forest kingdom

Chapter 441 Slave Outsider

The Kingdom of the Stars is in very good financial health.

The wealth plundered from outside belongs to the ruler, who then distributes it to the soldiers below.

This is a system that everyone has recognized and abided by since ancient times.

In the past, the barbarians always robbed the poor families along the coast, so even if they were victorious, they could not get back a little money. Later, the barbarian king Luofen III led everyone to fight against the southern nobles, and they quickly became rich.

In the history of the barbarians, Lofen II and III both played an extremely important and positive role, but now only Lawrence knows the historical role of these two dead men.

In the early days, it would be unrealistic to rely solely on land taxes to absorb military expenditures from one's own people.

The only way for the weak to plunder the outside world is in line with the normal course of history, so they have been beating up the landowners and nobles who were unkind for their wealth, and turned the wealth accumulated by these people into their own wealth.

After a few fights, I stopped fighting, mainly because I didn’t want to put myself in a dilemma of making enemies everywhere. Of course, the most important thing is that Lawrence’s own desire for expansion is not strong. Although he has the idea of ​​​​going out, he has always felt that it is in the future. Don't be so anxious about things.

Lawrence has been able to maintain military expenditures now and in the next few years by relying on the output of its own land and commercial trade.

There are many deep-rooted thinking in this era, which makes it impossible for some rules of later generations to be embedded.

For example, endure hardship and stand hard work. Who dares to preach the spirit of hardship and hard work in the army in this era? Unless the military pay is sufficient, otherwise they will be forced to endure hardship and stand hard work if they owe money. These people really dare to eat up those who say such things.

Civilized times speak of civilization, but barbaric times speak of violence.

When the Valkyrie pirates and the Wave Kingdom pirates dared to attack the workers and craftsmen sent by Lawrence, Lawrence killed everyone in their team!

There are also rules on the ship. Every death must be reported in detail. The reason cannot be explained by simply drinking and falling into the sea.

Lawrence would personally intervene in the matter of the dead on the ship to prevent these murderous barbarians and pirates from turning their swords inward and showing off their power on their own people.

There is no problem with the wildness of the Kingdom of Stars and the strength of its troops. The biggest problem is that it is difficult to discipline. It is like an untrained sled dog. It can run and walk whenever it wants, changing the rope that should be pulled in one place. Into a fan shape, or circle.

At this time, the Kingdom of Gran became the catalyst to move forward.

Attacking the Kingdom of Gran has become a problem that everyone in Ener Port is thinking hard about.

The ugly-faced bald giant Gris, whose face was burned, was as calm as a priest.

Gris knew that his brain was not strong enough, so at this time, he listened to other people's opinions. He listened to whose opinions were better and turned them into his own.

Captain Suliman of the Cable Cable said: "The Prophet has sent all the most powerful warriors from the Kingdom of Stars. Now we have the most powerful Revenge and Oak. It's time to launch an attack!"

Sulieman's words were not recognized by the others. Such monotonous words were not convincing, just like what ordinary soldiers would say.

Even a big barbarian like Gris found it boring.

Seeing that others were ignoring him, Suliman sat down angrily, drank a glass of sparkling ale, and said to the thin middle-aged man sitting at the same table: "Bobo, why don't you speak?"

In fact, Bobo felt a little strange, because this time the people who came to Ener Port were a group of the most aggressive people.

This is not a problem originally. The problem is that in the past, prophets would arrange people to control these people and be responsible for commanding them and formulating strategic directions.

For example, in the early days, Seravan and Beoff both had this kind of role of supervising the army. Later, during the decisive sea battle with Pig Trotter City, Alecmu commanded the vanguard fleet, and during the decisive battle on land, Lawrence himself took command.

When the Kingdom of Durila was rescued, saints and nuns from the church were assigned to take charge.

This time during the war with the Kingdom of Gran, this very crucial and important role was missing.

It's like...if it were in the Kingdom of Waves and other places, Bobo would think that this was deliberately letting everyone die, and then let the victorious invading army pursue the victory and attack Feiyu Port and Dumu Port.

But this is the army of the Kingdom of Stars, and Bobo is very aware of the strength and fighting spirit of his side, which is definitely tough.

The prophet provided a lot of assistance, food and equipment, and money in advance to boost morale.

After thinking about it, I think it may be that the prophet thinks that these people are enough. Moreover, there are many warriors from the Kingdom of Stars gathered here in Ener Port. They are almost the strongest warriors, with the best ships and cannons!

Bobo thought thoughtfully and said: "We will definitely make greater contributions to the Kingdom of Gran than Pig's Trotter City, and the prophet will definitely lower the title to us, so I think this matter related to the rare starlight moment in our lives, wait a moment It doesn’t matter if it takes a while.”

The others looked at Bobo.

There is no shortage of strong generals in the Kingdom of Stars. There may seem to be only a few people like Gris, but in fact there are a large number of people below who can take their place.

There is no shortage of strong generals or dead soldiers, but there is a shortage of people with brains.

Just like there are many people who can work in the fields and lumber mills, there is always a shortage of people who can write and count and plan the daily progress.

Barbarians actually pay great attention to strategy and are very willing to spend time thinking about strategies when fighting.

Anyone who doesn't pay attention will die.

How to fight is easier and more likely to succeed. These barbarians all have this awareness. They are barbarians, not beasts.

Simple shopping is not advisable. First of all, most of the time, others will not fight you directly.

Fleiss asked, "What are your plans?"

Bobo quickly said: "No." Fleiss looked at the man unhappily, "You are from the Kingdom of Waves, and you have been fighting with the Gran people for so long, and it is of no use at all!"

Bobo explained awkwardly: "I was just a small person on the ship in the Kingdom of Waves before. I was not a noble. I didn't know anything about the nobles or the country."

At this time, a knight with black curly hair next to him said: "I know the leader of the southern Feleg pirates. They may be able to assist us in attacking the Kingdom of Glen."

Fleiss looked at this man, who was a knight from the Kingdom of Durila.

This time, in addition to the Hokuriku Kingdom and the Haisori Kingdom, King Durila also sent people to assist.

Suleiman said directly: "Those people are very greedy and cruel. If the prophet knew that we were cooperating with them, I'm afraid he would be angry."

Fleiss and others didn't know what was going on here, so Crete asked: "Do these have a bad reputation?"

Suliman nodded seriously, "Pirates don't have a good reputation, but the Ferrege pirates are even more notorious. They like to nail the bodies of children and women to houses and walls, and hang them from the bows of ships to attract fish, beasts, and birds. The stench of corpse poison spreads in the river."

Bobo said: "In the past, our pirates were stronger than them, so they didn't come here to operate. Even if they came, they would do it secretly. After the Kingdom of Waves was destroyed, the Kingdom of Glen and several nearby countries became their of fishing grounds.”

Fleiss was a little confused, "Are they strong or weak?"

Suleiman replied: "They can't outrun us, but they can outrun the ships of the Kingdom of Gran. The Kingdom of Gran can't catch them."

"These people are very cunning. Some are responsible for guarding, some are responsible for finding targets, and some are responsible for fighting, ambushing, and transporting."

Fleiss became interested, "How do you usually fight?"

Suleiman replied: "Usually there are one or several merchant ships responsible for the ambush. They pretend to be doing business and sail in normal sea areas."

"Some of the ships responsible for the battle will get information from the docks and merchants in advance and know what kind of merchant ships are coming from where. These ships will chase the merchant ships from behind or in the front, forcing the merchant ships into an ambush circle."

"Just when the merchant ships thought they had rescue and allies, the ambush of merchant ships completed the siege."

"Then we need to quickly get rid of the people and ships and transport the goods back to the base camp."

“When the Kingdom of Waves was here, they had to pay taxes if they wanted to eat here, otherwise they would be easily encountered by ships from the Kingdom of Waves, so they rarely came here at that time and plundered in the hotter southern waters. "

Akda had an idea, "We can also pretend to be a merchant ship from the Kingdom of Gran and use small boats to attract the fleet from the Kingdom of Gran!"

"Otherwise, they will not dare to come out after being defeated by us once. When they see our Revenge, they will escape early and our big ship will not be able to keep up with their small ship."

"Just choose a good time when the wind is smooth! Our boat will run faster than theirs!"

Fleiss asked: "How can we disguise ourselves as a merchant ship from the Kingdom of Gran? They can't see what's on our ship."

The advantage of having more people was revealed at this moment. Bobo said: "We have captured many people from the Kingdom of Gran. They may be able to help."

The Kingdom of Gran has a population of only 900,000, and has less than 20,000 soldiers, most of whom are infantry. There are only more than 5,000 sailors who can fight on ships.

A while ago, more than 2,000 people were killed, injured and captured, so now the Kingdom of Gran has no strength to go to sea to fight.

No matter how awesome the people of the church are, they cannot fly to the North Sea to die. In order to replenish their ships, the Kingdom of Gran ordered soldiers to requisition civilian merchant ships and transport ships.

Fleiss asked curiously: "Why would they help us?"

"If you don't help, kill them." Bobo said harsh words.

Fleiss, Crete and others were stunned for a moment.

It's not that they were frightened, but after following Lawrence for many years, both of them regarded the prisoners as property and would not kill them if they could.

The experiences of the past few years have caused both of them to not regard prisoners of war as objects and consumables for the first time, but as slaves.

The attitude of Bobo and others is very much in line with the thinking of pirates. Anyone who disobeys will be killed!

The previous ice pirates and barbarians were actually more ruthless than pirates like Bobo, until they were led by Lawrence and lived a good life for a few years. Coupled with the constraints of some rules, their way of thinking also had some influence.

Crete, Fleiss and others exchanged opinions with their eyes.

"The Prophet said to treat slaves well, especially the slaves who worked for the Prophet. Those slaves are now the property of the Prophet," Fleiss said.

Crete explained: "Now they are not slaves, let alone female slaves, and the prophet said when he declared war, whether it is a king, princess or merchant soldier, there are only two ways from the time the war is declared against us."

"Either become a slave or a dead man!"

Fleiss quickly broke free from the shackles of his thoughts and said harshly: "That's right! Prisoners who are unwilling to help us are not even worth becoming slaves!"

After breaking free from the shackles of their minds, this group of people soon stopped treating the Gran soldiers as slaves.

(End of this chapter)