Chapter 299: Recruitment Order (Ten Thousand Rewards and More!)

While the serfs were busy, Gervis did not stop for a moment. He could not stay in Storm Territory for long this time.

Just two days ago, Rose Castle's herald Iger had arrived in Storm Territory, delivering Alice's conscription order. The date for the southern expedition had been set, which was twenty days later.

The southern expedition would last at least two months, because the laws of the principality stipulated that all vassals were obliged to serve their lords for two months free of charge every year.

During these two months, the feudal lords were not allowed to give any benefits or compensation to their vassals, and even had to prepare their own food and rations.

Of course, if the time exceeds two months, if the lord still wants his vassals to work for him, he will need to be responsible for the rations of the vassals and their soldiers, and even need to pay a certain amount of money as a reward, otherwise the vassal has the right to refuse the lord's request to continue fighting.

In the original owner's memory, the Principality of Jean's southern expedition to the Principality of Alban would not last more than two months every year. After all, if the king were to pay military salaries to all the nobles in the principality, he would definitely not be able to bear it for a long time.

After receiving Alice's conscription order, in order to ensure the safety of this southern expedition, the first thing Gervis needed to do was to work hard to train his soldiers.

There is a minimum number of people that a lord needs to recruit to respond to a conscription order. For example, Gervis is now a viscount lord. After receiving Alice's conscription order, he must ensure that the number of fighters who respond is no less than 150.

Of course, barons and viscounts like Gervis were small country lords after all. It would be a bit unreasonable to ask each viscount to send out 150 well-trained soldiers.

Therefore, this conscription order only stipulates that the number of people participating in the war must be no less than 150. As for whether these people are well-trained soldiers or serfs holding wooden sticks, it depends on the lord's own wishes.

If Gervis wanted to be sneaky, he could even pick out 150 old serfs who walked with a shaky gait.

However, any leader who does this will definitely die the fastest, because such an action clearly shows that he does not respect his feudal lord. Although the feudal lord cannot punish you directly, he can send you to complete the most dangerous task, and you will definitely not return.

The normal practice for lords should be to add half of their soldiers to the conscription team, and the other half should be made up of serfs. This way, they can ensure a certain level of combat effectiveness without angering their feudal lords.

It is actually very necessary to bring half of the well-trained soldiers, not only for your own safety, but also to gain some benefits in the war.

The southern expedition takes place every year. Although the official conscription order only arrived two days ago this year, Gervis began making preparations the day after he returned to Storm Territory.

In addition to the recruits, all materials for the war must also be adequately prepared. Although 150 people may not sound like a lot, it is a huge consumption if a battle lasts for at least two months.

Although vassals only need to serve the monarch for two months each year, no lord would take two months to prepare supplies. Generally, lords would prepare two and a half to three months of supplies to prepare for unexpected situations.

Food is the most important of all supplies. Marching and fighting are the most physically and mentally exhausting things, so food must be sufficient. Of course, whether it is nutritious or not depends on the respective lords. In short, the minimum requirement is to make people full.

To this end, the kitchen in the vestibule of the Golden Castle has been running day and night for 9 days, constantly twisting the freshly harvested wheat into bran and making long baguette-shaped black bread without any screening or filtering.

Using black bread as rations was not because Gerves was heartless and reluctant to provide the soldiers with better food. It was just that these black breads were prepared for three months, and only this kind of black bread was easiest to store and transport, and would not mold or deteriorate, and would not melt even in heavy rain.

In fact, in addition to the black bread that was hard enough to kill a person, Gervis also prepared more than 30 wild boars and a huge amount of seafood for this southern expedition.

The soldiers had gone into the forest to hunt the wild boars themselves these days. All of the thirty or so wild boars were slaughtered, without leaving a single one. They were given to Gene and his apprentices to be pickled into bacon.

The sea fish were purchased from the coastal mountain villages. The children from the three coastal villages caught three trucks of large and small sea fish in just one week. Under Jimmy's instruction, all the sea fish were wrapped in salt and dried on the beach.

Dried fish, wild boar bacon and black bread, this kind of food can be said to be good. At least under normal circumstances, even guards like Ike can hardly eat meat a few times a month.

Moreover, the food prepared by Gervis this time was calculated based on three months' rations, and the dried fish and bacon were enough to satisfy the soldiers for every meal.

If anyone told others about such good food and beverage treatment, it would definitely make most of the nobles blush.

After arranging the rations, Gervis will then arrange the weapons and equipment.

When in Winterfell, Gervase had already witnessed the effect of a volley of musket fire. Although the musket did not pose much threat to the titled knights, it was much more effective in killing ordinary soldiers than bows and arrows. Of course, it also had a disadvantage, which was the slow reloading time.

However, the merits outweigh the flaws. This time, Gerves still customized 14 long muskets in Bernard's blacksmith shop. These muskets were prepared by Gerves for ordinary guards.

In addition to the guards, Gervis also upgraded the equipment for the slave soldiers. Although the slave soldiers were trained by the slave owners to become killing machines, their equipment was too simple. Each person only had a set of leather armor and his own weapon.

Such equipment is not commensurate with the capabilities demonstrated by the slave soldiers, and it is a waste of resources to send them to the battlefield in this way.

Bathroom Gervis directly customized 100 helmets, 100 mithril arrows, 80 round shields and 30 mithril swords for the slave soldiers.

Every slave has a helmet, and as for the mithril arrows, they are of course prepared for the 20 longbowmen. Gervis plans to use these 20 mithril arrows for them to shoot arrows at the title knights on the battlefield.

The 80 round shields were distributed to spearmen and longswordmen. In cold weapon wars, before hand-to-hand combat, both sides would inevitably fire several waves of arrows. Therefore, in order to prevent the opponent's bows and arrows from killing the slave soldiers, they could only equip them with round shields to defend against the opponent's arrows.

Next were 30 mithril longswords, which were prepared for the slave swordmen. Ever since he had witnessed their swordsmanship in the slave market, Gervis had reluctantly spent a huge sum of money to equip them with mithril longswords to improve their combat effectiveness.

Their original ordinary longswords, Gervis, were not wasted. He picked out the 20 best ones and distributed them to the almighty longbowmen.

The above are the weapons and equipment that Gervis prepared for the southern expedition. Gervis spent a lot of money on these weapons and equipment.

"I just hope I can have better luck and gain more benefits in the southern expedition, otherwise I will suffer a huge loss!"

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This was the sentiment expressed by Gervis after he had planned the weapons and equipment to be prepared.

Among Gervis's supplies, the preparation of food did not cost much. Wild boars were completely free, and dried fish was also very cheap. As for the wheat for making black bread, it was all taxes just collected this year, and even the bran had not been screened out, so it was not worth mentioning how cheap it was.

The weapons and equipment cost the most money, and most of them were spent on slave soldiers.

For the 30 mithril swords alone, Gervis would have to pay Bernard 3 gold coins as wages, and 100 mithril arrowheads would require 1 gold coin, and each musket would require 10 silver coins, a total of 14 muskets, which is 1 gold coin and 4 silver coins.

Because the helmet and round shield are forged with ordinary materials, although the quantity is large, the total cost is 1 gold coin and 32 silver coins.

All in all, the total amount of gold coins consumed by Gervis was about 6, but this did not include the value of mithril. If mithril was included, Gervis paid at least 80 gold coins for these equipment.

Similarly, the large number of weapons this time forced Bernard to work until late at night every day, and even Alex was recently sent back to the blacksmith shop by Gervis to help.

After rations and weapons were arranged, Gervis did not have to be personally responsible for other miscellaneous supplies such as tents and carriages. Thomas sent people to other territories to order them, which prevented Gervis from being too busy.

I am a little ashamed! I promised to post two chapters today and add more chapters for the 10,000-yuan reward, but I have only written this chapter so far! I owe the other chapter for now and will make up for it tomorrow!

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To be honest, I just discovered these two days that many big authors would add 2 to 3 chapters for every 10,000 rewards, but I only added one chapter.

But I'm really busy recently, so I won't change it for the time being. Thank you all for your support!

Poor thing, it seems I owe two more chapters for the monthly votes, a total of 3 chapters. I will remember it!

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