Volume Two: The Iron Baron Chapter 230: The Journey to Vallombre (14)
There were twenty-five members of Balian's bodyguards. Balian used them as the skeleton to build a special company of more than one hundred people. In fact, he expanded the bodyguards into a company of guards.
These Guards soldiers and military attachés who have followed him for a short period of time and have experienced many battles are enough to take on the positions of team leaders and captains.
Balian appointed Éomer as the captain of this special company, and the captain of the guard, Tull, and the deputy captain, Broda, as deputy captains. Éomer and Tuor were each in charge of two groups of soldiers, and Broda was in charge of one group of soldiers.
A Guards Company of 125 people in total was set up in this way.
During the recruitment process, Balian asked Rohirrim's cavalry team to be recruited as horse traders and refugees who could ride horses. Although it was nothing to bring a team of cavalry to Wallombre City by himself.
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But it is always not a good idea to lead troops to the capital without reporting, especially when the nobles from the south are waiting to find fault with Balian. At this time, they cannot be allowed to find excuses.
Most of these were refugees who had fled from the north. After seeing that their families had received food, clothing, and shelter provided by Baron Balian, they showed happy smiles. They fled here just to be able to eat and live.
Come down.
Although, they were unable to live such a life in Wallombre City where the weather was getting colder and colder, and they all planned to escape further south.
But now I have met Baron Balian. They have been selected based on their strong physiques, and their families have also been well taken care of. They are much better than their refugee friends who are still swallowing wind and snow in the wilderness.
Much more.
For them, this is really a blessing from the God of Fire, and naturally they must cherish this hard-won life.
These young and strong men who fled all the way accepted the training with such a grateful mood. Naturally, they were able to endure many of the hardships in the training. After all, if they couldn't bear it anymore, the family would go out to eat in the wind and snow. Who could not grit their teeth and persevere?
Woolen cloth.
For the first three days, Balian personally directed them to conduct formation training. Discipline is an important measure of an army's combat effectiveness. Three consecutive days of formation training from morning to night allowed these farmers to grow up rapidly.
After three days of concentrated queue training, Balian gave formation drills, fighting skills and other training to experts like Eomer and Tull. After all, they were professionals. In addition to one queue training each in the morning, noon and evening, Balian
Besides, train these new recruits well.
While Eomer and the new recruits of Tour were training, Balian was not idle. With the support of Harker's intelligence, he began to think about how to eliminate this bandit team that could break into the palace farm.
Although Bahrain did not come with him this time, Huck came with a group of reconnaissance teams. The main purpose of bringing them here was that Bahrain asked Huck to bring people over to recruit some qualified hunters to supplement the investigation.
The number of men the team lost last time.
Since the reconnaissance team played a great role in the battles this year, Balian allowed the reconnaissance team to expand, allowing Balin and Huck to free up their hands to recruit people. Anyway, with excellent investigators like Hunter, it doesn't matter how much more they have.
That's a lot.
Therefore, after the war with the Toba pirates ended, Bahrain searched for good hunters from all over the north. This trip to Balian's south was also an opportunity to search for good hunters from the south. Bahrain sent Huck for nothing.
When he came here, he even said that he was here to protect the respected Baron Balian, which made Balian dumbfounded.
However, with Huck as an expert, the investigation went much more smoothly. It only took Huck three days to find the hiding place of the bandits.
After they looted the palace farm, they actually made a fortune and obtained a large amount of food, cloth and weapons. The bandits, who had temporarily solved the problem of food and clothing, were now conducting a short period of food and clothing in a mountain col outside the city of Wallombre.
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In this backward era of life, the palace farm was not only a place for serfs to farm and graze, it was also an important production site for processed products. Weaving, leather tanning, iron smelting and other production activities that were not suitable for cities and towns were all carried out.
In the palace farm.
After this group of bandits captured this farm, in addition to solving the problem of food and clothing, the most important thing was to obtain some craftsmen and some of the soldiers and armor equipment produced by this palace farm, especially the latter, although not much, but
It was enough to transform this group of bandits who used sharpened sticks as weapons.
When Huck and the others went to investigate this mountain col, they were surprised to find that nearly fifty people in this group of pirates were equipped with leather armor, and more than a dozen of them were still inlaid with iron leather armor, and their weapons and equipment had also changed.
It became the standard equipment of the palace city defense camp, including long spears and short swords, as well as some leather bucklers.
It seems that this farm mainly provides weapons and equipment to the city defense camp of Wallombre. Now the soldiers in the city defense camp who are waiting to replace their weapons are in misery.
Not only have their weapons and equipment been upgraded, these bandits also practice and train some fighting skills every day. Although they only train for half a day and go hunting in the mountains for the rest of the day, the combat effectiveness of bandits who have been trained in combat skills is definitely improved.
Based on the intelligence from Hacker's investigation, Balian felt that it was basically impossible to go into the mountain and annihilate them now.
In addition, Huck and the others also discovered that in this mountain col, the bandits asked the captured blacksmiths and leatherworkers to make weapons and armor for them, hoping to comprehensively upgrade the weapons and equipment of the entire team. It seems that
The leader of this group of robbers is really not an ordinary person, he is quite smart.
In Balian's memory, the core reason why most refugees in previous lives rebelled and were quickly exterminated by the army was the limitations of the refugee army. They only wanted to eat and clothe themselves, kill their oppressors, and then coerce more people.
Too many people went to loot another place, and the cycle continued without the awareness of operating a base, which eventually led to a loss of support and a major defeat.
And this group of refugees, after the rebellion, immediately attacked the place where important production materials were, and robbed the craftsmen, and then hid in the mountain col, improving the quality of weapons and equipment while conducting training. The leader was afraid that
Not an ordinary refugee.
After obtaining Huck's information, Balian asked Huck to continue investigating, while he began to formulate a strategy to deal with this group of bandits.
There is a clear gap in numbers between the two sides. Even if the recruits in Balian's hands are trained for ten days, they will not be able to defeat these blood-stained bandits. Therefore, if you want to win this victory, you must outwit them.
While Balian was busy working, Viscount Raul was talking to his son in Lida Castle, "Yellen, when is that grizzly bear going to take action again?"
Sir Yellen sighed after hearing this, "Hey! Father, that scumbag guy, let us give him some more money and weapons.
This bitch, if the spy we sent there hadn't opened the farm gate, would they have been able to break in? What a shameless guy!"