Don't mess with that dragon

Chapter 733 Breaking the blockade (third update)

The grassroots of the country is being evacuated rapidly, like blunt knife bleeding, which is gradually weakening the surrounding countries.

What's more, many soldiers stationed at the border have abnormal thoughts and low morale.

because,

The heavy troops on the border defense line, in addition to the Knight Legion and the Magician Legion, there are no less than [-] standing troops as the main force, and those numbers are several times larger than the Knight Legion, Magic Legion and Standing Army. The servant army is formed.

Needless to say, the Knight Legion and the Magic Legion, being able to become a warrior or a magician, is inherently superior to the peasant class by many levels, and it is impossible to become a farmer to farm.
Therefore, the [-]% tax of the Blue Dragon Kingdom is not attractive at all.

As for the main force of the standing army, because their salaries are distributed by the state, as professional soldiers, unless they retire and go home, they are basically full-time soldiers. As a full-time soldier, the harvest of land is not too urgent.

however,
This is not the case for the servant army whose number is several times that of the main force.

The vast majority of the servants are serfs or freedmen who were forcibly conscripted from various aristocratic territories in the country. They were forcibly conscripted to the battlefield, leaving behind their fields and farm work, and they had to bring their own weapons and dry food. The treatment was extremely poor. , the entire servant army is almost full of complaints, even in the barracks, they are still extremely worried about their families.

For these small armies composed of peasants and serfs, the news from the country in the south is obviously extremely attractive.

Even in the military camp, occasionally a small number of serfs or farmers escaped from the army, fled to the south, and entered the Blue Dragon Kingdom to seek a living.

This obviously made the army and the upper-class nobles of the country particularly fearful.

Although they don't know what it means to cut flesh with a blunt knife and what is peaceful evolution, how can they be fools to climb to the upper level.

If this situation continues, the entire country may collapse before the Blue Dragon Kingdom attacks.

then,

The upper echelons of the surrounding countries have ordered the border troops to organize a defense line to intercept those refugees going south, and at the same time clean up military discipline to prevent the servant soldiers from escaping.

In the beginning,
With the issuance of the order, the army on the border began to organize a blockade to block the refugees in the territory. At the same time, the surrounding nobles led knight teams to attack one after another, capturing a large number of refugees gathered in the south and selling them into slaves. Some aristocratic leaders of the military participated in this evil slave trade line, using the army to start wantonly capturing.

All of a sudden, the southern region was extremely chaotic.

Panic.

The tide of refugees is likely to end here.

however,
Although the Blue Dragon Kingdom is reforming and digesting, how can it watch a large amount of labor being robbed and hindered by those old nobles?
The Dragon Nest army moved accordingly.

Split out a small team, send out to attack the blockade on the border, open up the road to the south, guide all the huge refugees into the territory of the Blue Dragon Kingdom, and organize assistance, incorporate the refugees, and organize production.

The movement of the Dragon Nest army almost frightened the neighboring countries.

I thought that the powerful blue dragon kingdom in the south would finally launch another war of expansion.

immediately,

The army on the border quickly organized back to defend, guarding the important city like an iron bucket, waiting for the arrival of the Dragon Nest army in fear.

Although the Blue Dragon Kingdom shattered the War of the Three Kingdoms within half a month before, and told the surrounding countries that the war method of the Dragon Nest Army is a new type of war,
It is not very effective for them to stick to the heavy cities like them, and then connect the heavy cities with each other to help each other, and gradually become the line of defense.

but,
For these rigid medieval feudal states, it is not so easy to change.

What's more, in the face of the new style of warfare of the Blue Dragon Kingdom, they actually have no good way. They have to embrace the previous set of defense methods, abandon the frontiers, and rely on important cities for organizational defense.

It is also true,
When the Dragon Nest army only dispatched a few teams to attack the border blockade, the armies of various countries gathered one after another and returned to defend the city.

The border lines blocked by the military have been broken without attacking.

The aristocratic slave hunters who were very excited to plunder refugees and make them slaves were also frightened and fled overnight because of the news that the Dragon Nest army was about to attack.

Since then,

After the border blockade was closed and the slave hunting team led by the nobles fled away, the road going south was clear.

The vast group of refugees crossed the border without hindrance and reached the territory of the Blue Dragon Kingdom.

At this time,
Officials of the Blue Dragon Kingdom, who have already received the news through the spy network, have already prepared for the disaster relief work, food, supplies, etc. are all ready.

Afterwards, all these refugees were organized and incorporated into the system, and then sent to the surrounding vast land to cultivate and farm.

From here to there,

The Dragon Nest army only dispatched a few teams to attack the blockade,
Afterwards, the armies of the surrounding countries all nested in the heavy city, watching the large number of refugees going south, not daring to go beyond the city wall.

As for the Dragon Nest army, they dispatched some teams to bombard a few shells under the heavily armed city, and after a warning, there was no other action.

But even though it was just a warning,
But whether it is the noble troops in the important border cities or the upper ruling class of the country, they are always alarmed three times a day, for fear that the Dragon Nest army will attack.

Fortunately, the worst did not materialize.

After the warning, the army of the Blue Dragon Kingdom did not take any further actions, which reassured the surrounding countries a little.

But even so,

The army nearby did not dare to pull up the blockade again to block the refugees in the country.

Once an all-out war is accidentally triggered, no one can bear the responsibility.

He could only watch helplessly as the army of refugees crossed the wilderness and entered the territory of the Blue Dragon Kingdom.

The upper echelons of the country have nothing to do about it.

The king can only order the nobles and lords in the country to treat the common people under his command well under the advice of the insightful people in the country, so as to restrain them and not be too oppressive, so that they can't bear to escape and so on.

Efforts are made,
But what effect,
Only God knows.

But until now, neither the upper echelon of the country nor the noble lords realized the importance of public opinion.

In other words, they didn't notice this at all, and let those down-and-out bards who were bought off preach the good life of the Blue Dragon Kingdom
(End of this chapter)