Chapter 40: Korrath Army Mission Office
Early the next morning, the Kolas army assembled, each received a piece of felt, cotton coats, antifreeze cream, and other materials that were clearly reserved for cold combat, and then set out on a journey to Icewind Dale. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
At this time, after a period of fruitful military and civilian friendship activities, the reputation of the Korath Army was no longer limited to the vicinity of the Fort of Atonement, but could be said to have penetrated deep into the countryside, and women and children were well known.
The recruitment exercise has also been effective. At first, the local young people still had many doubts and concerns about joining the army, but later Roland organized them to visit the barracks, taste the marching food, and openly talked about the merits and promotion system in the army, as well as the most concerned issue of the young men - how much money they can get after enlisting in the army.
Roland answered people's questions one by one, and the mobilization work was very effective, and more than half of the visitors went directly to the recruitment office to sign up for the army that day.
Rudolph thought that this was a good practice, so he asked Roland to find a few right-hand men to set up a military propaganda office, and write a written report on the details of the visit, which was popularized throughout the army and formed a system.
Roland quickly put up the shelves of the mission office, and found Ivan who had a lot of ink in his stomach as an assistant, Alexander's education level was almost poor, but he could speak well, he was born in Orion and had no separation from the rural youth, and it was easy to get along, so he was also transferred by him as an assistant.
Lyudmila also volunteered to join this newly established department, responsible for receiving those village girls who were interested in joining the army, and enthusiastically told the people: "Our Kolas division is not only the army of the empire, but also the guardian of the people of the Far East!" There are a lot of female soldiers like me, no one dares to discriminate against us, and our slogan is 'Women can hold up half the sky'! ”
Roland wanted to laugh. Lyudmila was critical of the slogans he wrote, but praised the phrase "women can hold up half the sky", it seems that the demon of feminism is taking root in her heart, and it must be nipped in the bud, but she can't let her teach those simple village girls badly.
His ghost abacus was destined to be defeated, and Lyudmila, who was tall and tall, was a goddess-like existence in the eyes of the country girl, who admired her strength and envied her personality.
Especially when Lyudmila led a group of female rangers to severely suppress the hooligans and ruffians in the village, and brought out those men who were usually fond of drinking and beating their wives to criticize and educate in public, her idol status in the eyes of local women was even more unshakable.
Encouraged by Lyudmila, there were more young girls than young men in the army, much to the surprise of the old guys in the command.
Ivan seized this hot spot and wrote a sinister speech, questioning that "the Far Eastern masters did not plant" and "courage is not as good as that of girls".
The article managed to pull tons of hatred, and the next day there were three times as many young men who came to sign up for the army.
After more than a month of recuperation, the size of the Korath Army has doubled, and of course, the newly recruited soldiers still need to be trained, and they can only be considered regular troops after obtaining extraordinary professions, and the main force is still the original 1,000 veterans.
After several actual combat trainings, including Roland, Ivan and Alexander, the rookies who only passed the transfer trial this year have all grown up at an astonishing rate, and most of them have been promoted to second lieutenants or even lieutenants, each leading a group of recruits to train diligently and begin to play their own roles.
Major Roland Kolas, the newly promoted Operations Staff Officer and Chief of Missions, has reason to believe that these rookies around him at this moment may not be able to grow into generals shining in the Far East in a few years.
According to the plan, the Imperial cavalry division, which had expanded to 3,000 men, successfully reached the Cassus Plateau at an average altitude of more than 2,000 meters in late May.
In late May, the sun is strong on the plateau, the snow melts, the dense coniferous forests can be seen everywhere during the march, and the empty and magnificent scenery of the high-latitude glacial belt is quite moving.
However, the closer you get to Icewind Dale, the more destructive the vegetation becomes. Roland took the reins and saw from afar a jungle set on fire, smoke billowing into the sky, the roar of wild beasts, and the mournful cry of birds, which made him feel heavy.
"It's all a good thing the orcs did!" Lyudmila gritted her teeth, the forest rangers hated this kind of wanton destruction of natural ecology the most, "In order to drive birds and beasts out of the dense forest and hunt for fun, they burned the entire forest without care, it is simply mad and unpunished!" ”
Roland was not an environmentalist, in fact he was more on the side of the Industrial Party before the crossing, and he was respectful of extreme environmentalists.
However, witnessing this human tragedy, he fully agreed with Lyudmila's curse on the orcs - in any era and in any society, all acts of burning forests that do not aim to develop productive forces are shameful crimes.
Occasionally, birds and beasts escaped from the smoke-filled woods, and Roland saw a huge black eagle spread its wings and glide crookedly, one wing drenched in blood, and finally lost its strength, and was forced to land on a rock, gather its wings, and let out a long cry of sorrow.
Roland grabbed the reins and raised his palm towards the wounded black eagle, intending to release the light to heal it.
The black eagle seemed to be frightened and overly nervous, and when he saw the movement of his palm, he immediately flipped his wings in pain, and stumbled away into the distance.
Seeing that it was out of the radiation range of the Holy Healing, Roland shook his head, not wanting to delay any longer, so he wanted to urge the horse to go.
"Wait, maybe I can help it." Lyudmila rolled over and dismounted, whistling at the Black Hawk.
What seems to be an ordinary gesture actually contains the unique ability of the ranger, "animal friendliness", the black hawk turned his head when he heard the sound, and his beautiful amber eyes looked at Lyudmila curiously, and slowly approached her.
At this moment, there was a commotion in the bushes, and several hyenas spat out their scarlet tongues.
These predators who bully the weak and fear the hard generally do not dare to provoke humans, especially the soldiers wearing steel armor and swords, but smelling the bloody smell of the wounded eagle, they can't help but salivate, and move closer to this side intentionally or unintentionally, as if they are testing the attitude of Roland and Lyudmila.
Roland sneered and took out the light crossbow from his saddle bag. Before he could make a move, the giant girl beside him sank her face first, her cherry lips squirmed, and she spit out a string of incantations praising nature, her palms turned outward, and the brilliance of magic emerged, and the ground squirmed, and countless vines came out of the ground, firmly entangling those hyenas who didn't know whether to live or die.
Roland raised an eyebrow, recognizing that this was the "entanglement technique" that Lyudmila had only learned a long time ago, and it was also the most practical of all the Rangers' one-ring magic techniques.
"Wild dogs, taste this." Roland sneered and raised his crossbow, and the sharp steel arrows pierced the hyena's throat with a wind-breaking scream, bursting a large scarlet and causing the rest of the hyenas to whine and whine.
Lyudmila couldn't bear it: "Forget it, let them go." ”
Roland shrugged helplessly and put away his crossbow. Of course, he knew that people like the Rangers and Druids had an almost fanatical worship of nature, often taking it as their duty to maintain the ecological balance at the expense of their own countrymen, and that they were similar to the extreme environmentalists on the planet.
Roland secretly thought: "I have to take the time to give Mira a a good lesson in evolution, I don't know if her natural faith will be shaken because of this." ”