Chapter 53 Post-war Processing
The alliance camp three kilometers outside the Sarko Ice City.

Rhodes was directing his soldiers to pack up and prepare to evacuate.

With the unanimous agreement of the six Knights of the Round Table, the siege war organized by the alliance came to an end.

Two consecutive battles have exhausted all the soldiers physically and mentally, and their morale has dropped to the bottom.

If the battle continues, the city may not be captured, but the allied forces will definitely suffer heavy losses.

No one wants to continue this reckless war that lacks benefits.

In the camp, Rhodes' eyes swept over the shield and spear soldiers and their followers.

Finally, it stopped at the more than 400 serf soldiers.

Their former lord had died in battle, and they would follow Rhodes back to Pingdingshan and become his subjects.

As serfs who lacked personal freedom, they were accustomed to obeying the orders of the nobles.

Facing him, the Knight of the Round Table and their future new lord, no one had any objections and they naturally accepted this outcome.

The other five Knights of the Round Table also knew what Rhodes was thinking.

But they also chose to default, even by coincidence.

After all, it wasn't just Rhodes. They also had a large number of ownerless serfs and even knights left after their lords died.

Everyone mobilized a large number of troops to launch a war, which cost a lot of money and sacrificed countless soldiers.

In the end, the reason why they are willing to give up easily is that they have gained enough benefits, so they stop with satisfaction.

The Wolf Chief's tribe may have suffered a small loss, but the major pioneering knights suffered heavy casualties.

But these six leading knights will definitely make huge profit!
It took more than a day to deal with the aftermath before the army retreated. Fortunately, there was no movement in the Sarko Ice City.

It seems that the Wolf Chief Tribe is eager for the alliance to leave quickly and has no intention of sending troops to stop it.

Everyone returned along the same route. Although the number of troops was reduced a lot, the presence of the wounded slowed down their speed.

A week had passed by the time we returned to Charlie's Dragon's Back Mountain.

It was still the simple castle with only two floors, where all the alliance members gathered, just like the day when the alliance was first formed.

Unfortunately, the number of people present has been reduced by half.

"Registration of military merits, division of spoils, compensation for dead knights, do you have any objections to these?"

Charlie sat in the first seat, leaning back in his chair, looking at the other five people with tiredness.

Although the war is over, the subsequent affairs have just begun.

Just now, the six Knights of the Round Table had been arguing for half a day over the above-mentioned issues.

A consensus has only been reached now.

Rhodes looked at the others and then nodded.

The kingdom's military merit register will be reported to the administrator of the Round Table Council, the court knight from Renaissance City - Sinclair Lunn.

After his review and confirmation, it was submitted to the Supreme Council at the core of the kingdom's rule.

The amount of military merit will directly affect the treatment of the pioneering knight after he returns to the kingdom, and determine the size of the reward from the king.

This is also what the major pioneering knights value most, and they choose to come to the North for this reason.

Rhodes was not very interested in this stuff.

After all, he is building Pingdingshan as his real territory, and there is a high probability that he will not return to the kingdom.

The division of the spoils is based on current calculations.

The total spoils captured by the Alliance in this war were worth around 420 gold coins.

Contains a large number of Wolf Chief scimitars, throwing axes, arrows, armor, jewelry, Iron-backed Black Wolf corpses and more.

The weapons of the Wolf Chief's soldiers are not popular among the knights, and most of them will be converted into gold coins through the Guild of Commerce channels.

The rewards were distributed to the leaders of each regiment according to their merits, and then they would distribute them to their subordinates. After fighting hard, Rhode finally got 85 gold coins, six iron-backed black wolf corpses, and a set of white steel wolf armor.

The white steel wolf armor comes from the mount of the man in the wolf hat.

He was killed by Rhodes in the night battle.

This is the spoils obtained from the enemy, and in fact it also includes the 400 serf soldiers and more than 400 crossbows and short bows.

Not only that, these serf soldiers, as young male laborers, also have families.

Rhodes and the other six Knights of the Round Table needed to provide compensation to the noble knights who died in the battle.

If it was actually allocated to Rhodes, he would need to pay forty-five gold coins.

The money was sent to the families of three noble knights.

Also included is a letter of consolation and a heraldic banner from Rod Rosedale.

After doing so, he could legitimately receive the families of the 400 serfs in the territory of the sacrificed knight and bring them back to his own territory.

There are more than 500 people in total.

Rhodes made the final statistics, that is, after the war was over.

In total, he could bring back more than 40 gold coins, six wolf corpse materials, a set of white steel armor, more than bows and crossbows, and more than extra residents to the territory.

"Is this the rule of the game for the kingdom's nobles? The lower class is sent to die, while the upper class takes everything. Tsk." Rhodes sighed.

Born into a duke's family, he became a Knight of the Round Table.

I have finally officially sat down at the poker table and joined this pioneering game among the upper class nobles.

A siege war was launched against the barbarians, but in the end not a single barbarian prisoner was captured.

Instead, he brought back a bunch of serfs from his own alliance. Although he didn't win the battle, he made a fortune.

For a moment, Rhodes didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

But in terms of gold coins alone, he didn't actually make that much money.

Waging war costs money.

The soldiers under his command alone included two knights, twelve knight squires, shield and spear soldiers and followers, as well as more than four hundred newly joined serfs.

The salary, rewards and pensions for this war totaled 48 gold and 60 silver.

Take into account food consumption, equipment repairs, etc. along the way.

It would cost him at least 60 gold coins to finish this battle.

In the end, Rhode had to pay 20 gold coins to get in.

He didn't pay much attention to this aspect as more laborers joined the territory.

As the breeding of catfish expands, the scale of clay brick production will also increase, enough to bring him enough wealth this winter.

Although the war was over, the alliance was not disbanded, only the joint army was disbanded.

After agreeing to help each other and keep in touch, Rhodes and the other five people said goodbye after a banquet.

They each returned to their territory and continued to explore and build.

After returning to his own Pingdingshan from Longji Mountain, Rhodes gave the soldiers three days of vacation and let them go back to have a good rest.

At the same time, personnel were arranged to resettle the 400 serf soldiers, and people were sent to bring their families here as soon as possible.

Then he immediately summoned his knights and the managers of various affairs in the two territories and asked them to rush to Pingdingshan immediately.

Rod is preparing to call a managers meeting.

Set the tone for the next territory planning.

"The officials in charge of the people's livelihood, the organization of the army and military officers, and the bottom-up management divisions of various industries, all of these must be decided in advance."

(End of this chapter)