The Swordsman of Faerûn
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Speaking of which, Comanthor's geographical location is really good. This area is adjacent to the Moon Sea in the north, a small area in the northeast is connected to Hantu, and the due east is separated by the Dragon Bay, which is separated from the main area of Hantu. The bay faces each other, and further south of the Dragon Bay is Faerun's largest inland sea, the Falling Star Sea.
Looking at it on the map, it is almost similar to the Central Plains area of China.It is a pity that the entire Comanthor is almost covered by huge forests, rather than plains that can be cultivated on a large scale.
It is also this vast jungle that squeezes the Valley Alliance into a long curved string. If it weren't for the Asaba River that connected most of the valley city-states, the entire Valley Alliance would be difficult to achieve.
There were nearly a million elves in Comanthor at its peak, and it was one of the three largest gathering areas of elves in Faerun.However, since the start of the Great Elves Migration, more than 90.00% of the elves have left Comanthor, leaving only a group of left-behind elves with a population of less than 5.
A small part of these left-behind elves are the elves who miss their homeland and are unwilling to leave their hometown, but most of them are abandoned elves who do not meet the migration standards.
What is an abandoned elf, those who have committed major mistakes but are not worthy of death, those who have poor morals and are despised by everyone, those who are alone and humble, those whose talents are too rough to be used... In short, they are all in the mainstream society of elves A group of people who were excluded.
It stands to reason that the main body of the elf society has moved away, and the large space and free resources left behind are enough for these few people to turn into serfs and sing.
But what is incomprehensible is that the left-behind elves did not live peacefully in those elves' abandoned jobs, but instead developed into the surrounding areas.
If it is said that the average person may not understand it, we can use an analogy to describe it.
If Cormanthor at its peak, especially Mies Drano, was compared to the Shanghai stock market in William's previous life, then the surrounding valley city-states were equivalent to the counties and small towns around the Shanghai stock market.
If suddenly one day, more than 90.00% of the population of the Shanghai stock market will move away in a way that almost abandons their homes and jobs, and these people are all elite talents in the population of the Shanghai stock market, leaving only a small number of incompetent poor people was abandoned.
However, these abandoned people not only did not encroach on the property and wealth resources left by those who moved away, but also desperately ran to the surrounding counties and towns.
Whenever such an abnormal situation occurs, anyone who is not a fool can think that there is something wrong with the abandoned Shanghai stock market.
And what is happening in Comanthor is exactly this kind of situation where a discerning person can tell there is a problem at a glance.
The plowing valley is exactly the area that Comanthor's left-behind elves will focus on.
Although William said that he wanted to drive away the elves staying in the valley, it was actually just a bluffing strategy. The entire valley was severely underpopulated. How could William be willing to drive tens of thousands of high-quality laborers out? It is the greatest wealth.
It's just that due to various reasons, elves generally have an inexplicable arrogance and an indescribable sense of superiority in front of humans, which makes many elves always make a lot of trouble when they live together with humans. contradiction.
In a word, for human lords, elves are a kind of arrogant guy who is very difficult to manage, especially when the number of elves reaches a certain level, the difficulty of management is doubled.
And the elves of plowing the valley have even subtly ascended to the upper class of society. It is really a difficult problem for a lord like William, who is almost airborne, to lead them well.
That's why William wants to do something, the purpose is to destroy the arrogance of the entire elf group, and to control these guys who always like to make trouble.
Of course, the guards in Genggu Town were not the victims of William's plan, but had an inescapable way of killing them.That Aililian Dawnhorn is the representative of the home-loving elves and the leader of the entire group of left-behind elves.
Even among the elves of the Great Migration, the Guardian Elves are considered elites. They are all proud and elegant ethnic supremacists, not to mention submitting to the human lords. independent kingdom.
You say these thorns are not dead, who will die? !
It is said that since the three elf saints were taught a lesson by William, the situation in Genggu Town has become somewhat calm.Of course, the countryside outside Genggu Town is still chaotic, and those elves who jumped out to rebel against Lishantou began to gradually turn into bandits and robbers.
As the saying goes, with a sharp blade in your body, you will kill yourself.The elves who have mastered the power still cannot escape the temptation of greed.
They not only blocked the communication between Genggu Town and the outside world, but also began to plunder and squeeze the human farmers and even half-elves living in the countryside.
For this situation, William has long expected that not every rebel is a team with a heart for the people.
And this is also in line with William's expectations. The main population of Genggu is still human beings, accounting for about [-]% of the total population in this area. It's just that most of these people are bewitched by the subtle influence of elves, and eight or nine out of ten people are ha Of the elves, the remaining one or two are still activists waiting to be transformed. If they don’t give them some strong medicine to let them fully recognize the "true face" of elves, it will be difficult for William to rule the hearts of the local people.
Of course, William couldn't completely ignore the chaos outside Genggu Town, and the monks who had just joined his command came in handy.
The total number of members of the monks' regiment was one hundred and three, and William selected more than a dozen people from his own guards to form two rural inspection teams of 60 people each, responsible for investigating the ravages of the countryside. Elven bandits carry out banishing strikes.
William's task requirements for the inspection team are quite special.
For ordinary elf robbers, they were caught and whipped, and then ordered to leave the plowing valley within a time limit, and their personal supplies were confiscated, regardless of whether these belongings belonged to the elves or they looted them from the villagers.
For those ferocious robbers who have killed ordinary civilians, if they are caught, they will be beheaded directly for public display.
Since it was the first time for the monks to accept the task assigned by William, the monks showed extremely enthusiastic enthusiasm. They eagerly hoped to show William their abilities in this task to express their respect for King Kong. The loyalty and support of the Great Venerable.
So in the days that followed, shocking scenes frequently appeared in the countryside of Genggu. Countless monks braved the rain of arrows shot by the elves, screaming and launched a desperate charge, and some even looked like hedgehogs. It was full of arrows, but it still rushed into the battle group of elves fiercely.
In other words, the elves who are used to being elegant have never seen such a desperate opponent, but any encounter with a patrol team is basically a one-touch result, and the monks are basically good at a series of things that increase running speed such as [Flying Steps] and [Falling Lightly] The special skills make it impossible for most elves to escape even if they want to, and in the end they can only obediently be captives and be whipped.
Of course, the monks also paid a heavy price for their recklessness. At least one-third of the monks suffered heavy injuries in the first battle. He died on the spot, and almost none of the other slightly injured monks were left behind.
Even though monks are inherently more capable of self-recovery than other extraordinary professions, they can't withstand such devastation, so much so that the first battle of the monks almost broke their morale.
After all, it is one thing to believe and worship, but another to be able to live.
However, when William summoned a cursed phoenix from the Gate of Flames and healed almost all the wounded with surging life energy, the fighting spirit of the monks became high again.
And William may have made a promise, as long as you don't die on the spot, I will make you alive and kicking again when you come back.In this way, the morale of the monks was almost completely raised to the extreme. From then on, their fighting style became almost more brutal than barbarians, and crazier than berserkers, and became a mudslide on the battlefield.
Ordinary monks always like to participate in battles without protection. They don't like to use weapons, and they rarely wear any armor. Basically, they just wear a linen robe and they're done.
Many people say that this is because the monk profession itself dislikes any armor equipment, and they pursue fighting in the most natural way.
William thinks that people who say this kind of nonsense are either stupid or bad. Ghosts are so close to nature. Animals know how to put armor on their bodies, but you don't know how to protect yourself. What about your brain?
The fact that monks don't wear armor is actually just a misunderstanding of outsiders who don't know what to do.
There are three main reasons for this misunderstanding.
One is the tradition of Karatu, the birthplace of monks. There are often unified dynasties and empires in the Karatu continent, and these regimes, without exception, have relatively strict management of the people under their rule. One of them is the ban on armor.
The main content of the Armor Prohibition Order is as follows: Any person or organization who illegally holds armor will be given one collar, the armor will be confiscated, and the armor bearer will be beheaded or distributed; punish.
Therefore, in order to avoid this prohibition, the most traditional monks had to focus on studying combat skills without armor protection, and gradually took combat without armor as a habit.
The second reason is the teaching habit among monks.The most common way of master-student inheritance of monks is to conduct hand-to-hand combat. At this time, if you wear a suit of armor to get punched, you will see if your master will go crazy.
The third and most important reason is that "poor" makes trouble.However, there are very few monks who are rich, and this profession has a great demand for various herbs. Generally, wanting to wear expensive armor is almost a luxury.
Of course, William never lacked armor for his subordinates to equip. Although the monks were not used to fighting through armor at first, they reluctantly agreed with William's strong insistence.
Out of consideration for monks' fighting habits and traditions, William didn't equip them with luxurious equipment at the beginning, but only provided simple armor that could only cover vital points.
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There are only three types of armor for monks. One is a helmet with a neck protector, which can protect the neck and head from arrows; The third piece is the wrist guard with a small wrist shield.
When the monks wear this outfit to launch a surprise attack, they only need to cover their face with the wrist shield to avoid fatal piercing damage to the eyes, and they can walk through the arrow rain without any scruples.
What?You ask what to do if other body parts are shot into a hornet's nest?
Don't worry, monks are big bloody bulls with rough skin and thick flesh, and injuries can make them better understand the essence of the way of monks.Besides, monks are not fools, won't they hide when they are set on fire? The monk's ability to avoid arrows is also well-known.
The monks, who got the equipment and relieved their worries, are like bastard dogs chasing rats in the rural fields of plowing valleys, chasing elves and robbers crazily. , can only run around like wild dogs.
Of course, the elves didn't just do this all the time and were beaten. They also organized a large number of robber teams to set up an ambush several times, trying to ambush and strangle the monk inspection team, but they failed every time.
And the reason for each failure is the same, a nasty silver dragon always appears above the battlefield the moment the monks step into the trap, and then disperses the ambushes with terrible dragon breath and roar.
That's right!The so-called silver dragon is Ms. Hellen, who was just awakened by William. The former witch of Shadow Valley found that the world has become difficult for her to adapt to.
The disconnection of the magic net caused Xillen to lose most of her spellcasting ability, and only a small number of constant spell slots rewarded by the goddess of magic could be used, which severely damaged her strength.
And this is not the worst, what made Xieren even more difficult to accept was the destruction of the city-state of Shadow Valley, and the new ruler was William, a boy she had always been optimistic about.
Shiron has extraordinary feelings for Shadow Valley. She and her first legal husband, the mage Omri Obersky, brought the concept of peace to Shadow Valley for the first time, and became the guardians there. Ruler for nearly 40 years.
Although Shadow Valley has experienced many changes since then, including the murder of Hieren's husband Omry, in fact, the overall situation of Shadow Valley has never been out of the control of Hieren, the uncrowned queen—many friends and partners in Hieren with the help of.
Who would have thought that it was just a matter of closing and opening his eyes, but when Shiron woke up, he found that the traditional city-state of Shadow Valley was gone.
For William, the "culprit" who led to the downfall of the Shadow Valley city-state, Helen wished he could eat him in one bite. Well, she did punish William in a similar way.
It's just that the result of the punishment was somewhat unexpected to Helen. She actually became the submissive who was willing to admit defeat and beg for mercy.
Of course, the weakness in that area is not the real reason for Hillen's surrender.
Originally, Hieren thought that William was too young and had no experience as a lord. She worried that it would be difficult for him to manage the entire Valley Alliance, and he might even mess up the entire region.
But after gaining an in-depth understanding of William's recent actions, Hellen found that what William did in the lord's position was not generally good, but unbelievably good.
Not only has Hiron been the wife of a lord, but she has also personally established more than one city-state, but she has extremely profound insights into how to manage the city-state.Maybe Hiron couldn't think of any subtle strategies for governing the country, but she could give a profound interpretation of the pros and cons of any policy.
Just like those literary critics who "although I can't write poetry, I can judge the quality of this poem" and gourmets who "although I can't cook, I can taste the true meaning of food".
Whenever Hillen thought about the decrees or policies that William had issued, he was always surprised to find that things could still be done like this, and people could manage like this.
Then Hellen suddenly realized that William was born to be a lord, a king, or even an emperor. If he didn't become one, it would be not only a regret for William himself, but also a loss for all the humble people who should have been blessed.
Shiron, who had been the interim lord for many times, wanted to be the woman and shadow behind William, but William didn't want to let her such a good coolie, the manager of Grow Valley Town, the governor of Grow Valley, and the future chief of the Valley Kingdom The consul (similar to the modern prime minister and prime minister) is exactly the position William set for Hillen.
Originally, Helen didn't want to accept these positions that obviously required energy, but William easily persuaded her.
William said: There is no one in the world who can understand the meaning of my plan better than you, Helen!Everyone's energy is limited. It is impossible for me to execute the plan perfectly after I have worked hard. I need helpers, and you are just the most suitable.
The reason why Anka, the cloak king, failed was not that he lacked talent, but that he did not have a capable helper. The heavy government affairs and arduous struggles completely dragged him down, and finally led to the fact that the former Supreme Kingdom was only a flash in the pan. It collapsed.
Helen, only you know my thoughts best, and you are the most able to carry out my orders without any mistakes.If one day I go bad, you will be the first floodgate to stop me from doing more damage.
……
Hellen admitted that his heart was moved, especially the last sentence "become William's last gate", which made this sacrificial silver-haired lady swayed and found it difficult to hold herself back.
Then the person behind the scenes of Shadow Valley began to replace William to handle those tedious government affairs, allowing William to finally free up more time and energy to do his own things.
And the first problem Hiron faced was the support of people in Genggu. Almost all the people in Genggu are elves. Perhaps this is not a problem in the eyes of some elf fans, but as the secret control of Shadow Valley A 600-year-old monster who is half a century old, Hieren will not be so childish.
She is well aware of the harmfulness of this kind of inclination, just like Happy Valley, the predecessor of Dagger Valley, maybe some ambitious people only need to push it a little, and it will cause disastrous and disastrous consequences.
Although William's strategy seems a bit cruel, it can restore people's hearts to the greatest extent and restore the morale of the people who plowed the valley vertically.Of course, it is also Shillen who has confidence in the moral level of the elves, and she believes that no matter how bad the decent elves are, they cannot be so bad.
It's a pity that slaps in the face are always coming. In the past half a month, at least hundreds of elves were executed by the inspection team for indiscriminately killing civilians in the countryside, but Xillen was greatly disappointed in the moral standards of the elves.
Due to the efforts of the inspection team, the elves and robbers lost more than 90.00% of their supplies, while the "more conscientious" elves lost little, but were covered in bruises—too many whips.
Of course, these bandits who had a difficult life did not want to return to the Comanthor jungle. Without exception, they intensified their plundering of farmers and civilians in the countryside, and even some half-elves and elves who liked a peaceful life also suffered. Among them are those who want to hide and lurk.
Of course, in the process of previous looting and being "robbed" by the inspection team, the elves also gradually understood an unspoken rule, as long as they didn't kill people during the looting process, those damned human patrol team mad dogs would not kill them. any of the .
The originally arrogant elves disdain to pay attention to this rule, but they tried to assemble a team several times to besiege the mad dog of the new lord's inspection team, but they were always destroyed by the silver dragon transformed by Xieren.
At first, the elves suspected that there were spies lurking in their team, but no matter how they countered spies, kept secrets, and devised tactics to deceive or mislead, they still couldn't escape the precise harassment of the silver dragon.
Of course, it wasn't that Hellen's intelligence was so accurate, but that William's perception was too buggy.Whenever William sensed that the Patrol was in trouble, he would point Sheeren in a direction, and she would fly right there, hitting perfectly almost every time.
No matter how the elves make plans and fight wits and courage with the air, when they finally act, they will inevitably be directly generaled.
After such a long time, the elves' joint team collapsed directly. After all, no one can bear the endless counter-espionage. Fuck, fighting with the human mad dog patrol team didn't kill a few people, but the elves killed their own people Come is not soft-hearted.
Especially the irascible elves, who adhered to the anti-espionage concept of "kill the wrong one, never let it go", which led to at least hundreds of elves being hanged in the jungle for the crime of espionage.
How many elves are there in the entire plowing valley? !
Then the hearts of the people dispersed, and the team became difficult to lead.
From then on, the elves fought on their own, and most of them formed plundering teams ranging from a few to dozens of people. They were active in the countryside and fields. Bows and crossbows, bread and wine, as well as clothing accessories, as long as they can be used, they will never give up.
The elves who have learned to be smart will not kill people. They sometimes beat those "untouchables" who don't cooperate, but they will never kill themselves to cause trouble for themselves.
Sometimes there is an idiot who accidentally kills someone, and his or her companions will tie up the idiot and leave it near the crime scene for the patrol team to clean up.
It's not that the wise elves tried to reorganize the joint team, it's just that these restless guys were quickly stabbed by those fellows who had been bitten by snakes.
Ever since, the patrol team and the elves reached a tacit understanding that was never announced.
The "merciful" robbery of the elves only needs property and does not harm human life.
Well, there is quite a chivalrous spirit of "thieves have their own way".
The patrol team also gently hunted down the elves and bandits, and the two sides played an exhibition match in an extremely perfunctory manner. The elves surrendered in unison, and received a moderate whip, and then regained their freedom.
It's like acting in a tacitly coordinated stage play.
In this theatrical contest, the only real victims were the looted civilians, who hated the evil elf robbers to death, and were very dissatisfied with the inaction of the patrol team-in fact, many victims They had applauded the inspection team for not killing the elves before, and they even thought it was a sin to whip the elves—but now these people wished the inspection team could kill all the elves.
At this time, William knew that the time was finally ripe.
He ordered the patrol team to stop releasing the elf robbers after they caught them again. Instead, they would imprison these criminals as coolies, contributing to the transportation of plowing valleys and the water conservancy of farmland.
Groups of elven gangsters were arrested, and Genggu's elven labor brigade was gradually filled with enough combat power, so the avenue connecting Genggu Town and Chandler intersection (upstream of Feather Falls) finally began to break ground.
At least [-] elf captives participated in the road construction work. They had no pay, no vacation, and only heavy labor reform.
Of course, sufficient food is essential. William has always believed that as long as he is a laborer, even a labor camp prisoner has the right to have enough food.
This is not elegant and not enough for elf tradition, so more elves came out of the elf court of Cormanthor, and they came to the jungle of Plow Valley, joining those who narrowly escaped death under the roundup of the patrol team. The team of fish that slipped through the net.
After all, the elves do not have any sense of war. In their view, the fighting experience of these predecessors is undoubtedly very valuable.
It's a pity that these novices who have just walked out of the Comanthor jungle don't understand that the fighting experience of their predecessors is the kind that has been misleading, and they don't know that these so-called tenacious people under "severe oppression" The surviving "fighters" are actually just the big wronged species that William deliberately let go.
These big grievances are basically carefully selected fun spirits. Only the most decisive surrender, the most adaptable to the wind, the best at "preserving" themselves and their teammates, and the most neighborly and friendly elves are eligible to be selected.
In order to welcome these new labor resources, William also made some adjustments to the residents of Genggu Township. Most of the residents who had been "harvested" by the elves and had their thoughts and positions changed were transferred to Genggu Town for protection. Some of the less friendly Growdale residents were exiled into the wilderness—with their possessions and families.
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