Sitting in front of the window of the sanatorium library, looking at the vibrant vines with light yellow flowers hanging from the tower opposite, Sean was "reminiscing" about the past.
In this world where the vast majority of people are still illiterate, Sean is lucky to be the adopted son of a priest in the southern province of Genoa. Although the priest treated him very coldly, he at least gave him a relatively complete education.
After the death of the priest, when the war in the north was at its most critical, Sean, who was just sixteen years old, signed up to join the army. This was one of the few opportunities for civilians to change their own destiny. For Sean, who was literate, the opportunity was even greater.
After staying in the new barracks for less than three months and before he could adapt to his new role, he was incorporated into the 21st Infantry Division and went to northern Xinjiang in July 1827 of the Shenlong Era, and then joined the war. This new battle
The round of war has lasted for ten years, and countless young people in the empire have been lying in northern Xinjiang forever. During the most difficult period, the minimum age for conscription was raised to fifteen years old.
It only took him one year to go from recruit to private, first class private, first class, and then to corporal, because his comrades around him died too quickly. And when Sean became a sergeant, he had just turned eighteen years old - if
If the old priest had not mistaken his birthday.
The name of this planet is "Hope". The meaning of this name is exactly the same in different races and languages, and even the pronunciation is highly similar. Countless scholars have tried to explain this academically, but unfortunately they have not been able to make it.
People are convinced.
Devout religious believers believe that God or some other deity created human beings, depending on which religion you believe in.
In the beginning, human beings were no different from animals, eating their hair and drinking blood. However, human beings are much weaker than animals in terms of athletic ability, physical strength and fighting skills. It is the gods who give humans higher intellectual enlightenment, so that they can hope to defeat nature and thousands of creatures.
Eventually he became the master of the world.
So humans call this world "hope".
The Catholic Church once ruled the Western Continent for 500 years. The Pope could even appoint and remove kings at will, and decide when a certain bull in the countryside should be bred.
In the 470th year of the Divine Dragon Era, because of their opposition to the dark rule of the Catholic Church, the Europeans broke out a religious war that lasted for 100 years. In the 589th year of the Divine Dragon Era, the then Pope Arroyo I announced his abdication and would not interfere in secular affairs, but the church also retained many
privilege.
The religious reform in 1200 of the Dragon Age determined that religious law was limited to churches, and unless priests committed rebellion or murder, secular courts were not allowed to try priests, and the army was not allowed to enter and search.
They attribute everything to God.
This seems to be self-evident.
But this is, after all, the year 1830 of the Divine Dragon Era. The theocratic era has already entered the history books, and it is now the age of civilization.
Although Catholicism still occupies an important position in the political and social life of the Europa Empire, and conflicts between divine power, imperial power, and secularity have repeatedly broken out, people are obviously no longer satisfied with religious explanations.
They used astronomical telescopes to observe the movements of planets and the mysteries of space, launched ocean expeditions and expeditions to understand the differences between the creatures in the Southern Ocean and those on both sides of the Eastern Ocean, and used scalpels to dissect the torsos of animals, including humans, to understand the causes of diseases.
source.
For Sean, this is really a "hopeful" planet, because everything is so backward, but on the other hand, it is prospering, and science and technology are advancing with each passing day.
This sanatorium was originally a small monastery with a large area in the city of Als, called the Abbey of Evans.
Because of the failure of the Red Moon Plan, the Barbarian Empire launched a long-planned raid, causing the small border town to quickly fall.
More than 30 nuns in the Ivens Abbey were brutally massacred, together with about 50,000 soldiers and civilians in the city. After the imperial army struggled to recover, the monastery fell into disuse and was used by the military to temporarily house those injured in the war.
soldier.
Sean was in a coma here for a full month, and when he woke up, he had lived two lives. If you don't look at the language and text, there is no difference between this place and the earth. For example, there is a sun above your head.
As for the moon, of course there is one, but March every year is called the Red Moon because the moonlight at night during this month has a red halo, so it is called the Red Moon.
The past round of war with the barbarians lasted for ten years. Based on past experience, the Imperial Military Command judged that the barbarians were exhausted, so they confidently formulated a counterattack plan, planning a nationwide conscription and expanding it in three years.
The army was deployed in advance to the front line of the Als Mountains.
Obviously, there was a fatal error in the judgment of the Military Command. Because the main forces were deployed on the front line and the rear was empty, the big shots did not expect that the fatigue of the barbarians was just an illusion. When the barbarians suddenly attacked first, the senior officers of the imperial army even
He didn't know where his subordinates were, and all the troops on the front line were mixed together, unable to form a unified combat force.
The Als defense line collapsed overnight, especially on the night of March 18. Because they could not distinguish between ourselves and the enemy, a large number of people died at the hands of their own people.
It was not until 7 o'clock in the morning on March 21 that Marshal Pierce rushed to the front line from the imperial capital, gathered the stragglers, and barely resisted the barbarian attack. At this time, the front line was less than 700 kilometers away from the holy city of the imperial capital.
On April 27, after more than a month of hard fighting regardless of losses, the imperial army finally regained the lost ground and drove the Assyrian army out of the Als Mountains. After the war, the losses were calculated, and the army casualties exceeded 700,000, while the civilian casualties were ten times this.
number.
Rumor has it that this number has been deliberately lowered.
However, after seeing this statistical result, Marshal Pierce couldn't bear it psychologically and immediately shot himself to death.
The death of Marshal Pierce cannot cover up the pain caused by this tragic war, nor can he put all the blame for the failure on himself.
No matter what the purpose is, whether it is to shift blame or to take the opportunity to fight, it is necessary to find out why the Red Moon Plan, which consumed too many resources, failed before it was finally launched, and why the Als defense line, which gathered millions of troops, was so vulnerable.
, is what the big shots are most concerned about.
However, this has nothing to do with Sean. As one of the 20 survivors of the 21st Infantry Division, Sean has the right to receive the reward of serving as a mascot.
Separate rooms, careful care and two free bottles of Reggie wine per week, although of average quality, are also expected.
Unlike the other 19 lucky people of the 21st Infantry Division, Sean preferred to bring his own wine and stay in the small library of the monastery.
Just make peace with what you have come. Chinese people have always been easy to adapt to the environment, and the same is true for Sean, who has blond hair. After he fainted last time, the lieutenant colonel who was said to have extraordinary origins never appeared again, and no one else asked him about the war.
, the lieutenant colonel specially sent an orderly to deliver a box of Dove cigars produced in the Omaha Islands in the southern part of the empire, and told him to rest in peace and cultivate himself.
This is a top-grade cigar that is most loved by the upper class, and one cigar is worth 50 silver louis or 5 gold louis.
Of course, this was only the price before the war. In the era of soaring prices after the war, you could still buy fakes for 7 gold coins. Sean’s military salary in the army was only 2 gold coins a month. This was because of the war and the empire’s
A "generous reward" for military personnel.
"A Concise History of the World" and "The War of St. Louis" are Sean's two favorite books. The former gives him a general understanding of the world, while the latter describes the story of the ancestors of the Europeans who started their business through hard work until the birth of the Europa Empire.
——Dragon Era 1765——This empire should be the fifth empire.
Legend has it that Louis is the only incarnation of God in the world. When the great flood came, Louis turned into a dragon boat and carried the ancestors to this continent that was not flooded. He taught the ancestors farming, fishing, hunting, and clothing making.
Build houses, cure diseases, and lead the people to fight against alien races, nature and wild beasts, so that all people can live.
Therefore, the Europeans believe that they are the descendants of Louis, Louis is the dragon, and the dragon is Louis.
However, today in this small library, Sean found another thin booklet, which aroused Sean's greater interest.
This pamphlet looks like the manuscript of a paper by an unknown angry young scholar, titled "Criticism of Several Absurd Views of Bactrian Historians":
"The Xia tribe is a rigid, cowardly, selfish and extremely shameless nation. They openly claim that the Xia tribe is the only descendant of the dragon. This is a serious provocation to our great European people. I have never seen such a shameless nation in the world.
, who likes to pretend to be the ancestors of other clans..."
"The twelve zodiac signs correspond to the twelve months of the year. The people of Daxia actually claim that there is a zodiac sign of 'cat'. What kind of animal is 'cat'? Has anyone seen it? This must be a fabrication by them, from their cultural classics
The description should be of a domestic animal like 'racoon', so they should follow our European standards and replace 'cat' with 'racoon'. You must know that 'photographing a raccoon and painting a tiger' is a phrase in their language."
"We should admit that the Xia people have an extremely long history and are a civilized world. Their poetry is particularly developed. Their civilization has had a significant impact on us. But it would be shameless to think that scientific notation is their invention. A lot.
Archeology shows that we Europeans have an equally long history, and our ancestors also used the same counting method... At a certain point five thousand years ago, the history of both sides seemed to stop advancing to a longer period at the same time, which is puzzling...
…”
"I believe that the Great Flood should have happened. More than 70% of the surface of our planet is ocean, and our lost civilization must be buried in the depths of the ocean..."
"I call on all Europeans to take up arms, cross the ocean, kill all the Xia people, and seize our Bibles."
"Just because there are very few words in the Bible that are written in the same way as the Xia Kingdom's current writing, that doesn't mean it belongs to them. On the contrary, I think they are inventing their own words based on the words of the Bible, just like they stole the work of Earl Campbell, our great thinker.
It’s like a genius discovery.”
"If they copy too much, it becomes their own. Just like if they tell too many legends and stories, even the dragon becomes their own. They even discuss how to write the word 'dragon' in a serious way..."
After reading the booklet in one go, Sean looked at some specially folded pages in "A Concise History of the World" and "The War of St. Louis" again, frowning with a strange expression.
It's really an interesting world.
However, this world is not always so interesting, or even scary, because there are two kinds of human alien species, blood warriors and bloodthirsty ones.
Barbarians, blood warriors, and bloodthirsty people can be regarded as alien species of humans.
Among them, the difference between the barbarians and normal humans is no greater than the difference between the white people of Europe and the black people of the Kenyan Empire in the southern continent. They just look ugly and have a slightly lower level of civilization. They have always lived in the northern ice fields and desert areas.
A life of wearing hair and drinking blood.
Relatively speaking, barbarians are not scary because they have low IQs and low levels of civilization, making it difficult for them to pose a threat to normal humans.
Blood warriors are tall, strong-boned, and violent in temper. They have normal IQs, but they like killing. Legend has it that the emergence of this kind of human beings or creatures has an unclear relationship with the church. In the era of ignorance, it was the church's tool to suppress resistance.
As for the bloodthirsty, their appearance is no different from that of normal people, so they may lurk in the civilized world. This kind of alien is even more terrifying, because they use human blood as a means of hiding, lurking, and assassinating.
Both blood warriors and bloodthirsty people disappeared for a time. It was not until the religious reform in 1200 that some priests and nobles who were excluded in the power struggle moved north into the barbarian zone. They twisted the scattered barbarian tribes into an empire and called themselves
The Great Assyrian Empire. But in the eyes of the Europeans, they still used to refer to it as a barbarian empire.
These two kinds of alien humans then appeared again.
At first, this kind of power was very rare and unable to fight against humans. When they grew stronger and had a certain number, humans invented gunpowder weapons, which to a large extent offset the differences in individual strength.
But now, not only did the number of blood warriors in the Barbarian Empire exceed everyone's expectations, but ordinary barbarians were even equipped with advanced rifled guns, which resulted in the disastrous defeat of the Europa Empire in the Red Moon War.
Boom, knock on the door interrupted Sean's thinking.
"Mr. Connery, Captain Horns ordered me to ask you to attend the banquet in the chapel at half past five in the evening. Please be sure to wear formal attire and maintain good military appearance. Someone from the military headquarters is here!"
The visitor is a little boy named Kim Carell, who is seven years old this year. He has a very similar origin to Sean. He is the adopted son of a nun in Evans Abbey. On the night when the city of Als fell, this person
A respectable nun tried her best to protect him.
Jin hid in the sewers of the monastery for a full month. Fortunately, he was born with malnutrition and was thin enough to hide in the narrow sewers without being discovered by the barbarian soldiers. When he was rescued, he weighed less than twenty kilograms and was dying.
Jin, who came back alive, was still allowed to live in the monastery and became an orderly for all the wounded soldiers. Among them, Sean was the best to him and often deliberately asked him to run errands for him and gave him a small tip.
"Kim, thank you." Sean retracted his thoughts and took out ten shillings from his pocket, "Tell the captain that I will be there on time. Also, take the time to buy me the latest Herald and send it to me.
By the way, you can find the quartermaster Robert Charles for me. He has promised to mail-order a batch of books from the Holy City for me. If they arrive, you can help me get them back and I will make up the money later."
"Thank you for your generosity, sir." King was very happy, because a newspaper only cost eight shillings, and the remaining two were his errand fees.
Sean noticed that Jin didn't walk away and asked, "Is there anything else?"
"Sergeant Big Nose said you are a bit..."
Because of similar backgrounds, Jin was somewhat close to Sean. Sean said:
"Does Sergeant Gary Norris think I'm weird? Is he using my name again to talk nonsense among a group of big-headed soldiers?"
Big Nose is the nickname of Sergeant Norris. He is a person who likes to brag and chatter, but he is not in the same regiment as Sean. Norris is the most elite soldier of the Grenadier Regiment of the 21st Division, and Sean did not know him before.
The 21st Infantry Division is not full of people, but it has a strength of 10,000 people, so it is normal not to recognize them.
Jin nodded and said, "But I think you are very similar to our dean."
"In which way?" Sean asked.
"She loves reading. She has read all the books here, and she is a very nice person. She once said that she would teach me to read when I gain weight." Jin replied, "Mr. Connery, can you teach me to read?"
I can pay you, I have saved a lot of money."
"Is it just what you make these days?" Sean smiled.