In this eastward march, almost all the soldiers of the Kleber territory came out, including 100 Kleber soldiers, 400 Thorn Legion soldiers, 100 Kleber Longbow Legion soldiers, and 200 Kleber Spear Legion soldiers, a total of 800 combat soldiers, plus 300 auxiliary soldiers responsible for military supplies, a total of 1,100 people.
For the Kleber Territory, it has been a long time since there has been such a large-scale expedition. One can clearly feel the excitement among the people, but only Green remains very calm.
Green looked disdainful for a moment, as if he had never seen the world.
To Green, this scale was just a fight between villages.
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The fourth day of the march was the first encounter after moving eastward.
After a month of continuous training, Kleber's longbowmen became more mature.
Several rounds of volleys directly defeated the attack of more than 500 mountain savages.
As dusk approached that day, several veteran tribesmen finally erupted.
They were already exhausted from the continuous marches, and even after winning the battle today, there was still no wine, no women from the camp, and prisoners were not allowed to touch them.
It's not that he was disloyal to the lord, but that too many habits had changed suddenly, and negative emotions such as unhappiness, dissatisfaction, and depression, coupled with his own bad temper, finally exploded.
The noisy people would not understand that such behavior might cause chaos in the camp.
Military orders are as heavy as a mountain.
Green was well aware that a kind army cannot be commanded, so in order to change the bad habits that affected combat as soon as possible, he would only impose stricter discipline on the soldiers.
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Green, who noticed the unusual movement outside, walked out of the tent with a whip in hand and quickly mounted his horse. On the way, he snatched a soldier's spear and threw it without hesitation at the tribesman who was shouting the loudest.
With a whoosh, the spear pierced through the chest of the tribesman and came out from his back. The force of the spear made the whole person fly several meters. Finally, the spear carrying the person was deeply inserted into the ground, and the tail of the spear was still shaking.
The soldiers gathered nearby felt their breathing stagnate and suddenly became quiet.
Ta-da-da~~The only sound left in my ears was the slow and rhythmic sound of horse hooves.
Green shook the reins slightly, and the horse under his crotch shook its head and made a "chi" sound as it walked slowly among the crowd.
Green's calm gaze swept across the crowd, like the pressure of a mountain, pressing down heavily. The soldiers trembled in fear and knelt on the ground one after another in front of Green.
Green's voice was much higher than usual: "I told you, no gatherings or making noises in the camp!"
"Look at me, look at your lord. If you dare to disobey the laws I issue, it will be an offense to the lord. There is only one result for offending the lord: death!"
The people of the Kleber Territory, located in the relatively isolated Crab Claw Peninsula, were indeed relatively backward in civilization. Even if I explained why Green wanted to change what he considered to be bad habits, he wouldn't understand. If I explained it too much, he might even be confused.
If they can't understand, there's no need to explain it painstakingly. Just let the soldiers remember with their bodies that the lord's orders cannot be disobeyed.
"I repeat, for Crabbe's soldiers, as long as we are at war, there will be no wine and no women!"
"In wartime, only orders must be obeyed!"
"If you win the war, I will reward you greatly, reward you for your bravery and for obeying the law! Farmland, houses, food, and wine."
Green pointed his whip at the soldiers closest to him and said, "You all stand up and answer."
The people who were pointed out stood up tremblingly.
"Answer me, do you understand? Can you obey the law?"
Several people answered, "Yes", "I can do it", and "I promise".
Green pointed to another place and asked the same question.
"Louder! Didn't I make sure you had enough to eat? Shout! Obey the lord's orders!"
"Obey the lord's laws!"
"Obey the lord's laws!"
"Obey the lord's laws!"
"Obey the lord's laws!"
"Obey the lord's laws!"
The soldiers' shouts became more and more unified, and the waves were getting louder and louder!
A smile finally appeared on Green's originally indifferent and expressionless face.
Zhang Green also ordered that the soldiers have more meat in their dinner.
The soldiers, who had just expressed their determination to the lord at the top of their lungs, cheered again despite the pain in their throats.
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As Kleber's soldiers advanced, the mountain savage tribe finally realized that Kleber's soldiers were a force that no one tribe could face, and several large tribes hastily formed a coalition.
A coalition of more than 3,000 mountain tribes gathered all over the mountain on the opposite side.
The Kleber Spear Corps formed a three-layer defensive formation in an orderly manner with neat slogans.
The Kleber soldiers were divided into two groups of 50, each standing on either side of the spearmen's formation.
Behind the defensive formation were the Thorn Legion and the Kleber Longbow Legion, totaling 500 men.
The wildlings' horns sounded and they launched a charge.
Each of Kleber's longbowmen carried 40 arrows. When the more than 3,000 mountain barbarians who launched the attack entered the effective range of the longbows more than 200 yards away, they had to face the baptism of 20,000 arrows.
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In Whispering City, the two Seven Gods monks who volunteered to join the army stared at the battlefield, their hearts extremely shocked.
"This is no longer a war on the same level."
"Yes, if Kleber's archers reached 10,000, they would be unmatched."
"After more than a decade of silence, this family is about to rise under the leadership of a young lord. Without the intervention of external forces, the entire Crab Claw Peninsula will fall into his hands sooner or later."
"Have you decided to intervene? If you have, I will contact the Archbishop of King's Landing as soon as possible. Perhaps we can try to contact Lord Jon, the Hand of the King, directly; he may be more concerned about this place."
"But I'd like to make a bold suggestion. Crab Claw Peninsula is the land of the ancestors. They never trust outsiders. The old gods here are deeply rooted. The young lord is more willing to support us. He needs a stable rule after the war and hopes for the blessing of the Seven Gods."
"............"
"He has conditions!"
"Oh? Besides bringing divine light to those in need, what else can we monks do? Is it just the pitiful few copper stars in the pockets of poor monks?"
"You misunderstood. It's not the Bronze Star, nor the Golden Dragon. What he wants is the power to appoint and dismiss the bishop of the territory! Ha, that's the power that belongs to the king!"
"The cheese is truly tempting. If we gain the support of the young lord, the entire Crab Claw Peninsula will fall into the embrace of the Seven Gods. This is a great achievement, and it will create a new chapter in the history of our sect."
"That's an offer that's hard to refuse."