"Lord Leader, I am Neil Falcon. I am willing to be loyal to you until death. I hope I can become the sword and spear in your hands."
At noon the day after the camp was merged, Lant received an interesting offer of allegiance from a young demon-wisher from the Badger Tribe, Neil Falcon.
Neil's mother is a member of the Frostwolf family of the Dragon Kingdom, and his father was once one of the best cavalry in the Badger Tribe. However, Neil's father was killed in a tribal conflict two years ago, when Neil was just 12 years old. The blood of the demon.
Neil's current horse riding skills are among the best among the younger generation of barbarian demon-wielders. Not only that, Neil, who grew up with his mother as a boy, also knows the internal situation of the barbarians and the interests among the human nobles.
Now Lant really needs someone who can cooperate with him to manage the current 35 barbarian demon possessors and their more than 200 demon-free family members in the right camp. Neil is a very suitable candidate.
However, Neil is not very prominent in the entire right camp, and Lant needs to do something to give Neil a boost of prestige.
"Come on, Neil, I accept your allegiance." Lant helped Neil up. "I want to know how many men you can muster in the right camp now?"
"Ah" Neil was stunned
"Well, what I mean is, if I give you a mission to go out on patrol now, how many people can you recruit to go with you?"
"Hmm..." Neil thought for a moment, "Big rocks, yellow ears, blue frogs... about 6 people are following me, sir."
"That's your patrol, right?"
"Yes, my lord"
"According to this, you will take your people to patrol and investigate other surrounding tribes. If this tribe is relatively small, you can ask him if he is willing to join our tribe.
If the tribe is relatively large, just look at how many people there are in the tribe."
Neil remembered "Yes, sir" very seriously.
"You can tell those tribes that I am willing to exchange the beasts of burden and long-haired sheep for the human demon embracers in their tribes. Two beasts of burden are exchanged for one person.
If they don't lack pack animals, they can replace them with long-haired sheep, sausages, or black-scaled horses.
If their tribes are willing to merge, we can provide them with food and give them some black-scaled horses."
"What if they don't want to join us?"
"I want to have more human demon possessors now. If they have human demon possessor slaves and are willing to sell them to us, we are willing to treat them as friends.
If the small tribe is unwilling to be my enemy, I can also exchange iron tools and horses with them. If there is a demon possessor but he is unwilling to sell it to me, I will get it through war," Lant said.
Nowadays, Lant no longer looks down on the demon-free people or animals of the small tribe. What he needs is to get as many human demon-supporters as possible to form his own knight force.
In the past, Lant was very afraid of encountering medium-sized or larger barbarian tribes, so he could only choose small tribes. Now that he has become a medium-large tribe, he feels that eating small tribes is too distracting.
"Yes, my lord"
"You first select a few smaller tribes that don't seem to have much food, and let them join us. If you succeed, I will let some masters in the camp focus on training you," Lant whispered to him.
"Huh?" But it seemed like Neil didn't understand at all.
"..." Lant understood a little bit, "How about you tell me the truth, who called you those words just now?"
Neil simply said "my mother"
"Well, that's good. Tell your mother what I told you and ask her to help you analyze what it means."
"Yes" Neil stood up and left.
The barbarians are really real people. Now they really dare to go back to find their mother.
. . . . (Neil has left camp to conduct reconnaissance). . . . .
After merging the camps, Lant's entire camp had more than 600 people, making it one of the largest tribes in the entire southern part of the Galloping Horse Plains.
Now there are 17 human demon possessors directly under Lant, 1 junior knight, 3 reserve knights, 13 demon possessors, and 300 demon-free ones. These people are still in the left camp in front of Lant's main tent. .
On the left side of the camp are the old residents of the former baronage of Galloping Horse.
On the right side of the front of the main tent is the camp of 35 barbarian demon holders. Lant simply referred to the two camps as left camp and right camp to distinguish them.
Walking around the camp, Lant saw two different scenes.
After the Zuoying human race merged with the Wandering Badger tribe, the number of people in groups 1, 2, and 3 expanded accordingly, but things remained the same.
There are women taking care of the children, and chefs setting up large pots to cook mutton.
There are also people who are washing clothes, repairing wooden furniture, blacksmithing, making leather, and making sausages. Others have already started spinning. If everyone has nothing to do, they will start singing along with the girls in the singing and dancing group.
Singing the song "Galloping Horse Encouraging Folk Song" written by Lant, I saw from a distance that the town was much more prosperous than the town next to Galloping Horse Castle.
Speaking of which, after merging the two medium-sized camps, there were fewer non-demon people with management capabilities, because these medium-sized tribes were actually managed by human demon possessors, and the non-demon people had no room to display.
The right camp where the barbarians live is very monotonous. Each family cooks and eats, and everyone stays in their own tent. Some people go to the fence to watch the people in the left camp singing, and some fight because they are too free. Set up.
Lant decided to find something for the barbarians to do. He found tambourines and some kind of sounding instruments from the many miscellaneous barbarian seizures. He wanted these big barbarians to practice their voices.
Neil's patrol returned in the afternoon, and Lant watched Neil return directly to his tent, feeling that the child had gone to ask his mother again.
Then Neil came to report to Lant that there were indeed small tribes who wanted to join them. He also saw three medium tribes in the east and north, but he didn't have time to ask them.
Lant was not in a hurry for the new battle. Instead, he found a demonless man who could sing and asked Neil to take several cavalry patrolling with him to learn songs.
. . . . . . . . .
Lant once again held a bonfire dinner and asked everyone to participate, whether they were barbarians or galloping people.
Before dinner, there was still a chorus show. The first one to come out was the choir from Zuoying Group 2. This team was the chorus team that Lant felt most satisfied with after two chorus competitions.
Even the barbarians were mesmerized by the choir's singing, but the barbarians might have too much muscle, so it would be difficult for them to master the melodious melody.
"Dear citizens, brothers," Lant said loudly after the chorus finished singing, "please tell me, did the chorus of the two groups sing well?"
"Okay" everyone was cheering, but they knew that the second group only knew this song.
"I composed another song today, and it's sung by Neil and his patrol!"
"Wow" everyone was very surprised, because no one knew about Lant's new song.
The general saw several demonless men carrying tambourines, castanets, and a kind of hawk whistle. Then there is Neil's patrol of 6 people.
Whistles and drums come to mind, simple and rhythmic three notes followed by barbarian
"Ancestors, fathers, royal family, forefathers
ancestors, fathers, royal family, ancestors
Eternal hero, master of galloping horses
Black Lin cavalry, in any era, across the plains
Black Lin cavalry, in any era, across the plains
Galloping horse flag, night unicorn city wall
Galloping horse flag, night unicorn city wall
I praise your reputation with deep affection
Guard your city-state and let your people roam the grasslands
Guard your city-state and let your people roam the grasslands."
Lant found musical inspiration from his hometown, the country of the emerald double-headed eagle. The melody of this song is very simple and mainly requires drum accompaniment. What's even better is that Lant's words don't mention whether it is a galloping horse country or a barbarian people. Anyway, everyone rides black scale horses.
You think the song is about your ancestors, but I think the song is about my ancestors. What is the relationship between our two ancestors? At most, they got along with each other back then.
Anyway, after so many years, they will not come out of the soil.
The lyrics are repeated twice to end, followed by the closing drum beat. When everything fell silent, before the barbarians could react, the first barbarian roared within two seconds, and then all the barbarians and all the people in the right camp roared.
Lant felt like he had run back to the gorilla house in his hometown zoo.
A group of 2-meter-long erect apes roared and their voices gradually unified into the phrase "grandfathers, fathers."
. . . . . .
Neil was looking at his mother, Makoto Frostwolf. Just after he finished singing, he remembered the conversation he had with the leader who was not much older than him after reporting to Lant in the afternoon.
"You have three tasks. On the first night, you will lead your patrol to sing a song at night. I will teach you how to do it later."
"Singing? I'm a barbarian and can't sing."
"Who said the barbarians can't sing? You have to sing, even tonight, there is no room for negotiation." At this moment, Lant was extremely majestic.
"Second, here are 10 kilograms of monster meat. You can come here and eat half a kilogram every day starting from today.
After eating, I went to find Rohr for training. But today, I have to practice singing.”
"Third, you and your patrol team must bring me back a small tribe tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. It's up to you whether you rely on your mouth or your sword."
"That's no problem. There are already small tribes willing to join." Winter is not easy in the Galloping Horse Plains. Many small tribes also gather together in winter, so many small tribes are willing to respond to Neil's proposal.
"Okay, if there are more choices, pick the one with more people and the one with the biggest momentum. If it's a medium-sized tribe, don't be impulsive and wait for me to take action." Rant glanced at Neil and guessed what he was thinking, "You If you want to go back to your tent, go back and come back later to learn singing."
"Yes" Neil really ran back to his tent and asked his mother
"Did he really say that?" Neil's mother, Makoto, asked after hearing Neil's retelling, "Did he not care about what you wanted?"
"No, I didn't ask for gold coins, horses, or my sister."
"Well, it means you can't give him what he wants."
"Ah? What should we do?"
"He needs you to give it to him after you become stronger." Makoto looked at his clueless son, guessing what Lant was really thinking.
. . . . . .
Rant looked at Neil with relief, this was the effect he wanted. One afternoon, Neil led 6 big barbarians in his tent and shouted, just 4 lines. He had to combine them with the drum beats 4 times to get them right, and then he practiced them over and over again.
To make the boy in front of him a powerful barbarian leader, Lant needed Neil to be recognized by all the barbarians, and he also needed his so-called galloping horse orthodoxy to be recognized by the barbarians, at least by the barbarians in his own camp.
So Lant wanted to adapt the song so that each barbarian could inadvertently sing about the relationship between Yeqi and Benma. Yeqi City is the pearl of Benma Plain, and the temperament of his own Benma tribe is the Yeqi flag. He wanted to strengthen his relationship with Benma. The relationship between Ben Ma and Ye Qi.
"Everyone!" Lant stood up and shouted loudly. Everyone fell silent. This was the time for their leader and lord to speak. "Benma is our name, Yeqi is our flag" Lant pointed to his flag,
"My ancestors were once the kings of this thousand-mile plain. Today I will lead you to unify all the tribes, large and small!"
At this moment, there was silence in the camp. The human leaders couldn't believe that Lant said the slogan to unify the Galloping Horse Plains in front of many barbarians. The barbarians simply felt that Lant could not afford so much money and food.
"I know that on the Galloping Horse Plains today, there are more tribes than the tributaries of the river, and there are more riders than the stars in the sky.
Unification is so difficult, but unification is imperative. "Lant said firmly, and he looked at Neil.
"Neal!"
"yes"
"I want you to spread this song among the various tribes, with my command and the goodwill of Galloping Horse to each tribe, so that they know that the great Galloping Horse tribe is different from the Gray Goose tribe.
We are not going to lead the riders to fight against each other with the giant human race of dragons. I want to lead the warriors on the grassland to live a new life!
You will no longer have to worry about the cold winter, ice disasters and plagues. I will gather all the human demon possessors from all tribes, and I will bring order, stability and victory to this plain! "
At this moment, Neil was extremely horrified, because even the leaders of Gray Goose and Badger had never had such a huge vision. He didn't know what to say, and the scene was completely silent.
"What are you waiting for? Let's sing about our ancestors and fathers, and let the flag of the galloping horse fly between heaven and earth." A woman suddenly shouted, and at this moment all the barbarian demon-supporters roared.
"Ancestors, fathers, royal family, forefathers
Ancestors, fathers, royal family, ancestors
. . . "
The drums and whistles sounded again, and everyone in the right camp was immersed in the leader's grand vision.
Not only the right campers, but also many residents and old residents of the left camp also sang along.
For them, their ancestors and fathers on the Galloping Plain are the ancestors of the Galloping Royal family in Lant.
Lant noticed the woman who had just spoken, and also noticed that Neil was looking at the woman at this moment.
Lant was very satisfied tonight. When he looked back at Albert, he saw a somewhat frightened face. Lant smiled back without knowing why.
