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"Why did you put on the knight's face armor? It scared me~ You were assassinated? Suspect it was me?!

No wonder I felt something strange today, so this is what happened! You don't believe me!??"

Adela calmed down in an instant, with a puzzled and aggrieved look on her face.

Simon took off his helmet, looked at her and shook his head and laughed: "When the time comes, why bother to quibble.

Hand over your army and people, I can spare your life.

Anyway, you are also a member of the royal family. A living princess is better than a dead one.

However, if you insist on resisting to the end, I don't care about this false reputation. Anyway, I have forced a prince to death."

As soon as the voice fell, a knight in chain mail stood up, drew the dagger from his waist, and walked behind Adela.

He grabbed the woman's brown hair, and skillfully put the knife on her throat. His movements were light and fluttering, and he was about to pull the knife and cut the neck.

"No! No!! Simon... I do! I lose!!"

Adela's face flushed, her legs trembled uncontrollably, and she shouted quickly.

"Very good.

Write an edict, I'll let my men take over the army, don't do anything tricky, killing you now is like killing a chicken."

Simon nodded slightly and smiled with satisfaction.

The masked knight then let go of Adela's hair, put away the dagger, stepped back a few steps, stood like a statue, and did not move again.

After a while, Adela calmed down, and under the guidance, she wrote a letter of appointment with tears, and stamped it with her personal seal.

Simon read it several times and ordered: "Sarrit, you send people to take over the army, disband them immediately, and reorganize them with the surrendered soldiers.

Also, gather the officers, dismiss them all and detain them, and those who disobey discipline will be killed immediately!"

"Yes! My lord!" Sarrit took the letter of appointment and immediately went to do it.

"Wuwuwuwu..." Adela cried bitterly without paying attention to anyone else.

At this time, Mailan approached Simon again and asked, "Sir, all the people in the Oak Shield Guards have been drugged and knocked unconscious. What should we do with them?"

"Kill all the officers, confiscate the equipment of the remaining soldiers and keep them in custody for the time being." Simon thought for a moment and ordered.

The status of the Oak Shield Guards is similar to that of his Courageous Guards. They must use more reliable people with the highest loyalty.

So they can't be recruited rashly. They have to review them one by one...

Tonight is destined to be a sleepless night. When the sky brightens the next day, all the affairs are almost handled.

Adela's more than 7,000 soldiers were successfully received by them.

However, there was a little chaos. After those officers were assembled, they were all dismissed. They noticed something wrong, so they resisted with force.

However, they were all killed by Aile and others.

In the central army tent.

"My Lord, Adela's army has been received, but there is no time to disband and reorganize." Sarit reported.

"All officers have been killed, so there is no need to rush. Replace them with our people and train them for a while.

In addition, I think the location of this mountain pass is good, which can effectively prevent invasions from the northeast.

I decided to let the surrendered soldiers build a fortress here, called Beishan Fortress.

It must be enough to station 500 soldiers, and the deadline is one month, and the captured food is just enough to consume." Simon ordered.

"Yes! Sir!" Sarit immediately accepted the order.

......

More than a month later, Simon finally returned to Yongyi Castle again. The team was mighty and almost doubled than before departure.

During this period, he had already digested the surrendered soldiers, and even Adela's army was dispersed and mixed together, and they could not be distinguished from each other.

After screening, the Oak Shield Guards finally kept only 500 people. The remaining 300 people were sent to mine because their resumes were not reliable.

After the army was reorganized, it was completely renewed.

The number of the East Guard Corps has expanded to 12,500, and the West Guard Corps is the same.

The Defense Corps is mainly responsible for the security issues in the territory. It has expanded to more than 5,000 people, all composed of slave soldiers and well-equipped.

The Patrol Corps is responsible for the defense patrols in the territory and the garrisons of various fortresses. It is relatively scattered and now has 7,500 people.

The Courageous Guard has replenished the lost troops and slightly increased the number of manpower, just over 2,000, all of which are equipped with war horses.

In addition, a new mining area garrison corps has been added, with a staff of 3,000 people.

All in all, there are about 43,000 people in total, which is already a large army.

With so many people, the food consumption per day is a huge number, and Simon naturally feels the pressure of support.

Now with the previous food reserves and the spoils of this battle, it is not a problem to support the army for two years.

But now there are not enough people in the territory, plus the hundreds of thousands of people who have migrated from Muye Territory, there are only about 300,000 people in total.

If one person cultivates three mu of land, it is about 900,000 mu.

It is not easy to support more than 40,000 standing troops.

Fortunately, the rye output in this world is still good, one mu can produce about 500 kilograms, otherwise it is really unaffordable.

You know, due to the existence of the warrior body-building method, regular soldiers must at least be entry-level warriors to be qualified.

Otherwise, they can only be regarded as militia, with low combat effectiveness and unusable.

But then again, although the combat effectiveness is strong, they also eat more.

Entry-level warriors have to eat one or two more points than ordinary people. The stronger the physical fitness, the more they eat.

The average meal of a high-level warrior is as much as that of three ordinary people. It is better to have meat or butter for every meal, otherwise they can only eat barley or rye.

The golden warrior is even more terrifying. It is best to have meat in every meal and to eat in a small bucket.

Among the 43,000 people under Simon's command, 70% to 80% have learned warrior training methods, and most of them are at the level of beginner warriors to junior warriors.

The rest are the prime-age militiamen pulled by Adela or Segel temporarily.

You can imagine how much food is consumed in a day.

On this day, Simon held a meeting with many knights in the Lord's Hall of Fort Bravery.

“It is estimated that the military strength will not be able to expand in the next few years.

Oh, let me go! Fortunately, we harvested a lot of food before, hehe... we still have a long-term perspective..."

Simon sat on the main seat, thinking happily.

"The battle before was fought beautifully, today I want to reward you based on your merits...

Promote Salit, Airey, Sylde, Mylan... to actual barons, promote Phyllis, Mordy... to honorary barons..."

Mai Lan was reading on the side, some of the participants were happy, but some were not satisfied.

Because Simon has not enfeoffed any new land, the honorary baronship is not as meaningful as the actual knighthood.

But he knew that once the land was entrusted, it would be troublesome to take it back.

Therefore, unless it is a case of great achievement and not rewarding enough to boost morale, Simon will never split any territory again.

In the past, there was no choice but to choose the lesser of two evils. Now that the power is sufficient, why bother to enfeoffment?

When he becomes stronger, he will try the possibility of promoting counties in disguise.

Of course, the meal must be eaten one bite at a time and the road must be walked step by step. In this regard, he will not act too aggressively.

"Sir! Dozens of cavalrymen just delivered a letter from Marquis Val..."