The olive trees that like light in the courtyard also look a little unhappy under the scorching July sun.

Fortunately, the hall of Dorile Castle, which is not sunny all year round, is quite shady.

Roger sat on the main seat of the rectangular table, looking around.

Compared with Nicia, which once was the capital of Romseljuk, the halls of this Dorile Castle are much narrower and much more simple.

In addition to a few statues made of sea piping stones, it can also make people look at them twice.

Obviously, this city, which is located on the border between the Eastern Roman Empire and the Kingdom of Romseljuk, focuses more on defense than on beauty.

Roger turned his head and looked at his right hand.

On this side of the rectangular table were his closest officials.

From near to far, Danny, Muttery, Odin, Zarro and Shana were seated respectively.

The captain of the guard, Henk, stood behind Roger.

And opposite Roger, there was an Eastern Roman sitting on the short side of the rectangular table against the door.

That was the lord of Dorile.

The man sat there very well, with a kind look on his face and smiled at everyone.

Even when he saw Muttiyi, who had a clear Arab appearance, he smiled and nodded.

As for Roger, who occupied his position as the head, he even looked charming.

Of course, Roger knew why this city lord was so well-behaved and cooperative.

There were more than 100,000 soldiers and pilgrims stationed throughout the city of Dorile and on the grass outside the city.

This power is enough to make the lord of this not-so-large Eastern Roman border city obedient.

But this power also made its commander Roger very troubled.

Commanding these more than 100,000 people is a arduous test.

These people have no concept of military discipline at all.

Just leading them to march almost made Roger collapse.

......

If only Roger's own army marched, at most one week would be enough.

Even a marching march can arrive in three days.

But these more than 100,000 people walked for more than half a month under Roger's repeated urging.

Roger felt that it was like fleeing with refugees.

The entire team has no queue at all. The troops walking in the front can be more than ten kilometers away from the old, weak, sick, disabled and young people walking in the back.

And along the way, it is completely unknown how many people have been separated, how many people have caught up, and even how many people have died.

In fact, how many people in the entire team are still unknown to Roger.

He could only roughly estimate that there were thirteen or forty thousand people.

I'm afraid only God can know the exact number.

Roger tried to send someone to investigate, but just started, he gave up because it was impossible to complete.

Although the people in the team are from Bavaria and Austria, most of them only know the names of their towns or villages.

Although they both speak German in name, they often have different accents that cannot be communicated when they are not too far apart.

Even Muttiyi can't handle these local dialects, not to mention that people who speak these local dialects often don't know how to count.

Those who Roger sent to investigate were all confused and reported.

The only language that is truly common in the team is body language.

Roger once saw a soldier who shook his purse at a woman, and the woman opened her clothes. The soldier was satisfied, so the two of them found a place nearby, and directly conducted further physical communication regardless of the people passing by.

I don’t know how many times this phenomenon occurs every day, and everyone is already used to it.

In the end, Roger was used to not caring about them and letting them combine freely.

Fortunately, there are still some elites among these thirteen or forty thousand people.

Including Roger's own 5,000 men, as well as 4,000 cavalry and 700 heavy-armed knights led by William.

Among those infantrymen, there were also a considerable number of people with iron helmets and leather armor.

But more of them are like farmers, holding all kinds of weapons or farm tools.

As for those pilgrims who include countless elderly people, women, and children, it would be good if they could have a knife or a wooden stick.

But if you think these people are not threatened, it is obviously a big mistake.

During the marching of more than half a month, there was a village along the way that was looted.

When Roger got the news and arrived with his cavalry, only corpses remained in the village.

Innocent villagers are old and young.

It is obvious that the bodies of those women were violated during their lifetime.

There was even a female body cut off from her room.

Roger was really angry that time.

He ordered his soldiers to find the murderer.

But those pilgrims from the same village and villages shelter each other and did not cooperate with the investigation at all.

In the end, William helped Roger, who was helpless, solve this problem.

William asked his knights to randomly draw dozens of people from these pilgrims and hand them over to Roger.

William said this was the murderer.

Roger remembers an old saying in the East: "If you kill one person and the three armies are shocked, kill them. If you kill one person and ten thousand people are happy, kill them." ("Wei Liaozi")

So there was no trial or investigation, and Roger ordered the dozens of people to be hanged.

He knew that there must be something wronged here, and it was even possible that these dozens of people were wronged, while the real murderer was watching the fun.

But Roger had to do that.

Someone must die for his anger.

Only in this way can a team of more than 100,000 people be shocked and dare not openly disobey his orders.

Only in this way can the Eastern Romans in other villages and towns along the way be satisfied and continue to provide the supplies needed by the army.

Roger's measures are effective.

On the way afterwards, such blatant large-scale robbery never happened again.

However, petty thefts and some sporadic vicious incidents occur almost every day and have never been eradicated.

Roger had to separate his 5,000 troops and let them patrol the entire team in small groups.

On the one hand, it is to prevent vicious events from happening, and on the other hand, it is to urge the drag-and-pull people to accelerate their progress.

Roger even had the idea of ​​renamed the "Catalan Mercenary Group" to "Catalan Gendarmerie".

......

Roger, who was sitting bored on the main seat of the rectangular table, looked outside the hall door, and there was no sign of William and his men.

The agreed meeting start time has passed.

Roger has also sent someone to urge him, and he believes that William and the others will definitely come.

Although William and his jazz and knights, every time they carried out the orders of the mercenary commander Roger, were always reluctant.

But under the order of Duke Welf, the key was that Roger had cheated and released their "friendship".

As long as the orders of the mercenary commander Roger are not too excessive, they will still execute them.

But when executing, they occasionally make some harmless mistakes, such as being late, which is understandable.
Chapter completed!