The most powerful lizardfolk tribes, with tens of thousands of lizardfolk warriors, occupy the most resource-rich areas in the Shadow Swamp.
Even in severe cold weather, there is no ice or freezing there, the temperature is within an acceptable range, and there is plenty of food.
The other weak lizardmen tribes can only hunt in all directions.
The direction of the hunt is determined by the fist of the leader of the lizardfolk tribe.
Other lizardman tribes will not enter the hunting range of other lizardman tribes unless necessary.
Because it means fighting until death.
The giant lizard man was killed by William, and his tribe collapsed.
William saw from the magic mirror that the defeated lizardmen did not dare to stay away from this area. They only dared to wander nearby, fighting for every morsel of precious food.
Because during this season, the lone lizardmen who are not from the tribe have a different smell. For other lizardmen tribes, they are an unpalatable but filling meal.
So William felt relieved, and the small village of Nisei could truly usher in a peaceful life.
New construction can also continue boldly.
The first thing to bear the brunt is the expansion of the escort team.
Nowadays it is no longer appropriate to call them the Guards.
There are twenty-five knight-level existences, even a powerful earl does not have this strength.
So with a wave of William's hand, the Guards were upgraded to Knights. From then on, they were only responsible for military combat and no longer took on security functions.
Taking into account checks and balances, William divided the escort into three knights.
The first knight order, William named it the Knights of the Rose Tiger, with Jacques Porter, the strongest among the original captains, as the leader of the order, Mark Cree as the deputy leader, and the six original members of the guard.
Captains of the six detachments of the Knights.
The second knighthood was named by William as the Knights of Thorns and Destiny. Little Gretel served as the leader of the knighthood, and Jerry Hustedt, the son of the swineherd's family, served as the deputy leader. Six formal escort members were also assigned to the knighthood.
Be a detachment leader.
The first two knights are mainly responsible for foreign expeditions, while the last knights, William mainly uses it to protect his own safety, as the Praetorian Knights.
William named it the Knights of the Shield of the Earth. The main leader of the knights was Drake John, the son of Old John, and the deputy leader was the son of a cattle herder. Seven formal guards were assigned to it.
Of course, it is a knighthood in name, but in fact it does not have horses. It is more like an infantry regiment.
However, William felt that this was only a temporary problem.
There will definitely be horses in the future!
The Knights will also become justifiable.
Once the skeleton is built, you have to start filling it with fat.
William gave the Knights of the Rose Tiger and the Knights of Thorns Destiny an establishment of 300 people each, while the Shield of the Earth had an establishment of 500 people.
Of course, the current total population of the entire small village of Nisei is just over a thousand, which cannot satisfy the appetite of these knights at all.
This compilation is also paper data.
For now, we can only do it step by step.
The three knights, under the leadership of several captains, began to expand their troop sources.
The servant soldiers who originally participated in the war have all obtained the status of free citizens of the small village of Nisei.
After the war, William was not stingy with rewards, and he also opened up the qualifications of these servant-soldier families to redeem themselves.
As a result, the small village of Nisei suddenly had more than 300 free families.
The three knights mainly recruited soldiers from more than 300 freedmen families and the original freedmen families in the small village of Nisei.
However, the original villagers in the small village of Nisei have been drafted several times, and the remaining ones are either old and weak, or young and disabled.
Unable to meet conscription requirements.
A large number of soldiers still come from the families of servant soldiers.
There were ninety-eight former servants who survived the war without any disabilities.
These ninety-eight servants were directly divided among the three knights.
The Knights of the Rose Tiger and the Knights of Thorns and Destiny each received thirty soldiers, while the Knights of the Earth Shield received more soldiers, with thirty-eight soldiers.
Because the treatment of the original batch of servant soldiers was obvious to all, these newly created free names joined the army enthusiastically.
Together with other wild slaves, the average strength of each knight group finally expanded to more than a hundred.
There are still only more than forty formal members of each knighthood, and the rest are servants, with sixty or seventy people.
It’s not that we don’t want to continue conscription, but if we continue, it will affect the normal operation of the entire small village of Nisei.
There are only more than 1,000 people in the entire village, but there are more than 400 soldiers. This ratio is really terrifying, and it is simply a barbaric force.
If William hadn't had a gourmet table, he might not have been able to support so many retired soldiers.
After the three knights were formally established, they were led by several captains, who led the knights' warriors in daily training and actual combat exercises.
The actual battle is naturally to select the remnants of the lizardmen still wandering in the nearby area.
William allowed the three knights to compete.
The Knights had just been established, and the leaders of the Knights all wanted to make some achievements to show William, so they all worked hard.
Just fighting will result in death!
Without the prophetic vision of William's magic mirror, the knights would inevitably be injured, disabled or dead every time they returned from actual combat.
But William thinks this is normal.
Difficulties will make a true warrior, not relying on him!
The Knights have officially become independent, but the small village of Nisei cannot do without troops to maintain law and order.
It would be impossible for a village of more than a thousand people not to have a little friction or incident happen every day.
Therefore, security forces are indispensable.
Twenty-eight members of the original escort survived, and nine of them were disabled and unable to join the fighting team.
But they were also rewarded by William, and their strength was much higher than that of ordinary people. In addition, the battlefield had tempered their strong will, and they were more than enough to serve as security forces.
With nine disabled members of the guard and nineteen disabled former servants, and then lowering the conditions and selecting some "auxiliary workers" from free citizens, the security team was officially established, and visited and patrolled the small village of Nisei every day.
Handle various trivial matters and minor conflicts.
After the barrel of the gun was straightened, William began to deal with other things.
The first is the planning issue of Nisei Village.
William had long wanted to tidy up the messy hut.
It was just that the main conflict at that time was the lizard-men attack, and William couldn't spare the time or manpower to deal with it.
Now that the lizard people's crisis has been temporarily eliminated, and the human resources are relatively abundant, we can definitely handle this matter.
William came up with a plan and left it to Old John to implement it, using lime powder to divide the entire small village of Nisei into four districts with two main horizontal and vertical roads.
In each district, several branch roads are planned.
The original location of Nisei Village will be classified as an administrative district. From now on, this will be the brain of the entire Nisei Village.
The area of the brickyard is designated as a handicraft area.
The other two areas, one is the military area, are mainly for the knights to be stationed.
The other is the commercial district. The former grocery store will be moved here, and the mill and baking house will also be moved here. This will become a commercial center and a wealthy area.
However, this is still just a plan.
It needs to be built step by step.
The first thing to do is to knock down those messy thatched houses and rebuild them. They are really an eyesore!
However, it is impractical to do this in the middle of winter. We cannot push away the villagers' thatched houses and let them live in shacks.
That's how the public's favorability suddenly dropped by 50%.
Moreover, winter with several degrees below zero is not suitable for building a house. The weather is too cold and the ground is too frozen, so laying the foundation will be very troublesome.
But the preparation work can be carried out first.
What William plans to build is a mixed brick and wood house. It doesn't need to be high, just two to three stories.
Lay the foundation, build the frame with wood, and build brick walls on all sides.
Simple, convenient and fast.
Of wood and bricks, there is not much left in the small village of Nisei.
With the presence of the Knights, there is not much danger outside the village.
As a result, the two tasks of brick making and logging also started.
There was smoke coming out of the earthen kiln again.
The entire small village of Nisei was once again busy.
However, the villagers and wild slaves enjoyed it.
Since the arrival of Lord William, this winter has not felt too cold!