Chapter 33: Declaration of War
Seven days after farming, Lawrence felt a lot stronger.
Is it my delusion?
Lawrence, who was standing in the field, thought that it might be his own psychological effect, but it was okay to be idle, so he planned to try it casually.
The fields at the foot of the mountain are still a little chilly here, especially when the sun is obscured by clouds, and the temperature is still stuck at six or seven degrees.
The wasteland, which used to be a meadow, has been turned into rotten land, and this land will not be planted with crops this year, so plant some sisal seeds to see the soil quality, and then plant a large field next year after it is reclaimed.
Lawrence walked over the fields where he had labored for a week, his boots over the dried mud blocks, crushing the clods.
As he walked, Lawrence found that his steps were more powerful than before.
Stepping on something is a heavy job, some people can trample the floor, some people can't even step on a single turnip.
Unable to judge the exact strength of stepping on something with his feet, Lawrence pondered how to judge his strength.
Soon Lawrence found a suitable reference.
"I remember that I was able to throw a hoe up to 30 meters away, it was a few years ago, and I don't know if I've improved."
"There should be progress."
Lawrence quickly lowered his head and looked at the one-meter-seven-long hoe in his hand.
As soon as he thought of it, Lawrence took the ends of the hoe with both hands, and with both hands he violently broke the three-centimeter-thick wooden stick.
Click!
Lawrence turned the long hoe into a short hoe, and now the hoe has become an eighty-centimeter-long short hoe and a wooden stick.
Dropping the short stick on the ground, Lawrence moved his waist to prevent it from twisting into the waist with too much force.
Arms, waist, neck, ankles, wrists, after all moving once, Lawrence looked at a hare fifty meters ahead.
Spring is the time when rabbits are active, especially after the local high-ranking birds of prey have been killed by humans, and the number of rabbits and squirrels has increased considerably.
Lawrence locked onto his target, raised the hoe behind him with one hand, and threw it down.
The hoe shot along a straight track to the front, and the time of tens of meters was fleeting.
Boom!
The hoe struck the ground in the distance, making a dull sound.
The rabbit not far away swooped away and quickly disappeared.
Lawrence was not disappointed either, and walked slowly step by step, measuring the distance of this road.
"Saril and Delen's axes must have been practiced since childhood, and I can also get this kind of accuracy if I practice diligently, and I want to familiarize my body with that feeling, just like a sharpshooter and an archer, sometimes the feeling is greater than the experience."
"Forty-six meters."
Lawrence quickly bent down to pick up the hoe, very pleased with his result.
"I should be young and middle-aged now, and my physical fitness is much better than two or three years ago, and if I exercise, my strength and accuracy will improve a lot."
"Is it because of exercise and physical growth, or is it something else?"
Lawrence smiled, "Whatever it is, whatever it is, I'm willing to believe it, it's a good thing." β
After picking up the hoe, Lawrence went back to pick up the spare hoe and continued to do the farm work.
A long time ago, there was a belief in becoming stronger, but later I found that everyone relied more on their own wisdom, which delayed the exercise.
You don't need to work hard when you have Andrew and Sariel, and you don't need to do it after Drenk Harlan joins, and then you become a prophet, and gradually you are fixed in the framework of a prophet.
Even the biggest motivation to become stronger (Shangderen) has been achieved inexplicably, resulting in no sense of accomplishment at all.
Lawrence vented his strength on this land, and his belief in becoming stronger became stronger and stronger!
Returning home in the afternoon, Lawrence retested his strength.
A two-hundred-pound piece of wood can resist more than ten meters away from the shoulder.
Lawrence breathed a sigh of relief after putting down the log, which was used for construction.
"It's finally the barbarian average."
Lawrence, whose confidence skyrocketed, decided to challenge his cowardice, and thought with a solemn and arrogant face: "Maybe I can challenge Delenn?" β
"Forget it, I will exercise for half a month, and I will challenge Sariel in half a month, and I will challenge Deren in a month."
"The rice must be eaten in one bite, and the shortage must be opened step by step."
Lawrence set a small goal for himself, starting with challenging the women around him.
When he returned home, Lawrence's mind was full of fights.
Delenn only has strength and beastly instincts, and does not have much skill, and most fights in this era rely on strength and size.
If you can find a real battlefield killing technique, it should be effective against the barbarians.
In addition to the usual axes and knives, sometimes it is normal for weapons to fall off, and fists and arms are sometimes better than weapons.
Lawrence sat on the couch thinking about things, and Emma brought tea.
"Master, please use tea." Emma placed the tea on the table and stood on Lawrence's side.
Lawrence nodded and continued to sit there thinking about things.
Emma only then said, "Master, there is news from the Flying Fish Harbor that the people we sent to En'er Village have only been stationed there for a few days before they have been attacked by the Kingdom of Gran. β
"Hmm." Lawrence nodded, and then shifted his mind from the matter of exercise to the church.
Emma continued: "It was more than two thousand sailors who attacked us, and they were defeated by the thousand men we sent, and later reinforcements from the Hokuriku Kingdom and Haisenli also arrived in time, and we killed and wounded more than thirty people, captured four hundred men and twenty ships, and killed more than a thousand. β
Lawrence frowned.
The Dawn Church is really brave, and the Kingdom of Gran is also a powerful leader, so it really dares to fight.
If you count the time, it was almost their own side that defeated their subordinates in the Durella Kingdom, and they declared war a few days after they got the news.
If you are fighting, you also know that your side is stationed in En'er Port, and after knowing it, you will immediately organize people to sneak attack the Star Army that has not yet gained a foothold.
Then he was beaten in the head by the Star Legion, which far exceeded the average quality of the troops of this era.
Not to mention anything else, just a heavyweight ship like the Oak is crushing the small ship merchant ships of this era.
"I kind of understand the problem."
Lawrence sighed, the head iron of the Dawn Church and the Kingdom of Gran, making his previous appeasement of the noble students of the Kingdom of Gran seem like a clown.
What's the problem? Probably because I saw them as a feudal state, and the merchants at the bottom of them as the merchants of the late feudal period.
In fact, those merchants are now a group of weak people who have no right to speak, they are the people who are suppressed and enslaved by the aristocracy, and some are even the slaves of the nobility.
As for the international students, they are all a group of broken nobles who have no inheritance rights, children of poor families, or smart slaves.
Therefore, as long as the church controls the noble lords in various places, the voice of those merchants and students is really not important at all.
In this world, there is no need to consider the voices and opinions of the bottom at all, and there is no need to sell benefits to them, those big nobles are the ones who influence the times.
"Then it's good to declare war on the Kingdom of Gran." Lawrence still didn't bother to pay attention to this matter, and said casually: "In view of the fact that the Kingdom of Grand and the Church of Dawn have taken the initiative to launch a despicable sneak attack on us, I have decided to remove the equal authority of all people in this kingdom. β
"In the future, the people of the Kingdom of Glen will no longer be equally protected, and the people of Glan here will have a choice, whether to become members of the Star Church or be banished."
"Allow our territory and allies to plunder the Kingdom of Gran, and tell our allies that whoever is unwilling to send troops to assist En'er Harbor will no longer be our allies, and the previous alliance will be lifted naturally!"
"Tell the people of En'er Harbor that there is no need to accept any dΓ©tente from the Kingdom of Gran! Now that the war has begun, the people of their country, whether they are kings and princesses or merchant soldiers, have only two choices. β
"Be a slave, or be dead!"
Emma quickly passed Lawrence's order to the town of Phumesius, and the people of Phoemixiu quickly sent a message to the Cold Harbor.
Suliman, once the native of the Wave Kingdom, led most of the pirates of the Wave Kingdom, as well as the ice pirates led by Akda and others from the Wakiri people, quickly drove the even greater Revenge out of the port.
The Barbarian Legion is not only good at naval warfare, but also good at land combat, and both the Vakiri and the fierce pirates of the Wave Kingdom have suppressed the Kingdom of Gran before joining the Guild.
Now after joining the association, everyone's combat effectiveness has been greatly improved with the abundant food and complete equipment, as well as the stable logistics brought by the organization.
Even the men of the Wave Kingdom, who used to not fight tough battles, have become fearless of death at this time because of the wives and children in the newly built family, as well as the temptation of the title of war merit.
Excellent sail skills, sturdy ships, strong class qualities, and bloodthirsty legional willpower.
The two western powers are the Kingdom of Gran, with a population of 900,000, and the Kingdom of Io, with a population of 600,000.
The Star Church is now only about 75,000, and more than half of them are children under the age of fourteen.
If 20,000 men and women marry and have children, they will give birth to 10,000 people in one year, and 10,000 in the next year.
At present, it is the eighth year of the new calendar, and the population has exceeded 10,000 since the fifth year, and the number of newborns every year is several thousand thousands, and last year it was more than 10,000.
Lawrence still thinks he is not wrong to want peace.
But since it was fought, then it was fought! There is no need to negotiate and consider the middle way, and there is no need to woo anyone or take into account the international influence.
It's useless to win over anyone, and now we don't pay attention to that.
Whoever is superior in strength is the king!
Obviously, they have destroyed the Wave Kingdom, and the Gran Kingdom is not afraid of this, and dares to continue to declare war on the Kingdom of Stars, which can only show that the other party really does not have the slightest awe.
Although there is a good negotiation with the princess and prince of the Kingdom of Gran, it is based on the connection between countries, and there is no need to think about this relationship to try to save anything.
After the war, in order to prevent the assassination of iron-headed babies like the Kingdom of Gran and the Church of Dawn, Lawrence took Sophia with him, and reduced his outings, only going out to work hard when there were many guards to protect him. (End of chapter)