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Because almost all knowledge and military power are in the hands of the nobles, and the spiritual world is in the hands of the church. When the two are combined, even if some peasants who cannot survive occasionally start an uprising, they will soon be suppressed due to lack of strategic vision.

People lacking the leadership of intellectuals are not justified at all, which is why there are so many peasant uprisings in history, but in the end it is often some nobles and intellectuals who establish a new dynasty.

The ending of those insurgents who were born at the bottom was even more ironic. Either they transformed themselves and joined these people, or they were used up and thrown into the toilet as toilet paper and flushed away.

Valindra nodded thoughtfully: "I understand! As long as the heroes in the hearts of those kind people are destroyed, the fire of hope in their hearts will be extinguished. In this regard, any physical punishment , are far less effective than a mental shock. In the years when you were away, Luskan often executed the spies of the Harper Alliance and the traitors who helped them in public, and as time passed, there was no soil for these guys to survive."

"That's right! Habit is a terrible thing! No matter how brutal the rule is, as long as the people at the bottom get used to it, they will slowly accept it. Most importantly, don't let them have hope. Without hope, they will be content with the status quo , because change means uncertainty, no one knows whether it will get better or worse next time. In addition, if you want Luskan to become a real country, you need to unite some forces, whether it is businessmen or Well, it doesn’t matter whether it’s the slave owners who run the manor, in short, let them feel that they can participate in politics, so that they can form national consciousness and national consciousness.”

Zhang Cheng obviously already knew about Valindra's ambitions, so he openly pointed out Luskan's weakness.

After all, if there are no people without national consciousness and national consciousness, no matter how strong it is at the moment, once problems arise, it may lead to division, or even direct disintegration and extinction.

But if there are these two things, even if one day defeats and declines, there is a possibility of a comeback.

"After this battle is over, I will gather the merchants and slave owners to form a great council as you said. But before that, we need to defeat Waterdeep. Entreri sent A piece of information came, and the lords of Waterdeep City began to call for allies to form a coalition army. At present, more than 60 nobles have responded to the call, and the number of troops has increased from [-] to [-]."

"Twenty-five thousand people? Great! The souls of these people after death can definitely condense a powerful priesthood for me. War, what a wonderful word, I really hope to see the scene of corpses strewn all over the field soon..."

Chapter 928 Destroying the Battle

With the slaughter of Neverwinter Fortress, the last nail of Neverwinter City was finally pulled out, and Waterdeep City completely cut off the channels for obtaining information.

Since they don't know what happened in Neverwinter, they don't even know that the entire Neverwinter is under Zhang Cheng's control, and they are completely falling to Luskan, ready to launch a fatal blow at a critical moment.

In fact, not only Waterdeep City didn't know, but even the nobles and merchants in Neverwinter City didn't know that he was already an ally of Luskan, and he was still highly vigilant against the army stationed ten kilometers away.

Only those doppelganger officers with strange silver lights in their eyes knew what would happen next.

In order to better control the army, Valindra brought a total of eighty shapeshifters from Luskan. They can perfectly transform into anyone's appearance and replace them silently.

Right now, all the high-status people in the Neverwinter army have been replaced by shapeshifters. As long as an order is given, the soldiers will immediately strike back and give their former allies a righteous backstab.

The poor lords of Waterdeep City haven't realized that Zhang Cheng has woven a huge trap in Neverwinter City. Once he steps on it, he will definitely die.

When the reinforcements of the Northland Lords Alliance gathered more and more, and finally reached the unprecedented number of [-], they began to march towards the north in a mighty manner, planning to fight a battle outside your Neverwinter Forest and completely defeat Luskan's expansion ambitions.

Since all the ships in the harbor were destroyed before, this coalition army had to proceed from land, and it was extremely difficult to transport various supplies. If you look down from the sky, you can clearly see a large number of ox carts, horse carts, and mule carts. Connected, slowly moving forward on the muddy dirt road, the speed is shockingly slow.

"Damn! Why did the front stop again?" A middle-aged man in shiny silver armor cursed loudly.

It's not that he has a bad temper, but that similar situations will occur every one or two hours along the way, which is an out-and-out disaster for the march.

"Sorry, General Ramsay, another carriage overturned ahead. The craftsmen are rushing to repair it, and it will be repaired in a few minutes." A scout hurried over to report.

The man called General Ramsay sighed helplessly: "Hey, let them hurry up, otherwise..."

Before he could finish his words, fifty or sixty half-orcs riding wargs rushed out of the nearby forest, without saying a word, rushed into the unprepared team to kill and destroy.

"Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh

The guy in the lead yelled the barbarian howl of Icewind Dale, and swung a machete to split a hapless guy in half.

The warg under his crotch was not to be outdone, and killed another human soldier with one bite, and then opened his bloody mouth to threaten those timid horses, cows, mules and other domestic animals.

In the blink of an eye, the team was messed up.

Coupled with the fact that many soldiers were exhausted from traveling for days, these wolf cavalrymen had to slaughter more than 200 people before they left.

You must know that it is not only these dozens of wolf cavalry who launched the attack, but there will be such a team every two or three hundred meters, and there are more than 300 people in total.

They didn't love to fight at all, and immediately turned around and retreated after a successful blow, hiding in the dense forests on both sides, not giving their opponents a chance to counterattack or pursue them.

There is no doubt that this is a standard assault tactic, the purpose is to make the enemy exhausted, unable to take a good rest and march.

If it is on the frontal battlefield, there are more than 1000 wolf cavalry in this area, and at most they can only fight with the same number of human knights.

But after they are dispersed, they are like ghosts hiding in the dark, who may rush out at any time to cause immeasurable damage.

In the charge just now, at least 2000 soldiers were killed and hundreds more were injured, and there were countless traffic chaos and overturned vehicles caused by frightened animals.

Seeing the heavy losses of his troops, General Ramsay trembled with anger, and cursed: "Bastards! These Luskan bastards are so scared that they dare not fight us head-on! They only use this kind of shameless despicable means. Immediately let all the knights come to me to assemble, if they dare to have a second time, I will let them see what is called the iron fist of justice."

"As you wish! Your Excellency, General!" The scout hurriedly bowed and passed the order quickly on horseback.

In less than 10 minutes, a knight group composed entirely of elites gathered and stared vigilantly at the dense forests on both sides of the road.

As General Ramsay expected, when the knights gathered, the wolf cavalry disappeared and did not appear again for a whole day.

But the problem is, whether it is a knight or a war horse, they all need to eat and rest.

When they took off their armor in the evening and sat on the ground preparing to eat something, the half-orc wolf cavalry appeared again.

Just like last time, they took the initiative to avoid those elites who didn't seem easy to mess with, and specially picked up ordinary citizens and farmers recruited temporarily to kill them, and even drove them to attack the formation of veterans. If they could disperse, they would follow and kill them. If you disperse, retreat directly.

At this moment, even an idiot can see that these orcs riding wolfs are not here to fight at all, but to attack the morale of the coalition forces by launching surprise attacks, leaving ordinary soldiers in a state of panic all day long.

If the plot succeeds, even if he successfully reaches Neverwinter, he may not be able to defeat Luskan who is waiting for work.

"Magic! We need the help of magic now! Immediately ask the mage accompanying the army to monitor the movements of the forests on both sides 24 hours a day, and if there is any sign of the enemy approaching, immediately issue an alarm. In addition, divide the army into two halves, and the other half will be in charge when one half rests. Be on alert." General Ramsay immediately issued a new order after pondering for a moment.

He knew that although doing so would increase the fatigue of the soldiers and seriously slow down the marching speed, there was no good solution so far.

After all, the tactic of sabotage warfare, which is aimed at harassment, is still very effective in modern warfare, not to mention the relatively primitive and backward Faerun continent. Even if the sneak attack is unsuccessful, it can greatly increase the psychological pressure of the opponent's soldiers.

Especially when the enemy is watching and hiding in the dark, and may rush out to launch a fatal attack at any time, that kind of feeling is absolutely uncomfortable.

"Hey! These guys have been fooled! You! You can send a letter to Lord Gar, saying that the master's plan has succeeded. It won't be long before these weak guys will become our prey." Hiding in the woods and peeking at Waterdeep City The half-orcs of the coalition army grinned, and ordered to their companions behind them.

Chapter 929 Allying with the Enemy

Those who have not experienced the constant harassment of the sabotage battle will never understand the feeling of fear all the time, let alone understand how terrible the double torture to the body and spirit is in this state.

In particular, the road from Waterdeep City to Neverwinter City has a long section that passes through a narrow strip called the Sword Mountain Range, and the Swamp of the Dead filled with strong negative energy, which provides a natural cover for launching a surprise attack.

In addition, the half-orc wolf cavalry is not a lawful and good camp. In order to confuse the mages who monitor every move around them through magic, they even looted dozens of surrounding villages and gathered the villagers together to drive them in the direction of the coalition forces.

If the opponent is very vigilant and responds in time, then they will choose to give up the attack, shrink back and wait for the next opportunity.

But if the opponents didn't react immediately, then they would use these innocent farmers to disperse the team, launch a violent attack on the coalition soldiers, and use fire glue to ignite the carriages full of grain, grass and luggage.

In this way, the original march of less than five days took half a month abruptly, and every soldier was exhausted, and the morale basically dropped to freezing point.

The sinister and cunning Luskan only lost more than 400 half-orc wolf cavalry, and made the enemy suffer before the official start of the war. At the same time, the mages accompanying the army also needed to use magic to monitor the surroundings 24 hours a day, so they couldn't keep enough sleep at all. .

Looking at these poor people who camped five kilometers away from Neverwinter City, Zhang Cheng stood on the city wall and pursed his lips and joked in a playful tone: "Unbelievable! I should admire the courage of the Allied Forces in Waterdeep City, Or should we laugh at their stupidity and ignorance? In their current state, I'm afraid they won't even be able to withstand a round of fierce attacks, and they will collapse on their own."

"No, my master, you underestimate the resilience of this group of self-proclaimed righteous and kind people. It doesn't matter if morale is low, as long as there are enough priests, mages, and bards, a few minutes can turn cowards into warriors. In addition, it is said that the mage group of Waterdeep City has also been dispatched, and they are the real threat." Valindra gently stroked her beloved staff, and her eyes burst out with strong fear.