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Yes, it is the border city - Kedun City.
Zhang Mu believes that once the counterattack begins, Lake's territory will expand faster and faster.
If the location is set in the central area, it may not be too far from the front line now, but as time goes by, the border line moves outward and the distance will become longer.
Then there is the issue of staff training.
In the eyes of the people of Blue Star, anyone with normal IQ can do the work on modern industrial assembly lines.
But in fact, this ease is based on a complete system of universal education, and it is not really simple.
There are not a large number of people who have completed YW education in Sol Continent, so everything has to start from scratch.
Avril took out a blank piece of paper and wrote the document according to Zhang Mu's dictation.
He planned to build three schools in the city of Kton and recruit citizens from other places to enroll in the schools. At the same time, he would dispatch the First Army to the city to assist the indigenous engineers in transforming the city.
We strive to ensure that workers are in place when the factory is completed.
Avril was about to stamp the document when Zhang Mu stopped her and asked her to add one more item - to build a training class outside the city.
Avril asked in confusion, "Don't we already have a school? Why do we need to build a training class outside the city?"
Zhang Mu smiled without saying anything. He just asked her to write quickly and then said, "I will draw the drawings."
After doing so, Avril talked about the recent situation of the loss of Lake's people.
After the oracle came more than a year ago, the people of Lake continued to flee. After the defeat of the coalition forces, the situation not only did not improve, but continued to worsen.
Zhang Mu knew the reason.
In the eyes of him, Avril, and the soldiers who had experienced the war firsthand, Lake now had unlimited possibilities, all because of thermal weapons and magical weapons.
This product, which came completely from another civilization, almost made the soldiers worship Zhang Mu as a god - strictly speaking, weapons from another civilization were indeed no different from gods.
But in the minds of farmers, city dwellers, vendors, and soldiers who have not experienced war personally, Lake's victory will not bring light, but deeper darkness.
God is omnipotent; this is the consensus of the people of Sol Continent. Even the most powerful empire must obey God.
Is the coalition consisting of more than 20 kingdoms and principalities very strong?
Any empire could easily crush the coalition forces by dispatching a legion.
The empire occupies the richest area of the Thor continent. They have many saints, multiple divine blessings, and epics with terrifying strength.
In addition, relying on the rich land and numerous mazes, the empire has cultivated a large number of high- and low-level professionals.
The people of Lake had heard from merchants who had traveled here from afar that the powerful empire possessed more than one legion of all-magicians.
A legion has more than 10,000 people. Even if the Empire only sends one legion to attack Lake, who can resist tens of thousands of magicians?
With this kind of thinking, it is not surprising that the people of Lake fled.
It would be abnormal not to escape.
After listening to this, Zhang Mu was not anxious and had a smile on his face.
Avril's head turned, her long ice-blue hair swaying gently: "I'm talking to you about serious matters, what are you laughing at?"
"You underestimate the military merit system, don't you?"
Which group of people is the largest in Sol Continent?
Of course they are not professionals, but farmers in villages all over the continent.
As it happens, these are the people who care least about God.
Churches generally do not set up churches in villages. If villagers want to worship gods, the nearest place is the surrounding towns.
But how can the villagers, who worry about their livelihood and harvest all day long, have the leisure to worship the gods?
In fact, some villagers had tried this and prayed to the gods for a good wheat harvest, but there happened to be a severe drought that year and they didn't get any harvest.
In addition, the church rarely takes the initiative to preach even in small towns and cities, let alone villages without churches and clergy.
In Zhang Mu's view, this type of people are his best source of soldiers.
They were under constant threat of death from hunger, so how could they care about disobeying God?
Now Zhang Mu is here, tell them, as long as they disobey the gods, I will not only let them have enough food to eat and live in warm houses, but also your families.
god?
I'll kill you with this hoe.
Avril thought about it for a moment, and her eyes suddenly lit up.
She remembered that according to the reports submitted by the city lords, the villagers in various places had indeed suffered the least loss.
It’s not that they are not afraid of being affected by the war, but they have no way to escape.
After deducting taxes, the wheat harvested by the villagers each year was only enough to keep the whole family from starving to death. This was in a good year, but if there was a bad year, several people in each household would surely starve to death.
Usually it's children.
You can have another child if you lose one, but if the parents die, the child will definitely not survive.
The villagers' food reserves are basically like this, how can they escape?
If you run far from the door, you will probably starve to death on the road.
The more Avril thought about it, the more reliable it seemed, and she immediately pulled out another piece of white paper from the drawer.
Zhang Mu held down her hand holding the pen: "Don't use the usual document format. Those villagers can't read. If you write something simple, they will need explanations. If you write something complicated, they won't understand."
"How do you write it?"
"Just one sentence will do." Zhang Mu took the pen from her hand and wrote on the scrap paper next to the white paper while reading, "Go to the City Lord's Mansion to attend the meeting and you can get a bag of eggs."
Avril blinked: "What meeting?"
"Oh, it's just a recruitment activity. The meeting is just a name."
"In this way...don't they feel cheated?"
"If you just write on the notice that we are going to the City Lord's Mansion to join the army, who would go?
The higher the reward, the more they suspected it was a conspiracy.”
Avril thought for a moment, took the pen handed to her by Zhang Mu, wrote the document and stamped it.
I have guests at home, so I'd like to take a day off.
I played until just now and left, so I'm taking a day off today.
Chapter 362: Lake is busy, the leader of the elf army
After Brando hurriedly left the coalition camp, he did not rush back to Lagu to deal with the emergency as he said, but hid in a forest outside the eastern border of Lake.
As a magician, he no longer needed to rely on food to sustain his life. He stood in the woods for a long time without saying a word or eating or drinking, and finally waited for the coalition forces to retreat in a panic.
The remaining 300,000-odd defeated soldiers hurriedly ran across the border, not daring to slow down at all, and disappeared behind the distant mountains and forests.
Brando sighed slightly.
Although I had anticipated this scene, seeing it with my own eyes was another level of shock.
"Ice and snow..." Brando murmured as he looked into the sky.
After a while, he withdrew his gaze, flew back to the capital of Lagu to meet the king, and told him what he had seen and heard after entering the territory of Lake.
The king asked him, "What do you think I should do?"
"The king's will is the direction in which I move forward."
The king bowed his head in silence for a long, long time.
The sunlight that came through the door and fell onto the floor was replaced by moonlight. The magic lamps on both sides of the desk lit up dimly, shining on the king's forehead and eyes, making the lower half of his face look even gloomier.
Finally, the king slowly raised his head, and his face was completely revealed in the light.
His brown pupils seemed to be like the surface of disturbed water, with ripples appearing for a moment, and a hint of icy blue vaguely emerged.
"Go do it."
Brando's clenched fists loosened, with a happy smile on his face that he had never seen before: "As you command, Your Majesty."
He straightened up and walked out of the palace. He roughly identified the direction and then soared into the sky.
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By the bank of a wide river, the elven army was resting.
Except for the elf warriors who were on guard duty, the rest of the elves separated, some went to the river to replenish water, and some sat down to rest.
Normally speaking, as professionals, just traveling shouldn't make them so tired, but the army commander urged them too quickly, so they were running as fast as they could all the way.
On the outskirts of the army, Frederica with emerald green hair stood on the grass, looking up slightly at the sky, which was the direction of Lake.
"Princess Frederica, what are you looking at?" An elderly elf elder walked over with an elegant gait.
"Nothing." She shook her head, turned around and smiled.
The elf elder obviously didn't believe it: "Since you came back from traveling the continent, you seem to have a lot more worries and your personality has changed a lot."
"Elves always change. Isn't that what mother said?"
"It's time to believe your mother's teachings." The elder Jingjingling put his hands behind his back, his face somewhat helpless, "Perhaps I should... hm?"
Halfway through his words, he suddenly looked towards the distance in the sky where there were only clouds.
Frederica became nervous: "What's wrong, teacher?"
"somebody is coming."
Someone who caught the teacher's attention...
She looked solemn: "Saint level?"
"No, just the Magister."
"Are you passing by?"
“We should be the target.”