Black Iron Crown

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This time the slave hunting operation has come to an end, and it should be impossible to go back for at least a year or two.

Because in the frigid forest, there are fewer and fewer carat tribes, and there is no carat tribe within 50 kilometers of Fort Moland.

Because of the repeated raids by the northern border army, they all moved to the deeper depths of the cold forest, hoping to avoid the powerful northern border army raids.

This time, the mopping-up army walked more than 70 kilometers into the frigid forest. In such a cold winter, the forest is colder than in previous years. If it wasn't for Leiner's preparations for the soldiers, I'm afraid the temperature alone would be enough. Let this army lose 30%.

Earl Ryland also marched very cautiously, always paying attention to the body temperature of the soldiers. Whenever he marched for more than an hour and a half, he would order the soldiers to rest in place and drink some hot soup to maintain their body temperature in such a world of ice and snow. is very important.

In this way, Earl Ryland returned to the outside of Mecaron City with his soldiers.

Since Reiner gave the food at the right time, none of his vassals on the steppe suffered and did not suffer much.

When Earl Ryland led the army and a large number of prisoners back to Mecaron City, winter was almost over.

The snow melts during the day, but freezes again at night. Under the alternation of day and night, the entire northern border has become a huge glacier.

Almost no one dared to go out casually at this time, and they didn't want to be smashed to the ground by these slippery ice cubes.

Therefore, the return journey of this army was extremely difficult, and there were even dozens of people who broke their bones because of the slippery road and had to temporarily enter the state of wounded soldiers.

When the soldiers returned to the barracks with bruised noses and swollen faces, Reiner called Earl Leyland, Wende, and Lumbare into his study.

"How is the situation and results of the battle this time? How is the performance of our soldiers on the battlefield?" Leiner first focused on Earl Ryland's town, and he was looking forward to the answers from the recruits.

"Very good, my lord!" Earl Ryland nodded with a smile.

"Our recruits received very good militia training before they entered the army, and they also trained very hard after entering the army. They used what they learned on the training ground to the enemy. Now they are big Some of them are soldiers who have seen blood!"

Reiner nodded in satisfaction after listening to Earl Ryland's words. After half a year of training, these soldiers have good combat effectiveness. Then it only takes a few more months to bear the same responsibilities as the veterans. Combat mission.

Now he is only worried about whether the army of his vassals is undergoing assiduous and rigorous training as they said. If everything goes well, then his own can almost start ahead of schedule.

After Earl Ryland finished his report, Reiner asked Wend and Lumbare about their performance on the battlefield.

It was only heard that Earl Ryland praised the two of them greatly, and his words were full of praise for the talents of the two of them.

"I have to say that the two of them are very talented in warfare. Perhaps it is because of the blood of the previous kings of the Moland family and the excellent education they received. They mastered the essentials of combat very quickly. It took more than two months Become a qualified commander!"

"True,

They still have little experience in commanding operations, and they are still unable to flexibly command troops to deal with any situation, but it must be admitted that they can already serve as the commander of a wing! "

Hearing Earl Leyland's praise, Wende and Lumbare looked at each other happily, obviously very proud of their performance in the battle.

Lena watched the two knock on the table dumbfounded, motioned them to pay attention to their manners, and then said: "That's good, I will leave the wounded soldiers to you, and then you will give me the death list. I will send someone to deal with it!"

As the Grand Duke of the Northern Territory, Leiner split up his rights in more detail.

Although Earl Ryland is the highest officer of several infantry regiments, he usually only has the right to formulate training plans and hand them over to Reiner for decision-making. The power is in Lena's own hands.

In addition to this, there is also the payment of salaries. The money does not come from Earl Ryland at all. There are special people who distribute military salaries to the soldiers.

Although Earl Ryland is loyal to himself, Rainer wants to establish this system. Now he can guarantee Earl Ryland's loyalty, but he will always grow old and die one day. What can officials do if they deduct food and pay?

Earl Ryland nodded, and then left Reiner's study and returned to the barracks to deal with those complicated matters.

Looking at the two of them, Reiner couldn't help but smiled, then gave a thumbs up and said, "You two are doing great! Now let's wait until the real battle and let you make contributions!"

On the other side of the imperial capital, the little emperor is very satisfied with the training status of his guards. In half a year, they have initially acquired combat effectiveness, and they are completely different from when they were serfs. Variety.

Most importantly, the little emperor spent a lot of money to equip each of the 500 guards under his command with a full set of chain armor.

This is the only fully armored force in the imperial capital in recent years.

In order to obtain these armors, the little emperor obtained steel from various sources, and then asked the blacksmiths in the imperial capital to forge the armor.

First of all, he bought it from the smuggler. After the smuggler ran out of steel, he bought the steel from the Kingdom of Bookern.

If he didn't have two gold mines at his disposal, he wouldn't be able to afford so much steel.

But it was worth spending such a high price, and now the 500-man guard had the appearance of an elite division, at least it no longer looked the same as before.

The little emperor has not been idle these days, he has recruited many people in various departments of the empire, and even inserted his own confidants into it.

It has to be said that the identity of the emperor still has a righteous name. Under the name of the emperor, he only needs to show some kindness, and the people below will be grateful for Dade's loyalty to him.

However, his actions aroused the queen's dissatisfaction.

The queen looked at the little emperor Carter with a stern look, and said angrily: "Carter! Tell me what you mean? You are not a fool to deploy your own people in those places and spend so much money to buy steel! What is the use of such expensive steel to buy it?"

"Would you still worry about not having steel after Grand Duke Leiner is eliminated?" The queen was very displeased with what the little emperor had done during this period. He paid attention to everything, as if he no longer needed himself. It made the queen feel very insecure.