The next few days were uneventful.
After the location of the headquarters of the mercenary regiment was selected, the seeds from the Far East Heavy Industry mining area outside Duanhe City began to move to Heiliu City in batches. From the construction and reconstruction of the new site, to the formation movement of the seeds, as well as the necessary logistics supplies, Song Hu took care of it all by himself. Seeing Song Hu up and down, back and forth, so busy that he was about to fly, Qianye simply sent Ah Qi and Ah Jiu to be his assistants.
The way of managing the world that the pair of twin girls learned in the business group finally came into use. They were both patient, meticulous and willing to work hard. Within two days, they were able to take charge of their own affairs and became Song Hu's right-hand man.
Qianye only listened to the report once every night, and let them do all the other things. He himself spent most of his time practicing in the quiet room. Qianye had already decided to install a mercenary group, so he went on a hunting tour in the wilderness, not only to get rewards to keep the mercenary group running, but also to see the situation outside with his own eyes. In the wilderness, the most secure thing is one's own strength.
At this moment, Wei Potian was still struggling with the pile of documents, and Wei Hou, who had disappeared for two days, walked in quietly. Wei Dongming saw that although Wei Potian was still grinning at the document, but the handwriting was not in the slightest mess, he nodded secretly very satisfied.
Wei Potian hurriedly stood up and asked, "Father, are you back so soon?"
Wei Dongming was obviously in a good mood, and scolded with a smile: "Your father and I have many important affairs, so I don't have a lot of time to spend in this tiny place. But I have been walking around these few days, and the situation is still calm, which means that you still have to deal with government affairs. I put my heart into it."
Wei Potian grimaced, and said, "These trivial things are more annoying than fighting!"
Wei Dongming turned his face and began to lecture again: "You will be the head of the family in the future, how can you know how to fight and kill all day long! Since your Uncle Bo Niantang is not willing to take over as the teacher this time, let's take this Just hand over the defense area to the Expeditionary Army. Of course, you can’t just give it to them for nothing, you have to let them bleed a little.”
Speaking of this, Wei Dongming's face turned relaxed, and said: "I have ordered someone to arrange the itinerary, you can come with me in a few days. The ancestor misses you very much, and you should meet those girls in advance Here, choose the one you like, so that your father and I can hug our grandson sooner."
Unexpectedly, Wei Potian said: "Uncle Liutang has agreed to stay."
Wei Dongming was taken aback immediately: "What? Bo Nian wants to stay?!"
Wei Potian spread his hands and said: "Yeah, I don't know what's going on. Uncle Liu Tang refused to agree to it no matter what two days ago, but he suddenly told me yesterday that he decided to stay. Today he has gone to inspect the surrounding outposts. .”
Wei Dongming still couldn't believe it: "This is absolutely impossible! He has clearly agreed..."
Speaking of this, Wei Dongming immediately shut up, but Wei Potian had come to his senses, staring at his father with unkindness in his eyes.
When Wei Dongming met Wei Bainian at night, he didn't show too much surprise. His cousin has always been indifferent, since he is interested in the Eternal Night Continent and can acquire a beloved item, Wei Dongming will naturally not object, but the layout of the Wei family here needs to be adjusted accordingly.
The two brothers have many years of experience in handling similar matters. Wei Bainian briefly talked about the resource and manpower needs and arrangements. Finished.
Only then did Wei Dongming talk about one of his gains from going out for the past two days, "I already know who the man behind is, the seventh son of the Song Clan, Song Zining."
Since Wei Potian didn't say anything, Marquis Wei certainly wouldn't openly ask his son's cronies, no matter what the reason, one servant should not have two masters. As for the Expeditionary Army Xiao Lingshi, it is even more impossible to reveal it.
But as long as anything in this world is done, it is impossible to have no traces. As long as you follow the huge profit channels behind Wu Zhengnan, you can get a glimpse of the clues from the changes. Besides, Marquis Wei doesn't need to get empirical evidence like investigating a case, a rough guess is enough.
Wei Bainian was taken aback for a moment, Song Zining's reputation was not obvious, he had hardly heard of this name, then he thought of some traces he saw at the scene of Wu Zhengnan's death, and suddenly realized: "By the way, so to speak, the flame of the original force at the scene, It may be the Song Clan's combat skill, the Fireworks Paycheck Spear." As he spoke, he couldn't help frowning: "Song Clan?"
The Far East Wei family has always maintained neutrality with the four great powers, and they are not particularly close to anyone. After Wei Potian joined the Broken Wings Angel, he belonged to the White Dragon Armor of the White Clan, but this connection due to the establishment did not reflect his position. However, when Wei Potian was dealing with Wu Zhengnan's mixed public and private affairs, he chose to join forces with the seven sons of the Song Clan, which had a completely different meaning.
Wei Dongming said again: "Just now Shiqing told me that Qiyang's son's keepsake has been taken back, and asked her to cancel the external authorization." , using it is no exception, both brothers know that Wei Potian's gift to Qianye's prince has not really been exchanged for resources.
Wei Bainian was slightly taken aback. He was a little suspicious that the people behind the scenes wanted to influence the prince through Qianye, but this news came unexpectedly. If he had attempted it, why would he give up such a great opportunity.
Wei Dongming said flatly: "Let's stop here. Since Qiyang regards this as his own private matter, we don't need to delve too deep into it. He is not a child anymore, so he should understand what he is doing."
Wei Bainian nodded, and had no objection to his elder brother's decision. What the Wei family needs is a man at the helm, not a puppet who obeys orders. Even parents cannot completely control their children, after all, they have to walk the future road by themselves.
Wei Bainian's style of leading troops is vigorous and vigorous, which is completely different from his elegant appearance. It took him three days to inspect the entire defense area, and he also handled several conflicts with two adjacent divisions along the way. The so-called conflict was actually because he instructed his subordinates to take the initiative to provoke by trivial matters, and then used this as an excuse to force one of the two divisions and bring the two adjacent military strongholds in important positions under his control.
In the past few days, Qianye's mercenary group also received their first entrustment agreement from Wei Bainian.
The mercenary group will take over the defense of two small towns on the outskirts of Heiliu City. The monthly defense cost of each small town is 300 gold coins, which is barely enough to maintain the daily expenses of the entire mercenary group, but it is far from enough to develop. insufficient. The only way out is to increase the cost of defense after the start of the war, and to use the achievements of killing the dark race in exchange for bounties from the empire.
This evening, it was time for Song Hu to report to Qianye again.
Song Hu organized the mercenaries into five squadrons, each with one hundred people. He selected four experienced fighters from the original batch of seeds, and divided them into two teams. Ah Qi and Ah Jiu led one team each, and Song Hu himself commanded the other team.
Afterwards, it was all trivial matters of renovation and training. Qianye only heard the general idea, and the only thing he deserved to pay attention to was the issue of follow-up funding. Resources are what leaders need to focus on, and other trivial matters only need to be properly employed.
Afterwards, Song Hu talked about the defense of the theater he was assigned to. Qianye just signed an agreement with Wei Bainian, and Song Hu will hand over the specific takeover matters to the Seventh Division headquarters. It stands to reason that he just got the defense map in the afternoon, and it will take at least a day or two to formulate a specific plan.
Qianye looked at the map of the war zone that Song Hu had spread out, and felt a slight twitch in his heart. It was a coincidence that the two towns assigned to him were Dengta Town where he had stayed for half a year, and the other town was also next to Dengta Town. It looks like dozens of kilometers.
Song Hu's expression was a little dignified, and he said, "My lord, how is your relationship with the Wei family?"
Qianye looked up at him and said, "Is this important?"
Song Hu pointed to the map and explained.
These two small towns are actually very bad. After being uprooted and looted by Mr. Zhao's forces by the expeditionary forces, Dengta Town has not recovered its vitality so far. There are only a thousand permanent residents in the entire town.
Another black mud town is slightly better than Lighthouse Town, but its location is more protruding to the dark territory than Lighthouse Town, and it belongs to the most border area of the entire Three Rivers County. Beyond that, there are only a few human settlements. Black mud town is located on the edge of the black mud swamp, with a barren and harsh environment. Most of the people living in the town are scavengers and herbal gatherers who risked their lives to enter the swamp.
"Look here." Song Hu pointed to a certain location in the middle of the black mud swamp, and then drew a route leading directly to a dark race city 300 kilometers away.
"This is the Spider Nest City, which is full of nerubians and werewolves, and there may be a small number of demons. In the past large-scale wars, they would occasionally pass through the black mud swamp and go straight into the black stream city. The swamp environment cannot stop Nerubians can be held, and werewolves can ride across the swamp on the minion's body."
Qianye couldn't help but glanced up at Song Hu, and asked, "Have you fought in this area before?" It should have only been two or three hours since Song Hu got the defense zone map, but he has already grasped the surrounding environment so clearly.
Song Hu replied: "Of course not. But since you want to take root in Heiliu City, of course I have to collect more information." That is to say, Song Hu has been paying attention to the surroundings of Heiliu City since he was with Qianye. trend.
No, Song Hu didn't just pay attention to the theater of the Seventh Division. Qianye looked at the map. The distance from the two small towns to the Spider Nest City opposite the Black Mud Swamp was more than 300 kilometers. Such a vast area, even in Yongye, is beyond the defense range of a division.
Seeing this, Qianye said: "It seems that it is not a problem for you to be the chief of staff of a division."
Song Hu said lightly: "Ten years ago, I was a division chief of staff in the Tenth Army of the Empire. I was fooling around. After being injured, my rank was lowered by two levels. I couldn't stay in my original position, so I retired. The Song Clan eats their own food."
Qianye was slightly moved. The Tenth Legion was the main force of the empire, and the gold content of the officers there was completely different from that of the expeditionary army. Unexpectedly, Song Zining sent him such a person.
Song Hu finally said: "If it wasn't for the big war, the dark race in Spider Nest City wouldn't have worked so hard to cross the swamp, so our task this time would be easy. However, this time it is indeed a big war, so it is almost certain that there will be people from the swamp My son, if General Wei assigned us two towns, if it was just a coincidence, no one would believe it, right?"