people are drafted into the army every year.

Since the young people in the village did not receive any formal military training, the regiments assigned were basically cannon fodder infantry regiments.

Less than a third of young people make it to their hometowns from the battlefield alive every year.

And among less than a third of these young people, there are also some with disabilities.

However, these disabled veterans who came back from the battlefield basically have some minor disabilities, some of them have broken fingers and toes, and some of them have large arms or large ones. The tendons in his legs were severed, the medical conditions on the battlefield were so bad that he couldn't connect them at all, and he was disabled without timely and effective treatment.

As for those who have had their legs cut off or their arms cut off by the enemy, few of them will come back alive once they have been so badly wounded.

This group of veterans is usually unable to help the family with farm work due to a dark disease, and when they heard that the Surdak knights of Wall Village have set up a militia battalion here, recruiting veterans, and giving them a bag of wheat flour every month, they do not refuse to have disabled veterans, so they ran over to try their luck.

Although these veterans are not very agile, they have a lot of combat experience, and the dark diseases that cannot be cured in the eyes of this group of veterans still have a certain chance of being cured for Surdak, who has the Holy Light Technique.

In nearly 20 days, Surdak recruited more than 40 disabled veterans.

It wasn't until the old village chief finished supervising the construction of the townhouses at the entrance of the village that he turned back to look at the recruitment situation on Surdak's side, and realized that the villagers of Vol Village were collectively stupid.

Instead of actively joining the militia battalion as he had confessed, everyone went to the construction site in the village to earn money.

When the old village chief heard the news, he was furious, and he ran to the central square of the village in a rage, gathered all the villagers, and scolded all the villagers, saying, 'You people are more ignorant than the kobold slaves at the entrance of the village...... and you deserve to be poor all your life.' ’

In the face of the angry village chief Bright, many villagers stood in the crowd and bowed their heads in shame.

Despite this, few villagers are willing to join the militia battalion.

But...... After all, there are a few.