Is it history that makes heroes, or heroes that make history?
This has always been a difficult relationship to distinguish. However, starting from the year 203 of the Red Moon Calendar, looking at Amy. Harber, who entered the history of the Amy Continent as a small mercenary, in the first 10 years, it was history that was making heroes, and in the next 10 years, it was the dance of heroes and history together.
—Manuscript of research by Neil. Harber, the twelfth-generation great-grandson of the mainland historian Amy.
"Whoo~~~" "Whoo~~~"
A series of tightly successive cowhorn trumpets sounded in the north of Haike Village. Along with the trumpet sound, a hoarse voice came from far to near: "The snow wolves are coming~~~ The snow wolves are coming, about 20 of them. Everyone, hide quickly. They will be here in 10 minutes." A panting hunter riding a snow deer appeared at the north entrance of the village.
The hands of all the people working inside and outside the village all stopped. Whether men, women, old or young, they all untied the tools used for working from the snow deer working in the field at the fastest speed, drove the snow hens under the eaves into the cages, and put the snow pigs that were eating into baskets... Every household drove these domestic animals into the house or carried them into the house at the fastest speed, and unanimously lifted the bedding on the bed, lifted a steel plate on the bed, and threw the domestic animals one by one into a big hole, and then all the people went down the hole and locked the steel plate door from the inside.
"Amy, come in quickly," an old voice rang out in a small thatched cottage in the south of the village, "The snow wolves are coming soon," the old man's voice became more and more urgent and stern.
"Wait, Grandpa, I'll be right there. The two little snow hens that just hatched yesterday ran into the grass," the childish voice came from outside the fence of the thatched cottage.
"Howl~~~" The sound of the wolf came from afar.
A tall figure rushed out of the house - an old man with all white hair and beard, rushed to the gate of the yard, and grabbed a little boy by the back of his neck from the short grass. Regardless of his kicking, punching and crying, "Grandpa, let me go. I'll find it soon. Otherwise, they will all be eaten. Wuuu~~~ Let me go, Grandpa." The figures of the two also hid in the hole in their own bed. Just as the iron door was fastened, the snow wolves had already rushed into the house. The paw of one of the most powerful snow wolves had already begun to try to lift the steel plate, and several other wolves sniffed around the steel plate, and the white exhalation blew down from the steel plate.
"Wuuu, Grandpa, the chicks must be dead," the child in the hole didn't care about the commotion above his head at all and cried as he said.
"Amy, be obedient. The chicks can be hatched again, and there will be more next time," the old man helplessly persuaded his grandson.
"Grandpa, why are there so many hunters in the village, and no one goes to kill those snow wolves? Last time we went to kill snow bears together. The snow bears are much more powerful than the snow wolves, and we can kill them. Why don't everyone kill the snow wolves." Amy asked while sobbing and gasping.
"Well~~~" The old man let out a long sigh and said, "The snow wolves cannot be killed. Whoever kills them will have to pay with their life."
"Why did those uncles from outside kill the snow wolves last time, and killed more than 30 of them?" Amy asked unconvinced.
"They are mercenaries. Mercenaries can kill." The old man didn't want to explain too much to his little grandson.
"When I grow up, I also want to be a mercenary~~~" Amy clenched his fist.
Haike Village is located on the east side of the Warm River on the Frozen Continent. According to the border division between the Amy Empire and the Kingdom of the Hami people, this place should belong to the territory of the Kingdom of the Hami people. But the Hami people have been accustomed to living in the cold ice and snow since ancient times, and the source of the Warm River is a hot spring lake (Snow Moon Lake) formed after a volcanic eruption. Areas near the Snow Moon Lake and along the Warm River have formed a unique area without ice and snow on the Frozen Continent.
In the 500-year history of the Amy Empire, it has repeatedly hoped to obtain the area of Snow Moon Lake and the Warm River through diplomacy, war, blackmail and other means, but all failed.
In the 3rd year of the Red Moon Calendar, the 12th year of the Red Moon Calendar, the 35th year of the Red Moon Calendar, the 47th year of the Red Moon Calendar, and the 52nd year of the Red Moon Calendar, in just 50 years, the two generations of monarchs of the Amy Empire launched five large-scale wars with the area of Snow Moon Lake and the Warm River as the target, using all kinds of military branches including the dragon cavalry. Each war ended in the same stereotyped outcome of failure.
At the southern end of the mainland, the Amy Empire often captured all the lands in the shortest time - or it can't be said to be conquered with this word, because in this realm, the Hami people's kingdom has never put a single soldier. After the war began, at the northernmost side of the northern federation of the Amy Empire - the Ice and Snow Forest, a large number of Hami people's wolf cavalry soldiers always launched an attack on the northern federation of the Amy Empire along the only Longya Mountain mainland highway on the ice-bound continent.
On the ice-bound continent, no matter what kind of soldier, in the face of the Hami people with white hair and beard, in the face of the ice and snow battle clothes woven from white bear wool, in the face of the snow-white snow wolf battle mounts, and in the face of the all-white continent, there is only one ending: escape.
The combat effectiveness that any soldier can exert on the ice and snow continent is less than 10%, even if it is the invincible dragon cavalry in the world, the combat effectiveness that can be exerted is only about 50%. How many dragon cavalry does the Amy Empire have? It is not even as many as a small team of the Hami people's wolf cavalry.
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There are also several emperors of the Amy Empire who hope to obtain the Xueyue Lake and the Nuan Shui River through diplomatic means or blackmail, but the simple mind of the Hami people's kingdom, as long as it sees any words related to the territory, will not sign any agreement.
The only reason for this situation is that the founding monarch of the Amy Empire, Amy I, has successfully deceived the monarch of the Hami people's empire once, and in that deception, obtained the territory of the Hami people's empire about 25% of the size of the original empire's territory, and established the northern federation of the Amy Empire. Amy I promised the Hami people's empire that he was willing to exchange the best territory of his own country - the hinterland of the Amynor continent, the Flower Language Plain, for the territory at the southern end of the ice-bound continent, and showed the various fruits and animals abundantly produced here to the monarch of the Hami people's empire. The Hami people's empire, Muia VII, was greatly moved. Regardless of the strong opposition of the royal brother and the dowager empress, he signed the shocking territorial exchange agreement between the two continents at that time. After the signing of the agreement, almost everyone thought that Amy I was crazy, exchanging the richest territory for the poorest territory - except for the dowager empress and the royal brother of the Hami people's empire at that time, and the latter angrily returned to his own territory and risked being executed to declare independence and establish the North Hami people's Empire.
At that time, Muia VII was eager to move the capital to the Flower Language Plain and made a major decision to gradually give up the territory of the ice-bound continent, so he didn't haggle over with the royal brother, and the royal brother used this precious time to expand his territory rapidly from the secondary capital of the Hami people's empire until he occupied the entire continent east and north of Longya Mountain.
The jubilant Muia VII and the ministers came to the Flower Language Plain. The first feeling was that they came to a paradise. In the north of the Flower Language Plain, it was like spring all year round, the air was moist, and all kinds of flowers bloomed continuously. Riding a horse and whipping on the plain for three days and three nights, there would be no shortage of flowers in front of you, and there would be no shortage of fragrance in the nose. In the south of the Flower Language Plain, it was a humid and rainy area, and there were countless sweet melons and fruits in the large area of broad-leaved rainforest.
However, during the five years of establishing the capital, the new capital established by Muia VII was broken through by the surrounding countries three times. For the last time, Muia VII rushed into the imperial army and washed away the shame of his wrong decision with blood.
Why did the most powerful country on the ice-bound continent become bullied by dogs after arriving on the Amynor continent? Where did the invincible and unstoppable snow wolf cavalry go?
According to later generations of military strategists, the theory of soldier type相克 and the theory of soldier type加持 were written with the emperor's blood and the blood of a hundred thousand snow wolf cavalry.
The Hami people who have lived on the ice-bound continent for generations have very long hair and beard, especially eyebrows and eyelashes. In order to avoid the sunlight shining on the snow and causing blindness, the eyebrows and eyelashes of the Hami people are not only long but also grow rapidly. But after arriving in the humid Flower Language Plain, this physiological phenomenon was simply unbearable, and water droplets were often hung between the eyebrows. The princes and ministers still had time to ask someone to help them trim. What about the soldiers? How to fight in this situation? The snow wolf's hair is longer and all white. In the sultry plain area, the snow wolf that is not adapted to the climate has no combat effectiveness at all. In the war, the original natural protective color has now become the color of the shroud after each battle.
Finally, among the hundred thousand troops who entered the Flower Language Grassland, only more than ten thousand people set foot on their hometown land. Since then, the Hami people have learned one thing and no longer talk to anyone about anything related to territory.
Xueyue Lake was the result of volcanic eruptions 100 years after the Hami people retreated to the Frozen Continent. The Hami people would not make any mistakes on this.
Due to the reason of the Flower Language Plain, the Hami people kept a respectful distance from Xueyue Lake and the Nuan Shui River and did not send any troops, but they would never allow this territory to be lost either. Once the war broke out, they would immediately send troops from the Ice and Snow Forest to threaten the capital of the Ice Fortress of the Outer Federation of the Amy Empire. Finally, they forced the Amy Empire to withdraw its troops.
The Nuan Shui River and Xueyue Lake still had certain utilization value for the Hami people's kingdom - the feeding ground for breeding snow wolves. In order to ensure the combat effectiveness of the snow wolves, none of the snow wolves in the Hami people's kingdom were penned up, all were released into the wild. Or to put it more accurately, after the war broke out, the Hami people, relying on their innate sense, found wild wolf packs and then recruited wild wolves into the army. The wild wolves also cooperated exceptionally well. The war wolves would be divided into various wolf cavalry teams according to the pack. The wolf head would become the mount of the captain, and the other wolves would be assigned to different levels of soldiers according to their status in the wolf pack.
In fact, the Hami people's kingdom did not have the strength to raise so many war wolves. For the Hami people's empire built on the barren ice and snow continent, any all-out war could not last more than six months, otherwise the national economy would automatically collapse, and the core reason for its economic collapse was being eaten poor by the war wolves.
The number of snow wolves has always been around 150,000. Originally, they were spread all over the corners of the Frozen Continent. Since the Amy Empire had territory on the Frozen Continent, the snow wolves strangely automatically retreated to the territory of the Hami people's kingdom and the North Hami people's kingdom, with about 70,000 each. There were very few animals and plants on the continent, and it was very difficult for the snow wolves to find food. Often, it would take several days and nights of running around to catch a single prey. Therefore, attacking non-Hami human villages had also become the main means for the snow wolves to find food. The Hami people did not oppose other races living on the Frozen Continent - as long as they paid taxes, but the Hami people would never allow anyone to harm the snow wolves. In all human villages, there were various ways to avoid the wolf packs. And more and more permanent residents had become accustomed to this kind of "hide when the wolves come and come out when the wolves leave" life, and considered it a kind of tax that should also be paid to the Hami people's kingdom. Originally, the clean life of the Hami people's kingdom would not collect too much tax from the people, so even with the "wolf head tax", it was still much lighter compared to other countries.
The Haike Village was such a village that needed to pay the "wolf head tax". People had become accustomed to only taking away the main large livestock every time the wolf pack came, while leaving appropriate poultry for the wolf grandpas to enjoy. The wolf pack generally did not stay for a long time. First, they were very unaccustomed to this sultry and humid air; second, the next village was only half a day's journey away from here, and taxes were also needed there. They generally did not stay for more than half a day.
"Thump... thump... thump..."
Amid the scratching sound of the wolf claws scratching, the iron plate on Amy's head rhythmically rang out, and a pleasant male voice sounded: "Is this the Harber family?"