Warlords of the witcher world

Chapter 96 Recruiting Lizardmen

After the banquet, the summit of Floating Harbor came to an end.

All countries have already obtained what they want and determined what should be determined. Then everyone will naturally have to go home. There are still a lot of things to deal with in their respective countries.

Naturally, Herme was also among them. He left the floating port on the "Vergen", the only large ship of the Aedirian royal family on the Pontar River, just like when he came.

And as teams left one by one, Floating Harbor also returned to its former calm.

Before leaving the floating port, Lord Protector did not forget to sign several arms agreements with various countries, and all countries ordered several artillery pieces from Yadian.

There is no need for Hemei to sell this kind of thing. After the artillery showed its prowess in the war, only people came to beg Hermi to sell the cannon, and no matter how much Hemei sold, they had to accept it. Anyway, he is the only one on the market now. A cannon seller.

Going back to the ship, the Vergen, as its name suggests the connection to the dwarves, this ship was built by the dwarves of Vergen.

Under normal circumstances, dwarves have nothing to do with shipbuilding. As for how they built such a ship, that's a long story.

As a colony established by the dwarves to discover new minerals, after the minerals were exhausted, in order to seek new opportunities for town development, Vergen began to develop in the direction of trading towns.

They succeeded, and the dwarven colony became the largest city in Upper Aedirn, and the inevitable destination for most dwarves leaving Mahakam.

In order to maintain trade interests, the dwarves in this town naturally began to learn how to build ships and formed a fleet to maintain the safety of the route.

But this fleet needs a quotation mark, because most of them are small boats that can only carry ten people at most.

The largest ship can only carry 30 people, and it can only be used to maintain the safety of the river and eliminate possible river robbers.

Moreover, there are not many dwarves in this "fleet". Due to the general hostility and vigilance against non-human races in the northern countries, although the dwarves built ships, they still had to recruit humans to operate these ships, otherwise Wengerburg would be defeated. condemn.

So it can be said that the dwarves have no control over this fleet at all.

However, although it looks so shabby, this "fleet" also has big ships.

Nearly five years ago, under the orders of King Demawi, Vergen built a large ship "worthy of the majesty of the king" as a vehicle for the king to ride on the Pontar River.

Such a big ship is also to show the majesty of the royal family to both sides of the river.

The dwarves took this matter as a political task, and sent their best craftsmen to work overtime, and finally built the Vergen, which could carry 300 people.

It's just that as the situation in the north became more and more serious, the king did not patrol the Pontar River as originally planned, so the boat could only be left there to blow the wind.

The dwarves waited and waited, constantly maintaining the ship, but in the end it was Wengerburg's order to seal the ship.

No way, they could only remove the sails and masts, and then seal the whole ship in a large cave by the Pontar River.

Although it can be said that this trip has done a lot of useless work, the dwarves are still very rigorous. They seal the ship very carefully and maintain it regularly.

That's why, after Herme took power, he quickly found the ship repair documents sent by the dwarves regularly, and then ordered the ship to be repaired.

However, even with the good maintenance of the dwarves, the ship took three full months to complete the restoration.

The flashy decorations on the new Vergen have been removed and replaced with various war machines.

Most importantly, it had a cannon on it, the first ship of this era to be equipped with a cannon.

Herme originally wanted to install more guns, but the production of artillery is limited, which is not enough for the army, and has to be sold abroad, so don't even think about the navy, which has very light combat missions at the moment.

On the deck, the sailors were busy with all kinds of cries, and many soldiers were helping. After all, manipulating a large ship is not an easy task.

Most of the sailors here are humans, only a few are dwarves.

Although the Lord Protector's government continued to show goodwill towards non-human races, Herme still didn't dare to fill his surroundings with non-human races. There was such a thing as Vizmir next door being assassinated by his half-elf servants, and Herme was willing. It is absolutely impossible for others to agree.

The clumsy appearance of the soldiers on the deck made the sailors want to scold these guys, but they still didn't drive them below the deck.

It's a busy time now, and it's good to have more people to help.

On the second floor of the ship, there are many dignitaries from Aedirn active on it, looking very leisurely.

These people all went to the floating harbor to watch the summit with Herme, so they could be so leisurely, and they just used the stands on the boat to watch the scenery.

After all, the Vergen was originally a yacht, and no amount of modification could change this essence.

Surrounding the Vergen are the small boats of the Adien Pontar fleet, which exist as guards and arrogance.

And our Great Protector, Herme, handles government affairs in the cabin.

Attending the summit these days, there are many things that have piled up in Aden.

Now that all the documents to be processed have been sent, he can only start working. He originally thought about starting work in Wengerburg.

Most of these things are small and cumbersome, but it's something he has to deal with.

For example, the appeal of the territorial dispute between the two lords, the conflicting judgments within the town, and the handling of traitors, etc...

Regarding these matters, he can't sign without thinking. After a long time, the power will definitely be emptied.

It can't be left anywhere, or the efficiency of the entire Aden government will be affected.

Today's Duke Protector's government seems to be much more efficient than the original Yadian government, but it is actually very "primitive". The essence of efficiency is based on Herme's continuous handling of various government affairs.

Bureaucracies are overstaffed, bureaucrats at all levels are afraid of taking responsibility, and this is especially true in the government of this era. The result is that everyone is waiting for approval from above, and if they do not approve, they will not do anything.

This is also related to the fact that a large number of aristocratic officials were kicked out of the government during the purge of traitors. Many officials in the Lord Protector's government have no experience at all, so they can only wait for orders from their superiors.

Of course, there are also the kind of people who take their heads and do things, and this kind of people often cause big troubles.

After being dealt with by Hemei, there were fewer such people, and the price was that the Duke Protector's own work increased.

Therefore, if Hemei slowed down in handling government affairs, the efficiency of the government of the Protector of the Country would be greatly reduced. He, the Protector of the Country, had to guarantee the endorsement before he dared to let go of his sleeves and start working.

As for messing up, this is the order of Lord Protector, and it is just to carry out the order.

This situation is quite helpless, but what can I do, I can only work overtime, and use my overtime work in exchange for an increase in overall efficiency.

After processing these, he had to look at various data files.

This is a summary of the situation in various places in Aden, and there are many piles of old papers in it, which makes his eyes hurt.

But if you want to get a thorough understanding of this country, these things must be seen.

However, after reading these old documents, Hemei also discovered some interesting things, that is, Wengerburg has been taking back power from local governments like a frog in warm water.

Such a policy has been going on since the time of King Demawi's father, and King Demawi continued his father's policy of boiling frogs in warm water.

For example, in recent years, the power of law enforcement in various parts of Aedirn has actually been transferred from the hands of the nobles to the hands of the royal family.

The method of restitution is to increase the sentencing cost of the nobles. When the land dispute between two farmers has changed from a casual judgment in the past to a day or two in local courts in various places, the nobles naturally also renounced these powers.

This warm-boiled frog can be seen everywhere in various fields of Aedirn. It seems to have lightened the burden on the nobles, but in fact it is sure to take power away from them, and the nobles are also very happy, thinking that the king has lightened the burden.

It is also because Wengerburg has been continuously withdrawing power in this way, and the capital has in fact become the true center of the entire Aarden.

When Aiden's centralized power system panicked due to the severance of the royal family, the Lord Protector came out in time to replace the royal family. This was an important factor for Herme to control power so smoothly.

This was not apparent when the Protectorate's government was first established.

But as the Nilfgaardian army was driven away, information from all over the world continued to come to Wenger Castle, which was very obvious.

Herme sighed, she still accepted the kindness of His Majesty the King.

If it weren't for the king's efforts, he would not have been able to control Aden so smoothly, and he might have to overturn in the process.

While Herme was looking at various documents, the hatch suddenly opened, and it turned out that his magic advisor Abelard, the elderly bald warlock, had a joyful face.

He also has the trust to look through the documents, and he is responsible for checking the magic-related parts of the old documents of the Aedirian royal family, as well as some ancient feudal contracts, to see if there is anything useful to be unearthed from them.

"Master Protector, I found something good!"

Holding an old scroll in his hand, Abelard walked up to Herme and unfolded it.

The words on it were somewhat obscure, and the writer seemed to be a child who had just learned to write, and Herme subconsciously remembered that.

"Well... In the name of heaven and earth, I, the great chief of the Virang people, hereby declare that from now on, my descendants will all be loyal to the ruler of Aedirn... The Viren people? Those big lizards?"

The Weilang people, together with the raccoons, are the real aborigines of this continent. They existed before the elves landed. Their civilization was once extremely prosperous, and stone towns were scattered all over the continent.

But when humans came, their power had shrunk to be very weak.

The elves' explanation for this is that the Weilang people have encountered some kind of virus, so their numbers have been greatly reduced, and they have to shrink their forces.

In this regard, human beings are all asses, they don't believe that the power of the big lizard, which looks so strong, has been greatly reduced because of the virus.

But people have to bow their heads under the eaves. It was when the elves were still strong. Yes, yes, you are right.

When the human beings became stronger, they began to carry out archaeological research on the Weilang people, and found a large number of corpses with traces of cutting with swords. Humans immediately launched a counterattack against the original elves' claims.

Humans use this as evidence to accuse the elves of exterminating the Weilang people. Humans are just learning from the elves, and the elves are not qualified to accuse humans at all.

But the elves still maintained their attitude, saying that the remains of the Weirang people were caused by the fact that the Weirang people had to execute their compatriots because they went crazy due to the virus they were infected with.

Naturally, this human being doesn't believe it, and the two sides are constantly fighting with each other around this matter.

Just like the history about the relationship between humans and elves, there are different versions circulating within the two races.

However, humans accuse the elves of persecuting the Weilang people, which is quite a joke.

Back then, the Weilang people were powerful and weak, but it was humans who completely drove these large lizards into remote places...

On the whole, this matter has become an important weapon for human beings to accuse elves.

As for the truth, no one cares.

"Yes, Lord Protector, this is a letter of loyalty from a Weilang tribe in the Blue Mountain branch of Upper Aden to the Lord of Aedir. When I looked at this scroll, it was when King Demavi had just ascended the throne. At that time, King Demavi probably forgot about this thing. I searched for a long time in the pile of old papers before I found it. Then I checked with the dwarves on the boat, and found that there was indeed a tribe of Viran people there, roughly two to three thousand Humans, probably the largest group of Weilang people in the entire continent. Lord Protector, we can use this as a foundation to recruit these lizardmen warriors. According to historical records, Weilang has a huge number of people, and their skin is as hard as ordinary people armor, which makes for a good warrior on the battlefield."

Abelard seemed very excited. Indeed, if this force could be recruited, the people of Aden would get great help on the battlefield.

But Herme thought of something else. He felt that there was a more suitable place for a large lizard like the Weilang people.

But what position they are suitable for on the battlefield, he has to go to see it before he can know.

"Okay, after arriving in Vergen, we will immediately go to these Weiren people and let them fulfill their obligations."

In this way, Herme made a decision.

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After the Vergen docked, Herme didn't stay too long, and immediately led the accompanying army to Vergen, letting the others slowly hang behind.

Fu Jian was very flustered by the sudden arrival of the Duke Protector. Isn't it planned to arrive in a few days?

But Herme didn't do anything to Vergen, and he didn't plan to stay here for a long time. He just ordered Vergen to call the local militia immediately and go to Blue Mountain with him.

Although they didn't know what Herme wanted to do, the local people still carried out his order, gathered the militia of this dwarf city, and gave Herme [-] dwarf warriors in a short time.

With this troop, Hemei advanced non-stop, and he recruited soldiers wherever he passed along the way.

Herme also sent envoys to ask the nearby lords to lead their troops.

Although they don't know what the Lord Protector intends to do, the lords still actively responded to the call. This is an opportunity for the Lord Protector to perform well.

So in a short period of time, 4000 people gathered around Hemei, and they went to the Blue Mountain together with Hemei.

The road in the Blue Mountains was very difficult, but it didn't bother Herme.

He has been worrying about how to increase the fighting power of Aedirn's army, and those Weilang people represent a possibility to increase the fighting power, an opportunity that Heme needs to seize.

Relying on the local guide, Hemei quickly found the Weilang tribe. Unexpectedly, Hemei found that what appeared in front of him was not that kind of earth enclosure, but a stone city, just like he had seen before. The remains of the Weilang people are the same, and the moat is also cited.

Abelard told Herme that it was because the people of Vilam liked the shade by nature, so no matter where they lived, they had to build such a stone city.

As for the moat, for the Weilang people, its most important function is to cool down these big lizards, and defense is secondary.

"Abelard, are you sure they will still honor the contract of the year?"

Looking at the stone city in front of him, Hemei said that, originally he thought that these big lizards lived in a dirt enclosure at most, and if they didn't cooperate at that time, they would lead an army to invade.

But what I see now is that a well-prepared stone city, if you want to take down this thing, you can't do it without tens of thousands of people.

"They will, Lord Protector. Although this race is indifferent, the Weilang people attach great importance to the contract and will not betray the contract."

Abelard had just entered this city of lizardmen and conveyed the covenant of the past, and now he was very confident.

As if in response to his words, suddenly, the gate of that stone city opened.

Then a bunch of tall objects stepped out from the stone city, their average height reached 1.8 meters.

These guys all have fine dark green scales and a lizard head on their heads, like a standing lizard.

These lizardmen have some simple leather clothing and armor, and the weapons in their hands are very shabby. They are all kinds of bone sticks, and there are very few metal weapons, but the common feature is that they are all large.

There were people pushing a huge shield cart in their queue, and standing behind them was a lizardman holding a giant javelin. Seeing how easily they pushed the shield cart, one could imagine how powerful they were.

These large lizards walked out of the forest in an orderly manner, forming a neat formation in front of humans.

This made everyone nervous. The appearance of the lizard people was quite frightening. If they were killed suddenly, it would be fine.

Next, the Weilang people gave way to a path, and an extremely mighty Weilang person stepped out. He was a head taller than his fellow tribesmen around him, and his body was full of war scars.

He held a huge stone hammer in his hand, and the hammer was carved with countless exquisite carvings, which still glistened in the sun, as if inlaid with gold.

Abelard told Heme that this was the chieftain of the Vilang people of this tribe, and just as the warlock whispered to the Lord Protector, the chief walked towards Heme alone.

Seeing this, Herme also stepped forward together with Abelard. Seeing this, they really wanted to express their submission.

Just like that, under the watchful eyes of everyone on both sides, the leaders of the two teams met like this.

And then, the tall Weilang man knelt down in front of Herme on one knee.

The meaning of this was obvious, and Herme couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief.

To be honest, he was still a little scared when he came in front of such a big monster, but fortunately, it followed the plan and succumbed to himself.

Hemei looked at the queue of the Weilang people. He seemed to see these big lizards charging forward for him, but such thoughts were quickly thrown away by him.

According to the guide, there are only two to 3000 people in this Weilang tribe, and they are asked to fight on the battlefield. It is estimated that after a few battles, this tribe will be deserted.

Therefore, Herme thought of a battle position that was more suitable for the existence of these large lizards.

Looking at the weapons and shield carts in these guys' hands, aren't they very strong?Then push the cannon, so that you can't have Abelard to summon the earth element every time the cannon is bayoneted.

There are also trebuchets and ballistas. With these lizards as operators, the efficiency will definitely increase greatly.

Herme was thinking more and more. Once the box of thinking was opened, he couldn't stop at all. He also thought of the appearance of these big lizards holding large matchlock guns...

The more she thought about it, the more intense the smile on Herme's face.

This made Abelard a little scared, what is going on with the Lord Protector, why does he keep laughing foolishly, and the more he laughs, the more infiltrating he becomes.

(End of this chapter)