Chapter 255 The coalition did not meet expectations

The news that the lord will lead the knight team to go on an expedition has long spread in Wubei Territory.

Many citizens, especially those living in swamp towns, are worried about whether they will be dragged over to the battlefield.

After all, Baron Leisen was like this at the beginning. As a vassal of Wushan Castle, he would respond to the call-up order, but this did not mean that he would bring out the most elite team to fight.

When Leisen felt it was profitable, he would send a few more knights, and vice versa. At least one time, it seemed that only three junior knights were used to lead the expedition.

If there are fewer knights, there will naturally be fewer carefully trained cavalry, infantry and archers. But in order to make the scale appear larger, Leisen would temporarily recruit serfs and militiamen with little training to fill up the number.

You said he didn't respond to the call-up, but he actually sent more than a hundred people to join the war;

You can say that he responded to the call-up order, but his team has no fighting power at all.

In view of Leisen's operation, it is normal for the residents of Swamp Town to be worried.

But their worries are obviously unnecessary.

Without the need for logistics, Luo Ning had no intention of recruiting serfs and militiamen to make up the numbers. Let them do the autumn harvest, road construction, and reclamation in the territory. It would be better to create people in their free time than to go to the battlefield. What a waste of life.

Even though he thought so, he wouldn't publicize it like this in the territory.

Officials headed by Wilson would tell the outside world that this was the lord's pity for ordinary people like them, and he did not want them to die on the battlefield without formal training. This was the lord's mercy and so on.

At the same time, they are also promoting the justice of Luo Ning's expedition, exaggerating the hatefulness of the enemy, and the serious consequences that a defeat will bring to the Wubei Territory.

This not only allows the citizens to feel that the war is related to them and not just an outsider, but also establishes Luo Ning's image from another perspective.

Of course, these propaganda speeches may not have much effect in the short term. Some ignorant serfs do not understand these things at all, and some people who are hostile to the nobles in their hearts even pray that Luo Ning loses the war.

But as long as they persist in publicity for a long time, it will definitely be effective, because Luo Ning has indeed allowed them to survive stably, and their lives will get better and better.

Take this year's autumn harvest for example. When the residents saw the lush wheat seedlings gradually turning golden and like waves in the wheat fields, they knew that this year would be a good harvest year.

This bumper harvest is related to the guidance of the village chiefs and team leaders, as well as their fertilization and care, and these all come from the lords.

On July 7th, Ruidal had led the team to leave Wubei Territory for several days, but Luo Ning, who had the dragon, still didn't leave. He didn't want to waste time on the road.

During this period, he rode Carlos to the swamp again and inspected the previously marked area.

Fourteen places that were suspected of being wild rice seedlings have now produced results.

Nine of them are ordinary weeds, and the remaining five are wild rice that coexists with barnyard grass and has grown green rice ears!

Although the scale is small, this discovery makes Luo Ning very excited, and his rice planting plan will be fully launched in the next few years.

In order to harvest more rice, he dug out the barnyard grass from the wild rice and transplanted it aside. This thing hindered the growth of rice, but it was also useful, so Luo Ning only transplanted it instead of pulling it out and throwing it away.

The rice is expected to mature around mid-to-late August, and Luo Ning is planning to harvest it then.

Thanks to him now having Carlos, otherwise, he would really not know how to harvest rice on the front line. After all, this place is too far away from Swamp Town, and it would be difficult for Wilson and others to reach here.

After dealing with the wild rice matter, Luo Ning rushed back to Shanlin Castle without stopping.

Knowing the principles of papermaking, he finally made the first piece of paper in another world after going through the steps of pulping, mixing, papermaking, pressing, and drying.

Although it is grayish-yellow in color and not as beautiful as white paper, it is obviously no problem to use it for writing.

Luo Ning spent two days giving Gallon the raw materials, boiled fibers and other steps that needed to be prepared before papermaking, and asked him to prepare more materials while he was away.

When Luo Ning returns to Hillwood Castle after the war, he can recruit some papermaking craftsmen, allowing more people to participate in the papermaking industry, and rid the territory of the worry of expensive parchment.

After handling these trivial matters, when Luo Ning saw that the autumn harvest work in the territory was beginning to proceed in an orderly manner, he rode Carlos and left the territory, and soon caught up with the team led by Redal.

"Sir, you are finally here!"

Seeing Luo Ning suddenly appearing from the forest on one side, Redal was not surprised at all, but it made the soldiers behind him very confused. Isn't the Lord still in the territory? How could he come out of the forest?

"How are you? Did you meet any other nobles' troops along the way?"

"Encountered armies from Muma City and Hushang Town."

Redal replied: "But their logistics team is longer than ours, and their marching speed is a little slower than ours. They are now estimated to be more than ten miles behind us."

Luo Ning nodded. He did see a team behind him when he was in the air, but he couldn't see carefully. These guys didn't have heraldic flags hanging high like the team led by Wu Bei.

Luo Ning looked at Rogner in the team and asked, "Rogna, how many people did your father bring here this time?"

"As far as I know, it should be a team of knights led by Baron Snow."

Baron Snow is Kurami's father, a Silver Knight.

Being able to pull out a team of knights to participate in this war, Viscount Marvin is considered to have worked hard.

"Is Baron Hermann leading the team in Lake Town?"

"Yes sir!"

The person who answered the question was McCann. He had followed Luo Ning to Hushang Town and Wushan Castle, and had met the one-armed lone wolf Baron Hermann himself.

"However, his team is smaller than Viscount Marvin's. It is estimated that there are five or six knights, a dozen cavalry, and forty or fifty infantry."

Although Lake Town is a barony, its aquaculture business is good, and Hermann's family is also rich. He should have two knight squads under his command.

Luo Ning frowned slightly and came out with only a few people. It seemed a little missing, right?

But fortunately, the bronze-level lord personally led the team. Although the number of people was a bit small, the overall strength should not be weak, and it was okay.

"The Boulder Territory is only a hundred miles ahead. Let's slow down the march and maintain the physical strength and condition of the good guys and horses."

They also brought supplies, but not much. When they arrived at the Boulder Territory, Galil would be in charge.

Because Luo Ning slowed down, on the third day, Viscount Marvin and Baron Hermann caught up with the team. The winding road was suddenly crowded with people, and it suddenly looked like a march.

Luo Ning glanced at the team of these two people.

Naturally, the overall quality of the knight team in Muma City seems to be higher. His horses and cavalry are all equipped with iron armor, but only the infantry and archers are a bit inferior.

"Uncle Marvin, I think you need to buy some iron and wood equipment for your infantry and cavalry."

Luo Ning said with a smile.

Marvin and Gehrman couldn't help but turn to look at Ronin's knight team. After two months of increased production, most of his infantry had put on Zha armor, which looked much more imposing than their infantry team.

And whether it was an illusion or not, the two of them always felt that Luo Ning's soldiers were more orderly and their actions were more disciplined.

"I asked Rogner two days ago if you had any for sale, but you didn't."

Marvin smiled and said: "When I go back this time, bring me sixty sets of armor first. I'll arm the infantry first."

"Give me sixty sets too."

Only a small half of Hermann's team were elites, but this did not prevent him from arming the soldiers who did not come.

"no problem!"

Luo Ning happily responded that before the war started, two businesses had been made.

The team of three slowly approached the boulder collar. Here, Luo Ning encountered more and more noble troops.

But the situation of their army made Luo Ning look increasingly bad.

It turns out that Marvin and Herman's team quality is the best, and the teams led by the rest are completely inadequate.

Either they were too few in number, or they were just miscellaneous soldiers who were staggering around and looked like they had no fighting ability.

If nothing else, let’s talk about Baron Corner, who is about to go bankrupt.

Luo Ning was so moved by the other party's loyalty to Wushanbao that he was almost bankrupt and still participated in the war.

But the opponent and his own team of only three people were really not enough.

"Viscount Vittorino is not here?"

Luo Ning frowned slightly.

Viscount Vittorino of Point City is a Silver Knight. Without him, the coalition will lose one high-end combat capability.

"Who else is not here?" (End of chapter)