Chapter 255: Unexpected Coalition Forces

The news that the lord will lead a team of knights to go to war has long been spread in Wubei Territory.

Many people, especially those living in Swamp Town, are worried about whether they will be pulled to the battlefield.

After all, Baron Leisen was like this at the beginning. As a vassal of Wushan Castle, he would respond to the call, but this does not mean that he will take out the most elite team to fight.

When Leisen thinks it is profitable, he will send more knights, otherwise he will send fewer. The least time seems to be that only three junior knights led the team to go to war.

With fewer knights, the well-trained cavalry, infantry and archers will naturally be sent less. But in order to make the scale look larger, Leisen will temporarily pull serfs and militiamen who have not been trained much to fill the number.

You say he did not respond to the call, but he really sent more than a hundred people to participate in the war;

You say he responded to the call, but his team has no combat power at all.

Given Leisen's operation, it is normal for the people of Swamp Town to have such concerns.

But their concerns are obviously redundant.

In the absence of logistics, Ronin had no intention of recruiting serfs and militia to fill the numbers. He asked them to do the autumn harvest, road construction, and reclamation in the territory, and to train people in their spare time, which was better than wasting their lives on the battlefield.

Although he thought so, he would not publicize it in the territory.

Officials headed by Wilson would say to the outside that this was the lord's pity for ordinary people like them, and he did not want them who had not received formal training to die on the battlefield. This was the lord's kindness, etc.

At the same time, they were also promoting the justice of Ronin's expedition, exaggerating the enemy's hatefulness, and the serious consequences that would be brought to Wubei Territory after the defeat.

This can not only make the people of the territory feel that the war is related to them and not just an outsider, but also establish Ronin's image from another perspective.

Of course, these propaganda speeches may not be very effective in the short term. Some ignorant serfs do not understand these things at all, and some people who are hostile to the nobles in their hearts will even pray that Ronin loses the war.

But as long as we persist in propaganda for a long time, it will definitely be effective, because Ronin has indeed allowed them to survive safely, and their lives will get better and better.

Take this year's autumn harvest for example. When the people in the territory saw the lush wheat seedlings in the wheat fields gradually turning golden like waves, they knew that this year would be a bumper year.

And this bumper harvest is related to the guidance of the village chiefs and team leaders, and their fertilization and care, which all come from the lord.

On July 7, Ridar had led the team out of Wubei Territory for several days, but Ronin, who had a dragon, still did not leave. He did not want to waste time on the road.

During this period, he rode Carlos to the swamp again and inspected the previously marked areas.

Fourteen suspected wild rice seedlings have now produced results.

Nine of them are ordinary weeds, and the remaining five are wild rice that coexists with barnyard grass and has grown green rice ears!

Although the scale is small, this discovery made Ronin very excited. The rice planting plan in his mind will be fully launched in the next few years.

In order to harvest more rice, he dug out the barnyard grass from the wild rice and transplanted it to the side. This thing hindered the growth of rice, but it was also useful, so Roning only transplanted it and did not remove it and throw it away.

The estimated date of rice maturity is about mid-to-late August, and Roning plans to harvest it then.

Thanks to Carlos, he now has Carlos, otherwise, he really doesn't know how to harvest rice on the front line. After all, this place is too far away from the swamp town, and it is difficult for Wilson and others to reach here.

After dealing with the wild rice, Roning rushed back to Shanlin Castle without stopping.

Knowing the principles of papermaking, he finally made the first piece of paper in the alien world after pulping, mixing, papermaking, pressing, drying and other steps.

Although it is grayish yellow and not as beautiful as white paper, it is obviously no problem to use it for writing.

Roning spent two days handing over the raw materials and boiled fibers required for papermaking to Gallon, asking him to prepare more materials when he left.

When the war is over and Ronin returns to Shanlin Castle, he can recruit some papermaking craftsmen to get more people involved in the papermaking business and get rid of the expensive parchment for the territory.

After dealing with these trivial matters, Ronin saw that the autumn harvest work in the territory began to proceed in an orderly manner, so he rode Carlos to leave the territory, and soon caught up with the team led by Rydar.

"My lord, you are finally here!"

Looking at Ronin who suddenly appeared from the woods on one side, Rydar was not surprised at all, but the soldiers behind him were very confused. Isn't the lord still in the territory? How could he come out of the woods?

"How was it, did you encounter other noble armies along the way?"

"We encountered the armies of the Horse Herding City and the Lake Town."

Rydar replied: "But their logistics team is longer than ours, and their marching speed is a little slower than ours. Now it is estimated that they are more than ten miles behind us."

Ronin nodded. When he was in the air, he did see a team behind him, but he didn't see it carefully. These guys didn't hang the emblem flags high like the team of Wu Beiling.

Ronin looked at Rogna in the team and asked: "Rogna, how many people did your father bring this time?"

"As far as I know, it should be a knight team led by Baron Snow."

Baron Snow is Kurami's father, a silver knight.

To be able to pull out a team of knights to participate in this war, Viscount Marvin was considered very thoughtful.

"Is Baron Hermann leading the team in Lake Town?"

"Yes sir!"

The person who answered the question was McCann. He had followed Luo Ning to Hushang Town and Wushan Castle, and had met the one-armed lone wolf Baron Hermann himself.

"However, his team is smaller than Viscount Marvin's. It is estimated that there are five or six knights, a dozen cavalry, and forty or fifty infantry."

Although Lake Town is a barony, its aquaculture business is good, and Herman's family is also rich. He should have two knight squads under his command.

Luo Ning frowned slightly and came out with only a few people. It seemed a little missing, right?

But fortunately, the bronze-level lord personally leads the team. Although the number of people is a bit small, the overall strength should not be weak, and it is not bad.

"The Boulder Territory is only a hundred miles ahead. Let's slow down the march and maintain the physical strength and condition of the good guys and horses."

They also brought supplies, but not much. When they arrived at the Boulder Territory, Galil would be in charge.

Because Luo Ning slowed down, on the third day, Viscount Marvin and Baron Hermann caught up with the team. The winding road was suddenly crowded with people, and it suddenly looked like a march.

Luo Ning glanced at the team of these two people.

Naturally, the overall quality of the knight team in Muma City seems to be higher. His horses and cavalry are all equipped with iron armor, but only the infantry and archers are a bit inferior.

"Uncle Marvin, I think you need to buy some iron and wood equipment for your infantry and cavalry."

Luo Ning said with a smile.

Marvin and Gehrman couldn't help but turn to look at Ronin's knight team. After two months of increased production, most of his infantry had put on Zha armor, which looked much more imposing than their infantry team.

And whether it was an illusion or not, the two of them always felt that Luo Ning's soldiers were more orderly and their actions were more disciplined.

"I asked Rogner two days ago if you had any for sale, but you didn't."

Marvin smiled and said: "When I go back this time, bring me sixty sets of armor first. I'll arm the infantry first."

"Give me sixty sets too."

Only a small half of Hermann's team were elites, but this did not prevent him from arming the soldiers who did not come.

"no problem!"

Luo Ning happily responded that before the war started, two businesses had been made.

The three-man team slowly approached the boulder collar. Here, Luo Ning encountered more and more noble troops.

But the situation of their army made Luo Ning look increasingly bad.

It turns out that Marvin and Herman's team quality is the best, and the teams led by the rest are completely inadequate.

Either they were too few in number, or they were just miscellaneous soldiers who were staggering around and looked like they had no fighting ability.

If nothing else, let’s talk about Baron Corner, who is about to go bankrupt.

Luo Ning was so moved by the other party's loyalty to Wushanbao that he was almost bankrupt and still participated in the war.

But the opponent and his own team of only three were really not enough.

"Viscount Vittorino is not here?"

Luo Ning frowned slightly.

Viscount Vittorino of Point City is a Silver Knight. Without him, the coalition will lose one high-end combat capability.

"Who else is not here?" (End of chapter)