Chapter 27 25. Continue or go back(1/2)
"Horse hooves fly up,
horse hoof falls
Horses galloping between mountains and plains sweep like the wind
You are in the river,
You are among the mountains,
You are in the grassland,
You are among the horses
Now is the time for you to conquer the Galloping Horse Plains
Our Galloping Horse Tribe was protected by the God-Emperor Augustus VI
The palace and temple made of huge stones, Yeqi City
Go forward to awaken the glory of our ancestors
.......
You are in people’s writings,
You are in people’s mouth,
You are in people’s hearts,
you are on top of people
Now is the time for you to conquer the Galloping Horse Plains."
43 barbarian demon-wielders and nearly 100 demon-free people in the right camp sang songs adapted from their hometown by Lant.
Today is October 20th. In 10 days, Lant defeated two small and medium-sized camps and one medium-sized and large camp.
These three camps brought abundant black-scaled horses, beasts of burden and long-haired sheep, as well as currency worth 350 gold, 42 pieces of iron armor, nearly 4 tons of grain, more than a dozen pieces of magic rune plates, and nearly 30 magic coins.
crystal.
21 human demon-wielding warriors, including 5 knights, were liberated from these three barbarian tribes.
Although no small tribes have officially joined, several songs adapted by Lant have been sung in several small tribes.
Large tribes attack with force and small tribes conquer with culture. This is Lant's current attitude towards various barbarians.
In addition, as a race that worships the strong, the barbarians have a natural respect for powerful tribes and the strong men of the tribes.
Lant's tribe created consecutive victories, and for each big victory Lant took the lead in charging, completing the breakthrough and first kill. Let the barbarian cavalry see their breakthrough into the enemy's formation, and naturally gain the loyalty of the barbarians. Of course, such loyalty
Not cheap.
Before each battle, Lant needs to consume 2 magic crystals to activate the armor and 1 magic crystal to replenish fighting spirit. Therefore, 3 battles cost 9 magic crystals, which is worth 90 gold coins.
If it weren't for the fact that when he wasn't fighting recently, Lant took Neil and a few others to hunt low-level water monsters in the pond, Lant would really be reluctant to burn magic crystals to fight like this.
Of course, such a battle is not just about consumption. Lant felt that after every high consumption, his proficiency and frequency of using fighting skills increased, and the number of activations increased after consuming a magic crystal.
In this regard, Rohr believes that after releasing more grudges, Lant's own grudge stock has increased and his proficiency has also increased. This is the process of breaking through to the intermediate level.
After several battles, including gathering the remnants of the defeated tribes, the number of Lant's barbarian demon supporters reached 43, of which 35 were able to mount and fight.
According to the traditional barbarian ratio of 1:5 between those who possess demons and those without demons, and the estimated size of the traditional barbarian tribe, Lant's right camp can be considered a veritable large tribe.
Now Lant's left camp has reached 33 human demon embracers. Both the population of demon embracers and non-demons are far more than the previous Galloping Horse Barony. There are 9 junior and reserve knights, 24 demon embracers, all of them.
Equipped with iron armor and black-scaled horses, this team is considered to be one of the best in the northwest earl territory.
The number of demon-free people in the Zuo camp has also increased by more than 200. Now that there are more people and more literate people, Lant found more people to start education in the territory. Now all the children in the territory are divided into three classes,
Four courses including literacy, numeracy, physical education and skills are carried out respectively.
Literacy is to teach all children the letters, words and grammar of the common language of the human race. The goal is that children will know the letters within 1 month and can do simple spelling in 2-3 months. Arithmetic means teaching children addition and subtraction within 20, and more
High-level multiplication within 100, needless to say, children, Albert is not the same.
Sports mainly focus on physical exercise. Some good young men will also learn horse riding from young barbarians and swordsmanship from Canine. There are many skills.
It mainly depends on what the craftsmen in Group 1 and 2 are doing and what they have time to teach. Some craftsmen also like some children and let them be their apprentices.
More talents also bring more management problems. Knights and demon-wielders come from different countries and families, are liberated from different tribes, and are unfamiliar with each other. Lant's daily hunting also needs to bring new members with him.
The devil-wishers undergo recovery training on horseback riding and combat.
In addition, the human demon possessors can only supplement the most basic food rations during their capture. The barbarians are extremely wary of powerful demon embracers. They not only reduce their food rations on a daily basis, but also whip or allocate heavy physical strength to the demon embracers.
Therefore, before training, Lant needs to provide the demon holders with a large amount of mutton and even monster meat to ensure that they can return to combat level.
The barbarians in the right camp have a new song, and the left camp will naturally not be left behind. Lant adapted a farewell song from Kislev from the Republic of Esun in the previous life, and asked the women in the camp to sing together. The ladies' singing voices were graceful and delicate,
It makes the traveling knights feel more attached to them.
"Why did you make this farewell song?" Albert was curious, "I thought you would make a war song."
"Every time I go to war, looking at Nila, I will think of a melody, which is the earliest melody of this song." Lant's reason was made up, but the reason for his creation was not made up.
"Our human demon possessors come from too many places. I investigated and found that in order to prevent the human demon possessors from entering small tribes and joining forces, the barbarians would deliberately disperse them when settling them.
This means that our demon supporters come from all over the human empire, and most of them did not even rob the Dragon Kingdom, but were abandoned by their families for various reasons and sent to the Galloping Horse Plains."
"That's right, I noticed it too"
"So the question is, why do they want to become my demon-wishers?"
"What? Didn't we save them?" Albert didn't understand.
"Of course, I saved them, but it doesn't mean that I saved them this time. They live in my castle and serve me.
But among our knights, fight with me. What I can give them in the future may only be a knight's territory, or maybe not even a knight's territory. If I allocate them 10 demon-free people, I will let them develop new territories with me.
"Lant said, "I am just a fourth son of a baron. Firstly, I have no financial resources, and secondly, I have no territory. Maybe these people today are the foundation for me to go further in the future, but it is also very likely that I will stop here. The barbarians are here.
The troops in the south have died down, so I returned to the south of Cornico and settled down to be my little nobleman."
"so what"
"It's okay. I want to give them a bond to stay in my territory, so that they can truly integrate here. Here are their comrades side by side, and their demon-free families. They are not risking their lives again and again for a lord who only has them once."
, but for their own territory and family," Lant said while looking at the barbarians.
"I think, no matter what, I don't want to call them barbarians in the future, maybe they will be called herdsmen or grassland tribes.
Regardless of whether they are the left camp or the right camp, I hope they can sincerely identify with their identity as Baron Galloping Horse and the Galloping Horse Tribe."
"Is this achievable?" Albert didn't know whether this was considered an ambitious undertaking or a whim.
"If you can, you have to start.
As long as we make careful decisions and maintain victory, we can see that day." Rand is very confident about this.
"Land?" Albert hesitated a little at this moment.
"What's wrong? Uncle?"
"Have you ever considered... let's go back to... Galloping Horse Barony?" Albert asked tentatively.
"I've thought about it," Lant told the truth without being polite. "Every time I win, I think about it."
"Have you ever thought about it?"
"Of course, if I go back now and save the people in the territory, expand the population, and increase the number of people who embrace demons, if I return here, maybe we can take part of Lot's territory, or we can simply ask the earl to let us fight against Viscount Lot."
Lant said,
The topic changed: "But uncle, if I go back like this and dream about my father and two brothers in the future, how should I face them?"
Tell them that I have fished enough on the grassland and don’t want to care about them anymore?”
"No...we can use other methods"
"The entire tribe south of the Benma River has been swept away by us. Can they exchange prisoners of war with us?"
"This...they won't"
"Then tell me, what should I do?" Lant looked at Albert,
"If they, these barbarian cavalry who have just been wandering in the northwest territory, return to the Galloping Horse Plains and find that their camp is gone, their father and brothers have been killed by us, and the human slaves have been released by us, and near the Lot territory, just
There is a new baron or viscounty, what will they do?
Or, on the way back, they happened to watch us heading south back to our territory, watching us riding black-scaled horses, singing songs, and eating mutton pot. What would they think?
Can we hedge against 200 barbarian cavalry?"
Albert was silent. In fact, he had already thought of these things before talking to Lant, but he still wanted to try it.
Rand is too dangerous now. What he is doing is digging a grave for his family. His ideas are simply pagan thinking.
In the thousand years since the Era of the God-Emperor, it is not that no one has thought about recruiting barbarians and extensively cultivating demon-free people. However, without the protection of a big family or a legendary powerhouse, such behavior will definitely arouse the hostility of other big families.
What is most unclear to Albert now is what is behind Rand.
Is he a legendary or even classical demigod who inspires and unifies the barbarians? Or is he an ancestor of the Galloping Horse family who has hidden himself in the magic network?
To be continued...