Even without speaking, Black Dragon's eyes revealed an indescribable and direct confusion.
Yang Hao wanted to tell her that all this was right.
"The steam factories in the Roman Empire have been dismantled by them. All the iron that can be turned into iron ingots has been melted down, and those that cannot be smelted have either been thrown away or sold."
He stated word for word, then stood up and turned to face the exit of the tent.
“Even the Steam Rifle team that I had worked so hard to build was disbanded, probably because they were out of control. Of course, those weapons should have been sold or thrown away.
Not only that, but there is still famine in the Roman Empire. This is not just any famine.
There has not been a drop of water in the central region during this period. The farmers have no time to cultivate the land, and now even the moss on the ground has probably been eaten dry.
The prosperity of Drake Harbor is just an illusion to you! I can guess why they do this even if I use my ass to think... "
He paused for a moment, as if he felt the current situation was not tragic enough, so he decided to add some possibly fictitious information.
Anyway, in Kagad, the people of Kagad have already eaten the jerky made by the demons.
Now let's exaggerate a little bit and say that the Romans have started cannibalism, right
"If nothing unexpected happens, in the worst-case scenario, they would probably have started cannibalism."
Yang Hao's words left Nia stunned.
What? What happened
What on earth are the Romans doing
Can't you vent your jealousy and anger after expelling a capable person? Why do you have to demolish and sell everything the other party has built
Nia really couldn't understand.
Even in the early days of Isgard's founding, there were traitors who wanted to usurp the position of president of the country and restore the monarchy.
They just wanted to oust the President's daughter, then change the title based on the current Isgarde, abolish the parliament, and become emperor themselves.
They have never thought of demolishing the existing industrial areas of Ishgard, disbanding all the existing troops and navy of Ishgard and replacing them with new ones? Just for the reason of "must be loyal to oneself"
What the hell is this?! Where did this primitive tribe come from?!
For a moment, Nia actually wondered if Isgard was overestimating these primitive people by going to war with them.
Not only that, her admiration for Yang Hao also increased.
Not only was he able to pull such primitive people into an empire, he also actually built a steam factory on this basis - although the factory was demolished and he stepped down, this is enough to illustrate Yang Hao's great achievement.
As for the question of [why he didn't educate the people and enlighten them], Nia had no intention of asking.
After all, let's be honest, how many years has Roman founded the country? Less than five years, even if he wants to start education, he can only achieve a little bit of success... In this case, how can we expect him to enlighten a bunch of primitive people
Why not expect Yang Hao to return to China with her right now? This is actually a bit possible...
Nia swallowed hard a few times. After showing respect to Yang Hao through her eyes, she realized the importance of the information and chose to express her gratitude:
"Just this once, Black Dragon will fight for you for free. Consider it a reward for the information you provide." She said, the excitement on her face almost impossible to conceal.
"We Isgardians do not like "free" gifts given for no reason - Your Majesty Yang Hao, free things are the most expensive."
"It seems I have to be more vigilant with you. Because if it were Roman's barbarians, they would have happily accepted this free meal."
"We are civilized people after all."
Nia walked up to Yang Hao with a smile and extended her hand to him under the vigilant gaze of the elves.
Yang Hao nodded, stretched out his hand to shake hers, and left immediately.
The meeting is over.
Afterwards, Nia excitedly reported this important information to her friends.
Yang Hao boarded the Hippogriff and flew towards the Sky Garden Finkel, facing the guards' curious questions:
"Your Majesty, are you sure that Isgard will make Roman even more chaotic instead of just occupying the entire Roman Empire?"
Their questioning made Yang Hao laugh a few times: "Yes. I just told them about Roman's current predicament, but they don't know that Roman is an empire that was personally raised by me and my brother, and a country that has the ability to drive the centaurs and minotaurs back to the northern prairie... If He didn't have any trump cards, He would have been destroyed after I left."
"The trump card is..."
"One is the Witch of the Night, my former love Priscilla. Her wide-area strategic magic was born for war. She can plunge the entire battlefield into darkness except for friendly forces, and this darkness cannot be dispelled by lighting equipment.
Although the duration is not long enough, on the battlefield, ten minutes can change all deployments... not to mention that for units with low morale, the sudden darkness is enough to disrupt their formation. "
The Witch of Night is one of the trump cards of the Roman Empire. She was called the "Witch of Night" because during the Barbarian War, she used magic to plunge 20,000 barbarian cavalrymen of different races into darkness for five minutes.
During the march, they were suddenly plunged into darkness. They could not see any orders or the road ahead. The 20,000 cavalrymen almost instantly fell into the trap set by the human coalition forces at that time, and were directly defeated by the team led by Yang Hao's brother.
This established the foundation of Roman's nation, and earned the witch the honorific title of Witch of the Night.
But this is just one of Roman's cards.
Roman’s second trump card is the portal network built by Yang Hao himself.
This is a good thing... When order is firmly maintained by the army, it will make traditional siege warfare completely meaningless.
At that time, the town of Kagad was in chaos because too many unruly people gathered and Kagad III had no control over it. He allowed the portal to perform a large number of frequent and contradictory operations in a short period of time, which caused the portal to explode and caused magical residues in the entire Kagad area.
But the military zone of the Roman Empire, that is, the coastal area... Although General Dreshuka is a greedy man, he is indeed a strong rival who can compete with his brother's military skills.
That man knows the importance of discipline, and the coastal portal network is probably the best maintained area—
He would maintain discipline during the war through cruel punishments, and more importantly, he knew how to deploy troops and use them in every useful way.
Instead of being like the parish, where soldiers are just thrown wherever they are needed, causing great waste.
In addition, the biggest trump card of the Roman Empire... or the biggest trump card of the diocese, should be Saint Cecilia.
Based on Yang Hao's understanding of Cecilia, he understood it for now.
A "saint" is decisively different from ordinary clergy.
If priests and bishops still need believers to provide divine power in order to cast divine spells, then the saint who is directly connected to the god of faith is herself a mobile church, a mobile army of believers, and the most powerful clergyman.
She can cast divine spells without any believers around her, simply because she herself is the biggest and most fanatical believer of the God of Light.
These three trump cards combined with the fact that Ishugard had a feud with a certain force at sea and that they still needed to transport supplies across the sea...
It is not difficult to draw a conclusion.
"Isgard will be mired in war, and we, Japaria, can sit back and reap the benefits, using their warriors' sacrifices to buy space for our own development—but this is premised on the fact that we must survive the invasion of the nearby diocese."
Ishgard will be mired in war, and Roman will become more chaotic due to foreign invasions.
In an extremely chaotic situation, even if Gasson wanted to sell out his country for personal gain, he had to hold on until the Roman Empire gained the upper hand as a whole - before that, the little empress would be safe.
Because Garsen needed the little queen to calm people's hearts. The reason why he didn't sit in that position himself was because he knew that only people who wanted to die would take the initiative to sit in that position.
The last time it was forced to sit on it was the exiled Yang Hao, this time it was the little queen who had her tongue cut off, so the next time...
Yang Hao would let him die on that throne and completely make the Roman Empire a thing of the past.
Chapter 4: The Current Situation of the Redemption Army and the Parish, and "Light"
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It has been almost 11 days since Caparia and Isgard signed the alliance agreement, and Yang Hao and others have been preparing for tactical innovations to fight against the diocese.
On June 1st, all the elves' rangers who were out exploring returned to the vicinity of the Monster Forest to fight guerrilla warfare against the human salvation army.
These elves who still used longbows were undoubtedly among the best elite archers in the eyes of humans, but compared with the huge number of the Redemption Army and their "full utilization" of corpses, the harassment caused by the rangers was still too small.
When they were fighting guerrilla warfare, they could kill one or two hundred people a day, but soon these one or two hundred people would become food for the Redemption Army, mixed with other food and taken to satisfy the appetite of the soldiers.
Moreover, the speed at which the Redemption Army recruited its soldiers was far beyond the elves' imagination. The elves simply could not imagine why so many people were eager to join the army, as if one person died, two could replace him. They could not understand why the barbarians of the Roman Empire fought so hard.
But if there were any Romans who had been to the Demon City, they would probably tell them sadly: This is not "voluntary enlistment" at all. Those who join the Redemption Army now either owed high-interest loans to the parish when they were fighting the demons, and have no choice but to join the Redemption Army in order to go to heaven after death.
They are either roaming robbers and death row prisoners, or famine refugees who cannot even afford moss to eat, and they join the Redemption Army in order to live a better life.
And this is because the Redemption Army currently only allows men to join - if even women are allowed to join, the number of Redemption Army will only increase.
“They fight to eat, to pay off debts, and to plunder—but the only ones who truly fight for their Lord are the priests who remain in the Redemption Army.”
A ranger muttered to herself with a green face. She had already shot all the arrows in her quiver. As the Redemption Army was equipped with more and more shields, it was difficult for the longbow to cause efficient damage to the Redemption Army soldiers at a distance.
She no longer dared to think about why the Redemption Army had so many sources of leather and wood. Because from her recent observations, these beasts must have developed a lot of problems from eating people.
Many people looked stupid while marching, and even their response to orders was slow.
But this is both an advantage and a disadvantage. At least from the perspective of the elves, their morale is declining at a slower and slower rate...
As the saying goes, ignorance is fearlessness. While eating their own kind with such a hearty pleasure, perhaps these people have lost their intelligence and character as human beings, and have also lost the fear that they should feel as living things.
The ranger clicked her tongue and casually summoned wood magic to create a final magical arrow emitting green fluorescence for herself. She then shot it at the head of the last Redemptionist soldier standing on the field.
Oh!
The magic arrow pierced the short soldier's forehead, blew off the back of his head, and knocked his cheap helmet away.
Through the excellent power of the elves, the ranger could see that the last person he shot should be a child under the age of twelve.
"What on earth am I fighting?"
She looked at the pale and thin face falling backwards, and couldn't help but burst out her indignation towards the Roman Diocese.
The rangers were unable to pose much threat to the Redemption Army with their longbows.
But fortunately, no one knows what changes have taken place in Caparia - although their longbows are no longer as sharp as before, at least Caparia has not been negligent in supplying consumables such as arrows.
But then again, who made these arrows without any decoration
The ranger retreated into the shadows. She had to go to the nearest supply point to get her own supplies.
And just after the ranger left, the "baggage team" following the annihilated patrol team also came up after waiting for half an hour to confirm that it was safe.
They picked up the bodies on the ground, stripped the equipment off the bodies and prepared to clean and repair them before giving them to the next "recruiters".
They treated human corpses like chickens and ducks in a slaughterhouse, except that they simply erected two rows of beams on a cart and hung them on them with hooks.
If we treat the corpses as chickens and ducks, we will naturally evaluate them with the qualifications of chickens and ducks.
A soldier from the baggage train pinched the corpse's ribs, shook his head and said to his companions:
"The food has been getting thinner and thinner recently. Look at this, there's not much meat on it. I guess there won't be much juice if I use it to make broth... No, is it that our people are getting thinner and thinner or what? Are they new here?"
Another soldier came over to take a look, then he and another companion laboriously carried a relatively strong-looking corpse onto the cart:
"You are looking at the one from the Central Government, right?"
""central"?"
"The latest judging criteria. Those from the parish and the western region are stronger because they had eaten meat before, and they have more meat and fat on their bodies - just like the ones I just brought up.
The southerners are controlled by General Dreshuka, but they have fish to eat along the coast so they are unlikely to join us.
The miners in the east still have to dig for silver, and their food rations have been relatively abundant recently... So isn't that the only ones left here in the central region?"
"But I remember that the Central District is where the capital and several important cities gather?"
“But that’s also where the largest number of farmers are. This year there’s been no harvest, and the masters can’t even afford cakes, so how can they possibly distribute food to these farmers
But I heard that it was distributed, but some serfs who escaped from the central district told me that half of the two slices of bread they received were mixed with dirt, and many people died directly from indigestion, so they ran here. "
The well-informed soldier looked up at the azure sky and sighed, saying that because the refugees on the road ate grass and drank water wherever they saw it, when they came here, the survivors were pale and thin, and they didn't even have the strength to walk, let alone gain weight!
What's more, even if they joined the Redemption Army and ate meat for a few days, they would still have to digest it before they could grow. But who would have thought that these unlucky guys would be arranged to be "herders" on the first day - no, "patrol posts"
It's so pitiful. He came here with so much difficulty, but ended up eating meat for a day and died without even going to the Magic City. It's so tragic.
So sad…
Just as everyone was moving the dirty bodies onto the cart, someone suddenly noticed that there was a child among the patrol officers' bodies.
The leader was silent for a while, then picked up the body and placed it on the cart:
"The meat is tender, and will probably be given to those who have made great contributions in battle."
"Where have the warriors come from recently?"
"I heard that a vanguard army had smoked out a lot of demons from the tunnels in the Monster Forest area before. I didn't know that those demons could live underground, but at least it is certain that they are quite valuable, so I guess those who have made great contributions in the battle today can share the meat of this little brat."
"But most of the Redemption Army soldiers don't even know they're eating people, right?"
"Even if they knew, what would it matter? At least there are people here to eat. Over in the central region, even the clay has been eaten up! Besides, to put it bluntly, it all tastes the same after it enters the stomach..."
"Yes, they are all the same... But the elves are really not strong enough. I was even worried these days. They couldn't even supply food to the soldiers!"