It is a biological instinct to worship the strong.
Disciplined troops who are uniformly dressed, armed with weapons, and neatly dressed are among the strong men most easily accepted by ordinary people.
It would be even more extraordinary if this army had an aura of victory and strictly abided by the chivalry that suited the characteristics of the times.
In this era where there are no videos and all pictures are drawn by hand, the appeal of seeing it with your own eyes is unparalleled.
The unique strict discipline of the Knights of Life has become noble in the eyes of the citizens of Tours; the strong execution ability also demonstrates power and strength.
Their appearance is like a beacon in the darkness, breaking through the veil of shadow, leaving behind a glorious and romantic military worship.
This kind of worship has turned into a seedling of thought. Although it has not yet formed a system, it has begun to show its power.
"Jack, how about we also apply to join the Knights of Life.
I don't want to be a groom for the rest of my life and die in bed one day. Since I have to die, I want to die in glory. "Wood, you are crazy. The royal capital has sent another army to the west. If you join the Life Knights at this time, you will definitely become cannon fodder.
Even if you want to be one of them, you have to wait until they win before applying."
"Jack, I understand what you said, but after they win, we may not be able to join. Opportunity. ”
The emotion of military admiration is fermenting among the middle-level groups and is also driving the actions of the lower-level groups.
As time goes by, more and more residents go to the temporary church of Life Church.
The war has not yet begun and the outcome is not yet known, but the Knights of Life have magically increased their membership by more than 500 people.
The Knights of Life accepted all these admirers who ignored the crisis and provided help in times of need.
However, Zhou Weide had no intention of letting them join the battlefield. Instead, he mobilized a hundred life knights to mix with them into the Tour Security Camp.
The Tour security camp adopts a squad arrangement model. Every five people are in a squad, and the Life Knight serves as the squad leader; every fifteen people are in a platoon, and the Life Knight serves as the platoon leader.
As a result, although the recruits of the Tour security camp have no combat experience and their weapons are only locally produced flintlocks, their organization level exceeds that of the local militia.
After the reorganization of this security battalion was completed, it took over the city patrol work.
For the time being, they can only stabilize public security and maintain logistics, but cannot really increase the combat effectiveness of the Life Knights.
On the contrary, the training team composed of gang members with less guilty crimes is constantly adding combatants to the Life Knights.
Under their crazy whipping, most of the gang members and prisoners repented and converted and accepted the Life Church’s personality replacement ceremony.
Therefore, inAs General Chiron built his fortifications, the Order of Life's elite soldiers continued to grow.
By the time the Life Knights stabilized the city and stepped out of the city again, the number of people had increased from 4,000 to more than 5,000.
In order to protect the stability of the rear, the Knights of Life left a thousand-man team, a security battalion, and a light cavalry patrol battalion in the city of Tours.
They still maintained the same scale as when they marched eastward to the royal capital, and once again set foot on the battlefield that belonged to them.
However, General Chiron, who led the Imperial Guard Corps westward, was no longer as relaxed as when he arrived.
Just like the Doco monks of the Sky Church are the intelligence specialists of the Church of Life, the city of Tours also has the intelligence specialists of the royal family.
These intelligence agents continuously sent information about Tour City to the royal capital through the spirit world station, and Prince Jos forwarded the information to General Kailon.
The original leakage of intelligence to each other cannot change the situation on the battlefield close at hand.
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But General Kailon discovered something extremely terrifying from this intelligence, that is, the Life Knights have the ability to assimilate and spread.
This is not a normal recruitment of soldiers, but a special ability to absorb criminals and gang members and transform them into elite soldiers.
General Kailon understood that if he did not do something, the population of Tours urban area was nearly 60,000, and he would have to wait for a month or two.
What Prince Jos will face is no longer four thousand life knights, but probably tens of thousands of elite cavalry regiments.
"It's terrible. We were all deceived by the elite level of the Life Knights. We thought they were elite knights who had accumulated the foundation of the Life Church and were strictly trained.
But in fact , they are a group of elite soldiers who can be mass-produced. As long as the Life Church has enough population, their knights will continue to be produced."
"The most important thing is weapons and equipment, they don't even need them. With the support of the logistics factory, special weapons can be created out of thin air.
How to defeat such an army? The Kingdom of Mattia cannot restrain them, and it is difficult for the Empire to restrain them. ”
The Church of Life. Without hiding their specialness at all, they are using various extraordinary phenomena to create an invincible image.
At this time, there is no dispute in the royal capital as to whether the Lord of Life exists or not. The only controversy is what the soldiers of the Lord of Life want when they advance into the royal capital.
Loyalty, royal power? Do gods care about these things; souls, believers? Why don't they offer sacrifices on a large scale and force the people in the area to convert?
Although there is no accurate answer to all the questions, the nobles of the royal capital have realized that there is a big problem in this crown war.
They understand that this is likely to be a confrontation between royal power and divine power. If they win, the nobility will be glorious, and if they lose, the gods will rule the people.
Unlike the hesitation of the nobles of the royal capital, General Kailon who blocked the Knights of Life was completely in a dilemma.
He did not want to join this unknown battle for theocracy, but the entrustment of Grand Duke Landu, the prince of the empire, made him unable to retreat without a fight.
He is not a general of the Kingdom of Mattia, but a general of the Thorne Empire.
He has the obligation and must test the real combat effectiveness of the Life Knights for the empire, and then compile what he sees and hears into a battle report and submit it to the empire's top brass for decision-making.
"Elling, can your werewolf battalion defeat the Knights of Life?"
"General, I can't guarantee that we have too little information, and the werewolf battalion only has one hundred Thirty special warriors.
However, as long as the Life Knights do not have large-scale destructive silver weapons, it will not be difficult for us to break through their camp with the help of the cover of darkness."
" The redeemed nobles in the royal capital talked about their weapons configuration.
They are equipped with a standard long gun, and the bullets are not loose lead bullets, but precision fixed metal bullets that are difficult to copy.
The lethality far exceeds that of our flintlock guns, and the accuracy is also very powerful.”
General Kelon’s words made the noble officer Elling fall into deep thought.
"Lances have limitations in close combat. If we want to effectively attack the Knights of Life, we can only fight hand-to-hand."
"But general, there are gods behind the opponent, so they can't We can't be found, and there's no way we don't have special troops.
If we attack blindly, we're very likely to lose the elite werewolf battalion."
"Always give it a try, Elling. If their bodies are only in ordinary condition, no matter how elite they are, they are not invincible.
This will be related to the empire's attitude towards the Kingdom of Mattia. If they can resist us, they will interfere with the crown. If they cannot resist us, they will remain neutral. ”