Warlords of the witcher world

Chapter 26
Four demon hunters went to deal with a monster together. To be honest, Herme also wanted to see that scene, which was a rare thing to see.

But in the end he suppressed his curiosity. In his capacity, doing such a thing seemed too cheap.

After sending Volod away with the witchers, Herme returned to his main castle.

Since today's work has come to an end, Herme returned to the room and took out a book from the drawer. This book has a red cover, and the workmanship looks very exquisite.

A recently published novel from Novigrad, it tells the story of a navigator's adventures abroad.

Since Herme had always been interested in books, those businessmen who came to visit him would always do what they liked and bring some books to Herme as gifts.

Therefore, Herme had more and more books. He simply built a library tower for himself and put all the gifts of these merchants there.

And this book was brought by a Novigrad merchant.

But Herme felt a little boring after reading it for a while. The author of this book is a pure literati, and his description of navigation is wrong even for a layman like himself.

It is entirely the literati's romantic fantasy about the life of seafarers, full of imagination and assumptions.

The story is even more of an old-fashioned story of a hero taking risks overseas and then winning the hearts of beauties. In Herme's opinion, it is really too bad.

But this book, which Herme considered extremely old-fashioned, is now a bestseller in Novigrad.

This made Herme sigh. Although this world has a well-developed publishing industry, the level of novel writing is still not up.

Among the many authors in the northern popular field, the only author that Hemei could see was actually Master Dan.

But Master Dan is indeed capable, but he is the only one, and Master Dan's main field is poetry, not novels.

Next, Hemei naturally thought of writing a book blog. He had read a lot of good books in his previous life, and he could be a copywriter on the basis of integrating the northern society.

However, just when Hemei's idea had just arisen, and then he started to conceive, an order from the king came from the Kingdom of Aden, which made him busy, and he had to put aside the idea of ​​being Wen Chaogong.

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"Oh, this is really true. His Majesty actually thought of finding troops from us."

Holding the letter written by King Demavi, Herme said with some sighs.

Unexpectedly, the king would use his army now, and Herme thought that he must be the last to be mobilized.

Commander Hackland gave the king's letter to his subordinates, asked them to circulate the letter, and then waited for their evaluation.

"In my opinion, His Majesty is testing your obedience. The front-line troops are just an excuse to monitor the Nilfgaardians and cannot get away. To exterminate the Scoia'tael, this task is not small or big, but it is certain. It will take a lot of time, and it may come to nothing, after all, the elves are so good at moving in the forest, it is really appropriate to show your loyalty."

Dunwa was the first to read it, and then he expressed his opinion.

Herme agreed with Dunwa's evaluation. He thought the same thing as the dwarf, and the king was probably trying to test him.

Since Herme came to Sazarburg, it has only been a little over a year, but Herme's work is one after another, which makes Hackland, a place that no one cares about in the north, even more interesting.

The strength of Sazarburg is also constantly increasing. Herme is very clear that the king has always had an eye in Sazarburg, and he is clear about the prosperity of the city and his victory.

And because he has been sending people to Aden to attract immigrants, Herme also knows that with the increasing profits of Hakland's trade, more and more people in Aden are greedy for this trade, and all kinds of people who slander him Speech is a hustle and bustle.

In these rumors, he has become an evil warlord who monopolizes Harkland's trade and does not give meat and soup to others.

He also said that he had an attempt to separate the territory of the Kingdom of Aden, and he might even believe in the Lilit evil god.

Regarding the last statement, it was refuted by those fanatical believers who returned to the north, but they just refuted this point.

The nobles kept calling for this lucky knight to be abolished, and let the truly noble people and those who know how to rule go to Harkland to rule this land full of business opportunities.

However, the public didn't feel much about it. To most people, Herme was still the great hero who captured Marshal Nilfgaard alive. It was not so easy to tarnish his reputation.

Regarding these remarks, Herme thought with her ass, and knew what was going on in the minds of those who spread them.

Thinking about it now, it is also because of these remarks that the king has today's order.

There is a saying that three people become a tiger. If you hear these words a lot, you have to be dubious.

"You have made a lot of money in Hackland this year, and those people are also very jealous. There have been some bad news about you in Aden... I guess His Majesty sent you this mission, there should be some aspects of it. consideration."

Now it's Marondo who speaks, see, he's talking about slanderous rumors.

Marondo has a relationship in Wengerburg, and it is still a very close relationship.

To be more precise, it is impossible for him to have nothing to do with Wengerburg. Hemeike has never forgotten that he was sent by the king.

Even so, Herme made Marondo his captain of the guard.

Because he wants to use this to show his loyalty to the king, he has no conflict of interest with the king, why can't he use the king's people.

Marondo showed great dedication and tried his best to do Herme's affairs.

Combined with his ability, it justifies Herme's choice.

And now, Marondo has bound a lot of interests in Fort Sazar.

That was something he didn't even dare to think about when he was a team leader. These benefits were enough to make Marendo die on the side of Sazaburg.

Of course, Herme still kept a hand.

Although the captain of the guard is Marondo, the guards are all fellow villagers of Herme, who are among Herme's own people.

"So it's time to express your loyalty to His Majesty. Marendo, go and contact those atamans who are interested in signing contracts with me. I just need their power now. Dunwa, go and gather the militiamen and registered soldiers of Fort Sazar. Cossacks. As for the others, keep doing what you should be doing, and don't slack off just because I'm leaving."

Herme didn't intend to disobey the king's order. Although he could find reasons to shirk the mission, he knew that this was what those people wanted.

Based on his mistakes, these people may be able to get the king to block the Blue Mountain Tunnel and achieve a trade embargo against him.

And this pinched him at the Achilles heel. Hemei dared to do things because of the huge profits brought about by trade.

Without this profit, he will not be able to pay out the money, and if he can't pay out the money, then...

Of course, this was the worst-case scenario, and with Herme's understanding of King Demavi's cunning and cunning nature, it was still very difficult for him to do so.

But things are just in case, so I have to go.

There was no dissatisfaction in Herme's tone, and the territory was not inseparable from him.

With the election of a new Hetman, and the defeat of the Harklans in Winter's Day, the chaos in the land of the Cossacks now dissipated for the time being.

This land can be stable for at least a year or two, and Herme can leave Hakland with complete peace of mind and go to Aden to perform tasks.

After hearing Herme's words, everyone took action immediately, summoning soldiers, contacting allies, contacting allies, preparing supplies, Sazaburg became busy visibly with the naked eye.

And the impact of his decision gradually radiated.

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Regarding Herme's return to Aden, there were some reactions inside and outside Sazarburg, but these reactions were not very big after all, because they were nothing that would affect the situation.

Right now, the situation in the Cossack land has stabilized. Bravin's election and his subsequent series of actions have caused all the atamans to stop fighting, and various war gangs at most staged armed battles on the border from time to time.

No one dares to fight, because if you dare to fight the Hetman, you dare to kill your whole family. Braven has already absorbed several warbands by this means.

After seeing Braven's thunderous means, those war gangs naturally did not dare to continue their struggle and calmed down.

Under such a situation, it is not a big deal for Herme to leave with the main military force of Fort Sazar, and no one dares to start a war right now.

Not to mention, the powerful atamans all buy from Herme, and it is easy to offend them if they attack Sazaburg.

And everyone still remembers that Sazarburg's father-in-law Herme is the current Gettleman, isn't it against Gettleman to fight Sazarburg?

It is precisely because of this reason that there is little reaction from inside and outside Sazarburg, because it does not affect their lives very much.

However, the fighters from all walks of life who were suddenly idle and did not fight became busy because of this.

The temporary end to the fighting in the land of the Cossacks has left many Cossacks and warbands idle. There are some fanatical belligerents among them, and those who are used to making money from wars. For them, peace is unbearable.

At this time, Herme sent envoys to the leaders of the war gangs in the Cossack land, inviting all the war gangs to accept employment and go to Aden to encircle the Scoia'tael, and shouted frantically all the way, inviting all those who are willing to go to the north to join his army .

Not many warbands were hired next, for Aedirn was a distant land to the Cossacks anyway.

It is very risky to leave your homeland rashly to fight in a distant place.

Those who are not familiar with the place where they live, if they don't make it right, they and the Zhan Gang will be finished in the strange land over there, and no one has collected the corpse.

To put it bluntly, no one has done this before, so everyone is very worried and afraid to accept employment.

If it wasn't for this reason, hordes of Cossack war gangs would have rushed over to accept employment after Herme sent out the invitation.

And the reason why those hired war gangs dared to be the first to come out to eat crabs was because they were either Herme's acquaintances, or they were very fanatical fighters.

Soon, Ataman, who was hired, led his men to Sazar Fort, but they only brought some of them.

Although you are the first to eat crabs, you can't put all your eggs in one basket.

And with them came a large number of Cossacks.

The atamans have to worry about the safety of the warband and their own power, but the Cossacks below don't need to.

Especially those guys who are alive and bloody in the battles of various war gangs every day.

These guys are enough for one person, and the whole family is not hungry.

So if you take a risk or something, just take a risk, it’s not a problem at all, the worst thing is to die.

A lot of people ran out from various war gangs, but the Atamans did nothing about it. It was their freedom for the people below to pursue the battlefield, and the Ataman had no right to restrict what the Cossacks below could do.

Therefore, nearly [-] Cossacks were quickly assembled under the Sazar Fort, and tents were filled outside the Sazar Fort.

Cossacks range in quality from armored riders to shirtless civilians.

Hemei accepted them all. For encirclement and suppression work, the more cannon fodder, the better.

The Cossacks are all high-quality cannon fodder. The long-term conflicts have enabled them to more or less master some military skills, and because of the long-term conflicts, they have a strong battlefield psychology.

This is better than simply recruiting the militia. You can't find such good cannon fodder anywhere else.

Hemei's headquarters pulled out 1000 to [-] people, including some new faces.

There have been a lot of immigrants pouring into Fort Sazar recently, and some Cossacks have become registered Cossacks because of Heme's reputation.

Braven also made a statement about Heme's actions, and he directly sent Bogo to bring a team of Xieqi Cossacks to join Heme's army.

Hermione welcomed this with both hands and feet. It was great to have such a professional soldier join him.

He has already figured out where to go for these Sechi Cossacks, so let the "professional soldiers" in these Cossack lands take care of those scattered Cossacks.

The Sechi Cossacks are undoubtedly the most suitable for ordinary Cossacks. They are fully qualified in terms of strength and professionalism. Herme will definitely cause resentment if he asks his own people to come.

The total strength of the army has reached almost 4000, which can be said to be a large army, and the number is larger than the population of Sazarburg.

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Before leaving Sazaburg, Herme entrusted the town to Dunwa.

No one was surprised by this. This dwarf has always been in charge of the town, and everyone has long obeyed his management without any complaints.

Herme once thought about letting Katya take care of it, but finally strangled the idea.

After all, Katya is his fiancée, not his wife, and she is not the hostess without going through the door, which is inappropriate after all.

Herme had wanted to invite Katya to accompany him to Aedirn, but it still didn't feel right.

He was here for encirclement and suppression, not for an outing, and it was too inappropriate to take his female relatives with him.

Even if Katya is an excellent fighter, that's not enough. The battlefield is never tricky, and no matter how powerful a fighter is, he may be killed by a spear.

If something happened to Katya, Hemei would have to face an extremely embarrassing political dilemma, not to mention losing his fiancée.

Hetman must have an explanation, and those atamans who have been coveting the wealth of Sazarburg must take action again.

At that time, Herme had to walk a tightrope. If one of them couldn't walk well, he would fall into the abyss and be completely finished.

When Hemei and Katya talked about this, Hemei could see that Katya's expression did not change, but he could feel that Katya was not happy.

But there is no way, this is the right choice at the moment, he can only do this, even if Katya is unhappy because of this, he must do this.

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On the day Herme's army departed, they enjoyed a grand send-off.

Compared to the last expedition, this flood was pure joy.

Because the entire Fort Sazar has tasted the sweetness from that victory, and now everyone is hoping that this army can bring back more benefits.

Of course, there are worries about going out for relatives, but this kind of worry is completely covered up under the optimism, and basically cannot be expressed, and it is easy to be infected by optimism.

Herme's mind was not on this at all. Seeing Katya watching him leave coldly, he could only sigh in the end. This young lady is still angry.

But Herme will put these things behind him next time, and don't think about the problems that can't be solved for a while. If it doesn't make sense, he should focus on the military.

Herme's army set foot on the road paved with wooden boards. For the first time leading such a huge army, Herme felt a strong sense of accomplishment.

On the road, from time to time, they could see businessmen driving in groups of horse-drawn carriages. The merchants came here to pursue profits, and the carriages were filled with goods as much as possible.

Seeing Hemei's army, the merchants all stepped aside in awe. This is the experience they have acquired, otherwise the soldiers will probably overturn your carriage.

Some people didn't know whose army this was, and asked around subconsciously.

The merchants did not forget to discuss the quality of this army. Most people were not optimistic about this army at all, because those Cossacks looked too much like robbers.

Even conscripts from the northern countries can get a set of armor and helmets. In comparison, these Cossacks are completely dressed as bandits, and they are dressed in a mess.

Those in the know have a different view entirely, and they know that these bandits are not what they seem.

But what's the point of arguing, they're here to do business, not judge the military.

Along the road, soon, Herme's army arrived in front of the Blue Mountain Tunnel, and the guards who had already received the order quickly opened the fortifications, allowing Herme's army to enter.

Here, Herme saw that the guards looked more respectful than last time, and it was respectful in front of him.

In the tunnel, Herme encountered caravans one after another. The prosperity of Hackland's trade was enough to be reflected in these caravans. It was no wonder that so many people were envious of Herme's profits.

After passing through the Blue Mountain Tunnel, Hemei returned to the north again. At the moment when he saw the northern sky, Hemei felt a lot of emotion in his heart.

Back then, he brought more than 1000 poor immigrants to Hackland, but now, he returned with a full 4000 people, returning as a warlord who supported himself in the rumors.

The big change in identity is really touching.

Then Herme, who came out of her emotions, discovered an unexpected thing. The mountain road under her feet in her memory has now become a paved road!
Hemei quickly asked the soldiers stationed there, only to find out that with the rise of Hacklan trade, the king hired a professional dwarven paving team from Mahakam to build the road.

This road was completed two months ago, and now Herme understood why the number of caravans had increased significantly in the past two months. A good road can undoubtedly promote business.

It seems that His Majesty the King really attaches great importance to Hackland's trade.

Herme thought that it seemed that she had to be more loyal in the future, so that the king could not doubt her loyalty.

(End of this chapter)