Lord Highlander

   Chapter 529 528. Militia Battalion

  Suldak spread the news of the establishment of the militia battalion, but the reaction of the villagers surprised him a bit.

  He waited in the security station for three days, only three veterans with slightly disabled legs from Guta Village came and expressed their willingness to join the militia battalion in Suldak.

  As for the villagers in Wall Village, so far no one is willing to join the militia battalion.

   Even when some villagers saw Suldak, they had to go far away, for fear that Suldak would find him because of recruiting militia.

  Suldak didn't expect the villagers to reject the militia battalion so much... He thought about it for a long time before he discovered the reason.

  One is because the dark side of the national recruitment system made the villagers lose the last bit of confidence in the army.

It's just that Suldak couldn't figure it out. When encountering bandit groups attacking the village, these villagers all had the courage to fight, and some people died desperately to defend the Wall village, but no one asked them to join the militia camp. willing.

  Second, it happens to be the busy season of farming.

  Many villagers were worried that the farming work in the fields would be affected. Some villagers tactfully expressed their support to Suldak in establishing the militia, but not many people actually joined the militia.

  The villagers would rather go to the construction site in the village and earn a temporary salary of one hundred copper coins a day, and no one is willing to join the militia battalion.

  The old village head did not tell everyone that there was almost no training in the summer militia battalion.

  The old village chief was worried that if he said this in advance, it would be difficult for Suldak to command the recruited militia in the summer season. Once some things became a habit, it would be difficult to change them back.

  When Surdak walked to the Wall Village Children's Home, he saw Selena standing in front of a wooden board, using charcoal pencils to teach a group of children to practice writing letters.

   Seeing Suldak coming, Selina asked the children to dismiss and play around the central square of the village for a while, but don't forget to have lunch later.

  The children, big and small, dispersed in a rush, and the temporary children's home was suddenly empty, and immediately quieted down.

  Surdak sat on a small wooden stool in front of the podium, looking up at Selena, who was standing pretty beside the podium.

  Selena folded her arms around her chest, with a gentle smile on her face, leaning her elbows on the podium and watching Suldak.

  The situation in the children's home has improved, and they are basically children from the village.

  The children from other villages had to stay at home because they had a long way to go and it was the busy farming season. The adults didn’t have time to send them over.

  After entering the summer, wild vegetables and some berries have grown out one after another, and the villagers from other villages don't need to send their children all the way here just because they have a bite to eat.

  The children's home was not disbanded because of this, but Suldak often came here in person to teach the children basic swordsmanship and fighting skills.

  Selena moved her face closer to Suldak, and asked him with a smile:

   "Why do you always look sad recently?"

  Suldak rubbed his temples and complained to Selina:

   "I really don't understand why the villagers reject the militia battalion so much."

"Oh, it's because of this!" Selena smiled. She knew that Suldak had been busy with this matter recently, and after thinking about it, she comforted him and said, "Everyone is busy building houses. I will run to join your militia camp at this time. This kind of strong and sheltered house can probably live for a lifetime once it is built. Who would run to you to join the militia camp at this time! Hide and hide less than..."

  Suldak looked at the small buildings rising one after another in the village, and said with a look of astonishment:

"is that so?"

  Selena nodded with a smile, her plump figure emerged from the long skirt and she whispered to Suldak:

   "Otherwise you recruit me, I will be your soldier..."

  …

   The ogre went to Beigou Ranch to herd sheep. He was worried that someone would steal the yellow sheep in the village.

  After the rainy season came, the seabuckthorn grass and Kebushi in Beigou Grassland grew wildly for so many days, and the entire hillside was lush and lush.

  The gazelle in Wall Village eats from morning to night, just to store a thick body of fat for themselves before autumn. Only in this way can they survive the next winter safely.

  Recently, Gullitum ate a lot of salamander meat left by Suldak. Unknowingly, Gullitum grew in size again.

  …

  Suldak waited in Wall Village for more than half a month.

Villagers from other villages saw that three veterans from Guta Village who had some chronic diseases in their legs joined the militia battalion, but Suldak did not refuse. Some veterans from other villages who had retired from the battlefield with injuries ran to Suldak Ke signed up and expressed his willingness to join the militia battalion.

  Of course not all veterans are recruited, most of the recruited veterans are some who can be cured.

  Green Empire's national recruitment system, male imperial citizens between the ages of 16 and 20, join the army and serve 4 years of military service.

  Once you do not join the army before the age of twenty, you will be forcibly recruited by the local law enforcement corps.

   These people will be marked by the military as "those who try to avoid military service", and as punishment for evading, they will be sent to the most dangerous infantry battalion with the highest death rate.

   Therefore, many civilian youths will join the army after the 16-year-old coming-of-age ceremony.

   There are also some aristocratic junior colleges who went to the Advanced Warrior Academy for further study after graduation. These people entered the army as the lowest-level officers, so that unnecessary casualties would be avoided.

  In these villages in the barren land, a group of young people are conscripted into the army every year.

  Since the young people in the village have not received any formal military training, the regiments assigned are basically cannon fodder infantry regiments.

  The number of young people who can return to their hometown from the battlefield alive is less than one-third every year.

   And among the less than one-third of young people, there are some who are disabled.

However, these disabled veterans who came back from the battlefield basically have minor disabilities. Some have broken fingers and toes, and some have severed tendons in arms or thighs. The medical conditions on the battlefield are very bad, and there is no way to connect them. Dealing with Scirocco in a timely and effective manner resulted in a disability.

  As for those whose legs or arms were cut off by the enemy, once they suffered such serious injuries, very few of them could come back alive.

These veterans are unable to help their families with farm work due to their unmentionable diseases. I heard that the Suldak knights in Wall Village set up a militia battalion here, recruiting veterans, and returning a bag of wheat flour every month. Rejecting veterans with disabilities, they ran over to try their luck with Bang Bang.

  Although these veterans are physically inflexible, they have rich combat experience, and in the eyes of these veterans, there is still a certain chance of curing the incurable diseases for Suldak who has the Holy Light.

   In nearly twenty days, the number of disabled veterans recruited by Suldak quickly reached more than forty.

   After the old village head finished supervising the construction of the townhouses at the entrance of the village, he turned around to look at the recruitment situation on Suldak's side, and realized that the villagers of Wall Village were collectively stupid.

   Instead of actively joining the militia battalion as he confessed, everyone went to the construction site in the village to earn money.

When the old village chief heard the news, he was furious. He ran to the central square of the village, summoned all the villagers, and cursed at all the villagers, saying: "You people are worse than the kobold slaves at the entrance of the village." To be ignorant... is to be poor all your life. '

   Facing the enraged village chief Bright, many villagers bowed their heads in shame as they stood in the crowd.

  Despite this, few villagers are willing to join the militia battalion.

  But... After all, there are a few.

  (end of this chapter)