Everyone, all the Scandinavians were ready for battle, and they were mentally prepared when the centaurs and gnolls of the Attera army appeared outside the walls.

No, maybe a little earlier, for the Scandinavians, when they first crushed Attila's ambitions under the leadership of Beowulf and with the help of the Ulsters, they had expected this.

As long as Attila remains Atila and they remain Scandinavians, there is absolutely no room for maneuver between the two sides, and there will inevitably be a violent conflict between the two until one of them falls and can no longer get up.

Siegmund's previous training paid off, and in a very short time the warriors of the entire Upland were concentrated in the square in the center of the city, which was originally the royal palace of Uppland City, and the splendid buildings built by Beowulf order, but in the fire that burned together, even the buildings made of rock could not be saved.

When the city of Upplam was repaired and rebuilt, the palace was not rebuilt, because the destruction was very complete, only a few buildings were preserved, and to rebuild it was not much different from rebuilding, and it was very unnecessary to build another royal palace in the city, it was a pure waste of manpower and material resources.

This is the edge of the entire Scandinavian Peninsula, the closest place to Finland and the Attila Empire, and it is absolutely impossible for Siegel to place the capital of the Scandinavian Empire in this place, so it is impossible to rebuild the royal palace of the Yaats.

After clearing the ruins of the original palace, this huge area was turned into an open space, a square, and after Siegmund came here, he became the commander-in-chief, and it also became the place where he trained his army.

Training an army requires a very wide area, and in Upland, where there are buildings and burnt ruins that have not been cleaned up, there is only the square in the middle to find a suitable place to train the army.

Otherwise, Siegmund would have had to take his army to the periphery of the city to train, but at such a moment when he was about to fight the army of Attila, it was undoubtedly a very stupid thing to take the army outside the city casually, and if the enemy learned of this, a small detachment of centaurs could charge and collapse the unprepared army that was training.

All the warriors stood in this square, they were divided into several phalanxes, and they stood quite neatly, this is according to their ethnic group, after all, in the Scandinavian Empire, among the Scandinavians, they also have different races according to their territory, just like the Goths, Barushingers, and Yaats.

In the ranks, there were some people who stood out in the eye, either trying to help, or wearing bandages, or having unfading cyan and purple marks on their skin.

They were all the ones who had just screamed and were about to open the gates and go out to fight the centaurs and gnolls, and fight their own momentum, but they were knocked down by Siegmund when they were about to leave the city.

At this time, there was no other emotion in their hearts, whether it was fear of Siegmund's strength or resentment of the other party's behavior, there was no more, and when the sound of the horn reached their ears, there was only one thing left in their hearts, and that was battle.

Fight, fight, fight

Every single one of them, every sober Scandinavia standing here, has only one thought left in their hearts, even those veterans who fear fighting, hate fighting, and seek peace.

The arena was very silent, only the footsteps of Siegmund echoed, and the warriors around him were waiting for him, expecting him to lead the hero who had followed Beowulf in the last battle, repelled Attila's expedition to the west, and the Blade Chieftain could lead them to victory once again.

"Attila is here, she is here for the third time, to the land of our Scandinavians. ”

"What does she want to do? What is she going to do? What is she going to do?"

"Do you know, do you understand, can you understand?"

Siegmund's words echoed through the empty square, clearly reaching the ears of everyone present, and although there were still dwarves and elves and a small number of surviving centaurs, there was nothing wrong with him using Scandinavians to survive.

No one answered Zygmund's question, not because they were afraid to answer it, not because they didn't know how to answer it, but because they couldn't understand why Zygmund was bringing it up here, which was already a well-known thing.

Of course, none of them had any stupid questioning of Siegmund, and the bruised-nosed and swollen guy standing next to him had already explained it all.

"You may have the answer in your own heart, but I want to tell you that what you think is not true, or that what you think is not completely accurate. ”

At this time, what Siegmund said was beyond everyone's imagination, and why everyone present would confront Attila was not because Attila would destroy their faith, change their customs, interfere in their lives, and occupy their land.

If it were not for these reasons, if these reasons were not correct, then what were they fighting against Atila one after another, fighting the enemy without sparing their lives?

Is it for honor?

Is it for a hobby? It seems to be a little bit there.

What else is there?

There's something else, there's something else.

People were in deep thought, dwarves and elves, and if humans could still use these things as a reason to fight, then elves and dwarves, one of them lived in the forest and the other in the hills and caves, and whoever ruled Scandinavia had little to do with them.

Even Attila is the same, after this period of understanding, they also know the specific situation of the Attila Empire, with Atira's rough rule and simple state structure, as long as they cut off communication with the outside world, it is still very difficult for them to fight with them in the forest or in the cave.

In particular, the battle with Siegel made them recognize some things and understand some realities, and their elves would not be opponents of humans and other races in a frontal battle, even if they had the help of the forest and could call for the help of animal friends and dryads.

Only by taking advantage of the special terrain like the forest, using the tactics of those elven sentinels, then that battle might not be lost, and they did not need to submit to Siegel now and become part of the Scandinavian Empire, if they could abandon the village at that time, then everything would change.

"Confused, right? I can't find the answer in my heart, right?"

"Confused, that's right, can't find the answer, that's right. ”

"Neither honor nor faith is just our habit, and those things cannot be called what our own hearts desire, they can be the reason for our anger, for our fight, but they can never be the reason for us to pay for our lives to fight. ”

Siegmund did not agree with this statement of many people present, especially the Scandinavians, which was diametrically opposed to what they had been taught and what the priests had always instilled in them.

However, the person who said these words in front of him was not only their commander, not only the last prince of Barusinga, he was also a descendant of the god Odin, and from another point of view, there was no problem with him being the spokesman of the god Odin in the main plane.

If now, these things that Siegmund said are all God Odin standing in the position of the Aesir gods through his mouth, then what are the previous ones.

The smart people are already thinking nonsense, and the stupid and straightforward people are forcibly suppressing their anger, and they are controlling their temper and emotions when the war is about to be fought.

"Where is this, where are you stepping underfoot?"

As if he didn't see the ugly looks on the faces of the people around him, Siegmund stretched out his hand, pointed to the ground under his feet, and said seriously.

"Is this just the original territory of the Yaats, called Upland? Is this just a piece of land?"

He didn't wait for someone else to answer, or he didn't need anyone else to answer at all, he already had the answer, and now he said the answer in his heart.

"Do you just think so, do most of you just think so? Then I'm going to be here, not as one of the last princes of Balusinga, not as a descendant of the god Odin, not as your commander. ”

"Just simply, tell you, as a simple Scandinavian, as a person who lives in this land like you, who was born in this land, that we are treading on more than just a land with a name. ”

"This is our home. ”

Siegmund crouched down, clutching a handful of iced dirt tightly in his hand, and said solemnly with an extremely serious expression on his face.

"We live here, whether you're a human, a dwarf, or an elf, we all live here, in this Scandinavian land. ”

"This is our hometown, this is our land, from ancient times to the present, since ancient times, I don't know what you think, I don't know if you still have those thoughts for honor, for some other thing. ”

"But here I am, and I want to tell you, that there is only one reason why I, Zygmund, am here, and why I am standing in front of the Atira army, risking my life to fight against them, and there can only be one reason, only one reason. ”

"This is where I was born, where I grew up, behind me are my relatives, my sister Siegel has just given birth to her child, I will never allow people like Attila to come to this land and harm my relatives, even if it costs my life, I will never allow such a thing to happen. ”

Siegmund's words echoed in everyone's hearts, and the anger of the past, and everything else, were rapidly retreating, like the tide of time receding, leaving behind something indescribable.

What the hell is that? Everybody doesn't know what kind of language to use to describe that feeling, what kind of words to use to describe that kind of thing.

Why, at this time, at this time when the battle was about to begin, I remembered the farewell voice of my father who never came back after leaving home and had no news.

Why, at this time, I recalled my mother's last advice, and my eyes were full of reluctance, but in the end it turned into a small sigh.

Why, at this time, I recalled the crying of the children, the newborn, loud voice, obviously so harsh, but it sounded so inexplicably happy.

And the call of the wife, in the hope of the blessing of victory, hides the reluctance to say goodbye to the possibility...... Why do these voices appear in my ears at this time, and why do they keep echoing in my ears?

No one could answer the question, and all of them fell into silence and contemplation, and the silence lasted for a long, long time, maybe a minute, maybe ten minutes, maybe an hour.

In the end, it was Siegmund who had broken the silence with the culprit of all this, and he had just been caught up in his memories, but what he recalled was a picture that would never have happened again, and he and his brothers were training in battle under the tutelage of Barusenger, while Sigomery had a wicked smile on his face, and the materials in his hands were ready to perform healing magic.

Unfortunately, these things will only exist in memory, the man named Siegel destroyed everything with his hands and his stratagem, and now Siegmund has to stand here and fight for his life.

"So, see, the reason why we are standing here, why we are fighting Attila. ”

"This is our home, behind us is our family, mother, wife, children are waiting behind us to go home, after driving out the enemy, with victory, back home. ”

"So, everyone, win, survive, and let us go home!"