The early morning of the third day after the conscript was sent to Wolf Town.

As soon as the sky was dazzled, a team of four-wheeled farm carts drove out from the various estates of Wolf Town, gathered into a group of people in the center of the town, heading towards the city of Revodan.

Hundreds of large trucks are pulled into a long line on the road, with a kilometer difference between the front and the last. The crunching axle friction sound can be heard from a distance.

From time to time, strong and armed riders swept past the slow cart and traveled back and forth to inspect the convoy.

With the terrain, the road winds and turns to the distance, and most of the paths are deserted.

The wilderness and meadows are the main scenery on the road. Occasionally, when the convoy passes through the forest, everyone's nerves are instantly tense.

The lazy driver of the car would be very energetic at this moment, take out a short knife and put the crossbow on his hand, and alertly pay attention to the dark woodland on both sides of the road.

It was not until the convoy left the forest that the coachmen dared to breathe a sigh of relief, kicked the weapon back under the seat, and returned to their usual listless appearance.

Winters and Gillard were walking in the front of the convoy, while the patrol riders were Dusak hired by the owners of the estate.

Although Wolf Town has received the order to recruit militias, life still has to continue.

The crops in the farmer's fields must be cut, the crops sown in autumn must be planted, and the tobacco, cotton and beets harvested by each farm must be sold.

The output of most estates has long been deposited in advance by various commercial banks.

But for merchants, the risk and cost of transportation are too high, and the owners need to transport the goods to the city of Revodan to deliver them.

Therefore, at this time of year, the owners of the Wolf Town manors will make an appointment to transport the goods to Revodan City together, and thus the huge convoy in front of them.

It is a helpless move to keep warm.

The harsh government is as fierce as a tiger. The harsh government of the senior management of Paratu in the new land inevitably leads to the rampant bandits.

Stealing, poaching, tax evasion, private land reclamation...every crime can force farmers who were originally law-abiding and dedicated to the public to take risks, exchange violence for food and clothing, and become robbers and bandits.

If the situation is not good - the temperature is low all year round, the summer is humid and shady, and the winter is long and cold - crops are bad, and famine follows.

Then it is not only the Xinken land, Paratu or the Senas Alliance... a large number of farmers will go bankrupt, starve, and become bandits throughout the continent.

[Note: People in this era do not know that they are experiencing what is called the "little glacier period" in later generations.]

Most of the surface of the newly reclaimed land in the Palatu Republic is covered with primeval forests and meadows, and there are scattered villages and towns and several small towns with a population of one or two thousand.

The only larger city is the capital of Xinkendi Province, the legion base - Fengshicheng

In such a vast and sparsely populated border area, if there is no protection of the city walls or the guarding of the neighbors, any lonely farmhouse that meets several strong men holding simple weapons can only be slaughtered.

Therefore, most of the farmers in the newly reclaimed land live together, and there are few separate farmhouses far away from the village.

The dirt roads in the countryside, the border between towns, and the forests near the city are far beyond the scope of help, and are dangerous places where bandits are rampant.

Wolf Town has a peaceful life because of Gillard Mitchell.

Gillard was generous in his administration and Dusak's full support, so Wolf Town itself had no soil to breed bandits.

The evildoers from outside cannot get help from the locals, like fish on the shore. Those with a clever mind will escape immediately, while those with a clever mind will be easily strangled by Gillard and Dusak.

After dealing with a well-known bandit gang, few evil party murderers came to Langzhen to find it uncomfortable.

However, there are 124 administrative districts at the same level as Lang Town, and no matter how good the public security in Lang Town is, the impact on the overall environment will be minimal.

The farm car fleet that carries a large amount of goods, slow movements, and lacks self-protection ability is a delicious meal that the bandits cannot refuse.

At this time of year, small groups of bandits will even spontaneously gather into large groups to commit crimes, robbing convoys from all over the country that transport goods into the city.

After paying a few blood prices, the owner of Wolf Town has since joined forces to keep warm and hired riders from Dusa Village to protect the convoy.

"A few years ago, there was a particularly famous thief nicknamed 'Blood Hand Shute'." Gillard and Winters rode side by side, telling the legend of bandits in Xinken land in vivid detail: "That guy not only robs, kills, blackmails, but also cuts off his hands and puts them into a salt bucket to pickle them. It is said that when the gendarmerie caught him, he found hundreds of broken hands, and could not tell which pair belonged to which one."

Winters was indignant: "I was arrested after killing dozens of people. What is the gendarmerie in Xinkenland for food? I have also been a gendarmerie. If my old commander Lieutenant Colonel Field comes..."

Language touched my mind, and suddenly I remembered the dead Lieutenant Colonel Field and the promise to drink hard in Jingang. Winters' voice became less and less, and finally he couldn't speak.

"Catching theft is the responsibility of the local government, and the garrison army does not care." Gillard sighed and said, "The army military police will dispatch the bloody man to capture the blood. It is because he is too much and robbed the legion's supply convoy."

Sergei next to him was energetic and interrupted with enthusiasm: "There is another joke. It said that a traveler entered the city and met a robber halfway. At this time, a team of military police passed by. The traveler shouted for help, but the military police ignored it. In desperation, the traveler shouted, "I didn't pay the tax." The military police rushed over and drove away the robbers, arrested the traveler and sent it all the way to the city."

After saying that, Sergei laughed.

The two riders ran back from afar, Pierre and Vahika Girard were very cautious and sent several riders to explore the way forward early in the morning.

"Dad!" Pierre was impatient and shouted far away: "The water from the Hetao is rising!"

Vahika also looked panicked: "What should I do if the water is not on the back of the horse now?"

The driver in front heard the two of them shouting and hurriedly grabbed the rope and stopped the cart. The driver in the back also stopped the cart in a hurry, and the carts stopped one by one.

Seeing his son's panic, Sergei scolded dissatisfiedly: "That's a big deal! Are you still Dusak? How big a thing scares you like this?"

"The first time these two children came out with the convoy, they had little knowledge," Gillard explained to Winters: "This is downstream. It rains upstream and water rises downstream. It is common for people to get into the ground."

"What should I do?"

Gillard pointed to the north: "Take a detour to Xiaoshi Town. There are bridges in Xiaoshi Town that can cross the Torrent River. It's just that you have to spend more time and tolls."

Gillard and the old guy looked at each other and nodded at Sergey.

Sergei turned his mount and galloped towards the rear of the convoy, shouting and conveying an order: "Take a detour! Take a detour! Go to Xiaoshi Town! Follow the car in front! Follow the car in front!"

"The intersection to Xiaoshi Town is behind, it has passed. But it is difficult to turn around on the road. Go forward and find a good place to go back!" Gillard went to the driver of the leading car and ordered: "Follow me."

The coachman whipped the animals hard, and accompanied by the harsh friction, the pulling horses neighed and dragged the carriage, and the convoy continued to move forward.

Gillard said apologetically to Winters: "I guess it will take more than one day on the road."

"It's okay, it's not bad for one or two days anyway." Winters replied with a smile.

The reason why Winters is also in the convoy is that providing protection is second - this huge convoy is not short of people who can use swords.

The main purpose of Lieutenant Montane was to visit the garrison in the city of Revodan. Because the order to recruit militia was too broad, there were some key matters that needed to be clarified urgently.

Although the recruitment order has been delivered for several days, the lottery work in Wolf Town has not made any progress. There is no lottery, no training, and nothing.

It was not that Winters was deliberately delaying, but because it was the busy farming season, and withdrawing children at this time was equivalent to ruining the hard work of farmers for a year.

The Paratu Plateau has a low latitude and a high altitude. The airflow in the north and south directions is blocked by mountains that tower into the clouds. The precipitation mainly comes from the monsoon blowing from the Bay of Senas to the plateau.

Because of this, most crops in Paratu are planted in a regular cycle of ripening twice a year or ripening three times a year.

At this time, in the cultivated fields of various villages in Lang Town, spring sowing crops need to be harvested and dried. In autumn sowing crops, such as winter wheat, are waiting to be sown.

Ordinary farmers are busy collecting grain, drying grain, and sowing seeds, while the Dusa people have more jobs - mowing grass. After the grassland is distributed by households, men, women, young and old have to go all the way together to mow grass and dry grass to feed livestock in winter.

After a farmer with little arable land finishes his work in his own fields, he will do odd jobs for farmers who are short of staff, and can exchange some food for subsidies for their household income.

Winters couldn't bear to recruit farmers at this time. Fortunately, there was still some time before the deadline, so there was no need to worry.

Therefore, Lieutenant Winters Montane also had time to go to the city of Revodant to clarify the vague content in the enlistment order. Lieutenant had many questions to ask his immediate superior.

One of the most critical issues is also a question that sounds quite nonsense - whether the militia recruited are considered "soldiers" or "civilians" in the legal sense.

For the villagers of Lang Town, this question is really funny.

Is it a civilian? a soldier?

What does it matter? Don’t they all work?

If you ask the farmers in Wolf Town this question, they will definitely answer at the same time: "Whoever can make me serve less is who."

But monk Reed had a very creative idea. Drawing a dime is a major blow to any family, but the idea of ​​an old beggar monk may turn bad things into good things.

Just as he said: "[Selica] The misfortune is where good fortune is, and the blessing is where bad fortune is to hinder."

But the premise of all is to find out "whether the militia is a civilian or a soldier."

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If you ride a horse from Wolf Town to Revodan, you can travel 60 kilometers a day, and it takes about two days to travel one way.

But the slow farm cart is the limit to walking twenty kilometers a day. In addition, it takes seven days to get to the city of Revodan.

Gillard and Winters used marching discipline to restrain the convoy, scouts in front, rear containment teams, patrol back and forth during the day, and on shifts at night.

After a few days of march, everyone was very tired in both spirit and physical strength. However, it was not the first time that most coachmen and Dusak came out with the convoy, and they could still grit their teeth and endure it silently.

However, Pierre, Vahika and others who were with the convoy for the first time passed by, and immediately complained and complained. In the last few days, they were too lazy to patrol and simply stayed in the cart and couldn't get off.

There were also accidents such as broken shafts and overturning on the road. Fortunately, Winters and Gillard handled them well and did not cause any casualties. Gillard deliberately brought out a few empty cars just to prevent such accidents.

Apart from these small twists and turns, I was safe and sound all the way, and there were no blind bandits who came to cause trouble, which was a blessing.

After all, a big car may be prey, and the other party of a hundred big car has to consider whether it will break its teeth.

The weather was beautiful, and the rain that Gillard was most worried about did not happen, and the convoy arrived at the city of Revodan without any danger.

When the bell tower of the church in Revodantan entered the view, Winters set out to go to the garrison, and Gillard enthusiastically offered to accompany him.

"Isn't it okay? Don't you need to follow the convoy?" Winters was embarrassed to continue to trouble Old Dusak.

"It's okay, just pull the tobacco to the warehouse, there's no need for me." Gillard said cheerfully: "Besides, you don't know how to get to the garrison. I'll take you there. I know Major Ronald, and I can introduce it to you."

Gillard's enthusiasm made Winters refuse without reason. The two controlled their horses and left the convoy and ran towards downtown Revodan.

As the province of Xinkendi, the capital of Tiefeng County, Rewodan can only be called a "city" and cannot be called a "city". Because it only has a city area and no city walls.

Just like all naturally formed settlements, from the perspective of today's people, the city's geographical conditions are unique.
To be continued...