Lord: Marry the villain's daughter at the beginning?

In a village, Sam was teaching a young man how to use a gray-collared musket.

"Yes, keep your hands steady, but don't worry about whether you can hit the target or not. Once you release the trigger, get back into cover immediately."

The young man fired two shots, but both of them missed the target.

"Don't worry. When we get to the real battlefield, whether we hit the target or not is not that important."

Sam patted the young man on the shoulder, and then taught him how to load, maintain and repair the musket.

Such scenes are not uncommon in this village. It is not only young people who are learning to use muskets, but also women and even the elderly.

After all, most of the young men in the North were conscripted.

Young people study very seriously, not only to protect themselves, but also to protect their land.

The knights and officials of the lord of this land have been driven away by the resistance army. After the last communication with the Gray Collar, Isa began to learn from the Gray Collar and carry out land reform behind enemy lines.

Of course, it is impossible to do it as meticulously as Gray Collar, and because most of the land belongs to the lords, the resistance army did not do well at the beginning.

Originally, the local lords might turn a blind eye to the resistance army, but once the resistance army tried to use the lords' land, they would face fierce resistance.

During this process, Isa adopted Lind's suggestion and started from the remote villages in each territory. The lords of these villages had weak control capabilities and encountered weak resistance, so the resistance forces soon took actual control of these villages.

Unlike other resistance forces, the one led by Isa did not plunder or abuse civilians, and even helped buy and sell food along the way, which made the resistance force quite famous among the people.

With the support of small and medium-sized businessmen, Isa has now established a firm foothold in these villages.

The next step was to distribute weapons to the villagers, organize guerrilla warfare, and gradually surround the lord's main towns.

Although the gray and white lords gave the resistance army, no, many heavy weapons grew out of the snow last time, it was still too much for the resistance army to attack the city, so the resistance army and the local lords gradually formed a balance, and everyone lived their own lives without interfering with each other.

Some lords who had a good reputation and did not impose heavy taxes were even able to collect normal taxes as usual. In the end, those lords reluctantly acquiesced to the rule of the resistance army, which was considered as leaving themselves a way out.

The small lords did not dare to confront the resistance forces and villagers equipped with muskets, and the big lords were also helpless in the face of guerrilla tactics unless they organized a large-scale encirclement and suppression.

Although the power of these great lords has been greatly expanded under Doug, the price is to provide Doug with troops, so that the encirclement and suppression of that level now has to be organized by Doug himself.

Finally, these great lords thought about it and decided that the resistance army had only occupied the surrounding rural areas, which were all small villages, so the land loss was not much. In addition, the original population on the land had been conscripted by Doug, so there was not much output, so they were too lazy to deal with the resistance army anymore.

In the end, more and more villages formed villages under the guidance of the resistance army and began to help and watch over each other.

Isa looked at the village which was gradually regaining its popularity. If it was according to Lind, this place could already be considered a base behind enemy lines. Although Doug was still in power on paper, in reality the lords here could no longer collect taxes from these places and had basically given up control of them.

It is hard to say who the lords who can still collect taxes belong to. It seems that those lords are using the traditional skill of the nobles - sitting on the fence.

Some lords would even take the initiative to inform the resistance army when Doug's army was about to enter their territory for a siege. After all, the taxes that could be collected from the villages under the rule of the resistance army were more than before. Even if the land itself had not yet started to produce, the large number of small and medium-sized vendors who followed the resistance army could provide a lot of normal taxes as long as the local lords did not collect taxes three times.

In the end, the resistance army even helped some lords maintain law and order in their local territories and punished officials who collected taxes indiscriminately and collected taxes three times.

The atmosphere in these territories is weird yet reasonable.

In fact, according to Lind's original plan, it was impossible to collect taxes for these lords. The money should be kept for the resistance army's own use.

But Isa, who is behind enemy lines, has a better understanding of the current situation. The resistance army itself has the support of gray-collar workers, has no shortage of resources and does not need these taxes to maintain the army. Moreover, these villages themselves cannot collect much taxes, but they can rely on this to ease the relationship with local lords and reduce pressure on the resistance army. Therefore, Isa chose this strategy according to local conditions.

Of course, this situation is not common. Most of the lords still have obvious hostility towards the resistance, but they are helpless against the resistance. Moreover, the resistance does not really threaten the foundations of these lords. They consider the big cities as their foundation, so they choose to compromise.

Doug's army's encirclement and suppression has never stopped.

Although Doug's updated musket equipment caused considerable trouble to the resistance army at the beginning, after all, the two sides not only had differences in military quality and discipline, but also a certain generation gap in weapons and equipment. Moreover, Isa was always the first to learn about the opponent's intelligence, so the resistance army did not fall into a clear disadvantage.

However, Isa did not feel relieved. After analyzing the situation, Isa prepared to iterate her tactics. Although all members of Doug's army began to be equipped with muskets, it also meant that more musket equipment could be seized after defeating Doug's army.

Even because they are also produced by Gray and White Collar, the resistance army can directly use the captured bullets and replenish them on the spot after use.

As for the captured muskets, the resistance army already had muskets that grew in the snow, so they certainly wouldn't have any use for them, but they could distribute them to the people along the way and teach them how to use them.

Soon, more and more people in the areas where the resistance was active had weapons in their hands, and they were no longer afraid when facing ordinary soldiers.

Under such conditions, Isa finally managed to stabilize the resistance army.

After they all had muskets, there was no difference between civilians and soldiers. In general, in order to protect their own property and newly distributed land, the villagers could often show a stronger fighting will than the soldiers. In this case, the Doug Army in some areas with tough folk customs didn't even dare to look at them.

"Lady Saint, here is a letter from the Governor."

Leighton returned to the village with the patrolling soldiers, bringing with him the latest letter.

Isa breathed a sigh of relief after reading the letter.

"The Pétain Line has been breached, and the Governor is about to begin his attack."

"Really? That's great."

Leighton and the soldiers around him cheered.

Every time the bards and the Shining Gold Merchant Alliance brought not only weapons, supplies and letters, but also many gray-collar newspapers. The warriors at least knew that there was such a place where people could live and work in peace and contentment, and that there was such a place to support them.

Although many people have not yet set foot on the land of gray and white-collar workers, they have already regarded themselves as people from that place.

"But the next round of encirclement and suppression is coming."

Isa looked at the villages with reluctance.