Not because of honor, not because of hobbies, not because they were able to be taken by Valhalla to Valhalla Palace after death, and in Siegmund's speech, they seemed to find the meaning of standing here, weapon in hand, ready to fight Attila.

In order to survive, to be able to live and see their relatives back home, they will stand here, and they will fight with their lives against such a powerful enemy as Attila.

Is it okay not to fight? Is it okay to reunite with relatives without fighting, and continue to survive in this land and in their homeland? Is it okay to abandon everything, to abandon the identity of the Scandinavian Empire, and become an Attira Empire?

When they realize that they are fighting for their loved ones, for their hometown, for a stable life, and not for other things that cannot be seen or touched, and that are ethereal at this stage.

Another thought suddenly grew in my heart like weeds, I only need to surrender, like Atila's surrender, all the problems can be solved perfectly, and I can continue to live a stable and peaceful life without fighting.

Mothers don't lose their children, wives don't lose their husbands, children don't lose their fathers, everything looks so perfect, everything looks so easy to fix.

But...... They don't want to.

Reluctant to let their children ask them why in an innocent voice.

Reluctant to let their wives ask them why with angry eyes.

I don't want their parents to ask them why with a disappointed look.

So, let's fight, we can only go to fight, kill the enemy, repel the enemy, get victory, even if you die here now, as long as you can leave a peaceful life to your relatives at home, then everything is acceptable, and there is no need to regret everything.

The pre-war mobilization meeting lasted very simply, and after Siegmund spoke, they dispersed and returned to their respective quarters for their final pre-war rest.

Of course, the only people who went to rest were the Scandinavian warriors, and the patrol guards and the dwarves were not among them, the former had to be on guard against the enemy centaurs and gnolls who would approach Upland in the night, and the latter ...... The instruments that Siegmund had hoped for could only be installed by the dwarves of their makers.

Humans, even those who have studied with dwarves for a while, are still not comparable to dwarves in this regard, and it takes a dwarf to install and adjust three ballistas, and humans can barely make one, and there are many problems.

For many, no matter what race he is, whether he is a man or a woman, whether he belongs to the Scandinavian Empire or the Attila Empire, this night is the last peace.

They don't know tomorrow, they don't know if they can't see tomorrow's sunset, the orange sunset, which usually doesn't take a look at more, at this time, at this time when the night has fallen, they are so nostalgic, it is estimated that this is what they usually say, only when they know that it is difficult to meet again, they will cherish it.

The centaurs were resting, but the gnolls were not, and they gathered around Hogg to listen to him, and before tomorrow's cruel war that was coming, Hogg began to do the mental work of his gnolls, using the methods he had learned from the humans.

In fact, in terms of the character of the gnolls, these are also very unnecessary things, as long as there is some bloody stimulation on the battlefield, with the [bloodthirsty thaumaturgy] exerted by the shamans, the gnolls will frantically charge towards the enemy.

However, Hogg didn't want this, he didn't want to be like a jackal on the battlefield and just become cannon fodder, using the enemy's physical strength and ammunition.

The previous battle has shown a lot of things, the gnolls have used wolf pack tactics under his command, and have successfully defeated the elite of the Yeats led by Beowulf, which has proved that even the gnolls are not useless, as long as there are the right methods and tactics, they can also defeat the enemies who are much stronger than them.

Under such circumstances, Hogg would certainly not be willing to let his gnolls continue to use the same methods as before, and be used as cannon fodder by the Attila army.

Anyway, apart from their gnolls, there are so many centaurs, and there seems to be no problem with these cannon fodder-like work, leaving things like paving a path to the city wall with corpses for centaurs to do.

Attila said very well that Hogg's status was already second only to those knights, and with such a status, unless it was a knight's death order, other spellcasters would not be able to mobilize the troops of the gnolls, and they would not be able to directly throw off the [Bloodthirsty Thaumaturgy] as before.

However, the external elements can be solved, and the problems of the jackals themselves are not so easy to solve, their sensitive sense of smell, irritable personality, and the situation of declining IQ when fighting, so that when they are engaged in a fierce war, especially the fierce white-knuckle battle of siege warfare, it is easy for them to lose their minds.

Unlike the last time they used wolf pack tactics in the open field, now they are not just facing a pack of slow-moving enemies, but a city.

In such a situation, it is difficult for him to let the gnolls fight with the enemy, even if he can maintain the wolf pack tactics, so that the gnolls do not fall into a rage in that environment, and still maintain a calm state, it is easy to say, but it is very difficult to do.

Hogg is also a member of the Gnoll, no matter how he doesn't look like a normal Gnoll, he is a Gnoll, and there is no better understanding of a Gnoll than a Gnoll.

Faced with the problem that the gnolls will lose their cool and become crazy during the battle, Hogg has no good solution, so he can only gather the gnolls together and give orders in a serious tone.

The Gnoll race has a strict hierarchy of superiors and subordinates, and when it comes to successful hunting, the first person to enjoy the prey must be the head of the group, or the male of the family.

And now, at least among the gnolls in Attila's army, Hogg is their great chieftain, the great chief who can command all the gnolls, and now he also hopes that he can use this status, taking advantage of the gnoll's habit of obeying orders from higher-ranking gnolls, so that the gnolls can keep calm on the battlefield.

Of course, there are other things that Hogg the Gnoll has to order, compared to the other races that have other careful thoughts, and who have not yet completed their 100% loyalty to Attila.

The gnolls are really very loyal to Attila, whether it is the most ordinary gnolls below or Hogg, who has the highest status and has changed the status quo of the gnolls, they are very loyal to Attila.

Unlike the cunning race of jackals, these gnolls are more like dogs, and they have extraordinary loyalty to their masters, obviously Attila didn't give them much of anything, and even Hogg's status was only recently raised, but the gnolls, one of the three evils of the north, have inexplicable loyalty.

If you explain it purely in terms of interests, no matter how you explain it, it will not make sense, but emotionally speaking, it makes sense to dedicate everything to someone who appreciates your talents.

The jackals didn't sleep, they were so excited that they couldn't sleep at all, and tomorrow they were going to fight, and they were going to fight the enemy for the first time in a long time.

How could they have slept at such a moment, when war was about to begin, and what if the enemy rushed out of the city and attacked them while the Attila army was crossing the sea?

If, at such a moment, the crossing of the Attila army was affected and they suffered losses, then not only the gnolls below, but Hogg would not have been able to do anything like that.

Being scolded by Atira, being punished or secondary, making Atila frown, that is the real unforgivable, absolutely unforgivable thing.

"Get serious, don't let a fly go, be careful. ”

The gnolls ignored the centaurs, they didn't have a good impression of these centaurs at all, and the conflicts and contradictions such as interests were still secondary, but the most important thing was that the gnolls joined the giant rebels to fight the Atila army on the north shore of the centaurs.

In essence, the Gnolls thought that if it wasn't for the Centaur rebellion, the second expedition to Scandinavia would not have failed at all, and if two knights joined, the Gnolls didn't think they would have failed, even if there was a girl named Alice on the other side.

As a result, most of the gnolls have a very poor relationship with the centaurs, who look down on these stupid savages, and only rely on their luck to defeat the Yaatr berserkers and gain a higher status than them.

That's right, the centaurs look down on the gnolls, they think that the gnolls are nothing but numbers, and no, even numbers are good.

Centaurs believe that they have plenty of ammunition in a wide area, and with the advantage of speed, they have full confidence that they can win against dozens of times the number of gnolls.

Without the orcs as a pillar of support, the centaurs and gnolls began to fight openly and secretly in the Attila Empire, and perhaps only in the presence of the knights and Atilla would they cooperate in order to achieve the ultimate victory.

In normal times, where they could not see, the battle between the two sides had become white-hot, except for the fact that there were no superficial casualties, other things were already pediatric.

The centaurs, although they still have a certain loyalty to Attila, they stay in the Attila Empire and fight with the centaurs in the other camp, and they will not show mercy, let alone the problem of not being able to work.

Not for anything, just because they are in the Attila Empire, for the survival of the tribe, in order not to become a second orc tribe, not to be wiped out by Attila on those trumped-up charges, they need to show the necessary loyalty on the surface.

Of course, if Attila can lead them to victory, from one victory to another, and keep expanding their territory, so that they can get more land to multiply and develop, the centaurs will always be loyal, no different from those gnolls.

The air is getting colder and colder, and without the sun, the cold wind blows away the heat, and the bonfire burns brightly, dispelling the cold in the air for the people around it.

Because on the Russ steppe, Death's treatment of the Snow Mountain Druids worked, allowing them to obtain long-lost food, and even the largest number of centaurs and gnolls were able to share a lot of goodies.

Of course, they can't share high-quality food, but they can also taste inferior things, such as cheese, at least there is no problem in filling their stomachs.

It's not just the Scandinavians in Upland who are enjoying the last calm, but the gnolls who are nervously on guard duty and patrolling to prevent the Scandinavians from rushing out are also enjoying the last peace.

After Hogg's order was given, after the order to keep them quiet and calm on the battlefield, the gnolls became quiet, and if it continued like this, when the battlefield after dawn was fighting, Hogg's idea might really come true.

"Here it is, Master Attila is here. ”

A gnolloll who had been leaning against a tree for a long time suddenly stood up, his keen sense of smell easily catching a slight smell in the cold wind blowing from the east.

It was a smell that didn't belong to humans, mixed with a strong smell of rancidity, sweat, and blood.

That's the smell of Beamon, that's the smell of giants, that's also the smell of savagery, only these guys who live in the wild, don't have the slightest culture, and are full of primitives, will have such a smell on their bodies, and will not mind this stinking smell.

"Don't be in a hurry, do your duty of vigilance, this is already the last hour, don't give those Scandinavians a chance. ”

Hogg's face was also happy, but he still remembered the task he had been given now, this was the last time, and it was also the most critical time, and the normal situation was also the time when they were the most relaxed.

In the same way, it is also the most dangerous time, if the enemy wants to carry out a surprise attack, then this is the best time, at least if Hogg is the commander of the other party, if he wants to attack, he will definitely choose this time.