When William, who was so confident just now, said: "Destined to go down in history forever, and be famous forever", the next moment he said the words "escape" with a matter-of-fact expression, Shalomi couldn't react for a moment.
Come on, the look he looked at William became dull and stupid. otbnkotgt Smile a lot, smile a lot.
It seemed that Shalumi was no longer worried or afraid.
Just holding my stomach and laughing so hard.
While laughing, he slapped the table.
It seemed like he was about to die.
"So, what do you think?"
When Shalumi had laughed enough, she could no longer laugh.
She just pretended to laugh, bending over, as if she was almost out of breath.
William just asked this question.
"Of course it's a fight."
Shalumi stood up.
His eyes were shining, and he said to William confidently: "I have long wanted to go to the battlefield to see it.
It is a rare opportunity here.
They are just a group of bandits.
What is there to be afraid of?"
"Very good."
William nodded: "Then, let's issue the call-up order now.
Mobilize one-third of the peasant soldiers, reserve troops, and cavalry guards in the territory.
We will meet the enemy here."
William said this while pointing to the map.
"Plain Manna is a tributary of the Vistula River.
The terrain is relatively narrow.
William, why did you choose that place?"
Charumi asked.
"The terrain here is flat and suitable for cavalry attacks.
You should know that the bandits' troops do not have any decent cavalry at all.
And this sandbank area is the best entrance to the Chersk Territory from the west.
If I were a bandit, I will also choose to enter Chersk.
This narrow passage can ensure that my newly trained reserve soldiers have a suitable battlefield."
The "reservists" that William refers to naturally refer to those ultra-cheap elite cannon fodder that he has worked hard to train before.
Because there were obvious changes in these guys, William felt that it was not appropriate to call them farmers and soldiers anymore.
In addition, it is equally inappropriate to incorporate them into the Lord's Guard, or to form a new standing army based on this.
After all, strictly speaking, they are not soldiers.
Their main occupation is still farmers.
It is one thing to train them into this virtue, but it is another thing to force them to give up their farming life and become professional soldiers completely irresponsibly and arbitrarily.
In addition, William actually didn't want to turn them into professional soldiers.
His training and transformation of these people was just to experiment with the national reserve force and how far the peasants and soldiers could reach.
Of course, the more important point is that William does not have that much money.
Yes, yes, perhaps "lack of money" is the most important reason.
All in all, this special force can no longer be called peasant soldiers, nor can it be called a standing army.
So William gave them a very powerful name like "Reservists".
"Yes, I understand."
Shalumi said calmly.
But then, she had another question: "Why only mobilize one-third of the peasants and soldiers instead of all of them?"
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"Of course there is a reason for this."
William replied: “The first thing is to stabilize the people in the territory.
Recently, due to the rise of bandits and lack of food.
Some people in the territory are panicking.
If all the peasants and soldiers are mobilized under this situation, it is likely to cause unnecessary chaos.
In addition, it takes a certain amount of time to organize peasants and soldiers.
During this period of time, the rogues would naturally not just stay there.
Therefore, if all peasants and soldiers were to be mobilized, time would most likely be delayed.
When the rogue bandits enter Chersk, the losses will be huge. " After hearing what William said, Shalumi nodded.
He reluctantly agreed to William's suggestion.
But at the same time, she was still a little worried: "It is said that the number of refugees is close to tens of thousands.
We only mobilized one-third of the peasant soldiers, so there are only one thousand people.
Including the guards and reserve soldiers, there are only one thousand people."
Only five hundred.
This is only a quarter of the enemy’s.”
"So what if the gap is big?"
William said with a smile: "For things like peasants and soldiers, it's okay to fight with a favorable wind.
But if the wind goes against us, even the responsibility of cannon fodder cannot be borne."
"So, in fact, you can't count on more than two thousand peasants and soldiers."
"Indeed."
William nodded: "Actually, those who can fight are the five hundred guards and reserve soldiers."
William nodded, and then continued: "But you don't have to worry, Charumi.
Generally speaking, the regular army To fight against the refugees, the material difference of ten or twenty times is nothing at all.
Besides, those refugees are nothing.
Not all of them are capable of fighting.
Although there are many old, weak, women and children who can wave flags and shout, they are only of limited use in combat, and at most they are young and middle-aged.
Three thousand.
Compared with our regular army, it is only five times more."
"That's what I said, but what's going on with Count Baudelaire?"
Charlotte muttered in a low voice.
"Okay, originally I didn't want to say this."
After hearing what Shalumi said, William sighed, and then said to her:
"Because there is no money."
“No money” "To be more precise, there is no food."
William shook his head: "We cannot afford to mobilize more than 3,000 peasants and soldiers.
After all, this year's autumn grain harvest is not very good."
"What about the grain reserves over the years?"
Shalumi asked with a frown: "This year's harvest is not good, it does not mean that the harvests in other times are not good.
I remember that when the harvest was good in the past few years, the grain harvest in the territory was A lot.”
"Most of those things were exchanged for money."
William glanced at Shalumi, and then said, "Then they were spent inexplicably."
"Ah uh huh" heard William say this.
Shalumi felt embarrassed instantly.
Yes yes.
A few years ago, I relied on my good family conditions.
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It was no one else who bought luxury goods indiscriminately to show off in front of William.
It was the Countess of Chersk.
"So, we don't have enough food in stock now."
William said: "And before, we also spent part of the stock in order to train reserve soldiers.
So now, we can only make careful budgeting and prepare for the next summer's grain harvest. .
But of course, you do too.
Don't worry too much.
Although our food reserves are not large, it is still enough to feed the service staff and five hundred to one thousand soldiers in the castle for half a year.
If we live frugally, we can find other ways to obtain food.
If so, it’s not impossible to persist for one to one and a half years.”
"What about the future?"
Shalumi asked.
"In the future."
William sighed: "After one year, it will be out of our control."
Hearing the always confident William say such depressing words, Shalomi didn't know what to say for a moment.
The two were relatively speechless.
After a while, William smiled again: "Okay, there's no need to worry about those things now.
It's useless even to think about it.
Let's think carefully about how to deal with the next battle."
William said: "Although the strength comparison is about one to five.
And the battle In terms of strength, our side is stronger, but if we are careless, we may still be defeated by the opponent.”
"Yeah."
So Shalumi nodded.
Start discussing with William the war that will happen next.
In contrast.
While William and Shalumi were struggling with not having enough food, they were on the other side.
The opponent they are about to face.
There are approximately 8,000 to 10,000 refugees, but they are worrying about having nothing to eat for their next meal.
Yes, they did capture many villages and even captured a count's castle.
A lot of food was obtained from those places.
But the strange thing is that after that, they still couldn't fill their stomachs.
Those who are strong and strong and whose origins are unknown.
The people who claim to be bandits and robbers currently control this bandit armed force.
Somehow, they have lost the food.
Of course, most of the refugees were unaware of this matter.
And most of those who have noticed this are already dead.
A very small number of people are smart enough and have strict mouths.
Silently, they vaguely understood something.
But they are also powerless What was originally just a small disaster, why did it eventually turn into this?
Originally I just wanted to fill my stomach.
But why fight against the nobles, against the armies of the principalities.
Because of hunger, because of severe cold, and because of other sufferings.
The vast majority of the refugees have become mentally numb.
They have absolutely no desire to think about these things and it is tiring to use their brains.
When you are tired, you have to eat.
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If you don’t have food, you have to go hungry.
If you are too hungry, you will go crazy or die.
So it’s better not to use your brain.
That's it.
Most of the time, the refugees are like walking zombies, numb and sluggish.
Only a very small number of people with completely different temperaments, those who control the refugees, those who call themselves bandits, have life in their eyes, and they are more like living people or beasts.
And these 8,000 to 10,000 refugees were led little by little by these beasts with crazy gleams in their eyes.
Trekking through mountains and rivers, stepping on bone-chilling snow, we moved forward bit by bit in the direction of Chersk.
Probably, in just over a week, they will appear on the battlefield designed by William. 160420oshow7: