The problem of 'friendly siege' is also frequently encountered in a world dominated by wars between feudal knights like Corell.

Correcting the source of the fundamental problem is still a matter of interests, which is military exploits.

And war merit is almost the most likely way for free people to be promoted to the nobility.

Although there are many ways to become a noble in Coriel, most of them are not within the reach of commoners.

For example... marrying a noble.

And only by gradually marrying nobles for several consecutive generations can one become a noble.

This superposition of probabilities...you taste it, taste it carefully.

It might be a little easier to become a noble in a city-state like Luskan that thrived on the wealth plundered by pirates.

That is, if you have an annual income of at least twenty disaster coins, and then pay a huge donation to the Arcane Brotherhood, you can be knighted, which can be considered as entering the threshold of the nobility.

The last one is to become a church noble.

In the continent of Corell, many city-states and countries regard a certain god or a few righteous gods as the mainstream faith of their country. If you enter the major churches and study devoutly, and you are talented, if you can be promoted in your lifetime,

The dean of a certain branch of the church, or one who is favored by the gods and becomes an ordained priest or priest, can also be accepted by the ruling class of the authorities and become a church noble.

Take Silvermoon City for example. Before Alustriel's reign, it was said that the goddess of the forest and rangers, Melikai, had visited the Silvermoon Tavern in human form and blessed the hotel. So before that, Silvermoon

The faith of the Forest and Ranger Goddess is the most orthodox in the city, and after the God-chosen Supreme Mage Alustriel takes the stage, the middle- and high-level priests of the Church of the Goddess of Magic will also be accepted by mainstream society as church nobles.

Therefore, when most people see that the latter two are so troublesome, they think about it and decide to join the army and fight. There may still be a glimmer of hope for them to be promoted to the nobility through meritorious service in their lifetime.

Because the record of military exploits in this era was often the beheading, ear or right hand.

Therefore, in the competition for military merit, many problems often arise that have extremely negative consequences.

Not to mention the common practice of certain nobles swallowing up the military exploits of their subordinates.

Since most of the infantry on Corel's battlefield are recruited from farmers and are filled with a large number of adventurer mercenaries who work for money, the main force on the battlefield is still the knights born in the nobility.

Therefore, at the end of the war, during the harvesting stage when the enemy begins to flee, "wrongful killing" behavior often occurs in order to collect military merits, which is what Blue Star calls "killing good people and taking credit for their merits."

Not only this, the reward and punishment mechanism on the battlefield will also cause some troop commanders to engage in some mysterious operations to snatch supplies and deceive teammates.

In the eyes of the vast majority of the Corel natives, the position of 'acting company commander' promised by Levi himself this time is simply a direct path to the nobility!

Because under the command of this ‘Company Commander’, he is the ‘Century Commander’ who directly controls hundreds of people.

You must know that the average baron's subordinates only have dozens of fief knights at most, and a relatively normal fief knight's subordinates usually respond to the baron's war call with only one or two attendants as his 'cavalry'.

Just two or three armored infantrymen and seven or eight archers.

In such a comparison, the position of this 'company commander' is even higher than that of a fief knight, and he is almost as powerful as half a baron!

With such a huge temptation, how could anyone not take advantage of the loopholes?

There’s no rule against attacking and eliminating other people, right?

And if this kind of behavior is allowed to go unchecked, or even if the guy who has done this kind of thing is allowed to become an 'acting company commander', then it will almost certainly lead to bad consequences in the future.

What Li Wei is doing now is to inoculate this army before it takes shape.

But the regulations announced orally are not as profound as those experienced in person.

Although he knew that even if he did this, it would not be able to absolutely prevent such things, but he believed that it would have some effect after all.

...

Just when the vanguard of the training ground in the Griffin Mountain Range was starting to receive fire, Herbert and the others were still worrying about food.

No problem, this guy Hogarth is really edible.

Originally, when he took out the twenty-pound bag of wheat rice, Herbert and the others thought that they were favored by the goddess of luck, Tymora.

And Hogarth lived up to their expectations and gave each of his four teammates a rice ball to satisfy their hunger.

Originally, everyone thought that with these 20 pounds of food, everyone would be able to survive until the camp if they ate sparingly. In this case, they would even save themselves the time of looking for food.

As a result, before Herbert and the others could finish their rice balls, they saw this big guy getting rid of all the remaining wheat rice in less than three minutes...

Everyone was instantly plunged into doubting their lives.

Okay... According to the way the other party eats, they not only have to consider food collection from the afternoon, but they also have to take into account this big man's astonishing appetite.

If such a freak appeared in other teams, they might have begun to consider abandoning him due to ranking issues. At least someone would bring up this point of view, which would cause disputes and disagreements.

But the composition of the team that Herbert was in was too weird. No one raised this issue from beginning to end, which made Herbert secretly relieved.

Herbert joined the army originally to practice his belief in protecting his family. He never considered striving for the position of 'acting company commander' among the top ten. He just wanted to arrive at the camp safely. It would be better if he joined the army. If he failed the trial, he would be honest.

Go back and continue to be your own port city guard. At most, you can learn from experience and come back next time.

Iron Hammer Bronzebeard, a veteran driver, is actually similar. Those who work as motorcycle drivers in Zeelandia are actually a high-income group. Joining the army is purely for fun. Well... maybe it is also to avoid the driver's license test.

If he loses his job as a locomotive driver and still doesn't think of some way to support his family, his wife, who has a thicker beard than him, will probably use him as an ingot to beat him.

Ralph was still an inexperienced farm boy. He was not thrown away by these uncles. He was lucky enough to have found a good team.

As for the beholder Kike...this salty tentacler with no pursuits was enjoying himself paddling aside.

His last experience in the Thieves Guild Shadow Thieves Organization made him adopt a new attitude: that is, to keep a low profile in everything. As long as you keep a low profile, you will not be forced to be promoted.

Kick said he never wanted to experience the painful experience of working as an undercover agent in another organization, working his way up to becoming the boss, and then being pushed to the ground and beaten by society again.

It is impossible to be the boss. It is impossible to be the boss in this life. Fortunately, the feeling in the military camp is not bad. The feeling in the military camp is much better than in the beholder lair in the underdark area. Several teammates are all

He is a talented person and he really likes hanging out with me.

No, a low-level warlock just gave him a piece of wheat rice ball, and he was very moved.

As for the current food dilemma, in Kick's opinion, it is just a minor problem and it is not his turn to take action at all.

In order to adapt to the scarcity of supplies in the Underdark, their beholders can maintain their basic survival without being affected by not eating for the next ten days and a half as long as they have a good meal.

And he heard that humans can actually survive for a week as long as they have water to drink, so there is no need to expose their abilities because of this.

What if you perform too well and are promoted after officially joining the army?

He, Kike, had long noticed the slimes following them furtively, and he even sensed the aura of the silver dragon from these slimes.

Hmm...although the smell is more like feces...

So if he wants to do something, he must avoid those slime "eyes".

But it turns out that it is not easy to survive in the wilderness in the Griffin Mountains in the middle of winter.

Originally, Hammer Bronzebeard boasted about leaving the hunting to him, and his ability to throw a hammer with one hand was also outstanding among the gray dwarves.

And because the hammer made a sound like a storm when thrown, he called this unique skill the "Storm Hammer".

Then he boasted that as long as they could encounter a lone elk or an ordinary brown bear in this desolate mountain forest, he would guarantee that they would be able to hit the head with a single throw!

As a result, life soon slapped him in the face.

Seeing that the sun was almost setting, they actually didn't encounter a single living creature...

"You can't blame me... I guess it's because of our lord's breath of ice. You saw at that time that almost all the elk and other creatures fled the area driven by the tremors of the avalanche...

"

Gray Dwarf soon found the steps for himself.

However, the Loss had already blown out. Tie Hammer thought for a moment and said, "How about I check if there are any mushrooms or something..."

During the days in the Underdark, one often has to rely on collecting mushrooms to survive, and distinguishing the poison of mushrooms is a compulsory course for the gray dwarves.

As a result, when I looked up, my feet were completely covered by the vast snow, and I couldn't see any mushrooms anywhere.

Even Herbert, a retired veteran, was blinded by this situation. Although he had encountered food shortages, Silvermoon City had never fought with orcs when the mountains were blocked by heavy snow.

"Shh!"

Ralph on the side suddenly signaled everyone to be silent.

"What's wrong?" Everyone looked at the little transparent person in the team in confusion.

"I heard some noises, it should be the noises made by the little squirrels when they were eating." Ralph said a little unconfidently.

In fact, he heard the movements of many creatures along the way, but after seeing the dwarf uncle confidently stating that he had a unique hunting method, Ralph kept silent with the ostrich mentality of doing less and making fewer mistakes.

.

He was afraid that he would make a mistake in judgment and that he would steal the dwarf's limelight.

"Really? Where?"

Herbert and the dwarf asked in surprise almost at the same time.

As an old Northerner, Herbert still knows a thing or two about the habits of squirrels.

Most mammals in the northern forests have the habit of hibernating, including squirrels. However, squirrels are somewhat special in that due to their small size, they cannot store enough fat to sustain hibernation throughout the winter.

Therefore, before the onset of winter, they will collect many acorns and pine cones to spend the winter.

On average, they need to find one or two hundred to survive the winter.

These two hundred are not easy to gather, because they not only have to guard against thieves from the same kind, but also some humans living in the mountains and forests.
To be continued...