Under the intimidation of two Salion Knight Squires, the villagers actually had no room to refuse. Fifty farmers were conscripted just like that and marched out of the village as if they were prisoners. If luck was on their side, they might still have a chance to return home once the war ended.
Zhang Yang brought his dagger and long wooden staff. The Salion Knight Squires leading the group did not care about such details either; they merely stayed at the front and rear of the procession to prevent anyone from deserting.
As for weapons and equipment, the recruits were supposedly to receive them after reaching Paine Town. At that point, they would all change class into Salion Recruits. That would be an entirely different upgrade path, and a more advanced one than the farmer's.
Zhang Yang could not help looking forward to it.
The road was difficult to travel. Paine Town lay to the southwest of Mariansburg, roughly a hundred li away, while it was only fifteen li from Hadley Village, where Zhang Yang lived.
He had heard all this during his time there, because the place farmers from Hadley Village visited most often was Paine Town. At least half the farmers in the village were Baron Charles's tenant farmers and serfs, while Paine Town was where Baron Charles's fief was located.
Therefore, even with war breaking out, that clerk had still dared to come recruit new soldiers with only two Salion Knight Squires. On the one hand, this was Baron Charles's territory and home base. On the other, compared with the front line of the war against the Dashians, Paine Town was truly far behind the lines—a safe zone.
After all, the Salion Kingdom stretched for over a thousand li, and the Dashians did not have four legs—well,