"That's because they want to live." After Lawrence expressed that he was surprised why so many people came to choose to become his direct subjects, Saifei directly explained to him, "For ordinary people,
It is too difficult for them to open up more territory in a place that is basically full now. It is better to follow a strong man and give something to get everything they need to make a living."
Speaking of this, Saphire gave Lawrence a strange look and then continued: "Isn't this how the earliest nobles were born? As strong men, they led the people to overcome many difficulties and seized living space for the people from the wilderness.
The people exchange this protection with the goods and labor they produce."
"You're right." Lawrence nodded. After all, this was not a situation where humans unified the world in the previous life. Therefore, the relationship between nobles as extraordinary beings and ordinary people cannot be copied mechanically from many things in the same world.
Similarly, with the development of the world, there are not so many such real aristocrats. More aristocrats have degenerated into a rentier class who rely on various etiquette and so-called luxury goods to flaunt their status. Or they are like a lot of others.
Similar groups of people come together to monopolize certain interests or seize more things that should not belong to them.
Because of this situation, Lawrence did not think of this direction when this group of ordinary people proposed to become his direct subjects. After all, most nobles in this era have forgotten what a true noble should look like, which led to his own
I couldn't think of it the first time.
"It feels like the burden is a little heavier." Lawrence lamented. After all, with the progress of the times, the kind of direct subjects who had personal dependence in the past no longer exist, and the so-called direct subjects at this time are actually similar to what they are now.
They are just workers with long-term contracts.
In other words, Lawrence can indeed command them now. But the corresponding thing is that doing things according to orders requires Lawrence to pay corresponding rewards. Fortunately, Saifei said that these people's requirements are not too high, as long as they do it in the first place.
It is enough to provide them with necessary food and daily supplies before a crop is harvested.
At the same time, the reason why these people who are willing to follow Lawrence are all strong men is actually to show their worth in this war. Therefore, as long as they are given weapons, they can become very good militiamen.
"Can these people also become militiamen?" Lawrence was skeptical about the last point that Saphire said. Because in his opinion, although these people were in good spirits, they looked a little too thin. He was a little bit
I doubt whether these people can really complete the combat missions that the militia should complete.
"Don't underestimate them." Saphire glanced at the group of strong laborers who were taken to the camp for dinner by the guards, then retracted his gaze, and then said. "If you think about it, you will know that there are big people who are willing to take risks to come here.
Some family conditions are very ordinary, so it is normal for their physical fitness to look a little weak."
"But because they are relatively poor, they often just live on the outskirts of towns. Considering that encountering monsters is basically inevitable in such a place, they have enough courage and experience to face those monsters in the wilderness.
They."
"More importantly, in order to protect themselves in that environment and obtain enough resources. Basically each of them has a homemade matchlock gun at home to drive away the monsters and go hunting around the town to obtain meat and fur to feed their families.
."
"That would be great." Lawrence nodded with satisfaction. As long as they had experience in using muskets, it would be much easier for them to use those modern rifles. At least there would be no problem in firing guns while standing in the fortifications.
This is exactly what happened. In the next three days, those people quickly learned the use of the new rifle and some simple military common sense. After all, compared with the matchlock gun that was extremely difficult to load or fire, this
Military rifles with dropped bolts are much simpler to use, and there is no trouble such as the match falling or extinguishing after the matchlock is fired.
At the same time, for Lawrence, this also means that he now has twice as many armed personnel on hand. He can replace a group of professional armed personnel who originally needed to guard the camp to hunt down as many goblins as possible after the battle.
In addition, these people also provided enough labor for the defense of the camp and surrounding defensive positions. Therefore, six days later, when Nora detected that the goblins had gathered more than 50,000 people and were preparing to attack, Lawrence and the others
A series of defensive positions have been successfully established with the camp as the core.
"There are more goblins than we thought. It's not the thirty or forty thousand we deduced before, but more than fifty thousand." Standing on the wall of the camp, Lawrence said to Knight Joseph. "It seems that they really intend to do it all at once."
Push us into the sea, so now we have to face not only the goblins on this plain, but also dozens of warriors from the surrounding goblin tribes."
"It shouldn't be a big problem." Knight Joseph looked at the zigzag trenches under the city wall and the barbed wire in front of the trenches and said, "With the fortifications you designed, the goblins with cold weapons will definitely not be able to defeat them.
From our position."
"Speaking of cold weapons, 1/10 of this group of goblins should be elite troops. Because Nora found that they were wearing armor made of animal leather and bark, as well as metal weapons." Lawrence continued to add to the investigation results, although in
Prior to this, the guards and the local indigenous people organized a scout team to conduct multiple reconnaissances, but these goblins still successfully blocked the battlefield.
According to analysis, these goblins are likely to have clergy members of the goblin god. Therefore, with the help of extraordinary power, they can properly block the scouts' in-depth investigation every time.
After the scouts failed, Nora volunteered to take over the important task of scouting the battlefield. This hit the weakness of the goblins: Nora's own divinity was enough to avoid those goblin god priests.
The detection magic set up, and the constructed dolls as non-flesh creatures completely failed the life detection magic that the goblin shamans were proud of.
Therefore, after Nora entered the battlefield, intelligence about the goblins was continuously fed into the camp's headquarters. After analyzing the intelligence, Lawrence and the others were surprised to find that these goblins actually had simple organizational capabilities, at least they looked better.
Like an army rather than a herd of beasts.
Obviously, with the addition of caster goblins, these goblins are no less than ordinary humans in at least many aspects, so the difficulty of cleaning them up has increased by at least an order of magnitude.
"The problem is not big. Although such an army of wilderness creatures is much more difficult to fight than wild creatures that are like beasts. But it is not very difficult for us to hold on here and defeat them." Joseph thought for a while.
Said, "Because they don't have any heavy equipment, their numerical advantage in front of fortifications can easily be wiped out."
According to the plan discussed in advance, Lawrence and his team's tactics this time are still traditional defensive counterattack tactics. That is, they first build a strong camp to lure the goblins to attack. After the goblins hit their heads in front of the fortification and were bleeding, the humans then
Break out of the fortifications and kill as many goblins as possible.
The previous pioneers had done the same thing. If the goblins in the area hadn't had a cave in the mountain where they could hide, they might have been cleared out in the previous pioneering operations.
"That's good." Lawrence nodded and said, "You will be in charge of this war. If there is any new information, I will inform you as soon as possible."