Medieval Empire Soldier Chapter 54

  Chapter 54 Fifty-four Territorial Planning and Construction

  The soldier with the beard on his face walked past the stage, rejoined the team, and tightly usurped the reward purse.

   "Gavin Clinton! Kill four Norsca barbarians, seven bad-horned beasts, and three big-horned beasts in total! Reward 33 silver coins! In addition to combat merit, an additional 10 silver coins will be awarded!"

  Under the stage, the crowd was in an uproar.

   "43 silver coins! My God!"

   "This money is almost equal to a year's salary for an ordinary soldier!"

   "The Lord has given too much"

   A pair of envious eyes focused on the young sergeant, and Gavin immediately came out of the line, his heart was surging, but he was calm on the surface.

   He walked quickly to the front of the stage, and his salute was very straight: "Lord Lailun!"

   "You did a good job, Gavin." Laren handed him the bag of silver coins, smiled and praised: "As the captain, you have played a good leading role."

   "Keep up the good work! Next time, I hope to see more military exploits!"

   "Yes! Your Excellency!"

   Ten minutes later, Lallen rewarded the soldiers for their merits. Whether it was the Oak Village army or the reinforcements at Berg Post, everyone got their due reward.

   They weighed the heavy purse and couldn't help showing a happy look.

The conscripted transport militiamen received far less rewards than the combat soldiers, but they also received two or three silver coins more or less. Since they went out for more than half a month, they have been busy with logistics and transporting wounded soldiers all day, which is equally hard. .

A team of spear and shield soldiers left behind in Oak Village. They only got a few catties of food and a dozen or twenty copper coins. Looking at the gap between the soldiers who went to battle and themselves, the soldiers who stayed behind were holding on with strength, and many people secretly swore in their hearts. , do your best to get the next chance to fight!

  You have to come to the stage to receive the reward! Get more loot!

   The gaps in all aspects will allow healthy competition among soldiers.

The only thing the    kingdom knights have to do is to channel their belligerence and kill the enemy.

As for the soldiers who died in battle, Lailun gave their families the most generous pacification, handing out 50 silver coins at one time. If there is a military exploit, the reward will be doubled. In addition, each family will allocate dozens of catties of food. Their family members can receive 30 catties of rice noodles and meat from the village granary every month.

  Families of several families of fallen soldiers were both sad and relieved when they took over the money bags and grain bags from the lord.

  In the old world empires, the most common thing for nobles to do is to care about people's lives. They don't compare their hearts to their hearts, and they don't need to be appeased with real rewards and generous treatment. Why should the soldiers under their command work for the nobles?

   If you shoot a few arrows, you will be worthy of His Majesty the Emperor.

  Lairn is naturally not bound by the limitations of the feudal aristocracy. The move of the Kingdom Knights fundamentally solved the soldiers' worries.

   Soldiers who dare to fight, are willing to fight, and are not afraid of fighting are the keys to a strong army.

  With the arrival of the deep winter, outdoors in the north of the empire, it is rare to see people walking around. It is a good thing to be able to stay at home and burn a fire comfortably.

  The Oak Village in winter is a hot scene.

  Crowds of people going back and forth, constantly shuttled on the dirt roads inside and outside the village.

On the outside of the village, dozens of men and women gathered in one open space after another. From the direction of the forest logging field in the north of Oak Village, several mule carts and ox carts filled with wood came in a hurry, and then by the construction site. The young men hurriedly unloaded.

   Most of them were brought back from the northern battlefield by the knights of the kingdom. Their homes were burnt and they were short of clothing and food. Fortunately, the lord of Oak Village allocated relief food and provided cotton-padded clothes for the winter.

   Relief resources are limited to the elderly and the weak and those with limited mobility. Young and strong people with strong energy and strong bodies must rely on their own labor to get three full meals for the day and cotton-padded clothes for the winter.

   There are a few able-bodied young men who don't work and do nothing all day, and distribute enough bread and vegetables for five days to be eaten by them in two days.

  Those who want to go to the forest for poaching have no arrows. If they don't work, they can only starve to death. So, a few idle guys came up with bad ideas and began to blackmail the old and the weak in private, robbing them of their food and cotton-padded clothes.

   That night, the Knights of the Kingdom personally led more than a dozen soldiers, and without saying a word, hanged them all on the wooden frame at the entrance of the village.

  The icy and stiff corpse deter other ulterior motives.

  The dwarves of the Stone Helm clan walked back and forth on the construction site, and they commanded the wooden houses built by the villagers with a loud voice.

   "These short-bearded humans are clumsy at work!"

   "The craftsmanship of those carpenters is also poor! The dwarves are not comparable at all!"

   "If you want me to say, let the mustaches of the mountains be much better than them!"

   "Yes, yes!"

   Hearing the constant chatter of the dwarf craftsmen, Laylen's ears were about to cocoon.

   They complained loudly about the poor craftsmanship of human carpenters, complaining about too many people on the construction site, too crowded, too noisy, tools not in hand, bad weather, too full of food in the morning and so on.

   A little dissatisfied, the dwarf said it bluntly.

   If it weren't for the ability of dwarf craftsmen to be reliable, the construction speed is fast, and it is strong and durable. The knights of the kingdom had already started to sew their mouths one by one so that they could not speak at all.

   In fact, dwarves like lively places very much.

   This is also one of the reasons why dwarves usually go to taverns to drink, the bonds of fellow clansmen bind them together.

   "One more barley wine! No glass! Wine!" - Dwarven slang

   On the construction site outside the village, several braziers were burning in a built shack.

"Kid Lallen! Your village is too small! This piece of wood fence will hold back the momentum of development." Chief Langone of the Stonehelm clan sat unceremoniously on the long table, pressing a thick finger on the west of Oak Village. floor plan.

   After he became a hero under Lallen, he had already regarded Oak Village as his second home, and he was very attentive to the entrustment of the Kingdom Knights.

  Langoni said in a loud voice: "This way! Just demolish the wooden fence! At least 300 rooms can be built in the empty space! Enough to accommodate those homeless humans!"

   "But... the fence is torn down. If there is an enemy attack, the village will have nowhere to defend." Lailun was holding a cup of hot water, looking a little hesitant.

Although    dwarf craftsmen are professional and reliable, sometimes they are bold and radical ideas are unacceptable.

   "Squeak. Squeak"

   There was a sound of footsteps outside the shack, and the sound of something falling on a plank.

  In the shack, the attention of one person and one dwarf was attracted by the movement outside.

   After a while, there was no change.

   "Maybe the snow on the roof hit the planks." Lallen turned his head.

   He waved his hand to continue the discussion.

   "Alas! Boy Lallen, listen to what Longbeard has to say!"

Langni Stone Helmet blew his beard and stared: "Look, although the western part of the village is a large open space, take a closer look! In the far west, there is a hill with extremely high terrain, and there is a river passing through it in the south, etc. Expanding out, only the north needs to be defended!"

   "Only good, no bad!"

   "Well then, just do as you say." Lallen was speechless.

   Sure enough, professional things must be left to professional people.

   determined the construction policy, the dwarf Langone muttered a dwarven language, and then impatiently drove the kingdom knight out of the shack, he wanted to concentrate on designing a large waterwheel and a dwarven blacksmith shop.

   This is also the task that Lallen entrusted him, and it is worth 20 gold coins.

Before leaving, the dwarf did not forget to taunt, the pointed-eared elf standing at the door the whole time: "Oh! Brother Lallen, remember to keep the pointed ears away from where I work! I can smell a bad smell through the door. Musty smell!"

Not long ago, there was a huge grizzly bear wandering in the north of the village. The next day, the grizzly bear was dragged by Katarinato on its hind legs and threw it in front of the lord's longhouse. She also asked the guard to tell Lallen a sentence. The words "do not owe each other."

   "Katarina is not here." The kingdom knight smiled, and he was too lazy to care about the conflict between the wood elves and the dwarves.

   Putting on a bearskin coat, he moved gently towards the wooden door of the shed. Just as he turned around, a crisp and pleasant female voice sounded beside the door.

   "Damn short stack." The wood elf Katarina's face was gloomy and uncertain, and her amber eyes were full of anger.

Under the dark green cloak of the wood elf, she was wrapped in a close-fitting and thick deerskin jacket. The raised neckline half covered her slender and fair neck. The knuckles of her clenched woodland longbow were slightly white.

   Obviously, she was provoked by Langoni's words. In the Lauren Loren Forest, she, as the queen's maid in gray, had never been treated so humiliatingly!

  Lyren raised his brows and stepped out of the shack with a playful tone: "What is the noble Esley doing here? Is he inspecting work?"

   "I can go wherever I like, human, can you control it?" Katarina raised her eyes and glared at the Kingdom Knight, snorted coldly, flung her ponytail, and walked away.

  Lairn looked at the figure of the female elf disappearing quickly, shook his head, and said in a bitter tone, "Tsk, it's unreasonable to make trouble."

   Since Katarina was recruited by him, every time the knights of the kingdom go out, someone faintly follows.

  Lyren was so busy training the troops in the infantry battalion that he didn't have time to pay attention to the arrogant pointy ears.

   These days, the wood elves are just like before, appearing in the vicinity of Lailun without knowing it.

   The long-bearded dwarf in the shack with white hair and beard, based on Laren's pre-set territory plan, drastically changed several places to make the layout more reasonable.

The most populous residential area will be built in the west of Oak Village, where the terrain is flat, mostly wilderness, with sparse woods, not to mention the already built infantry battalion is also located in the west of Oak Village. arrived.

   In the future, taverns, hotels, shops, churches, hospitals, etc. will be built in the residential area, a series of livelihood buildings will be used to increase the development of the territory and accommodate more population.

   Oak Village doesn't even have a decent workshop, and there is no industrial development. As a farming society, it is natural to lack large tracts of farmland.

   As the economic lifeline of Oak Village, and to cope with the rapid changes in population growth.

Among the    Stonehelm Clan, the rank second only to Rangni is Methia Stonehelm, a long-bearded dwarf who is known for farming, and was commissioned by Lallen to investigate whether the land around the village is suitable for planting crops.

   After the long-bearded dwarf made a rigorous and careful field investigation, he came to the conclusion that in the south of Oak Village, the land near the water flow is better, the terrain is flat, suitable for large-scale planting of crops, and it is also convenient to harvest.

  It is envisaged that on the east side of Oak Village, near the banks of the York River, several workshops and blacksmiths will be built using water power.

   Dwarf craftsmen and human craftsmen will continue to produce weapons, armor, and other necessary living utensils there.

   Oak Village has abundant forest resources. The logging farms in the boreal forest continue to cut down trees, and the value created by them accounts for a huge proportion of Oak Village's income.

   Every month, caravans come to Oak Village to buy a large amount of local high-quality wood and sell them to various places.

  Lyren is keenly aware of the importance of commercial roads. In the old world human empire, all large cities are located in commercial arteries, thus developing rapidly.

   For example, the wharf of the Reik River "flows not water, but gold" - the capital of the Empire, Adolph.

   The free city-state that controls 40% of the entire old world's trade export volume - Marienburg Free City.

   Basin city connecting the east and west mountains of the empire - Tara Behem

   Therefore, the construction of carriage and horse stations, trade markets, and shops also need to be included in the construction progress, so that "freedom of wealth" can be realized as soon as possible, and the development of the territory is not restricted by money.

   However, the first priority is to build up enough population and train troops, and to accumulate hard power.

  Lauren plans to expand the army, aside from the existing number of soldiers, there are about 200 young men in the village.

   The initial reclamation of arable land requires 40 people, and the logging field requires 30 people. The construction of the village is also in progress and requires about 100 people. That is to say, there are only 30 young people who can be vacated at this stage.

   At this time, the newly built infantry battalion will come into play.

The effect of the    Infantry Battalion is "-20% training time", plus Sergeant Lallen's Sergeant, Gavin's characteristic "Military Instructor -10% training time", the effect can be superimposed to -30% training time.

   Soldiers who normally take 60 days to form, now train in 42 days.

   There are still more than two months until spring ploughing in 2053 of the imperial calendar, which is enough to train a new batch of soldiers.

  The knights of the kingdom came to the infantry camp in the west of the village, and they could see a large two-story wooden house in a circle, which was the rest area for the soldiers stationed there.

  On the second floor, there are also armories, material warehouses, weapons and armor maintenance areas, command rooms, conference rooms, and independent kitchens, which can accommodate up to 260 soldiers.

  The entire infantry battalion is surrounded by a two-meter wooden fence, which is closed and can effectively prevent the military discipline from being scattered.

There are several large open spaces in the   , which are the infantry drill field, the gladiatorial field, the long-range shooting range, the physical training field and the special training field.

The drawings given by the    system have a very complete internal structure.

   It took half a month and a lot of building materials to get such a magnificent infantry battalion.

  True value!

  Lairn couldn't help but look forward to the appearance of the second-level lord's longhouse, whether it would give people a new look.

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