Chapter 254: Wandering Eugen (32/102)
The dust caused by this battle slowly settled. Tarik and Izart were both imprisoned in the prison of Lebir City. Relatively speaking, Izart was treated quite well and was as good as the standard of ordinary nobles.
Tarik's is much worse. His living environment and diet are similar to those of soldiers in Lebre City. Tarik is naturally very uncomfortable, but he has no complaints. After all, in terms of the relationship between the two parties, it would be better for Eugen to not abuse him.
After the battlefield statistics were over, Eugen's side suffered serious losses. The team of more than 1,000 people were left, with less than 500 people, and the casualty rate exceeded half.
The Longxiang Army suffered no losses. Only some unlucky guys accidentally suffered some scratches on the battlefield and kept the personnel intact. However, the Longxiang Army's inventory of ammunition was greatly damaged and it took nearly a month to restore the reserves.
The only thing worth mentioning is that John, the captain of the Siege Tower, did not die after being hit by a violent explosion.
He fell from a place more than ten meters high into a snow. The snow had some buffering effect and cooled down his body in time. As a result, Old John was only injured in some burns and paid the price of one leg.
Old John, who became a cripple, could no longer serve the army, so he retired gloriously with a Leber City Medal of Honor, and his eldest son was also sent to the town hall to become a waiter next to Eugen.
Eugen learned about the deeds of John the old, and deliberately promoted him as a positive person in the city, calling on the young men from Lebour to join the army to serve the lord.
This incident made Old John gain a lot of fame and made him a well-known figure in Lebour. With the gold coins given by Eugen, Old John finally lived a good life of food and clothing.
Because of this incident, a wave of joining the army was set off in the city of Leber. Anyone with discerning eyes could see that the new Lord Eugen was an outstanding general, and young people were willing to pursue a bright future with reliable characters.
In just a few days, Eugen's army expanded by nearly three times compared to the original, reaching more than 3,000 people, but most of them were recruits, and their combat effectiveness was a problem and it took a long time to train.
Since then, many young people want to join Eugen, but the army has stopped recruiting new recruits. Eugen decided to maintain the number of troops at 3,000, so that military expenditure can be within a controllable range.
Among all the recruits, a total of 400 soldiers were lucky enough to become a member of the Longxiang Army, and the Longxiang Army was finally set at the number of 500.
The current production capacity of Lebir City Steel Plant is limited, and 500 new muskets are already the limit. The remaining productivity will also be used to produce agricultural tools that need to be used in the beginning of spring.
No matter how urgent it is, things still have to be cooked the same thing, and the meal has to be eaten one by one.
On the third day of the victory of the Battle of Lebor, all the surrounding mines returned to the control of Lebor, and the steel reserves reached a very wealthy level.
According to the development plan formulated for Lebir City, the city's development focus will be on the First Institute in the next stage. Using the treasure worth one million Kielder gold coins brought back by Eugen, the city can carry out an expansionary development.
The First Institute attracted a large number of people, and its main research and development direction was weapons. Eugen himself alone proposed five research ideas for the Institute, covering more than a dozen modern weapons such as gunpowder, portable artillery, continuous machine guns, etc.
If these weapons were designed and produced, the combat effectiveness of Eugen's army would have a leap forward development.
Of course, the most difficult part at the moment is not design, but production. Therefore, the transformation and improvement of steel plant production capacity is also a key research project of the institute.
In terms of urban construction, the construction of the city wall in the new urban area has also been put on the agenda. Without the protection of the city wall, it is too dangerous in this war-torn era.
Coupled with some original construction plans, the new city also entered a period of great development at this time. This content was mainly done by Maria, while Margaret was in charge of the work of the institute. After both sides were busy, Eugen almost had no chance to see the two women.
Everything seemed to be back to the beginning. Everyone had to work hard, and only Eugen had nothing to do.
In desperation, Eugen simply shook his sleeves, and left Lebir City with two hundred Dragon Xiang troops and a thousand new recruits equipped with weapons, and began to wander around the entire Lebir area.
Before leaving, Eugen just said to Simon: "Let's go, come with me to train." Then, a group of soldiers left the barracks in a mighty manner.
When Eugen set out, the news that Tarik was defeated and captured spread all over the world as if he had grown legs.
There are more than 5,000 Saxon soldiers in the entire Lebir area, stationed in several cities and controlling 80% of the land in this place.
As soon as Tarik was captured, they immediately fell into a situation where there was no leader. Everyone was in panic all day long, afraid that Eugen's army would come.
Viscount Pigad, who was beaten out before, received news and took the opportunity to lead his troops back. Unfortunately, he was beaten too miserably by Tarik, and he only had a very small force left. After capturing two small cities, he had no more energy to launch a new attack.
On the other side, Old Bad, who was originally huddled aside, jumped out. The old pervert relied on the two thousand,500 infantry soldiers who were almost not consumed, and began to snatch the entire Lebir region, occupying more than a dozen small cities, and two large and medium-sized cities, and splitting a huge cake.
Of course, Eugen could not sit idly by. The day after receiving the news, he directly led his troops to Old Bad's army. The two sides started a big battle on a snow-capped hillside in the wild, and the final battle ended with Eugen's complete victory.
The Dragon Xiang Army once again showed its combat effectiveness on the field battlefield. The Viscount Bard army, mainly infantry, was no different from the target. A few waves of attacks completely destroyed the enemy's fighting spirit.
In this battle alone, Viscount Bad completely withered and no longer dared to seize food from Eugen. He brought his troops to his main city in shame and gave up all other cities.
This is because of Duke Rudolph Welf, Eugen did not kill him all. Otherwise, with Eugen's current strength, it would be easy to seize Viscount Bad's main city.
Chapter completed!