After eating, Sinampe and Carla began to chat about the current situation. While Sinampei was still sleeping, she learned about the current situation from Flesova, and now, she relayed what she knew to Sinampei.

The invasion of the Caledonians came very suddenly, such an unusually cold winter, heavy snow closed the roads, and supplies were difficult, almost no one thought that the Galledonians would defeat the city of Pali from the north, and before learning the specific news, except for the hardcore king's faction like Auvergne, few of the great nobles took the initiative to lead troops to Pali - of course, if they really wanted to bring a large army to Pali, whether the king would dare to let them come or not is a matter of two words - As a result, at this moment that no one expected, the Galedonians really sent troops. Thanks to the rigid system of the Capetian kingdom, Galedonia's march was smooth.

"The army they sent out was not large, but they were all elite professional troops. "The scattered nobles along the way were no match for them, and many castles were barely held for a few days before they were bombarded by the new cannons of the other side, and they fought all the way to the outskirts of Pali before they were stopped by the crown prince himself." ”

Sinampe listened to Kara's words in silence.

"Although we can hold the battle line, the forces close to the Pali Plain are simply not enough to launch a counterattack. So His Majesty sent messengers and issued a conscription order to the nobles everywhere. ”

"A considerable part of the nobles in the south were so overwhelmed by the simultaneous attack of the Caledonian army that they had no time to look north. ”

Sinampe knew that this was because the Galedonians had complete control of the sea. Although the Kingdom of Capet was a first-class power in Eugenia, its navy was shabby—he didn't have to deal with the sailing fleets of the East, and he didn't have enough naval tradition. The only fleet was still in the hands of the Galedonians - remember that the King of Caledonia was also a de jure vassal of King Cape, and his territory in the Kingdom of Capet was widely spread along the western coastline of the kingdom, in both the south and the north. Once they go to war with a foreign country, it is easy to say, but once they fight with Caledonia, the long coastline of the kingdom becomes their backyard.

"And the nobles of the north, like the Count of Flesois, you have seen, were attacked on the way here, and if it had not been for the ingenuity of François's seizure of the warplane, I am afraid that he would have had to go around in circles with the Galledonians for several days, and would not have been able to rush to Pali to support the king. ”

"The Caledonians are not stupid, since they are alone, they have long been prepared to do whatever it takes. They sent small detachments to attack the scattered troops of the kingdom on the one hand......"

"Encirclement and reinforcements?" Si Nanpei couldn't help but interject, as P.L.A.A.'s forte, he couldn't be more familiar with this tactic.

"Yes, encirclement and reinforcements. There is no idiom in Capetian that matches the meaning, but Kara still understands the meaning of Sinampe's words very well, "They surrounded the area and sent reinforcements, and at the same time ransacked the villages everywhere. ”

At this moment, a strong wind blew and lifted the curtain on the carriage.

Sinampe's gaze turned out, and he saw a ruined village—or rather, a ruined village with no people, some brick houses still half-broken there, and some thatched huts that were already left with only some wreckage. The grass sprang out of the walls, luxuriant, and occasionally a boar or two burrowed through it, and there was no human activity, and they had made it a paradise.

Even...... Sinan Pei's pupils dilated suddenly, and he found an old and thin skeleton by the wall, and a feathered arrow was stuck in his skull.

He just leaned there quietly, unattended and uncared for.

The village was surrounded by vast plains, and there were no tall plants to be seen except for a few small trees that had only been emerging from the ground for a few years. In addition to the thick snow on the plains,

Sinampe trembled and said, "Isn't the Pali Plain one of the richest regions in the kingdom...... How did it come to this?"

It wasn't until today that he truly understood what it meant to be "ten rooms and nine emptiness" and "a thousand miles of red land".

"That's all in the past. Carla shook her head slightly, "In my memory, this place was quite rich when I was a child, but as the war became more and more tragic every year, this place was abandoned year by year. ”

"Hasn't the War of the Succession been fought intermittently for decades?" Si Nanpei was puzzled, "Why do you know that this place has only become like this in recent years?"

"Because this is no longer the time when the nobles lead a group of people to 'duel' with each other. Kara looked gloomy, "Now the commoners not only have to pay taxes, but also have to serve the nobles in the military and work for them at a critical time. ”

"Compared to the wars of the past, the real wars are now. Carla concluded.

Sinampei suddenly understood that this was the labor pain that the feudal kingdom in the Middle Ages had to go through when it turned into a modern nation-state. When the war becomes more brutal, it also stimulates the spirit of innovation and the people's sense of identity with the country, and the so-called national cohesion will also be truly produced in this era.

However, in his opinion, the root of such a tragedy is still in the incompetent nobles of the Capetian Kingdom. When he was in Auvergne, he saw a book that said that the key to Galedonia's current advantage was the well-trained professional mercenary army under the command of the King of Caledonia. At the beginning of the war, however, the main force of the Capetian kingdom was a heavy cavalry force composed of traditional military aristocrats with a rigid system, fighting separately and not obeying orders at all.

Hell if the nobles who lost the red eyes didn't pass on the burden of the war to the people!

He genuinely disagreed with such a war that caused everyone pain for the sake of a crown, but he could not change the fact that he lived in such a cruel era.

"Stop the carriage. He shouted at the groom.

"Si, what are you going to do?" asked Kara, curiously.

"I'm going to do something that will give me peace of mind. Sinampei jumped out of the carriage and turned back to Kara and smiled.

After that, the whole team was shocked to see that Sinampe rushed into the ruined village alone, and then walked to the corpse that no one cared about, and pulled out the feather arrow stuck in it.

He turned around, raised his arrows, and shouted to the team, "Who has a shovel or something? I want to bury him!"