Overgod Ascension

As darkness fell, bright and warm candles were lit inside the manor villa.

"Master! Welcome back!"

As soon as Wu Ming returned to the villa, Amelia stepped forward, took off his robe meekly, and took away Beatrice's job next to her, making her little mouth pout in dissatisfaction.

"Oh! What's for dinner today?"

Wu Ming didn't feel anything at all. Instead, he was happy that this woman could step into her role as quickly as possible.

"The main dish is roast lamb, and the side dishes include onion soup, toasted white bread, and a bottle of wine. The olive oil produced by our manor is also very good..."

"Um!"

Wu Ming sat in the master's seat and watched Amelia instruct the maid to place the tableware and serve the meals. She also wore a maid outfit, and her every move sounded like a mature woman's gentleness.

"godfather!"

Silis and Cecile saluted Wu Ming. They were the only ones qualified to dine with him.

"Amelia!"

After Wu Ming finished eating, he tapped the silver spoon: "I am going to appoint Qiao Fu as my militia captain and train more than thirty good boys for me!"

"My master!"

Amelia hesitated: "This may delay their farming!"

"So, I will compensate and choose to mobilize after the spring plowing is over!" Wu Ming replied with a smile.

"Mobilization? Is there going to be another war?"

Amelia was very afraid of this because she had just lost her husband in the last war and did not want to lose her stable life because of another war.

"No, it's just to suppress bandits! Bandits and wild people in the Tucker Mountains come to harass my territory and rob my people all the time. As a lord, this is an intolerable shame!"

Wu Ming declared: "I will fight back fiercely, kill their warriors, snatch back their women, and make them our serfs! Work for us to compensate for the sins committed!"

Well, this is actually to blame, Wu Ming essentially wants to replenish the manpower in the territory.

"However, I ordered Geoff to take inventory of our warehouse, but he received a disappointing news. In the entire weapons warehouse, he only found five rusty swords, three longbows, and a dozen spears. There was a spear and not even a piece of leather armor..."

Wu Ming spread his hands.

"I'm very sorry!"

Amelia nervously grasped the hem of her skirt with both hands: "My husband has taken away a lot of equipment when he went on the expedition... If you need new weapons, we may be able to get enough silver towers after this year's grape harvest. Come and buy them."

"I don't mean to blame you, I'm just stating a fact, and if we rely on selling grapes and olives to arm us, we may have to wait until the year after tomorrow to conquer the barbarians!"

Wu Ming shook his head and said: "I brought five hundred gold delongs. You and Qiao Fu take them and go to the nearest city to buy these equipment!"

He handed a piece of parchment to Amelia.

These properties were all gifts from Alfred. Wu Ming was not a miser, so he would not miss anything that he could use to arm himself.

Amelia took the parchment and saw what was written on it - 'Five pieces of leather armor, preferably iron armor, twenty cross swords, fifty javelins, ten longbows, a thousand arrows, fire Some oil, some rope...'

"Okay, do you have any other orders?"

"Be quick. Also, you can ask Qiao Fu to find out how to buy a crossbow. Don't be stingy with Jin Delong. If you don't have enough, ask me again!"

Wu Ming waved his hand and looked quite wealthy.

"I see!"

Amelia replied, although in her opinion these equipment are enough to arm a hundred regular troops.

A few days later, Wu Ming stood on the playground and watched the farmers come for training at dusk.

They are all quite smart. Although Wu Ming is voluntary, as long as he trains for a certain period of time, he can get a loaf of bread and even a dinner!

The value in this naturally makes them reluctant to part with it. They come here every day and gradually form a habit.

The seeds of the future army are here.

On the school grounds, there was a large pot boiling with thick fish, wild vegetables, and noodles. Wu Ming deliberately added a lot of oil and salt to it. His unstinting attitude made Amelia It was very distressing to see it.

Any high-intensity training without adequate food and meat supplies is a hooligan! Wu Ming would naturally not do this.

Of course, he didn't expect much from his group of farmers. As long as they could understand simple commands, be familiar with the weapons in their hands, and know a certain array, he couldn't ask for more.

This is a poor world. It doesn't matter if your own army is poor, as long as it is stronger than other savages and lords.

"Lord Lord!"

Qiao Fu ordered his militiamen to line up and come to Wu Ming with his right fist on his chest and salute: "The militia group has been assembled. There are thirty-seven soldiers in total!"

"very good!"

Although after watching the training, it can be described as terrible, but compared to their previous performance, Wu Ming can no longer expect more.

"Disband!"

With his order, the team dispersed and came to the big pot. Everyone got a bowl of hot chowder and a loaf of oatmeal bread, and squatted on the ground to start.

Wu Ming issued an order that the oatmeal bread could be taken home, but the chowder must be eaten here!

This is to prevent the militiamen from taking it home for their families to enjoy as soon as they get dinner. After all, it contains precious salt, meat, and oil! This would not achieve his purpose of increasing the physical fitness of the militiamen, so he was strictly ordered not to do this, but at the same time he was liberalizing it so that older teenagers from each family could come together for training and have a good meal.

To be honest, Wu Ming had higher expectations for these teenagers.

"Joff!"

He looked at the old warrior next to him: "What do you think of those young men?"

"Very young...very immature!"

Geoff thought for a moment and used two adjectives.

He looked at the energetic young men with some confusion, wondering why Wu Ming said that.

"Teach them the tricks I taught you and try them first!"

What Wu Ming was talking about was still the same thing he taught Ava, but with Qiao Fu, he organized it more systematically and only passed on part of it at this time.

If you spill it in one breath, it will be too worthless. After all, it is a pretty good knight training method.

"That's a real advantage to those brats!"

Qiao Fu looked at those teenagers with jealousy in his eyes. He knew the weight of what Professor Wu Ming gave him.

Think about how much hardship he had to endure in order to gain some skills as a warrior when he first went out to explore?

But now, they got it easily and skillfully.

"Let them try it first. If any of them really achieve something, then bring them to see me!"

This is just a simple exercise method at the beginning, but if you can persist and have understanding, you will gradually become different from ordinary people and stand out.

In Wu Ming's view, this is a simple selection and screening method.

Of course, with the population and area of ​​his territory, no matter how hard he works on his internal strength, it is useless. The most important thing is to go out and plunder resources, whether it is population, minerals, gold coins, markets... Only in this way can he use the fastest speed to plunder resources. Speed ​​develops.

Therefore, two months later, this militia team was ready to take shape, and Wu Ming couldn't wait to lead them on an expedition.

"I know that many of you are on the battlefield for the first time!"

He stood on the high platform, looked at the many different expressions below, but could not hide his uneasy faces, and said loudly: "But the leather armor you are wearing, the swords, guns, and bows and arrows you are holding are all piled up with golden delongs. Yes, but your opponents are just a group of wild people and bandits wearing furs!"

"The sophisticated equipment and training experience are not comparable to them, so what are you worried about?"

An excellent commander can inspire morale with words, but Wu Ming is obviously better.

"I guarantee in the name of the lord that once you perform meritorious service, you will not only become a free citizen, but I will also issue a certificate to make the land truly yours! Even if you are killed or injured in battle, the manor will remain Give you or your family a pension!”

This huge reward and guarantee immediately caused a commotion in the crowd. Soon the uneasiness in their eyes subsided, and what emerged was desire! The desire to change your own destiny!

Become a free citizen and own your own land!

For these serfs, this is simply a lifelong hope! What's more, even if they die or even become disabled, they have no worries, so what else do they have to fear?

There is nothing to lose, so why not give it a try? Perhaps our descendants will have a chance to become masters?

"Ouch!"

Starting from the first militiaman, I don't know who they were, they all waved their weapons and started shouting. That look made Amelia who was watching from the side very confused.

She knew that the people who appeared in front of her were no longer the cowering farmers, but a group of trained real soldiers!

"I will bring thirty people with me this time!"

Wu Ming said to Amelia at this time: "I will leave the other matters in the territory to you!"

Ordinary lords would naturally not be as leisurely as him. In fact, there were many things in the territory, and most of them were trivial matters.

As a lord, his main task was to adjudicate disputes between two serfs in the manor court.

Wu Ming didn't bother to do these trivial things, but Amelia was very smooth and could handle them in an orderly manner, which made him very satisfied.

After explaining the territory, Wu Ming got on his horse and shouted: "Go to war!"

"Ho ho ho!"

The soldier roared, with an eager expression on his face, and followed the horse out of the manor and embarked on the journey.