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- Chapter 542 [Barbaric backwardness and advancement]
As an important military town and a magnificent city gate, the Northwest Fortress certainly has one place inside it: a prison cell.
There is a dungeon just behind the original commander's mansion in the northwest fortress.
This is not the first time Chen Daolin has come to this place, but when he comes again, he still feels a little uncomfortable.
The dungeon is dug very deep, with two levels going down. The bottom level is dark and damp. Especially in winter, it is full of moisture, and there are even some water stains on the ground.
The damp and cold feeling filled the air, with a stench that was hard to describe in words, as if it could penetrate through thick clothes and penetrate into the skin.
The necromancer McQueen once said that there is a smell of "death" in the air here.
¡°Well, Chen Daolin thinks this statement is correct. A prison cell, where no one has died.
Walking into the innermost room of the dungeon and pushing open the thick iron door, you can smell the thick rust-like smell in the air.
This is the smell of blood!
Chen Daolin frowned and looked at the mottled torture instruments and the curved iron hooks on the wall - although he didn't know what these things were used for, the blood and rust remaining on them must not be beautiful things.
There are three prisoners hanging on the wall of the cell.
To be precise, three orcs.
From the appearance, the orcs of the three hoof tribes look like cattle tribesmen.
Beside Chen Daolin, Dixon held a torch and looked at the torture instruments on the surrounding walls with a horrified expression.
Chen Daolin seemed to smile These orcs of the Ox clan, looking at them in this dark place under the light of torches, really looked a bit like bull heads Well, it's a pity that they don't have horse faces. It seems that there are no horses among the orcs captured this time?
In that battle, Montoya did not capture many prisoners.
Basically most of the orcs on the battlefield. Montoya killed everyone he could.
This is what Chen Daolin said We don't have that much food to feed these guys.
After a brief interrogation and identification of the captured orcs, the strong ones were quickly thrown away to other places for the people from the chamber of commerce to select - of course, for a fee.
As for these three people, they are all distinguished guys who were picked out at the end.
It is said that the one hanging in the center of the wall at the moment, with both hands nailed directly to the wooden bars, is a very high-status guy in the invading orc army. He seems to be a commander-level figure.
These orcs are very cruel. But no matter how ferocious the orcs are, after several rounds of patrols with the twisting iron hooks and torture instruments on the walls, there will still be times when flaws are revealed.
Yes, it is a flaw that has been exposed, not a surrender!
To be precise, the people being interrogated came up with some words.
Chen Daolin got some information he needed.
The most valuable piece of information is that he confirmed that the orc invasion was indeed the behavior of a single tribe.
This is a large tribe with very good strength. After getting the news that the northwest fortress is empty. I just wanted to take advantage of this opportunity, and after several trials, I mobilized the warriors from the tribe and sent them out.
The result was naturally a head-on collision and a bloody head.
But Chen Daolin was more concerned about the news they got about the emptiness of the northwest fortress. How far has it been conveyed?
Or did they continue to pass the message upward?
Does the top brass of the Orc Kingdom know?
Do other tribes know about it?
The two jailers poured water on the orcs to wake them up, and then the cell began to be filled with howls of anger and pain.
Chen Daolin's expression did not change at all. He signaled for Dixon to move the torch and get closer to the orc officer in the middle.
"You ask it a question for me. Do you want to die or live." Chen Daolin tilted his head.
Dixon held the torch in one hand and covered his nose with the other, holding back the stench. Angrily, he said something like an orc.
The orc on the wall raised his head with difficulty, stared at Chen Daolin with a pair of fierce eyes, spit out a mouthful of bloody spit, and said something.
"Teacher, it" Dixon looked a little embarrassed.
"Well, it's scolding me, right?"
"Yes, and the scolding was very unpleasant." Dixon cried sadly.
"You tell it and I can let it go and go back to the orcs."
"ah?"
"Just do as you say!"
Dixon blinked his eyelids and translated this sentence to the orc.
The orc on the wall fell silent. It stared at Chen Daolin with wide eyes, breathing heavily.
It can be seen that it is in pain, and the injuries and signs of torture are very obvious, especially the blood stains on the hair, which are glued together.
After a while, the beast said a word in a hoarse voice.
"It asks you what you want it to do, and it won't give in to us."
Chen Daolin smiled: "I don't need it to surrender, and I don't need it to tell me any important information or intelligence. I just want to have a casual chat with it, and I will ask some questions, all of which are unimportant. Hmm , just to satisfy my curiosity, it can choose to answer, or it can choose not to answer. If it satisfies me, I will let it go back to the orcs."
After listening to Dixon's words, the orc seemed to be silent for a while, but its eyes were obviously more relaxed.
Chen Daolin had an idea and started asking directly.
He started asking question after question and asked Dixon to translate it.
Dixon was surprised that almost none of Chen Daolin's questions seemed to be related to the battle of the orc invasion.
It seems they are all irrelevant topics.
He asked how old the orc was and whether it had any children.
He even asked how old the orc's father was.
Then Chen Daolin asked some about the daily situation in the other party's tribe. For example, how old are their warriors when they are considered adults, how they live their daily lives, what sources of food they rely on, how much they rely on farming, and how much they rely on hunting.
He even seemed to be interested in asking some questions about how the female orcs in the orc tribe raised orc children, what their family division of labor was like, and whether they were like humans. Men work, women take care of the house, etc¡
These seemingly trivial questions gradually dispelled the orc's vigilance. It hesitated for a moment and began to answer.
Once you have a start, it will be much easier.
Chen Daolin asked more and more questions, and finally even some slightly sensitive questions, the orc thought for a while and answered them.
For example, the southern part of the Orc Empire and the Roland Empire. Especially in the area bordering the northwest, there are some big tribes around. What tribes are they? Are they cattle tribe, horse tribe, or tiger tribe? Do they live together, are there many mixed communities, etc. wait¡¡
these questions. The orc refused to answer at first, and Chen Daolin did not force the request. Instead, he chose to ask some trivial questions and waited until the other party relaxed. If you go back and ask again, the orc will probably answer.
Although his tone was still tough, his eyes were full of hostility.
Chen Daolin seemed very satisfied.
In the end, he didn¡¯t even dislike the bloody smell on the opponent¡¯s body. He also reached out and patted the orc with a very gentle tone: "Dixon, tell it. I am very satisfied with its answer. I will keep my promise and send it back to the orc."
Dixon translated this sentence doubtfully.
The eyes of the orc on the wall suddenly shone, but soon, the orc roared something loudly at Chen Daolin.
"Teacherit, it saideven if you let it go, it will not forget its hatred. It said it will definitely come back for revenge. It will bring the tribe's warriors over and kill us all."
"Very good, I like such an upright temperament." Chen Daolin grinned.
The orcs on the wall shouted something loudly, and soon, the other two orcs hanging on both sides started shouting together.
"What are they shouting?"
Dixon covered his nose: "Shout the slogan It probably means long live the orcs or something."
"Long live the orcs?" Chen Daolin blinked: "Shouldn't it be shouting 'for the tribe'?"
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When leaving the cell, Dixon came outside and took a few deep breaths. Then he looked at Chen Daolin with tears in his eyes: "Teacher what exactly do you think? Asked it thatThere are so many messy questions. Are these questions considered military intelligence? "
"Maybe forget it."
Chen Daolin's eyes became more serious at this time.
"Maybe?" Dixon's eyes widened.
Chen Daolin looked up at the sky.
The weather in winter is still gloomy - there have been no sunny days since the New Year.
"This is really a barbaric and hateful race." Chen Daolin sighed sincerely: "I am even a little shaken now What that woman Du Weiwei did is crazy, but it is not unreasonable."
"What?"
"Such a nasty and savage race has been living next to us as a neighbor. It is indeed annoying and dangerous. And they seem to be unconquerable."
"Cannot conquer"
"Well, it can't be conquered. Since it can't be conquered then just destroy it."
Chen Daolin has always agreed with the saying that if you know yourself and the enemy, you can fight a hundred battles without danger.
Since you want to make up your mind to deal with the orcs, you must seriously understand this race.
In fact, the Roland Empire already knows a lot about the orcs, but it has always been superficial. There is no serious and systematic study of this race in an all-round and three-dimensional way.
At least according to Chen Daolin, the Roland Empire's current intelligence on the orcs is only at the "intelligence" level, such as inquiring about the distribution of the orc army, how many orc armies there are in their royal city, and how many local tribes are strong and weak. , how many elite tiger clan members are directly loyal to the orc king
These are only at the level of military intelligence.
But for the orc race, there is very little analysis from a social perspective.
It¡¯s not that Chen Daolin has never seen orcs before, but he only had a very one-sided understanding when he came out of the frozen forest.
But now when he was preparing to deal with the orcs, there were no similar experts around him, so he had to come to investigate on his own.
"In general, this is a very pitiful race. The lifespan of orcs is not long, much shorter than that of humans. Ordinary orcs. For example, the hoof tribe accounts for more than 70% of the population of the orc kingdom, and tribes such as cattle, horses, sheep, etc. , their lifespan is generally only fifty years. This is considered a long life. As for the average lifespan, I estimate that it is only more than forty. Orc warriors reach adulthood at the age of thirteen and can find the opposite sex to reproduce. Well, it¡¯s not surprising. Primates originally have longer lifespans among animals of the same weight. Humans have longer lifespans than orcs. So it¡¯s not surprising. Orcs mature and develop early, and the reproductive period comes early. Earlier too.
But their civilization is still very barbaric and backward.
They are still a tribal system, which is at least two thousand years behind the human civilization of our Roland Empire.
They have no high-level civilization and culture, no literature, no entertainment, and no artistic civilization development. Be it architecture, art. Metallurgical technology, etc lag behind human civilization in almost all aspects.
To put it bluntly, calling them ¡®barbarians¡¯ is an exaltation of them.
The illiteracy rate among the orcs is almost 99%, and only the orcs who can write and calculate are rare. Their transactions even remain in the form of barter most of the time.
Um. This is probably why the merchants of the Roland Empire are so happy to go to the Orc Kingdom to do smuggling business. A businessman went to do business with those orcs who couldn't even add or subtract single-digit numbers. Why not trick those stupid orcs to death?
Because of the backwardness of civilization and the lack of material, the orcs cannot even have enough food and clothing. Not even food and clothing. Naturally, we don¡¯t want to nurture any advanced culture. They have no real culture, let alone entertainment.
A male orc is considered an adult at the age of thirteen and must take up arms to fight. Life is difficult when hunting, and female orcs can start giving birth even after they are over ten years old. And this is not an isolated phenomenon.
In short, our neighbors are a group of backward, barbaric and backward races who live extremely hard lives. "
Chen Daolin said this and glanced at Dixon. He saw the confusion on Dixon's face. Chen Daolin smiled and continued:
"But this does not mean that the orcs are ridiculous. On the contrary, the orcs like this are terrifying! It does not mean that an advanced civilization can definitely defeat a backward civilization. In many cases, barbaric and backward civilizations wipe out advanced civilizations. of."
Chen Daolin thought for a while, and several names popped up in his mind.
Xiongnu, Turks, Xianbei, Jurchen, Mongolia
"Precisely because they are barbaric, they have an extremely abnormal purity. This purity directly transforms the pressure of survival into combat effectiveness. Precisely because they have to fight under the pressure of survival since birth, so fighting is almost It has become the instinct of the orcs. It can be said that this is a real fighting race.
Think about it, when they were thirteen years old, they started to attack people with knives, and they have seen blood and death What about us Roland people? What were you doing when you were thirteen?
??Similarly, precisely because of their barbarism, this nation will be simpler. They put all their energy into fighting and surviving. rather than other aspects.
Human beings are indeed smarter and more civilized than them. But humans will put their energy into other places, architecture, building better houses, brilliant art, culture, gorgeous clothes oh, and of course, intrigues.
The orcs don¡¯t have much internal friction, and they only stay at a very shallow level. At most, it¡¯s a battle between two tribes, and the winner annexes the loser. But what about human beings they restrain each other and restrain each other. Although they have 100% strength, they may only be able to use 20% in the end?
Most of the orcs have a single-minded mind. These guys don't think about too complicated things, because they can't think about it and can't understand it, so when they focus all their energy on fighting, this is the most terrifying time. of!
How barbaric! "
Chen Daolin sighed: "It is indeed a terrible thing to have this neighbor by your side for more than a hundred years. The Roland people are lucky. In these more than a hundred years, there has been no civil strife in the empire, and no one has made any mistakes. What's wrong? For more than a hundred years, the Roland Empire's national destiny was still on the rise.
But what if
If we do nothing. Let this seemingly backward, barbaric neighbor continue to stick around. To maintain this peaceful situation we can still suppress the orcs and defeat them.
So in the future, if one day something goes wrong with us and the empire falls behind, then at that time, we will be horrified to find that these backward and barbaric races that we look down on can in turn destroy us ¡¡±
This is not just random nonsense by Chen Daolin.
If it weren¡¯t for the Three Kingdoms period, the Han people would have been at war with each other for almost a hundred years. This actually brought the Han population from 56 million at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to 16 million at the end of the Three Kingdoms
Can Wuhu disrupt China? ?
An orc is a beast. If you keep it by your side, when you are strong, you can suppress it. But there's no guarantee that you won't get sick or something in the future. When you get weak, this beast will eat you!
So¡¡
"The best way is to kill this beast while you are still strong!"
Chen Daolin touched his chin: "I think Du Weiwei probably thinks the same way, so this woman would do such a crazy thing."
After all, no one can guarantee that the Roland Empire will continue to be strong. A feudal civilized dynasty will often hit a trough after a period of prosperity.
Even if the Tulip family is the pillar of the empire, you can¡¯t guarantee that every generation of this family will produce geniuses, right?
¡°If one or two generations of mediocre Tulip Dukes emerge, can we still expect them to protect the empire?
While you are still strong, kill this powerful neighbor first, so as not to leave harm to future generations.
Andactually, the Roland Empire's national power has begun to decline over the years.
"Du Wei didn't directly destroy the orcs back then, perhaps because of lack of strength. After all, the Roland Empire had fought for so long and needed to recuperate. And later maybe Du Wei had an idea that the country would perish without foreign aggression. .Leaving a not-so-powerful, backward and barbaric enemy outside can preserve one's own aggressiveness. But now, the situation is different. The Roland Empire's national destiny has reached its peak, and there will be no room for improvement. What's next? Ten years, or fifty or a hundred years, may be the period of decline of the Roland Empire.
At this time, while everyone still has the strength, this generation of human beings is quite talented It is indeed not a bad idea to kill the orcs as our neighbors. "
Along the way, Chen Daolin may have been telling Dixon, or perhaps he was talking to himself.
In short, Dixon may not have understood many of the words he said, but he secretly kept them in mind.
The two of them returned to the commander-in-chief's mansion and just walked into the hall when a man rushed in from outside as if his buttocks were on fire!
The person coming is Ade!
Ad¨¦ was wearing a leather armor, with a dusty look on his face and body, his hair was disheveled and covered with sweat. He came in panting and yelled loudly before he could stand still.
"Big news! Big news!! Great victory in the Roton Valley!! Panin ambushed and defeated the prairie cavalry, beheading tens of thousands!!"
¡¾This chapter is 5,500 words long.
I have been thinking about the plot of this book recently. There are still hundreds of thousands of words to follow. Now I need to start thinking about the final layout in advance. I¡¯ve made several ideas and choices, but I¡¯m still a little undecided.
The ending will certainly not be tragic. But maybe there will be some darkness Well, I'm still hesitating. ¡¿
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