Eight hundred cavalry, two hundred archers, five hundred heavy armored infantry, and three hundred city defense guards are the total strength that Surdak currently has.
It is completely possible to form a corps with complete arms.
Only now did Great Swordsman Chester understand that before he came to Bai Lin's plane, Marquis Luther entertained Great Swordsman Chester alone, and why Lady Marian was there to accompany him at that time, and her smile was still so kind.
What is happening in front of me... is probably completely within Marquis Luther's plan.
As long as Surdak can raise a cavalry battalion, and then use this garrison mission to station him in a border town on the Bailin plane, then transfer elite warriors from other legion troops and inject them into Surdak's command.
Form a battle group.
Even if Suldak was not able to build this cavalry battalion, it is estimated that Marquis Luther would help him build this cavalry battalion privately.
In this way, even if everyone knew in their hearts that Marquis Luther wanted to train Suldak, they still couldn't find anything wrong with him.
After all, the Bailin plane is about to usher in a once-in-a-decade beast wave. It is natural to send more troops to border towns. Surdak is the military and political officer here, and the Luther Legion is the private property of Marquis Luther.
He has the final say on how to dispatch the army!
Great Swordsman Chester also wanted to help Surdak straighten out the relationship between the various war groups. He stayed in Dodan for three days and found that Surdak had firmly controlled the group. To put it bluntly, it was still
A complete management system, daily meals, training, and outdoor training are all arranged uniformly.
Even if he were to manage, he might not be able to do a better job than Suldak.
The dormitories in the garrison camp were set up in just three days.
The town of Dodan is located at the southern entrance of the Dodan Canyon in the middle of the Thorny Mountains. There is a large area of broad-leaved woodland at the foot of the Thorny Mountains, and there is no shortage of wood here.
There was a lumberyard just outside the town. Suldak asked someone to buy 1,800 red pine logs one foot in diameter from the lumberyard, and he cut semicircular grooves on both ends of these logs.
Come.
Timbers were stacked together one by one, and it took only one day to build the main frame of the military camp dormitory, followed by the main beams and tripods of the roof. Finally, arm-thick wooden rafters were densely arranged on the tripods of the roof.
Twenty wooden houses were built quickly in almost three days.
In particular, the wooden house has a flat pine floor, and the wooden beds inside are single beds with bunk beds, arranged neatly in rows in the wooden house.
If the great swordsman of Chester had not seen it with his own eyes, it would be difficult to believe that these wooden houses were actually made by the cavalry battalion of Suldak.
Groups of soldiers walked into the wooden houses that smelled of pine wood, and they all looked at the exquisite wooden houses with novel faces.
Suldak explained to the Great Swordsman of Chester: "The land here is barren. During autumn and winter, many people will go to the local lumberyard to work to support their families. They are very familiar with logging."
Seeing that a thousand reinforcements were settled by Suldak so quickly, Great Swordsman Chester decided to visit other border towns to see the situation in those towns.
He also recommended two outstanding squadron commanders to Suldak, Adams and Gallatin.
These two knights were also personally requested by the Great Swordsman of Chester. They were mainly worried that Suldak had little experience in managing an army and he had urgent matters to deal with. There must be trustworthy and capable people around him to organize the situation.
Both squadron leaders are young officers with outstanding performance.
Before leaving, Great Swordsman Chester of course introduced these two people to Suldak.
…
Before leaving, Great Swordsman Chester and Suldak drank together in the tavern in Dodan Town and had a casual chat.
The taverns in Duodan Town only have ale brewed by the tavern owner. Since the filtration process is a bit rough, there are even some residues in the ale, but the taste of the ale is very fragrant.
When Surdak drinks, he is used to eating some dried fruits, fried fish and other foods.
There are always some hazel trees in the forest at the foot of the Thorny Mountains. There are only hazelnuts in the tavern. Suldak ordered a small plate, then sat in front of the bar and smashed them open one by one with a dagger, and picked out the nuts inside to eat.
The great swordsman Chester held the wine glass in one hand and said to Suldak:
"In Duodan Town, you can ignore everything else, but the defense here is above all else. Anyone who dares to hinder local defense can be dealt with first. No matter the civilians, nobles need to write an explanation of the situation and submit it to
Wilkes City Military Headquarters, just let us prepare in advance."
"I came here this time just to see if this town can still function normally. If it can, I won't send the mayor for the time being, so as not to have to run into trouble with you."
"This beast wave is a big challenge for you, and it is also a rare opportunity."
"To be honest, no matter which plane you conquer, you will encounter difficulties of one kind or another. The beast tide is definitely not the most terrifying. I hope you can gain something here."
"Let me see what kind of abilities the candidate chosen by Marquis Luther has."
Swordsman Chester raised the beer glass in his hand and clinked it with Suldak.
Then the great swordsman Chester said:
"The situation here should be the best among the five passes."
"But it is a border town after all. It is located in a remote place. This is also the favorite place for wanted criminals and exiles to gather. You must pay attention to safety here. If something beyond your control happens, you will immediately withdraw to Will.
Come on, Kes, I will help you with the follow-up."
Suldak nodded and agreed: "Yes!"
Later, he said: "I will complete the garrison mission."
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Swordsman Chester came to the town hall. Accompanied by Mrs. Luna, the group walked around Dodan Town.
Great Swordsman Chester discovered that Dodan Town was fully prepared for this beast tide.
The large-scale hunting operation launched on the eve of the animal tide gave the town enough meat reserves, and the furs of rex rabbits and guinea pigs were dried all over the streets.
Some residents still have dried snowcocks and grouse hanging in the attics of their homes.
Not only that, according to Mrs. Luna, the town also spends one-fifth of the tax revenue to subsidize the town's per capita rations.
That is to say, Dodan Town purchases wheat flour uniformly, and then delivers it to the town's bakery to bake wheat cakes and whole-wheat bread of uniform sizes.
This kind of standard bread has strict requirements on diameter, size and thickness. Basically, a white bread requires almost a pound of wheat flour. A whole-wheat bread is enough for an adult to eat for a whole day, and such a bread only has a little salt.
The price of whole wheat bread in the bakery in Dodan Town is only two copper coins.
As long as the residents of the town have sixty copper coins, they can have enough to eat within a month.
Even the aborigines living at the bottom of society would not starve to death because of lack of food during the most difficult times.
When this measure was first introduced, there were long queues at the door of the bakery every day, and the bakery owner had to limit the supply according to the number of people.
In the following week, when everyone found that the price of baked wheat cakes had been maintained at such a low price, they stopped buying them.
That is, almost everyone in the town has to go to the bakery to buy toasted wheat cakes and whole wheat bread.
This forced the bakery to build five large ovens one after another and hire twenty bakers to meet the entire town's bread supply.
Of course, this benefit is only for the existing residents of Duodan Town. Those outsiders can only enjoy such cheap scones and whole-wheat bread if they obtain a tax certificate stamped by the tax official of Duodan Town.
Although the nobles in the town were dissatisfied with this matter, the taxes in the town would not fall into their pockets, so they did not speak out against it.
The Great Swordsman Chester only stayed in Dodan Town for four nights, and then left Dodan Town on horseback with four followers.
The carriages brought by the Great Swordsman of Chester were hired by some local nobles, and carrying the property they had accumulated over the years, they took the opportunity to leave Dodan Town and rush to Wilkes City.