"Higg, are you really going to give them those equipment and supplies?" Benjamin couldn't help but ask.

Higg smiled: "Think beautifully, those equipment were captured from the battlefield by my soldiers with their lives, and they were prepared for my recruits, and I am ready to use these equipment to recruit 20,000 new soldiers, so that I can gain a foothold in this area!" ”

Thomas said, "It's only 20,000, and we have an army of just over 40,000!" ”

"There is no way, we can't afford to raise more troops, it's easy to manage with fewer people, the conditions for selecting from these bandits are good, we only need elite soldiers, and others can be used as logistics and base camp laborers."

"Are you going to build a city in the Silent Forest, modeled after the city of Fuxing?" Pantony asked.

"A Fuxing City, in the blink of an eye, my tens of millions of gold coins will disappear, where do I still have the ability to build a city, let's develop freely according to the current management model first!" Higg said.

"Fuxing City?" Benjamin was surprised and asked, "What Fuxing City?" Tens of millions of gold coins? ”

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The leaders did not quarrel for several days over the distribution of the rewards, but the bandits under their command, hearing the advantages of joining the regular army, began to join the army in gangs to the camp of Higg.

The leaders finally couldn't sit still, and were invited by Higg to come here, and no one took care of their own mountains, and those bandit volunteers who had milk were mothers, and it was strange that they didn't take the opportunity to join the regular army, so they asked Higg to distribute funds and supplies, and they wanted to return to the mountain immediately.

Regardless of whether they were satisfied or not, Higg distributed 300,000 gold coins equally among the leaders attending the meeting, let them go back, and waited until they discussed the distribution plan of the materials, and then distributed the equipment and cured meat.

After the bandit leaders returned, they finally stopped the bandits who had fled to Higg. But unexpectedly, the leaders of the four hills led their own volunteers, a total of more than 5,000 people, and accepted Higg's adaptation as a whole, including Rodman, who had the greatest opinion of Higg.

As expected, the recruits who were reorganized were treated favorably, and several leaders were appointed commanders in the army.

"General Rodman, hard work!" Higg, Benjamin, Thomas, and Pantony met Rodman alone in their tent, and Higg said to Rodman with a smile.

"It's the general's well-planned plan that can go so smoothly!" Rodman laughed.

"That also requires General Rodman to have such an awareness in order to implement this plan!" Higg laughed: "What are General Rodman's plans next?" ”

Rodman said: "With the effect of our four leaders, I think there will be more leaders coming to take refuge in a few days, in addition to a few big forces, other small forces will come to join the army one after another, and what the general needs to deal with is the remaining big forces!" ”

Higg smiled: "I don't mean to be in full control of the Lacason Plateau, after all, they are volunteers, I can't blatantly disrupt Her Majesty's policies, but the Lacason Plateau must have our own force, and it is the biggest force." ”

Higg turned to Thomas and said, "General Thomas, your cavalry is not suitable for long-term stationing in the forest, so all your 10,000 cavalry will be left, and the newly recruited recruits will also be left with 10,000, and some veterans will be left to train, and all of them will be trained as spearmen." I'll leave it to you, with the assistance of General Rodman, and don't clash with those volunteers unless you have to. Not only can you not conflict, but you must try to have a good relationship, and you need to work together against Arad. You don't have to worry about logistics, I will fully support you! ”

"Let me lead the army alone?" Thomas wondered, "Can I?" ”

"Didn't you lead a cavalry charge a few months ago?" Higg patted Thomas on the shoulder and said with a smile, "After this winter, you will be eighteen years old, and I will also lead troops into battle for the first time at the age of sixteen or seventeen." General Johnson said that you are the best paladin, not only to be a knight, but also to be a commander! ”

As expected, in addition to a few major forces, there were more than 50,000 other small forces, all of whom accepted Hig's reorganization, of which 20,000 became recruits, and the rest were converted into logistics troops or labor.

The composition of Higg's current army is not very reasonable, the original 25,000 soldiers, more than 10,000 are cavalry, 15,000 crossbowmen and spearmen, but many of these crossbowmen and spearmen are changed from the original baggage troops, and when Higg wants to restore the baggage in the future, he will have to re-transfer some old baggage soldiers!

Now 20,000 new recruits, of which 10,000 will be trained as spearmen on the Lakason Plateau, and the other 10,000 will be returned to the Silent Forest base camp with Higg to be trained into archers and crossbowmen and sharpshooters, plus Benjamin's more than 2,000 elven archers and 3,000 newly recruited dwarven warriors, the size of Higg's army in the Silent Forest and Lakason Plateau has reached 50,000.

A month later, Higg invited the other six leaders of the major forces who had not accepted the reorganization to continue to participate in the joint defense meeting, and this time no one dared not participate.

"I know people are not happy with me!" Higg laughed, "That's something I didn't expect. Originally, I only wanted to levy rations and recruit new soldiers, but I didn't expect the volunteers to yearn for the regular army so strongly! ”

"Is General Higg going to settle down here?" One of the leaders asked.

"I didn't have this plan originally, but I suddenly received so many people, my original base camp could not be placed, and now the strength of the Lakason Plateau is damaged, if Arad attacks again, I am afraid that it will be difficult for the generals to deal with, so I plan to leave General Thomas and General Rodman to lead the 10,000 cavalry and 10,000 infantry here, and join forces with you. We are all allies, and I don't have any intention of imposing that you have to accept my adaptation. ”

"Did General Higg say that the material reward for us still counts?"

"Of course!" Higg smiled: "The gold coins have been allocated, but those 10,000 sets of equipment have already been equipped by me to the reorganized army, so it is difficult to cash in." I can only give you half of the twenty tons of cured meat, because you are now reduced in personnel, and my army will be consumed in the Lakason plateau, so please forgive me! ”

Higg said, ordering someone to carry in six boxes, and then said, "To apologize, one box of gold coins per person, this is already my greatest ability!" ”

Although there are not many people in the Lakason Plateau now, they are all regular army equipment, and most of them are experienced knights, so they are already the largest force in the Lakason Plateau, and it would be very good to have compensation, and those leaders did not dare to say anything.

Thomas said: "Generals, in the future, we will work together in this place, in this area, any side is attacked or troubled, I have the obligation to give full support, and I also ask the generals to assist each other!" ”

"As long as General Thomas doesn't let us live here, we are willing to cooperate with the general!"

"The generals are not at ease, then I will give you another promise!" Higg held up a letter in his hand and said to the leaders: "This is a handwritten letter from Marshal Montgosa, with the seal of the Marshal, so I must promise you that at the end of the civil war, if Her Majesty wins, your volunteers will belong to the battle sequence of the Fifth Legion, and they will be real regular troops, so you don't have to worry about the post-war purge!" I will hand over this letter to you for safekeeping, whether it is now or after the war, no Qinwang army dares to disadvantage you! In keeping with your regular army status, you will be paid 200,000 gold coins a year, which is the result of my personal consultation with General Thomas, although it is not much, but it is all squeezed out of our salary! ”

The major leaders were all happy, they were not willing to lose their freedom to join the army, but continued to be the king of the mountain, but they got the banner of the regular army, relieved a lot of worries, and couldn't help but be ecstatic.

Thomas said sharply: "However, if any general dares to disobey the yang and break the joint defense agreement on the Lakason Plateau, don't blame my cavalry for being unkind to him!" ”

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After two full months, after completing the control of the Lakason Plateau with promises, conspiracy and money and food, Higg finally returned to the base camp of the Silent Forest with new and old armies and military rations!

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After more than four months and more than 100 days of operation, the Silent Forest Base Camp was finally completed, and even the roads and auxiliary buildings, drainage systems, and fenced outposts were completed. Thanks to the contributions of the dwarves, although the brewing cost a lot of military food, the new military rations collected by Higg and the picking and hunting in the forest were enough to support this base camp and Thomas military horses for half a year!

The construction of the base camp was basically built by the labor of the dwarves and the money of the dwarves, and Higg only provided a large amount of wine, unlike the construction of Fuxing City and the use of money to smash it, the construction of the Silent Forest Base Camp not only did not cost money, but also made a lot of money from the lovers. These low-status dwarves, each with a small treasury, are usually very stingy, but they are addicted to alcohol, but they are willing to buy any amount of money.

The Hundred Immortal Fruit Wine had been hyped among the dwarves to the point of thirty gold coins per jar, but Blue Fairy insisted on selling it by the barrel at the rate of only one liter per jar, despite the dwarves' strong demands.

The dwarves who completed the construction of the base camp did not sit idle, but opened all kinds of workshops, weapons, armor, porcelain, etc., but most of the dwarves disappeared into the depths of the forest and went to various places to open mines, only to come back regularly to buy spirits from the base camp! More and more dwarves are consciously gathering around the Silent Forest, and as Higg imagined, let this base camp develop naturally, and he only needs to control the lifeblood of the dwarves, the winemaking industry and the winery.

"Pantony, I didn't lie to you, did I?" Higg laughed, "At that time I promised to take care of your wine for the rest of your life, and now I have opened the best wine shop for you, and you don't have to drink the wine from those shoddy wine shops anymore, haha!" ”

Pan Dongni said disdainfully: "This is the masterpiece of the Blue Fairy, what does it matter to you?" ”

Higg said: "I plan to hand over the newly recruited three thousand battle dwarves to you, you can also be regarded as returning to the old business, those spearmen in the base camp are all veterans, just re-promote some generals, do you think it's okay?!" ”

"Hehe, you have to know that there is no problem at all for three thousand battle dwarves to deal with your ten thousand spear halberds, of course I am willing, I want you to see the strength of real battle dwarves! But I have one condition, the equipment must be customized by me, and each dwarf has one liter of wine per day, and every month I want five thousand liters of Baixian fruit wine as a reward for fighting dwarves! ”

"I'm afraid you want to drink the 5,000 liters yourself, right?"

"Hmph, I'm drinking by myself now, do I need to find you, I'll go directly to Lan Xian'er's winery and soak in the wine pool!"

……

Everything is on track in the Silent Forest Base Camp, Benjamin's elven archers are busy training Higg's new and old crossbowmen into marksmen, Pantony is busy training three thousand battle dwarves, and Blue Fairy's Baixian Fruit Distillery Distillery has formed a production and sales chain, in addition to selling to the nearby Forest King's Palace at a high price, some of them go to the dwarves, and some of them go to the black market, forming a hunger sale, making the market hungry for this luxurious drink!

Higg finally completed the strategic goal of the consultation with Montgosser, jumped out of the blockade of Arad, established a stronghold deep behind the enemy's weak enemy lines, pierced the enemy's heart like a sharp sword, and echoed Montgosser's Fifth Army battalion.