"That's because of wanting to live." Lawrence said that he was surprised why so many people came to choose to be his direct leader, Saifei directly explained to him, "For ordinary people, It is too difficult for them to open up more territory in places that are basically full now. It is better to follow a strong man and give something to get everything to make a living."

Speaking of this, Syfiel looked at Lawrence a little strangely and then said: "Isn't the earliest nobles born like this? As a powerful man, they led the people to overcome many difficulties and seized living space for the people from the wilderness. The people exchange this protection with the goods and labor they produce."

"You're right." Lawrence nodded, after all, this is not the case of human beings dominating the world in the previous life. Therefore, the relationship between the nobles and ordinary people as supernatural beings can't mechanically apply many things in a world.

Similarly, this kind of real aristocracy has become less numerous with the development of the world. More aristocrats degenerate into profit-seeking classes relying on various etiquette and so-called luxury goods to advertise their status. Or get together with a lot of such likes to monopolize certain interests or grab more things that shouldn't belong to them.

Because of this status quo, Lawrence didn't think of this direction for the first time when these ordinary people proposed to become their direct subordinates. After all, most aristocrats in this era have forgotten what a real aristocracy should look like, so he himself did not think of it in the first time.

"I feel that the burden is heavier again." Lawrence said with emotion. After all, with the progress of the times, the direct subordinates of the personal dependency relationship no longer exist, and the so-called direct subordinates at this time are actually similar to the present. It's just workers who have signed a long-term contract.

In other words, Lawrence is indeed able to command them now. But the corresponding thing is that this kind of doing things in accordance with the order requires Lawrence to pay the corresponding compensation. Fortunately, Safir said that these people are not very demanding, as long as they provide them with the necessary food and daily supplies before the first crop is harvested.

At the same time, the reason why these people who are willing to follow Lawrence are all young men who rush over now are actually to show their value in this war. So as long as they are given weapons, they can also become very good militias.

"Can these people also become militias?" Lawrence was skeptical of the last point Saifei said. Because in his opinion, although these people are in good spirits, they seem to be a little too thin. He somewhat doubted whether these people could really complete the combat missions that the militia should complete.

"Don't underestimate them." After taking a look at the group of strong laborers who were taken to the camp by the guards to eat, Safir looked back, and then said. "If you think about it, you know that most of the families who are willing to take the risk to come here are in general conditions, so it's normal to see a little weaker physical fitness."

"But because they are relatively poor, they often only live on the outskirts of towns. Considering that it is basically inevitable to meet monsters in such a place, they have enough courage and experience to face the monsters in the wilderness. People."

"More importantly, in order to protect themselves in that environment and obtain sufficient resources. Basically, everyone in their home has a homemade matchlock to drive out those monsters and go hunting around towns to obtain meat and fur to feed their families. ."

"It would be great if this is the case." Lawrence nodded in satisfaction. As long as they have experience with firearms, it is much less difficult for them to use modern rifles, at least standing in the fortifications and shooting them is absolutely no problem.

The fact is also true. In the next three days, those people quickly learned the use of new rifles and some simple military common sense. After all, compared with the kind of matchlock guns that are extremely difficult to load and fire, this kind of military rifle with a falling gun is much simpler to use, and there is no such thing as a matchlock falling or extinguishing after the matchlock is fired. trouble.

At the same time, for Lawrence, this also means that he now has twice as many armed personnel on hand. It can replace a group of professional armed personnel who originally needed to guard the camp to hunt down as many goblins as possible after the battle.

In addition, these people also provided enough labor to guard the camp and surrounding defensive positions. Therefore, six days later, when Nora detected that the goblins had gathered more than 50,000 people to attack, Lawrence and the others had successfully established a series of defensive positions with the camp as the core.

"There are more goblins than we thought, not the 30,000 or 40,000 we deduced in advance, but more than 50,000." Standing on the wall of the camp, Lawrence said to Knight Joseph. "It seems that they really intend to push us into the sea at once, so now we need to face not only the goblins on this plain, but also the warriors of the dozens of goblin tribes around."

"The problem shouldn't be a big deal." Knight Joseph looked at the jagged trenches under the city wall and the barbed wire placed in front of the trenches and said, "With the fortifications you designed, those goblins with cold weapons will definitely not be able to hold them. Our position."

"Speaking of cold weapons, 1/10 of the goblins in this group of goblins should be elite troops. Because Nora discovered that they were wearing armor made of animal leather and bark and metal weapons." Lawrence continued to add the results of the investigation, although in Prior to this, the guards and the local natives organized a scout for many investigations, but these goblins still successfully blocked the battlefield.

According to analysis, these goblins are likely to have priests of the **** of goblins. Therefore, only with the help of extraordinary power can the scouts' in-depth investigation actions be properly blocked every time.

After the scouts came home, Nora volunteered to take over the task of reconnaissance on the battlefield. And this happened to hit the weak underbelly of the group of goblins: Nora's own divinity can just evade the scout magic set by the priests of the goblin gods, and as a non-blood creature, the construct doll makes the goblins. The life-detection magic that shamans are so proud of completely fails.

Therefore, after Nora entered the battlefield, information about the goblins was continuously fed into the camp's headquarters. After analyzing this information, Lawrence and the others were surprised to find that these goblins actually had simple organizational skills ~ lightnovelpub.net ~ at least looked more like an army than a group of beasts.

Obviously, after the addition of the caster goblin. These goblins are no less than ordinary humans in at least many aspects, so the difficulty of clearing them has risen by at least an order of magnitude.

"The problem is not big. Although it is much more difficult for such an army of wild animals to fight against wild animals of wild animals. But it is not very difficult for us to hold them here and drag them down." Joseph thought about it. Said, "Because they don't have any heavy equipment, their numerical advantage in front of fortifications can easily be wiped out."

According to the plan discussed in advance, Lawrence and their tactics this time are still the traditional defensive counterattack tactics. That is to say, first set up a strong camp to lure the goblins to attack, and after the local spirits hit their heads before the fortification, the humans rushed out of the fortification to kill as many goblins as possible.

The pioneers of the previous few times did the same. If the goblins in the area hadn't had a cave where they could hide, they might have been cleaned up in the previous pioneering operations.

"If that's the case, it's fine." Lawrence nodded and said: "You are in charge of this war. If there is any new information, I will notify you as soon as possible."