Chapter 65: Recruiting Refugees
Three days later, a large army of refugees descended on the city.
The leadership of the refugees seemed to be aware of the peculiarities of the dwarven fort, and they did not enter, but set up camp two miles away from the dwarven fort.
Chu Mengchen climbed the castle and looked at it from afar, the ragged and patched soldiers, all kinds of tents of various colors, all kinds of weapons of different lengths, and many old people, children, sick people, and wounded...... It's all over the place, and it's uneven. He frowned slightly, then turned to Fado and asked, "Where can I buy a lot of tents, food, and medicine in the dwarf fort?"
"What are you doing? Could it be that you want to help this mud team that can't support the wall?" Fado looked at Chu Mengchen in surprise and asked.
Only at this time can we win the heartfelt support of this team!" Chu Mengchen said, "How much money do you have in your hand?"
"I have about a dozen Chase tickets here, and each ticket can be exchanged for three million Amethyst Coins!" Fado said after a moment's thought.
"Take them all out, my god-level ring still has a superb Heavenly Essence Ore Mountain and the complete corpses of several god-level demonic beasts, which is estimated to be enough to pay off your debts!"
"Hmph~~ You actually dare to mention 'repaying the debt' to me? My life is all yours, and you still need to mention 'repaying the debt'? Hurry~~! Quickly apologize to me for your slip of the tongue!" Fado viciously grabbed Chu Mengji's neck and said loudly.
Of course, Chu Mengchen knew that this was Fado's way of "showing loyalty", and at this time, his heart was warmed by Fado's emotion that he could not hesitate to use his liver and brain, and hurriedly raised his hands and surrendered: "I was wrong~~ I know that I was wrong, hurry~~, hurry up and contribute all your property, including the underwear you can use, to me!"
When Fado heard this, he hurriedly let go of his hands to cover his crotch, and said with a bitter face: "Seventeen~~, let's be my vest, leave a pair of pants for my buddy to cover up the ugliness, okay?"
Philo and the two girls on the side couldn't help laughing when they saw these two people like this, and Nancy blushed and spat softly: "Brother talks so freely, it's really shameless!"
"Hmph~~Sister!You haven't married Seventeen yet!Why did he say that you can just get rid of my pants, and I said that you can't keep my pants, alas~~!Girls are outgoing!" Fado sighed and shook his head while teasing Nancy, who was so angry that Nancy jumped up with a red face and chased after her brother.
Fado naturally won't honestly let Nancy beat her, this thing relied on her erratic body to hide between Chu Mengji and Lian Yinrou, causing Chu Mengji and Lian Yinrou to be "mistakenly beaten" several times, although it didn't hurt at all.
"Okay, don't make any more trouble!" Chu Mengchen stretched out his hand and grabbed Nancy's Rouyi, holding it in his hand without letting it go, letting Nancy blush and struggle several times, and finally had to give up.
"Nancy helped me take care of the finances, Fado is going to purchase items, Rou'er starts to distribute them, Philo~~ Old man, let's go visit the leader of the refugee army together!"
After the division of labor was clear, under the guidance of Donner, they went to the most prosperous logistics center in the Dwarven Fortress to start the work of raising supplies.
Fado is worthy of being a shrewd "thief", and this guy's bargaining ability is definitely comparable to that of a god! He has been lurking and peeping in the dark all year round, and he has long known the reserve price of various materials!
However~~ He is still quite benevolent, so that those merchants not only vomited a lot of blood, but also made a small profit, in less than half a day, the materials that Chu Mengji thought of had been purchased by Faduo, filled with his three storage rings.
Outside the dwarf fort, the refugee army camp.
"Brother Zhou, we have pursuers behind us, and there is a Dwarven Fort Jedi in front, is this the place where we are buried?" a leader of the Refugee Army shouted sadly, brandishing a broadsword.
Zhou Jin, the leader of the Refugee Army, looked at the nine-star peak-level demon martial in front of him, and his heart was bitter, and in the face of this big old man's shouts and questions, he couldn't find words to comfort him.
"How much food do we have? At most, the chasing soldiers will arrive, the weather will become cold, many children will not have cotton clothes, and a large number of pregnant women waiting to give birth will not have good delivery conditions, Yingda, can our medicine and Pastor Guangming still stabilize the condition of the wounded?" Zhou Jin frowned and asked a young general next to him.
"Big brother~~!Our food can last for a day and a half at most, and the medicine is already seriously insufficient, and the Priest of Light was killed in the last battle to only five hundred, how can more than 10,000 seriously wounded, hundreds of thousands of lightly wounded be taken care of? If there is no miracle, we don't have to resist, hunger and cold can already wipe out our entire army!" Yingda replied helplessly.
"Alas~~ It seems that God is really killing us!" Zhou Jin walked out of the dilapidated tent, looked up at the sky like the bottom of the pot in the north, and frowned tighter and deeper.
"Report~~ There is a son and an old man outside the camp who ask to see the leader!" a soldier hurriedly ran to report.
"What is the origin of these two people, and what is the purpose of this visit?" Indah muttered as she spoke.
"No matter who it is, there should be no malice when they come to visit us at this time, pass on my orders, please!" Zhou Jin walked into the tattered tent again, tightened the already broken armor on his body, and waited for the arrival of Chu Mengji and the others.
Chu Mengchen came to this big tent of the Chinese army under the guidance of the orderlies, and bowed his hand to Zhou Jin slightly: "I heard that Commander Zhou is the highest military commander of the Refugee Army, and he is in the seventeenth year, and I came here to discuss a matter with you!"
"Seventeen~~?The name is very weird, come on, take a seat!" Zhou Jin was slightly stunned, his eyes condensed twice, and he was obviously a little jealous of Philo behind Chu Mengji! He could see that the guy dressed as a boy in front of him was just an "ordinary person", while the old man behind him was unfathomable. "I don't know where ~~ the two of you come from, what do you want to discuss in our refugee army?"
"I came from the dwarf fort, and I saw from the city tower that you lacked food and clothing, and there were many wounded, and I hope to help you overcome the difficulties in front of you with my own modest efforts, and at the same time I want to use your strength to help me do something!" Chu Mengchen said openly and honestly.
"How much strength can you have personally? Our refugee army is so large, how many people can you give?" Zhou Jin asked puzzled.
"I have three space rings here, which contain food, medicine, and winter cotton clothes respectively, the Grand Commander can see if it is enough?" Chu Mengchen finished speaking, took out the storage ring in his arms and gently placed it on the table in front of Zhou Jin.
Zhou Jin released his spiritual sense to visit, he didn't know if he didn't see it, and he was shocked when he saw it! All the space in the ring was almost full, and all kinds of supplies were enough for their refugee army to survive two winters!
"This~~~!Your Excellency showed the materials here so easily, aren't you afraid that we won't give them after snatching them?" Zhou Jin raised his head and asked.
"If you have that strength, I naturally have nothing to say, but it's hard to say whether this old man behind me can make it easy for you to detain it!"
"Hehe, let me weigh it!" The leader of the nine-star peak demon martial arts level with the big sword in his hand flew forward, and the big sword slashed diagonally towards Philo's left shoulder with a strong wind.
Seeing that the other party was just trying, because the trajectory of the knife light did not come towards his head, his face softened slightly, he suddenly stretched out two fingers, clamped the blade the size of the door panel like a finger, and gently pulled it, only to hear a rattle, and the palm-thick knife was immediately broken neatly!
The big tent was silent, and Zhou Jin was even more cold sweat oozing from his forehead, and the guy with the big knife in his hand stood in place like a log, with his big mouth open to hold a goose egg!
"Seeing that you don't have the intention of hurting people, destroy your weapons to be a small ring, be careful not to be so reckless next time!" The leader of the Refugee Army did not see Philo speak, but his old voice sounded in their minds at the same time, and they were all shocked.
"Oh~~ Fang Cai Ross is just joking, don't take it seriously, old man! Although I don't know what Your Excellency Seventeen is for, but we refugees really need the supplies you mentioned now! If you can provide it to us free of charge, the team of our refugees can be driven by you!" Zhou Jin quickly stood up and said when he saw this.
"This is very good, although I can provide these materials to you free of charge, but I will also assign someone to manage and distribute them!"
"Okay! What kind of work do you need us to do, you can just tell us!" Zhou Jin heard this, and hurriedly agreed.
"Actually, I just want to recruit some soldiers from your team to help me avenge, those who have lost their mothers and are homeless are given priority, and I can provide a full meal and a monthly payment of a spar!"
"I am full~~?There are still spars to be earned?I~~ Ross just wants to do it! My grandmother was killed by the bastards in the seventh battalion of King Jin, and I am just that grandmother! We have depended on each other for more than ten years, and the old man was burned alive by the fire arrow! I want to follow you, and you will help me take revenge after you take revenge, okay? I~~ You don't need money!" The stupid big man Rose, who was only half a big knife, pleaded with tears in his eyes.
"As long as you are interested in joining, I will welcome it with both hands, if you want us to help each other and take revenge together, then ~ you have to listen to me!"
"No problem, as long as I can kill that bastard of King Jin, my life will be sold to you!" Rose roared with red eyes.
"What does Commander Zhou think?" Chu Mengchen glanced at Zhou Jin, who was frowning.
"Seeing that the seventeenth prince is not like an ordinary person, although I, Zhou Jin, can lead the troops to fight, but I can't do anything to feed so many refugees! If you can save us refugees and lead us to eat and drink enough clothes and clothing, what does it matter if you follow you?!" Zhou Jin suddenly raised his head and stared at Chu Mengjian and said.
"You mean~~ As long as I can solve your food and clothing problems, you are willing to become my soldiers and fight for me?"
"Yes~!The reason why we people form an army is nothing more than to protect our families and find a good place to settle down and survive, but unfortunately there are more and more people, and people's hearts are still uneven, and we can't form a whole! If the seventeenth prince can provide us with good living conditions, wouldn't it be good to serve you as the master!?"
"Okay~~!I can fight for a good place for you to survive! The items in these rings are the first batch of basic materials to improve people's livelihood, from now on, I will prove with practical actions that you follow me, it is definitely the wisest choice!"
"So~~~ Zhou Jin represents the commander of the ten battalions and eight villages of the Refugee Army, and he is the master of the Seventeenth Prince, from now on, you are the supreme commander of our Refugee Army!" Zhou Jinba was so unhappy that he quickly unloaded the heavy burden on his body.
Chu Mengchen was not pretentious, took the symbolic big stone from Zhou Jin's hand, and sat in Zhou Jin's original position generously, while Zhou Jin stood in the first place with a relaxed face.
"The first order that this son took over was to appoint Zhou Jin as the commander of our army, and he was fully responsible for the deployment and rectification of the team, and the materials in the ring were immediately issued, and I will assign Nancy and Lian Yinrou, two female generals, to be in charge of this matter full-time, and also ask Marshal Zhou to assist from it!"
"Obey the Lord's command!" Zhou Jin hurriedly replied when he heard this.
So, Chu Mengjian's soldiers exchanged the materials urgently needed by the refugee army for their first batch of teams, although this team was so weak and unorganized, Chu Mengchen was confident that he would manage them well.
With the efforts of Nancy and Lian Yinrou, Zhou Jin happily distributed all kinds of materials urgently needed by the refugees with the once bitter faces of the generals, and those simple refugees were overjoyed when they heard that there were savior-like figures who brought them hope for survival, and for a while, the name "Seventeen" set off a huge wave in the refugee tide......