Count Lloyd

After seeing Michael off, Victor continued with his work.

Fortunately, the remaining documents were quite simple, mostly consisting of detailed accounts of the battle results compiled by the Tors, such as the number and identities of prisoners, the classification of spoils, and their preliminary estimated value.

Since Victor did not have the habit of traveling with merchants, the value of the spoils that Tors and his group estimated was very inaccurate. Many items were priced at pre -Civil War market prices. Considering that the prices of grain and iron have now skyrocketed by one to two times, and other war-related supplies have increased by at least 50%, Victor estimated that the total value of the spoils collected during their current southward campaign should be around 30,000 to 40,000 gold.

However, the most significant item was the military rations collected by the Fourth Legion. Victor recalled the scene he saw when he inventoried the Fourth Legion's supply depot after the battle.

Large quantities of sacks filled with grain filled the entire reserve camp, stacked up like small mountains. Due to the lack of sufficient storage tents, many of these sack mountains were simply covered with a thick cloth. Furthermore, due to the continuous rainfall, the wheat in the top layer of grain sacks had sprouted and was basically inedible.

Victor was quite surprised at the time, wondering how the Fourth Legion could have so much military rations, roughly estimated to be over 5,000 tons.

According to subsequent statistics from Tors' team, the Fourth Legion's granaries contained a full 8,000 tons of grain, which, at the current market price, could fetch at least 100 to 1000 gold coins.

At first, Victor really didn't understand where the Fourth Legion got so much food. After all, if all this food was transported here, even if most of the journey was by water and the rest by land, half of it would be lost. 8,000 tons would be lost on the way.

Keep in mind that this is only the Fourth Legion. The other nobles' private armies basically have to solve their own food and supplies problems. If the Grand Duchy has the strength to provide such great support to a legion, Victor might consider persuading Count Colt to surrender gracefully.

However, after interrogating the prisoners of war, Victor learned the specifics: most of the provisions were only collected after they arrived at the Ironvine Territory.

Furthermore, these provisions were not only for the Fourth Legion itself; Ursus, the Legion Commander of the Fourth Legion, also demanded that the nobles who accompanied him on the expedition hand over the provisions of their private armies to the Fourth Legion for unified management, which resulted in the Fourth Legion's reserve camps being packed to the brim.

It is estimated that these collected grains contain too much blood and tears of the residents of the Ironvine Territory. Considering the current tragic state of the Ironvine Territory, which is ravaged by war, Victor plans to return all of these grains to the Iron Vine Family.

However, Victor hasn't had time to go find Lenster yet. On one hand, after the battle, the Southern Marching Legion is full of wounded soldiers and has many miscellaneous matters to attend to, so Victor is tied up in the military camp and can't move. On the other hand, there are also big problems in Ironvine Territory. Ursus sent two Silver Maple Secret Guards to infiltrate the inner city of Ironwire City. On the morning of the second day after the night raid, these two secret guards attacked Count Lloyd, causing the Count to be seriously injured and fall into a coma. Lenster has also been forced to take on various administrative duties in the territory, so the two can't see each other at all.

With that in mind, Victor decided to go to Ironwire City early the next morning. After all, most of the miscellaneous affairs in the legion had been dealt with, and the remaining troubles mainly concerned the private armies of the eastern nobles.

The relationships among those nobles' private armies were complex and intertwined; if it weren't for Victor's prestige from the Battle of Rotten Tree Beach, it wouldn't have been easy to subdue them.

After the night raid, these eastern nobles had a lot of conflicts, almost coming to blows over their battle merits. Victor could only leave them alone for the time being and focus on the Golden Sunflower Family Private Army.

After deciding to go to Ironwire City the next day, Victor spent his time there figuring out if he had any suitable spoils of war to give as gifts.

After Count Lloyd was attacked, his two bodyguards were also killed by his guards. Fortunately, Count Lloyd was not poisoned and, after a joint consultation by several medical officers from the Medical Department, he was out of danger.

However, due to his advanced age and extreme fatigue during this period, he has been in a coma for three days now.

Victor went to Ironwire City partly to talk to Lenster about returning the grain to Ironvine Territory, and partly to check on Count Lloyd's situation, with the gift serving as a token of his sympathy.

Just as he was pondering this, there was a knock at the door, and then Victor heard someone say at the entrance, "My lord, Count Lloyd has arrived. He says he wants to thank you in person!"

Victor immediately stood up, strode out the door, and asked the messenger who had come to report, "Where is Count Lloyd?"

The messenger hadn't expected the Viscount to come out so quickly. "I just entered the camp from the Main Camp gate and came back to report to you first."

Without further hesitation, Victor immediately ordered someone to bring his horse over; he wanted to personally greet Count Lloyd.

He had only been riding his horse for a short while when he saw James and Lenster riding towards him, followed by a carriage.

Victor immediately realized that Count Lloyd was in the carriage. He dismounted, greeted Lenster, and ran to the carriage to knock on the door.

Just then, the carriage door was pushed open, and a young girl stepped out. She was wearing a black dress, had a beautiful face, and long purple hair. She looked to be around sixteen or seventeen years old.

Victor was taken aback when he saw the young girl. She first gave Victor a ladylike bow, then turned around and helped an elderly man down.

The moment Victor saw the old man, he knew he was Lloyd Ironvine Count and quickly extended his hand in greeting.

Unexpectedly, Count Lloyd grasped his hand first. "Viscount Victor, thank you for saving the Ironvine Territory."