Leo inadvertently asked a question that could touch the core of almost everything in the world.
'Fighting for whom?'
No matter which way you look at it, they are fighting for themselves. These ruffians have no good intentions since the day they formed the legion. They want to come here to steal money and stuff.
If there were not strict military discipline and the officers' conscience as civilized people that has not yet been extinguished, they might still steal women.
The crusade army kept talking about Emperor Almohad's extravagance, and everyone's intention was very clear, which was to grab a good deal. The reason why the big aristocrats and small nobles and the people with their territories joined the crusade army without hesitation - wealth and honor.
The soldiers of the expeditionary army were depressed to find that they had fought several battles since landing, but they were still empty-handed. On the contrary, the local Almohads could always get a lot of things. This was not surprising.
After all, they are locals. They know exactly where the things are, who has the money, and where it is hidden.
Moreover, the common people were also the most active in grabbing things. They fought bravely and fought on the most dangerous front line. They were not afraid of being accidentally injured by the Maple Leaf Danlin crusade.
As a result, over the past few days, professional ruffians like Maple Leaf Danlin found that they were far inferior to those ordinary people. Although everyone did not care too much about grabbing more and grabbing less, they all felt that their self-esteem was very hurt.
Injured~!
That's why Leo asked angrily.
Lorraine looked at Leo, then sighed and explained seriously: "We just helped ourselves fight the war.
But these common people, if you give them benefits, they will help you fight in the future. If you don't give them benefits, they will stand by and make soy sauce.
But if you go and bully them, when you come back, they will help your enemies and beat you. Do you understand now?"
After listening to his tongue-twisting words, Leo lowered his head and thought carefully for a long time, and then said: "You mean, if we give them benefits now, they will help us fight the war later."
Lorraine nodded and asked calmly: "Why do you think those dog officials and tax collectors ran away so fast? They usually have so much fun plundering the people. If we come to destroy their jobs, it stands to reason that they should fight to the death with us.
Right? Why did you run away without saying a word?"
Leo blinked and said, "Yes. Why? If someone came to rob my company, I would have fought with them long ago. Why would they run away?"
Lorraine let out a long sigh and said: "Aren't they afraid that if we come over, the people in the city will take a step ahead of us and kill them from behind due to their hatred?"
Leo was speechless for a moment. He just scratched his fat and tender cheeks.
Everyone rode their war horses and quickly returned to the main force.
Lorraine first went to the Chinese command ship, handed over the order to General Wabador, and explained the specific situation of the reconnaissance. Then he took Leo, retreated, and returned to his ship to rest.
As soon as they entered the cabin door of the ship's conference room, Leo immediately saw Catherine sitting at the table, lowering her head and reading something.
He cheered immediately, then rushed over and said with a playful smile: "Sister, I'm back."
Catherine raised her head and glanced at them, with a softened look in her eyes. Then she gave a faint 'hmm' and said, "Just come back."
Although her eyes were extremely caring and gentle, but out of the girl's unique reserve, her tone was very calm, as if Lorraine and Leo were just going out for a spin, instead of going to the battlefield, which could be dangerous at any time.
The lifeless front line has gone full circle.
Leo didn't care, he picked up the apple placed on the table, opened his mouth wide, made a sound of "ahwu", and was about to take a big bite of it.
However, Catherine didn't even move her eyes. She raised her hand and slapped his little hand skillfully and accurately. Then, an angry voice from heaven came and said, "Go and wash your hands~!"
Leo put down the apple calmly, then ran to the side obediently, rinsed it carelessly in the basin for a few times, then ran back again, picked up the apple, and started chewing it.
He took a few bites and suddenly remembered something. He flashed his big eyes and said, "Sister, I remember that this morning, because I had to go out in a hurry, there was no test. You promised me to come back and talk about it again, right?
"
Catherine put down the document in her hand. She first raised her head and glanced at Lorraine next to her, and then said: "Okay. You can talk now."
Leo clapped his fingers, thought for a moment, and then said: "Yesterday I said we should collect more taxes, but you said that because the taxes were too heavy, all the common people ran away. So today I will reduce taxes. Yes~! I will reduce taxes.
.This way the common people won’t run away anymore, right?”
Catherine sneered and still said: "No. Although you issued a tax cut, the officials under you are a bunch of corrupt and corrupt bastard officials. They took your tax cut policy and suppressed it until they were collected.
After the tax was paid, it was distributed. I put everything in my pockets, but the common people still ran away."
Leo was stunned for a moment, scratched his little face in confusion, and then said: "That's it~! Okay then. I won't do it today. I'm going out to play now."
After saying that, without any trace of frustration, he ran out jumping up and down.
Catherine and Lorraine looked at each other and couldn't help but look at each other.
They had long been accustomed to Leo throwing a tantrum after his request was rejected, then taking the opportunity to accuse Catherine of wearing small shoes for him, and then rushing over to fight. Then he was picked up by Catherine and spanked, and finally this
Only then did I become honest.
Seeing his extremely unexpected performance, the two of them couldn't help but feel strange at the same time. This little gangster went out today, why did he change his gender? Could it be that he took the wrong medicine?
After a while, I heard Leo's voice coming from outside, saying: "Hello, little girl, what's your name? Come and give me a smile, young master."
The two of them couldn't help being stunned at the same time, and a strange feeling rose up in their hearts.
They rushed over immediately and looked out of the window.
Sure enough, he saw that Leo had stopped a little girl about his age on the deck outside the cabin. He was chewing an apple and shaking his right calf, like a street hooligan, looking at him menacingly.
Hold that person.
Lorraine and Luo Lin immediately couldn't laugh or cry. No wonder they wanted to become the governor. It turned out that they had another goal~!
At this time, they heard the sound of the door, and Lorena and Adele walked over from the other door. They saw Catherine and Lorraine lying next to each other under the window, and they all stared at each other.
eyes.
Adele said angrily: "You...you guys, you are actually doing this kind of thing in broad daylight, in public in the hall, please pay attention to the impact, please~!"
Lorraine couldn't help being stunned, and thought to herself: What did we do?
Catherine also refused to give in. She raised her eyebrows and said angrily in a low voice: "Have you ever seen someone who does this kind of thing with his clothes on?"
Ouch... Ouch~! Lorraine's heart suddenly jumped, and she suddenly understood. She quickly said: "This... this... we are not doing it."
Luo Linna also had a wry smile on her face and said, "Diel, please read clearly what I'm saying."
Then he turned his head, looked at the two of them, and said, "By the way, why are you so sneaky? What are you doing hiding under the window?"
Lorraine smiled bitterly, pointed out the window and said, "Leo seems to be picking up girls."
Speaking of this, he suddenly remembered Leo's trick to pick up girls in the past. He couldn't help but look weird. Then he said: "He can't..."
As soon as he said this, he heard the three people say in unison: "Isn't he taking the opportunity to borrow money from others?"
Immediately afterwards, two other girls with blazing gossip souls also ran over quickly and came to the window. Together with Lorraine, they looked out the window.
I saw that the girl was calm under Leo's intimidation, looking at him with a smile, her cute little face had two natural little dimples, and her smile was very beautiful.
She stretched out her hand, pinched Leo's tender little face, and asked in a clear voice: "Little fat man, what's your name? Oh, by the way. And, come and give me a smile~!"
Everyone in the room was dumbfounded. Although they didn't know where that little girl came from, she had a very strong personality and was not willing to suffer at all. Whatever Leo said about her, she would say back.
Leo didn't expect the little girl to be so powerful. He couldn't take precautions and immediately got confused and said: "You... you... you're not afraid of me?"
The little girl snorted as a matter of course and said, "Why am I afraid of you? My sister is a senior officer of the Gendarmerie. Unless you want to go there to have tea. Otherwise, why should I be afraid of you?"
Leo found out that he had kicked the iron plate, and couldn't help but let out an 'ah' sound, and his eyes widened. His big eyes rolled around, and then he laughed dryly twice and said: "I...
…I suddenly remembered that I have something else to do and I have to leave first.”
After saying that, he turned around and ran away.
But the little girl was well prepared. She took a quick step forward, grabbed him by the collar, and knocked Leo to the ground. Then she clapped her hands proudly and said, "Don't even think about running away."
Now. You are no match for me even in a fight, so you'd better be more honest~!"
She paused, blinked her big eyes, looked at Leo, and then said: "By the way, do you have money? Please lend me thirty to fifty million first."
As he said that, he put his white and tender hands under Leo's nose.
Leo struggled twice, but found that he couldn't stand up at all, and almost cried, "I...where can I get 30 to 50 million to lend to you?"
The little girl thought for a moment and said, "Well, how much money do you have?"
Leo thought for a moment, and then said tentatively: "Five gold coins?"
The little girl immediately got angry and kicked him, saying, "Are you sending the beggar away?"
Leo immediately surrendered and said: "Okay, okay. Fifteen..."
He saw the little girl's eyes widen and she kicked her leg again. He quickly changed his words and said: "Fifty, fifty gold coins, any more will really be gone."
The little girl then snorted with satisfaction and said bluntly: "That's about it. Get up. Remember to bring me the money tomorrow. Otherwise, be careful, I will take you to jail and cut you."
The raw pork, tiger stool chili water, and other cooperatives are all available to you~!"
Lorraine found that what she said was extremely incomplete. She had obviously learned it from someone but had not yet fully learned it.
At this moment, after the young lady finished speaking, she turned around and walked proudly to the back of the deck.
Leo slowly got up from the ground, looked at her back, and asked loudly: "Why are you asking me to borrow money?"
When the little girl heard this, she turned around and smiled like a whirlwind, blinked her big clear eyes, and said: "Because I have fallen in love with you. By the way, my name is Milena, you must remember it well."
After saying that, when I saw Leo's eyes widening in surprise, I suddenly felt shy, then turned my head and ran away quickly.
Everyone in the hall couldn't help but widen their eyes after hearing this.
Catherine and the other girls all put their hands on their foreheads and murmured: "People's hearts are not as old as they used to be. Why are children these days so precocious? How can it continue like this?"
It’s just that they actually know in their hearts that only independent and self-reliant women like themselves can behave like this, while others, whether they are nobles or commoners, are all eight or nine years old, and they get married when they are twelve or thirteen years old, and then get married early.
It's over.
Leo stared blankly at her back disappearing below the deck, and suddenly understood. Then he yelled and ran back to the hall while crawling.
When everyone in Lorraine saw it, they immediately became confused and quickly returned to their original positions. Some pretended to read and others chatted. However, Catherine's books were all taken down, and the chat of the few people next to them was just "today's weather, hahaha..."
…'
At this time, Leo had already ran in angrily and said: "Boss, help me, hurry up and help me..."
Everyone in Lorraine pretended to have just heard it and turned around.
Leo briefly told what happened, and then kept saying: "What should I do, what should I do?"
Lorraine said: "This is a good thing~!"
Leo looked sad and said, "But she wants to borrow money from me. I don't like her either."
Lorraine said: "That's easy to handle, just tell her directly and then beat her up..."
As soon as he said this, Leo's eyes widened and he shouted in disbelief and surprise: "But she is a girl. You want me to hit a girl?"
The other three people next to him also cast dissatisfied looks at him.
Lorraine had no choice but to surrender and said: "Okay, okay. I understand. The idea of beating a girl for no reason is indeed a bit beastly."
He rolled his eyes, and then said: "How about you put ashes on your face and make yourself look uglier. Maybe if you look uglier, she won't like you anymore."
Leo immediately shouted: "What a great idea."
After saying that, he ran to the side, faced the mirror, smeared dust on his face, and rolled on the ground. After a lot of trouble, he looked in the mirror and immediately became frustrated and said: "This trick doesn't work, he is still very handsome~
!”
Everyone immediately made a clang and fell to the ground.
As Adele got up from the ground, she suppressed her smile and said through gritted teeth: "You really learn from whoever you want. In just a few days, this little ruffian has learned to be so shameless."
Catherine also had a wry smile on her face, feeling extremely helpless towards her younger brother.
Leo was about to cry and said, "Can you think of a solution quickly?"
Lorraine sighed and said: "Then there is really no other way. How about you hide from her for a few days. Maybe she can't see you and forget about you."
Leo sighed dejectedly and said, "This is the best for the time being."
In the next few days, several cities were visited. When the conquering army arrived, they were all deserted. They completely removed all their furniture, leaving behind only a city of civilians and disorderly chaos.
For those areas that have been plunged into violence and chaos, the Crusade Army is neither willing nor willing to take care of those areas. They gloat and watch as the Almohad Empire falls into turmoil step by step.
These ten days of marching can be called an outing. The mage and priest lazily hid in the boat and played cards. When they were really tired, they threw two spells into the river, or they imitated Lorraine and moved a deck chair, set up a fishing rod, and had a few people with them.
A beautiful woman, leisurely basking in the sun, and then writing some nonsense poems.
Leo, on the other hand, hid from the little girl for a few days, but then one day, Lorraine happened to see the two of them playing together happily. He looked like a silly boy with a wide grin, and Liu Xiaochan was already completely happy and carefree.
appearance.
Therefore, everyone in the crusade seems to have an illusion. It seems that everyone can walk into Abdwad like this, and then the gold and jewelry will automatically fly into their hands.
Of course this is impossible~!
In fact, the closer they got to the city of Abdwad, the more nervous generals like General Wabdor and Lorraine became. The team of scouts expanded several times, and even the Knights Templar were sent out.
The scope of their detection is getting wider and wider, and the investigation in the area has become more and more rigorous. Every valley and every mountain ridge has been checked repeatedly.
The villagers were questioned and intimidated repeatedly until they were sure that there were no enemy troops here and there were no traces of enemy troops passing by.
The crusade was getting closer and closer to the city of Abdwad, but still did not encounter a single enemy obstruction. The two or three battles that Lorraine had estimated were in vain, but the emotions of General Wabdor and Lorraine were different.
More and more solemn.
Because it means that the Almohad people will gather and wait for them in Abdelwad City.
Maybe there will be 100,000 people, maybe 200,000 people~!
Lorraine and the others must completely defeat them within a few days. The thought of dense crowds appearing on the walls of Abdelwad made the generals of the crusade tremble in their hearts.
But Lester, who had been prepared for this, scorned the generals' concerns. The great magician believed that he alone was enough to deal with the walls of Abdelwad City.
Lester has been discussing at the headquarters whether to steam or braise the old rabbit emperor, a major magical issue. Other things, such as how many people will be killed, how many will be injured, and how much strength will be affected
How much loss there was was beyond his consideration.
He just concentrated on doing one thing well, which was to avenge Maple Leaf Danlin and beat this empire so hard that no one would dare to face this great academy for the next thousand years~!
On this day, when the expeditionary army advanced to a distance of more than a hundred miles from the city of Abdwad, the scouts reported that a large army had gathered in front of them.