Chapter 584
In contrast to ignorance, the unknown is the source of fear!
The ignorant are fearless, and that's what it means.
Generally speaking, people are more indifferent and ignore something that they don't know about or have heard of. Anyway, I don't know what will happen, so I subconsciously think that nothing will happen, and naturally there is no fear!
For the unknown?!
It's a different story! You know a little bit about it, but you don't know exactly how it is, and that's why it's hard to think about it! Especially the fear and fear of the unknown, which brings fear!
The demise of the Ottous Legion was an unknown to the barbarians. Except for knowing that Oss died at the hands of the Terran coalition army, and as a result, the entire army was annihilated and made into Jingguan, I don't know anything else!
I don't know why Oss didn't escape like all the defeated barbarian leaders in the past, I don't know how the Terran coalition managed to sweep up a million-strong barbarian army when they fought in the field, and I don't know what happened inside!
For many people in the barbarian race, they can only put themselves in the position of Os, to imagine, to figure out!
Interestingly, Oss has a very high record and prestige in the grassland, so many people will unconsciously put themselves in the position of Os's weakness, so they ...... They were horrified to find that they might also be wiped out by the Terran coalition?!
Soon, the fear of this speculation immediately permeated the barbarians heading south. Even the other two barbarian teams, which had made decent progress, put down their footsteps and began to consider retreating or even leaving north and returning to the grassland.
"No!" Salton once again rejected his subordinates' suggestion that the barbarians retreat, and retorted very strongly, "For the first time in thousands of years, my barbarian race can break through the 'Scarlet Fortress', and we must find a way to build a solid frontier fortress here, so that in the future, my barbarian race can go south at any time, and change the dilemma of the barbarian race that has stagnated for thousands of years!"
What else can you say about this?!
Are they going to say to the barbarian king Salton that this time it's just luck, we've reaped enough benefits to take it when we see it?!
It is true that once these words are spoken, they will definitely be tied to the flagpole immediately and be extremely criticized, and they may even be ruined!
How did these barbarian leaders know that what Salton needed now was not a big victory for the barbarians, but wanted the barbarians who went south to return north after accepting defeat!
Judging from Oakes' intelligence, they really have a big deal this time!
The ancestral land of the barbarian race has now become a Jedi, not to mention the barbarian race, even living creatures can hardly survive there in a short period of time! Judging by Oakes' dissipation speed of the highly poisonous heaven and earth aura that permeated the air, it is impossible for it to become the ancestral land of the barbarian race for at least a hundred years!
It can be said that this is almost someone walking directly in front of the barbarian race, and shook a few mouths fiercely, extremely humiliating!
But what made the barbarians feel most depressed was that the power of that mouth was a bit great, and it took a certain amount of time to reduce the swelling was a trivial matter, and the most important thing was that they didn't know who fanned it!!
So far, in the entire northern grassland, no abnormal news has been reported!
That is, those poisonous snakes that attacked the ancestral land of the barbarians..... Did it appear out of thin air?!
No, it can't be!!
Salton didn't believe it, Oakes didn't believe it, and those middle and high-ranking barbarians who sacrificed their relatives didn't believe it!
Then this matter will become an unsolved case, an event that discredits the barbarian royal family, and even causes the royal rule to loosen!
In order to maintain the rule of the royal family, and for the sake of the stability of the barbarian race, Salton must find a way to minimize the impact of the accident in the ancestral land.....! There is a situation where Salton continues to indulge the barbarians, and continues to burn and loot within the Terrans.
"Order Maudun and Ke Xielaw, order them to lead the command of the legion to their subordinates, and lead their own men and horses back to be trained by the high priest!" Salton was silent and continued to order, "Tell all the barbarian tribes going south that after paying seventy percent of the 'killing tax' this time, the royal family will not need to pay any 'killing tax' in the future, considering the losses of each clan!" This order will last until we evacuate from the hinterland of the human race in three months!"
"Long live the Barbarian King!" Most of the subordinate commanders were pleasantly surprised, and couldn't help but cheer in victory.
Subsequently, many barbarian commanders expressed their 'desire' to do their best for the barbarians, and asked Salton to allow them to lead their armies and participate in the plundering of the Terrans!
Knowing this, Saltton was well aware of their thoughts, and agreed to the Lords' requests one by one.
After the meeting of the big tent was over, many people went down with joy and excitement, ready to 'seize their own interests'!
"Latis, why are you stopping me?!" In a humble tent, a burly barbarian leader asked a barbarian leader who was following him.
As early as in the big tent, when he saw so many people asking to join the southern invasion, Salton changed his previous strictness and agreed to their request, this burly barbarian commander was also moved, and was about to stand up and plead south, but was gently pulled by a barbarian leader behind him who was comparable to an ordinary human of the human race, and whose body was covered with barbs of different lengths.
They are the leaders of Salton's cronies, the Wolf Howling tribe, a burly man named Morsa, a barbarian warrior with orc blood, and the titular leader of the Wolf Howling tribe.
The smaller, barbed man of various sizes, named Latisse, is a rare 'mutant' member of the barbarian race, possessing extraordinary intelligence. He was also the military of the nominal 'Wolf Howling' tribe and a close confidant of Morsa.
In fact?
Latis's identity is more resisted and excluded by all barbarians than Latis' due to 'mutation' (his mother died tragically because of her birth, and she was unable to have children with her own race, so she was considered a 'world outcast' by the barbarians and looked down upon by everyone. ), cannot be the leader of any clan.
And although Morsa was also excluded within a certain range because of the orc bloodline, he was always better than him, a 'mutant', so he became the object of Latisse's cooperation and friendship.
The two have known each other since childhood, and work together to change their own predicament. Now the 'Wolf Howling' tribe has become a clan under the command of the two, which is the result of joint efforts.
Over the years, Moorsa and Latisse have developed a deep understanding. At the time of the Barbarian King's Great Tent, even Morsa was greatly puzzled and puzzled by Latisse's behavior, and did not do anything more according to the other party's hints, and even remained silent all the way until he returned to his own tribe.
"Do you mean that it is a good thing for the barbarian king to let go of everyone and now the human race?!" Latis said solemnly to Moresa after arranging the surrounding precautions, "You mean that the barbarian king let the prince of Maudun and the prince of Koxilu come back in order to be trained by the high priest?!Don't be naïve!"
"What do you mean?!" Morsa was still convinced of Latisse's mind. Although many people say that Latis is actually the leader of his Morsa, the leader of the 'Wolf Howling' tribe in the true sense, Morsa doesn't care.
For his collaborator and friend's mind, Moresa is quite admirable! Don't look at him five big and three coarse, but he can see himself and the whole form clearly.
In the management of the 'Wolf Howling' tribe and the external struggle, Latis's mind is indeed more important than his Moorsa's combat effectiveness!
And because of Latisse's identity and background, he can never shake his status on the surface! It can be said that Morsa just gave Latis more power because of his lack of ability, but he didn't have to worry about his status being hit!
So, after so many years of experience, Molsa developed the habit of listening to Latisse's advice.
"The Barbarian King is clearing the field!" Latis, with a grim expression, said in a deep voice, "Just like every so many years, the royal family needs to kill the barbarian population by attacking the Terrans, the Barbarian King's order is actually to abandon all the barbarians going south!"
"Uh?!" Morsa froze, then asked, "Why?!"
"I don't know!" Latis shook his head and said solemnly, "This kind of thing naturally has the royal family's considerations, but the facts are the facts!"
Is there really no one who sees the contradiction between the barbarian royal clan and the ordinary barbarian clan?!
In fact, this is not the case! There is never a shortage of smart people, and naturally there is no secret that can be concealed forever! Especially these contradictions within the barbarian race, in fact, it is difficult to hide them at all!
In the past, every once in a while, the barbarian attack on the human race, many times, including all the high-ranking members of the barbarian, knew that the chance of success was extremely small, but it never changed!
Because the high-level have seen the pressure of the skyrocketing population on the barbarian race as a whole, as well as the strategy adopted by the barbarian royal family in order to stabilize its position!
This is a secret that is not a secret among the high-ranking barbarian race, and it is also a 'silent agreement' that everyone abides by!
The final result, although the barbarians were always defeated and lost, the result was not the worst!
At the very least, the younger generation of the barbarian royal family has been tempered, the unstable elements have been eliminated obscurely, the pressure of the population on food and other materials has been reduced, and a group of elites who have experienced war have been tempered......
In the face of so many benefits, it is natural that those who know the secret will not tell the secret.
This time the Terrans went south, in fact, in general, it was not in the plan of the barbarians. Due to the contradictions within the Terrans, the Barbarians themselves were surprised to break through the 'Scarlet Fortress' that had not been broken through for thousands of years and entered the hinterland of the Terrans.
If you don't take the benefits, it is naturally not the character of the barbarians, so a relatively hasty southern invasion began.
And even so, the royal family of the barbarian race still needs to maintain its position from being threatened, and the prince who appoints the royal blood to command the army and collect the 'killing tax' from the plunder has become one of the means!
But now, the barbarian king Salton actually gave up these benefits, and if there was nothing greasy in them, Latisse would never believe it!
As for the leaders of the various tribes of the barbarian race who have asked for their lives, they are all blinded by interests, where do they remember this?!
Latis can be sure that as long as the order is given. Soon, in the entire barbarian race going south, there will be no more barbarian royal bloodline, and even the elites under the royal clan will basically evacuate.
The rest are all barbarian tribes who are carried away by interests and are bent on plundering more supplies for their own tribes.
Latis can be sure that when the time comes, let alone defend and attack the Terrans, the various tribes will not fight each other because of some petty profits, which is already a great luck!
In this case, Latis immediately remembered the situation where every time the barbarians attacked the 'Scarlet Fortress' in the past, wasn't it exactly the means taken at the end of the war?!
Evacuate the core members, let go of the desires of the low-level barbarians, coax them into attacking with their lives, and finally achieve the final goal of the royal family!
"Hearing you say that, it seems like this!" After listening to Latisse's analysis, Morsa scratched his bald head, and then grinned, "So, something happened in the grassland?!"
As mentioned above, Morsa and Latis's life was not good since childhood, and it was through hard work that they achieved their current status. Defending against the barbarians, they don't really have much affection.
Compared with the defense and fear of the barbarian royal family, Morsa and Latisse were more indifferent and faintly hostile to the barbarian race equivalent to their own status.
That's why, although the strength of the 'Wolf Howling' tribe is not too strong, it has been taken over by Salton as one of the cronies!
When following the barbarian king Salton, because Morsa and Latisse did not have wives, children, and parents, the 'Wolf Howling' tribe had always followed the barbarian king, and there was a reason for their lack of hostages.
Now it seems that Latisse thinks this is a great benefit!
By the side of the Barbarian King, you can guess the specific situation as much as possible as soon as possible, so as to save your interests from being damaged in this southern invasion!
This was what Latisse had in mind, and it was one of the reasons why he didn't care from the beginning that the 'Wolf Howling' tribe couldn't plunder supplies on their own, and was just sharing in the distribution of taxes collected by the royal family!
From the very beginning, Latisse was not very optimistic about the southern invasion of the barbarians.
After all, the power of the human race is there, and if the barbarian race sees that it is good, it will accept it, and it can also get some benefits. But if you are too greedy and continue to stay in the hinterland of the human race, you will be looking for death! Out of understanding the character of the barbarian race, if you see a good thing, you will accept this kind of thing, and the barbarian race will definitely not be able to do it!
Latis was even ready to attack and annex the tribes that had been devastated by their journey south as soon as they returned to the steppes, thus strengthening themselves!
And now it seems that Latisse thinks that his previous plan was too prescient!