Temporary camps are still being built.
But the performance is loose on the outside and tight on the inside. Even after the construction is completed, a high degree of vigilance is still maintained.
Everyone knows that there may be a tragic battle tonight. Since the enemy wants to sneak attack, how can they, who have already prepared, let those damned guys do what they want
Everyone squinted their eyes for a short rest in the tent, trying to get enough energy to wait for the next battle.
But dinner was still cooking.
As usual, bread and dry meat, sausage and fresh pork from the shop, with some cabbage and pumpkin, and a chowder of chickpeas cooked in a large iron pot.
With a little salt and spices, it tastes great.
There is no way to enjoy delicious food during the march, and it is time to celebrate after returning to the village.
There is no way.
The sun goes down, and dusk comes at last.
The west-slanting sun casts long shadows, which seem to be permeated with terror. This is the shadow of war.
"coming soon."
Kant muttered to himself calmly.
Dusk is the best time for war. Taking advantage of the comfort of dinner, you can catch the enemy by surprise, just like sleeping the most soundly in the dark before dawn.
The scattered desert robbers also came back one after another. It was time for dinner, and everything seemed normal.
Only on the east side, surveillance continues.
There are also a lot of forests on both sides of the river. Usually, they are mostly logging camps run by nobles and villages. However, there are occasional mercenaries who are short of money pretending to be robbers to rob the passing villagers. If there are a little more people, even caravans would dare Robbery is very common.
Even those water thieves would often lie in ambush in the deep forest, taking advantage of the night to attack the caravans camping in the wild, and some villagers were among them as internal support.
Those seemingly honest villagers will not let go of the opportunity to make a fortune, live on the dry land, and pay taxes to the nobles year after year, day after day, and even daily labor. Going to be cannon fodder is very miserable.
No one can pass up the opportunity to go further.
If you can leave the countryside and live in the city, you will have security. Not only will you not have to worry about the attacks of robbers and bandits, but you will not even have to pay the miscellaneous taxes of the nobles.
The most important thing is to become a citizen class. Not only can you get a job in the city, but it is also easier to get in touch with the nobles and rich people you hated before. Whether you become an apprentice to a craftsman or a smart scholar, you can It is much better than this poor rural class that is still as cruel as Europe in the Middle Ages.
Therefore, some villagers who are not reconciled to the status quo are also very willing to accept the olive branches handed over by the gangsters, and become internal agents and eyes and ears to inquire about information for them.
For example this is the case now.
Ambushing in the woods was a group of water thieves from the Reese Niston River. Most of the five water thieves had assembled and wanted to make a big move.
They are all lawless guys. They were able to be water thieves on the Reese Niston River, and they were besieged by the water armies of the human countries. They still survived and lived well. It is related to the secret collusion of some nobles, but more It's still the ferocity of these water thieves.
As long as you do this vote, and then escape to other places on the Reese Niston River to avoid the limelight for two years, and have a good time with a lot of money, it's not a good thing.
In particular, according to some local villagers, there will be a fleet of 50 carriages full of treasures passing by here, and these water thieves will be ready in the shortest possible time.
Even in order to arrange a retreat, it was also to flatter some of their backers. They even invited troops led by real knights in the Silver Plate Kingdom.
A team of 50 cars full of treasures, this is the news handed down from the upper nobles of the East County. It is said that the lord led the troops to defeat a certain sect. so and so.
Even the Countess of the East County and the Grand Duke of the Lion Principality don't care, they only recognize silver coins and golden eagles.
Fleeing beyond the Rethniston River to become a landowner or a well-to-do citizen in anonymity, none of them cared.
These are 50 carriages full of treasures, worth at least 5 million silver coins or even more.
According to the more than 6,000 people they gathered this time, even if a few pirate leaders and the nobles who colluded in the Silver Plate Kingdom had to share the bulk, the rest of them could live on about 500 large silver coins.
If more people die, the money will be distributed accordingly!
To know.
A landlord who owns 50 mu of land only has about 30 large silver coins a year.
Even for a well-run small and medium-sized caravan, the annual income is only about 100 large silver coins.
Look at the elite cavalry of the Lion Castle who escorted Kant to the sentry oasis at the beginning. They worked hard for 2 large silver coins each. not enough.
In fact, the common currency in this world is still small silver coins, and the big silver coins are used by caravans to checkout.
As for the golden eagle, it is purely a currency for trading between countries, big merchants and big merchants, top nobles and top nobles.
Each person can share 500 large silver coins, go to the human countries to buy a set of real estate, marry a daughter-in-law, live a good life, and almost have no worries in this life.
Even if you eat and drink, you don't have to worry about it for three to five years. At that time, you will come to the Reese Niston River to be a water thief. Anyway, you are familiar with the road!
Of course, the days of being a water thief are long enough, and who wants to continue to pin their head to the waistband of their trousers.
It's now.
Everyone's eyes were red, planning to take advantage of the darkness to defeat the enemy in the next battle.
As long as you win this battle, you will be reborn from now on, and a great day awaits you!
"Woo-"
A short horn sounded.
It was the pre-agreed signal that, on the neighboring farms and lumberyards, formations of regular troops appeared.
50 knights, 300 knight attendants, and 1,000 elite pikemen.
Troops on the side of the Silver Plate Kingdom.
They are all wearing chain mail, even the pikemen. In terms of troop equipment, the regular troops of the Silver Plate Kingdom are undoubtedly better than the Lion Principality.
Behind them are nearly 5,000 Reese Niston River pirates, with uneven equipment, such as chain mail, chain mail, iron-studded leather armor, leather armor, quilted cotton leather armor, and even some wearing only a thick leather jacket.
As for weapons, there are more long swords, short swords, scimitars, hatchets, short spears, short swords, daggers, etc., plus a lot of scattered wooden shields.
A group of murderous gangsters gathered together, a rabble.
Just as they acted, on the opposite side of a certain hillside not far away, three desert robbers got on their horses and left.
But in that group of water thieves, there were more than 300 people with different faces, walking at the back, and at the same time sent a few people back, and after a while they also became cavalry and ran in a big circle, heading towards Kant's temporary camp. He rode his horse and galloped away.
(end of this chapter)