On the fifth day of the recapture of Solburg, the work of clearing out the remaining enemies and setting up defenses in the city was basically completed.
Besieged the city for several months, with hundreds of casualties, just to distribute the gains in the city after the city was captured.
Thanks to the abundant treasury of the Principality of Lombardy, there are mountains of grain, grass, baggage, weapons and armor in Solburg. As for gold, silver, treasures and valuable goods, there is no shortage. After all, the Lombards invaded other countries' borders and must have done a lot of plundering wealth. Therefore, although a large amount of wealth has been transported back to the south by the Lombards, there is still a huge amount of inventory left here.
The weather is still cold, but the hearts of the entire Eastern Legion are extremely warm, and the atmosphere in the Lord's Hall of Solburg is also extremely intense.
The adjutant of the legion was holding a list of the trophies seized in Sauerburg to report to all the officers above the flag captain who were participating in the military meeting in the hall. "Everyone, after several days of searching and counting, the trophies seized in Sauerbourg have been basically listed. The gains in this battle are too great. According to the rules, we must hand over three points to the court of the Count of Burgundy. We cannot resist this. After all, the food and salary of everyone in the legion is paid by the palace of Besancon. The commander of the legion has submitted the list of these trophies together with your military exploits to the palace of Besançon. It won’t be long before the palace will send people south to inspect the military merits and take the trophies with them, so don’t worry about this part.”
As the "employer" of the entire Eastern Legion, the court of the Count of Burgundy will take one-third of the spoils. This is a clause written into the employment contract. Moreover, the spoils this time are too rich, not a trivial matter of three or two thousand pfennigs, so no one dares to mention the concealment.
Previously, Art led the outpost to attack the farm north of Solburg and turned in the spoils. The reason is the same.
· Seeing that everyone had no objections, the adjutant of the legion continued: "After handing over the share of the Besançon palace, the Eastern Legion will withhold one-fifth of the remaining war gains as additional daily military expenses. This money is mainly used to purchase additional grain and vegetables and supplement the palace's lack of food and salary."
The Eastern Legion traveled thousands of miles south, and Besançon certainly could not fully guarantee the food and salary supply for the Legion. The Legion often needed to buy it locally, and occasionally held celebration banquets, rewarded soldiers, purchased some urgently needed war supplies that could not be transported from the north, etc. This money was advanced by the Legion, so the Eastern Legion would take one-fifth of the spoils.
No one can control whose purse this one-fifth share will end up in. It is estimated that Viscount Geoffrey and a few barons will get the lion's share, but it is appropriate for high-ranking nobles to take more, and everyone has expressed their approval.
The adjutant looked back at Viscount Jeffrey who was sitting on the main seat, and Jeffrey nodded.
The adjutant cleared his throat and said loudly: "Everyone, please pay attention, the distribution of the spoils will need to be discussed together by everyone."
Everyone in the hall pricked up their ears and listened carefully.
"The people participating in the military meeting today are all mid-to-high-ranking officers above the legion flag captain, and they are all men of merit in the recapture of Sauerburg, so you officers will distribute one-fifth of the spoils."
As the more than ten corps commanders who participated in the battle to recapture Sauerburg, these people enjoy priority and high distribution rights to the spoils. This is also the source of motivation for the officers to follow the corps to fight to the death. This money is purely the officer's personal income.
However, those officers stationed in several other castles and fortresses do not have this priority. As for whether they can get a piece of the pie from Solburg in the end, it depends on whether the legion commander is generous enough.
"After the officers' shares are distributed, all the remaining spoils will be divided among the companies and the outposts, cavalry, crossbows, and baggage units directly under the command of the central army according to the size of the military merit. The commanders will then distribute it to their lower-ranking officers and soldiers."
A legion clerk handed a stack of documents to the adjutant of the legion. The adjutant took it and opened the sheepskin book. He said: "Here is a record of all the military merits presented to the court of Besançon since the Eastern Legion entered Provence. Many of your names are in this merit book. According to the wishes of the legion commander, we will use the merits of killing enemies in the book as the main factor in distributing the spoils." Based on this, the adjutant of the legion began to list the merits of killing enemies and other outstanding performances recorded in the book one by one.
The officers in the hall also listened attentively, for fear that their own military merit would be credited to others.
“That’s not right, Lord Vice-Commander of the Legion, why are the men from the first company always the first to attack in every siege? Although our third company did not all participate in the siege, two flag companies of my company were folded under the North City. My flag captain Sir David is still recuperating in the camp, and dozens of elite soldiers have also died in the North City. If Dozens of warriors burned by the fire cannot get a fair military merit. Then who will be willing to fight desperately for the legion in the future!" The commander of the third company came from a fortress in the west. Although he did not personally participate in the battle to recapture Solburg, the two flag troops under his command were destroyed under the outer wall of the North City, so he had to fight for it.
Seeing that the captain of the third company came out to stand up for his soldiers, the captain of the fourth company also stood up and asked: "Adjutant, if we talk about the military merit of recovering Solburg, I'm afraid we can't just count the guys who participated in the battle to recapture Solburg? Think about it, if we didn't hold on to several fortresses and suppress the Lombard reinforcements, can you attack Solburg with peace of mind?" I think our group of troops who defended the three castle fortresses should also get a share of the spoils. Besides, our fourth company also sent soldiers to participate in the siege, and they deserved to enjoy the spoils."
The captains of several companies who defended the castle fortresses and the flag captains who participated in the siege also stood up and clamored to divide the spoils.
"The legion commander you said will consider it, he will consider it!" The adjutant of the legion spoke out to calm down the officers stationed in several other places.
"Let's continue talking about the military merit album..."
The adjutant of the legion continued to read while holding up a booklet.
When the list arrived at Art, Art heard the adjutant's mouth: "We eliminated the rebel bandits on Kitzby South Road and killed sixty-three enemies. We broke through the outpost outside Solburg and killed forty-six enemies. We captured one baron of Lombardy and three knights. We guarded the outside of Solburg and killed six enemies. He planned to burn the enemy's firewood at Solburg to gain military merit, rushed to the reinforcements at starry night, destroyed the Lombard conspiracy, and killed twenty-eight enemies in the battle of West City. "
The above records of the military achievements of Art and the outpost are basically consistent with the facts, and Art did not care about the error of three or five enemy heads.
"But Sir Art, you have already obtained valuable trophies in the elimination of the rebels and the battle at the outpost outside Solburg, so those two military achievements will not be used as the basis for allocating the trophies of Solburg." The adjutant of the legion poured a ladle of cold water.
Atco refused. If he could enter Solburg in advance to hide some gold and silver treasures, he would be more gentlemanly. The problem is that when the Eastern Army entered the city, he was still chasing the remaining enemies with the cavalry. Without the support of those two military merits, the share he could get from Solburg would be much reduced, and this also involves the share allocated to the outpost later.
“My lord, Vice-Chief of the Legion, it’s chilling to say this. If there were no outposts to eliminate the rebel bandits, could the legions successfully march south to Aosta? If there were no outposts to desperately capture the outer waiting posts, could the army besiege Saulebourg? Since the outposts entered Provence, what kind of battle has it been? Didn't we lose a lot of soldiers in the battle? The legion is still spending the winter in Kitzby! ! The outposts have to move forward bravely when eating meat and drinking soup. There is such a thing! "When the wolves divide the meat, Art will not talk about superiority.
Seeing Art's sudden surge of anger, the adjutant of the legion hurriedly comforted him: "Sir Art, why are you so impatient? You alone took all the spoils in the battle to eliminate the rebel bandits. Isn't this true? After the battle at the outpost outside Solburg, the legion didn't take much from you. Isn't this true? You have already gained a lot~"
When Art heard this, he became even more angry. He walked directly to Viscount Jeffrey without saying anything to the adjutant of the legion and asked: "Master legion, no one was willing to go to the battle to eliminate the rebel bandits at that time. All the spoils you said belong to me. You have to admit this, right? Besides, how much spoils can a group of ragtag bandits have? The supplies captured that time were not enough to damage the outpost."
“After the outpost north of Sauerburg was breached, I sent most of the loot to the legion. I even handed over the captured Lombard barons and knights to the legion. That was a booty worth one hundred thousand pfennigs!!! In addition, I also handed over a large amount of coins, weapons and armor plundered from the farm. Part! What do I have left? ? Now that I have finally captured Solburg, tell me that the previous military achievements will not count, so the next attack on the Werno City outpost will not be a fair treatment!
Everyone in the room was silent for a moment.
"Sir Art, according to Baron Schmidt and several Lombard knights' accounts and the subsequent inventory, after you captured the northern farm, you will be short of twenty or thirty carts of grain and valuable goods. I'm afraid~" the adjutant of the legion said softly.
Hate did let the caravan secretly transport sixteen carts of goods after capturing the farmhouse in the north of Sauerburg, and he also generously gave Viscount Balian more than a dozen carts of food supplies.
Matt glanced at the adjutant of the legion, then turned to Viscount Jeffrey and said: "Master legion, when you attacked the farm waiting platform, you asked Viscount Balian to send troops to support the outside. After the war, Belian Viscount Lyon sent someone to take away part of the food baggage as military expenses for sending troops. You know this, and I reported it to you afterwards."
Jeffrey coughed, "Well, that's the case."
“So, Mr. Vice-Chief, the outpost really didn’t leave much behind.” Art said to the legion’s adjutant.
"That doesn't matter, you Art have already obtained a lot of spoils. When distributing the spoils this time, the outposts should share less." said an officer.
Everyone agreed.
"Everyone of you, you didn't say to let the outposts do less when we killed people in the battle. Now when we distribute the spoils, let us get less points. Then, from now on, all the matters of dead people will be left to you, okay?" Art argued with reason.
A group of officers began to quarrel again.
The entire afternoon, the Lord's Hall of Sauerburg was filled with the loud sounds of officers arguing and debating...
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After Viscount Geoffrey’s mediation and mediation, a rough distribution share was finally determined.
· Art personally received 25,000 pfennigs from the legion, three war horses, and five sets of chainmail;
· The outpost had outstanding military achievements, and Viscount Geoffrey intended to include the outpost as an elite team with him, so he was distributing the spoils. At that time, the outposts were given enough inclinations - sixty thousand pfennigs, five sets of half-body plate armor, twenty sets of mail armor, five sets of iron scale armor, twenty-three sets of leather armor, fifty sets of cotton armor, forty-two iron helmets, more than eighty sets of swords, spears, axes, shields and other weapons, ten sets of crossbows, in addition to five carts of wine, bacon, salt, cloth and other goods.
If we add in the loot that Art captured and hid before, it is already very rich.
However, Art kept complaining to Viscount Geoffrey and asked Viscount Geoffrey to use a group of young slaves and valuable craftsmen imprisoned and enslaved by the Lombards in Sauerburg to make up for the unfair treatment he received in the distribution of military exploits.
Viscount Geoffrey couldn't stand Art's entanglement, so he had to allow Art to select some useful people under his command.
At took the tiger skin of Viscount Jeffrey and searched around the city, gathering a group of young slaves, weapons and armor craftsmen, and craftsmen from various industries into his team.
On the tenth day after the capture of Sauerbourg, the Provence court also sent people to give a military reward to the Eastern Legion, and Art received another large share...
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After Solburg was recaptured, Salt, the southern caravan manager with an extremely keen business acumen, did not need Art's reminder at all. He quickly purchased a large amount of consumables such as wine, vegetables, fruits and so on from the north and rushed to Solburg. He used cheap goods to earn a lot of money from the mercenaries of the legion who had just received the spoils and military rewards.
Of course, Salter did not forget to collect a group of sexy and coquettish professional women from all over the country and bring them to Solburg to celebrate the joy of victory with the soldiers who had been suffering from loneliness for several months.
When everyone in the legion learned that Art was behind this caravan, everyone gave this wise and brave knight a mocking title of "The Source of Happiness".