Three Philosophical Questions for Travelers

Forget it, let's take down Hong Kong first.

The Dulalia family has two castles and two fiefdoms. The castles are Honggang City and Luming City. These two cities are far away and cannot support each other.Hai Wen quickly took Red Harbor, and then went north to attack Luming City.

The Satria family also has two castles, but three fiefdoms.And the defense of the castle is stronger than Duralia.The two castles are Migratory Bird City and Wave City.

The two castles of Satria are also very far away. The Marquis of Fengleibao did this to suppress his collateral blood relatives. Because the castles are far away, the two families will be at odds during the war. Gu.This layout made it impossible for the two families to resist Fengleibao even if they joined forces, but it also made it difficult for them to resist foreign enemies.

This is an excellent opportunity, Haiwen thought, I can take Red Harbor and Migratory Bird City at the same time.There are only 800 people in Red Harbor, and there is no precipitous terrain; and the earl of Migratory Bird City is dead, without the earl sitting in charge, we can easily capture the castle, and even persuade the defenders in the castle to surrender.Migratory Bird City is the center of the River Bend, so it has great strategic significance.Once we hold the city, we can use it as a front line for the assault on the Reach.

Revolts are breaking out all over the Reach, and there must be many heroes like Lone Wolf. I can ally with them and fight the nobles with them.Moreover, in order to support the Little Trident in the battle, the main force of the nobles of the River Bend was sent to the northern border. Now the castle is generally empty of troops. This is a great opportunity.

Know yourself and the enemy and you will never be imperiled in a hundred battles.Haiwen knew the enemy through this battle, and he knew the status of these noble soldiers: well-equipped and well-trained, but their morale was not high, and their fighting will was not firm.As long as Haiwen can take the initiative, he can destroy the enemy's psychology.

Attack on the heart.

In the afternoon, after cleaning up the battlefield, Haiwen thought it was not suitable to camp here, so he left with the coalition forces.The company and prisoners totaled 7000 people. This is not a small army.However, they did not have any supplies and could not fight for a long time.The lone wolf said that they had foster care in forests and caves, and he could let the troops disband on the spot and look for resources separately; while the smiling cat suggested that Haven take people back to Pinewood Castle, temporarily settle these people down, and then slowly move them back to Pinewood Castle. Recruit in.

But Haven had other plans.

"Let's go straight to Red Harbor," he said to Smiley Cat and Lone Wolf. "We can get supplies there."

The two immediately understood Hai Wen's intentions.The lone wolf shouted, "Are you going to attack the castle directly?"

Haiwen said: "Yes. Red Harbor is an important port in the Reach. There are many warehouses there, and there must be resources we need. Now Red Harbor only has 800 people, and we have [-]. We just need to work together to capture The castle is no problem."

The lone wolf looked very surprised. He said, "I never thought of attacking a castle head-on, my lord! The walls are too high and the gates are too thick. How can we get in?"

Hai Wen said: "We can temporarily build hook locks, rope ladders and flying ladders, but the best way is to let Hong Kong surrender directly."

The smiling cat said: "Many soldiers have escaped, and they will definitely bring the news to the Viscount in the castle."

Haiwen nodded and said, "They will also spread their fear. At that time, I will take Ivan as a hostage and go down to the city wall to persuade them to surrender."

The smiling cat thought for a moment, and said: "Ivan is just the second son, and the people in the castle don't care about him. From my guess, these nobles will never hand over the castle easily. When the rebels attacked the city, the river The nobles of the bay will unite, and Red Harbor will stick to the city gates, waiting for reinforcements."

Hai Wen was silent. He looked in the direction of Hong Kong and said, "Then attack the castle."

"Casualties will be severe."

"There is no immortal in war." Haiwen sighed, and said to the lone wolf, "I have decided to attack the city, lone wolf, what do you say?"

Harvey the Lone Wolf knelt down on one knee in front of Haven and said, "I have decided to be loyal to you, my lord!"

"Okay, then follow me to attack the city and take the castle straight!"

Chapter 3: Finding the Spirit of the Father, [-]

Chapter 3: Finding the Spirit of the Father, [-]

Estelle received a letter from Haven today.

Although they have been in correspondence for more than a year, but at this time, Isrit is still as happy as a girl who just fell in love.As long as a letter came, no matter what she was doing at that time, she would definitely open it immediately—when it was time to eat, she would bring the letter and eat while reading it; when it was time to sleep, she would immediately Get up, read the letter and go to sleep—but mostly not; when bath time comes, she dries her hands, wraps her hair in a towel, and reads in the bath; While letting the child eat, she read the letter to her son...

But there was one thing that Isrit was dissatisfied with.

Haiwen's letters are almost all official matters - government affairs in Mustang Land, taxes in Fort Pinewood, merchant ships in Shrimp Bay, rice harvest in autumn...or ask her about some things in the swamp.What else is the list of purchases and purchases, future strategies...

Isrit doesn't hate that, these things are very important, and they are related to their life and death.So every time she will reply well.From big to small, macroscopic and detailed, she will write a long letter.In addition to replying to Haven, she would also write down her thoughts, plans, strategic goals, etc... For example, she planned to go west to the Unified Swamp, and said that she planned to take advantage of the chaos and go south to retake Hummingbird City.

But she doesn't want these!

Isrit wants a love letter more.

Business, business, business again?Can he say something about himself?

Never say you miss me.

She wanted to know whether Haiwen still loved her after two years of separation.

She wanted to know how Hai Wen had spent the past two years, and also wanted to know if he had found another woman when he was out alone.

This uneasiness haunted her.Occasionally, when she looked in the mirror, she would think: I have aged a lot in the past two years, my skin has become rough, my voice has become hoarse, my hands, feet and back have become thicker than before... I am not as good-looking as before.Will he despise me when he sees me?

I really want to go back and see him, Isrit thought, my son is one year old, and he hasn't seen his father yet.

What was written in this letter was still official business. It said that Hai Wen had united with the rebels, killed an earl, and captured the son of a viscount.Then he will march to the Reach to capture Red Harbor and Migratory Bird City.

It's dangerous to fight again.

Isrit is not that little girl anymore, she can understand what Hai Wen did, and she is doing the same thing herself.But she still felt frightened at the thought of her husband on the battlefield.Divination and prophecy told her: Everyone has his own destiny, and even fear cannot change his destiny.But Islet is just afraid, emotion and thought are two separate things, a husband goes to war, and without a wife, he won't worry.

My lord, you must take care of yourself, I am so worried about you——she wrote such a sentence, but she thought about it and blacked it out again.

Then she wrote on another piece of paper: I wish you success in taking the castle, my lord.

He doesn't say he misses me first, and I don't say I miss him either!Estelle thought angrily.

Do we have to wait until the mainland is unified before our family can meet?He also didn't say to come and see his son.Estelle tapped her fingers on the table irritably.

She calmed down and continued writing:

"My lord, since you have decided to go to war in the Reach, I will fully support you. After you capture Red Harbor, our supplies can quickly enter the Reach through Dreyer's caravan. The swamp will become your the rear."

Isrit took a look at the account book at hand and thought to herself: Beluga and Coral, those two tree elves have improved rice seeds for me.The seeds have been sown by the orcs, and we will have a harvest this fall.But how much can be harvested, no one knows.

So she wrote more conservatively: "I can provide you with rations for about 5000 people for a year, but De Laier's side—" At this point, she put down her pen again.

Estherite recalled the meeting with Dreyer before.

Last year at this time, Dreyer personally visited Harpoon City.The former housekeeper has turned into a rich man in the wine city.He first praised Isrit's city with sincerity, and then gave her various gifts.Including armor, weapons, farming tools, iron pots, spirits and various spices.Most importantly, Dreyer also gave Isrit a hundred blacksmiths!

This is the best gift. There are iron ore and copper mines in the rocky land to the east of the swamp, but the orcs don't know how to forge iron. The weapons they use are made of wood and bone, and iron is also stolen.These blacksmiths can not only produce resources for Isrit, but they can also teach the orcs how to forge iron.

Dreyer told her: "Part of this is what I mean, and the other half is given to you by Lord Haiwen. Lord Haiwen misses you very much. I am afraid that you are missing something here, so I want me to send it to you quickly. And As for me, although I am no longer the housekeeper, the old friendship is still there. I will bring it to you non-stop!"

Estelle thanked him very much, especially when he said "Haven misses you", she was so happy that she was about to cry.This kind of touch indirectly made Isrit appreciate Delaire's hard work.

So she entertained Dreyer with the highest standard of treatment. She was in a good mood and drank a lot of wine.Later, I didn't know what happened, and the topic turned to business.Afterwards, they discussed business at the dinner table, and then Isrit vaguely agreed to Delaire's many requests.

Dreyer asked her to sign the contract, and Estherite took a look at the contract and found that there were some conditions of mutual assistance and reciprocity, so she signed the contract on the spot.

She didn't feel something was right until she woke up from the wine the next day, and at this time Dreyer had already slipped away.

She looked back at the contract again.The contract she signed with Delaire was very long, and after a closer look, she discovered that Delaire had secretly made a fortune.

For example, there is a clause in the contract, which says that in the future, Dreyer will provide military boots to the orcs uniformly, and he is the only legal supplier of military boots to the orc army.Isrit thought to herself that most of the orcs were barefoot, or they wore straw sandals made by themselves. They really needed boots, so the spirit of the Earth Mother signed it with a flick of a pen.Now think again: how much money is this?The orcs now have an army of tens of thousands, and they will definitely expand their army in the future. By then, all the military boots will be bought from him?

There was no second store selling military boots in the swamp, so Estret could only find him to buy them.Once the supply of military boots is started, it cannot be stopped.Otherwise, an army with some shoes and some bare feet would be shameless.Moreover, military boots are a huge consumable, and they need to keep buying them as long as they are fighting.

In fact, at the beginning, Estherite planned to let the orcs make their own boots and sell them on their own, but another contract of Dreyer blocked this way.

He bought almost all the leather in Isrit's hand.

Dreyer's asking price for buying leather was not low, and Estherite could indeed make a lot of money selling leather, so she sold the leather.But now that I think about it, the money that Israite sold the leather, I want to buy these leather boots later, and she can't earn a penny after going back and forth.

The wool still comes from the sheep.

Moreover, Dreyer's products have large output, high quality, high quality and low price, and the handicrafts of orcs can't compete at all.It is said that this guy built a large workshop and hired many slaves to produce handicrafts.Moreover, his treatment of slaves is much better than that of ordinary slave owners, so the slaves are still very enthusiastic about production, and everyone works hard, and the output of Delaire's commodities is high.Later, when he communicated with Yisruite, Yisraite learned that this guy had already contracted the supply of munitions for the wine city army, and he was already doing business with the new King of the Valley!

Isrit knows witchcraft and magic, but she is not very good at business.She could only hope Dreyer would remember the past and not fool her.

So she wrote to Haven and said: "Dreyer will definitely take part of it as a reward, my lord, our housekeeper has always been greedy, and he will not do things for us without benefits."

Isrit thought to herself: Delaire, I, and Lord Haven, the three of us seem to be tied to the same boat, but in fact, Lord Haven is tied to the mast, and I am tied to the deck. Dreyer stood by the side of the boat, holding the raft, ready to jump at any time.

She went on to write: "Master Haven, Delair is a smart man and a good ally, but he is selfish after all. You have to pull him on board and let our interests be bundled together so that Germany Lyle will fully support us."

Afterwards, Isrit made two documents, one was the purchase list mailed to Delaire, and the other was the things she had donated to Haven herself.

The purchase list includes: munitions, wood, ironware, maps of various waterways and mountain roads, one hundred dragons, more rice seeds, etc.

The things she gave to Hai Wen included: five hundred orc warriors who could understand military orders, twenty army priests who knew medical skills and could speak the common language, processed herbs, various poisons, grain and grass, animal bones, animal horns, various Dried fungi.

The logistics systems of Rotten Meat Beach, Harpoon City, and Pine Forest Castle have been perfected, and the material transfer is very fast.It took Yisruite a year to build a road from the swamp to the valley, and Dreyer also spent this year managing the nobles from the rotten meat beach to the swamp. Materials can be transported from the swamp to the rotten meat beach. Then it will be imported into Shrimp Bay from Rotten Meat Beach, and finally sent to Pinewood Castle and Mustang Land.

The speed of material circulation is fast, and the strength of Yisrit is getting stronger and stronger.Her orcs were armed, with mounts, metal weapons and armor, and plenty of food.As the productivity of the orcs increases, more people can become professional soldiers.Isrit invited old orc warriors to train them, and she herself was reading books on tactics.

Relying on this power, she gradually ruled the swamp.

The swamp is divided into the eastern orcs and the western orcs with the central lake area as the dividing line.

Yisruite now has the largest territory in the east, and other orc tribes are either her allies or her vassals.There are a few rogues resisting her, but they can't make much difference.

But the orcs in the west are still loyal to an orc who claims to be the spirit of the father.Estelle had heard rumors about him, but had never seen this person.It is said that the Spirit of the Father never reveals himself, and no one knows where he is.It's just a legend that he lives in the center of a lake called Sky Mirror.

Since Isrit established Harpoon City, the Spirit of the Father has declared war on her on behalf of the western orcs.The Spirit of the Father said that she was a false god, and said that if she wanted to be recognized, she must serve the Father as a real wife and give birth to at least seven sons to the Father.

Estherite answered him like this:

"Fuck you!" (Orcish)

Thus began the war.

The Spirit of the Father usually commands a group of voodoo orcs. These orcs are not as strong and powerful as ordinary swamp orcs, but they are more cunning, quicker and more difficult to deal with.Every voodoo orc is an excellent hunter, proficient in archery and using weapons ranging from longbows to blow-arrows.And they put poison on the weapons, and the poison they prepared was once difficult for Isrit.

When these poisons are rubbed on the body, it will cause festering, followed by pus and stink. If you want to save your life, you have to amputate your limbs.If the injury is on the head, neck and chest, then death is certain.

It is said that it is made by mixing the corpses of countless kinds of insects with lizard saliva. As for such dirty things, it is very difficult for Isrit to use herbs to dissolve them.Later, she remembered what Haven told her about alcohol disinfection, so she bought spirits from Delaire to clean the wounds of the injured, and at the same time, she gave her witch doctor a set of debridement techniques.Relying on these two methods, the survival rate of the wounded has increased a lot.

Later, the tree elf analyzed the elements of the venom and prepared the corresponding antidote for Isrit.Estherite thought that this would be able to deal with those cunning voodoo fighters, but she underestimated the strength of the Spirit of the Heavenly Father.

The enemy soon switched to a new poison, which was more effective and had a higher fatality rate.Disinfection and debridement have no effect, and the amputation is a little slower, and the toxicity will infect the brain.The tree elves said that the venom was extracted from a kind of snake venom, which is a neurotoxin, and it was also mixed with other unanalyzable substances, so they couldn't make serum.

And Estherite doesn't even know what serum is.

These voodoo orcs hide in swamps, muddy water, bushes, and grass.They are small in stature and run fast, some can tunnel, and some can dive into the water and breathe with hollow reeds... Isrit really has nothing to do with these guys.

It was okay when the razor was around. This ferocious warrior was not afraid of any poison. He led the orcs of Islet to kill many voodoo orcs and seized several villages.But then the razor was cursed.The spirit of the heavenly father seems to have a special way to restrain the fierce demon. After being cursed, Razor's body is normal, but his spirit is very easy to lose control.One day he suddenly went crazy and injured the Nightmare named Lilith.

Isrit didn't understand how the curse was applied to Razor, she could only temporarily suppress the curse with the divinity of the spirit of the Earth Mother.Later, Razor left the swamp, and without his help, it was very difficult for Isrit to advance the front line.

If it is a human war, then it is enough to capture the castle.But the swamp orcs were too scattered, and Estherite couldn't catch every orc.And the continuous guerrilla warfare and war of attrition are not good for her, which will drag her into the quagmire of war, and even implicate Haven and Delaire.

Eastraet was unwilling to see such a result, so she made a decision.

She wanted to find the Spirit of the Father and take his life.

Isrit wrote the letter and sent the pigeons to send it out.When this was done she went to the top of the Witch King's Tower and cast the spell called Eye of the Dove.

Now Estherite can control a hundred pigeons, and she can get the vision of these pigeons.With these scouts, she could see the entire swamp.Through these pigeons she had mapped the swamp, and with the map and detailed intel, the orcs were empowered.

But she still couldn't help the lake named "Mirror of the Sky".

She did not find the hiding place of the Spirit of the Father.

Damn, how can I be held back by a false god?she thought.

I am the spirit of the Earth Mother, and the spirit of the Heavenly Father should be my husband!

Where did you get your "Spirit of the Father" from?I must find you out and drown you in the mud of the swamp!

She had spent the entire afternoon casting Eye of the Pigeon, and it was only after the light faded that she realized it was dusk.

Then she heard Bai Guo calling her.

"Spirit of the Earth Mother! Our patrol team has been attacked, and a soldier has been poisoned. Please go and have a look."

here we go again!Estelle gritted her teeth hard.

"I'm coming!"

She spoke and summoned the power of the wind, and then jumped down from the tower.The Witch King Tower has been repaired to the fifth floor, and most people would die if they jumped from such a high height.But Esriette was already able to control the wind proficiently. She supported her feet with the force of the wind and slowly landed on the ground.

Maybe in a few years I'll be able to fly, she thought.

When she flew down, there were a few orcs passing by. When these orcs saw her casting a spell, they immediately knelt down and saluted in fright.Estelle called them to stand up and said, "There is no need to kneel down here."

These orcs are newcomers, Isrit thought to himself, after the construction of Harpoon City, more and more orcs came to live here.There are good law and order, comfortable houses, clean streets and abundant shops, and more facilities are under construction.

In the past, the orcs said that they loved nature and lived freely in the wild.Even many old orcs sneered at her behavior of building the city.But in fact, no one does not like a civilized, comfortable environment.It is better to live in a house than in the wilderness.

Yisruite followed Bai Guo to the public hospital.The public hospital in Harpoon consisted of a large tent and many smaller ones.The big tents are used for consultations, receiving the wounded and the sick in the city.Small tents are used to observe the sick and also to isolate patients with contagious diseases.

The poisoned orc was lying at the door of the big tent, howling in pain, and many witch doctors held him together.The witch doctor debrided and sterilized the orc's wounds according to what Essraet taught, but the poor guy was obviously poisoned too deeply.The toxin had eaten away at his brain, and he was beyond salvation.

There was no hope, she thought, the poison had eaten his brain.His forehead was as hot as coals.

Islet gave him a symbolic diagnosis and treatment, and then "euthanized" him.The family members were crying, and Bai Guo was comforting them.And Estherite asked the orc's comrade-in-arms, saying:

"How is this going?"

An orc with a spiral horn replied, "Spirit of the Earthmother, he was attacked while patrolling the lake district. A dwarf stabbed him in the chest with a throwing knife."

"Where's the enemy?"