Lord Helanza

The old village chief Bright sits in the living room. In the summer, he was resisted by the northern rebels. He suffered some injuries. Although the leg injury is healed now, he is getting older. , It’s hard to leave after picking up the crutches.

He rubbed the yew stick in his hand, and he was chatting with Old Sheila one after another. It was nothing more than a trivial matter in the village.

This winter, Mayor Bright no longer has to worry about not having enough food for the villagers. The house he lives in is blown to the roof by the blizzard, but there are still many trivial matters. After the autumn harvest festival, Wall The village burst out like a blowout wave of marriage, probably because you have some spare money in your hand, the house can withstand the wind and snow, the family’s granary is full of wheat, and the youngsters in the village successively began to marry a group of girls from other villages. , Resulting in a surge in the population of Wall Village.

Many villagers used to not have enough to eat or wear warmth. At that time, every day all had to worry about filling up. Instead, everyone would be polite to each other. At that time, no matter who had difficulties, they could hold out one. Give a hand.

But now everyone is free, all of them are sheltering from the cold winter by the fireplace in the house. Except for two meals a day, there is only the thing in bed after nightfall, and life will inevitably become boring. There have been some grievances and conflicts. What is noisy every day is not family disputes or conflicts between neighbors, which makes the old village head Bright a little tired to deal with.

At this time in previous years, the men in the village still didn't know which forest farm they were transporting wood in!

'A group of boring idlers must find something for them to do. 'That's how the old village chief Bright thought.

It's just that with the arrival of winter, the land is banned by ice and snow, and there are not many things that can be done in winter.

This is why the Chief Bright can’t wait to find Surdak.

Seeing Surdak coming down from the second floor wearing a set of clean leather armor, Old Sheila looked up and looked towards Surdak with her somewhat cloudy eyes, looking at Surdak calmly: "Oh, you I'm back!"

"I didn't wake you up just as I saw you sleeping!" Surdak walked down the stairs, stood next to Old Sheila, and gave her a hug.

"I'm going to see little Peter, let's talk here!" Seeing Surdak rushing over, Old Sheila stood up tremblingly and walked slowly towards her room.

Surdak sat opposite the village chief Bright, and asked the old village chief: "Uncle Bright, how is everything in the village recently!"

"Fortunately, that’s Once everyone is free, there will always be people who seem restless." After the old village chief said this, the quarrels among the extremely boring villagers appeared in his mind. He laughed indifferently, and those boring quarrels were on his own. Under the suppression, they have been resolved.

The mayor of Bright asked casually: "You went out this time and everything went well?"

Surdak glanced at Andrew and Samira who were waiting, and said casually:" This time I went out to gain a lot. The establishment of militia and cavalry battalions needs to be completed as soon as possible. The news from the upper-class nobles is that there may be some actions in Pena Province tomorrow spring, and there will be frequent transfers in various barracks. The law and order on Desolate Land was originally very bad. When the time comes, if another barracks were taken away, the defense line here would be even more fragile. I want to arm the Desolate Land militia as soon as possible. This part of the ordnance will be Coming out of Helanza city, warrior may have very demanding requirements on the physical strength and skills and tactics of the villagers. I am ready to develop a group of archers in the militia camp. As long as I can pick up the bow and crossbow, I can build an effective one in each village. Defense system."

He paused, and then said: "According to the order of the upper level of Pena Province, I have to prepare a cavalry battalion in a short time recently. As for the cavalry, I want to recruit in various villages. Now, the biggest difference between the cavalry battalion and the militia battalion is that I need some veterans with rich combat experience. Whether you can ride horses is secondary, but must have rich combat experience, Bright Uncle, do you think I can recruit enough manpower in Desolate Land Is it?"

"Ah, is there going to be a war?" Hearing Surdak's words, the old village chief asked in astonishment.

Surdak Weiwei shook the head and said: "That's not true, but the war on the plane has never stopped. I will garrison the plane with the army next year, I am afraid I will be stationed there for a while. "

"You want to recruit some cavalry. There should be some people in our village who can do it, but there won't be too many."

Only then did the old village chief know that there will be more The responsibility of defending territory for the empire actually has two sides in everything. Being able to participate in a war on a plane is also an excellent opportunity to earn military merit, and it seems that this task is not difficult, it is just a plane garrison.

Surdak continued: "So... you still need Bright Uncle to manage this side of the village. I can’t take care of this side. Not only that, but we also need to build a team after I leave Desolate Land. The militia camp that is sufficient to protect Desolate Land can at least resist the bandit group that ran over from the desert, and Pena Province may not be too peaceful recently. I just hope the chaos will not spread to here."

Old After hearing Surdak’s words, the village head Bright asked: “What’s the plan for next spring? The reservoir has been built. For the time being, I don’t have to worry about the inability to plant crops in the spring and summer dry seasons. Will the tidal flats continue to be developed?”

At this time, Rita came out from the kitchen with a pot of lemon tea, made steaming tea for everyone, and brought some pastries before sitting down. She also wanted to hear about Wall. The village's plan for next year.

Surdak said: "Of course, but while developing tidal flats, it is actually reducing the area of ​​swamp depressions, so that when the rainy season comes, if there are no developed drainage channels, those tidal flats will be washed away by floods. Therefore, It is necessary to dig the drainage canal wide enough."

"With this year's experience, opening up some tidal flats is actually not a problem." The old village chief Bright said. "I have always wanted to discuss something with you!"

"...you said." Surdak knew this was the purpose of the old village chief.

The old village chief rubbed his wrinkled forehead with his hands, and then he groaned for a while and said: "Recently, everyone in the village may have lost the pressure of life and can’t find a place to vent their excess energy, so I thought I should find something to do for them. Recently, those kobold slaves in the village were used by Lukla to repair roads. I wondered if I could organize a road repair team in the village so that everyone could be busy. Get up..."

"Are you going to form a road repair team of villagers?" Surdak asked in surprise.

In fact, even if the old village chief didn’t say anything about it, he planned to do it.

"That's what it's all about." Nodded, the old village head, admitted: "I plan to let them rest on the mountain road from Wall Village to Helanza."

In Wright’s view, Helanza City and Desolate Land are separated by Oak Ridge, winding along the way, even riding a horse for a whole day, not to mention must repair, but instead of letting them stay in the village, it is better to give them to the villagers. Let's find something to do.

But in this way, the village will have to bear the cost of road construction and provide the villagers with free three meals a day and salary. This part is not so much the Wall Village bears, it is better to say it is. Surdak pays out of his own pocket. The sulfur mines in the warehouse in Wall Village that can be exchanged for Gold Coin are strictly the private property of Surdak.

"Will it be too hard to build roads in such a cold day? Going to Oak Ridge to plan the stones..." Surdak did not continue.

In fact, what he wanted to say was:'Kobold slaves didn’t do such hard work...'

"It’s okay. At this time in previous years, I didn’t lead everyone to Logging in the ravines of World of Ice and Snow, and then transporting the giant trees out, can we get a little wages, road construction is easier than transporting timber anyway.” The old village chief Bright smiled freely and freely. .

He has lived in Desolate Land for so many years, what kind of suffering he has not suffered...

Speaking of which, he can only blame Surdak for his treatment of the kobold slaves very good.

The old village chief said with emotion: “I’m considering Desolate Land located in the remote northwestern part of Helanza City. Because the road to Helanza City is not clear, every year children of the right age miss it. The annual awakening ceremony. For so many years, no child in Desolate Land has awakened the magic pool and became a magician noble. If the road can be built, there are so many four-wheel carriages in the village, maybe there will be no children. I missed the awakening ceremony."

Now that there have been three heavy snowfalls, the conditions on Oak Ridge have become extremely bad, and Surdak thought that if there was an accident while building the road, it would not pay off.

He thought for a while and said to the old village head Bright: "Otherwise, we will change our goal and let the road construction team in the village build roads on Desolate Land. I want to put Desolate Land on various The natural villages are all connected by cement roads, so that once a village is attacked by desert bandits, it will be convenient for us to rush to the rescue."

The old village head couldn’t turn his head, he stared at him. Surdak said: "Building roads on Desolate Land...Here is all wasteland in Pingchuan, where do you need to build a road?"

In fact, as the old village chief said, the southern part of Desolate Land is adjacent to Oak Ridge. , The north is bordered by the Paglos mountain range, and a large area of ​​sand dunes are gradually spreading from the northwest corner to Desolate Land, but there are no mountains in Desolate Land, even the hills are extremely gentle slopes, only in the center of Desolate Land There is a Great Rift Valley that runs from east to west.

The old village head doesn’t understand. Why does Surdak want to build a road on the wasteland of Yimapingchuan? Can’t you go without a road?

Surdak leaned over and pushed away the tea tray on the tea table in front of him, then dipped a little water in the tea cup with his fingers, and drew a simple outline of Desolate Land on the table, and then drew a few simple lines with water , And placed a few small biscuits and tea cups on the water line, pointing to the tea cup and saying: "This cup represents the guard post, this cookie represents the bridge..."

Old village chief Bright looked confused Looking at the desktop.

Surdak went on to explain: "The this path net I mentioned is not a mere concrete road. It also includes a series of additional facilities such as lookout posts, checkpoints, and bridges, at least for the cavalry to be able to traverse. In the Great Rift Valley, the camels of the desert bandits are more adapted to the Gobi Desert on Desolate Land. If we want the militia camp to have enough mobility, there must be enough four-wheeled carriages to pull them. I hope that no matter which natural village in Desolate Land is Desert bandits attacked the village, and the militia battalion can rush to the scene within half a day..."

The old village chief didn't expect Surdak to have such a huge road construction plan.

"In fact, road construction in Desolate Land is not as difficult as imagined. As long as you spread volcanic ash, sprinkle it with water, and compact it with rocks, it can become a smooth concrete road..." Surdak continued to The old village chief was talking about his preliminary ideas.

"So you already have these plans!" Andrew, who had been sitting quietly listening to the discussion between the two, couldn't help but interject: "Recently, desert bandits are harassing villages on the edge of the desert, although I I went there with Gullitum and blocked the desert bandits several times, but they flee away as long as they saw us, and they didn’t dare to contact us at all. Our equestrian skills were not as good as them. As long as they were allowed to enter the desert, it would be even more difficult. Chasing..."

Andrew glanced at the half-elf archer beside him: "Recently we are worrying about these desert bandits. So you have already thought out a series of methods against them!"

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"Expand the militia battalion, train the archer regiment, recruit veterans to form a cavalry battalion, and build roads throughout Desolate Land, use the convenience of four-wheel carriage to transport the battle strength of the militia camp, and also in Desolate Land Set up checkpoints, these are all aimed at those desert bandits!" Andrew said with some excitement.

Mr Bright heard this from the native warrior Andrew of the Nanai tribe, and found that there are many benefits to building roads on Desolate Land, so he no longer said more.

He just wants some energetic villagers to do something. It is relatively easier to build roads in Desolate Land.

"Why? Those desert bandits are making trouble again?" Surdak eyebrow raised and asked.

Andrew looked a little depressed and said: "Yes, at the beginning, Gullitem and I were able to block one or two hapless desert bandits. Later, they became alert and arrested. Not long, apart from bringing back a batch of camels this time, I can only hang a few fresh heads on the cross at the mountain pass, and let the desert bandits escape into the depths of the desert."

Tomorrow spring, Surdak will leave Desolate Land with the cavalry battalion. If these desert bandits cannot be properly solved, I am afraid it will be a future problem. Even if a militia battalion with archers is formed, it may not be able to hold these bandits.

Surdak rubbed the temple with some annoyance, and said: "So it seems...you must find a way to deal with these desert bandits. Let me think about it. The best scout in the desert area should be the Hawkeye Archer. , I went to Helanza City to see if I could hire a mercenary group with Hawkeyes. If not, I would hire a magician. In any case, we have to sweep the oasis on the edge of the desert. Okay!"

"It should have been this way! I can bear it for a long time..." Andrew waved his fist excitedly and said to Samira beside him.