Chapter 39: The Expedition
As I once said, all living things are inherently life-like and die-bad.
But when physical death becomes inevitable, people will naturally look forward to the afterlife or the eternal life of the soul under fear.
As a traverser, Liang Tian understands this very well. Because all the religions of the previous life often made a fuss about this. Therefore, he single-handedly fabricated the lie of the kingdom of God, satisfying the expectations and fantasies of those believers who are afraid of death, and at the same time making the believers more unbreakable in their beliefs.
It's just that as an insider, Rammer and Bell don't know that it's fake.
Therefore, they are very confident that "if you believe in our Lord, you will be saved." Let the soul be immortal, and enjoy peace and joy. How can anyone in this world refuse such a "gift"?
Therefore, as a witch, Bell naturally thought of a word - mission.
Even now, the witch bell still doesn't know what religion is.
But when she learned that there was a kingdom beyond the mountains that was bigger than the tribes, she had the idea of going to the unknown country herself.
She felt that since God had given her all kinds of otherworldly powers, she had an obligation to spread God's faith to every corner of the world. Let more people believe in God for salvation.
So that night, the dressed bell came to Liang Tian's huge body. Then, she knelt on the ground respectfully and told Liang Tian her thoughts word by word.
Looking forward to Liang Tian being able to guide her at this moment, should this matter be done?
And Liang Tian thought about it, and also felt that the idea of a bell was a good idea. From the experience of previous lives, we can see that the spread of faith and culture does not necessarily require war.
As a result, some of the branches in front of the bell emitted a faint soft light, and under the light, the witch's mood was also soothed. At the same time, words of comfort sounded deep in her heart.
This made the witch even more determined, believing that what she was going to do next was necessary and necessary.
So the next morning, after praying rain or shine, she told the chief of the Holy Land.
She decided to take the warriors and witches who were willing to follow her to the unknown land.
It's just that she didn't expect that her side had just made a decision. Far away in the white wolf, an unexpected change happened.
The warlike Bamboo Tiger gathered a large number of warriors and warriors and some witches who wanted to use war to spread their faith without the slightest permission.
A full two hundred warriors, three thousand warriors. But the leaders of the three gathering places, including the rock cliffs, were willing to respond to him.
They held a sacrifice in front of the statue of Liang Tian with great fanfare, killing nine cows and nine sheep. Then all the warriors, warriors, and shamans fell to their knees.
They swore that they would bring victory to Liang Tian, hoping that Liang Tian would always protect them.
Seeing this, Liang Tian did not encourage but did not stop it.
Just because at this moment, the white wolf has already crossed the western mountains and gone to the country called Xihe. Then, with what the white wolf saw and heard, he couldn't help but let Liang Tian realize it.
The tribe of giant trees that believed in him might not be enough to defeat the nation. But this primitive state, which was composed of city-states, could never climb over the mountains to destroy the tribes.
In this way, what Zhuhu did at the moment, Liang Tian had no intention of stopping.
Because if you don't try them all, then even Liang Tian himself doesn't know which is better, armed invasion or cultural invasion.
Therefore, under his silent gaze, the expeditionary force led by Zhuhu himself set off first.
They traveled all the way west, first to the statue on the top of the western mountain to worship. Then the army continued on its way, climbing over the mountains in fourteen days. The 3,200-strong contingent was thus reduced to 3,000.
But they still managed to reach that strange country and captured the city when the lord of Higashiyama Castle, Higashiyama Bear, was completely defenseless.
However, it also produced a lot of killings.
Dongshan Castle, which originally had 8,000 people, almost 4,000 people died in this battle. So much so that three days after the Bamboo Tiger captured Dongshan City, blood and corpses were still everywhere.
It's just that this didn't have the slightest impact on the bamboo tigers. They are still cheering for this great victory, especially after a statue of Liang Tian was erected in the city.
"Warriors, warriors. I knew we were going to do it. From this moment on, the glory of our Lord will always shine on this land. And we, too, will spread the glory of our Lord to farther and wider regions. ”
In front of the statue, the bamboo tiger spoke excitedly.
They didn't care at all, the survivors in the city hated to kill them, and then completely destroy Liang Tian's statue.
This cost the expeditionary force something. But that same night, the wooden carving they had erected for Liang Tian was destroyed by one hand. And the people who do this are, of course, the survivors of the city.
"These shameful, lowly godless, they have to pay for it!"
The survivors who participated in the incident and were caught red-handed were set on fire and burned to ashes.
But even so, the wails were mixed with angry curses. Seeing this scene, some soldiers and warriors in the expeditionary force showed happy expressions, but some couldn't help but turn their faces away, and couldn't bear to listen or watch.
But no matter what, all that the expeditionary force did in Higashiyama City was still spread. Several nearby cities were thus in good faith.
However, under the personal leadership of Zhuhu, two days later, the expeditionary force still successfully conquered another city.
A city called "Kaede" is about the size of Higashiyama Castle.
It's just that this time the battle was obviously much more tragic than the capture of Dongshan City, and the expeditionary force lost more than 200 soldiers and six or seven warriors. But even so, the city lord of Maple City still broke out at the last moment with his guards.
Because in this battle, the expeditionary force saw a kind of livestock that could be used in war that had never been seen before—horses.
The land of this country called Xihe was inhabited by wild horses, so they domesticated horses into livestock and later used them for warfare.
And this is something that the tribe does not have.
Therefore, when they saw those horses pulling chariots, the warriors of the tribe could not help but look a little panicked, and finally there were such casualties.
But they were victorious, and their morale was still high.
So in the next half month, the expeditionary force captured two more cities in a row, killing thousands of people before and after.
However, this is the end of it, because after all this time, Xihe finally gathered their army. And this army consisted of 500 horse-drawn chariots and 8,000 heavily armed warriors.