Warlord: King of All Clans

Ivan's most important job is to serve as the military leader of Hekou Town and keep the armed forces firmly in his hands.

In order to develop Gravel Fort, Leo took away most of the young and strong refugees. The proportion of the elderly and the weak in the cassava flour processing plant was very high, and there were only 650 young and strong people left.

This also included the fifty Hewan soldiers and one hundred skilled laborers left behind by Leo.

What Ivan needed to do was to use these 150 people to control the remaining 500 young and strong refugees and train them into skilled laborers and reserve military forces.

There is no need to spend time figuring out the training methods, as they have already been put into practice in the Riverbend Refugee Camp.

In addition to the morning assembly drills and a whole day of collective labor, there is also a morning of military training every three days to learn basic combat commands, weapon control, and the use of city defense equipment.

At the end of each month, an assessment will be conducted and the best ones will be incorporated into the Hekou Town Militia to become part-time soldiers.

The part-time militiamen of Hekou Town receive the same treatment as the Hewan Militiamen, and their military training is more frequent and of higher intensity.

At the same time, they will participate in the patrol missions of the River Bend Territory and receive one-third of the infantry pay as conscription compensation.

These militiamen are the reserve forces of the lord's army. They serve as an excellent reserve of soldiers, waiting to be pulled out for actual combat one day and further transformed into a field army.

As for the remaining elderly, weak, women and children, without the support of armed forces, they can neither cause chaos nor seize power, let alone consider the possibility of rebellion.

Most of the lower-class people only want to satisfy their basic needs, survive and reproduce, and there are not many who are truly ambitious and capable.

Moreover, in the face of strict systems and powerful military force, their ambitions can only be transformed into motivation for hard work and progress, rather than conspiracy, intrigue, and plunder.

Ivan only needs to complete the military knowledge taught by Ulyan and the rules and regulations formulated by Leo step by step, and he can firmly grasp the Hekou Town in his hands.

Although he is Leo's little follower, he is also one of the oldest militia captains in Riverbend.

Compared with the extremely small probability of rebellion and external attacks, civil disputes and production order are the real test for Ivan, so people like Rambo Rabbit and Basarov stayed to assist him.

After all, to suppress rebellion and resist invasion, all you need is a strong fist and a sharp knife.

Dealing with civil disputes and maintaining production order requires human relations and management wisdom.

Unlike the River Bay Peninsula, the river mouth town is not deep in the wilderness and is almost isolated from the world.

Next to him was the World Tree Avenue, where not only small caravans from around Isembol appeared, but even large caravans from the West passed by.

These caravans, big and small, would occasionally stop for the night under the western watchtower. Now that there was a castle next door, how could they not go and check it out?

Moreover, there were already three thousand refugees gathered there, and no matter how poor they were, there would be some transactions between them.

Although Rio had made preparations and reserved enough space outside the south gate of the processing plant to build a market.

But before he could do anything, a small market had spontaneously formed on the open space.

The emergence of vendors and markets enriched the supplies of processing plants.

The people of the neighboring Solovie Knight Territory would come here to sell their agricultural products, and the garrison soldiers of the western outpost would also come here to consume.

Even the pioneer knights and villagers in the natural villages in the western outpost would come from far away to attend the market.

After all, the western outpost is thirty kilometers away from Isenpol. If there is no animal power, the villagers carrying the goods need to walk from dawn to dusk.

Compared with the step-by-step military management, complex civil management is more difficult and not something a young man like Ivan can handle easily.

Even with the assistance of Basalov and others, Ivan was still overwhelmed. In the following months, many important decisions required him to go to the river bend to ask Ulyaan and Leo for instructions, or simply wait for them to come over to deal with them.

Leo led the pioneering team and walked a few miles along the river bend road when they saw a commotion ahead.

He soon understood the reason.

Fesha rode Freya and appeared in front of the team, followed by four boar riders and a large group of kobold guards.

Two of the six unicorn pigs domesticated in Hewan became pregnant in the spring and gave birth to two litters of piglets this month, making them temporarily unsuitable for riding.

Although the domesticated unicorn pigs no longer run around madly under the company of the little dog-headed people, they are not allowed to be released into the wild and can only move around on the River Bay Peninsula.

Only when they follow Freya can these unicorn pigs leave the peninsula.

At this time, Xix and four other little dog-headed men were riding on the backs of unicorns, holding the reins tightly to prevent them from attacking the group of refugees with a strange smell.

Leo rode over and saw Feisa riding on Freya's back. He immediately became jealous and accused her, "Why do you let Feisa ride but not me?"

Freya shook her head and swung the heavy chain around her neck, "Fisa gave me a big necklace!"

"You call that shackles!"

Freya was very angry and answered firmly: "No! It's the necklace!"

This large black iron chain has iron rings as thick as a thumb and is connected to an even thicker steel collar.

Leo could tell at a glance that these were the shackles that had previously imprisoned the werewolf.

I just don't know how Fisa got it down and gave it to Freya as a necklace.

The shackles that can be used to imprison werewolves are definitely not inferior products from the wilderness. Not only are they sturdy and durable, they even have a layer of rust-proof coating. They are truly the best of the best.

Leo was very convinced. Wouldn't it be tiring to tie this iron chain weighing dozens or hundreds of pounds around his neck?

He was too lazy to argue, so he looked at the group of kobolds and asked, "Where are you going to play?"

At this time, the group of ogres following Fesa slowly gathered and stopped behind Fesa.

In addition to a large group of fully armed kobold guards, there were also some adult kobolds pulling two-wheeled carts or pushing wheelbarrows.

Because Freya lost interest in Aho-Man and stopped taking care of her hairstyle, the kobolds also returned to their original form.

The once popular cockscomb hairstyle disappeared.

But they still wore linen shirts, and some of the kobold guards even wore hard leather armor inlaid with iron nails and iron bars.

The golden-haired dog-headed man, who has lived with humans for a long time, has basically lost his wildness.

Under Fesha's discipline, he also knows how to comb his hair and keep clean, so he looks particularly honest.

Even when facing an unfamiliar group of refugees, they did not bark or bark, but all wagged their tails and stuck out their tongues to make way.

More than a dozen carts and wheelbarrows were parked on the roadside, loaded with baskets of goods, mostly iron ingots, but also some gypsum, rock salt, iron spearheads and pickaxes.

There was even a millstone on one of the wheelbarrows!

Feisa proudly showed off her wisdom, "Look! A kobold caravan!"

Freya also chimed in: "We're going to do some business! Let's go to the river mouth to buy some delicious cassava flour!"