Our family is in decline

This is a group of cultists wandering in the wilderness, and at this moment they want to flee this place in a hurry like frightened sparrows.

But the falcon that has been hovering above their heads, and the eagle eyes that secretly appear in the distance, all locked them tightly.

Soon they realized that they would never fly out of this birdcage called Hamlet, because in front of their road, a team seemed to have been waiting for a long time.

Reynard led a team of people to wait for a long time, and they looked like they were not the guards, but from the equipment, they were also quite scattered, only about 30 people, but the armor rate was very high.

This is not good news for those cultists.

They have actually circled around, so who is chasing them?

The answer was soon revealed. In a simple confrontation, the sound of horse hooves hitting the ground came from behind.

And from the way they arrived, it seemed that they were indeed the guards.

After days of running around and fighting, even the champions looked a little embarrassed, but it was only on the surface. Their bodies were still full of strength, and their hearts were still very firm.

Almost as soon as the people behind caught up, Reynard drew out his long sword and pointed it at the cultists and gave an order.

"Charge, crush them!"

Those people followed Reynard and charged at the cultists. The cultists who were forced into a desperate situation struggled desperately. Their first reaction was to run away, but the sharp blades had already arrived.

These people had long swords and sabers in their hands. When they started fighting, they had no room to hold back like the guards, but they were really fighting for their lives.

The two sides instantly tore the cultists' already scattered formation apart when they collided. The guards had no intention of participating in this battle, and they just cleaned up some people who wanted to escape on the periphery.

This time, there was no intention of holding back at all, and the real killing was shown in a light tone.

Because the play that should be played had already been played, and there was no room in the sanatorium, it meant that these cultists had no final role, and dying here was their best end.

The battle was one-sided from the beginning to the end, and the cultists' desperate counterattack only left marks on the armor of those people.

This is why armor is so important in the cold weapon era when firearms have not yet matured.

After the battle, those people also dismounted and followed the guards to clean up the chaotic scene, finish off the knives, and then pile up the corpses and knock down the props to eliminate the corpses.

The flesh and blood quickly rotted and turned into pus and seeped into the earth. It is estimated that the flowers in this place will grow particularly vigorously next year.

Of course, it also completely announced the end of these cultists in the real world.

At this time, some people took off their helmets, revealing that they were basically young people, and there were even girls among them.

Taking off the helmet, you can see that Joan of Arc has a firm expression, and her long hair is tied tightly to show a capable and heroic spirit. No one will question why she is here, because she has explained it with her achievements along the way.

Girls develop earlier than boys, not to mention that there is plenty of food in Hamlet. Her mother is the principal, but no one dares to deduct her food.

Moreover, she trained hard, and laid a foundation with Boudica. Later, she learned cavalry combat from Reynard, participated in various trainings, and even received the blessing of the lord. It is not surprising that she can support a full set of knight armor weighing 30 to 40 kilograms at the age of 13.

Judging from the blood stains on the armor and the blood spots dripping from the long sword, she has killed a lot of cultists just now. She has seen blood and is brave in combat. She is not a flower stand.

She appeared here because Lance did not miss this opportunity, but selected a group of good performances from the school youth team and let them go up to see blood. Margaret joined to manage these children.

The youth team was because the army was not enough at the beginning, and Lance could only think of these children. Their physical education class is militia training. They master some basics in addition to studying, and these children can also be pulled out to maintain order and defend the school under special circumstances.

But later, a large number of refugees poured in, and the source of soldiers was no longer so tight, so Lance gradually slowed down their training. After all, it is still important to spend time on learning.

Some people quit for various reasons during this process, but there are still a group of people who persisted and are about the same age.

The school can no longer teach them too much, and Lance doesn't mind giving them a chance to participate in the final mission related to the cultists, or even the next war. This is their graduation exam.

At the beginning, they were used as auxiliary soldiers, and slowly began to participate in the battle, and their performance just now showed that they did not live up to the trust of the lord.

Although he just led them to charge a round, Reynard didn't care too much. At this time, he was looking at the falcon that stopped on the tree branch in front and no longer hovered, and seemed to understand something.

"Mission completed, go back."

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Although Lance didn't care about the bureaucrats who fell behind, the missing positions still had to be filled, and after the territory was recovered, the various local forces must be cleared at that time.

The vacancies here, as well as the need to sort out local affairs, all require people.

Therefore, the training of management personnel is very important, and the influence of religious beliefs must be eliminated, because these villages, towns and cities must have a deep religious power.

If you can't control it, what's the point?

Lance doesn't want to be picked...

Call those who were trained before. They were born from workers and farmers and had some understanding of the situation at the bottom. All they needed was a change of thinking.

For this reason, Lance directly used the government reports during this period as teaching materials and began to make up lessons for those people.

Whether they have talent in this area, whether they are loyal or opportunists, Lance can basically tell in one class.

Those who are left at the end are the ones who can really change the decline of Hamlet.

"Get ready, we will start extracurricular practice next."

Those students also understood that the time had finally come. Although everyone was forced to do it, they all had the determination to fight for Hamlet to be great again.

"Class dismissed!"

Lance disbanded this temporary class and gave them a day off. Everyone took this opportunity to go home because they might not be able to go back for a while in the future.

The three-day holiday of the festival has ended. The seemingly turbulent situation before did not affect the stability of Hamlet at all. Some people left and some came one after another.

Reynard and his men had returned yesterday. They spent two days running around and captured more than 700 cultists who filled the sanatorium, forcing Lance to order the killing of the remaining ones.

The guards used dimensionality reduction to deal with those cultists. It is conceivable that if they deal with ordinary people, it will undoubtedly be a massacre.

But Lance decided to let the guards guard the house, because the problem of the ruins has not been solved yet, and it is very risky to withdraw all the troops.

Moreover, the guards were originally established to deal with the existence of extraordinary powers.

Let mortals fight...

Lance finished the course, but in fact he still has a lot of things to deal with after leaving school.

Baldwin is in charge of government affairs. He only needs to start and clarify the direction so that they can follow the outlined framework, which reduces a lot of his burden.

But the army can't rely on him. He has to go to the army to discuss the next war with several commanders. Not only the battle plan, but also various resource allocations need his approval.

After going around in circles, Lance found that he was not much more relaxed than before.

Damn old... the ancestor is gone...

Damn emperor, damn nobles!

If it weren't for these bastards annexing Hamlet's territory, I should have enjoyed my life long ago.

Don't let yourself be caught, otherwise you will have a hard time.

Lance eats wherever he goes. Fortunately, there is no food deduction in the barracks. There are vegetables and meat, and you can eat enough, which is unimaginable for most people in this world.

Given this condition, it is no wonder that many starving people want to ask for food from the lord. It's a pity that the selection of soldiers has never been relaxed, and it has even become more and more strict.

Lance went back after being busy until dark. The time for the troops to go out has been determined, and the logistics supplies have been prepared. Next, he can relax.

When he got home, he saw Greendale waiting for him. Recently, she has been busy treating those affected by the blood moon and preparing healing potions, so she looks exhausted.

"Is the war going to start again?" Greendale's expression revealed her worry helplessly, "Everyone has not fully recovered from the influence of the blood moon."

The last time, Greendale was dissatisfied with Lance's return for only one day, and immediately turned back to the dungeon, completely ignoring the chaos in Hamlet caused by the arrival of the Darkness.

When the blood moon came, she was really scared. The worsening situation meant that things were not going well there. She was afraid that something had happened to Lance, but she could neither contact him nor leave.

Fortunately, Lance proved that his plan was fine and ended the Darkness and the blood moon in the shortest possible time.

But this mess is not over yet, and various things have happened again. The small-scale battle of the guards is acceptable. You must know that if the whole army attacks, it will not be 3,000 soldiers mobilized, and at least 5,000 or 6,000 people with logistics.

What is the price? This is a huge burden for Hamlet, who is already devastated.

Lance also understood her concerns, and did not have negative emotions because of being questioned, but explained calmly.

"I know what you're thinking, but we have to fight this battle, and it's urgent. If we can't finish it before the snow, it will be hard for Hamlet to survive this winter."

Glendale couldn't help but frown when she heard this, and fell into thought, but it was a little difficult to understand this.

"Is there an enemy more powerful than the evil god believed in by the Ascension Sect?"

"The enemy is not outside, but inside."

Lance didn't mean to keep her in suspense, but explained it to her directly.

"At that time, in order to fight against the Ascension Sect, we had to use generous treatment to continuously expand the army. Now the cult has been destroyed, but the three thousand troops are still there.

To be honest, this treatment and this number are not what Hamlet can afford under normal circumstances.

In the past, it was a forced choice under external pressure. A large amount of funds were overdrawn to import resources from the outside world, and they had to rely on squeezing ordinary people to support them to maintain this situation.

But this is an unhealthy state after all. When the external pressure is reduced, we have to find a way to solve this problem, otherwise it will drag down the development of Hamlet."

"You said the problem is in the army, so we should disarm, why start a war?" Greendale didn't understand Lance's seemingly counterintuitive operation.

Lance couldn't help laughing when he heard this, which made the originally serious atmosphere strange and even more confusing for Greendale.

"What are you laughing at?"

"When I said the army had problems, it didn't mean that there was only this problem. Have you noticed that Hamlet has a larger group now?"

"Those adventurers?"

"No, they are refugees." Lance shook his head slowly and gave the answer, and then asked back, "How do we deal with those refugees now?"

"There are a lot of jobs in the city, and you can also take the route from the city to the ruins. There are also many construction sites in the town. Later, when the extreme darkness and blood moon came, they were also sent to the development zone in the wilderness for resettlement."

Greendale still knew about these things and could name a few at random.

"You think the reason why Hamlet and the surrounding areas can accommodate so many refugees nowadays is that we can provide so many jobs.

So you found out that they don't have many means of making a living, and Hamlet doesn't have so many factories to provide jobs. In essence, most of them are supported by us.

But have you ever thought about what will happen if Hamlet can't provide so many jobs?"

"You mean the snow season?" Lance's question made Greendale subconsciously say a key word.

The heavy snow blocking the mountains is an indelible memory of the mountains. Even if enough food is stored, many people will die at this time for various reasons, not to mention some autumn hunts that did not catch enough prey.

"That's right. With the arrival of the snow season, the so-called wilderness development and most construction sites have to stop. How should we deal with them?

Let alone transportation, now that so many adventurers have left the ruins town, there is no need for so many supplies, and even the buildings don't need so many.

We must recapture the territory before the heavy snow comes, and then we can settle them, otherwise this trouble will explode in our hands."

"But we can't just stuff people into those places, there are no fields, no supplies, and they have no ability to survive. Even if they are cultivated, it will be too late. How can they survive this winter?"

Grindel's worries are normal. Why do these people become refugees and wander here?

It's because they can't survive. Putting them in those places now, isn't it killing them?

"Who said there is no? Not only are there, but there are a lot..." Lance suddenly showed a weird smile, "We want to fight the local tyrants and divide the land."