The brave man opened the coffin and rose

During the rest days, the next goal has been determined.

After walking around the border for a long time, they were finally able to turn around and move towards the royal capital.

Along the way, you will have to pass through at least several towns, castles and passes.

In order to cope with the next battle, Abes first optimized and divided the troops.

Previously, due to the limited weapons and armor, Abes could only distribute to them the leather armor stripped from the Lizardmen and the spoils seized after the battle.

Now, the scout team has been streamlined and optimized.

They will officially carry out scouting work, that is, set out to explore the way before the main force marches.

In addition to exploring the route, they also need to find a place for the team to set up camp.

If they hadn't taken over an entire supply point and had no shortage of supplies, they might even need to obtain prey for the camp to ensure a source of food.

In order to ensure the timely transmission of information, Abes also gave the scout team the priority use of the wolf.

Out of compatibility considerations, Abes handed this streamlined true scout team over to Anivia.

There is no ranger class in the team, so apart from that, the class that knows the nature best should be the druid class.

However, I don’t know what kind of druid society this blond half-elf Anivia is from. She is actually indifferent to things like hunting and cutting off water sources.

If it weren't for the skills that Anivia had shown before, and the fact that she had contributed greatly to their efforts in capturing the Lizardmen's supply camp, Abes would have even suspected that she was a fake druid.

In order to adapt to the actions of a true scout team, the people Abes assigned to Anivia were all former hunters, or at least had camping experience.

Anivia's management of the Lizardmen captives was also particularly effective.

In less than three days, he actually persuaded a lizardman to surrender.

The strength and keen savagery of this race, which was different from humans, made Anivia extremely satisfied.

At the beginning, the blonde half-elf, who was somewhat dissatisfied with her own requirement of "not abusing prisoners", actually came to Abes in person to plead for mercy, hoping to include the surrendered lizardman into her scout team.

"How about setting an example and giving other prisoners more hope?"

"Aren't you worried that those who have hatred towards the Lizardmen will become enemies with you?"

It's one thing to lament, but just because Abes can understand it doesn't mean that others can understand it too.

Although he had determined that the punishment should be commensurate with the crime, he still wanted to use labor time to atone for the crime.

But when observing how they judged the Lizardmen captives these days, Abes still saw that they often shouted words like "Death penalty, dog execution!"

If it weren't for the people in charge of the trial, they would all be relatively rational people carefully selected by Abes.

Otherwise, the few dozen Lizardman captives left that day could probably have been interrogated in one day.

The next day their bodies could be seen sinking in the stream.

"They have the will but not the courage, and they are hesitant. At that time, Lord Abess, you gave them a chance for revenge, but they were too embarrassed to speak up. Now that they see that you are strictly judging them, and that except for a few lizardmen, the rest are not guilty of crimes that do not warrant the death penalty, they are starting to complain again."

"Since you chose to let us off the hook, but you're here to stop us from dealing with the prisoners, isn't that a bit..."

"Besides, we are going to attack the town next. Why not make use of these lizardmen?"

Abes listened to the other party's expression as he spoke these words without wavering, and he smiled and shook his head, "You don't sound like a druid at all. Life, nature, these words don't seem to be important to you at all."

"...Druids can have various understandings of nature."

In the end, Abes assigned the lizardman who surrendered first to Anivia's command.

In addition to the scout group, the new classification called the transport group was further refined and reorganized.

After taking over the supply point camp, their supplies had increased to an exaggerated level.

There were a large number of horse-drawn carriages, ox-drawn carts, and food ingredients that could be counted in the tens of thousands.

It is no longer like before, when there were only three cars and five or six people could just walk behind the team.

Therefore, setting up a special transport team to carry supplies for the march is an inevitable choice.

In order to prevent the transport team from moving too slowly and slowing down the marching speed of the entire army, Abes distributed the extra wolves to the transport team and merged the distribution of the pulling animals of some vehicles.

This transport team is composed of some front scout team members who are skilled in driving wolf mounts, some responsible and capable front security team members, and some members from the logistics team who have driving or animal husbandry experience.

Although they have given up their combat effectiveness, they are still the important core of the entire team on the subsequent journey.

After that, Abes divided the logistics team into separate groups such as chefs and craftsmen according to their expertise, with those that were in relatively high demand.

Needless to say, the chef is just taking the supplies and eating casually.

But in the future, as their supplies are consumed and they capture territories that are willing to obey them, these people will also need to be able to manage the dispatch of military supplies.

For example, after securing a foothold in a region in the future, buying and selling food ingredients will also be one of the tasks of the chef team.

Therefore, not only did Abes let in people who were good at cooking, he also tried his best to arrange for people who claimed to be good at arithmetic to come in.

Although Kronos is also a smart kid, and perhaps the smartest one among the group, Abes doesn't want to put his important and capable Divine Wiki in the kitchen.

Apart from these, what Abes has been most concerned about these days is the arrangements of the craftsmen group.

Just as the leatherworker had promised him before, after they captured the Lizardmen's supply camp and had time to rest, the leatherworker began to carry out the subsequent processing of the wolf leather.

The fat has been scraped off, and the next step is to soften it by sinking it in water.

Place the cleaned leather in a large bucket or pool and soak it in clean water until it is completely wet. Then, sink the leather in still water to soften it until it becomes soft enough.

The subsequent tanning, in Abes's opinion, is like magic, turning fur into leather.

No chemicals? Don't underestimate the wisdom of the people, they use natural tanning agents to tan leather.

It was only after witnessing their operations that Abes realized that this was probably the method used by ancient humans to tan leather.

Commonly used natural tanning agents include plant bark, plant fruits, tree roots and plant leaves.

In the North, the most common method is the bark of a large tree, such as oak or castanea.

This natural tanning material is ground into a powder and then mixed with water to make a paste.

Place the soft leather in the mixture and once the mixture has completely penetrated the leather, remove it and let it dry.

Once the leather is out of direct sunlight, dried and straightened, it is basically ready for use.

Since they didn't have many days off, the leatherworker could only do so much.

"Lord Abes, the next step is to wait for these things to dry. In fact, since we are in such a hurry, perhaps we should tan them a few more times."

"However, since it is processed in batches and we have the help of the rest of the logistics team, we have prioritized producing a batch."

Several leather craftsmen opened a storage tent, and Abes saw several rows of neatly cut leather armors inside.