Under the walled city known as Wallinburg, Wallin gathered his men.
Most of these assembled men were farmers, armed with weapons adapted from production tools. Although they looked very crude, they were enough to kill people.
As for the small number of people who have armor on their bodies, they basically come from a few wealthy families in the territory, but they still look like farmers.
The only ones that look like the same thing are the hunters and lumberjacks. Their life skills can also be used on the battlefield, so they look the most like soldiers.
As for the few personal soldiers raised by Valin, they stood among these people. They wore chainmail and shouted, asking everyone to line up in a roughly orderly queue.
However, most people didn't pay much attention to them. These people kept drawing their swords and swearing all kinds of obscene words. These recruited people would cooperate honestly.
Compared with when it was first built, the Wallin Walled City has changed greatly. It was once occupied by the Bulgars. In order to accommodate their soldiers, the Bulgars expanded the place.
After the Bulgars were driven away, Varin took over the city, and the expanded city was indeed worthy of his status.
After the war, Valin was granted a large amount of land and became a powerful real estate owner. He was even invited to attend meetings in the city. His power was at the top of the list in this area.
As for his walled city, it has also become a small town with a population of a hundred households. These hundreds of households are basically engaged in work serving Mr. Kashinsky's family, such as raising eagles and blacksmithing.
For this reason, a church was built in the small town of Valin, and it was designated as the center of the parish. There was also a resident priest, but it was a pity that the church was made of wood.
Valin originally wanted to spend some money to upgrade the church, but unfortunately the war came, so Valin naturally had no choice but to save money.
No matter what Valin wants to do now, there are many people following him, and the people who support him look like a noble.
This was something he never dared to think about before, but now he takes it for granted, especially after showing off his achievements in Kiev last year, he takes it all as a matter of course.
By the way, Valin now has a surname.
After the war that started because of Kashin's silver mine ended, Varin was grateful that the war gave him the opportunity to make meritorious deeds, so he gave himself a surname, Kashinsky.
Speaking of Kashen, after the collapse of Kashen's silver mine dream, many people came to his territory to serve as subjects, and Valin also took them in, which strengthened his power a lot.
His current full name is Valin Kashinsky. As for why he doesn't have a father's name, it's because he has long forgotten the names of his fathers and doesn't bother to think about it. Anyway, his father left him long before he knew what happened.
Lord Kashinsky's governance has won unanimous praise from the people under his rule. This Lord has never been a waste who just sits in the tower and gives orders. Instead, he can really work with everyone and help everyone.
Villagers solve problems.
Once he also sent the problem of the people's lack of tools to Moscow, and Moscow quickly sent a batch of tools, which made the people more convinced of Varin and the Moscow prince above him.
On weekdays, Valin has a very low profile towards others. He is very calm no matter who he faces. He will happily solve problems when people encounter them, and he will take the trouble when problems arise.
Once, tribesmen from afar came to plunder his territory. Valin decisively organized the villagers to attack, defeated those guys at once, and even chopped off the head of their leader.
In that battle, Valin took the lead and fearlessly rushed into the tribesmen to fight, opening a gap for everyone and allowing everyone to win.
This made Valin's authority truly recognized by everyone, and from that moment on, he truly became the master of the territory.
Moreover, Varin is still practicing the methods proposed by Moscow to improve production. At first, no one supported his measures, but as the results appeared, everyone began to imitate them, and then people's support for him became stronger.
This earned him several commendations from Moscow, but Valin has never been proud of it. Instead, he continued to work hard. He wanted to make his territory richer and his small town into a real one.
town.
Because of this series of favors and authority, when Lord Valin Kashinsky summoned the men in the territory, many men enthusiastically took up arms and were willing to fight for this master.
Of course, the spoils promised by Rostislav were also very important. In the countryside, the prince's declaration of war had completely changed its appearance, and it turned into Rostislav leading everyone to the East to grab money.
In these rumors, the land called Bulgar is full of wealth and is guarded by a group of cowards. Everyone can make a fortune as long as they go there.
If Rostislav heard such news, he would definitely hold his head in arms, but the Prince of Moscow knew from the beginning that all this would develop like this, but it didn't matter for the army he wanted.
"I really didn't expect that so many people could be gathered."
Valin couldn't help but murmured as he looked at the hundreds of men gathered in the courtyard, and beside him, his wife was sorting out his clothes.
This was Lord Kashinsky's first time to assemble men in his territory, and he found that he had gathered troops of higher quality and quantity than he had imagined. Naturally, his heart was filled with mixed emotions of surprise and surprise.
"Don't be arrogant after gathering so many people. You are nothing on the battlefield. You should hide when you should. Don't try to be a hero. I don't want to become a widow and my son will lose his father."
His wife was born into a local rich farmer family. When he first came to this land, this marriage helped him to establish himself here.
Warin's wife is unwilling to go to war.
But since the men have already decided, she has no room to refuse. All she can do is pack her husband's luggage and dry food and let him take these things on the road.
"I know what's appropriate. I've been fighting on the battlefield for so many years, and I can follow Lord Rostislav in his expedition. This Lord has never been defeated. I will come back with gifts and wealth from far away.
, maybe Lord Rostislav will give me more land, and maybe I can have a mansion in Moscow in the future."
Valin confidently assured his wife that he was full of confidence in the war. He had never doubted the prince's winning rate, and he felt that the future of the war was bright.
The wife just smiled at this. Of course she had heard of the prince's reputation. Thinking of Rostislav's martial name, she subconsciously relaxed a little, but she didn't stop talking. After all, it was a battlefield.
"No matter what, I hope you are safe."
After she tied her husband's fine coat, which she had bought from Moscow, he walked out of the tower, and his attendants followed immediately, carrying their armor.
Valin rode swiftly on the back of the war horse. He looked behind him and saw that the people in different clothes and armor were looking at him, while their families were giving blessings or gifts to their relatives who were about to leave.
Bring gifts.
Watching this scene, Valin thought of his wife's farewell, and then he glanced at his wife standing in front of the tower.
And his son came out without knowing why, holding his mother's skirt with his little hand, looking timidly at his father who was about to leave.
Since Valin spent all his time at work, this child was quite unfamiliar with him. Valin did not expect that he would come to see him when he left.
Some impulses arose in Valin's heart, and he suddenly didn't want to participate in distant expeditions. After all, he now had both power and wealth, so what was the need to pursue those things?
However, these thoughts of his were quickly extinguished, and his ambition to go further came up again. Valin was heartbroken and stopped looking at his wife and children.
"Set off!"
Following the lord's shout, the team started moving and headed into the distance.