Our family is in decline

However, it was precisely because of these troops that Jean did not encounter any blind robbers and bandits along the way.

At the same time, it was only because of these troops that he could get such a cheap price from those farmers. Some wanted to curry favor with Michelle, but of course more were afraid of the force of those soldiers.

Some farmers have said that the price is too low and they want to leave their goods to other business groups. Some farmers have said that they have no more food and the rest is rations. Anyway, there are various reasons.

But after seeing the army, he immediately changed his tune and showed enough obedience to him.

To a certain extent, Gene also enjoyed the power brought by the army, even if it was just a fake power.

However, during discussions with those farmers, Gene realized that something was wrong with the situation, that is, the Walter Business Group had begun to harvest a large amount of grain some time ago.

Let’s not talk about the price, but what about the food?

He is the one who controls the market, so why didn’t he see this grain flowing into Ovendo?

Could it be the Totnes channel that my father has always been thinking about?

But you didn’t pass the pier? It is even more impossible to go to Totnes by land, it will be a loss.

Jean quickly gave up thinking. He was ready to find an opportunity to borrow Michelle's sword to kill Walter and annex the business group.

He didn't even need any strategy, he just needed to reveal that Walter had a daughter who was unique, and I believe Michelle would be interested.

Gene appeared to be in control and quickly solved the problem.

Since Walter had started harvesting grain according to Lance's wishes very early and transported it to Hamlet, where did the grain come from?

These grains are all deducted from their rations, which means they will be hungry until the autumn harvest arrives, but who cares about them?

farmer? Or Gene? Or Michelle?

Under the free labor transportation, the convoy took away the remaining food in the town. It was not enough to satisfy his appetite, and the convoy set off towards the next town.

Jean returned to his carriage, which seemed very small compared to Michelle.

But what was even more contrasting was Gene's attitude. The very submissive look he had just now disappeared. His face instantly became ferocious and terrifying. He clenched his hands into fists and murmured in his mouth.

"Sooner or later I will become that kind of big shot..."

Sure enough, it is impossible for a normal person to withstand Michelle's outrageous behavior, but Jean is also a character, and he can endure it like this. The more this kind of person is, the more terrifying he is. No one knows what is hidden behind that smiling face.

…………

After the young man from the Wolf Fang tribe made a big fuss, he hurried back to the tribe. To be honest, he was also very panicked. He was more or less forced to act like that just now.

Apart from the priest, he is probably the only one who understands the current situation of the entire tribe. If he is not careful, it will lead to collapse, so he has to do it if he can, and he must do if he doesn't.

As soon as he came back, he went to the holy land behind the tribe, found the hunched priest, and told him what had happened.

"You must know that those large tribes must plunder if they want to maintain themselves. They used to rely on mercenary subsidies, but now Bastia has cut off contact. Unless they want to decline, they must start plundering.

I'm so excited, they should be entering soon. "

The priest shook his head after hearing what the young man said, "I think they still dare not move."

"Why?" Although the young man was a little curious about the priest's words, he did not resist, which showed that he was not an extremely self-centered person like Wolf Warrior.

"You underestimate the imperial people. If Count Bastia was really that simple, he wouldn't have been able to suppress the mountain tribes for so many years.

You also underestimate the wisdom of those elders. If they are so easily fooled, they will not be able to maintain a large tribe.

What's more important is that those large tribes will pay more attention to autumn hunting, because if the raid fails, there will be fewer warriors and less hunting profits, which will make it difficult to survive the winter.

Therefore, their recent actions will focus more on hunting. Only when they have accumulated enough supplies for the winter will they invest in more adventurous plunder.

Also, just like our autumn hunting, the empire also has an autumn harvest. When the autumn harvest is completed, they will be the fattest. Otherwise, we will not be able to take away the grains growing in the fields. Should we ask soldiers to harvest them? "

What the old priest said was very simple, that is, large tribes need more supplies for the winter. If they want to survive the winter safely, they cannot give up the relatively stable autumn hunting and choose the extremely risky plundering empire.

In the end, they still have to risk their lives. Even if they can't wait to plunder, they still have to complete the preparations.

"So before the autumn hunting and autumn harvest are completed, both sides will continue to test each other until one of them is unable to hold on and is exposed. At this time, the real war will break out, and in this process we will still have to bear the pressure from those tribes."

With the priest's explanation, the boy seemed to understand something. The war was approaching, but there was still some distance left.

"That's right." The old priest nodded slowly, as long as he could listen, it would be better to learn more.

"So we have to find a way to promote the war?" The young man not only studied, but even directly said what the Langya tribe needs to do now.

"So what should we do?"

The priest's question made the young man think deeply, but in the end he shook his head and chose to obey.

"The Imperials are cunning. If this is a trap, then we will eat the bait.

If this is not a trap, but Bastia is really in decline, then we should plunder the easiest part of the supplies before they can react.

If you want those tribes to change their mentality, you must do things that those people dare not do, and show that plundering is easier and more rewarding than hunting. "

What the priest meant was very simple, that is, the Langya tribe launched a plunder. He was worried that the young man would not understand and then added the most important sentence.

"The tribe needs these. We need a grand sacrificial ceremony to appease the wolf god, which requires a lot of sacrifices."

There is nothing more important in the Langya tribe now than saving the Wolf God, because without the Wolf God, the entire tribe will not have the ability to survive. There is still hope to save the Wolf God even if it is just hanging on.

"I understand." The young man's expression was a little complicated, but he had finally reached this point.

But he still has enthusiasm, and the people of the Langya tribe have not lost their courage!

"In the discussions among those people, the leader's situation was indeed mentioned many times..."

The boy actually went there a long time ago, but no one cared about a kid like him.

And he also heard a lot of related rumors, but they themselves didn't know the situation about Wolf Warriors.

"It's all my fault. If Wolf Warrior is still there..." The priest couldn't help but sigh after hearing this.

Although the priest has given up hope in fighting the wolf, the genius who only appears once every few hundred years, the divine choice who best suits the power of the wolf god, and the most powerful champion in the mountains still makes him yearn for him to reappear. At this time, stand up and lead everyone.

In fact, it is also a kind of emotional sustenance. Now the pressure is almost crushing him. It is normal to imagine that Wolf Warrior can come back to help him share some of the pressure, even if he knows that the hope is slim.

It can be said that if he knew that Bastia would undergo such changes, he would not allow Wolf Warrior to go there even if the opportunity to be promoted to legend was presented to him.

Because even if Wolf Warrior is promoted to legend, he will gain an advantage in the competition within the mountains, but the current trend is the struggle between the mountains and the empire. If they can take the opportunity to complete their accumulation, the tribe may also rise.

The difference between the two is whether to invest resources to strengthen the Wolf Warriors personally, or to invest resources to strengthen the tribe, and then use the resources of the tribe to feed the Wolf Warriors back.

If given a choice, the priest would definitely choose the latter one and join in this "Autumn Hunt" to plunder the empire and strengthen the tribe.

At that time, the powerful tribes will be able to push Wolf Warrior to legend more simply and stably, instead of this kind of gambling, which will eventually lead to the current evil consequences.

But in fact, this is a bit too much to think about, because Bastia's current situation is an extension of a series of consequences caused by the Wolf Warriors at that time.

If the Wolf Warriors had not gone out, the Earl would not have found an excuse to invade Hamlet, and the entire Knights would not have been captured and developed to this day.

Similarly, if the wolf warriors don't go out, they won't disappear, the wolf god won't be polluted, and the tribe won't become like this.

It's all retribution...

It's night, on the territory near Bastia and the mountains.

A white wolf took advantage of the night and wandered around, its glowing beast eyes observing the nameless village from a distance, then started running again.

Soon a barbarian team came up in the dark, with a group of white wolves surrounding it. The leader turned out to be the young man chosen by the priest. You know he was the next priest, so how could he come out to show his face?

In fact, it is very simple. All the barbarians are warriors. The wizards and priests do not mean that they have no fighting ability. On the contrary, they can use the power of the wolf god to perform secret arts that are stronger than ordinary warriors.

The old priest also had good melee abilities when he was young. He asked the young man to lead the team obviously because he wanted to train him as soon as possible, improve his record, and show his face in front of everyone to accumulate reputation.

Without any nonsense, the young man got the answer from the white wolf. There was really no defense around the village.

No one knows reconnaissance better than the Langya tribe. They can clearly detect the situation within a two-kilometer radius with their noses. If there is a favorable wind, they can smell smells ten kilometers away.

In front of these white wolves, there is no such thing as overt or covert sentry, or any ambush.

Ordinary people who have lost their asylum are so fragile. They have no ability to resist in front of these barbarian warriors and white wolves, and they are caught defenseless in their sleep.

This is not the wanton killing of Wolf Warriors, this is for plunder. When those barbarian warriors rush into the town, they first control those people, then loot everything, and finally bring everything back to the mountains.

People are also resources. They are sacrifices to the Wolf God. These warriors did not create massacres.

By the next day, the news that the Langya tribe had attacked three gathering places and brought back a large number of slaves and supplies spread among the mountains.

You can't tell a lie like this, because hundreds of people were driven into the mountains, and they couldn't hide it from the big tribes.

The Langya Tribe truly showed them with their actions what the courage of the Sons of the Mountains is, and at the same time, those gains inspired the hearts of those people who had been silent for many years.

At this time, in the Langya tribe.

"I walked an extra mile outside specifically to show them the power and harvest of our tribe."

The young hero was talking about him, who was ordered to do something in a critical situation, and then he completed the priest's instructions through almost perfect actions in one night.

No matter how high the priest's vision is at this moment, it is undeniable that he is born to be a leader, and he has grown up quickly after letting him show up.

And there is no wild madness like War Wolf at all. Although this is the reason why War Wolf fits the power of Wolf God, it almost drags the tribe into trouble.

Anyway, leaving the tribe to him would give him some peace of mind, as he would have a successor.

The emergence of a genius like War Wolf swept away the haze of the failed war. Although War Wolf was missing now, at the time of the tribe's crisis, another genius appeared who was not weaker than him in talent and even behaved more calmly.

It is this continuous emergence of geniuses that shows that the Langya Tribe should never fall here.

"Okay!" The priest's mental state seemed to be much better. He stood up with a cane, looked at the leaders of the current tribe and ordered, "Prepare the ceremony to seal off the entire tribe until the ceremony is completed."

"yes!"

Those people also showed enthusiastic expressions. Such a grand ceremony had not been seen for many years.

Among them, only the young man seemed a little uneasy, but he was just silent.

…………

A newly built camp in Bastia is being invaded by barbarian troops.

After several sentries were killed in the early morning, the barbarians broke into the camp and were discovered, and the battle quickly began.

However, those who rushed out of the camp were not the elite veterans who were accustomed to fighting barbarians. Instead, they were soldiers with poor equipment, no armor, and only a crude spear.

What's even more frightening is that these people have obviously never participated in the battle. Compared with the panic caused by the barbarian invasion, what is more troublesome is their own chaos.

Even if the veterans supervising the battle shouted loudly, it was still difficult to get them out of fear.

On the contrary, those barbarian warriors were as calm as hunting and entangled with the panic "beasts". Waving weapons or shooting arrows could easily take away the lives of those serf soldiers.

Someone was being killed at any time, and the wails and screams overlapped like the crowing of countless chickens. If it weren't for the elite veterans supervising the battle, these people would have collapsed long ago.

But the strange thing is that compared to the chaos outside the camp, the core of the camp is very quiet.

Under the dim light were teams that had already assembled. They were wearing armor and holding weapons in their hands. The team's position could be mounted and attacked with just a command.

And these are obviously the troops Bruce used to expel the refugees at that time, the elite veterans, the powerful knights, the real power of Bastia.

At this time, Bruce appeared on the tower of the camp, looking coldly at the serf soldiers summoned in front of him to fight with the barbarians with the spears in their hands.