Occasionally, this team will encounter unsightly beings on the road of robbery. Among them were defeated soldiers from the kingdom, soldiers from the Northern Italian Allied Forces who secretly escaped from the team, and even gangsters and idle men who had temporarily transferred to other positions; or thieves who were crossing the border, sometimes several groups a day.
Then this obstacle on the road becomes the best object for people in the team to relieve stress and vent after being stimulated by the tragedy along the way. As they swarmed forward filled with rage, these bandits who blocked the road and caused trouble, even if they were not killed on the spot, would be hanged from trees.
So, after several rounds, Jiang Tian's team also had a group of followers behind it. They were all a few groups of survivors who were lucky enough to be rescued. With some intention of continuing to seek asylum, they offered their only belongings and even the young women among their family members.
Although Jiang Tian did not accept their respect and requests, he did not expel them or refuse to follow them; as long as he kept a certain distance, he did not bother to pay attention to them. Despite this, after walking down the road, the morale that was originally depressed and sluggish suddenly revived inexplicably.
Along with the sporadic encounters with escapees and various people from other places along the way, this small force also obtained more true and false news and rumors. For example, Montereyville, the capital of Delong Province where Jiang Tian is now located, has surrendered to foreign troops.
For another example, due to the order of entering the city to surrender, the Lombards and Veronas, who had always had grievances among the more than a dozen Northern Italian/Ciro vassal coalition forces, had fierce conflicts outside the city; The armies of the princes were involved and turned into a massive looting of the provincial capital.
Another example is that the Count of Grenoble, the largest noble lord in the province, has given up his territory and fled. Therefore, most of the invading armies have now crossed the abandoned kingdom fortress, Fort Rhone, and are marching towards the Lower Alps in the north and the provinces of Inzer and Ardès in the west.
In addition, there is another powerful lord of the province, Viscount Valray, who established the Delon Provincial Autonomous Association in Corian County and declared his territory as a free military passage area... As the saying goes, in the Kingdom's military In defeat, all kinds of monsters and monsters appeared one after another.
However, fortunately, if these news are true, then there seem to be few enemies and threats on the way of the team heading south. Maybe there are only some mercenary groups left with permission to move freely (robbery); or other motley armed groups...
Therefore, while walking on the road, Jiang Tian couldn't help but reflect on where he would go in this world. In other words, how to collect more free energy; while activating his half-assed auxiliary system, find an opportunity to return to the time and space of the Tang Dynasty where the original mission was unfinished.
In fact, after the short battle in João Town Hall, the little energy reserve Jiang Tian had accumulated with great difficulty had been squandered. But after personally killing the fat pig baron/captain and more than a dozen officers and non-commissioned officers of the Principality of Milan, the money was doubled (0.211).
However, when he tried to activate the "sustainability" module, a memory of the original time and space was restored in his mind. However, Jiang Tian quietly turned around and left after filling in the tunnel; but he was chased from the opposite direction, and the groups of followers who were originally left behind were thrown away by him.
Although these belated retinues could only continue to chase with their horses in an incompetent and furious manner; they fired smoke arrows and fireworks one after another to ask for help, directly marking the direction where Jiang Tian had left. Therefore, Jiang Tian, who did not want to cause trouble, could only suddenly turn around and kill a few leaders.
But as soon as they were delayed by these reckless guys, the team from Dongduli Xingyuan also chased them nearby like chicken blood. In this case, Jiang Tian didn't want to get too entangled with him in the wilderness, so he retreated all the way back to the old tiger enclosure site that was the scene of the ambush.
I just want to take advantage of the complex environment full of ruins, delay and block it for a while, and then quietly jump to another time and space to escape. But he didn't expect that there were actually several fish that slipped through the net hidden inside; Jiang Tian was also caught in the act, and had to spend more time to silence them.
What was even more surprising was that after seeing the tragic scene of the corpses of foreign beasts all over the ground, those who were pursuing them did not hesitate to use the foreign objects they brought with them. However, unlike the strange object Jiang Tian had just seized, which looked like jewelry, The fire-colored gem that excites scorching light resonates.
So, among the series of "huge energy reaction" warnings that suddenly popped up in the vision interface, Jiang Tian chose to activate the transition module without hesitation. Then, amid a bright red light that filled his field of vision and a large area of screams, he suddenly lost consciousness.
After the transition failed and he was forced to drift into this time and space, it also gave Jiang Tian a serious warning and self-examination. As more and more strange objects appeared in the Tang Dynasty time and space in that alien plane, the ability that I relied on to move forward and retreat freely could no longer always dominate.
Therefore, he still needs to find more opportunities to complete tasks and continuously strengthen his trump cards and credentials. Therefore, compared to fighting alone, it is also good to be able to fool/rely on some external forces.
Then, he saw soldiers wearing chain shirts and half-armor, holding saw blade guns or spears; or crossbowmen wearing thick cloth armor and cloaks. Obviously, they are their own weapons and shields in this world, a barrier to isolate themselves from danger and a force that extends to the outside world.
Otherwise, how long will it take to try your luck if you just work hard on your own? Perhaps only after the force you have established is strong enough, and you use collective efforts to find and harvest some existences with influence in time and space, will you be more efficient and more handy...
Therefore, Jiang Tian was determined to take them out of danger first and find a suitable place to establish themselves; and then slowly select the relatively reliable and capable subordinates among them. And what I can give them back is probably a sense of security and the ability to protect myself in the turmoil, as well as a better future, right?
But the most important thing right now is to improve their organization; yes, it is the organization that includes discipline, order and obedience. Compared with logistics, equipment, training, etc., organization is the greatest reliance in the history of wars throughout the ages to defeat the strong, outnumber the enemy, and fight back with all the strength.
The best example is the few defeats that the British bastards suffered in modern times; for example, the three disastrous failures in the invasion of Afghanistan. Also during the Insandlwana battle, the modern firearms army lost its organization and was directly defeated by the Zulu Black Uncle who was accustomed to using spears and leather shields.
Jiang Tian was slowly thinking about it when he suddenly saw several soldiers who were taking turns serving as scouts, wearing pot-shaped helmets and bubble-studded cloth armor, emerging from the woods on the roadside, and at the same time they were greeting What. It wasn't until Jiang Tian rode his horse in that he realized they were carrying someone.
This man was dressed in the typical pilgrim/pilgrim attire of a cloak and linen robe and a straw rope waistband, but his head and face were covered with many exposed wounds of flesh and blood. Although he was almost unconscious, he was still muttering to himself: "Dark Night" The monsters in...the hell...escaped..."
"What's going on?" Jiang Tian couldn't help but ask, "Did he be attacked by a wild beast?"
"It's not a beast, it's something else." Then Jiang Tian saw the white-headed old hunter Ajax, who was accompanying the team, but had been silent and seemed not very gregarious, suddenly emerged from the thick thorn bushes on the roadside. He popped up and took the initiative to speak:
"What is that thing?" Jiang Tian looked at the half-body of the old hunter Ajax, which had a lot of stains on it and was dragged out of the forest. He couldn't help being slightly shocked; because this thing had canine teeth and dirty hair. Unbearable, there are actually some ghosts similar to those in the Tang Dynasty.
"This... seems to be a newly transformed corpse." The old hunter Ajax picked up a carrot for the horse and chewed it: "It is a strange creature born from eating too many old corpse remains. . Even those vultures and wild dogs ignore the remains in the tomb."
"Ghoul, what is this?" Jiang Tian noticed the key points. "Listening to what you said, it seems that there are other similar species, or where is the source?"
"Ghoul? Is it the monster that was born in the ancient tombs of a large number of martyrs in "Hessian Chronicle"?" However, the recorder Andrew beside him couldn't help but said: "It's not the legendary monster hiding in the tomb that specializes in attacking robbers. Well, how could it appear in this wild place?"
"The records in the church are actually versions that have been seriously tampered with and revised many times. They are not accurate." The old hunter Ajax hesitated for a moment, but then said: "In fact, in death zones where plague and famine are serious, there is also a probability that What was born is also one of our previous jobs.”
Hearing this name, another memory came to Jiang Tian's mind. The so-called "Hessian Chronicles" is a compilation of popular black folk stories. Like "Nursery Rhymes of Lorraine", "Nights of Arabia" and "Ancient Gallic Tales", it is full of horrifying and strange folk readings.
The name Hesse comes from the central part of the Western Continent and is the general name for the large black forests that stretch across many countries; and in the Roman Empire, many specialized pioneering territories were established; and now there is only one Great Earl of Hesse left. The fief is also one of the sources of the story.
Of course, in a sense, today's Hessian Territory is also one of the few lawless places on the continent, a place where all kinds of criminals, fugitives, and heretical groups gather together to become abnormally prosperous. It is said that all heretical organizations jointly banned by major churches can be found in it.
The first sentence at the beginning of this storybook is, "No one can become the master of the Black Forest. The Black Forest is alive, and all those who covet it can only become its servants, slaves, and nourishment."
This is the man who chased the remnants of the Franks deep into the Black Forest; then only a small number of them escaped; and lost some of their limbs and became crazy. Siti, the commander of the great army in the Roman era. Ding, his last words before his death:
And it is said that some of the older versions, which have not been much deleted, are even filled with all kinds of weird and inexplicable things that go beyond cruelty, blood, and chaos; so much so that for a long time, they have become popular among churches everywhere. Ordered the destruction of banned underground publications.
Until a certain great king from the East expressed his opinion: "Is there more brutal, bloody, and chaotic story books in this world than the various versions of the Old and New Testaments and Gospels? Could it be that what the church does, the general public just Don’t you appreciate it so much?”
Then, an underground printed book called "The Decameron" suddenly began to appear frequently throughout the Western Continent through some unexplained channels. Because it describes many pornographic jokes about the church that are popular to see, and it also directly breaks through the moral barriers that the church has painstakingly constructed;
It even led to several generations of mutual accusations and blame-shifting debates between the mainstream Northern Holy See, the Roman Catholic Church, and the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Constantine Order. Then, the Armenian Presbyterian Church, the Coptic Church, and the Pauline Church in other continents were involved.
Therefore, as the saying goes, the more banned something becomes, the more widespread it becomes, and the more banned it becomes, the more influential it becomes; however, royal families everywhere have an ambiguous attitude towards this. It also forced the church, which had no time for other things, to loosen its censorship and restrictions on private publishing in disguised form; an incident known in history as the "Collapse of the Ecclesiastical Ban."
Therefore, the so-called clean versions of the church that are popular in the market today as bedtime stories and tavern songs actually still have some traces of the dark and dark past. For example, King Arthur fights the blood witch Megan, the great sage Merlin's incarnation of the witch Merulu, etc...
"The Romance of Fairy Wood"
But I didn't expect that I could actually encounter aliens among them in reality; and according to Ajax, there are actually hunters who have inherited this profession from generation to generation. Could it be that the other side of this medieval era also hides something? The dark side and mysterious powers?
