Chapter 101: The End of the Battle of Norma

It is not an easy task to lead a team.

Panda, a holy warrior, can't have the skills of a commander, and he himself knows nine out of ten things like leading troops - he doesn't know anything, although there is technical support from other traversers, but it is not easy to turn written knowledge into practical actions after all.

He also knows that everything is difficult at the beginning, and he is not in a hurry, anyway, there is nothing urgent now, and he has the right to see the world.

The makeshift caravan walked unhurriedly on the road, gradually approaching the kingdom's capital, Terrela.

The group of former pirates hesitated for a few days, but finally couldn't help but ask Panda if they could go to Terella - they were either archipelagic or Molai, and no one had really been to Trella City, and they were quite curious about this cultural city.

The city of Trella has a long history, dating back more than 2,000 years. The most famous thing in the city is the Continental Congress nearly 800 years ago - the "Continental Calendar" used in the Western Continent today is the year of the Continental Congress as the first year of the Continental Calendar.

Many of the sages lived here, leaving behind countless stories and cultural monuments. But all the tourists and tourists in the West Continent, as long as there are conditions, all want to visit here, reminisce about the past, and express some humanistic feelings.

Originally, when they were pirates, they ate and drank every day, and they didn't care about culture or history. But as they washed their hands ashore, their way of thinking gradually changed, and at this moment they wanted to learn to remember history like those vassal and elegant old hats, which really surprised the pandas.

There's nothing wrong with that, though. It's better to have a culture than to have no culture. Sean emphasized to Panda that the combat effectiveness of a literate army is much higher than that of an uneducated army - with culture, the quality is easy to improve, and with the same number, of course, a high-quality army is more powerful.

In this world, high quality means high quality templates. Judging from the results of actual military training, soldiers who have completed literacy education will generally be able to upgrade from a white template to a green template after a period of ideological and political education, and their growth will be greatly enhanced.

But Antony, Count of Tarakhan, did not approve of this approach. He believed that the way to govern the people was to "strengthen their physique and barbarize their spirits", and that the improvement of cultural level would only increase the spiritual needs of the people and the army, and increase the cost of rule.

"The relations of production must correspond to the level of productive forces, and at the present level of productive forces, the stupid people and the army, who can only carry out orders, are the most suitable. He said this during the Traverser's internal discussion.

Naturally, some people objected to this statement, for example, Locke ridiculed him for not reading correctly, obviously "civilizing his spirit and barbarizing his body". Anthony said that there is no point in copying rigidly, there is no absolute truth in the world, and adapting measures to local conditions is the way to govern the country...... The two sides quarreled again, and the result was the same as several times before, and it ended in nothing.

Regarding these two views, Panda said, "I don't study politics, and I don't know which one is right", but since he has the conditions, he doesn't mind trying one of them.

Anyway, there are uneducated strong men everywhere, even if the combat effectiveness of these pirates declines because of their culture, it will not prevent them from changing their careers to become farmers.

Seeing that Trera was about to arrive, at this time, another big event happened.

The army of the Molai Business Alliance finally could no longer hold on, and lost the entire Norma Line.

From mid-April 778 to early July 779 in the continental calendar, the Battle of Norma was fought for nearly fifteen months. Compared to the game's campaign, which lasted less than two months, the Thracians paid a huge price for breaking through the Norma Line. Not to mention the hundreds or thousands of times more war materials consumed, the number of manpower lost was also many times greater.

In the history of the game, the Thracians did not suffer much losses in this battle, except for one loss in the early part of the battle when they stormed Norma, that is, the diving army that attacked Pollock Harbor suffered relatively large losses - in order to hold the pass in the rear and completely cut off the Molai army, they fought several tough battles, and less than half of the 2,000 people survived in the end. Combined with the losses from frontal battles, the total battle losses will not exceed three thousand people.

But in this world, because of the influence of the traversers, this battle not only dragged on for a long time, but also fought fiercely. In particular, the fighting was mainly concentrated on the frontal battlefield, and the Thracians had to go through one or two battles and sacrifice almost every step forward in order to break through the Norma line.

According to the statistics of the Molai side, in this battle, a total of more than 14,000 Thracian soldiers were killed, and the losses of the Molai side were more than 18,000, the gap is obvious, but it is not unacceptable.

"With such a big geographical advantage, the battle damage is still higher than others, it's a shame!" Sean commented in the group chat channel, "I really don't understand how they have the face to say 'the gap is acceptable'!"

However, compared to the 40,000 troops in the game plot, who were wrapped in a circle, were sacrificed with blood after surrendering, and were sacrificed as a sacrifice for the Thracians to refine legendary magic props, the current situation is obviously much more beneficial to Molai.

The greatest and most direct impact of the traversers on this world clearly appeared in front of everyone.

And their impact doesn't end there.

After the complete occupation of the Norma Line, it was only natural that the Thracians would march south to the heart of the Federation. However, when the army passed through the mountains of the copper coin defense line, I don't know what happened, a landslide of no small scale suddenly broke out, and at least two or three thousand Thracian soldiers died in the landslide, including Jakael Henry, the eldest son of the Marquis of Henry, the holy son of the Church of the God of War.

This was supposed to step into the legendary advancement in the future, and became one of the supreme rulers of the entire Thracian Empire under the name of "Duke of Iron Wall", and even a strong man who threatened the imperial power.

When he was dug out from under the rubble, his whole body was twisted and distorted.

It is said that a big man like him can find a priest to perform the resurrection. But when the priest hurriedly arrived, he found that the War Divine Emblem that had been protecting him all this time had helped him unfavorably - because of the existence of the War Holy Emblem, the divine magic of other churches had little effect on him, and the resurrection naturally failed.

As for the Church of the God of War...... Their bishop happened to be walking with Jakael, and their bodies were almost together.

He was successfully resurrected, but after being resurrected, there would be a long period of weakness, and even if he wanted to resurrect Jakael, he would be powerless.

In the end, the future Duke of Tiebi died in the Norma Mountains, under an inexplicable landslide.

After confirming the news from the traversers who had infiltrated the Thracian army, Liu Daoqing, who presided over the landslide, laughed and was very proud.

An action that was not good-looking, and finally killed a future legendary powerhouse, this awesome, he can blow for at least ten years!