Chapter 40: Battle to Recover Maple Leaf Manor (6) Part 1
Other items such as armor and weapons were divided among the leading knights who mainly participated in the battle. Balian also asked for seven sets of relatively intact iron-inlaid leather armor, iron-inlaid leather helmets, as well as some spear heads, battle axes, etc.
of.
As the second commander in this battle and the one who made the greatest military exploits, Viscount Merry rewarded Balian with 500 dinars and three war horses as a reward. This was an extra little surprise.
As for these rescued serfs and prisoners, Viscount Merri decided to send them all to the Snow Mine to work as slaves. First, because Viscount Merri still did not believe in the original serfs of Maple Leaf Manor. He felt that these people might be dishonest.
Loyal people are very likely to have collaborators and cannot stay here.
Secondly, he was worried that after the palace inspector came, these serfs would talk nonsense and affect him. Considering this, Viscount Merry decided to turn all these people into slave labor and let them die in the mines.
Others have no objections to this solution. After all, in their eyes, the lives of these lowly serfs and merchant captives are as lowly as grass and trees.
But Balian is not. On the one hand, education in modern society has made Balian compassionate. On the other hand, Norlandenburg is extremely short of population. If these people can come to Norandenburg, it may alleviate Balian's hand.
The pressure of labor shortage in the country has increased.
Balian told Viscount Merry his thoughts alone. Seeing that Viscount Merry was noncommittal, he decided to give up the reward from this siege and gave another one thousand dinars to Viscount Merry, asking him to agree to this.
thing.
Seeing that Balian was sincere and willing to spend a lot of money, and that he also wanted to win over Balian, Viscount Mery did not accept Balian's one thousand dinars, but only asked Balian to give up the allocated spoils, and these spoils were
Distributed to county soldiers.
Through this battle, Viscount Merri had a new understanding of the weak combat effectiveness of the county soldiers. He decided to strengthen the equipment of the county soldiers and train them well. After all, he had the elite combat effectiveness in his hands, so that he could sleep soundly.
After the spoils distribution meeting, no, it was a spoils distribution meeting, Balian returned to the camp of the soldiers at Fort Noland. Tonight everyone moved into Maple Leaf Manor. Balian relied on his identity as commander to give the soldiers to Nolandenburg.
Landenburg soldiers arranged a long wooden house so that everyone no longer slept in tents.
As soon as Balion entered the house, he found that there were not only Eomer but also Barret waiting for him inside. As soon as they saw Balion coming in, they stood up quickly. Barret laughed and said: "My lord, I can wait.
I've been waiting for you for a long time, how much money have you obtained in this spoils sharing meeting?"
Looking at his wretched smile, Balian said angrily: "What a bloody spoils distribution meeting. It's obviously a spoils distribution meeting, but I didn't get a single dinar."
"Ah! How could these scumbag guys and that stupid county guard treat us like this? Without you, sir, they would be tired.
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We cannot capture Maple Leaf Manor even if we die." After hearing what Balion said, Eomer was extremely angry.
"Keep your voice down!" Balian scolded. Everyone was in the manor now. If this was heard by outsiders, it would be a bad thing after all. "The rewards assigned to me are quite a lot, but I didn't ask for them. No."
They didn’t give it to me.”
"Sir, why is this? Haven't you always taught us that one of the important purposes of war is to seize property?" After hearing what Balian said, Barrett asked with a puzzled look on his face.
"Because I made a very good deal with the Viscount with the trophies. Now the more than 200 serfs in Maple Leaf Manor, as well as the merchants and caravan guards captured by the pirates during this period are all ours." Bei
Leon explained to them the reason why he didn't want those trophies.
"I'm just telling you, why is our lord such a loser? This deal is a good deal. We, Nolandenburg, do not lack the money and food, but we just lack people. Your lord is really wise." Eomer praised.
"Okay, okay, you guy, shut up!" Seeing that Eomer was trying to flatter him, Balian quickly stopped him, "By the way, Barrett, how is your side? You have gained a lot."
"Hehe, that's natural." Barrett smiled, "Sir, the ten pirates on the ship were not prepared at all, so we took the ship off. There were a lot of things on the ship, including cloth, wool, etc.
, furs, salt, beer, wine, dried meat, etc. were piled up in the three cabins. This time I brought a barrel of wine.
In addition, there are about 50,000 pounds of wheat and more than 2,000 pounds of pig iron, gold and silver coins and copper ropes, adding up to about 130,000 dinars. In addition, we also found some incredible things." Speaking of the last part.
At this time, Barrett lowered his voice, as if it was something that was not suitable to be made public.
Balian and Eomer leaned over, and Barrett said softly: "In a box in a cabin, we found that this group of pirates had robbed a monastery, a gilded icon, a copper candle holder, and the person who presided over the ceremony.
All the things used by the priests are inside. This is a very important matter, so I have hidden it, and I will hide it secretly when I get back."
The Toba pirates believe in the gods of the sea. They do not have special respect for the priests like the Bricks. They regard the monastery as a holy place. They naturally loot the monastery that is not defended by troops.
It would be fine if these things were seized on the battlefield, but Balian and the others obtained them by fishing in troubled waters. If someone discovered them, they might think they had robbed the monastery. By then, Balian might be sent to the Inquisition Hall.
Inside, even if he has a noble status, he will most likely be sentenced to death at the stake as a punishment. After all, in this era, the power of religion is still quite powerful.
Balian nodded and affirmed Barrett's approach, "You did the right thing. Transport these things back quietly and hide them first. Later, we will see if Hama melts them or does other processing. I think Vulcan should
Don’t blame us.”
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Yes, the Vulcan will definitely not blame us. After all, we snatched his things back from the pirates who believe in the evil god, and maybe he will reward us." Barrett murmured to himself, this kid is quite cool.
Will smooth things over.
"Sir, I think this group of pirates is quite strange. Why do they come all the way here? To rob the money? No, the lords in the south are much richer than us. If you want to rob the money, just go to them.
How good it is, so close." Eomer asked the question that he had been suppressing for several days.
Hearing him ask himself, Balian did not answer immediately. After he sat down, he poured himself a glass of ale, took a sip, and replied: "Eomer, I have been thinking about this question in the past two days. To be honest,
I do not know why either."
"I did capture a few prisoners, but I didn't have time to interrogate them." Barrett interjected.
"The ones you captured were all low-level pirates. The only two pirate leaders were killed in the battle. We can't ask anything." Balian was very regretful, "However, one thing is for sure, the pirates are not
They will stop coming because of this failure, and I’m afraid they will soon go deep into the interior along the Karl River to plunder again.”
"Ah! You can't!" Eomer and Barret were shocked by Balion's judgment.
Balian held the wine glass and said with some seriousness: "If the pirates just wanted to grab some property and leave, they would have retreated long ago after breaking through Maple Leaf Manor and looting, but they didn't. They have been here for about half a year.
Not to mention time, Maple Leaf Manor was also reinforced, and enough food was stored in the manor.
I opened the granary of the manor today and found that as long as they did not attack the manor, this group of pirates could hold on for more than three months. They planned to occupy it for a long time. It was precisely after discovering this that I felt that the pirates were dragging them deeper.
The purpose of the mainland is definitely not just to plunder some property.
I'm afraid there is a deeper purpose. I don't know what this purpose is, but what I do know is that they will definitely attack again, and there may be more troops. Therefore, after we go back this time, we will expand the standing army and
The number of militiamen to cope with the crisis."
After hearing Balian's analysis, Eomer and Barret also felt that it made sense and nodded in agreement. Then Barret sighed melancholy, "Hey! Although the population has increased a lot during this time
, but now we have to open up wasteland for farming, build enclosures and castles, and now we have to expand the army, and we still don’t have enough manpower.”
"Yes, if there are more soldiers, construction and farming will be done, and if there are fewer people grazing, it will affect the long-term development of Fort Nolanden. Everyone will lack food and water, and there will be no place to live. But if there are few soldiers, no matter how good the construction is,
, no matter how much food is harvested, it will not be robbed by pirates, it is really troublesome." Eomer agreed.
After hearing what they said, Balian nodded happily, "You two have really grown up. Not only do you know about training and fighting, but you also know how to consider the overall situation."