Chapter 54: The Power to Change Everything
With Richard's return, the entire Crimson Duchy took action. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info One by one, the troops left the garrison and marched towards the ancestral highlands inhabited by barbarians.
Both Richard and Reilly are curious about the bloodline of the Barbarians, who are the elite of the warriors of the Crimson Duchy, stronger than the Dwarves, but they have little room for further progress.
The average strength of adult dwarves is level seven, and there are often strong people in their group, that is, Noland's standard Sanctuary warriors, while barbarians who are born with level ten rarely appear even fourteenth level warriors, which is very unreasonable.
In fact, barbarians can reach level ten as long as they reach adulthood, and they don't even need to go through any training, such a race, it stands to reason that it is easy to have eighteenth-level powerhouses, and when the population base is large enough, it is not impossible for legendary powerhouses to appear.
Behind this irrational phenomenon, there must be some secret hidden, which, according to Reilly's judgment, is likely to be related to the god of war in the highlands, which the barbarians believe. Both Richard and Reilly are interested in this kind of secret that can change the entire race, and the meaning of dimensional warfare is not only about resources and strength, but also about exploring the rules of different worlds.
This time, Richard mobilized an expeditionary force of up to 80,000 and a large number of reservists who were to be stationed on the borders of the Crimson Duchy and the human nations.
In the end, Richard deployed 50,000 troops in the direction of the Iron Triangle Empire, and 30,000 troops in the direction of the Sequoia Kingdom and other countries, and the meaning of deterrence is self-evident.
In the direction of the Iron Triangle Empire, the Duchy Army raised the Spider Army Banner of Anlekara, and in the direction of other countries it was the Tomahawk Army Banner of Gangde, which are two terrifying names, Anlekara is good at using soldiers, and his elite knights can always appear when others don't think of it and tear apart the enemy's front. Gangde is another style, he always rushes to the front of the battle formation, as the arrow of the troops, and is a typical brave general. Such a commander will naturally bring out the army that is not afraid of death.
However, it was Richard's Doomsday World Tree that really terrified the big guys, and when the banner moved to the northwest, it was known that the Temple of the Highland God of War was over.
The Highland God of War has already issued an oracle, summoning all believers who can fight to take up arms and assemble at the Grand Temple to fight the blasphemer Richard to the death.
There was an endless stream of believers who responded to the oracle, but there were also those who chose to escape and hide in the depths of the mountains, forests and highlands. Barbarians are also human beings, and although they are brave, they are not fearless. Over the past few years, Richard's followers have made a series of impressive achievements in the ancestral highlands, such as Minnie Mouse, Quicksand, Splash, Gangde, Minotaur, Medium Ripe, Tiramisu, ...... These names often appear in the barbarians' nightmares, making them fearful.
Before the invasion of the ancestral highlands, Richard had already enacted a policy that all prisoners of war would be enslaved, and that any tribe that resisted to the end would be enslaved, and those who resisted but surrendered at the last moment could keep women. Children and the elderly have a free identity, but to lose the territory of traditional life, the tribe that surrenders halfway can retain a small piece of residence, although the surrendered warrior will still become a slave, but can join Richard's army, and after a few years of service, he can regain his freedom, while the tribe that has not resisted can keep everything original, only the warrior must respond to the call, join Richard's army, they are treated the same as the reserve army, if they serve long enough or have made war achievements, they can also be converted into the regular army.
Richard's policy was very clear and thoroughly enforced.
Now, there were more than 5,000 barbarian warriors in Richard's army, and the combined warriors of other races had broken through the 10,000 mark.
With the advance of the army of the Crimson Principality, a large number of food, clothing, spirits and other daily necessities and all kinds of iron tools are also being transported into the ancestral highlands, and the barbarian tribes attached to Richard have changed their living standards qualitatively, no one has been frozen to death in the winter of recent years, and the number of children who have died due to hunger, disease and cold has also been greatly reduced.
Before leaving Faro last time, Richard had said, "Let the people under our rule live better, and perhaps there will be unexpected gains, such as more warriors and believers." ”
Minnie Mouse has objected to this, as the Eternal Dragon does not require faith, and Richard with a brood will not lack warriors, and enforcing this policy will only be a waste of time and money, and the effect does not seem to be obvious. In her opinion, the essence of dimensional warfare is plunder, which is also the opinion of most Norland nobles, and there have been people who have implemented a policy of tenderness in the other planes before, but most of them have failed, so there is a saying that "the orcs of Norland are more beautiful than the elves of the other plane".
Plane-based hatred is irresolvable, strictly speaking, it is a clash between different systems of rules.
Richard did not refute Minnie's words, but directly announced that the war in the ancestral highlands would be carried out according to this plan, and after making a decision, he said: "I am here for profit and strength, but I might as well pursue some ideals in the process." ”
Today, Richard's policy has spread widely, and it has not aroused as much repercussions among the alien races as it has in the nations of mankind.
The Faro is the dominant human plane, and the race's common strategy for dealing with other intelligent beings is the "Three Lights", snatching everything they can carry, killing all those who resist, and selling the living as slaves.
In the eyes of all Faroese people, Richard was an outlier and difficult to accept.
If it weren't for the fact that Richard had the title of the Three Goddesses and the Spear of Divine Punishment, there might have been some people who doubted that he was a devil from another plane.
By now, the effects of these policies were already beginning to be felt, with Richard's growing alien legions being one of them, and the calm in the occupied territories being another effect. Along the way, Richard's troops were hardly harassed by barbarians.
Of course, under normal circumstances, the alien lands conquered by the human nations would be so peaceful, because they had killed all the alien races that might resist.
Reilly has a unique view of this: "This policy does not resolve inter-ethnic hatred, but it can ease it. Of course, if you stick to this policy, you may be able to make the Crimson Duchy a land where all races can coexist peacefully in a few hundred years."
As he spoke, he glanced at Quicksand deeply before continuing: "Time is the power that can truly change everything. ”