Chapter 2594: Blow
Duran took the initiative to attack the granary of the French court quietly to weaken the French court's military strength.
Judging from the composition of the armies of the Kingdom of Mitlan and the Kusha Empire, Mitlan has strong feudal characteristics, that is, the knights are all nobles. Because only nobles can leave their jobs to fight wars. However, the army of the Kusha Empire has a large number of civilians, which shows that the Kusha Empire is no longer feudal, but a monarchy. The army no longer relies only on nobles, but recruits people from civilians. The land of the Kusha Empire must have been subcontracted to households, otherwise it would be impossible for every household to draw strong men.
The land system determines the scale of the war. Because war means leaving your job, you have to eat food.
The more people leave their jobs, the larger the scale of the war. Only nobles can leave their jobs in the Kingdom of Mitlan, so the main participants in the war are nobles.
Duran passed through the gap in the encirclement and came behind the army of the French court, launching an attack on the unsuspecting grain storage castle. On Duran's side, because of the change in the land system, a large number of farmers participated in the war, and they became excellent warriors through training.
Climb the city wall with ropes, open the city gate quietly, and then Duran led his troops to rush in and set fire to the grain.
When the knights of the French court found that the granary behind them was on fire and hurried back, it was too late.
Duran, who succeeded in the sneak attack, did not escape immediately, but ambushed in the middle of the road, captured the first Knights of the Holy Lance who came back, and robbed a batch of equipment before running away.
The morale of the French court was hit before it launched an attack. The knights below said that they should attack now, and time is running out.
But the priest said not to worry, they haven't made enough money yet: "This is just a small accident, it won't happen again. Now we have a great advantage. As long as we continue to surround them, they will surrender soon."
The knights were very angry, but they had no choice. They dared not disobey the priest, lest they be accused of heresy, and then the whole family would suffer.
What is the difference between the priest's behavior and that of the apostles? It's just that the apostles turn into monsters and eat people physically, while the priests rely on power to drain people's value bit by bit and deprive others of their qualifications as human beings.
In fact, to some extent, the apostles are more like a rebellion against this cruel world, the desperate cry of the victims who are desperate, and finally retaliate against society in the wrong way.
And the real cannibals don't need to trade power with the Overlord's Egg. They have power themselves and can arbitrarily decide people's life and death and easily plunder the people's fat.
The strong swing the knife at the weak, and the weak swing the knife at the weaker. This is the world. The way for those who gain the power of the apostles to resist the world is to make the world worse, and they will not challenge the strong.
It seems that we can draw such a conclusion that those who gain power will become evil, just like people will definitely become bad when they have money. In fact, it can be said the other way around, the process of gaining power is full of evil, or the primitive accumulation is full of blood, so the previous conclusion is valid. Whether it is to seek power or sacrifice life, the process of priests and apostles gaining power is a road full of blood.
In this world, one of the people and the power is always evil, or both are evil, and it is impossible for both to be just.
Duran's battle was successful, but the French court still did not withdraw its troops or attack, and was still waiting for funding. At this time, the Midlan royal family had already been heavily in debt and was almost drained by this civil war.
There was more and more dissatisfaction with the priests, and more and more believers were justified by faith. But they hid because they didn't know whether they had enough power to fight against the French court.
The French court was a behemoth after all, and no one would be willing to tear their faces with the French court before there was a certain chance of winning.
But with the emergence of prophetic dreams, more and more people believed that this was God's dissatisfaction with the French court and a sign that God supported justification by faith.
"So it is so important to grasp the right to interpret." In fact, this prophetic dream was made by Griffith to indicate that he was about to return to the world. But now Duran took it as a support for "justification by faith", which made it impossible to refute it.
After a victory, the people in the territory became more and more brave, and trained harder, waiting for the decisive battle with the French Court. In their view, they had gods behind them, so they would definitely be invincible, and they were all full of fighting spirit.
Duran felt that it was almost time, and he should unite with the believers in the French Court to launch a beautiful counterattack against the French Court.
"The decisive battle will be tomorrow." Duran changed a flag with a black hound on the city wall, which was to inform the knights in the French Court troops to launch a decisive battle tomorrow.
At this time, the knights who had seen through the priests' money-making behavior turned against them and threw themselves into the arms of justification by faith.
This was an internal and external response. The Countess Princess also appeared in person at the front line. As soon as she appeared, the morale of the soldiers increased by 100, and the enemy was immediately weakened by half.
The princess's charm value was so effective that as long as she stood at the front line, all humans with eyes would be affected.
Kill!
The French Court had never seen such a scene, and the priests did not understand why these lambs suddenly became hungry wolves and counterattacked the French Court. Don't these rebellious nobles know that the princess is going to distribute the nobles' land to the common people? Aren't they afraid?
Afraid, but these small nobles don't have much land, and handing over land in exchange for a chance to leap forward, they may become ministers, and they don't have to pay money to the French court anymore.
Although they don't have to pay taxes if they surrender to the French court, they still have to pay money to the French court. In fact, it doesn't make any difference to the small nobles. After surrendering to the princess, the small nobles can still keep a small part of the land and pay very little tax. So they rebelled.
No one would have thought that this battle would turn out like this. The French court was attacked from both sides and was defeated. Even if there were priests shouting "God bless us to win", it would be useless, because anyone with a discerning eye could see that the French court's troops had been dispersed and it was impossible to win.
And the princess's troops also shouted: "Surrender and you won't be killed."
Just surrender to survive? What they said makes so much sense, why do you still fight? Although the French court knights are loyal to the belief in God, how can they be loyal to God if they die?
So the battle ended in just one day, and the news of the French court's failure spread all over the world like the wind. The invincible French Court suffered an unprecedented blow.
The dissatisfaction with the priests became more and more serious, and the old leader of the French Court was overwhelmed. However, if the problem cannot be solved, another new problem can be used to cover up the old problem.
Now that the Kusha Empire has invaded, the leader said that he would personally lead the expedition and defeat Kusha to prove that the gods are still on the side of the French Court. So after just experiencing a failure, the French Court immediately started a second war.
It must be said that the leader's decision was still very fast. Knowing that the Kusha Empire was a major concern for the entire Mitlan at this time, he could completely divert everyone's attention by saying this. It really worked. Seeing that the leader could unite everyone to resist the invasion, no one else could do it. Even the king could not unite the entire country, so in order to resist the invaders, they had to unite around the old leader.
The French Court is not over yet.