The next step in the investiture ceremony is to go to the fiefdom.
However, unlike other nobles who had light carriages and simple outfits, Lux set out for Forsbarrow this time, followed by thousands of demon-stained people.
In order to protect them well and prevent them from escaping, in addition to the demon-stricken ones, Lux will also bring along a thousand private troops who have just passed the physical examination and received simple training.
Including the accompanying merchants and craftsmen from the Crownguard family, the Bouvier family and the Laurent family, the number of people accompanying Count Laxana to the Forsbarrow fief came to nearly three thousand.
For Demacians, the three thousand people gathered together is no longer a small number - Demacia, which adopts a policy of elite soldiers, except for the two absolutely strategic locations of Mourngate and Green Teeth Peak, even if
In Xiongdu, there are only three thousand troops stationed there!
There are many issues that need to be considered in all aspects of the migration of such a team. Even though Kalya has left many relevant guidance plans before leaving, the implementation is still a severe test for Lux.
How to maintain logistical supplies?
How to deal with those who are infected with demons in the team?
How to maintain order in the army?
At this time, Lux's men no longer had the workers who were well-trained and self-organized in Zaun. On the one hand, she needed to rely on the stewards and guards provided by the Crownguard family, and on the other hand, she had to cultivate her own private army to accept belongings.
His own "new order", and at the same time, he also needs to make the already frightened demon-stained people realize the difference between themselves and the demon-seekers...
With so many things mixed together, anyone would feel overwhelmed.
Lux, who is currently unable to achieve perfection, wisely chose to focus on the big ones and let go of the small ones. She first strictly focused on the training of her private army - this private army is her true foundation. Only by grasping this private army can she
Fosbairo is in control of the order he expects!
If you want to control an army, according to Karya, you can start from four aspects: logistics, rewards and punishments, prestige, and reputation.
In these four aspects, Lux needs to do her best to be the best.
Needless to say, logistics, although currently all Lux's resources are either provided by the family or sponsored by friends, at least they are sufficient.
The rewards and punishments are also very clear. There are no combat missions yet. The rewards and punishments during training are clear at a glance, and it is easy to convince the soldiers.
Prestige is Lux's strength. Whether it is her identity as a climber or her personal strength, it is a way to gain recognition from soldiers and accumulate personal prestige. Although she has not yet been able to prove her "command ability", similarly,
These soldiers are also rookies - Lux, who is used to suffering, eats, lives, trains and rests with these soldiers without any burden. There is no specialization at all, which is more than enough to control them.
Finally, in name, after thinking about it, Lux divided this part into two parts: On the surface, she is the lord of Forsbarrow, and it is natural to command this army. But other than that, in recruiting soldiers
Since then, she has been understanding the ideals of the soldiers.
For ordinary Demacians, ideal is an extremely luxurious word.
In other words, in the eyes of most Demacians, becoming a soldier with a clear path to promotion is already the realization of an ideal.
This is not enough.
Kalya said it well. If an army wants to become a strong army, it must know the reason for fighting. For Demacians, joining the army means that they can defend Demacia, have a clear path to promotion, and can become a leader.
My noble lord, this is what most Demacian soldiers think.
Therefore, when facing the invasion of foreign enemies, the Demacians will always show amazing fighting power. Even if the king dies on the battlefield, the soldiers will still persist in fighting and will not retreat and fall apart in an instant.
But Lux believes that this belief is good, but not enough.
In her plan, Fosbarrow's army will face not only foreign enemies from the north, but more likely conservative forces within Demacia - what this army will protect in the future is not only Fosbane.
Sparrow, and the new order that is about to be born by Sparrow!
Therefore, she must make these soldiers agree with this new order and make them willing to fight for it!
Although Forsbarrow's reforms have not yet begun, and this new order has not yet emerged, it does not prevent Lux from letting these soldiers understand her intentions.
Under the excuse of "lack of manpower" and "lack of police officers", at Lux's request, the first thing the Forsbarrow Army had to do after leaving the capital was...literate.
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Xisilia didn't quite understand why Count Laxana asked everyone to get together to read and read in the evening after trekking every day.
Xisilia is literate - or in other words, there is a huge difference in cultural level between the Demacian soldiers and the soldiers from Noxus who were not educated at the prenatal level. They are not completely illiterate.
Demacian soldiers who take the elite route generally can read and write in the simplest terms, can read and write their own names and simple sentences, and can recite military regulations and regulations.
It is impossible for people who cannot write their names to pass the reserve assessment.
But according to Count Laxana, Forsbarrow is a vast land with few people, and these thousand private soldiers will all be officers in the future, so just knowing basic reading and writing is not enough.
This kind of rhetoric is more or less a bit of a pastiche. If you want to be an officer in the future, let's talk about the future. You won't be in a hurry!
If it were a noble man, I am afraid that the soldiers might not be willing to study together at night after working hard during the day; but Lux is not an ordinary noble after all, she seems to understand the heart of following the herd, and among everyone
When I had doubts, I directly named a few people who had their own clear ideals.
"Xithlia, you want to become a Forsbyro Wing. If the Dragon Bird Knight can't clearly explain the findings of the investigation, will it pass the test?"
Among the soldiers in formation, Xisilia, who was suddenly called, stood up straight, blushed subconsciously, and replied loudly: "Unqualified!"
"Cha Langze! Didn't you say that you want to assemble a shield formation, a shield formation that is more elite than the Fearless Vanguard Shield Formation?" Lux named her again, "You are illiterate and have no inheritance. Can you understand how to conduct a shield formation?
Command? How do you compare with the Fearless Vanguard?"
A big man who looked like an erect bear stood up straight, as if he didn't know what to say. In the end, he could only squeeze out "Yes!"
"And you, Perth!" Lux continued to name her, "You are a descendant of the ancestors of Demacia, and you are the blood of the pioneers who fought hard in the past. If you want to reshape the glory of your ancestors, it won't matter if you just rely on recklessness.
Can it work?"
"..."
"Aster..."
"arrive!"
"Haimanli!"
"yes!"
"..."
"..."
A thousand people said it was too much, but it was too little. After Lux named more than thirty people with personal ideals in one breath, whether it was because he was persuaded or because he was convinced by Lux's understanding of everyone, he finally
No one expressed any objection.
Are you against a hammer?
Everyone knows that reading and literacy is a good thing. The hesitation is mostly because they are marching during the day and very hard at night. Now Count Laxana directly appears in person and "leads the teaching", standing in the shoes of the soldiers.
, they no longer have any reason to refuse.
After all, those who give lectures are more tired than those who listen, right?
Then, the soldiers who started their cultural studies were surprised to find that the cultural class sounded... quite interesting?
Having been tutored and taught by the best special teachers in the Shurima Empire for almost ten years, Lux's teaching level is already quite excellent. Moreover, despite her young age, she is well-informed, although not as good as Kalya.
They know astronomy and geography, but for these young people who have just joined the army, it is really a dimensionality reduction blow.
In order to establish the firm belief of these soldiers, although Lux spoke Demacian, the story was told from a historical perspective.
Get rid of the exaggerated praise of each noble family's ancestors in the historical materials, condense the history into short stories, share and tell them to many soldiers - tell the history of the ancestors who followed Oren to open up Demacia, and talk about the development of Demacia.
Difficulties and achievements on the road.
With Sona performing the "soundtrack performance", it was obviously a cultural class, but in the eyes of the soldiers, apart from memorizing some new words and new grammar every day, it seemed that there was not much difference compared to listening to stories.
?
Lux's own words are very contagious.
And the story of Oren leading the pioneers to pioneer can be called a legend, and the legends of the ancestors are indeed full of the heroic spirit of an epic story.
In addition, these soldiers are also trekking with Lux, and Lux is leading the way like Oren...
A very subtle feeling, as if the legendary history was reflected in reality, greatly boosted the morale of the soldiers.
As we talked, even the demon-stained people who could take a short rest after dinner and move freely within the prescribed range also liked to surround the soldiers and listen to Lux's stories - compared to the next day
The soldiers who had to study during the day, these demon-stained people were just listening to the stories to pass the time.
Then, as they listened, they heard the story of Kalya, and the story of the mage who concealed his identity and saved Oren at the cost of his life.
This story has a great impact on everyone.
Without the previous narration, I am afraid that the soldiers would not accept the story of "the evil mage once saved the life of His Majesty Oren".
But it was precisely because Lux's story was so exciting that Sona's score also aroused emotional resonance. Although the soldiers had never seen the Demacia pioneer, they also felt his generous heroic spirit.
——For such a heroic figure, even an evil mage, one should indeed have respect for him!
However, for the demon-stricken people who accompanied him, the feeling this story gave them was completely beyond words.
The demon-stained people have always been marginalized figures who are not recognized. Even at the beginning of this march, Lux once said that "going to Forsbarrow is to welcome new life." The demon-stained people still have no morale at all.
Some people are still like zombies.
For them, Lux's narration every night is more like amusement - the more glorious the ancestors are, the more ironic they feel.
Until we got to the part about the cultural relic dealers controlled by Kalya.
If this story were told alone, the demon-possessed would only find it ironic and ridiculous.
However, when Lux explained the follow-up and told about "those children who followed in his footsteps and followed His Majesty Oren, and later became the pioneers of the Illuminati and the Demon Seekers," many people's expressions became subtle.
Got up.
The status of the demon-stained person is special. Objectively speaking, Demacia is indeed unfair to the demon-stained person.
But in fact, if they could lose their magic power, most demon-stained people would actually be willing to stay in Demacia - this is a rather contradictory point for the demon-stained people.
As a Demacian and having grown up in Demacia, the first reaction of a demon-possessed person after discovering that he is demon-possessed is usually not "Demacia treats me unfairly", but "Why am I so unlucky".
Because from a historical perspective, Demacia was originally established to avoid and fight against the lawless mages in the Rune Wars!
Even a rebellious person like Silas, after he was found to be possessed by a demon, ended up "surrendering" to the demon searchers accompanied by his parents, because at that time he believed that the demon was his own bad luck and his own problem.
Magical Demacia is good Demacia.
What really made Silas' Taoist heart collapse was that he discovered that the nobles' manors were filled with all kinds of magical auras, and that he discovered that the anti-magic policy was inconsistent between nobles and civilians.
Even if civilians are possessed by demons, they still have to be caught and dealt with, either by drinking the magic-forbidden potion, being banished from Demacia, or being imprisoned in a magic-forbidden prison; however, noble estates are almost never raided by demon hunters.
Searched.
Like Silas, there are very few people who realize this, so most demon-stainers don't think demon-staining is a talent.
It's Demacia who doesn't want to accept them!
You know, when Silas broke through the outer wall of the Forbidden Prison, a considerable number of the demon-stricken people who escaped with him did not participate in the subsequent rebellion at all, and just hoped to take advantage of the chaos to escape - even if they were imprisoned in the Forbidden City.
The Demon Prison, they still don't think it's Demacia's problem.
But the "artifact dealer from Shurima" in Lux's story is different. He is also a demon-stained person, and there is no doubt that he is a powerful person. However, he finally completed his self-salvation and became Dema.
The founding father of Western Asia - although he has a special status and is usually not mentioned specifically, his name is still left on the wall of the ancestors in the Hall of Valor.
Therefore, after listening to this story, many of the demon-possessed people looked sarcastic, while many others remained silent.
But no matter what they think, this ancient story is still deeply imprinted in everyone's heart.
Like a seed, waiting to be watered and nourished one day, it will take root and sprout.
The road is long.
Demacia has a long history, and Lux's story is still very long.