Claude didn't know how much of a commotion the victory report passed by Major Leedfunk caused, and was even reprimanded by the staff office of the frontline headquarters for falsely reporting military exploits. He was tired and busy now, and the only thing that could comfort him was
Spending half a day with the young mage Sheila every few days will give him a moment of peace and calm.
Tiredness does not refer to physical fatigue, but to mental fatigue. Except for Claude and the big man Germi who only knew how to fill his stomach, all the soldiers and officers who had participated in the battle were more or less tired.
Some psychological and mental abnormalities occurred. For example, Master Chief Markey suffered from insomnia for several days in a row and said that whenever he closed his eyes, he would always hear screams and wails coming from Squirrel Village.
Even Markchi, who is a veteran, is like this, let alone those soldiers. The same is true for Murieled and Diavid. They privately told Claude that they did not know why they died from artillery fire on the battlefield.
Death in hand-to-hand combat with a bayonet, whether it is the enemy or one's comrades, feels that this is a very normal thing, and there is nothing surprising or sad. As a soldier, dying on the battlefield is a destination.
But like Claude, who burned so many enemies to death with one fire, he always felt that those enemies died unjustly. They did not die face to face on the battlefield, but were tricked to death by conspiracies and tricks, especially when they were trapped in the end.
The miserable cries for help and wails made by those who had no way to escape in the fire scene had a certain mental impact on every soldier outside who heard them...
Fortunately, Claude ordered the soldiers to pour water on the ground and buildings of the camp and prepared to attack the enemy's camp, which reduced everyone's attention. However, after the incident was over and delayed until now, everything calmed down, and the soldiers were still mentally slow.
Things slowly changed, and they would always be reminded of the tragic cry for help they made in the fire scene that night.
The cases of insomnia like that of Markchi, Muriel and Diavid are still mild. The cases like that of McJack, who immediately have nightmares as soon as they fall asleep and find themselves trapped in a fire and then wake up screaming from their dreams, are serious.
It was more serious. Many soldiers were like Michael. Not only were they unable to have a good rest, but other soldiers were also woken up by them. By the end of the day, everyone had dark circles under their eyes and was depressed.
Murield said that everyone suspected that the souls of the enemies who were burned to death in Squirrel Village could not return to the kingdom of the God of War for permanent rest, so they could only wander around Squirrel Village, always pestering the people who killed them...
…This is the main reason why no one can relax and let themselves have a good rest.
It's just nonsense. Claude doesn't believe this nonsense. If there is really a ghost, it should come to haunt him. After all, he is the real mastermind of the fire plan. If he is guilty, he should be responsible for it.
What’s the point of those soldiers who obey orders? It can be seen that ghosts are also afraid of evil people...
It was all psychological factors. Claude knew very well that at the last moment when the enemy was burned, listening to the cries for help and wailing coming from the fire, the soldiers had forgotten that the people trapped in the fire were actually their own enemies. By that time everyone would have recovered.
He lost his humanity and rationality and only had a simple desire to save others, just like when the neighbor's house next door was on fire and everyone went to help put out the fire.
It's just that the fire was too fierce and too big, and they couldn't get close. They could only watch the people trapped inside being burned alive and suffocated to death. This made those soldiers feel very guilty. On the one hand, they were unable to help.
Not being busy, on the other hand, I thought that I was an accomplice in setting up the fire scene and causing the tragic situation before me, so I deepened my guilt and let my human conscience prevail, causing my own psychological and mental problems...
Since everyone believes in gods and ghosts, this matter is actually easy to solve. It is nothing more than spending money to eliminate disasters. Claude took out his money bag and threw it to Murield, asking him to take a few people to the town to invite the Temple of War.
Some priests will come back and hold a large-scale sacrifice in Squirrel Village so that the ghosts of the enemies who were burned to death can return to the kingdom of the God of War. At the same time, we must also do a good job in the ideological work of the soldiers and emphasize that those who were burned to death are our enemies.
, instead of their own neighbors. They came to Squirrel Village to kill us and take our lives, not to party with us...
After struggling for more than ten days, the matter was finally settled. Claude paid more than 20 gold crowns out of his own pocket. This money could not even be reimbursed to the battalion headquarters, because this soldier mentality was not included in military expenses.
The cost of treatment for problems, like Mark Qi who was not a big drinker but became an alcoholic, was because he was under too much psychological pressure after going to the battlefield and had to resort to drinking to get drunk to relax himself. Women and alcohol are actually the best relaxation medicine for soldiers in this era.
But when Claude stayed with the young mage Sheila, Sheila asked Claude very strangely, why didn't you have this problem in your heart? You didn't feel guilty at all when you burned so many people to death? It seems that you are worthy of being a magician.
Masters, magicians treat these ordinary people with condescension and cold-bloodedness. No magician cares about the lives of these ordinary people...
Sheila asked and answered her own questions, but Claude knew very well that as the mastermind of burning so many enemies to death, he really didn't feel anything in his heart, except that he felt sick several times that night and the next day because of the smell of barbecued human flesh.
Besides, I feel really peaceful inside, and I don’t feel any guilt or anxiety at all. I can eat well and sleep soundly, and there is no psychological burden at all.
This is not a matter of being a magician or not, but as a time traveler, even though Claude has tried his best to integrate into this strange world, he still has nothing but his family and a few friends.
He has no feeling for the kingdom or others. Even the battle he participated in felt like he was playing a more real game. Whether it was his soldiers or the enemy, Claude would always be unconscious.
He regarded them as NPCs. Except for a few people who were relatively close to him, including Murray Ed and Michael Jack, he treated them all equally and there was no difference between them.
Under such circumstances, no matter how many people die, they are nothing more than a statistic in Claude's eyes. The only thing he wants to ensure is whether he can survive this war, because he doesn't know if he is still alive.
If you have the opportunity to resurrect, you cannot sacrifice yourself easily. Therefore, no matter what means or strategies you use to deal with the enemy, it is appropriate. There is no need to regret it. Anyway, whoever wants my life, I will kill him first. That's the way it is.
of simplicity.
The villagers of Squirrel Village have also returned. Next, they need to sow seeds in the mountain fields to avoid missing the farming season, otherwise they will be hungry this winter. Now that the war is over, they cannot stay in Black Rock Village and run back, but Squirrel
The village has been burned to the ground, and their shabby shack home has been wiped out...
Claude is willing to be responsible for helping them build a new squirrel village. This is something Claude is responsible for. Anyway, he will not be the one doing the hard work. The more than 130 captives left in the camp will be responsible for building the new squirrel village.
The main labor force. All Claude has to do is to plan the Squirrel Village in a unified manner and build relatively regular village houses. This does not cost much money. There are many kinds of building materials in the mountains, but what is lacking is young labor. Now the prisoners
After filling the labor vacancy, Claude allocated part of the rough grains seized from the nobles' camps in the territory as food consumption, and everything was done.
Claude encouraged the villagers to expand their breeding industry. He believed that given the geographical environment of Squirrel Village, it was likely to become an important border garrison in the future. Even if they left, troops from above would be stationed to control this mountain road.
Therefore, if the villagers of Squirrel Village vigorously raise livestock and poultry, they will not have to worry about selling them. The garrison will purchase them locally, which will also avoid transportation costs from the rear, and the villagers will also have more income. This is a win-win result.
However, Markchi listened to Claude's words and secretly encouraged the village elder to take advantage of the prisoners to help build the village and build a tavern first, so that the soldiers stationed here would have a place to relax in the future, and the village elder could also
Make a fortune... So the village elder was moved. He actually came to Claude and asked to build a tavern for the village first. Claude made Claude dumbfounded, and finally agreed to the village elder's request.
Design and planning is Claude's specialty, but Claude did not plan to build tall and stylish houses for the villagers of Squirrel Village. He just re-planned the architectural layout of the entire village so that the villagers would have better than shabby shacks.
A better place to live is enough. In addition, arranging a yard of similar size for the villagers' new houses will be enough for all the villagers to be satisfied and grateful.
This time, Claude plans to build mud houses for the villagers. He will first dry the logs, then build the frame of the house, dig out the wall foundation, and use stones to build a one-foot height. Then dig it from the mountain.
Take yellow mud, clay, and lime. Crush it and then mix it. Fill it into a wooden frame to make mud bricks. After drying, mix the clay and lime to make a bond to build a wall. It only takes more than half a month and ten people to build a wall.
As for the villagers' houses, Claude doesn't need to worry about how they are arranged inside. Let the villagers do what they want.
According to the wishes of the village elder, the first thing to be completed was the tavern in the village. Then the village elder took several villagers across the mountains and visited several villages in the mountainous area, and found four relatively young widows.
When she worked as a maid, she also bought a lot of fruit wine, mixed wine and game meat brewed by the mountain people, and opened the business after simply decorating it.
Claude didn't join in the fun on the opening day. Instead, he went to the witch forest to have a tryst with the young mage. When he came back at noon the next day, he found that the tavern was closed. He was confused. When he returned to the camp and asked, he found out that a
In the evening, the tavern's business was booming, and almost all the soldiers who were not on duty went to the tavern. The soldiers stationed here had money and nowhere to spend it. How could they be unhappy after finally building a tavern here, and then put all the wine in the tavern?
All the food and game were consumed.
The village elder, his old woman, and several villagers who helped in the tavern didn't even have dinner. In the end, they had to go to other villagers to get a few cereals to fill their stomachs. As for the business that makes the most money, it's better.
The same four young widows who came to work as maids did not get out of bed from the opening at four o'clock in the afternoon until the closing at two o'clock in the evening. Soldiers were waiting in line. It is said that almost every maid received more than twenty soldiers.
They won't be able to recover without three or four days of rest...
Said! Claude wanted to yell, are you so hungry? There are only about 130 people in the entire camp excluding the wounded soldiers, and two-thirds of the soldiers have gone to patronize the four widows, saying
It was too embarrassing to get up.
Diavid knocked on the door and came in, followed by the signal soldier. As they walked, the two of them talked about the wonderful things about the four maids in the tavern. As a sergeant, Diavid, Muriel, Markchi and others were all taverns.
The first batch of guests received by the four maids, the signal soldier behind him was on duty last night and did not go to the tavern. He was drooling while listening to Diavid bragging about how he had a heart-warming fight with the maids...
Claude ordered Diaverde to shut up with a dark face, and then took the carrier pigeon message from the signal corps. This was an order from the battalion headquarters. Major Ledfunk was going to dispatch Diaverde's squadron back to suppress local riots.
Seeing that a month has passed, there is no movement on Claude's side, and there is no news that the nobles of the two principalities have re-recruited troops to come for revenge. The battalion headquarters believes that there is no need to place three squadrons in Squirrel Village, so they will
The Diavid squadron that provided follow-up support was recruited back.
After signing the order and letting the signal soldiers go out, Claude scolded Diavide and told him not to show off his relationship with men and women. This is not an honor, but shallow and obscene. In addition, he must
Go back to suppress the local riots, be more careful, and don't go into the tavern to find women, lest anyone discovers this lustful habit and sets a trap to assassinate you...
After Claude talked a lot, he realized that Diaverde looked at him with an unconvinced look and complained: "The boss himself found a beautiful woman as his girlfriend, how could he know that we younger brothers are hungry?
Hungry and thirsty. By the way, last time I heard that there is a baroness, she is a great beauty, and you have detained her here for two nights. We don’t have the ability like you, boss, so we can only vent to the maid in the tavern...
"
Claude was speechless and could only wave his hand to Diyavid and his squadron to get out.
For Claude, the two months after defeating the coalition of nobles from the two principalities were a rare leisure time. Although there were various matters that still required him to make decisions, here in Squirrel Village, he
He is the only chief officer. He does not need to discuss with others. He only needs to make a decision and naturally the people below will be responsible for executing it. Whether it is the rebuilding of Squirrel Village or the daily training of soldiers, sentry, patrol, warning, reconnaissance and other tasks, Mark Qi and Mo
Reed, Michael Jack and others supervised and took charge, so he had a lot of free time to go to the witch woods and have a tryst with his little lover Sheila.
Except for Diavid being summoned by the battalion headquarters to suppress local riots, Claude didn't care at all about external affairs. On the contrary, the battalion commander, Major Ledfunk, sent a lot of pigeon messages to Claude, conveying a lot of information.
Little information. At the very least, let Claude know that traffic has been restored through the temporary passage in the Picklet Mountains, and reinforcements from two second-line legions have entered the three southern counties. They will support two precarious frontline defense positions...
About ten days later, Major Leedfunk arrived at Squirrel Village with a large group of people. He told Claude that these people were from the staff and military discipline department of the frontline headquarters. They were here to verify the identity of Claude and the soldiers.