Fantasy Starting from the Stone Age - Chapter 62



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Episode 62. History of Shame

A nation is a great unit because it makes us feel like we are part of something huge, when in fact we are nothing.

In reality, Datang is nothing more than a federation of Mainilun and each independent village, but the Datuns think that they are ‘centralized’.

All Chaun chooses Dutan, the village chief, and all Datun, including Dutan, obey All Chaun’s orders. In reality, that’s not really the case.

When the size of the community, whether geographical or social, is so great, it can be hard to see whether we are really one group, but the state binds them together.

The intuitive name of Datang is like that. ‘Family’. The word ‘Datun’ comes from the meaning of ‘member of the family’.

However, the history of a country is made up of both great and tragic and shameful histories.

Paron Echacado exposed the problems of Datang and showed the world that the country was not as well run as they had thought.

And the greatest histories, and the most shameful, usually come from war.

Sometimes, when you look at old history books, it is clear which country fought which country, but they either write that they won or they openly write that they won even though they lost, so there are a lot of distortions.

Half of it is for domestic politics. We don’t need to show such consideration.

In fact, the Datons also do not keep such ‘dishonest’ records. It is impossible to modify the records written in Orotbe with current technology.

So there is actually a history of humiliation.

Datang was beaten by the Shuzoru Alliance and Seiwamuyu for nearly 80 years.

“Fuck, I lost again!”

“Goooosh.”

As All Chaun spits out his anger, the flames of Datang Oram burn fiercely. In this battlefield, Bokabor Chaun, who commanded the unit, bows his head and apologizes.

“Yes, yes. I’m sorry. All right······! Please kill me!”

How could All Chaun kill his family? But he could not bear to accept this crime.

“It wasn’t just a loss. This time, we were completely wiped out!!!”

Six years after the invasion, one third of Datang’s south had fallen to the Shuzor Alliance, while the remaining third and the eastern half had fallen to Seiwamuyu.

After five years of war, isn’t it time for some know-how and determination to develop for war? Why did it end up like this?

Now, it’s at the level of whether the country will fall or not. Fortunately, we are holding it back by forcibly increasing the number of spirits.

“Let me ask you something. What exactly is the problem? Our firepower is far superior to that of our enemies.”

“yes.”

“And we have more food and better equipment.”

“yes.”

“And the numbers! Even if we just gather the young spirits of our Datang right now, there will be enough to deal with all the guys, including Borin of the Shujor Alliance, one-on-one!”

“Yes······.”

All of this was so shocking that I couldn’t help but question it.

“But why on earth are you doing this?!”

Well, fundamentally, it’s a matter of training status.

The Patchar tribe, whose life goal is to kill people and who practice nothing but killing people, the Borin tribe, who pour out endlessly, and the Iyakan tribe, who have a systematic army and powerful mysticism.

Compared to that, Datang just throws a strong spirit at a pureblood Daton, tells him to throw fireballs, and leads the spirit beast to step on it. That’s usually all it takes, but······.

As I continued to lose, my morale began to weaken. Just hearing the news that there were Patchar tribes would make me tremble and run away, or I would cry, or even if I had a 1:1 opportunity, I would hesitate to throw fire at someone and end up dying from rocks and daggers thrown by my opponents.

The reason they were able to defend the eastern front was because it was effective in blocking their dragon army with a large spirit beast unit.

However, the offensive of the Shujor Alliance, which was eating up territory one by one with numbers, tactics, and aggressive mystique rather than powerful monsters, was something that Datang’s pitiful military could not stop.

Then what is stopping you?

“The Hanjutamal has spread throughout the Shujor Alliance!”

“Everyone run away!”

This is stopping it. The Shujor Alliance really failed to contain the Hanju Tamal outbreak purely by mistake.

The moment quarantine efforts failed, it spread uncontrollably through the Borin tribe.

Now that we have about 10 years to spare, this year’s Chaun wants to use the current defeat as an opportunity to build a better army.

“Urgent report from the east! Another ‘Catastrophic’ level dragon has appeared!”

“Ah······Crazy!”

For now, I just hope that the Minniruns will do something while I block the east.

The lifespan of the Daton is hundreds of years, but they reach sexual maturity and adulthood at the age of 15. Real growth ends at 20, and they need 10 years to gain experience, so the generational change of the Daton is roughly 20 to 25 years. Similar to the short-lived Patchar tribe.

The invaded generations have long been smitten with peace. Some were alive when Olchaun first punished the Pachar tribe. They cannot imagine that Datang could be defeated.

But the second generation is different. They experience defeat. And they witness the mass exodus from the south and the great dragons in the east.

All Chaun still opens the Giruak to encourage military training and sports. Now he is more desperate and has more followers.

However, even so, the constitution of the Datang cannot be changed in just two generations. The determination to fight alone cannot stop proper military training, 150 years of hatred, and systematic command and commanders.

In the end, even after becoming the second generation, Datang died in the war without mercy. The number of people who died at that time was in the hundreds of thousands. Although they died less than Hanjutamal, the quality of life that had always been high before the struggle gradually declined.

“Wait a minute, pilgrim. You cannot take the fruit from here.”

“Why, why? I haven’t eaten anything but crickets for two days! If I don’t eat that fruit, I’ll starve to death.”

“We’re going to send them all to the Eastern Army. If you’re thinking of enlisting, we’ll feed you.”

“too bad!”

The Dartons are not very happy anymore. They avoid fights.

He caused a massive vacuum in the south and east, and a shortage of supplies in the west and north. The Shujor Alliance once occupied the area within sight of Mainilun.

All of this was done to wipe them out with the flames of the Datang Oram, but now he has changed his mind.

“I can’t stand it anymore. My family is such cowards. Where are all the Datuns who fought leopards with spears, split rocks and dug holes in the rain to make huts?”

Even by Mainirund’s standards, it’s too long ago. It’s too long ago for anyone else to remember.

“At least the North is holding on.”

“What are you holding on to! There’s no threat! Train them in the west and north and send them back down!”

“······But no one wants to come.”

When Manum Lapin said that, Ol Chaun gave Castel Laurent a look that was almost hateful and made him grit his teeth.

“I will go north and burn all my descendants. What kind of demand is that?”

“······.”

“······Umm.”

“······Ugh.”

“Tell the northern Osozou Gul-myeong. Those who don’t participate in military training. Lower-ranking medals… That’s right. Now, it’s not relative evaluation, but absolute evaluation. Those in the lower ranks will be deprived of food rations, material rations, and the right to make love. On the contrary, those in the upper ranks will be promised unlimited rations. Shut up and bring them from the north! Do you plan to cut Datang in half? Right now, we are in the biggest crisis!”

Eventually, Datang also gave up on autonomous training and conscription. They implemented a proper conscription system and strengthened their military power.

It was all about the authority and the real threat, and the anger.

In a sense, this era may have finally marked the true end of the paradise era. We can never return to that paradise where we leisurely strolled through the meadows and ate fruit.

Myths are now carved not with beautiful paints and chisels, but with pain and blood.

But surprisingly, there were quite a few voluntary participants in this era, and the reason was as follows.

“Perhaps, if I build up a great record, I could become a main runner?”

“That’s right. I can’t even imagine how we’re going to beat those guys.”

“If you can accomplish that unimaginable feat, you can definitely become a main runner!”

The Datons still aspire to become the Mine Niran, that great being who will remain in the world forever, with his family, and accomplish important things.

A name was given to something that no longer exists.

‘King Giri’.

The Pachar tribe calls their general Giri, which means King Giri is the greatest general, and he is the main character of war.

Everyone is working hard to become that non-existent Mainilan, the guy with the name. There are also major changes in the military system of Datang.

This is the third generation of war. Now, the Datons are accustomed to military training and sports activities. They take it for granted that they will receive medals through competition and receive differential treatment for those medals.

However, the differential treatment for medals is not limited to war, but is also given equally to existing medals such as the ‘Childbirth Medal’, ‘Construction Medal’, and ‘Innovation Medal’.

In other words, useful Datons are treated more highly. The value of the Childbirth Medal and the Childbirth Contribution Medal given to men is particularly high, so Datons maintain the tradition of protecting pregnant women and working for pregnant women.

Datang is gradually becoming a class society. The quality of soldiers has also improved, and they have even won small-scale battles. Above all, Datang’s weight class was much higher from the beginning.

This is the 212th year of the Shujor Alliance. A large-scale war of recapture is declared!

“Let’s reclaim the South and the East! That’s where Dator used to be. It’s our land!”

So, literally hundreds of thousands of troops march east and south.

The current structure of Daton is as follows:

Blind Ox Chariot. A chariot drawn by a Muso or Metal Ox. The chariot is quite large, and it is equipped with a Quako rider and a lightning spirit, and then charges forward to ram the enemy. The Quako rider becomes a shield man, and the lightning spirit man sweeps the enemy lines with lightning. It counters ‘infantry’.

Ostrich cavalry. Soldiers riding on wind ostriches shoot flames and charge across the field, throwing fireballs, retreating, and throwing fireballs again. They don’t have to be flames, so there are also lightning spirits. They counter scouts and horse archers.

Knee cavalry. Reinforce the legs of the knee giraffe so that they can never be harmed with a sword, then charge forward and trample them all. Also, make a house-like thing on the giraffe’s torso and throw fireballs from above and below, and use the giraffe’s power to create a forest and use it as a plant magician. This is Daton’s ‘light cavalry’.

Ivory Cavalry. Elephants covered in metal armor charge forward, shaking the ground and attacking the enemy lines. On top of them, small houses and archers of the number of people and spirits shoot fire bolts in all directions. This is Daton’s ‘heavy cavalry’ that can even stand up to dragons.

The formation was all cavalry, but in fact, Daton had no need for an infantry formation. After all, Dator was all plains. Above all, there were no obstacles for the spirit beast army that advanced while creating or clearing the terrain.

And Daton could mobilize one ox-chariot per Patchar, three ostriches, one knee cavalry per Patchar platoon, and one ivory cavalry per company.

“crazy······.”

“So you’re saying that to win Datang, you have to win that?”

“Brothers of the Alliance! Don’t worry! We can win!”

The Shujor Alliance does not evade, but confronts. They confront a military force that they absolutely cannot stand against. They gather Seiwamuyudo dragons, wyverns, drakes, griffons, and all kinds of dragons to fight against their army of spirit beasts.

In the war with Seiwamuyu in the east, Datang wins a landslide victory. He suppresses them greatly and recovers a significant amount of territory.

And Datang is defeated on the southern front with this.

“No, how can I lose with this?!”

All Chaun couldn’t help but feel astonished when he heard the explanation that they had lost in the South. It was so absurd that he was not angry but bewildered. How on earth could they lose the war in this situation?

“That, that. To be exact, I won the fight······.”

The answer is simple. The Shujor Alliance was unable to stop the advance of the Spirit Beast Army. However, they were able to burn down and pollute the forests and swamps of the villages they occupied.

Or, you could release a few of the Malrangmalangs who are under the influence of Hanjutamal or the Borin tribe whose intelligence has been reduced due to Hanjutamal into the village and run away.

This is the so-called scorched earth tactic. If you are going to lose anyway, it is a strategy to prevent you from getting it either.

The Spirit Beast Legion requires a tremendous amount of food and magic power. They urgently request supplies, but of course they cannot starve to death, so more of them turn back.

And then there was the maddening onslaught of retreating and partially garrisoned troops, the death tolls, the disappearance of legions, and the capture of spirit beasts.

It was ridiculous that in the next round, they fought against the spirit beast army and then counterattacked.

That is, Datang now realized the importance of supply, occupation, and defense.

War is not fought by force alone. One more line added to the history of the humiliation of Datang will enable you to win later.

We still have to endure for 20 more years. After 20 years, Datang will finally have a strong army and military strategy.

However, it seems that there are some people who can’t stand it.

It’s not Daton. Right now, the Shuzoru Alliance and Seiwamuyu were feeling a completely different despair.

“We’ve been winning for 60 years, so why aren’t they losing troops······?”

It’s been 60 years since the Datang All-out War, and 212 years since the Shuzoru Alliance All-out War. The Seiwamuyu Wartime System has also been in place for 212 years······.

In effect, the world’s second-largest country and the world’s third-largest country are going head to head.

But it does not fall. Even while sending hundreds of thousands of armed cavalry to the east and south and carrying out crazy acts of supplying them, the resources of the country called Datang do not run dry.

And there are 600 years left until the struggle ends.

Compared to Datang, who can fight for 600 years, the Shuzoru Alliance and Seiwamuyu have already reached their limits.

The war was not really fought by force alone. The two countries were on the verge of dying from the absurd power of unlimited supplies and the world’s strongest economy.