There is a saying among experienced adventurers in Rigar:
"All the stupid people feel that they understand war very well, especially those who have never participated in war."
This sounds like a customary mutual disdain between the old and new generations - just as the new generation of soldiers and adventurers will think that outdated experience is no longer useful, the old will often despise those who are inexperienced. The whimsical views of the younger generation.
But as we have said before, any prejudice and rumors often have a certain basis in fact.
——The war in Hot Spring Village spread.
Since the large Rigal-style carriage was used as the main means of transportation, the group's journey actually took much longer than originally imagined. The large four-wheeled carriages produced in the empire have excellent carrying capacity but have high requirements on roads. Although they provide a mobile barrier to protect themselves from wind and rain and have an extremely high load capacity, they are restricted to national highways and cannot easily leave.
Therefore, when the relatively slow-moving group entered the southwest border of Zhangzhou, they were a little surprised and upon reflection, they found that almost everyone here was discussing the war in Hot Spring Village.
And not surprisingly, most people had a very low evaluation of human performance in the battle.
The rather complex group of people stopped at the teahouse at the entrance of the town. Since the carriage had to be set up, Henry and other Rigal were the first to enter. Although there were many foreign faces, people here didn't pay much attention because they were close to the middle. Maybe it will become a new topic after they leave, but at the moment these various people are more interested in discussing on paper the war in Hot Spring Village that is a foregone conclusion.
The middle-aged man, who smelled of alcohol in broad daylight, spoke of the tragic sacrifices in a tone that he had personally experienced, and talked about what he would have done if it were him in hindsight, as if as long as he was here, none of this would have happened. There were young people nearby who echoed and expressed doubts, believing that it was the poor fighting qualities of the farmers and ronin that led to the tragedy in Hot Spring Village.
"After all, monsters are just wild beasts."
"Exaggerate and exaggerate, the loser always likes to describe the other party as too powerful." Similar comments kept coming as soon as they entered. There are always a large number of people coming and going at the border, but these people do not bring luggage and dress more like locals. But now is the busy farming season, and most of the people who stay in the teahouse in broad daylight are idle people who enjoy listening to stories.
The more boring your life is, the more you like to talk about all kinds of rumors and gossip.
When a group of warriors from the Qingtian family with their family crest finished handling their affairs and entered the house, many people glanced over and paid more attention to them than Rigal and his group who entered first. Obviously, these people care more about the noble lord than the strangers. But he was just afraid of making a mistake and causing offence. After a while, he saw that Yajiro and others ignored them and continued the discussion.
As someone who had personally experienced the war, Mira and the others were originally a little curious about what these people were discussing, but the more she listened, the more her pretty little eyebrows knitted together.
"As long as you are brave, there is nothing you can't accomplish if you work together."
"The ronin must have escaped!"
There were samurai involved in the battle. Although the Qingtian family and his party left before the people from Pingshan County passed by, and the details of the official document written by Torataro before were basically impossible for civilians to know, so they did not know the names of the samurai who participated. No matter how many people there are, it’s normal. But everyone already knew the details of the participation of peasants and ronin in the battle, but these people did not mention the samurai who participated in the battle, and put all the problems on the peasants and ronin who participated in the battle. The reason is obvious.
The samurai class cannot afford to offend them, but it is correct to look down upon ronin and peasants in the larger cultural context of Kazuto society.
One is a jobless vagrant who has lost the master he serves, and the other is at the same bottom as them. Compared with insulting the gentry and the Chinese, this kind of impassioned sorrow is "safer" and "less harmful to oneself."
This tragic victory needs a culprit, someone who can be criticized and insulted without offending anyone. In the class-rigorous Crescent Continent, it is natural that ronis and peasants who participated in the war would be chosen as this target.
Ryunosuke knew this and stayed in the hot spring village.
But despite this, hearing the rhetoric in the teahouse of these people who had never participated in that battle or even had any experience in fighting in their lives, and belittled those who had fought side by side as worthless, still made Mira have the urge to beat them up. .
What makes people even more uncomfortable is that these people discussed the so-called "excellent way to avoid this tragic situation" for a long time.
It is "courage" and "spirit".
They seemed to think that as long as the farmers were brave enough and the rogues they had never met "didn't run away", they could easily win.
There is no tactical consideration, no planning based on geography, no in-depth views on equipment and personnel quality - just blaming the tragedy on "not enough effort" and "too little courage", and then confidently based on this assumption Verbal and written criticism.
In such a scene, those who are in it keep nodding and saying that they think they have seen through the puzzle and have foresight, while the onlookers who have a little knowledge feel speechless at this ignorance.
But they continued to discuss it, so naturally someone got angry.
"Huh!" A disdainful sneer came, but it didn't come from the seats of the group. The idlers who were busy discussing became quiet and turned to look at the young man with medium-long hair - judging from his appearance, he was obviously a scholar.
"Your way of looking at the problem is still too simple." Although the disdainful words were spoken, surprisingly, these people did not feel disgusted, but looked respectful: "So Sir Qing is here, do you still want to ask for advice?"
They seemed to be familiar with and respected the young scholar, and the young man known as Qing also took advantage of this humble attitude - his chin raised higher: "The information you know is still There are shortcomings, people, you have to understand the overall situation before you can make a judgment.”
He said this, and then he did talk about some general details such as the details of the defense and the course of the battlefield. The views on the defense were basically similar to what Henry did at the beginning: control the entrance near the swamp and establish a defense line. An important point, but the rest is very different.
"He's from the School of War History." Ling, who was sitting behind Henry and others and changed into civilian women's clothing because her doctor's uniform was dirty, said as she glanced at the scholar's clothing.
Kazuto's doctors each have their own strengths, and the scholars under them are also divided into various specialties. There are three major bureaus under the Tiange Academy. The Land and Resources Bureau is good at civil engineering and road construction; the Xingyong Bureau studies the stars and all things in the world; and the History Book Bureau is responsible for recording the long history of more than 4,000 years.
The Land and Resources Bureau focuses on the "now" and carries out construction and improvement work, which is the most pragmatic. The History Book Bureau is responsible for excavating antiquities and recording history, and serves as a carrier of the "past". Xingyong, which Ms. Doctor belongs to, pays attention to changes in the sky and the earth, predicts natural disasters such as locust plagues and volcanic eruptions, and provides early warning for the "future".
The war history to which this scholar belongs is a branch of the History Book Bureau, which specializes in the study of war-related history. It is understandable to think that his speech will be respected by these armchair laymen - in the eyes of these people, I am afraid that this is the so-called authority figure.
But his speech is still very problematic.
"Arm the peasants and train as much as possible within the limited time. Rely on the barrier and fight side by side with samurai and ronin who can fight one against ten."
"Even if there are hundreds of enemies, as long as all the villagers are gathered together, everyone kills at least one beast, and the rest are dealt with by warriors, there is nothing to fear."
——This is definitely an amateur who has never been on the battlefield.
Just listening to his exquisite and conclusive battle damage ratio, the Luoan girl could clearly realize this.
He thought of people as machines that would never waver. As long as a villager was trained to a certain level and thrown in, he would be able to perform perfectly every time and successfully kill an opponent.
According to his perfect algorithm, even if the battle loss ratio between the villagers and the enemy is 1:1, for example, there are 600 enemies, as long as 200 villagers sacrifice themselves to eliminate 200 of them, the remaining 400 can be eliminated by 100 experience Rich can be defeated by one against a hundred ronin and samurai at a small cost.
This is a textbook-like talk on paper, because it is detailed enough and each step sounds reasonable when broken down, so the civilians were stunned for a while.
The middle-aged man who seemed very confident before spoke timidly and retorted as if whispering to himself: "But wouldn't this be too smooth? What if something unexpected happens?"
This aroused the displeasure of Sir Qing. He frowned and scolded loudly: "Solving problems to avoid any accidents and controlling the battle situation is the task of high-ranking people. So you are a commoner."
The people next to him echoed: "Your Excellency, you have never met an opponent in the chess game, and you are a god in predicting things." His eyebrows relaxed again, and his nose was raised as high as the sky.
"I have a headache. There are many people like this in the Xingyong Bureau." Ling looked helpless and held her forehead.
Perfect, predicting things like a god, everything can develop according to his predictions - this sounds a bit like Henry's experience at first glance - so this is a Crescent Island version of the sage? Of course not. If you have been around Henry for a long enough time, you will know that a sage is far from this kind of person.
The young scholar was still short-sighted, like the invincible samurai on the practice field.
What is the biggest gap between actual combat and practice, on the battlefield and in chess games?
is the amount of information.
Practice matches and chess games are almost all 1-on-1. You know who your opponent is, what kind of strength your opponent is, and where the battle will take place.
But actual combat is different.
The Rigal Plate Knight, which is suitable for plain assault, will inevitably run into obstacles in the Crescent Continent with its many mountainous terrains and complex terrain. Even Rigal Knights and Crescent Continent Warriors have to spend more than ten years to gather huge funds. If successfully cultivated, they can basically serve as representatives of the elite warrior class in society.
It is far from perfect and invincible.
The elite warrior class, which accounts for 1% of society, always acts as the facade of a country or region. Due to the sense of mystery brought about by the closed military training system, civilians often have an "invincible" impression of this type of existence.
But in the circle of top-level mercenaries in the now distant Rigal world, there is a set of rules for infantry to deal with knights:
The pikemen resisted the knight's charge, and the halberdier used the barb of the weapon to pull the knight off his horse. Finally, the swordsman attacked at close range from the relatively weakly protected inner thighs, buttocks, armpits and back of the neck.
It only takes three well-trained infantry to defeat a heavily armored knight at a relatively small cost. Although considering the strength of the charge of the war horse, the probability of blocking it with a single spear is very low, so the spearman must bear a higher risk, but there is not only one way to stop the war horse, and the most important thing is - such a step The cost of war mercenary equipment is much lower than that of knights.
The only ones who need to wear armor are the spearmen who are facing the impact. Since they are most likely to be injured, they need to be equipped with chest, thigh, helmet and other armor at a minimum. However, halberdiers and swordsmen can only be equipped with helmets. Although the fallen knights still have strong enough combat effectiveness, this anti-cavalry configuration can only achieve a winning rate of 46 at most, but it is undoubtedly an attempt based on quantity. A good example of quality over quality.
——And this is the problem, the actual battle will not be one-on-one like the practice match. On the battlefield, victory or defeat is all about etiquette. Even if you can kill ten of them one by one, when the opponent knows this, they will never send you 10 people to kill them every time. Instead, they will send 50 or 100 people at once.
The battle loss ratio can never be as perfect as paper data or chess games. If an existence of one against ten is besieged by 50 people at once, then he may be killed without even being able to kill one person.
Aqing, a young scholar, enjoyed the praise. He used his knowledge to analyze and explain, and got the attention he wanted.
But the group of people who actually participated in the battle remained silent.
"Showing off is a common problem." Ling sighed. She had probably seen a lot of things like this.
People will be bound by what they are good at.
Just like when encountering a door that cannot be opened, a strongman will try to open it with brute force; a thief will try to pick the lock; and the first reaction of a well-funded businessman is to hire others to solve the problem. When people encounter something, they always tend to use the method they are best at to solve the problem - and sometimes, they will not even consider other solutions except this method.
My thoughts are bound by what I am good at, and in the end my vision becomes narrower and narrower, and I turn a blind eye to everything except the things related to it.
It is only human nature for people who have a certain amount of knowledge to like to show off and immerse themselves in the sound of being praised by others.
This may be the value of our wise man.
He possesses a lot of knowledge, perhaps enough to influence the fate of a nation or even an empire.
But he never imposed this on others.
Since that day.
From the day he chose not to become the Emperor, to become Hymyrnin I, but to choose the path of the Sage.
The king is the ruler, looking down on all living beings like a living god from above. His will is the undivided truth under the aura of power. If he chooses to hold such power, perhaps he will be able to accomplish much more in the past two hundred years than in his current life of obscurity. But this was not the path he chose to walk.
The king reshapes the world with his own will, but the sage is the will of the world itself.
He is lost in the crowd, speaks many languages, and understands many local customs. Integrate into it, absorb, and give what you know.
The earliest origin of the title "Sage" is difficult to verify, but just like the person he took over the title from, people trust him when he is called so.
Power always comes from the people.
The king is always alone.
Because the power of kings comes from their own authority, only when kings control their own authority can they have great power. In history, there are countless kings who have achieved great results while they were alive. Once they died, the country fell apart and lost its glory.
But the sage is not.
All those who come into contact with, travel with, and are influenced by and nurtured by him can become an extension of his will.
This is a kind of thinking on a larger time scale, and the results cannot be formed in one or two generations or even one or two hundred years, which is a very long time for human beings. Precisely because he has a long lifespan but is not a naturally long-lived species like elves, he can have such a unique vision.
No matter how heroic a king is, he will grow old, get sick, and eventually die.
Great empires that flourish for a while will decline and be destroyed.
But as long as there are people, everything is not over yet.
What he did was not actually that important, because if the level of involvement was so high that everything would fall apart if his existence was abandoned, it would be contrary to the original intention.
But it is just a gentle push in the back of those who are standing still; it is just a way to give the confused people a correct direction; it is just a way to tell the world that the moment of despair has not yet arrived.
Just hold the hand of a girl who wants to change her life.
Sometimes that's enough to change the tide.
He does not want to impose his will, and he does not want everyone to become Henry Mayer and agree with Henry Mayer that Henry Mayer is all the truth.
Children have their own paths to follow.
He is just a guide.
The seeds will one day germinate and grow vigorously.
Even though everything has changed at that time, the ups and downs we have experienced together along the way are the things accumulated from these journeys.
Will accompany them all the way.
Turn it into strength, no matter what you encounter in the future, even if your thoughts are different, even if your handling methods are very different.
That's "right" too.
