las was in his new office he looked at the report , noz and his family were protected by his knights and all the blacksmiths who were making the cannons were too protected , las ordered ten 6 pound cannons and four 12 pound cannons

the two alchemist who were responsible for the gunpowder were protected by knights all the time and only them and las were to know all the recipe ,all the others who were making gunpowder knew only a part and they were too under monitoring

las asked leonard ,arthur and alfred to come to meet him a knock was heard "come in " the three men came in they saluted and waited for las to speak " welcome gentlemen i have an important job form you " las waited for a second no one spoke back las smiled "william said none of the soldiers were spies but i can't trust him so i gave him the order to check again everyone from servants to knights, so you will do the same to see if the same Results will come out with the lack of loyal personal we can't survey oliver or william so we will see if he is protecting someone "

"and be careful was i clear "

"yes, lord" las smiled and looked at arthur "how is the training going for the women from the village"

"good my lord some of them had learned from the chief they will be ready in some months "

"good ,go to your work and arthur call me oliver"

after 10 minutes oliver came to the office and sat at the chair " oliver welcome, i have some work for you first for your information the pay for the soldiers is double what they were paid" oliver understood the new lord must gain trust and in this situation trust is the most important thing

las continued " and i want you to order the same green uniforms for every soldier and a spare one" oliver said "what why my lord this will cost a lot " las smiled [he is concerned this is a good ] ls spoke "look oliver if we give our men the same uniforms we can make a spirit of unity and the green can make the soldiers hide in the terrain [the territory is mostly plains and forest ]

"oliver i have two other things, first i need workers we need to produce an invention of mine its called cement and a unique kind of bricks we need materials but different people must do each job and cement and the bricks must not be leaked "

oliver spoke "my lord what is cement? and what do we need bricks for, right now?" las explained what cement is and then said something important " with this things we will build a paper industry"

"my lord with the bandits here we can't trade and how will we produce paper "

las smiled " i have a plan to get rid of the bandits and i have a new method to produce paper i will talk about the plan soon enough "

oliver had no choice but he was hesitant "my lord if we put everyone under surveillance our treasury will dry"

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"no need to worry "

oliver was hesitant but he obeyed "my lord give me the list with the resources and i will handle it "

after 2 days the first cannon was made ,las gave the order to make first the 12 pound gun

the soldiers were present all the important men in the viscountcy besides james

the first cannon was placed in front of the men four trusted men were at the cannon las was telling them what to do to load the gun

las spoke "men this is the new weapon that i invented and with the help of master noz it became true with this only victory will follow us, long live helstain " las said and gave the order to fire the gun a sound like thunder was heard a tree in the distance fell down then a second then a third

the men looked with an o in their faces they froze after a minute screams from the soldiers were heard "long live lord" "long live helstain" "only victory will follow us" " long live the lord" after that las started to train artillerymen and the other soldiers were training more vigorously

after 13 days las was sure oliver and william were loyal ,alfred did some tricks so the Results came faster the soldiers had indeed strong hatred for james some of them lost family others saw their wife and child get raped , then las called them for a meeting

las sat at the back of the chair and said "first i would like to apologize to oliver and william i suspected you cooperate with james" both of them got up and said "my lord i would never " "i too hate him to my core" las was happy with their reaction "yes i know so that's why i called you , i will explain my plan to get rid of the bandits " william said " may i talk" las gave him a nod as a response "my lord there is a high chance that we will win by just using the cannons that you made"

las said with a disapproving look " the bandits are around 2.000 and we are just 300 even if we win we would have high casualties"

"so that's the plan william you said that you had some of our own it the bandits side and that they were trusted men of there leader , james is ordering them to raid all over the place in order to scare me he is getting arrogant the bandit leader is told that he will became a knight commander or a noble but he dos not trust james"

"i have already spread rumours about me being a child that is scared , so at least a 1.000 men are james soldiers with families and needs that they can fulfilled only in the capital , james will probably give his soldiers a good rest before the big battle ,when the men start the march to the capital we will ambush them in bandit clothes and flag of course the leader will be the right hand of the bandit leader "

"the bandits now have supplies ,weapons, armour and experience soldiers and then his right hand man will bring a letter from james to a friend saying that he should get rid of them"

"then the angry arrogant bandit leader who probably rise from james help will march to attack the capital ,james will have no choice but to face them "

"this battle will take place in the south probably, we will close the south gate james will likely win and we will ambush them then we just get rid of the surviving bandits "

"what do you thing about this plan gentlemen "

william spoke first "my lord i thing is possible ,my men have became the right and left hand and others are very influential "

everyone agreed with the plan

las knew from the start that cannons and spears with this numbers and against experienced troops will not bring him victory ,so he took over another forge and gave them the order to produce 100 crossbows

las had spend a lot of money to have everything ready ,7 days later all the equipment was ready las was surprised "oliver how were you able to do this" he smiled and said "my lord the commoners are poor here so when they see work they go whatever the wage so i gave the orders to different places and i gave them money before the equipment was ready"

las [ even so 20 days is too fast he is very competent he is a talent isn't he ]