Chapter 418: Watching the Battle (Part II)
Although that was in the past, in the well-known youth, Luo Ming did commit a little bit of secondary disease.
Even now, he was a little impulsive, wanting to dance before this sea of fire and sing a speech of "Gentlemen, I love war".
This is probably the hopeless childishness of men, although it is rare and valuable, but Luo Ming only thought about it in his heart, and did not put it into practice.
After all, he is not like the crazy boss in a literary work, and almost all of his followers are a group of hopeless war maniacs.
If you make too appalling actions, it is just a kind of self-esteem, it will not do any good, and it will make allies and neutrals unnecessarily afraid of themselves.
It's better to kill an enemy on the battlefield and laugh again. But Luo Ming is now fighting a completely crushing battle, burying the enemy in the sea of fire with artillery fire from 300 meters away, and the honor and heroism of any battle are gone.
If the other party is a monster or a cultist, it is better to say that it is completely possible to take all means against such an enemy, but now the Three Ape Tribes are just normal human opponents, although Luo Ming and his subordinates hate these guys who killed the envoys of the auxiliary sacrifice, but others are not so hateful.
Although there are no in this world, compassion is only in the minority, and even the common people will watch the death penalty as entertainment. But watching so many people burned to death, normal people won't find it funny.
So Luo Ming began his speech in a different tone.
"Why they should be burned by the flames, it is not for nothing, nor is it because I am so cruel that I can take the wailing of the innocent as beautiful music, and take the bowl of the skull and drink the wine made of blood......"
Everyone laughed at the original words of Lomin—this is exactly how the character of a "great demon" is described in an opera, and because it is so classic, it is stuffed into various stories by bards to describe the excessive cruelty and evil of certain people.
Although the representatives of the various tribes didn't understand this stalk, they also knew that Luo Ming had not killed a lot during this time, and was leading the entire ape to carry out construction, and he himself didn't look like that kind of bloodthirsty demon king, so they probably understood that it was just a joke.
Of course, being able to make jokes about the fire also proves that Luo Ming is definitely not easy to mess with.
And after Luo Ming made this joke and diluted the solemn atmosphere a little, he continued:
"Although I said it once in my heart before, after all, it was very brief, so I will take this opportunity to say it again.
That tribe is called the Three Ape Division, which is a branch and vassal of the Ape Division. Originally, the ape tribe killed them, but now that I have become the new master of the ape, the previous lord of the ape tribe has also bowed to me, and the original ape tribe has become my direct subject, so I will naturally inherit the jurisdiction and suzerainty. ”
This point, whether from the perspective of feudal law or common sense, could not be more correct.
If the Ape King or the Great Chief of the Ape Department became an independent nobleman, although he himself was loyal to Luo Ming, it would be difficult for Luo Ming to cross him and control his subordinates.
However, now the Ape King himself has only received the status of a quasi-lord, and he is still a remote leader - of course, the annual income is much stronger than that big dog, and Luo Ming has also arranged for five families to take care of it, so it is regarded as a zookeeper, in short, it is completely enough.
"And, in order to make them accept this conversion, I sent a worthy assistant priest to preach to them the benefits of accepting my rule, and two soldiers to protect him.
However, the three were subjected to a shameful sneak attack, two were killed on the spot, and only one soldier returned in his last life. ”
Luo Ming showed a sad expression, this is not false, there is not even the slightest exaggeration and performance in it.
Attacking the lord's emissary is an absolute felony, and if the lord is in a bad mood, even if he launches a raid, it doesn't seem to be a particularly unusual thing to set fire to before leaving.
"It's time to teach these barbarians a lesson!" shouted one of the barons, already clenched into his fists, drawing the eyes of the messengers of the other tribes.
Luo Ming ignored him and continued.
"Out of the utmost precaution, and because of my mercy, I have again sent messengers to announce to them the commandment that I may forgive the rest of them for their sins by surrendering the murderers.
However, even such benevolent conditions seemed to them to be just a joke.
They attacked my messenger directly, and he narrowly escaped, otherwise I would have lost another loyal and brave subordinate. ”
At this time, even the messengers of the tribe mostly felt the same way.
Attacking the messenger sent by the master twice in a row, there can only be one explanation for this - the opponent's wings are stiff, and they want to fly solo or even rebel!
For the tribes, there is only one solution - fight until they submit. Of course, sometimes they can't hold back, so they simply fight until they perish.
Speaking of this, Luo Ming had already laughed angrily: "Ha, the lord of Meiquan, the guardian of the Van Xi, the benevolence of my Luo Ming, seems to be insignificant to them!"
Well, well.
I said—well, then let them see if anyone can bear this anger that is heavier than mercy!"
He waved his hand to his side, motioning for the crowd to look at the elated soldiers who felt that their revenge had been avenged.
"This is not my anger alone, but the anger of hundreds of people in the whole army, and the anger of a total of 10,000 people in my Meiquan New District!"
For a moment, everyone showed a look of awe.
In fact, Luo Ming now has more than 8,500 people under his command, and these 10,000 people can be regarded as slightly irrigated - but he is actually very disciplined, and he has not done anything like 80,000 is called 150,000, 200,000 is called 500,000, and 300,000 is called million.
Moreover, 8,500 people sound so ugly? How domineering is more than 10,000 people.
Although he irrigated a small amount, 10,000 people was definitely not a small number.
The 10,000 people of the ancient Celestial Empire are nothing - that's because in ancient times, the Celestial Empire was the great power that had always been at the forefront of the entire earth, and it could be said that it was an outlier in history.
Athens and Sparta in ancient Greece were the two major overlords at that time, leaving behind many well-known heroic legends and war stories, but Athens plus slaves and Gentiles was only about 300,000, and the total population of Sparta was only 260,000.
As a nation, 10,000 is indeed a small number, but as a noble lord, 10,000 is considered to have crossed a threshold - meaning that he can pull out an army of thousands on his own at a critical moment, plus the armies of allies and vassals, to the extent that the number of troops can overwhelm the total population under any baron.
In other words, even if all the people are soldiers, they will still be killed.