Three days later, Abu packed his bags, rode on a beautiful black horse with a white star on his forehead, and took a few armed retinues and a few servants all the way from Rakkad to Karaman, but Karaman was not his terminus.

He had agents in Karaman, and they were able to find him employers in the northern kingdoms, and he felt that they could arrange for him to enter Neustria on his behalf.

Originally, he could have waited until a caravan departed, and it would have been much easier to follow the caravan to get a commission, and to enjoy the supplies and accommodation provided by the caravan, but that caravan would not leave until after the spring bazaar was over, and Abu could not wait until that time.

Ram and others felt that his enthusiasm was very commendable, and even gave him an extra good horse for foot strength.

But the reason why Abu was so zealous was that he wanted to see which side of his bet should be placed, and to put it bluntly, to see which of his employers could sell it for a good price without losing himself.

"The war of annihilation......," he thought to himself, "but whose kingdom will it be destroyed?" ”

If it had been a year ago, he would have said without hesitation that it would have been Neustria. The Lackadians, who had destroyed many nations in the south, east, and north, were skilled warriors, and were as secure as the earth on a ship or on horseback. Unlike the clumsy archers of the northern kingdoms, the Lackadians were particularly skilled with bows, firing arrows from galloping horses, and unlike the archers of the northern kingdoms, they were not as skilled in close combat as the archers of the northern kingdoms, and each of them was no less skilled with a sword than with a bow. They possess siege technology left over from ancient empires, and can make catapults and battering rams. Tunnels and ladders will also be excavated. They were a group of newly civilized savages, with the strength of the barbarians. There are also civilized people's war opportunities, no matter what country they fight with. They all have a good chance of winning.

And, unlike the weak royal power and the civil wars of the nobles and warlords everywhere - the Neustria was a microcosm of the chaotic and strife northern kingdoms - the Lackadians were united under the banner of the Grand Governor. It is true that there are many chiefs who are not subordinate to each other and build an independent military force based on the children of the family, and they are not necessarily convinced by each other, but there are so many prey around them, and the hunters know that it is better to fight together than to rob each other of the limited range of horses.

In addition, their beliefs also call them to the outside world.

Unlike the beliefs of the northern nations, Shinrikyo forbade slavery within the religion. Therefore, if they were to wage war with each other, as the Neustrian nobles did, they would not be able to catch slaves who could be sold for money. In order to catch a slave that can be used to summon and sell for money, the knife must be pointed outwards and the arrow must be pointed outward.

The Maasai people of the African land have an ancient belief that God gave the land to all Africans and cattle to the Maasai people. If other Africans had cattle, they must have been lost from the Maasai or stolen from the Maasai people. Therefore, the Maasai do not count stealing other Africans' cattle as stealing. Their children herded cattle at an early age, listened to the stories of the old people who stole cattle, and when they reached the teenagers, they began to sneak into other people's village cattle pens at night to steal cattle (a custom that is now banned by the local government)

These truth believers have similar beliefs. But they felt that the truth had not given anything to the abominable heathen, so the pagans who had lived in their ancestral lands for generations. In the eyes of believers of truth, they are all abominable invaders - even though they have just set foot on the land where others have lived for thousands of years. But in the eyes of the believers of the truth, those who do not believe in the truth. They are all invaders, and they have invaded the land that the truth has given to the believers of the truth, so it is perfectly legitimate, legitimate, and righteous to "resist" these unarmed pagan civilians with knives, bows and arrows - not to mention that according to the doctrine of truth, pagans cannot be counted as human beings.

What hunter would have a troubled conscience when shooting an arrow because a rabbit has no bow and arrows? And what hunter does not rejoice when he digs a pheasant's nest?

It was with this in mind that the Truth carried out the slaughter of the infidels' women and children, but it was fair to say that they did no worse than the nobles of faith in Nyustria and other northern nations in dealing with their cousins, except by eating human flesh.

The Laccades had both technical and organizational superiority, and their religious beliefs cheered them on, so it seemed that Neustria would not have a chance of victory.

If Abu had made such a judgment a year ago.

As a veteran mercenary who traveled from nation to nation on behalf of the Pope, and fought for emperors, kings, and nobles everywhere, he knew Neustria and the northern kingdoms.

The basic situation of Neustria is half a pound and half that of its neighbor Kolomna - there is a nominal king, but more of a tribal union than a king - and many of the chiefs of the tribal alliance are more authoritarian. Nominally, the nobles of the land swore an oath of obedience to him, and he also collected fines from some nobles who broke the law, but they did not secretly say that they robbed household food, sold their good citizens into slavery in foreign countries, and even fought civil wars.

In this environment of state organization and collapse, it is speechless that, although there were frequent civil wars and foreign wars in Neustria, the nobles of Neustria were not very capable warriors among the nations, and in the early years a king saw the clumsiness of their bowing skills and ordered every soldier to carry a bow and twenty arrows - the parchment with this command written on it was shelved along with other parchments such as the priest could not marry, and the warriors of Neustria were still the same as before, and could not shoot arrows on horseback. It's not that they really can't shoot on horseback, but the accuracy of their archery is so bad that they basically can't hit the enemy, so it's better to ram the opponent with a spear.

Their religion, the philosophical idea that "this world is not worth cherishing, that every suffering is temporary, that it is the path to eternal happiness", was useful in appeasing the suffering of the nobles and commoners who paralyzed them, but not in resisting foreign enemies.

Whether it is a comparison of the organization of the state, the unity of the internal and external, or the individual skill of the warriors, or the ability of religion to encourage civilians to fight, the kingdom of Neustria does not seem to be a match for the Lackadians.

Looks......

However, Turnest is the variable in a qiē. (To be continued......)