Chapter 7: The Beggars
Menes returned to town with Nana and immediately gathered the army of the territory.
Seeing the group of ragged soldiers, Menes thought that she had gone to the wrong place and met a gang of beggars.
There were less than a hundred people in total, scrawny and crooked, with helpless fear written on their faces.
The soldiers couldn't figure out what this boy was going to do today? Hunting? Wouldn't he want to beat or kill people? This boy hadn't seen his own army for a long time, and now that he was resurrected, did he want us to go to war with the Anktifi family? Fight with an army like ours? Is this the coming of Anubis to punish us?
The soldier was careful not to speak.
The commander at the head was named Nacht, the only soldier who was well equipped, and although he stood solemnly and looked at Menes, he could see disdain and anger in his eyes.
Menes walked back and forth twice to review the army, and finally walked up to Nacht and said lightly, "This is your army?"
"This is your army, my lord!" replied Nacht, resoundingly.
Menes was stunned for a moment, hearing the resentment in it.
Menes moved his neck, slowly drew Nacht's short sword, waved it a few times, stopped at Nacht's neck, and said, "Give you seven days, I want to see an army that can stand in order." ”
"No, my lord!" Nacht said calmly.
"You!" Menes dagger stopped in mid-air, looked at Nacht with his eyes closed, patted his head lightly and asked, "Give me a reasonable explanation, otherwise I will be my divine punishment mummy!"
Nacht was pleasantly surprised to find that he had not been beheaded, which is unconscionable?
The brutal Menes didn't actually cut off his head?
The soldiers were frightened, and timidly stretched out their hands to cover their eyes, what kind of army is this, how can any army be afraid of killing?
Nacht took a silent breath and said, "My lord, the army has not been paid for three months, and everyone is so hungry!"
Menes gasped, she hadn't paid her salary for three months? What would my father do again? How dare the army deduct it? Aren't you afraid of rebellion?
Menes hooked her index finger and said to Nana, "You go and tell the high priest of Jett to pay the food immediately, no! I want it now, I want bread, ale, meat, fruits, and vegetables, immediately!"
Nana quickly left to inform Jett.
Menes placed the dagger in its scabbard.
"I'll give you all the pay, but you have to train my way, there's no word you can't do here, you know?" Menes said solemnly.
"Understood!" Nacht thumped his chest.
The local army of Kemert, most of the time, is actually to perform the duties of the police, arrest bandits, maintain law and order, basically do not know how to fight, when the country wants to go on an expedition, it is a temporary dispatch of peasants to be sent to the battlefield as cannon fodder after a little training, the kingdom only has a small number of elite troops, most of them are controlled by the pharaoh himself, and the only army that can compete with it is the temple legion in the hands of the high priest of the Holy City.
The weapons and equipment of the local army in the Holy Cat Prefecture are extremely tattered, and a rough and unpolished spear in each person's hand is considered a weapon, and most people do not have shields, not to mention armor, only noble warriors have the ability to equip it.
Menes even saw that the spears of the soldiers did not even have a metal head, but barely had an antelope horn stuck in it.
Soon Nana came with a group of men in a donkey cart, and the soldiers had already smelled the smell of meat and began to move, but only because Menes was present did not rush to rob them.
Nacht arranged for everyone to line up to receive food, and the soldiers desperately stuffed it into their mouths when they got it, and the scene felt like the victims were grabbing food at the aid point.
Menes frowned and did not speak, and when everyone had received the food, he also took a loaf of bread and sat on the ground and gnawed on it, and was a little hungry without lunch.
When the soldiers saw Menes sitting on the ground and eating bread with everyone, they nervously put down the bread in their hands and did not dare to eat it.
Menes noticed the anomaly and looked at Nacht, who hurriedly said, "My lord, commoners can't eat with nobles, do you want to go home and eat?"
Menes took a bite of the bread, looked at Nacht blankly, and said, "There are no nobles here, only warriors, and the rule in the future is that everyone eats together, this is my order!"
There was a lot of noise, but everyone still didn't dare to eat.
Menes stood up, put the bread back and said, "I won't eat it, you will eat!"
Everyone was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly lowered their heads to eat, there was enough food, and some people secretly wrapped bread and a small amount of meat and hid it, after all, the family was also out of food.
After everyone had eaten, Menes began to reorganize the army.
Kemmert's army was organized in the decimal system, a ten-man squad was in charge of a ten-man squadron, a centurion was set up for a hundred-person brigade, a thousand-man wing was called a corps commander, and ten thousand people were a division.
The rank of centurion and above was only held by nobles, so Nacht was considered the highest official among the commoners.
Menes was not very suitable for this type of organization, the composition of the army was too inflated, and the grassroots combat units were too scattered and too small.
Menes was reorganized in three or three according to his customary establishment, with a ten-man squad unchanged, a squadron of thirty men was set up on the top, and then three squadrons formed a brigade, that is, about a hundred men commanded by the centurion.
Three brigades form a battalion, three battalions form a team of 1,000 men, three regiments form a brigade, and three brigades form a division, of course, at this point of the army, not even a battalion, but this does not prevent Menes from licking his face and adding a false title of regimental commander to himself.
The main officers have not changed, and three squadron leaders have been promoted on the spot, and the salaries of three have been increased, which can be regarded as buying people's hearts, and the basis for the promotion of three people is that these three people can read documents and can write Braille.
Scholars in this world are scarce talents, but anyone who can read and write must use them well.
After the reorganization is completed, it is to teach and practice, starting from the basics, queuing, standing in line, listening to passwords, and running drills.
The ability of fighting and assassination does not need to be taught by Menes, but Nacht can be taught, after all, Nacht is the only person in the team who has actually participated in the regular army and fought in battle, and Menes can't catch up with this.
As for the arrears of wages, Menes did not know the actual situation at present, and could only temporarily promise the soldiers a reply within three days.
Weapons and ordnance and other things need to go back and talk to my father and Jett, how can this be?
After basically finishing and the sun was about to set, Menes disbanded the troops and took Nana home.
The soldiers returned home in twos and threes, because they were all police soldiers, so they did not live in the barracks, and being a soldier was the same as going to work.
Dill took the food he had hidden and rushed home, and today he did not have to go hungry, and the little girl had not eaten bread for several days, and had lived on some thick ale all day, so pitiful, Dill remembered that his daughter could not help but cry.
The legendary Menes was cruel and ruthless, doesn't it seem like that? It looks quite amiable? Could it be that it was mistaken before, or was it Anubis who sent down mercy and changed Menes?
It was horrible to hear the grapevine that Menes had also brought back some resurrected mummies, and Dill thought back to the day.
Regardless of this, it is important to eat a full stomach first, and I don't know when the food and wages owed to us will be paid?