Chapter 621: The Wind Rises
Regardless of whether the leaders of the barbarians of Kentana, led by Chief Prey and Chief Yar, have their own little calculations in mind.
When they nodded their heads and agreed to cooperate with Sean, the Eternal Night Leader, and the weapon of faith that Sean had developed specifically for them to officially wield, everything would be shattered by the impact.
Because the next mode of operation of the Eternal Night Leader is completely beyond their imagination, and they are not given any opportunity to take advantage of.
The five elite legions that had originally come to snipe the Kentana barbarians and prevent them from moving south on a large scale became the greeting team.
On the one hand, the two major tribes that helped the barbarians of Kentana set up camp in Andes East and temporarily stabilized.
At the same time, the original military supplies for combat were continuously transported up as disaster relief materials.
After receiving assistance, the Kentana barbarians, after a slight correction, some chose to take some survival supplies and go deep into the Kentana Ice Field, looking for and persuading more Kentana barbarian tribes to come to Andes East Mountain to receive relief and disaster relief, among which the Ancestral Spirit Legion is the most active, especially those Ancestral Spirit warriors with ancestral spirit possession.
Not only because they have ancestral spirit possession, which makes it easier to convince their own people, but also because they are Sean's staunchest supporters, they are naturally more motivated.
The Kentana barbarians are different from the crocodiles.
The crocodile people and the Andes people are only different in their living customs, and there is no difference in essence.
It is possible to carry out assimilation and transformation in all aspects, and even intermarriage, which is the fastest way to integrate.
As for this process, whether the Andes influenced the crocodiles more, or the crocodiles influenced the Andes more, or the two sides merged.
Sean doesn't care, as long as it can be under his rule, they are all eternal night people, and things like life customs are slowly changing with the passage of time and changes in living conditions.
The Kentana barbarians were different, they were too different in size from Andes, and the chance of intermarriage was very small, and they had to keep their blood as pure as possible like the mountain Kentana barbarians, and the military leaders would not advocate large-scale intermarriage at that time.
Fortunately, there is already a weapon of faith that is specifically used against them, and there is no need for this aspect as a bond.
Therefore, the Eternal Night military leader adopted a disaster relief approach to them, transforming them in batches, supplemented by migration in batches.
Establish a massive relief area at the junction of the eastern Andes Mountains and the tundra steppes to help the Kentana barbarians survive the next three months.
As long as the spring snow thaws and the tundra grasslands come to life, they can find some food based on their old way of life, and the eastern mountains of the Andes Mountains are now vacated and can become their new hunting grounds.
It once fed more than 100,000 mountain Kentana barbarians, and naturally it can also feed more than 100,000 Kentana barbarians.
Coupled with the constant flow of supplies from the Eternal Night Army Leader, it should be able to sustain them for a year or two.
This approach is only a stopgap measure.
The real focus is still on the diversion.
The priority to be shunted out from here are the old, weak, sick and disabled who are not suitable to survive in the bitter cold.
Once in the Eternal Night, their whereabouts depend on their physical condition.
If you can endure the long journey, you will make a pilgrimage to the temple of the ancestral spirits in the northern fortress to receive the baptism and blessing of the ancestral spirits, and learn simple Andesian language by the way, so that it is easy to communicate.
Those who are physically unable to withstand the long journey are placed in settlements similar to those of the mountain Kentana barbarians, who come with them, usually with their sturdy family members, and with the help of the Eternal Night Commanders, to start a new life.
This kind of situation is usually not too much, and after several years of torment, this part has almost been eliminated.
The second diversion is those strong Kentana barbarians, whether they become soldiers in the future or not, they must go to the Northern Fortress Ancestral Spirit Temple, baptized and blessed, only in this way, Sean can safely throw them into his own territory and use them with confidence.
The Kentana barbarians, who transformed into ancestral warriors, did not enter the Andes Crater or return to the Kentana Ice Field, but entered the Kogle Prairie, and then the Odin Prairie.
Once here, most of the Kentana barbarians lingered.
How many times more fertile are the Kogel steppes than the tundra steppes?
All they had to do was drive the herd out every day, lay down on the grass and sleep, and then drive the herd back at night, and it was a paradise life.
There are also some Kentana barbarians who are more conservative, not only clinging to their traditions, but even reluctant to give up their homeland.
For this part, Sean also fulfilled their wishes and stayed on the Kentana Ice Sheet as a guardian.
With the large-scale diversion of the barbarians from Kentana, the population here has gradually become sparse, and their land and resources have increased, and the quality of life may have improved.
To the Eternal Night Lords, they weren't meaningless.
That is to ensure the purity of their own blood and customs to the greatest extent, and if the diverted Kentana barbarians are assimilated too much, there is a way to help them recall the past traditions.
As for how useful it will be in the future, no one can say for sure, anyway, the Kentana barbarians will not be able to divert them for a while, and maybe it won't be long before their minds change.
With Chief Pray and Chief Yar leading the middle and high-ranking members of the two major tribes of Safari and Sea Hunt to the Ancestral Spirit Temple in the Northern Fortress, the integration of the Barbarians of Kentana officially came to an end.
The Ancestral Spirit Temple is good to say, as long as this kind of thing has sufficient manpower and material resources, it can be built very easily, and with the manpower and material resources displayed by the Eternal Night Army Leader, this piece is not particularly difficult.
The consciousness space is completely beyond their imagination, except that Sean is an ancestral spirit, they really can't imagine a second explanation.
They will cultivate in the consciousness space for half a year to a year, learn the ancestral spirit combat skills, and at the same time receive the brainwashing transformation and education of the Eternal Night Military Leader.
They are indeed much smarter than ordinary Kentana barbarians, but limited by their past life experience and knowledge, they still have very big limitations, and they still have no resistance to these unconventional things, and it is only a matter of time before they are completely defeated.
As long as they are taken down, the remaining Kentana barbarians will not be able to jump out of Sean's palm at all.
The strategic focus of the Eternal Night Army Leader began to shift, and the elite forces began to move to the northern fortress one after another, in the direction of the Odin steppe.
During the period when the Eternal Night Army Leader was fully accepting the Kentana Barbarians, the army of the Theodin Empire, just as the Eternal Night Army Lord expected, began to drive cattle and sheep, leaving the Balsin Prairie and surging towards the Broken Blood Fortress.
There is no way to estimate the number of troops in the Western Odin Empire, because their number is too large, and they are too scattered, stretching for hundreds of kilometers, and there are Odin orcs and cattle in all directions.
They were like locusts in transit, and wherever they passed, all the Odin orcs were coerced into becoming part of them, driving them as a vanguard in the direction of the Broken Blood Fortress.
The benefits of this are undoubted, and these coerced Odin orc herders will become cannon fodder for the army of the Western Odin Empire.
Cannon fodder in the truest sense of the word.
Help them test the current defensive firepower of the Broken Blood Fortress, and help them mine by the way.
Obviously, it is no secret that the Broken Blood Fort has mastered the new weapon, black powder, to the army of the Western Odin Empire.
It's normal to think about it, the Broken Blood Castle has been raging on the Miracle Peninsula, the lair of the West Odin Empire, for so long, and it is the benefit of black powder.
Even if the message delivery method of the Western Odin Empire lags behind, after so long, the news should be delivered to the top of the Western Odin Empire.
Due to the monstrous number of soldiers, there was no way to hide their tracks, and the Western Odin Empire simply blatantly put pressure on the Byron Alliance.
Before the army could be drawn, their team of messengers arrived at the Broken Blood Fortress first.
A serious rebuke was issued for the undeclared war of the Streich family.
Let them hand over Queen Oyuntana within a time limit, and pay war reparations according to the list provided by the Western Odin Empire, otherwise their million-strong army will go south on a large scale when spring comes.
At that time, it will not only step on the Broken Blood Fortress, but also crush the entire Byron Alliance.
The memory image of the war reparations list arrived in Sean's hands within a week.
The Theodin Empire was a lion's mouth, and the amount of war reparations demanded was staggering, from the critical strategic materials such as steel to the daily necessities such as needles and threads, all in the scope of their demands, the focus of which was the wrath of the gods, another name for black powder.
If this list of war reparations is converted, the total value will exceed 10 billion royal gold coins.
Let's not talk about whether the Broken Blood Fort has the ability to pay this war reparation, even if it does, according to the temperament of Archduke Cedric, it is impossible to send money to the opponent's pocket, not a single copper plate, you can call in advance.
Archduke Cedric was not afraid, and was not in the slightest frightened by the terrifying numbers in the mouth of the envoy of the Western Odin Empire.
If the timeline is pushed back to ten years ago, no, even three years ago.
Millions of Odin orcs going south at the same time will inevitably cause great pressure on the Broken Blood Fortress, and they must be prepared to fight to the last man and lose the entire Broken Pulse defense line.
But now, because of the existence of black powder, a new weapon, the crowd tactics dare not say that they have completely lost their meaning, but they are also greatly weakened, especially for those soldiers who are in contact with black powder for the first time, the deterrent effect will be greater.
When the time comes, they will not only need to rush forward against the damage of black powder, but most importantly, they will need to overcome their psychological fear.
This point, when the Broken Blood Fortress raided the Miracle Peninsula, it was verified by actual combat, and the usually brave Odin orcs dared to launch a Jedi charge in the face of dozens or even hundreds of times their own enemies alone.
When faced with black powder, they are not much better than those ordinary Odin orc herdsmen, and once they are dominated by fear, they can only flee in the wilderness.
The unknown is more terrifying than death.
Once the morale is gone, it's really hard to bring it up again.
The Western Odin Empire wants to use the mode of cannon fodder siege to break through the broken blood fortress that sits on a large amount of black powder, which is wishful thinking.
Especially when the arsenal of the joint venture between the Eternal Night Army Leader and the Broken Blood Fortress was established behind the Broken Blood Fortress, Archduke Cedric was even more confident.
While the core manufacturing technology of these arsenals is still in the hands of the Eternal Night Commanders, their capital injection only gives them the right of first refusal.
But for the Broken Blood Castle, which has not yet mastered the technology of making black powder, a short period of time is enough.
At least they will have a steady stream of black powder to use in wartime.
If they are forced to do so, they will even forcibly take over the place by force.
Of course, this is a last resort, and it is not a wise choice to offend the Eternal Night Commander for a black powder formula.
The young earl had not been in power for long, and he had a lot of good things in his hands, and he was as scheming as an old fox.
When he took out the black powder without hesitation, it meant that he already had something better in his hands.
Archduke Cedric had a bottom in his heart, and he didn't take the threat of the Western Odin Empire to heart at all.
But the lords and nobles of the Byron Union had no way to ignore it.
Especially if it is relatively close to the broken pulse defense line, it is all uneasy.
They have already heard that the West Odin Empire has destroyed the East Odin Empire, and the lion royal court has become a thing of the past, and the number of troops is terrifying.
In this case, the methods adopted by those lords and nobles are really varied, and they do everything.
If they have publicly reprimanded them for starting a war without authorization and bringing them into danger, they have an unshirkable responsibility and should be responsible for resolving the matter peacefully, preferably by agreeing to the conditions of the Theodin Empire and allowing them to withdraw on their own.
For this type of beak cannon, Archduke Cedric is not even a bird, they also call and call, and when they really let them come out, they run faster than rabbits one by one.
There are also those who take the initiative to show goodwill to the Broken Blood Fortress, send food and troops, hoping that they can hold the Broken Pulse defense line and prevent the Western Odin Empire army from breaking through and entering their territory to burn and plunder.
This kind of person is a typical temporary cram, when Archduke Cedric recruited and asked them for donations, most of them were pushbacked, and at this time, Archduke Cedric could not give them a good face, and all the things sent to the door for nothing were accepted, as for the promise, there was no half-sentence.
Because it makes no difference whether they promise or not, they will all stick to the line of defense against the pulse.
When the Broken Pulse Defense Line can't be defended, no matter how much they promise, they won't have the energy to take care of anything else.
There are also those who take the opportunity to loot and exploit the few wealth of the people, nominally recruiting troops and horses, building fortifications, and using them to prevent accidents, but no one knows what exactly happened to the looted wealth.
This kind of person is basically dead, and most of them will die without the help of the Western Odin Empire, and anyone who is oppressed miserably will erupt, especially in the chaos.
There are also those who pack up their family's valuables, leave their loyal subjects behind, and take their families to the royal capital, or further south, for refuge.
Even if such a person survives this war disaster safely, his family is likely to inevitably decline.
They don't think about the people at the critical moment, and they still expect the people to be bent on them?
In addition to these chaotic conditions, there are also people who have made a difference, at this critical moment, leaving behind their families and businesses, taking armor and food, and spontaneously going north, ready to defend their beloved homeland.
These people are not necessarily lords and nobles, and some even come from the lower ranks, especially the mercenaries who just emerged in the industry last year.
Most of them are from the Broken Blood Fortress, and they have a deeper affection for the people and land here, and when they hear that this place is in danger, they instinctively run this way.
Moreover, the industry they are engaged in now is also closely related to the Broken Blood Castle, and if it falls here, it will directly affect their future vitality.
Don't think that being a mercenary in the Byron League doesn't have anything to do with Broken Blood Keep.
The Broken Blood Rider of the Broken Blood Castle is a big tree behind them.
As long as this big tree is there, no matter where they go, they only need to report their name, and they can make people polite three points.
Once this big tree falls, no matter how powerful their force is, they will not be able to withstand the many bandits from all over the country, and their mercenary industry will be much more difficult.
They still understand this truth.
Led by the Valesta Chamber of Commerce, the more conscientious merchants also transported all kinds of materials in a steady stream, and last year they made a lot of money because of the broken blood fortress, and now it is time for them to repay.
The relationships that have been established now are far stronger than usual.
Even if the momentum of the Orcs of the Theodin Empire is great, they are still clouds floating in the sky, and they will rush over when they rush over, and the Broken Pulse Defense Line and the Broken Blood Fortress are really rooted here.
As long as the Theodin Empire does not completely destroy the Byron Alliance, even if the Broken Pulse Defense Line is broken, it will still be rebuilt, and their border trade will hopefully continue.
What's more, the Broken Pulse Defense Line is not so untouchable, but they know very well how many arms the financially well-financed Broken Blood Fort has ordered from the Eternal Night Army Leader last year.
Because of a lot of munitions, it is not convenient for the Eternal Night Army Leaders to go out, so they are all transported on their behalf.
But for the Byron Union, which is in a crisis of faith, it is a rare opportunity.