plumnovel #183 - Who is the noble after all?
#183 - Who is the noble after all?
The next day, Horn and the others woke up early. The day was still overcast.
After performing the routine daily breathing exercises, he stood on the mound, using a hot towel to dry his face.
Then, he squatted on the mound, eating breakfast while watching over a hundred education subjects from the Holy Trinity Education Team laboriously digging the ground.
These education subjects were either officers from mercenary groups, accountants and clerks under the Duke, or clergymen from the church.
Most of them were accomplices of the Duke. Although they did not directly harm the villagers, they played a role in fueling the flames and abetting the evildoers.
Guilty, but not completely guilty.
To manage these twenty-five thousand people well, Horn had to have his own talent system. He needed a large number of experienced people to help him train new talents.
Horn hoped that within three months, these new soldiers would be able to understand simplified military orders and be able to write simply, so that they could understand strategic intentions without error.
To complete the elementary education of four thousand new soldiers and three hundred children soldiers, relying solely on Bonner and others was not enough. Horn needed more educated people.
Perhaps they could not be directly used by Horn, but at least after education, they would be qualified as teachers for the new army and the future.
"Your Majesty."
Horn had only taken a few bites of his monster meat sandwich when he saw Victor jogging over.
"How is it?" Horn asked, looking at Victor's slightly sweaty forehead, "Did all the scouts return safely?"
"Your Majesty, they all returned safely." Victor pointed to the exhausted scouts and said, "An officer from the Holy Trinity Team followed along and drew a map."
Victor handed a map to Horn.
Unfolding the map, Horn used the daylight, along with Victor's narration, to carefully examine it.
According to the map and the scouts' reports, unlike the swampy and shallow waters of North Ze, South Ze was almost a dammed lake.
Autumn Dusk Island was located in the very center of the lake, about two to three miles from the shore. Originally, there was a stone arch bridge that was more than a mile long.
Originally, there was also a causeway bridge of about one mile connected to it, but due to rising lake water and years of disrepair, it had disappeared. The stone flat arch bridge left by the El Empire had become a broken bridge.
If you want to go to the island, you have to go to the barbarian kingdom near the arch bridge first, and then take a boat to the island. There are countless long-haired monsters on the island.
According to the scouts' preliminary observations, the so-called barbarian kingdom basically lived near the shore of the stone arch bridge.
"Have the two hundred decree companies and twenty holy musketeers of the expeditionary force arrived?" Horn stood up after swallowing the monster meat sandwich in a few bites.
"They've all arrived, just finished breakfast."
"Let's go." Horn put on his cloak and hung Bloodshade Cloud around his waist, "Let's go take a look."
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"Your Majesty, this way."
Led by the beastman Captain Hariba, Horn walked along the causeway for half the morning before finally reaching the foothills of the swamp.
After arranging for Pas里克 to dig swamp soil to extract peat, Horn led more than two hundred soldiers towards the barbarian kingdom.
After walking for more than an hour on the mountain road, it was almost noon when Horn saw the first barbarian kingdom.
The cold mountain wind blew on people, and Horn, riding his horse, saw the beastman barbarian village before him.
On the land crisscrossed by streams and dark rivers, hidden in the reeds, twenty or thirty thatched houses and two or three wooden houses appeared in front of Horn.
Standing on the hillside, Horn could clearly see the appearance of the beastman barbarians below, which was almost identical to those of the North Ze beastmen.
Apart from their relatively rough and barbaric clothes, Horn really couldn't see the difference between these so-called barbarians and the "nobles" of North Ze from their appearance alone.
"Your Majesty, what do you say?"
"Tell them that we want to borrow the road to Autumn Dusk Island. If they are willing, they will open the road. If they are not willing, then six divisions will move them."
"Your Majesty, as soon as our scouts and envoys get close, they will be attacked, so there is no chance to speak at all."
"If there is no chance, create one." Horn glanced at him, "If you beat them to their knees, wouldn't you be able to ask them if they are willing?"
"Ah, I understand."
Soon, more than two hundred Salvation Army soldiers appeared in the sight of the beastmen, including 150 cuirassier spearmen, 50 cavalry, and 20 holy musketeers.
Their opponents were more than two hundred barbarian beastmen.
Obviously, these barbarians were somewhat prepared when they encountered Salvation Army scouts this morning. When the Salvation Army appeared, they quickly took out their weapons from their homes.
To Horn's surprise, the equipment of these barbarians was actually better than that of the so-called "nobles" of Jia Daji. Not only did seven or eight people have leather armor, but they even had iron axes and short swords.
Who are the nobles?
Turning his head, Horn glanced suspiciously at Hariba beside him. Hariba's face was unnatural, and he looked up at the sky awkwardly.
The barbarians under the hillside were in high spirits when they saw humans, but when they saw the cavalry on horseback, a bit of fear arose in their eyes.
After all, they had no horses here, and warhorses were rare monsters to them.
As for the Salvation Army wearing black cloaks in front of them, they were not taken seriously.
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Even if they were facing enemies twice their number, as descendants of the pure-blooded beastman nobles of South Ze, they would never bow to the North Puppets.
When they were close enough to see the outlines of the opposite side, the beastman barbarians immediately began to war cry.
"Ullula!"
"For the Moon God!"
Seeing the beastman barbarians charging in a group, Horn just casually said to the flag bearer next to him: "Blow the horn."
"Woo woo woo——"
The beastman barbarians' battle formation, wrapped into a ball, charged towards the Salvation Army's phalanx. Although the beastmen's equipment was better, their military formation level was completely inferior to those of the civilized kingdoms of North Ze.
"First and second rows, spears horizontal, third row spears oblique."
Victor shouted loudly, and seeing the beastman barbarians enter the fifty-yard range, he shouted again: "Charge!"
The neat ranks took neat steps, and two rows of spears trembled as they galloped, like an iron hammer heavily hitting the scattered formation of the beastman barbarians.
The spears pierced into the leather armor, which had almost no protection against refined iron, and blood shot out like a fountain. When the beastmen's crude iron axes struck the Salvation Army's breastplate, they could only leave a dent.
Almost at the same time, the cavalry led by Jeanne had already charged from the flank. The sabers slashed across the necks of the beastmen, and the flashing electric light instantly penetrated the beastmen's military formation.
In a matter of seconds, the beastmen in the front row and on the left fell in rows like mowing grass, and blood and screams immediately rang out in the valley.
The holy musketeers didn't even have time to fire their spring-powered guns before they entered the pursuit phase, so the vanguard battle ended in less than ten minutes after it began.
More than 70% of the time was spent on the road.
"This, how, this..."
Even though he knew the power of the Holy Knights in advance, Hariba still couldn't believe his eyes when he saw the brave barbarians collapse in an instant.
It seems that yesterday didn't allow His Holiness the Pope to use his full strength at all. What a pity.
Rudylo rode his horse to the bottom of the hillside and shouted at Hariba: "Hey, you, come out and clean up."
"Presumptuous, didn't you see His Majesty is here?"
"I'm not talking to His Majesty, Your Majesty, a great victory, a great victory."
Smiling and waving to Rudylo to show that he knew, Horn turned and patted Hariba on the shoulder: "From here to the broken bridge, there are probably a dozen villages. I hope that when I ride my horse over here tomorrow morning, you are already at the broken bridge."
After saying this, Horn looked at the sky, felt that it was about time, and ran towards the royal capital of Jia Daji.
Pas里克 is preparing and investigating peat matters there. According to the time, the results should already be out.