After finally arranging the town militia, Brian returned to the study and saw that Bonnie had finished her meditation and was sitting behind the desk reading the two magic books.

Bonnie immediately stood up and saluted when she saw Brian coming in. Brian asked her to sit down and said in a gentle tone.

"Bonnie, you are the magic apprentice with the best magic talent I have ever seen. Unfortunately, you also know the situation in Lansburg. The war is about to break out. I am quite busy during this period. I am afraid I don't have time to continue teaching you. This

For a while, you can only study the magic books by yourself."

"Don't worry, Master Brian. I will study the knowledge in these two books carefully. I will write down any questions I have and ask you again when you have time."

Brian nodded with satisfaction and said again.

"Don't worry, I will take time to see you every day. Also, there will be many strangers coming to the castle recently. Please try not to leave the main building."

Bonnie immediately showed his well-behaved side and said calmly.

"I will not leave this room if there is nothing else to do."

Brian was very satisfied with Bonnie's attitude. After all, what he needed was not a naughty student, but a reliable tool.

Although this is somewhat unfair to Bonnie, if Brian hadn't given her the "A Brief History of Magic", Bonnie would have been a maid all her life and would have had no chance to come into contact with magic.

Bonnie also has a very clear positioning of herself as Brian's retainer. She doesn't have too many ideas or she has too many ideas but knows how to hide them.

Because only in this way will Brian invest more resources in Bonnie.

No matter what Bonnie thinks, Brian doesn't mind. Anyway, Bonnie will definitely not betray him, because Bonnie cannot afford the consequences of betrayal.

Brian chatted with Bonnie for a while and answered some magic questions that confused Bonnie. Then he left the study and found Butler Carl. He bluntly said that Bonnie was already a magic apprentice and her salary would be improved accordingly.

However, he still claimed that Bonnie was his personal maid. Carl's housekeeper was mature enough to understand what Brian meant and quickly arranged the matter properly.

Brian was very lucky to have an old man like Butler Carl to help him, which saved him a lot of trouble.

After a busy afternoon, Brian also felt hungry. He thought Victor and the others had returned to the castle.

Brian planned to have dinner with Victor and the others as usual and talk about recruit training.

Cavalry is not that easy to train, and even letting these people learn to ride horses is a headache.

Victor found it troublesome to teach new recruits how to ride horses and it would seriously affect his training plan.

Moreover, time was very tight, so we could only select a group of people from the Second Son Regiment and the Black Armored Cavalry, and teach these militiamen one-on-one how to ride horses and how to use magic crossbows on horses.

But Victor also knew that there was a huge difference in combat effectiveness between 500 mounted crossbowmen and 500 infantry.

What's more, this is an order from Brian, and he has no right to refuse. He can only agree to Brian's request.

Fortunately, Brian's request was only to let these people learn to ride horses, and not to actually train them into qualified cavalry. Otherwise, even if he forced Victor to death, he would not be able to do it.

Now that Victor agreed, Brian no longer needed to worry about these recruits. In the next two days, more minor nobles came to Lansburg with a team of more than a dozen or more than 20 people.

In the end, a levy team of 520 people was assembled. Including Brian's 60 guards, the total military strength of Lansburg was only 580 people.

Moreover, the castle itself also needs to be left with people to guard it, and these new people are obviously not as reliable as Brian's guards, so 30 guards need to be left to guard the castle, and only these 550 people will actually go to the battlefield.

These 550 people can be said to be complete recruits, because those with combat experience all joined the expeditionary force with Viscount Horton's army.

At the beginning, Viscount Horton took away more than 3,000 armored soldiers. Those were the elite of Nansburg. Unfortunately, none of them came back.

Without the support of Duke Horsman, Brian would not have dared to provoke Count Moron, and the canal would not have been built.

If this war was not related to the interests of all the people in the Landsburg Territory, I am afraid that even these 500 people would not be able to be recruited.

Brian followed the previous plan and handed over all 500 people to Victor for training.

There is no need for them to become elite soldiers anyway, as long as they can understand Brian's military orders and stop running around on the battlefield.

As the levies arrived, the castle's supplies became tight. Who made Brian demand that the soldiers must have meat for every meal and be fed well?

Although most of them are fish and offal, it takes time to transport them. Fortunately, reinforcements from the Horsman family arrived at the critical moment.

After receiving Brian's letter, Duke Horsman immediately sent three large merchant ships to deliver the meat and animal livers that Brian needed.

He also wrote to Brian asking whether eating animal liver and fish can really cure night blindness.

After all, Duke Horsman is also a battlefield veteran and knows the impact of night blindness on a soldier's combat effectiveness.

If the levies in the army can see at night like the elites, it will undoubtedly give the army the night attack attribute.

There are more tactics that can be played. How could Duke Hosman not pay attention to it? For this reason, he specially sent an officer from the Black Armored Army to check it out.

Brian also knew this man. He was the Knight Will who was responsible for welcoming Brian when he returned to Pest City for the first time.

However, Duke Horsman obviously did not ask Knight Will to help Brian fight in the war, so Brian planned to leave Knight Will to look after the family in Lansburgh.

As more and more soldiers gathered in Lanesburg, the atmosphere of war became more and more intense, and soon the king's special envoy, Earl Hughes, sent a messenger.

Jean Brian arrived at the boundary line of the territory with Count Merovingian at noon on the second day to negotiate.

Both sides need to determine the time, location and scale of the war under the witness of the king's envoy Earl Hughes.

Otherwise, it is very clear that the main purpose of this negotiation is to determine the time and location of the war. As for the scale, of course, it depends on how many troops are sent.

This is no longer the tribal period. It was agreed that each side would send 50 people. These 100 people would fight each other in a circle. The winner would be considered the winner of the war.

This kind of lord war related to the division of territory is now almost common.

It is impossible for Earl Merovingian to really send only 1,000 men to the battle just because Brian was just a viscounty.
Chapter completed!