Chapter 10

Lilia is very happy.

It's sunny today, and the cold streets are much warmer on weekdays. Such good weather is rare in the water season. The young and beautiful girl is wearing a full-body rhinoceros armor. The thick leather wraps the girl's exquisite body layer by layer, which is both practical and beautiful. Even if Lilith is the sister of Nelson, the head of the War Bear mercenary regiment, she has never owned such an excellent leather armor. However, what really makes Lilith happy is a badge engraved on the leather armor: a nightingale stands on a rose stick and sings in the light of a bright moon.

This emblem is the noble's family emblem. Lilith doesn't understand the meaning of the emblem, but she knows that she is now the family guardian of a lord, and other people in the mercenary regiment have become the guardian of the family, even those uncles and uncles who are disabled because of fighting.

Lilia walked back to the station of the War Bear mercenary regiment in the envious eyes of other mercenaries. Before entering the temporary camp transformed by the stable, Lilith heard a noise and cheering.

Pushing aside the wooden fence, Lilia saw two big men, one eyed longgru and hammer, twisting together on the ground, while the War Bear mercenaries nearby were shouting.

"Gru, use some force. Hold him down, and this whole body lock is yours!"

"Hammer, aren't you full? If you don't use your strength, this baby will fall into the arms of one eye! Ha ha..."

Lilia glared angrily at these guys who were afraid of chaos in the world, pushed away the happy crowd and went straight into the inner room.

"Brother, I'm back." Lilia shouted to Nelson, who was studying a map with her back to her.

Hearing his sister's cry, Nelson turned to Lilith and said with a spoiled smile, "Lilia, how's it going?"

"Brother, food and farm tools have been purchased. Carriages and animals will be sent to the station in a while. However, little progress has been made in recruiting the people." Lilia hesitated for a moment, but still told Nelson honestly, "Linda and old John are still recruiting people in the shanty town outside the city. Until I came back, there were only less than 100 people. I think it's difficult for us to complete the task assigned by the adult." Lilia was a little depressed.

"Is that right? Well, you'll take Gru and the hammer to them later and make them dress up. If you bring more black bread, you should be able to recruit some farmers." Nelson patted his sister on the shoulder. "I'll see the adult right away and tell him about the situation. I'm sure the adult won't blame us."

"OK, brother, I'll go now." The girl left happily. She always thought her brother could solve all the problems, but she didn't notice the haze in the bottom of Nelson's eyes.

Victor looked at Nelson, the head of the mercenary standing respectfully in front of him, and showed a calm and genial aristocratic smile.

Victor has been preparing to recruit since yesterday.

He did not directly ask the count of York for help. The fat pig would only laugh at him loudly and let everyone see his jokes.

Many years of experience in life at the bottom of the earth made him understand that county officials are not as good as current officials, so he directly found the castle Quartermaster.

After the concealed delivery of a purple gold coin, the originally cold Quartermaster immediately entertained him warmly. He not only sold him a batch of "obsolete" ordnance and armor, but also kindly asked people to engrave the Wimbledon family crest on these "obsolete goods".

When Victor said he needed to recruit some people, the enthusiastic Quartermaster asked his confidants to take Victor to the old Jack tavern.

After explaining his intention to old Hal, the tavern owner politely recommended several mercenary regiments to victor. However, Victor has been cautiously in the transfinite state in this mixed place, and his perception has become more and more acute, and the dialogue between Nelson and Gru downstairs has been heard by Victor.

Victor had a thought. You should know that mercenaries are half black, half white, good and bad, and it is really rare for mercenaries to adhere to their morality.

Victor learned from Hal that the War Bear mercenary regiment was also famous in the mercenary field. It was even hired by the Dodo Kingdom and fought several hard battles with the strong Sassanians.

However, the War Bear mercenary regiment has a tradition different from other mercenary regiments: the War Bear never dismisses the disabled regiments, but always supports them.

This rule makes Zhan Xiong's cohesion far more powerful than other mercenaries, which is also the reason why Zhan Xiong is more powerful than other mercenaries. However, with the passage of time, Zhan Xiong has more and more disabled members, and the burden of the mercenaries is getting bigger and bigger. Fortunately, the frequent wars with the Sassanians can also make the War Bear mercenary regiment earn rich rewards, so that the mercenary regiment can be maintained.

However, the Sassanians relaxed their attack on dodo, and the income of the mercenary regiment immediately decreased a lot. Those disabled members became a huge burden on the War Bear mercenary regiment.

After Nelson took over the post of commander of the War Bear, the War Bear mercenary regiment had already begun to make ends meet, and even the commission could not be paid.

Those young members trained by the mercenary regiment have been poached by other competitors. The days of fighting bears are getting worse and worse, so Nelson hopes to take his team members to join an aristocratic force. Unfortunately, the tradition of fighting bears still let the Lords and nobles shut them out.

However, for Victor, a moral mercenary regiment is more suitable to be his escort than a Powerful Mercenary regiment.

In the room on the second floor of old Jack's tavern, Victor met with head Nelson. Victor did not hide anything, frankly introduced his situation to Nelson, and expressed his willingness to accept the disabled war bear members.

After a short thought, Nelson agreed to become Victor's vassal. In fact, he had no choice.

Then Victor gave Nelson a sum of money and equipment and asked him to buy materials and recruit Lingmin.

Now, we have bought all the materials, but we didn't expect that few refugees should be the easiest to recruit.

"My Lord, that's the case. I estimate that when we start tomorrow, we can only recruit about 150 people at most." Nelson looked at Victor uneasily.

Without enough leaders, their plan will be completely stranded.

Victor stood up, walked to the window, looked at the sparse crowd in the square and asked Nelson, "Nelson, what do you think is the reason why we can't recruit people?"

"Sir, since the three provinces in the east of the kingdom were ceded, a large number of landless farmers have gathered in the man horse hills to try to find a way to live. It should be easy to recruit enough people. But we can't recruit people, so I doubt..." Nelson replied haltingly.

"What do you suspect?" Victor looked into Nelson's eyes and asked.

"Sir, I suspect that your last attack by the blood fox bandits was deliberately spread among the refugees. Those farmers may think we can't protect their safety, so they would rather starve than risk exploring new territory with us." Nelson said, gritting his teeth.

"Sure enough," said Victor with a sigh, "Nelson, keep sending people to recruit. In addition, the disabled members don't go to the territory with us."

"My Lord, this..." As soon as Nelson heard that he was going to leave the disabled League members, he was in a hurry.

Victor smiled; "Don't get excited. I'll give you another 2000 kinsol. You take the money to buy a hotel and a grocery store in the town to accommodate those disabled members. You ask these people to help us recruit leaders in the town and keep an eye on the news in Heibao town. However, they should remember to hide their identity, otherwise, once people know that they are my people, it may be dangerous."

"Thank you, sir. Don't worry, sir. Although my old guys are disabled, they are all human spirits. It's impossible for them to do this." Nelson clapped his chest as soon as he heard Victor's offer.

"By the way, prepare a carriage for me."

"Where are you going, my lord?"

"Rose Manor." Victor's handsome face showed a funny smile.