Mountain and Forest Kingdom

The cold winter has not dampened everyone's enthusiasm for work.

People in Pumixiu Town are preparing for next year's expedition, and craftsmen are making various weapons and ship protective gear.

Women gathered in warm wooden huts to sew shoes, and children crawled among piles of wool and fur nearby.

The chefs were responsible for cooking, and workers and soldiers could eat when they entered the house.

The market has been much quieter these days, and no lively caravans and tourists are approaching.

However, serfs from Sider and Pig Trotters City often come over and choose to join here as slaves.

There used to be no place to hide, but since the name of the benevolent prophet spread, many serfs in manors and nobles who could not survive have hope.

Many people fled with their families and their families, and some slaves who originally had no idea where they were going had a chance to escape.

Most slaves stayed as slaves under nobles not because they were afraid, but because they didn't know where to go and thought that no one would accept them as slaves. Even if they went outside, they would still be slaves.

But after the benevolent prophet appeared, many slaves' concerns were dispelled.

As long as you get here, you can have enough to eat and live a life without being abused.

Although the Church of the Stars has a very small number of people, it has spread more and more evil throughout the barbarian kingdom with the spread of caravans.

Beow quickly took the migrant workers brought from outside in the spring onto the raft. In front of the raft there were sled dogs pulling the cart, as well as knights riding Dom sheep.

A team of fifty people soon set out to spread the prophet's words to more places.

in the manor

Lawrence divided his troops into multiple directions to explore.

"While the river freezes in winter, and during this season when the outside world won't attack us, we're going to train our troops and go downstream to find our opponents!"

In addition to the team heading north to explore the river, the team heading east to assist the Wakili people in building a port, and the team of envoys heading southeast to bribe the nobles of Pig Trotter City, Lawrence also had to go downstream.

The forest people downstream are also one of the cornerstones of the territory and must be protected.

Sariel, wearing a thick coat and sheepskin hat, stood next to Lawrence and looked at the deeply frozen glacier.

"Lawrence, what are we doing downstream?"

Lawrence replied: "Go downstream to train. There are other tribes below the forest people. We want to conquer more places."

"The other thing is to take advantage of the winter to clear away the trees and plants that are in the way, and find those hibernating animals and kill them!"

Lawrence said calmly: "When we go to the dense forests downstream in summer and autumn, it is easy to get sick and bugs to attach to us, so I have been waiting for the arrival of winter!"

Sally suddenly looked sad, "Then we will be busy again this winter?"

"Well, it will be very busy." Lawrence encouraged: "Winter is a huge advantage for us! We have to take advantage of this!"

"Get ready and go when you're full!"

Lawrence quickly issued the order.

"Yes, Prophet!!" Fleiss and others agreed happily.

Andrew was also a little impatient.

In the north in winter, there will be no sneak attacks by the Western Kingdom's troops, nor will there be sneak attacks by the southern forces.

In this era, winter is a huge test for logistics. Only people like the Vakiri who are too poor to survive are willing to go out and rob in winter.

The area where Westerners live has a maritime climate. The winter in the Hokuriku Kingdom is the coldest and does not go much below zero. However, if you live here in the north for a long time, your ears will freeze off.

If people from the west and the south want to attack here in winter, they will freeze to death before they even reach the gate of the manor.

The severe cold means that the barbarians don't have to worry about the possibility of being beaten back. Even if they are beaten, it doesn't matter. After escaping and coming back, they can build various simple and broken houses in a few days.

This kind of climate is very harmful to Lawrence, but sometimes you can do something with this environment.

In the cold winter, no one can defeat Lawrence's barbarian army!

Even the more capable Wild Boar Legion is the same.

It's not that Andrew and others are better than the elite warriors of the Loven Kingdom, but Lawrence provides each soldier with woolen boots, woolen pants, windproof leather jackets, and woolen coats.

The powerful logistics make the northern barbarians, who are already resistant to freezing, become stronger and want to fight even more!

Warm shoes make it easier for soldiers to stand firm, exert force and run in the winter.

Rich food has enabled a group of people to reserve a large amount of fat, which makes them resistant to freezing and beating!

The most advanced reward and punishment system of this era makes everyone eager to get more honors.

After eating, drinking, and resting for a while, everyone quickly walked out of the house one after another, stepped onto the ice under the leadership of Lawrence, and began to run quickly downstream.

This time I only brought Salil, Sophia, and Catherine with me.

Catherine and Sophia are a must.

Salil asked Lawrence to follow because he saw that she was going to follow.

Lawrence has always been protected by Salil. Salil's ax has saved Lawrence more than once. Lawrence is also used to being protected by Salil.

Sariel rides Nala the Dom sheep, and Sophia rides Sophia the two-and-a-half-year-old Dom sheep.

The thick ice can support several tons of weight. Everyone walked around and built a windproof ice and snow wall on the shore when it got dark, and used the pots and fuel they brought to eat hot pot.

After eating hot pot, we started to build a roof with snow blocks. There were 70 veterans and 30 recruits in the team of more than 100 people.

We started cooking early the next morning. After dinner, we set off on our way and arrived at the forest tribe at noon.

The old knight Turaka came out to greet him, with more than a hundred forest men behind him.

"prophet!"

Tukara and the forest men behind him lowered their heads and knelt on the ground.

Lawrence sat on the black unicorn and said: "Get up, this time I want to expand the territory here and spread the glory of God to more land."

"Are the tribes downstream willing to join us?"

Lawrence looked at Turaka and asked Turaka not only to build here, but also to absorb more people.

Turaka explained: "Those people refused to join us, they did not trust us, and they did not want to be ruled by the nobility and the church."

Lawrence nodded, "Okay, this is why I brought people here this time."

"You are in my territory, but you refuse to listen to me. How can such a thing happen?"

Lawrence said to Andrew: "Take a rest, there is a tribe of four hundred people downstream, conquer it!"

"Yes, prophet!" Andrew became excited.

Tukara said quickly: "Prophet, there is a warrior in the Viper tribe who is very powerful. The wooden stick in his hand can break our five-meter-long wooden boat, and Reglo is no match for him."

Andrew became even more excited, "What's his name?"

Tukara replied: "The people here call him Giant Gris. He is taller than you by an axe's length."

Lawrence looked at Andrew, who was a little over 1.8 meters tall. The giant Gris was at least 2.3 meters tall. (End of chapter)