Translator: Kris _ Liu Editor: Vermillion Laurist rested on a chair for a while. When he felt he had regained some strength, he got up and did a small cycle of the Goldwater Spell to recover. He then went to bid farewell to Joske and Padt's troops, and went to the newly built medical tent.
There were twelve large tents lined up here, and eighty-nine wounded soldiers of the family were lying in them, groaning in pain. Thanks to a few boxes of healing potions and some medicinal powders and ointments for external injuries found in the construction site of the castle, these wounded soldiers also took the healing potions to speed up the healing of their wounds after they were bandaged and applied medicine for external injuries. Only the lightly injured had fallen into a deep slumber due to the side effects of the potions, but the heavily injured and crippled could not sleep peacefully due to the pain.
Laurist's Potioneering knowledge from Dawn College was put to good use. He began to examine the heavily injured and disabled soldiers again. He also ordered someone to kill a live sheep and use catgut to stitch up the wounds of the injured soldiers. He also disinfected the bandages and re-bandaged them. He also made new potions according to the condition of each injured soldier.
Loriste did not wish for these soldiers who had sweated and bled for his family to lose their lives due to poor treatment and negligence. Thus, he rejected the advice of his subordinates and busied himself for more than ten hours. When everything was finally done, the sky was already turning bright.
Laurist straightened up, but he felt dizzy from concentrating on making potions for too long. He leaned weakly on Serdkamp who was standing beside him. "Sir, you need to rest," Serdkamp said anxiously, "Your body won't be able to take it …"
Laurist's face paled, but he still said happily, "Alright, don't worry. I'll be fine after a nap. The potions are done now, and I've marked them with numbers corresponding to the numbers of the injured. As long as these are given to the injured, we won't have to worry about anything happening to them. Help me get some rest. Right, Serdkamp, you only slept for three or four hours last night. Don't push yourself, go rest if you're tired … "
Lollister only slept for a little more than two hours before he was woken up by a messenger sent by Josk. Even though he had only rested for a short time, the fatigue from yesterday's battle and working through the night with the wounded soldiers had mostly disappeared. He hurriedly washed his face to clear his mind and summoned the messenger.
He glanced at the hourglass on the table. It hadn't even been fourteen hours since Josk and Padt set off. Even though it was only five or six hours on horseback to Viscount Gomez's Red River Valley Manor, wasn't that a little too fast? Especially since they had brought more than ten carriages …
The messenger who came to deliver the news was in high spirits. He brought good news. The Red River Valley Manor Castle and the immigrant town had been captured. He told Mister Padt to hurry up with the caravan, while he himself only brought around forty riders with him. It took them less than six hours to reach Redvale Manor Castle, kill seven guards, and take over the main castle. Then, without stopping, they swept through the settlement town and killed a few leaders of the guards appointed by House Kenneth. After that, they obediently put down their weapons and surrendered. After that, Lord Joske ordered the messenger to bring two companions back to deliver the news.
The messenger said that the resources in the Red River Valley Manor were piled up like a mountain, and there were rows of warehouses everywhere. Lord Josk had ordered his men to do a cursory check, and most of them were food and that Rubber Vine Juice. Right, when they first took over the castle, that Seneschal from House Kenneth tried to sneak away to set fire to the castle, but Lord Joske found out and killed him with an arrow. Lord Joske ordered him to come and ask about the decision on how to deal with the resources and the two thousand residents in the settlement town.
Laurist ordered the guards outside the tent to summon Miss Tracy, Steward Hansk, Steward Cordan, Steward Boris, Father Barlek, Redi, Thurdkamp, and the newly recruited 1-star Silver-ranked mercenary, Paul Robbins, for a meeting.
Soon, everyone was gathered in the temporary tent. After everyone was seated, Laurist announced that they had taken over the Red River Valley Manor Castle and the settlement town. Steward Boris was the happiest. This meant that he did not need to worry about his family in the Red River Valley Manor Castle anymore.
Laurist decided to mobilize all the carriages here to transport the resources to the Red River Valley Manor Castle. In addition to the Kenneth Family's caravan that had just arrived yesterday, it naturally belonged to the Norton Family now. Steward Hansk reported that there were around eight hundred carriages. There were no problems with the carriages and horses. The only problem was that they did not have that many reliable coachmen. Even if they included the three newly formed guard squads, they could only gather around five hundred carriages to transport the resources. But that way, there would be no guards here.
It was still a problem of manpower. Laurist smiled. Why not use the slave coachmen from the previous caravan and find those who knew how to drive. Then, each carriage would be equipped with a slave worker as a helper. Wouldn't that solve the problem? As for whether the slave workers and coachmen would escape, there was no need to think too much about it. First, this was the Northern Lands. The land was vast and sparsely populated. If they escaped, where could they go? What would they eat on the way? If they went to another territory, they might even be captured and turned into slaves. It was important to note that the Kenneth Family had branded the insignia of their family's slaves on the back of their left ears. If they were captured, it was highly likely that they would be punished as runaway slaves. Their lives might even be at risk.
Second, Laurist was prepared to announce to the slave workers that he would grant them their freedom after the transportation was completed. He would also specially concoct a healing potion to remove the scars on the back of their ears and restore the slave insignia, allowing them to truly regain their freedom. Originally, Laurist was prepared to wait for three years for the castle and another mountain city to be completed before granting the slave workers their freedom. But now, due to the family's lack of manpower, especially the strong ones, he could only restore the freedom of the slave workers first. He believed that with the temptation of freedom, the slave workers would not be able to escape even if he chased them away.
Lastly, Laurist ordered Redi to bring a group of newly formed guards along with the caravan. When they reached the castle, Padt would lead the group of soldiers to escort the caravan back. The next time the caravan passed by, Laurist would send another group of guards to replace Redi and the rest.
This time, Boris and Sederkamp were also following the caravan to the castle. Butler Boris went there to bring his family back, and also to cooperate with Sederkamp to check the Red River Valley Manor castle again to see if there were any neglected warehouses or hidden secret rooms, so as to avoid missing anything.
Sederkamp would be in charge of the transportation of all the supplies. He would decide which supplies would be transported first and which unimportant ones would be transported last. Laurist had two requests for Sederkamp. First, he wanted the first batch of two thousand immigrants to be escorted back. What the family lacked the most right now was population, population, and population. Without sufficient population, they would not be able to complete the construction of the territory, and without sufficient population, they would not be able to develop the territory. That was why bringing the first batch of immigrants over was the first priority.
His second request was for Sadekamp to burn the immigrant town and the Red River Valley Manor into ashes after he finished moving the supplies. He had to ensure that the Kenneth Family's reinforcements wouldn't be able to find any place that they could exploit. This would teach the Kenneth Family a lesson and make things more troublesome for them.
Laurist said that once the Flying Feather Mercenaries were destroyed and the Red River Manor and the immigrant town occupied, the Kenneth Family would become rootless in the northern lands. They would not be able to find any manpower they could use. Unless they could convince the Duke of the Northern Lands, Duke Lujens, to send the Duke's private army to retake the Red River Manor in the shortest time possible. However, according to the confessions of the Flying Feather Mercenaries who had surrendered, Duke Lujens was already suspicious of the Kemis Family. The Kemis Family's military force of two thousand men had yet to receive Duke Lujens' permission to enter the Northern Lands.
It would take at least three days for the Kenneth Family to receive the news from the escaping Flying Feather Mercenaries. In these three days, Viscount Kenneth, who was in Gildusk City, would send people to investigate and discover that the Viscount's territory had been occupied. He would then return to report. This would take seven to eight days. By the time the viscount passed on the news to his father, it would take another three or four days for the head of the family to make a decision to plead with the Grand Duke to send troops. And Grand Duke Lujins would never agree to send troops immediately. Perhaps he would even be very happy with the bad luck of the Gammus family. He estimated that it would take another two to three days for them to negotiate the terms of sending troops. Furthermore, even if Duke Lujins agreed to the Kenneth Family's request to send troops to help them recapture their territory, it would not be easy for the troops to prepare the logistics for the expedition. Based on this calculation, Laurist believed that the first batch of Kenneth Family's reinforcements would arrive in a month and a half.
In other words, the next fifty days or so would be safe. They could use this time to transport as much of the supplies stored in the Red River Valley Manor to the construction site. Laurist asked Sadkamp to tell Joske that after the two thousand or so immigrants were transported, they could free up manpower to patrol the surrounding area. It would be best if they could capture or prevent the Kenneth Family's scouts from finding out anything. They should buy as much time as possible. If they found out that the reinforcements of the Kenneth family were really the troops sent by the Northern Grand Duke, Duke Lickins, then they would avoid conflict and immediately retreat. They would also burn all the supplies and castles that had not yet been transported.
"My lord, what if it's not the Duke of the North's troops, but the troops sent by the surrounding nobles?" Sadkamp asked.
"The surrounding nobles' troops? Ask Joske to annihilate them. They're just two or three weaklings. With two or three family knights and a few hundred farmers who don't even have a complete set of weapons, I believe Joske will be able to complete his mission easily. " Sometimes, Laurist found it strange. If the Kenneth family did not focus their attention on their own family, they could have wiped out all the nobles around the viscount's territory. Why did they have to fight to the death with the Norton family? Laurist thought impatiently.
In fact, Laurist had forgotten that before he had arrived, the Norton Family was indeed the weakest noble family in the surrounding territories. Furthermore, their territory was the largest, and they had the land that the Kenneth Family needed to develop. If they didn't find trouble with the Norton Family, who else could they find? The Kenneth Family understood this logic. After Laurist's arrival, the Kenneth Family suffered a huge loss. However, the Kenneth Family still did not realize that Laurist's complaints were actually very unreasonable.
"Miss Tracy, I'm very sorry. It seems like I'll have to interrupt your construction schedule again." Laurist apologized to Miss Tracy, who was sitting next to him, after arranging the transportation of the caravan.
The girl sighed and said, "Sir, I understand. There's nothing we can do about it. However, if the slaves are to move the supplies, what about the wall in front of us? If the Kenneth Family's reinforcements attack in a month and a half, it won't be a small problem if the wall is not completed. "
"I've already considered this problem. Minus the slaves who are to move the supplies, there should be about seven to eight hundred slaves left. I'm prepared to mobilize all the manpower and let the women help build the wall. Even the elderly and children can cook, make soup, and gather firewood. Manager Cordan, Father Barlek, you'll have to work hard. Manager Cordan, you'll be in charge of mobilizing the women, elderly, and children. Assign them to do what you can. Father Barlek, I'll leave the construction of the wall in your hands. The construction speed can be slower, but you must ensure the quality of the wall. You can't do it half-heartedly. "Laurist said.
"Yes, Sir," Cordan said.
"Don't worry, Sir. I'll definitely complete the construction of the wall." Father Barlek patted his chest and said.
"Manager Hansk, you also need to make preparations. When the supplies are moved back, you'll be in charge of registering them and arranging the storage."
"Yes, Sir." Hansk nodded.
"Hmm, Paul Robbins. Ovikis is currently recuperating, and Redi has to escort the caravan. I'll leave the remaining two newly formed guard teams to you. Not only do you have to lead them to guard the two walls, you also have to lead them in training. Are you confident?" Laurist looked at the newly joined mercenary.
The young mercenary jumped up with a flushed face, "Sir, don't worry, I won't let you down … …"
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