Chapter 110: The Shadow of War (Please read! Please recommend!)

Chapter 109: The Shadow of War

Although it is already late spring and early summer, the weather in the Odin Empire can only be considered not cold. On the towering mountains not far away, you can still see white snow shining in the sunlight.

The Odin Empire is located to the north of the Norman Empire. It has a vast land area far larger than that of the Norman Empire and is the largest country in the entire continent.

But unfortunately, the area is sparsely populated, so much so that more than 60 percent of the population is concentrated in the Novokamenik Mountains and the east and west coasts near the border.

The land north of the Novokamenkaya Mountains is mostly mountainous and wasteland, with a high altitude and a cold climate, which is extremely unsuitable for human survival. Only a few kinds of food crops can grow in the wasteland, but due to its poor soil conditions and extreme climate change, the yield is extremely low.

South of the Novkamen Mountains, the vast plains bordering the Norman Empire can be regarded as the most suitable place for farming in the entire Odin Empire. The annual grain output even accounts for more than 70% of the total grain output of the Odin Empire.

The tall Novkamen Mountains block the cold winds from the Arctic ice sheet on the other side of the mountains, which also gives the plains south of the mountains relatively warm climate conditions.

However, the food output of this plain area was far from meeting the Odin people's growing food needs, so many of them could only make a living by hunting wild animals and picking berries in the mountains and forests.

Such harsh living conditions also greatly tempered the Odin people's bloodiness.

Those Odin warriors who can tear tigers apart with their bare hands and fight against wolves often become heroes passed down by word of mouth among the Odin people.

It was under the influence of generations and the spur of harsh living conditions that the Odin people gradually turned their attention to their southern neighbor, the Norman Empire.

Hunting wild animals in the mountains and forests can only fill your stomach for one meal, but if you can seize more land that can grow food from the Norman Empire... then you can fill the stomachs of yourself and your descendants!

Besides, fighting the Normans seems to be much easier than fighting wild beasts...

So, no one knew when it started, but the friction and conflict between the Norman Empire and the Odin Empire gradually increased...

Along the long border between the two countries, from the Winter Fortress in the west to the province of Angres in the east, the conflict between the Odins and the Normans has lasted for nearly a hundred years.

For many years, every generation of Odin monarchs regarded going south as the most important goal to prove their achievements. Time and time again, they mobilized weapons and marched south, repeatedly breaking through fortresses and entering the territory of the Norman Empire, burning, killing, looting, and plundering wealth.

As for the Normans... Every generation of Norman emperors regarded the decoration of their magnificent palaces as a top priority. As for the Odin Empire in the north...

Haha, that was just a country founded by a group of barbarians! The luxurious and chaotic court life had long made the nobles of the Norman Empire lose their initial bloodiness, so that they turned a blind eye to the threat from the north and continued to immerse themselves in their own gentle countryside.

But this time... the royal palace guards managed to intercept intelligence from the Odin Empire and put a noble member of the Regent Council in prison! Because the words in the intelligence made the nobles of St. Lawrence realize with horror that the new Odin monarch in power seemed no longer satisfied with burning, killing and looting in the empire! The Odin people want land! The Odin people want to own vast tracts of land suitable for farming! And this... finally touched the bottom line of those imperial nobles who had always turned a blind eye! According to the ideas of these nobles, you Odin people are relatively poor, and if you come to rob civilians sometimes, you will be forgiven for the sake of being neighbors.

But you can't just demolish my house! You can't touch the interests of our nobles!

This is the bottom line!

Thus, almost overnight, the border of the empire was in turmoil, and the shadow of war... seemed to have shrouded the two countries.

Most of the noble lords in the north of the Norman Empire have received orders from St. Lawrence, and one after another, the noble private armies began to gather towards the Winter Fortress.

And those imperial soldiers who were directly under the imperial emperor also began large-scale mobilization within the empire.

Just as the Norman Empire began to prepare for the upcoming war, Odin's army was actually ready to go.

Unlike the Norman Empire which has a large number of powerful noble lords, the Odin Monarch is the supreme ruler of the Odin Empire and has complete control over the Odin army and Odin civilians!

So, once a war breaks out, those Odin civilians who have lived on the Armanches Plain (a vast plain south of the Nove-Kamen Mountains) for generations will become qualified Odin soldiers in a very short time!

Everybody is a soldier!

This is the greatest impact that the harsh living environment of the Odin Empire has brought to the Odin people!

In the inherent values ​​of the Odin people, an Odin boy who has not participated in hunting will not be called a man, and an Odin man who has not killed a beast will not be worthy of having a wife! The strong are respected, these four simple words represent the values ​​deeply imprinted in the bones of the Odin people.

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The high mountain wasteland north of the Novkamen Mountains brought poverty and desolation to the Odin Empire, but also provided the Odin people with the best war horses in the world.

To the extent that the Odin Empire would exchange large quantities of food and supplies from the Normans every year for the Highland horses they had domesticated from the northern wilderness.

With the support of a large number of Highland horses, these Odin people, who are soldiers when on horseback and civilians when dismounted, have combat effectiveness that is no less than that of the Norman Empire's army. At the same time, they also have the ability to move quickly which the Norman army does not have.

It was with these that the Odin people won most of the conflicts with the Norman Empire in recent years, and obtained the resources and food they needed through war, consuming the excess population.

Although this sounds cruel, it is under this grand strategy that the physical fitness and combat capabilities of the Odin people have increased day by day, and they have become the number one enemy of the Norman Empire in the past hundred years! It can be said that if it weren’t for the fourteen fortresses such as the Winter Fortress firmly nailed to the land in the north of the Norman Empire, the Odin people would have marched straight into the capital of the Norman Empire, St. Lawrence! …

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