Since the Moore family has an informant on Count Markas's side, they can accurately judge the official time of Count Marcus's troops, so they actively invite the lords of the Watch Alliance to come to Montelon City.

Since everyone had already agreed, they naturally agreed.

Claire is also preparing to take the army to Monserlen, but before that, some work in the territory needs to be arranged.

After waiting for Bart and Norman to return, Claire gathered the crowd for a small meeting to relay the current situation.

"So, now what we have to face is only a counterattack by the barons near the Tiling River under the command of Count Marcus?" Bart frowned, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Hmm." Claire nodded, giving Bart a second look. "According to the intelligence, Count Marcus will not send many troops, and the main force is still the army brought out by the barons before. These armies have experienced the great war in the north, and there must be a lot of attrition, and even if they are replenished now, their combat effectiveness will definitely decline. ”

"In that case, the chances of us succeeding in defending this area are quite high." After listening to Norman, he expressed his opinion, from beginning to end, Norman's expression was very relaxed, as a high-level professional, he has experienced a lot of big scenes, and he has also participated in some battles of this level in front of him, so naturally there is nothing to worry about.

The others also nodded, in fact, only these barons' troops who lost their territories, everyone was really not too worried, after all, Claire was not alone this time, the barons who came to seize the territory near the Tiling River, except for Claire, did not come with elite troops, even if the number of troops was not as good as the other party, but the combat effectiveness would definitely not be inferior.

"Then, the most important personnel arrangement is next." Claire made sure everyone had no opinion and spoke her mind.

At present, Claire's own people, that is, Wade, Ivan and his son, Malone and Eugene, the members of the two mercenary groups, although they also listen to him, but after all, they are not his subordinates, just an employment relationship, and Claire is a little untrustworthy.

After combining all the things, Claire made the following arrangement.

Claire took Eugene, Bart, and Malone on the expedition, and Norman stayed behind with Wade and Ivan to stay in the territory.

Since Claire is leaving Tilling Town, then she must leave a trustworthy one, although Ivan and his son have proved their loyalty, they may not be able to command the mercenaries, so they can only leave Wade behind.

Of the two mercenary captains, Norman's personal strength is stronger, and Barth's command ability is outstanding, so he must take Norman to the expedition and stay with Norman to garrison.

The strength of the expedition was mainly composed of the two hundred soldiers who surrendered in the territories around Tilin Town and the three hundred recruits that Wade had previously trained in Domey City, and some professionals from the Flame Mercenary Regiment to lead the army as the backbone.

The small mercenary group, which has not yet been formed, continues to garrison Domey, and the garrisons in other places are handed over to the recruits trained by Claire in the town of Tilling and the members of the two mercenary groups.

In this way, it can ensure that the army on the expedition has a certain combat effectiveness, and the territory defense force is strong enough.

Everyone has no opinion on Claire's arrangement, Claire's subordinates naturally will not oppose Claire's suggestion, while the mercenary group's is to take money to do things, just obey orders obediently, except for Norman.

Norman said that he didn't want to sit in Tilling, and felt that it was enough for Tilin to have members of the two mercenary groups and Bella, a mid-level magician, in charge, and he wanted to participate in a frontal war.

Norman's idea, Claire thought about it for a while and agreed, this time Claire's strength staying behind is indeed stronger than the strength of the expedition, and it doesn't make much difference whether Norman has or not. After all, Claire's territory is not on the front line, and it is unlikely that the enemy will attack from behind.

Claire nodded and agreed, and everyone went to their own preparations, and Claire left Wade and Little Ivan father and son behind to arrange the work later.

Today, the entire Claire collar can be said to be taking shape, but there are still many problems that need to be taken care of.

First of all, it is the new barony that Bart has captured, and the unified policy needs to be implemented as soon as possible. Secondly, the internal infrastructure of Claire Collar should also be completed as soon as possible, especially the road construction. Only when the road is completely repaired and the entire territory can be walked in half a day, can the entire Claire Territory be preliminarily kneaded.

As for the most important task, it is undoubtedly military construction.

This time, Claire took away basically all the trained troops in the territory, and the follow-up army, Claire's idea was to form a musket army.

Thanks to the successful robbery of the Normans, there is no shortage of raw materials, so the large-scale manufacture of muskets and equipping them will be on the agenda.

In view of the fact that several people did not know much about how to train musketeers and how to tactics, Claire explained the simple three-stage shooting method, and taught them to practice simple bayonet fighting and shooting, and they must be trained well.

Training a musketeer, even with the cost of ammunition for daily shooting, is far less expensive than a hoplite, let alone a cavalryman.

Cavalry, Claire naturally wants it, considering the strength of the territory and the problem of patrolling, Claire only gave a quota of a hundred, and it is not difficult to find a hundred skilled cavalry with bows and horses from the entire Claire.

The last little bit of a problem, that is, the governance of various places, a few pieces of the initial barony education has been carried out for a while, it is time to select some talents to familiarize themselves with government affairs and learn management.

Claire gave this task to Ivan and his son.

When everything was arranged and everyone left, Claire was just relieved and thinking about the upcoming war when a person forgotten by Claire appeared in front of Claire.

Seeing the person in front of her, Claire only felt a faint pain in her head, and her lips, which felt dry after saying too many words before, were now a little speechless.

It was none other than Tilling's only special guest, Lynn.

Lynn learned that Claire was about to leave for Monselon and came out of nowhere, naturally wanting to go with Claire.

Claire definitely can't agree, just kidding, it's going to war, not to go sightseeing, how can you take a little Lori with you.

After being sternly rejected by Claire, Lin immediately became aggrieved and looked at Claire with tears in her eyes.

When Claire saw this scene, she only felt that her scalp was numb, but thinking about the danger of the battlefield, she still firmly refused, and explained to Lori in a soft voice.

It's a pity that the things that little Lori decided are not so easy to change, otherwise, she wouldn't be here.

After all that failed, little Lori continued to attack Claire.

"Hey, no, what are you doing!" Claire was stunned.

"No, this won't work!"

"Eh, I was wrong, I was wrong, it's up to you. Don't, don't..."

“......”

In the end, Lynn left satisfied, leaving only Claire who wanted to cry without tears.