"Horse hooves fly up,
horse hoof falls
Horses galloping between mountains and plains sweep like the wind
You are in the river,
You are among the mountains,
You are in the grassland,
You are among the horses
Now is the time for you to conquer the Galloping Horse Plains
Our Galloping Horse Tribe was protected by the God-Emperor Augustus VI
The palace and temple made of huge stones, Yeqi City
Go forward to awaken the glory of your ancestors
. . . . . . .
You are in people’s writings,
lingering in people’s mouths,
You are in people's hearts,
you are on top of people
Now is the time for you to conquer the Galloping Horse Plains. "
43 barbarian demon-lovers and nearly 100 demon-free people in the right camp sang songs adapted from their hometown by Lant.
Today is October 20th. In 10 days, Lant defeated two small and medium-sized camps and one medium-sized and large camp.
These three camps brought abundant black-scaled horses, beasts of burden and long-haired sheep, as well as currency worth 350 gold, 42 pieces of iron armor, nearly 4 tons of grain, more than a dozen pieces of magic rune plates, and nearly 30 magic coins. crystal.
21 human demon-wielders, including 5 knights, were liberated from these three barbarian tribes.
Although no small tribes have officially joined, several songs adapted by Lant have been sung in several small tribes.
Large tribes attack with force and small tribes conquer with culture. This is Lant's current attitude towards various barbarians.
In addition, as a race that worships the strong, the barbarians have a natural respect for powerful tribes and the strong men of the tribes.
Rant's tribe created a series of consecutive victories, and Rant took the lead in charging for each big victory, completing the breakthrough and first kill. Let the barbarian cavalry see their breakthrough into the enemy formation, and naturally gain the loyalty of the barbarians. Of course, such loyalty is not cheap.
Before each battle, Lant needs to consume 2 magic crystals to activate the armor and 1 magic crystal to replenish fighting spirit. Therefore, 3 battles cost 9 magic crystals, which is worth 90 gold coins.
If it weren't for the fact that when he wasn't fighting recently, Lant took Neil and a few others to hunt low-level water monsters in the pond, Lant would really be reluctant to burn magic crystals to fight like this.
Of course, this kind of battle is not just about consumption. Lant felt that after every high consumption, his proficiency and frequency of using fighting qi moves increased, and the number of activations increased after consuming a magic crystal.
In this regard, Rohr believes that after releasing the increased fighting spirit, Lant's own fighting spirit stock increased and his proficiency also increased. This is the process of breaking through to the intermediate level.
After several battles, including gathering the remnants of the defeated tribes, the number of Lant's barbarian demon supporters reached 43, of which 35 were able to mount and fight.
According to the traditional barbarian ratio of 1:5 between those who possess demons and those without demons, and the estimated size of the traditional barbarian tribe, Lant's right camp can be considered a veritable large tribe.
Now, Lant's left camp has reached 33 human demon embracers. Both the population of demon embracers and non-demons have far exceeded the previous Galloping Horse Barony. There are 9 junior and reserve knights, 24 demon embracers, all of them. Equipped with iron armor and black scale horses. This team is also considered to be the best in the northwest earl territory.
The number of demon-free people in the left camp also increased by more than 200. Now that there are more people and more literate people, Lant found more people to start territorial education. All the children in the territory are now divided into three classes, which carry out four courses: literacy, arithmetic, physical education and skills.
Literacy is to teach all children the letters, words and grammar of the common language of the human race. The goal is that children will know the letters within one month and can do simple spelling in 2-3 months. Arithmetic teaches children addition and subtraction within 20, and more advanced multiplication within 100. Needless to say, the children, including Albert, are not very good either.
Sports are mainly about physical fitness. Some good young men will also learn horse riding from young barbarians and sword skills from canine teeth. There are more skills.
It mainly depends on what the craftsmen in Group 1 and Group 2 are doing and what they have time to teach. There are also some craftsmen who take a fancy to some children and let them be their apprentices.
More talents also bring more management problems. Knights and demon-wielders come from different countries and families, and are liberated from different tribes. They are not familiar with each other. Lant's daily hunting also needs to bring new members with him. The demon possessor undergoes recovery training on horseback riding and combat.
In addition, human demon possessors can only supplement their basic rations during their capture. The barbarians are extremely wary of powerful demon embracers. They not only reduce their daily food rations, but also arbitrarily whip or allocate heavy physical strength to the demon embracers.
Therefore, before training, Lant needs to provide the demon holders with a large amount of mutton and even monster meat to ensure that they can return to combat level.
The barbarians in the right camp have a new song, and the left camp will naturally not be left behind. Lant adapted a farewell song from Kislev from the Republic of Esun in the previous life, and asked the women in the camp to sing together. The ladies' singing voices were graceful and slender. It makes the traveling knights feel more attached to them.
"Why did you make this farewell song?" Albert was curious, "I thought you would make a war song."
"Every time I go out and look at Nila, I will think of a melody, which is the earliest melody of this song." Lant's reason was made up, but the reason for his creation was not made up.
"Our human demon possessors come from too many places. I investigated and found that in order to prevent the human demon possessors from entering small tribes and joining forces, the barbarians would deliberately disperse them when settling them.
This leads to the fact that our demon supporters come from all over the human empire. Most of them did not even rob the Dragon Kingdom, but were abandoned by their families for various reasons and sent to the Galloping Horse Plains. "
"That's right, I noticed it too."
"So the question is, why do they want to become my demon-wishers?"
"What? Didn't we save them?" Albert didn't understand.
"Of course, I saved them, but it doesn't mean that I saved them this time. They live in my castle and serve me.
But among our knights, fight with me. What I can give them in the future may only be a knight's territory, maybe not even a knight's territory. If I allocate them 10 demon-free people, I will let them develop new territories with me. "Lant said, "I am just a fourth son of a baron. Firstly, I have no financial resources, and secondly, I have no territory. Maybe these people today are the foundation for me to go further in the future, but it is also very likely that I will stop here. The barbarians are here. The troops in the south have died down, and I have returned to the south of Cornico to be my little nobleman."
"so what"
"It's okay. I want to give them a bond to stay in my territory, so that they can truly integrate here. Here are their comrades side by side, and their demon-free families. They are not risking their lives again and again for a lord who saves them once." , but for his own territory and family," Lant said while looking at the barbarians.
"I think, no matter what, I don't want to call them barbarians in the future, maybe they will be called herdsmen or grassland tribes.
Regardless of whether they are the left camp or the right camp, I hope they can sincerely identify with their identities as Baron Galloping Horse and the Galloping Horse Tribe. "
"Is this achievable?" Albert didn't know whether this was considered an ambitious undertaking or a whim.
“Can you, you have to start.
As long as we make careful decisions and maintain victory, we can see that day." Rand is very confident about this.
"Lant?" Albert hesitated a little at this moment.
"What's wrong? Uncle?"
"Have you ever considered... let's go back to... the Galloping Horse Barony?" Albert asked tentatively.
"I've thought about it," Lant told the truth without being polite. "Every time I win, I think about it"
"Have you thought about it?"
"Of course, if I go back now and save the people in the territory, expand the population, and increase the number of demon-supporters, if I return here, maybe we can take part of Lot's territory, or we can simply ask the earl to let us fight against Viscount Lot." Lant said,
The topic changed: "But uncle, if I go back like this and dream about my father and two brothers in the future, how should I face them?"
Tell them that I have fished enough on the grassland and don’t want to care about them anymore? "
"No...we can use other methods"
"The entire tribe south of the Benma River has been swept away by us. Can they exchange prisoners of war with us?"
"This... they won't"
"Then tell me, what should I do?" Lant looked at Albert,
"If they, these barbarian cavalry who had just wandered around the northwest territory, returned to the Galloping Horse Plains and found that their camp was gone, their father and brothers were killed by us, and the human slaves were released by us, and near Lot's territory, just What would they do if there was a new baron or viscounty?
Or, on the way back, they happened to watch us heading south back to the territory, watching us riding black-scaled horses, singing songs, and eating mutton pot. What would they think?
Can we hedge against 200 barbarian cavalry? "
Albert was silent. In fact, he had already thought of these things before talking to Lant, but he still wanted to try it.
Rand is too dangerous now. What he is doing is digging a grave for his family. His ideas are simply pagan thinking.
In the thousand years since the Era of the God-Emperor, it is not that no one has thought about recruiting barbarians and extensively cultivating demon-free people. However, without the protection of a big family or a legendary powerhouse, such behavior will definitely arouse the hostility of other big families.
What is most unclear to Albert now is what is behind Rand.
Is he a legendary or even classical demigod who inspires and unifies the barbarians? Or is it an ancestor of the Benma family who has hidden himself in the magic network?
Or the Imperial City’s Tower of Purity School?
Albert didn't know who it was, so he decided to test the rand.
Look what Rant cares about.
"Since we still have to run all over the plains, what effect can we achieve by giving the children intermittent lessons like this?"
Lant pointed to one of the children in the distance, "The child of the first cobbler in Zuo camp is called Xiaohilit.
I remember that when I first met him, his little face was sallow and he couldn't even understand a sentence. The old cobbler was responsible for the maintenance of the cavalry's leather jackets every day, but he could only pee and play in the mud with his small knife handle. "
Lant looked at Albert and said very seriously: "For Xiao Daoli, the meaning of education is to realize more possibilities in life; for me, it is to cultivate the people I need.
Let the children know that their life is not just the sand under their feet, but they can also learn to plant, breed, farm, weave, and play musical instruments.
If they understand words, they can also see a larger world, more possibilities, and a higher vision in books. Isn't this good for children? "
"So... what does this have to do with you? You are their lord, shouldn't you be concerned about your rank, family and territory?" Albert was a little confused.
He had thought that Lant might say that the Galloping Horse family needed talents, that the Galloping Horse Plains were waiting for him to recover, and that Lant might say that the common people would get more resources, but Lant chose a solution that he had not thought of. Perspective: The perspective of individual citizens.
"Isn't this consistent? My development, my family's development and the territory's development are all integrated. You see, when we first entered the Benma Plains, we faced food difficulties and the danger of attacks from barbarian tribes. Survival was a problem. .
Now we have everything. I have rune armor, my own knight, a big tent, herds of black-scaled horses, and large tracts of long-haired sheep.
In the past, I needed them to follow me and not get left behind during the migration. Now I need them to help me raise horses, skin skins, and make sausages. In the future, I will need them to make pottery, woodware, and ironware.
I can give them expectations for a better life, and I also need more skills from them. They are part of my territory, so I will definitely pay attention to them. "
"You can ask Mei Wennan to do these things. You can tell him what you want and let him do it for you, or you can let me do it."
"..." Lant didn't say anything, but he thought in his heart: Don't be ridiculous, I'll find Huck and the others, and you guys will go with them.
Besides, you two are too rough in your management. Mei Wennan can only manage the less than 100 people in the castle, so you can only manage the demon masters.
You haven't figured out how many black-scaled horses and how many gold coins there are in the Galloping Horse Barony. Can I give you the 570 holes in Zuoying that I have?
"How many black-scaled horses do we have?" Lant asked.
"What?"
"When we left the territory, each demoniac had a black-scaled horse, a total of 20 black-scaled horses.
Now that we have gone through battles large and small, how many black-scaled horses do we have? "
"Here, just ask the groom about this."
"There are 101 horses in total, 81 of which we have newly acquired after the recent wars. Among these 81 horses, 35 are ponies just born this year and cannot be ridden, and there are more than 40 older horses. stallion or mare.
There are still 240 pack animals in our territory, and there were originally a large number of 650 long-haired sheep, but now there are only 550 left.
In addition, our food is probably enough for about a month. After a month, if we cannot find a large amount of grain, we will consume more long-haired sheep.
The pig iron we have left is enough to replace the horseshoes of all the current black-scaled horses 2-3 times, but if it exceeds 2 months, the combat effectiveness of our black-scaled horses will also decrease. "
"You..." Albert couldn't imagine that Lant knew the territory better than the butler.
"You are not sensitive enough to numbers and territory, and I have higher requirements for my subordinates than other lords." Lant looked firm.
Albert looked at Lant, feeling as if he had fallen into an abyss, because he had never heard such a statement before, and he had never seen other knight lords in the Dragon Kingdom pay so much attention to the specific wealth in their territory.
But now, the man in front of him no longer has the slightest respect for the aristocratic system that has existed for thousands of years.
