Riding and Slashing

Chapter 399 Troubled
Li Ang stayed at Fort Al Merah to wait, mainly to wait for Wendy to bring the explosives and grenades.

At the same time, it was also to wait for Wendy, Aldalian and others to sort out the interior of the Noldor Principality to ensure that the enemy did not flee into the forest.

The Battle of Salem did not use hot weapons such as grenades, mainly because the direct lethality of these things is really not great. It is difficult to kill people wearing armor, but it will scare the horses.

Li Ang's army has many cavalry, but only some of the Gatum and Nodoma in White Hart Castle have been specially trained. The heavy cavalry who rushed into the battle had never been exposed to explosives, and they shocked their own heavy cavalry on the battlefield. It will be a big trouble to install a horse...

This kind of crude black powder weapon can't completely dominate the battlefield in this era, and is more suitable for defense-the history of Li Ang's original world has proved this point.

Only in the era of more pursuit of mobility and long-range combat, when the army no longer wears heavy armor, will the grenade really become popular.

Of course, no one made grenades after Li Ang disappeared is also an important reason.This thing is not moisture-proof, saltpeter is hard to come by these days and cannot be wasted, so Li Ang has always assembled it temporarily before the war, and has never had much reserves, and the raw materials have always been stored in White Hart Castle.

During this period of forest fire, White Hart Castle has been facing the threat of fire. Of course, those flammable materials were transferred immediately, and there was no time to manufacture them in large quantities.

So it wasn't until the rainy season came and the forest fires were extinguished that Li Ang asked Wendy to hurry up and make a batch.

Wendy likes to use firearms very much, and besides Li Ang, she is currently the only one who has mastered the best ratio of black powder.

Li Ang's 'students' have different personalities and interests.

Amy actually doesn't like fighting. Although she has always wanted to be a female knight and has an incredible shooting talent, in fact she is better at economic construction, and she also has a lot of experience in fooling people-after all, she started to learn trick.

Alina is usually a very silent person, a quiet scholar who likes to read books and study history, and is good at analyzing intelligence and deriving strategies from details.

In fact, Li Ang didn't have time to teach her anything, but she gave Amy and Li Ang a lot of advice.But Alina's suggestions are usually ruthless, and are often based on the sacrifices made by one's own side first, to deceive the enemy and finally wipe out the enemy--to be ruthless to both her own and the enemy, which is different from her usual quiet life. Harmless looks very different.

And Wendy is more adventurous. Unlike the indifferent temper of most elves, Wendy is a passionate and lively girl who likes the excitement of fighting and those more exciting weapons—for example, she is regarded as a "spirit" by Wenda Dier. Magic' grenades and dynamite.

However, perhaps because of her cheerful and lively personality, Wendy has not yet learned the ability that a queen should possess most—controlling people's hearts.

On the way to Fort Al Merah, Wendy felt a little worried.

The difficulty she encountered came from Aldalian—this was another reason why Leon was waiting for her in Fort Almera.

The situation of the Noldor elves is quite special. Isladir will obey Li Ang's instructions, mainly because they have a good relationship and are familiar with each other.

But Ardalian would not obey Li Ang's dispatch, and was somewhat perfunctory to Wendy's orders.

Although he is nominally the Lord of the Noldor who swears allegiance to Wendy, his allegiance to Wendy is more forced by the situation-Maltis was present at the time, and the four leaders of the Noldor family really dared not refuse the Great Sorcerer of Sindarin ...

But after Maltis left, Ardalian was in a state of "obeying the tune but not listening to the announcement". He admitted that Wendy was the common queen of the four Noldor families, and he was willing to stand in the same camp as Leon and accept the new one. Pendor Kingdom's rule, but he still maintained a certain degree of freedom.

To put it simply, he can obey Wendy's dispatch, but he will not accept any condescending compulsory orders, let alone accept Li Ang's direct arrangements.

The logic these days is like this, only being responsible to the object of one's allegiance. Although the New Pendor Kingdom is the mother country of the Duchy of Noldor, unless they directly swear allegiance to Leon like Lisa Dilan, the other Noldor elves do not have to Follow Li Ang's instructions.

Perhaps because he has been fighting against humans for 200 years and has formed a certain inertial thinking, Aldalian has always maintained a deep vigilance against humans.

He would not even enter any human castles - including White Hart.

The last time Aldalian was able to go to the Great River City to attend the meeting of the four major families, it was all due to the call of Wenda Dier - only Wenda Dier can truly 'command' Aldalian...

Of course it was out of love... or rather, out of one-sided love.

And it is said that this kind of unrequited love has lasted for 200 years-the elves usually have relatively indifferent feelings, but the more indifferent their characters are, the harder it is to extricate themselves once they fall in love with someone.

Although both Li Ang and Wendy felt that Ardalian would probably not get Vendatyr's heart in the end, they both "encouraged" this kind of unrequited love. At any rate, Vendatyr could settle Arda Lian this 'thorny head'.

But Vendatil was quite troubled by this...

She really only thinks of Ardalian as an ordinary tribe - not even a friend, because they have different ideas.

And Wenda Tier has no intention of falling in love at all, and she doesn't have any men she likes.

In fact, she prefers women... Well, it's not that kind of liking, but she really has no interest in the relationship between men and women.

But this does not belong to any special group. Many elves are like Vendatil. This is a common situation of long-lived longevity races, that is, they are naturally cold and have little interest in reproduction.

At this time, Wen Datil was worrying with Wendy.

"Wendy, it can't always be like this... This kind of thing is too troublesome, I really don't want to face Aldalian's stupid face every day..."

Wenda Thiel was complaining to Wendy.

"I can't help it, Teacher Wendatil, Aldalian and his subordinates are not very happy to listen to the arrangement of my junior..."

Wendy is also very helpless, Aldalian is her elder, facing this situation, every leader who is a junior will find it difficult.

"However, His Majesty Li Ang arranged for you, you arranged for me, I arranged for Aldalian, and Aldalian arranged for his troops... Isn't this too troublesome? And we are going to fight, it is easy to delay things of."

Vendatil said anxiously.

Indeed, this layer-by-layer assignment process is too long, and it can be done in ordinary dispatches in peacetime, but it is easy to go wrong when various emergency orders are involved during a war.

"Then is there any other way? Li Ang made it clear in his letter a few days ago that this time is to deal with our real enemy, the real culprit who caused the disaster in the forest."

Wendy looked at Wendatil pitifully: "But the troops directly under me now have a total of more than 300 people, and half of them have to be kept in Shieldwind Fortress as a reserve team. We really need Aldalian's troops."

Wendy's time as queen was too short, and she hadn't had time to organize too many directly subordinate troops from the tribe.

Influenced by the lord system of Pendor, the loyalty relationship of the Noldor elves is actually somewhat similar to that of humans.Now that the Noldor have established a principality, the relationship of allegiance is even closer to the tradition of Pendor Continent.

The heads of the families no longer called themselves Kings or Princes of the Elves, but were now Lords of the Duchy of the Noldor.

And Wendy is the ruler of the Fenway family, and the queen who is loyal to the four major families, but she can directly manage only the people of the Fenway family and the leaders of other clans—because the elves of the other three families Their allegiance is to their respective lords.

The Fenway family has the smallest population. The total population of the family is less than 1000. The existing fighters are only about [-] people. They are the weakest in military strength among the four families.

By the way, the Noldor elves, male or female, are all excellent fighters, and they cannot be compared with human soldiers.

And those students brought out by Wenda Tier who had beaten the Jatu people before had become Li Ang's guards and were no longer under Wendy's command.

Therefore, Wendy, the queen, only had two hundred fighters available at the beginning.

These days, she selected some personnel suitable for combat from other students of Wenda Tier, but the time was only a short month, and only more than 100 new recruits were recruited.

The newly recruited personnel need to carry out armed preparations and basic coordination training. At the same time, a reserve team must be kept in Shieldwind Fortress in case of emergencies. Therefore, there are less than 200 people around Wendy at this time, and the other troops are all Alvin. Dalyan's subordinates.

Ardalian's military strength is quite strong, and his tribe has 4000 people, which is comparable to the Aino family.

He brought out more than 800 troops this time, which was about the same number as Islandil's.

But there were nearly forty twilight knights in Aldalian's team, and the number of high-end combat power was twice that of Islandil.

The Twilight Knight is the top fighting force in the army of the Noldor, and it is also the goal of all Noldor nobles - just like the noble knights of humans.

Like most human countries, the elves have always retained a simple aristocratic culture, that is, the nobles are responsible for fighting and protecting the safety of the group, while the common people are responsible for working to ensure the basic life of the group.

Hence also two classes were divided among the Noldor.

Nobles of the Noldor were born members of the noble class, and were brought up from childhood as warriors.

Before Vendatil became the chief instructor of the young Noldor elves, most of the young Noldor nobles would become apprentices of the Twilight Knights, just like knights and retinues in human society.

However, whether the Noldor nobles can finally become the Twilight Knights still depends on their ability - first of all, they must win the annual Noldor Games in the city of Erakle, and then they must establish meritorious deeds according to the requirements of their respective families.

That is to say, we must not only have top-notch military strength, but also make sufficient contributions to the ethnic group.

Each Noldor family has different requirements for contributions.

For example, the Aino family of Islandil, just like what he said to Lisadilan, the people of the Aino family need to save the people or bring back new or lost knowledge to the family if they want to make meritorious deeds. Not by killing enemies.

Because the tradition of the Aino family is to guard knowledge.

The Fenway family also asked to save the tribe or bring back new technologies.

Aldalian was once a member of the Fenway family, and he himself was also the Twilight Knight, and he was the strongest among the Twilight Knights.At that time, during the Hundred Years' War between elves and humans, he led the army to wipe out the human coalition forces that invaded the forest and saved the tribe, which met the standard of 'saving the tribe'.

The Finarfin family is relatively special. They inherit the art and culture of the elves, covering a wide range of things, including architecture, crafts, art, music, rituals, and a series of things.So their requirement is to be able to master a top art form - this is very difficult, even if the elves have a long life, but few have top martial arts and artistic level at the same time.

In fact, the three families' requirements for meritorious service are difficult to achieve, so that in the past few hundred years, there have been a lot of competitive champions in Ella Clay City, but there are only about [-] nobles who can successfully become Twilight Knights.

And these eighty or so Twilight Knights accounted for half of Aldalian's tribe.

Because only Ardalian has no requirements for other contributions. After he took his followers away to form his own tribe, his contribution requirements for tribe design became relatively simple-only need to kill enemies on the battlefield to accumulate military merits.

This tribe that hates humans completely uses the logic of human promotion...

It is precisely because the goals that each ethnic group uses to drive the clansmen are different, and the people of each clan have completely different struggle philosophies.

Therefore, the tribes of Ardalian are more warlike and prefer to hone their martial arts;
Islandil's tribe is more willing to contact the outside world in order to obtain knowledge, and is also willing to cooperate with humans;
The Fenway family is more willing to create equipment to hone their skills, or to study enchanting or horse breeding;

And the Finarfin family are all artists, obsessed with designing all kinds of exquisite crafts, and have never been active in war...

This also makes Aldalian's tribe have stronger force.

Of course, force does not equal actual combat power.

Aldalian has a straightforward personality and is not very good at formulating tactics when fighting. He often fights with little technical content, and the fighting power of his tribe may not be fully exerted.

If his troops are willing to obey Li Ang's direct command, it is estimated that the actual combat effectiveness of his troops will be twice that of Islandil's subordinates.

However, although Aldalian's tribe is powerful, it is not the real Noldor family, because they do not have a clear inheritance.

Even in terms of combat power and martial skills, he did not establish an inheritance. On the contrary, Wenda Dier invented her unique combat skills-this is probably the main reason why Aldalian fell in love with Wen Dadier.

According to Twilight Knight's standards, Wenda Tier can definitely be regarded as one of the strongest among them. She has won the champion of the Ella Clay Competition for several consecutive times, and she has created a new martial art——she is For members of the Fenway family, martial arts are of course a type of technology, and her teaching and training will surely save countless people of the clan.

In fact, no matter from the three levels of knowledge, technology, or art, her new martial arts meet the standards of contribution.

Therefore, according to the standard, she is not only qualified to be a Twilight Knight, but can even be said to be one of the people who have contributed the most to the ethnic group. It stands to reason that she is even eligible to become a member of the elders of each ethnic group.

But the problem is that Vendatil is a commoner.

Though many Noldorian would go to war as warriors, no Noldorian could ever be a Knight of the Twilight, no matter how proficient in martial arts or how much they contributed.

The class solidification of the Noldor elves is much more serious than that of humans. This is the blood culture inherited from the Sindarin elves. Coupled with the long life span of the elves, it is difficult to change this solidified mentality.

However, due to the small population, each Noldor is very precious, so there is not much oppression and slavery in the ethnic group, and the living conditions of nobles and commoners are not much different, so there will be no class confrontation.

(End of this chapter)