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Chapter 44 Wedding and Expeditionary Army
The first year of the new calendar, January 1st.

At dawn, the believers who had finished their morning prayers walked out one by one wearing thick furs and felt hats.

Because the tickets for the celebration were free, they all took the special sleigh train.

The huskies worked hard and arrived at the event location in ten minutes.

"Io Church Station is here, Io Church Station is here."

The conductor shook the brass bell three times, then took out dog food from the storage box under his buttocks, and fed it amidst the excited barks of the huskies.

Every piece of dog food is earned through my own efforts, and I deeply implement the church’s policy of not raising idle dogs in the northern land!
It was lively and lively, and the believers gathered in front of the Io Church to participate in the first New Year's festival celebration.

Since the leadership of the sage, he has led everyone to experience too many firsts.

Although only a few months have passed, everything has changed and transformed into the shape of a saint. No one misses the hard days of the past.

There are also hundreds of special believers, who will hold a collective wedding today under the witness and blessing of the new God.

Under the newborn sun, the lacquered A-shaped badge inlaid on the felt hat was shining, and the faces of the newcomers were excited and nervous.

At this time, the missionary fighters came out to organize them to warm up.

"Today, we stand here together."

"You are shining in my life like the sun."

"When everything around you is like a storm."

"We've always survived this because we're in this together."

They sang and danced.

There are traditional dances of various clans, as well as new dances introduced by the church.

It is light at 10 am and dark at 3 pm, and most people only need to work 5 hours a day.

They have too much free time to participate in mass activities organized by the church and compete to learn new things introduced by the church.

The young couples followed the beat, walked in simple steps, looked at each other, turned in circles, and changed gestures.

The dances and songs were simple and repetitive, but everyone became happier as they danced. Even the old couples who came to join in the fun were inspired and started dancing.

In the square, thousands of people sang and danced.

This is the change brought about by the church and it is their nature.

With long winters and short summers, extreme days and extreme nights, the environment in the Scandinavian fjords is undoubtedly very harsh. The tribulations brought about by nature have shaped the clans in this bitterly cold place.

Mythology is the collective memory of a nation.

In the worldview of Nordic mythology, gods are not omnipotent and immortal. Gods and mortals have to find a way to coexist in the gap between the world of ice and fire.

The great god Odin is not omnipotent. In order to bring wisdom into the world, he also needs to exchange one eye for a mouthful of water of wisdom from the giant Mimir.

In the end, knowing that the dusk of the gods was coming, there was nothing he could do, so he could only move forward resolutely and accept his fate.

As with the gods, so with mortals.

If you can't change the world, you can only adapt to the world.

When suffering from mental illness, generations of people started the most primitive thinking at the beginning of life: why live?

The final answer is dry rice and happy skin.

No food to do, can't hey?Then go to sea and fuck the british bitches!

Clap your hands if you feel happy!
clap clap!

If you feel happy, you stomp your feet!
clap clap!

Do you immediately become happy and not depressed immediately?

That's how he came to be good at singing and dancing.

So keep playing and dancing!

The scene was booming.

Until the huge copper bell on the church was rung.

when--!
The loud and long bells seemed to spread throughout the bay.

As the bell rang, Feng Daofu, wearing a black wolf cloak, appeared.

He has scriptures hanging on one side and a sword hanging on the other.

Holding a scepter in his left hand, he appeared on the stage with his right hand supporting Brunhilde in white bear skin, followed by human valkyries wearing the same white bear skin.

The believers quieted down unanimously.

At this time, a group of boys and girls lined up silently in two lines.

"Halle~lujah!"

The sacred orchestra sang elegant and holy songs.

In the melody of purity, peace, and longing for a better life, the saint and his Valkyrie entered the square in front of the church.

The moment he stepped in, the top of the church suddenly lit up with a bright light.

"Light!"

"It's light!"

Some believers shouted excitedly: "Ai Ou is watching us!"

"I feel like I'm turning into light! Ula!"

"Ula!"

"Ula!"

There was a huge sound wave in the square in an instant.

Call ~
The black-haired saint raised his hand, the black wolf cloak spread out, and the armor underneath reflected golden light, making him look like a god descending from the sky.

Seeing this scene, the excited crowd quickly fell silent.

Listen to the saint say: "The blessing ceremony has officially begun!"

when--!
The bell rang again.

Ring the bell three times and praise the God of gods!
The boys in the sacred orchestra sang soothing and solemn melodies, while the girls held flower baskets.

"Flower basket?"

"How can there be flowers like God Io in such a cold weather?"

When a couple of newcomers slowly entered the square, the rose flowers that had been carefully raised in the greenhouse for a long time in advance shocked everyone's attention.

The pink and white rose petals are falling down one after another.

Under the morning sun, the sky is crimson and the clouds are flourishing, like a rain of white cherry blossoms.

Blue sky, church, gorgeous flower aisle, newlyweds walking forward.

This ceremonial scene shocked all the Nordic country folk.

One missionary smiled and said, “Where are the cheers?”

Everyone immediately came to their senses, waving red color cloths in their hands, loudly cheering for the newcomers, acting as a perfect atmosphere group.

Some acquaintances and friends directly called their names and offered their blessings.

There are middle-aged couples hugging each other and looking forward to it, and some relatives and friends of the newcomers covered their mouths and shed tears of excitement.

"It's time for you to play."

Soft voice.

It was too noisy and I couldn't hear who was talking.

Vondorf looked back.

Call ~
A northerly wind blows from the mountains.

Flower petals flutter in the wind.

Feng Daofu stretched out his hand, and there were two more pink and white petals on the fingertips. I don't know if the faster heartbeat was due to the beauty of the flowers or the beauty of the figure.

He settled down and began to perform his duties as a saint and lord.

"Before God and the Holy One, before the church, men, are you willing to be the husband of the woman beside you, to raise at least three children together, and to love and respect her until you are old?"

"willing!"

The men held their heads high, shouting oaths as if they had exhausted all their strength.

"Before God and the Holy One, before the church, women, are you willing to be the wife of the man next to you, to raise at least three children together, and to love and respect him until you grow old?"

"willing!"

The women also showed their determination like shield maidens.

"Now I declare that you will be one flesh for the rest of your life!"

Feng Daofu held up the scepter: "To the creator of all mankind, the giver of the spirit, the giver of eternal salvation, our Lord, Io, bless the token of love!"

"Now start the gift exchange ceremony!"

New people give tokens to each other.

Taking advantage of the time, Feng Daofu took out a ring.

The silver-haired girl, who was filled up by the update last night, showed a smile of satisfaction and happiness on her lips.

The other girls who were covered by rain and dew had no objection either.

Our primitive clan is like this~
After changing the token, it is the final part of drinking and exchanging glasses.

Many places in Europe have a tradition of drinking wine, and Northern Europe is no exception.

The low-alcohol malt wine is poured into a wooden wine glass tied with a red ribbon, and then blended with a little precious honey.

The newlyweds looked at each other, drank the wine in one gulp, then threw the wine glass in public, and embraced and kissed deeply, symbolizing that whoever repents will be as miserable as a wooden cup.

When all the ceremonies are over, it is the carnival time of the New Year.

Because there was an expedition the next day, believers went to the church to worship and donated money and prayed for blessings.

Donate as much or as little as you like, no one will accuse you of malicious donations, and Mr. Feng doesn't point to this to make money.

After the service, most people participated in the celebration activities organized by the church.

Or singing and dancing, or sports competitions.

A small number of those who do not participate are newcomers, and they have their own arena.

Come in a hurry, rush away.

Seeing this scene, Master Feng was very relieved.

In order to protect production capacity, the young and strong people must not be able to bring them all.

Counting the slave auxiliary soldiers, the expeditionary force is scheduled to be more than [-] people.

How to let the remaining young and strong work honestly and peacefully, don't follow up secretly, and let the rich saints lead them first, this is a problem.

Feng Daofu's method is to get married on the first day of the new year, and then add a little herbal medicine that the priestess gave to the glass of wine, and then announce that your wife is married the next day, isn't it a surprise?

It's winter, you are a northern barbarian with white skin and no melanin at all. Do you take care of your wife and children?

"So don't just think about going to the sea, just stay in the workshop and work for me!"

Fondolf smiled proudly.

At this moment, a urging voice came: "Why don't you come in? Isn't it cold to stay outside and blow the wind? Are you unable to support so many mouths you made yourself now?"

Master Feng was furious: "Today I will let you know what dragon spitting water means!"

The next day.

The expeditionary force of more than [-] people formed a decent formation.

Feng Daofu took officers and missionaries at all levels to check one by one.

After more than a month of training, everyone's appearance was very neat, whether they were the main force or the auxiliary soldiers.

Paired with uniformly distributed bleached military overcoats and standard weapons and equipment after the old-for-new trade-in, it looks a bit like a regular army.

"not bad."

Feng Daofu looked satisfied.

It was not in vain that he started a small stove every night to cultivate the seeds of cadres when he had only 10 younger brothers.

Now the military cadres who have been initially selected have filled in, barely supporting the organizational structure of this squad, platoon, and company.

The choice of this is not to directly jump to modern times, it is simply that this set is the most familiar.

The essence of the establishment is similar, but the nouns are different, so you must choose the one you are most familiar with.

There are 10 people in a squad and 1 people in a platoon. A company is a hundred-man team.

There were always three main companies and two auxiliary companies of slaves, each with an additional mission officer.

Now that we have the power and the soldiers, we have grasped the military ideas and integrated them into a system.

From a certain point of view, an expeditionary force of more than 5 people only needs to command [-] company commanders, which is more moving than being a squad leader in the past to organize people to work.

Just like now, there is no need for Feng Daofu to worry, his subordinates have already compiled all the information about the expeditionary force.

「部队：300个维京盾矛手、150个维京钢弩手、50个青年掷弹手、30个维京侦查兵、30个艾欧双手重步兵」

The expeditionary force is not a standing army, so many of them will bring other weapons. For example, many people bring their own bows and arrows. There are 50 people with silver-level archery skill medals. They can also switch to archers when needed, and they can have multiple positions in one job. .

This is also a good source of soldiers, a martial tradition, and many years of free trade experience. After the expansion of the army, they are still at least level 3 soldiers, which saves a lot of time for physical training.

An elite warrior like Brook, after being transferred to a two-handed macho, is directly a level 6 soldier.

With the blessing of enhanced equipment, the expeditionary force is small but absolutely capable.

In addition, there are a total of 30 logistics support personnel including accountants, craftsmen, and doctors.

"Equipment: 5 little boy-level ballistas, 2 fat man-level trebuchets"

——The Little Fatty is a newly finalized siege machine, which adopts a floating arm design, and the shaft on the arm can move freely along the horizontal sliding track.

Compared with the old-fashioned medieval seesaw structure that requires the cooperation of two arms, the floating arm type can be made smaller, more powerful and more precise with the same wood material.

The first machine is 3 meters high, the size of a popsicle freezer in a canteen, and uses 226 kg of counterweights, with a range of 152 meters.

After adding expertise and replacing the core parts with high-quality steel, the size remains unchanged and the range is increased to 200 meters.

Compared with those heavy trebuchets that are rumored to be able to launch stones weighing up to 300 kilograms and with a range of up to 500 meters, the Fatty-class trebuchet is a small Karami.

But compared to the old-fashioned trebuchet, the fat man-level trebuchet is a very black technology.

The most important thing is that the structure of the Little Fatty Catapult is simple, it can be disassembled first, and then assembled at the place, which is very convenient for transportation.

Regarding the power of the compact version, those with the specialty - Wall Breaking can deal +25% damage to city walls. You don't have to worry about it at all. This is the trump card prepared for this expedition.

Vondolf also prepared some extra jumps.

Originally, I wanted to try artillery, but considering that the output of Bengbeng is far from enough, and the terrain conditions are extremely poor, and the logistics and industry cannot keep up, I chose a relatively more cost-effective trebuchet.

Anyway, when it is really necessary, the trebuchet + Bengbeng can also fake a cannon.

"Vehicles: 20 large ice sails of the River Crab, 220 small ice sails"

In the mid-19th century, two ice sailing clubs were formed in North America, where wealthy enthusiasts developed a large ice boat.

It is 21 meters long, with a speed of up to 172km/h, and can carry 7 crew members.

Feng Daofu began to explore from the model, and deduced it step by step like a mathematical formula. The finalized large-scale ice sail of the Hexie class had similar performance parameters, but the speed was not so fast-this was mainly for safety reasons.

However, with the bonus of expertise, the load capacity is better than the original version, up to 5 tons, and it also acts as a ballast stone to stabilize the center of gravity and prevent the ship from capsizing.

This number is far behind that of an offshore sail of the same length, but compared to the speed, it is already amazing.

It's a pity that time was tight, and all the manpower and material resources were gathered, and the dry wood from the old longships was used directly. In the end, only 20 ships were produced. The gap can only be filled by making simpler two-seater small ice sails.

Fortunately, for a round-trip expedition within one month, the total load capacity of 1 river crabs of 20 tons, after deducting the weight of the personnel, is more than enough to ensure the logistics of the expeditionary force.

"Miscellaneous: 10 sets of gold/drum/flag/whistle/charge and other command systems, 100 rope stakes, 200 fire sickles, 700 iron catalpas."

"Food supplies: 10 tons of fish cakes, 10 tons of barley flakes, 20 iron pots, 500 water bags."

The amount of these miscellaneous military supplies, including the food hunted and collected along the way, is enough for the expeditionary force for two months.

If you save a little bit, use the specialty - the food consumption of troops with swords as shields - 10%, and there is no morale penalty when the food is single, it will not be a problem to persist for a few more weeks.

All the preparations are in order.

Feng Daofu said loudly: "Not much to say, all those who fully participate in the expedition will get a medal of 'The Sea at the End of the World', and you can get a 10A bonus by signing in with the medal!"

A new rare-sounding medal? !
As long as you sign in, you can get money? !

More than five hundred people instantly stopped feeling the cold weather, and their eyes were extremely hot.

After boosting his morale, Feng Daofu jumped onto the ice sail, put on his protective gear, and pointed his long knife to the north.

"set off!"

　I ordered 1101 for the first time, and I am not confident in doing it for my buddies. I spent most of the day studying, and I didn't code too many manuscripts. I will add a chapter of 4000 words tomorrow.

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(End of this chapter)