Chapter 25: The Post-War Harvest
The siege of Nottingham ended at 12 o'clock sharp, with the crumbling walls and the piles of corpses beneath the walls proving how terrible the previous hours had been, and the captured orcs, under the command of the whips in the hands of the two spear sergeants, began to clean up the corpses of their own kind under the ravine and near the walls, respectively, and the corpses of the human soldiers were those civilians who had spontaneously joined and were selected to become wartime logistics troops.
When these civilians came out of the city wall or the pile of corpses on the ground, they would pray in the form of Christian funerals, praying that these heroic soldiers would return to the arms of God after death, and Sun Lin, who was watching the process from a distance, secretly sobbed his lips and muttered, "Aren't you afraid of getting into trouble?" After that, he continued to follow Richard beside him and counted the war losses.
“…………… 275th, 276th............ The 332nd, whew, gone? ”
"Yes, Your Excellency, according to the number of people counted in the military books, the number of corpses is exactly equal to the number of dead."
"Well, let's wait a collective cremation together, we have to dispose of it quickly, otherwise it won't be good if we cause a plague, as for the corpses of those half-orcs, wait for those half-orcs to clean up all of them, let those half-orcs find a place outside the city to burn them, you can now report to me all the losses you just counted in this battle."
"Well, we lost 343 soldiers in this battle, including 221 spearmen, 34 chainmail knights, 48 hook and sickle soldiers, 29 civilian crossbowmen and ............ 11 members of the general guard, if you count the 119 Hobira rangers who died before the war, we have lost a total of 462 soldiers, in terms of construction, we have lost more than half of the wooden walls of the Nottingham wall, except for a few sections of the city wall at the city gate and the west gate, the rest are close to collapse, as for the main stone wall under the canyon has also collapsed, but the secondary 2nd line wall is still intact, at this time fortunately because we have treated the part of the wooden area of Nottingham Wooden Castle near the city wall before the war, So there were no civilian casualties in the fighting, and the houses were well preserved. ”
“………… And what about the orcs? ”
"For the sake of safety, we have killed all the orc hand-to-hand warriors and all the wolf horse slingers who survived last night's raid, but we have captured a few of those domesticated wolves, and those orc slingers have captured more than 1,100 in total, and after disposing of all those severe injuries, there are more than 800 left, all of which are the kind that can do hard work with a little food and a little plaster."
"Where's the orc general I put in?"
"In accordance with your instructions, we have sent Leo to lead the rest of the general's guard to take him to the city of London, no, I should say that it is on the way to the city of London."
"That's good, I've already arranged the general situation, you go down and deal with it now, those wooden walls will be demolished depending on the situation, anyway, now the stone walls of London City have been roughly completed, other moats, interior walls and the like can be done slowly, I will order all the craftsmen in the city to be mobilized when I go back, and then you start to prepare, it's time to change this wooden castle into a castle." Anyway, I have a cheat that can be built in an instant, and the gold rewarded by the mission is just enough to turn this Nottingham wooden castle into a castle, and the rest of the money can be used to build the remaining walls and other defenses in the city of London. Of course, the last sentence involved Sun Lin's secret, and he could only say it in his heart.
"Yes!"
Sun Lin, who watched Richard ride on the snow and prepare to take a good bath in the castle to get rid of the blood stains on his body, after looking around at the lack of people, his face suddenly opened the attribute template of the city, because just now, Sun Lin received a reminder from the system, saying that he could get two rewards from the system, and most importantly, the town of London finally became the first city under Sun Lin - the city of London after the construction of the city wall was completed.
"System, open the City of London property template."
City Interface:
Nationality: British
Town: London (City)
Aristocratic Sentiment: There is currently no aristocracy.
Civilian Emotions: Joy (Joy, Calm, Suspicion, Riot)
Taxes: Medium
Income: 3,278 gold coins (first quarter's income, including fiscal expenditures are also counted) Grain: 10,000 kg (half a year)
Treasury: 1,500 gold coins, 20,000 kg of grain
Garrison: Spear Sergeant 150 (1 star), Civilian Crossbowman 60 (1 star)
Population: 6247
Population growth: 3.5%
Buildings: Stone Walls, Public Farms, Dirt Roads, Militia Barracks, Ports, Mines, Blacksmith's Workshops, Town Offices, Ballista Workshops, Markets, Inns, Garbage Disposal Plants (Dirty City - 10%, Plague Incidence - 10%, this building was created by Sun Lin)
Recruitable Classes: Town Militia, Spear Militia
R&D technology: water-powered mills, bow saws, lighthouses, cast iron wheels
"Congratulations to the user for finally building their first city after their unremitting efforts, and the following three rewards will be given in this system: 1. Build 3 buildings for free, complete them instantly, 2. Immediately follow one follower, 3. Prepare a fleet of naval forces (including 4 battleships), please choose one."
"When I'm a fool? Of course, it's the first option! system, I choose the first reward. ”
"Please select all the buildings to be upgraded."
"Public farms, town barracks, and blacksmith workshops." After a short period of thought, Sun Lin immediately chose the three buildings that Sun Lin needed the most, and after upgrading the public farm to crop rotation, Sun Lin's grain production would increase exponentially, which would not only alleviate the problem of scarce grain storage in Sun Lin's treasury, but also make Sun Lin more confident that he would subdue all the orcs and make them his loyal lackeys. The reason for upgrading the town barracks to the guard barracks is much simpler, just to upgrade it to the Praetorian Guard barracks after reaching the mega city in London City faster in the future, as for upgrading the blacksmith workshop to the armor workshop, it should be because after this battle, Sun Lin has already felt that the light chain mail alone can no longer meet the needs of the current army, and it is necessary to start building heavy chain mail and half-body iron armor.
"Please wait a moment ............. the upgrade is completed, the system prompts that the next reward requirement is to enter a large city in the city of London, and when the user has 5 cities, they can also get a reward once."
"Well, that's great news, so it looks like Nottingham will be rewarded like this when they become castles............ By the way, what is my 2nd reward? ”
"Because the user completed a 1000-person battle, so the war value system is more perfect, after the end of this battle, the user can use the war value to exchange weapons and equipment, but it is currently limited to all equipment in the iron in the Middle Ages, steel weapons are not, the next unsealing for the user to complete a 10,000-person battle, prompting 10,000 people to fight requires more than 10,000 soldiers on both sides."
"Huh? No, system, I remember that I only had a few hundred soldiers in this battle? It doesn't seem to have reached 1,000 people, huh? ”
"There are 461 peasant troops in the user's logistics unit."
“…………… That's okay too! ”