"All stand upright! Listen to my command and turn left~! Turn right~! ”

In the scorching sun, in the open space outside the Triumphant City, Ronan stood against the sun, shouted at the group of people in front of him, and gave orders.

At this time, three days had passed since he got the territory documents of the Cold Wind Collar.

In the past three days, he was busy buying all kinds of needed materials in the city, comparing and bargaining prices among different chambers of commerce, running before and after, which really tossed him a lot.

In addition to buying supplies, the most important thing is to recruit soldiers who will go to the fiefdom together.

The distance from Triumph City to the Coldwind Territory is at least more than a thousand kilometers, not to mention the problems and troubles that may be encountered in this process, even if he arrives at the Coldwind Territory, Ronan will need a team that completely obeys his orders to officially control the territory.

Therefore, the recruitment of non-commissioned officers is extremely important.

It's just that due to the limited funds on hand, Ronan's original idea of recruiting a few hundred people first was shattered, and so far only a team of 60 people has been formed.

Among them were 10 knightly trained knightly squires, dug from under his father's hand, responsible for Eddard's armor and serving as Ronan's personal guard.

The other 50 people were warehouse workers who carried goods for the caravan nearby, and they were basically young and strong, simple-minded young men.

After hearing about Ronan's treatment and the allowance for their family, he immediately left his job and became his subordinate.

After recruiting people, the first thing Ronan needs to do is undoubtedly a military training item that modern people are familiar with.

He doesn't ask these people to have a high level of military literacy, in fact, that's not realistic, he doesn't understand it himself.

Ronan only needs to teach them two things.

Understands his orders, and will subconsciously obey orders!

You only need to do these two things, and you are already a qualified team.

The former has been largely completed during these three days of emergency training, while the latter can be done on the way to the fiefdom, which will take time for them to get used to it.

Ronan opened the list of materials in his hand, checked the information on it, and felt a heartache every time he saw the price marked on the back.

Affected by the Black Death, all prices were skyrocketing.

There is no doubt about the grain, although the nobles have a lot of grain in their hands, but this does not prevent them from raising prices wildly.

Salt and sugar are necessities for long-distance operations in the field, and naturally they also need to be prepared, as for other spices, Shu Ronan really can't afford them, so when they are not necessities, he only chooses a small amount of them.

The medicine Ronan himself has, and pure water also needs to be equipped, and even if the river water in the wild is boiled, it may not be safe.

Ronan also bought a lot of gold, silver, copper, iron ingots and various colored gemstones, which are some of the materials needed for the research workshop, and the rare good news is that the jewelry on the market has plunged significantly, so that he has prepared the demand.

In addition to these, the big head of the money is coming, weapons!

In addition to food, the price increase in the troubled times is probably the second thing, and Ronan can't let his men fight the enemy with their bare hands.

In this era, even a knight has to be hated on the spot when he is surrounded and slashed by a group of people without weapons.

Ed's weapons consisted of a family-assigned broadsword, but Ronan also needed to equip him with a full set of fully armed plate armor that matched his tall size, and a BMW with the blood of a monster that could carry his weight.

This set of equipment alone cost him more than 3,000 gold coins.

As for the others, it is naturally impossible to have this kind of treatment, and they can only wear weaker defense and cheaper chain mail, and when paired with a standard long sword, the average price of a set is fifty gold coins, and the total is almost three thousand gold coins.

The ten knightly squires were also armed with seventy-pound horn bows for long-range strikes.

Ronan also equipped each of the ten of them with a war horse of his own, otherwise the bow alone weighed four kilograms, and it was difficult to maintain combat strength during long journeys wearing chain mail and carrying swords.

At the cost, of course, his wallet dried up even further.

However, Ronan knows very well that this money cannot be saved, and now that the kingdom is in chaos, the devil knows what demons and monsters will be encountered on the way to the Cold Wind Territory.

Compared to safety, gold coins are not worth mentioning.

Ronan looked at the sixty fully armed adult strong men in front of him neatly lined up in a phalanx, waving their movements tigerly, and after already having a bit of bluffing momentum, he was a lot more relieved.

The real money is spent, and the effect is obvious.

As long as everyone can follow the orders neatly, ordinary thieves and rebels in the wilderness are not qualified to touch porcelain at all, even the armies of many barons may not be opponents.

When everything is ready, it's time to go.

After having a separate dinner with his family, Ronan gathered his men and left Triumph City early the next morning.

Three horses and knightly squires were at the forefront, scouting the path safely, and Ed was the one behind them.

In the center were three wagons laden with supplies and Ronan sitting on them, flanked by foot soldiers divided into five squads of ten men each, each commanded by a knightly attendant.

At the end were two horse-mounted knightly squires.

Ronan, leaning on the carriage, looked at his current speed, then opened the map to estimate the time it would take to get started.

At present, their speed is almost more than forty miles a day, and the distance from Triumph City to the Cold Wind Territory is simply two thousand miles, that is, it takes fifty days to reach the destination.

To be honest, this speed is a little too slow, Ronan frowned, there are only a small march of more than sixty people in total, and they are still on the official road built by the kingdom, and the road is smooth and unobstructed, so it is still too slow.

You must know that the first part of the journey is the easiest, and there are Kingdom troops nearby to clean it from time to time, which is safe enough.

All they had to do was cover their heads and go forward, and at night they fell asleep leaning against each other around the carriage.

After this distance, not only did the road become rough and bad, but there were also risks hidden around at any time, and it was necessary to set up a camp for defense during the night rest, and it took a lot of time to set up and demolish the camp.

In this way, there is a question mark over whether you can reach the Cold Wind Territory in three months.

Ronan wasn't worried about the so-called three-month dead line, after all, it didn't count the cost of the journey, as long as you left Triumph City, who would care about you.

What worries him is the consumption of the materials on hand.

Meat is okay, and you can rely on your men to hunt fresh meat in the nearby forests, and the wildlife resources of this era are abundant.

But salt is more troublesome, and the soldiers' demand for salt after a long journey is much higher than he imagined, especially Ed's goods, which are even more bottomless, and the amount he buys can only last for two months at most.

Another ten days of travel passed.

"Looks like we're going to have to change course." Ronan thought helplessly.

There were no large towns on the shortest route he had planned to trade, and the villages he occasionally encountered along the way had largely been reduced to death.

Luckily, just as he was struggling, the sentry ahead spotted the trail of a caravan.

Ronan took out the money bag that was about to bottom out, and then looked at the soldiers around him who had been banned by the preliminary order, thinking that the other party had better be more interesting.