Starting Life as a Baron - Chapter 20

Chapter 20: Preparing in advance

“Marco, you have the experience of going to war. Tell me, how should I defend myself if a group of people attacks my territory from the sea?”

At this moment, Alan was riding a horse and inspecting the territory of Rose Town with Marco.

Today the Rose Town had a new look with its brand-new houses and its flat, spacious stone roads. The previous shabby old town had completely disappeared.

Instead of just planting roses across the entire Rose Town, most of the nice land had now been planted with the crop seeds that Alan had given them.

Moreover, Alan also asked Sparrow to go and buy some food and clothes in order to solve the town’s food and clothing problem.

Of course, these things were not free. On the contrary, these things were Alan’s investment in the townspeople.

After all, Alan wasn’t a selfless kind guy. Although he was willing to improve the quality of life of the townspeople, he was not willing to show too much kindness.

Furthermore, he was afraid that the townspeople would become lazy once they knew that he was very kind.

In any case, the entire Rose Town had been completely reborn with Alan’s hard work. Everyone could eat and drink, put on new clothes, and work hard to grow crops for the Lord.

Marco saw all of this. This made him even more certain that he was following a great Lord and a powerful knight.

“Why are you asking me about that, My Lord? Although some places near the sea in the Duchy have been harassed by some pirates in recent years, Rose Town is not among the targets of those pirates.”

Marco said respectfully.

“Marco, you are talking about the old Rose Town.”

Alan reminded him, “You must know that my territory is now completely different!”

Marco was stunned when he heard this, and then he started to think.

“You’re right, My Lord. I was careless.”

Immediately afterward, Marco looked at the beach not far away.

Three big mountains surrounded Rose Town in the middle, leaving a sandy beach that was not particularly large in contact with the sea.

“My Lord, our location is very good, and the contact area of our territory with the ocean is small. We only need to build some defense facilities at a distance of five hundred meters from the coast and we will easily be able to place a group of about a hundred people with the help of the terrain.”

Marco continued to speak: “If we can set up a trap ahead of time and arrange the manpower, we may be able to resist even more enemies.”

“Yes, your idea is similar to my idea. Now we have twenty elite warriors and fifty warriors that have just been trained in our hands.”

Alan calmly looked at the distant sea and said, “We can build some watchtowers on the two surrounding mountains, and two watchtowers near the beach.”

“With the mountains as a cover, the pirate ships won’t be able to detect the existence of the watchtowers if they are not close to it. Once they come close, they will be in the watchtower’s range.”

“At the same time, we need to build some fortifications here ……”

Alan also expressed his thoughts.

Marco was shocked because he had not considered so many things at all. Alan was more like a veteran on the battlefield as compared to him.

He had a very clever vision for battles and fortifications.

This was incredible.

Marco’s respect for Alan became stronger.

“All right, that’s about it for today. Tomorrow, you will lead your men and start building fortifications. As for the watchtower, there’s no need to worry about it because our men can hide on two mountains and shoot at the enemy.”

Alan said indifferently.

“Yes, My Lord!”

Marco nodded his head to indicate that he understood. At the same time, he was curious, “My Lord, do you really think that someone will attack Rose Town?”

Alan smiled. His smile was very bright and eye-catching under the sunlight.

“Marco, we are located at the border of the Duchy. We must not be careless, otherwise, we will be destroyed!”

“We just need to prepare everything in advance. If those stupid and ignorant pirates dare to come here, we can easily deal with them and throw them into the sea to feed the fish.”

For a moment, Marco became silent upon hearing Alan’s words.

“My Lord, you are right. As a knight, we must always remind ourselves to not let our guard down!”

“But My Lord, we don’t have bows and arrows, and we haven’t trained archers.”

Alan smiled at the words: “If you don’t have bows and arrows, just buy them and if you don’t have an archer, just train one. Is a problem that can be solved with money called a problem?”

Soon, the two of them finished inspecting the town and rode back to the castle.

After Marco was sent away, Alan called for Sparrow, the treasurer, and asked him to immediately take twenty warriors to Elon’s territory, and purchase seventy longbows and a large number of arrows.

Alan was completely relieved after he arranged everything.

Now he just needed to wait for the pirates to attack in two weeks. Alan promised to give these guys a huge surprise!

As for the issue of the traitor, they would naturally be found after those pirates were defeated.