Lord Highlander

   Chapter 658 647. Training

  Winter nights always come early.

  When the setting sun was silent among the mountains, a huge shadow quickly swallowed every inch of land in the valley.

  The sky darkened, and the stars were gradually embedded in the night sky.

  Dinner was actually fried fish. Suerdak felt that there were very few opportunities to eat fish in Hailansa City. There are no lakes here, so it is rare to see fish.

After entering the winter, these sea fish are transported from the coastal fishing boats to the port, each of which will be frozen hard, and then transported to the inland provinces of the Green Empire by four-wheeled trucks or magic airships, so they can only be eaten during this season to sea fish.

In previous years, the caravan would never transport sea fish to the barren land, because the merchants knew that the poor villagers of Wall Village would never be able to afford sea fish, but this year was different from previous years. The villagers of Wall will buy some from the merchant to taste.

  It was lucky to have some frozen fish this time, and Natasha and Rita decided to buy some and try it at home.

   When frying fish, there are only peppercorns and salt. The fish has a slight fishy smell, but it is little Peter's favorite.

  The oatmeal cakes are also toasted and crispy, and served with sour plum sauce, so delicious that Little Peter almost bit his tongue.

  Old Sheila looked at Suldak, who was picking fish bones from little Peter, and the grudges in his heart had begun to slowly disappear... He came all the way to Wall Village just for a promise he had made on the battlefield.

  Every year, some young people in Woer Village go to the battlefield because of their military service. At least half of them will become cannon fodder on the battlefield and never return to their hometown. These young infantry soldiers fully interpret the meaning of cannon fodder. Therefore, it is normal for the villagers in the barren land to have their relatives die in battle on the plane battlefield. Old Sheila just prays earnestly every day, hoping that her son can return safely...

  Old Sheila even felt that it must be because her prayers were not devout enough to become like this...

  …

After dinner, Suldak held a cup of lemon tea and laid out a map of the barren land on the coffee table. Considering which village the paving team would build the concrete road to first, he put the charcoal in Wall Village and A line is formed between the pustule mountains, and a line is formed at the edge of the pustule mountain and the southern foot of the Paglos mountain range. These cement roads have been opened up by the kobold slaves. Next, Suldak plans to Extending the road to the northwest of the Badlands...

  He drew a big cross on the edge of the desert with a charcoal pencil. As the sheriff of the barren land, he had to deal with the robbers in the desert before he followed Marquis Luther to the plane to change defense.

  He was sitting on the recliner by the glass window of the bedroom, looking at the starry sky above his head, thinking about whether to go to Hailansa City tomorrow and hire a mercenary group to come back.

  The fireplace is in the downstairs living room, but there is a flue passing through the bedroom, so the room is also very warm. Suerdak is wearing only a cotton shirt, thinking about some words that the old village chief said before leaving.

  The old village head heard that Suldak was preparing to build a cavalry battalion. In the spring, he would follow the Marquis Luthor's army to garrison the Bailin plane.

Being able to ride in Marquis Luther's chariot is naturally because Suldak has a marriage contract, mainly because Marquis Luther wants Suldak to take this opportunity to earn some merit. Nobles can earn merit only by going to the battlefield. Only then can he be promoted to his own title. After all, a little baron marries the daughter of a marquis, and the status gap is a little bit big.

  The cavalry battalion with the official number of the empire is eligible to recruit some recruits. These recruits can be registered at the Hailansa Logistics and Quartermaster Office, and then serve four years of military service in the Suldak Cavalry Battalion.

The old village chief first thought of those young people who were of the right age in the village but had not yet served in the military. He hoped that Surdak could select some of these young people. Although they were young and had no combat experience, they were worth training and retired in the future. After that, it can become the backbone of the barren land.

   It turned out to be going to the Bailin plane to change defenses. This errand is obviously a reward in disguise. There is no danger in itself, and those who are capable can earn some merit...

Suldak's original idea was to recruit some veterans with rich combat experience and return to the battlefield in the form of employment. He is not short of the mercenary's salary, so that a cavalry battalion will have combat effectiveness, but Bright Village The proposal made by the boss made him somewhat change his mind. He thought that if he did not recruit this group of young people in the village and let them obey the dispatch of the Military Supplies and Logistics Department of Hailansa City, then he would be destined to be stuffed into a certain army. The heavy armored infantry regiment acts as cannon fodder, and the battle loss rate of this infantry regiment ranks first among all services.

  There were already very few men in the village, so he scratched his hair in distress.

Natasha walked up to Suldak's feet with the silver tray filled with warm water, put the silver basin on the floor, and gently squatted down to help Suldak take off the long military boots on his feet. Pulling up his trousers, he soaked his feet in the warm water, and lifted the water to splash on his calves.

  Suldak took the opportunity to sit up, cupped Natasha's pretty face with both hands, and kissed her soft lips.

  Natasha's face turned red in an instant, and she whispered while resisting: "The door is not closed yet..."

She was fit and flexible, avoiding Suldak's hands, turned around and quickly walked to the door to close the door, then walked back to the recliner with a blushing face, knelt down and put her hands into the warm water basin, Grabbing a pair of callused feet of Surdak, whose toes were deformed due to long-term wearing of these hard military boots, she rubbed those feet with her hands without saying a word. foot.

Suldak stretched out his hand, stretched his fingers along her side face to her chin, raised her chin with two fingers, looked seriously at Natasha's blue eyes like the sea, and gently pressed his forehead against hers. on the forehead.

After drying her feet with a linen cloth, Natasha took away the water basin, and squeezed into a slightly narrow recliner with Surdak. She was wearing a long dress with a low-cut neckline, and when she lay down, there was a lot of white snow. Her skin was exposed to Suldak's sight, and she shyly stretched out an arm to cover her eyes, not daring to meet Suldak's fiery eyes.

  Kiss is like a small flame ignited from the bottom of my heart, it can silently express the longing and love in my heart...

   "You won't abandon us, will you?" Natasha's eyes became bright, and she asked Suldak in a low voice.

Suldak stroked Natasha's brocade-like smooth back with his hand, and said to her: "Of course, I came here to continue his life and the original promise. I will always take good care of you, and I will also take care of you." I want to protect this village well, now that I have become the sheriff of the barren land, maybe I have a heavier responsibility on my shoulders, and I have to protect every inch of land in the barren land, this is my responsibility."

  Natasha's lips curled up, her hands wrapped around Suldak's neck...

  …

The old village head acted very quickly. He probably mobilized the villagers of the right age in the village last night, and gave everyone a very tempting salary, one silver coin per person per day and three meals a day. In previous seasons, Wo The villagers of Er Village followed the old village head to log in a certain forest farm to earn some money to subsidize their families. Therefore, the villagers responded positively to the old village head's proposal.

Moreover, there are so many four-wheeled carriages in the village, which can be used to transport volcanic ash. Most people in the village can drive horse-drawn carts. A large number of villagers gathered on the road, and some villagers even brought in a boy who had just participated in the coming-of-age ceremony this autumn in order to receive double salary.

  According to the laws of the Green Empire, as long as you have participated in the coming-of-age ceremony, you can no longer be considered a teenager, and should be a new batch of young people.

  But this time the old village head made another decision that made some villagers dissatisfied, that is, all young people in the village who have not served in the military are not eligible to participate in the village's road construction team.

Regardless of their age, these young people must join the winter training team of Wall Village from now on in order to deal with the spring recruitment. He intends to let the young people in the village go through a short-term special training, and some of them will join Suldak to prepare The cavalry battalion, even if the unselected young people cannot join the cavalry battalion, at least they must have some combat expertise, so that when they serve in the military, the logistics quartermaster does not even need to think about it, and throws them into the cannon fodder.

The old village head's idea is very simple. He thinks that no matter what, since it is the cavalry battalion that Suldak planned to build, if the young people in the village can pass Suldak's approval and don't ask for special attention, they can at least be treated equally, and... Cavalry battalion, these are cavalry, not the cannon fodder regiments of heavy armored infantry regiments!

Regarding the inside information, the old village head did not reveal the slightest word. Against the dissatisfaction of some villagers, he quickly formed a road repair team in Wall Village, and drove more than 30 four-wheeled carriages along the barren land The first cement road goes deep into the area covered by the volcanic ash of the pustule mountain, and continuously transports truckloads of volcanic ash to the planned new road.

  Worr village had just started construction, and the villagers in the neighboring villages ran to the old village head and applied to join the road construction team.

To this, the old village head firmly refused. He carried volcanic ash to build roads in the winter against the north wind and snow. As for the chaos in other villages, he doesn't have the ability... and it's not his turn to take care of it.

  After thinking about it, the old village head felt that it was those silver coins that made these simple villagers change their faces.

The old village head called together some young people of the right age in the village who had not served in the military. Under the active call of the old village head, a temporary winter training team was finally set up. In order to allow everyone to actively participate, Suerdak It is promised that the training team will provide free breakfast and lunch every day, and the recruitment target of the training team is not limited to Wall Village, as long as the villagers in the barren land have not served military service, they can join.

Andrew and Samira are temporarily serving as the instructors of the training team. They don't let the people in the militia battalion like Suldak do. They pulled the team of less than ten people into the freezing snow on the first day. Let them run with their lives until they vomited all the food in their stomachs, and finally fell exhausted in the snow. After the first day of supercomputer training, three young people asked the old village head to withdraw from the winter training.

  The old village head sighed slightly, and didn't stop him. He just stood on the steps, turned his head and asked the other young people: "Which one of you still wants to quit? No matter who...you can leave at any time."

  The other seven young people were a little bit stronger-willed, they gritted their teeth and did not choose to quit.

The young people in the surrounding villages heard that Woer Village had formed a winter training team, and provided free breakfast and lunch to all members participating in the training, and then asked clearly about the joining conditions: "As long as it is a barren land and there is no service Young people who have served in the military are exempt from taking the test. '

So the next day, there were more than 50 young people who had not served in the military in the village of Wall suddenly. Andrew led the team that day. This guy led the team to field training. , No one will stop you if you exit directly.

   It was not until the seventh day that no young people finally joined the training team. These days, Andrew led this group of young people to run wild in the wild almost every day...

   It is said that only young people who can persevere in this kind of high-intensity training can get Andrew's next instruction on several fighting postures.

During the seven days, there were more than 150 young people gathered in the training team. Surdak had no idea that they had the opportunity to recruit so many young people at once. Under the seemingly difficult environment, these young people were all in good physical condition. And the psychological quality is also very good, at least enough perseverance.

  …

   While Andrew and Samira were busy training these young people in Wall Village, Suldak made a special trip to Hailansa City.

Aphrodite returned to Hailansa City with the carriage company's convoy, and the war horses brought from Bena City, although there were only more than 30 horses, still needed Suldak to make a special trip to Hailansa City to meet them. Moreover, Suldak is also planning to recruit a mercenary group in Hailansa City. Only those who have the courage to go into the desert with them to hunt down the bandits will do it. It is best to have an eagle eye who can cope with the complex terrain of the desert...

  He did not ride through the rugged oak forest on the mountain road, but Aphrodite just happened to come to the city of Hailansa and asked her to summon him there...

  Recently, he seems to have gotten used to this convenient airborne method.

  The top of Hailansa City is already covered with snow, and Hailansa City, which is located on the mountainside, is also hidden in this mountain scenery.

   Walking out of the gate of the void, he gave Aphrodite a big hug, and said repeatedly: "It's been a hard journey, a hard journey!"

   Seeing Suldak walking out of the magic circle, Aphrodite couldn't help but roll her eyes, and was unmoved by her thanks to Suldak...

  (end of this chapter)