Chapter 349 Mobilization Before the War

Many major events have happened in the Maple Leaf Kingdom recently, and one of the most astonishing news spread across the entire country overnight.

On the first morning of the cold winter, the royal family officially issued an announcement—the twelve families of the Maple Leaf Kingdom and their subordinate nobles betrayed the kingdom, desecrated the glory, fled the battle, and disturbed the morale of the army! Under the witness of Tyr, the supreme god of justice, these unforgivable and shameless people have all been executed by the holy and righteous general Joni Zondas, and all the nobles involved in the case will be deprived of all rights and interests. Nobility, deprivation of all property, deprivation of all private troops, deprivation of any form of pardon right!

This announcement is really a thunderbolt out of thin air, and all the little nobles with ordinary power are dizzy and frightened.

For a kingdom, such a big cleansing is equivalent to changing 90% of the officials of the ruling class overnight, and the demise of the twelve ancient nobles puts everyone in the country's remaining minor nobles at risk.

You must know that these twelve families are the oldest nobles in the kingdom, and each family holds great power and wealth in their own territory, but in one night, all these high-ranking figures were slaughtered. This decisive and violent method completely shocked all the remaining small lords.

It is precisely because of this deterrence that even though such a big event happened in the kingdom, the remaining nobles and merchants still wisely kept silent, watching the Zodas family's paladin army absorb the wealth that originally belonged to the twelve families And the private army, but no one in the whole country dares to jump out and say a word of doubt, and no one dares to take advantage of the opportunity.

But soon, the matter of the nobles came to an end in the silence of the whole country. The secondary reason was that these matters were meaningless to the poor who constituted the main body of the kingdom, and the inside story of the destruction of the twelve families was too far away from the poor. .

As for the main reason,... a piece of news that is even more shocking, larger in scale, and closely related to every poor man and every nobleman appeared...

plague!

Plague, famine, and war, these are the three major disasters that befell the cruel world of Faerun after legendary powerhouses. Any of them has the ability to destroy a country, but at this time, in the Maple Leaf Kingdom In this sad country, all three disasters have come.

So what was it like for the poor in the face of such a terrible disaster?

Oakes, who is leading the guards to carry out the "Glory Relief" mission, has personally witnessed the catastrophic helplessness of the poor with his own eyes!

In fact, at the beginning, Oakes was very worried that the poor would riot when they heard the news of famine and plague. In order to maintain order, he brought a group of guards to deter the gathered poor.

But soon, Oakes knew that he was thinking too much.

When he stood on the high platform at the entrance of the gate of the city of maple flowers covered in ice and snow, he faced five or six thousand thin bodies with dull eyes. When he said "famine" with a heavy heart, When the news of "coming" and "the plague has spread", the more than 5,000 ragged poor people only whispered a few words and then returned to silence, or...restored dead silence.

In the eyes of all the poor people present, what Oakes saw was the hollowness of despair, the godless pupils became cloudier one by one, and the ashen faces showing signs of disease showed only the same unchanging sadness as if carved and inlaid, no matter in the crowd The old man and the child all had exactly the same desperate expression, and their eyes looking at Oakes were also lacklustre, just like... walking corpses whose souls had been sucked out of them.

"Hey, I hope the "hope" on the mobilization order can wake up these miserable people."

Oakes didn't look at the pair of dead eyes again, he lowered his head silently, and while thinking helplessly, he opened the delicate parchment in his hand.

"Ahem, now, I—Ox-Zodas announce the mobilization of the Glory War in the name of His Majesty the King of the Maple Leaf Kingdom!

Due to the treasonous behavior of the twelve nobles and the despicable business monopoly of the Dragon Roar Kingdom, the food reserves of the Maple Leaf Kingdom are not enough to survive the winter. "The spread of the plague has spread, and the kingdom's medical reserves are also insufficient to support the treatment of the disease. Therefore, His Majesty, the great and wise king, sympathized with the wishes of the people and decided to launch a glorious war against the Dragon Roar Kingdom. Anyone who is willing to fight for the Maple Leaf Kingdom Everyone is allowed to be part of the Glorious Army, and..."

Having said that, Oakes suddenly raised the volume significantly.

"In this war, all soldiers participating in the war have the right to "retrieve" any food and medicine despicably stolen by the Dragon Roar Kingdom. The land "recovered" by the Dragon Roar Kingdom can be exempted from taxes for five years"!

After reading this part of the most important call-for-aid notice in one breath, Oakes once again raised his head to look at the poor.

The cold wind passed through the gaps in Oaks' armor, and the whistling sound of the wind became louder and louder in the quiet gatehouse.

"My... my lord... does the Dragon Roar Kingdom really... really have food and medicine?"

The silence among the poor lasted for quite a while, until Oakes stood quietly on the high platform for more than ten seconds, and only one poor man tremblingly asked a question with his eyes glowing green.

Calmly avoiding the gaze of the poor man like a hungry wolf, Oakes took a deep breath and said loudly according to Punk's instructions:

"I can guarantee that every household in the Dragon Roar Kingdom has piles of Ququmai and pig meat looted from the Maple Leaf Kingdom. Every despicable half-dragon is used to keeping a dozen bottles at home to cure any disease. Holy water, as long as we return to the homeland that originally belonged to us, we will get more food than we can eat, and the mere plague can be easily cured!"

It has to be said that Oakes' acting skills are really worse than Punk's. When he said this passage, the words that should have been passionate and passionate became nondescript under Oakes' recitation.

But there is no way around it. Oakes couldn’t even lift his head when he said these things. As an official-level paladin, he knew very well that what he said above was all nonsense to fool people, but... for the sake of the great war of glory , he had to pretend that those lies were unquestionable truths...

"The ignorant people cannot understand the great glory. This is a necessary step to lead them to glory. I... am righteous"!

Suppressing the guilt of turning around and running away, Oakes squeezed out a stiff smile and looked at the group of poor people whose eyes were starting to turn green.

"For justice, for Maple Leaf Kingdom, for...the glory that cannot be tarnished, the war...began"!