Warlord: King of All Clans

A few days later, after arranging everything, Leo also went to Linhai Town with the four Rose Knights who were guarding him.

The gravel road in the river bend is connected to the forest road, forming the main road in the northern part of the river bend, and the gravel fort between the two roads is the only way.

Although the heavy snow has stopped for half a month, the snow on the road has not completely melted, and many places are still covered with thick snow and ice.

A dragon-scale horse and four unicorns galloped on the road, ignoring the snow and ice.

As mid-level magical beasts, their off-road performance is much better than that of ordinary Northern war horses.

At this time, the countryside in the north should have been deserted, but the road along the river bend was still bustling with people.

The logistics and supply troops at Hewan are making a difficult journey, transporting large quantities of food and weapons to Gravel Fort and Linhai Town.

The refugees near Linhai Town began to migrate towards the river bend.

The two groups of people passed in an orderly manner, one on the left and one on the right, following the rules of Hewan County.

There were some muddy sections, and the road maintenance team at Hewan was repairing the road, dumping truckloads of gravel into the mud pits.

The captain of the road maintenance team is a human craftsman. Except for a few regular team members, the rest are all hired skilled laborers, but there are also seven or eight ogres mixed in.

Of course, skilled human laborers are more handy, but kobold laborers are cheaper. Their strength is not much less than that of human laborers, but they can do a day's work for only ten copper coins.

The minimum number of skilled human laborers is thirty, and some people even ask for food and lodging included.

After all, there are only a few kobolds who can become low-level craftsmen. Most of them can only become miners or coolies and cannot even stay on the simplest assembly line.

But the good thing is that they have no complaints at all, and as long as they don't feel their lives are threatened, they are happy to do anything.

The only flaw is that they are not smart enough. If they are not whipped every now and then, they will forget their own work and be attracted by the movements around them and run off to watch or play.

The human foremen who were familiar with the market had already figured out the details of the kobold laborers. The strong and obedient golden-haired kobolds were paid fifteen copper coins a day, while the thin and disobedient black-haired kobolds were paid only ten copper coins a day.

As for the stronger and more ferocious dog-headed men, some human farmers also consider hiring two to guard their homes, but the price is that the owner and the intruder will face the same degree of threat.

Leo and the Rose Knight passed by the road maintenance team. Suddenly, he pointed to the nearby forest and shouted, "Ah! It's a squirrel!"

Seven or eight kobold laborers pricked up their ears and rushed into the woods without looking back, leaving behind only the captain's loud curses and the Rose Knight's laughter.

The refugees who were led to Hewan Territory by their leader looked at these new things with curiosity.

Although enough houses have been built on the new farms near the river bend, there is still insufficient supplies and grassroots management to allow the refugees to withstand the cold winter and focus on farming.

The territory of Hewan Territory is very large, and the leaders are not opposed to accepting refugees, but everyone has a unified view, which is that they hope that the people they recruit are reliable laborers rather than a group of unruly bandits.

It is obviously impossible to expect the refugees to have high quality, so we can only rely on Hewan's own wealth and military force to use coercion and inducement to make them realize that the benefits of farming in peace are far greater than taking advantage of the fire to rob.

This group of refugees had been staying near Linhai Town for half a year, surviving by working as plantation workers or doing odd jobs.

The refugees who were able to survive two winters had certain property and also had basic military power to ensure that their property would not be robbed by their neighbors.

Therefore, most of them are young and strong, with good physical fitness and brains, and can quickly adapt to the new life in the river bend.

This winter migration was organized by the manor house and was originally planned to take place after the spring to fill the labor gap in the newly developed areas.

But plans cannot keep up with changes, and the sudden attack of foreign tribes forced the migration to be carried out ahead of schedule.

We can’t let these refugees become food for the alien races in the wilderness, allowing them to eat their fill before the war and reap the sweetness of plundering humans.

Leo stayed in Stonebreak Castle for one night to inspect the situation there.

The general in charge of guarding Gravel Fort during this period was Magna, a pure Basaka, a powerful wild folk hunter, who could communicate more easily with the wild folk of Wolf Drive Plain.

In the past two years, nearly two thousand wildfolk have joined Riverbend, half of whom are due to Magnar's efforts.

So Leo usually had him garrison in Gravel Castle, and take the opportunity to hand over to the leaders of the wild people who migrated to the vicinity of River Bend, and try to make them naturalize smoothly.

Although the flintlock rifle has been successfully developed, the wild hunters are still a major fighting force in the river bend.

The wild people who have been fighting for territory with foreign races deep in the Wolf-Driving Plain for years are more united than the imperial people.

As soon as the news of the looting of Gravel Hill Ranch spread, the wild folk villages near Gravel Fort spontaneously organized their men, brought their own weapons and dry food, and waded through the snow to come to Gravel Fort to provide reinforcements.

These wild "militias" gathered five hundred people in just a few days, including many women.

Looking at the wild folks who were defending their homes voluntarily, Leo asked Basarov to record these wild folks in a book, and after the spring, he would send them double the military pay, and also repair the roads in the wild folks' village.

During the patient development time of the river bend, he would occasionally come to the Gravel Fort for inspection, but this small fortress transformed from a natural pass had almost never been attacked.

The leaders of the larger alien races are not stupid. When they see the ten-meter-high city wall, they would rather go around the fifty-mile mountain road with an empty stomach and attack from the eastern forest, or go somewhere else directly, rather than try to attack the Gravel Fort.

Leo arrived at Linhai Town the next day.

At this time in Linhai Town, a large number of troops gathered. In addition to the one thousand lords' troops assembled by Hewan Lord, there were also two square flag legions.

The so-called square flag legion is actually a beggar's version of the full-strength imperial legion.

A fully-strength empire legion usually consists of six to seven thousand men, and sometimes even tens of thousands. The legion commander is usually an earl or viscount. In the north, the commander is usually an earl or a city lord under his control.

The Square Flag Legion is a local armed force, with a Square Flag Knight as the legion commander, and a group of Corner Flag Knights forming a small legion of two to three thousand people.

Such legions have weak military discipline and low combat effectiveness, and can only serve as auxiliary legions in large-scale battles.

However, at the local level, they still crush foreigners, refugees and bandits.

The appearance of a foreign tribe of nearly 10,000 people is something that the lord of Isenbol City would only encounter once or twice in his lifetime.

The three square flags of Isenpol all attached great importance to it. Arnold and Rudolf recruited the corner flags and formed a small legion of 2,000 people each to come to Linhai Town for support.

In addition, some scattered corner flag lords and proletarian knights in the city were also organized by the Solovyvian knights in the name of the Petukhov family to form a legion of 2,000 people.

Linhai Town now has gathered 60% of Isenbol's combat power, a total of 7,000 warriors, and the lowest of them are leather-armored conscripts.

Unless the country is destroyed and the family is ruined, the lords of the feudal fiefdoms will not send all the soldiers to fight. At least one third will be left to guard the house.

Usually, being able to provide half of the military force is enough to give face to the feudal lord.

According to the standards of the Northern Frontier Flag Service, the Flag Knights provided two riders and thirty infantrymen, which was enough to meet the conscription standards. If there were more, it would depend on the prestige of the feudal lord and his own desire to participate in the war.

Obviously, Leo's prestige was much better than Tariq's. At his command, 70% of Isenbol's corner flags came, and on average, each lord provided more than 100 troops.

This is because Isenpol lost a lot of soldiers after several wars in the past two years and has not recovered in a short time. Otherwise, it would not be difficult to gather 10,000 people.

After all, this is not an expedition, but a defense of the homeland. In addition to regular full-time soldiers, veteran militiamen wearing leather armor or second-hand chain mail can also provide good combat power.

In the lord's house in Linhai Town, a group of generals gathered around a sand table next to a fire pit, listening to patrol cavalry captain Little Noyce reporting on military intelligence.

Looking at the exquisite sand table and the clear distribution of the enemies on it, the two square flags and several senior corner flags fell into doubt.

Since when has it become necessary to accurately count the number of enemies in reconnaissance to the single digit?

(I got off work late yesterday, and after I got home I wrote one chapter until half past twelve. I woke up at six this morning, and my scalp was numb. I can’t do this anymore. I will update one or two chapters at random during this period, and try to update as often as possible. I hope everyone can understand. In addition, last month’s grand prize was called Shining Star, and the website gave me a bonus of 10,000 yuan. It smells so good, the kind that makes me laugh in my dreams!)