Fantasy Starting from the Stone Age - Chapter 72



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Episode 72. The Battle of Mainnirun

Time passed. Of the 200,000 prisoners, about 25,000 returned. The Shuzor Alliance treated the prisoners with extreme cruelty.

“You guys will work the hardest from the moment you wake up in the morning until you go to bed. If you betray, you will be treated the same as the other southern defectors.”

When Ol Chaun heard about how Liwaduwan treated the prisoners, he was shocked. He would not do that to his enemy, but how could he be so cruel to a prisoner with whom he could share a love.

All of the Datons who were repatriated as prisoners of war came back with one limb damaged or with bones and bones bruised. Even though they had sent back the injured first during the first five years, they were treated so harshly that there was a steady stream of injured people throughout the five years.

“Come to think of it, was there really a traitor?”

“Yes······. In the end, I couldn’t stand the labor any longer.”

“······okay.”

I heard that they made them work 18 hours a day, from the time they woke up until they passed out, so it would be even stranger if there was no traitor.

However, many Datons who knew the greatness of All Chaun and Mainiran did not give in to such torture and endured it. So, little by little, the prisoners were able to be repatriated.

At this rate, it would take about 10 years for all prisoners to be repatriated. The Shujor Alliance was also calculating that.

And as time passed, the anger and compassion that had been overflowing between them gradually diluted, and a cool-headed way of victory emerged.

All Chaun suggests subtly.

“How about holding on?”

“yes?”

“I admit that Liwaduwan is a truly divine general. He defeated King Giri Darida, so that fact is indisputable. But he is still a Pachar.”

The lifespan of the Patchar tribe is half that of the Daton tribe, 60 to 80. Considering that they cannot receive the Baptism of Fire, the difference can be almost 5 times.

“If we wait for all the prisoners to be repatriated, the young man will live to be middle-aged, and if we hold out for just as long, he will die of old age. He may run out of ammunition before he dies, or he may get caught in a Hanjutamal······.”

In short, the Minniruns are immortal and the population of Datang is much larger, so they will hold out until the other party dies of old age.

As incredibly passive as they were, the Datons, especially the Minnie Runs, had little idea that ‘time’ was a finite resource.

So, instead of planning an invasion of Shujor, Datang reverts to a holding strategy.

We will greatly improve diplomatic relations with the Seiwamuyu in the east, and we will also appropriately exert checks and pressure to ensure that the Shuzor Alliance’s trade, which depends on them, does not proceed properly.

The northern great forests were further expanded and cleared, and the Bark and Erin tribes scattered across the isthmus to the north were also brought under Datang’s influence.

Even grasslands, which are no different from plains, are largely reclaimed, and production of basic goods such as farms, orchards, swamps, and mines is greatly increased.

The southern fortress is further strengthened. In order to complete the systematic supply and logistics system, ranches are also laid in the south, and even large numbers of carnivores such as lions and leopards are released so that they cannot survive properly in the wild, and even the hunting and gathering life requires force.

And by releasing the Quako and the personified Bark herders, they are gradually completing the fortification of the vast southern plains. Even the god of war will have a nearly impossible time breaking through all of this.

Even if they were to strike, they would need overwhelming military power······. That would be suppressed by the economic power of the wonderful land of Dator (at least that’s what Daton thought at the time).

This will work as long as the Shujor Alliance cannot suppress Datang’s production. If they hold out for 50 years, even the self-proclaimed god Liwaduwan will die, and the war will effectively be over.

But is that really the case? A country with overwhelming military power might have some other options.

And maybe······economically speaking, it might not be the case?

Liwaduwan knew that it would take about 12 years to repatriate the prisoners. He would be middle-aged.

“Shujor is an extremely backward land compared to Dator! We will reclaim and develop this place and create a great nation that will not fall behind Datang!”

In other words, Liwaduwan has declared himself economic president.

It is said that it is difficult for a great general to become a great leader.

However, Liwaduwan knew how to listen to the advice of experts in areas he was not familiar with, and he knew how to distinguish between who was good among the experts and who was just talking nonsense.

Shuzor developed rapidly under the systematic top-down economic system of Liwaduwan, where everything was decided from above.

The hardest labor goes to the prisoners, and all members work desperately to isolate Hanjutamal, establish each race’s territory, produce supplies, and all sorts of technologies and ideas to increase production capacity come and go.

If the All-Chaun era realized an economy of pilgrimage and expansion during the Paradise Era, then it can be said that Liwaduwan created an economy of dense expansion like a spider web that spread its territory widely.

A forest is created in the jungle. A map is created and a house is built. All the women become pregnant, and all the members struggle to be of any help to the group, and then they die.

During this period, the average life expectancy of the Shujor Alliance was less than 20 years. Rather than dying at 30, they had a lot of children and died in middle age or before.

Nevertheless, the Shuzor Alliance grows at a population growth rate that can only be described as insane. Internal productivity has now managed to keep up with Datang’s economic priority policy to the tune of 70%.

Relations with Seiwamuyu continue to improve, with Southern Shuzor successfully joining the maritime trade route via the eastern route.

The dragon tribe’s power is also supplemented with monsters that are strong enough to match the spirit beasts, and those that have actually shown that they can deal with the spirit beasts.

Liwaduwan put in a lot of effort into training the Dragon Clan troops, to the point where he visited Seiwamuyu and converted. Reflecting on his corrupt life, he said that he would not have children until he had a loving wife, and that he would follow their teachings and ethics.

This was also inevitable because the Shujor Alliance did not have a concept such as the ‘Law of All Chaun’. Seiwamuyu spreads the Yongshin religion.

The existing doctrine that only Iyakan can be saved is also revised so that the dragon’s heart does not actually mean a dragon, but rather the development of the human spirit, body and mind.

Well, this was inevitably modified because the martial arts that King Giri made were spreading throughout Daton.

There is a way to create a dragon’s mind inside the body of an ape, but it is difficult to claim that we, who have a dragon’s mind, are superior.

Liwaduwan seemed to have risked his life for the sake of the Shujor Alliance. He did not even have sex, which would have been the greatest joy in life, and lived like a prisoner for 12 years, receiving reports and giving orders all day long from the moment he woke up until he went to bed.

So everyone in the Shujor Alliance truly respected Liwaduwan. Even some of the captured Datons were moved by such passion and sincerely converted.

Indeed, Liwaduwan was entering the realm of the All Chaun. Their leader, the one whom everyone sincerely respected. The chief······.

The Shujor Alliance may have lost to Datang because there was no such great man until now.

He is a Liwaduwan (god) who goes beyond Liwa (military leader). He is not a person to be looked up to, but a god.

However, the god of Shujor grows old.

I look 20 years older than anyone else because of the hard work I do, even though I am 36 years old. If I keep working like this, I will probably die in my 60s, let alone 80.

So, war is inevitable. The Shuzor Alliance slowly prepares for the fight. All prisoners are returned and next season. The Shuzor Alliance will begin the invasion.

The timing of the advance was two seasons earlier than Datang had expected, as he had never imagined that there would be so many ‘converts’.

In fact, before this war started, many people tried to dissuade him.

A representative example was Seiwamuyu.

At that time, the new king of Seiwamuyu, who lived off of Datang, Shujor, and trade with the north and east, wrote a heartfelt petition asking them not to shed blood and ruin the economy in a useless war. It is said that it was so famous that anyone who heard it would shed tears and become a pacifist. Unfortunately, it has not been passed down to this day.

And since Liwaduwan was a god and not a human, he did not become a pacifist. In the end, he was unable to stop the war.

But unlike the previous two invasions, this time Datang was prepared for it. It wasn’t just Shuzor who had developed.

And for a full 21 years, Datang endured the maddening onslaught of the Shujor Alliance.

A food production system that took decades to perfect, a perfect supply and transportation system, all kinds of natural and artificial defense measures, and hundreds of thousands of troops trained over 12 years to achieve a 1:1 exchange rate.

In fact, the idea of ​​1:1 doesn’t make sense in the first place. In war, defense is more advantageous than offense.

Especially if you have a thorough defense posture, you need to have 3 to 5 times as many attackers to take the castle and achieve victory, but the exchange rate is 1:1… This proves that even though Liwaduwan is old, he has not declined.

Not only the quality of technology, but also the capabilities of the officers were different. Compared to Datang, Shuzor’s rules of engagement were far superior. You could say it was a next-generation manual for the next-generation battlefield.

It was revised several times by overlapping the situation.

But, despite that, he couldn’t break the spell.

It may take years to take down a single fortress or castle in the south. A large castle that is supposed to be self-sufficient even if supplies are cut off. Using spirit water, it is possible to build a castle of ridiculous length that puts ‘farmland’ within the walls.

The security of a castle of that size was supported by a large population. The Borin tribe was a force that gave Daton strength simply by their numbers.

Time passes. The Shujor Alliance presses hard, succeeding in taking more territory than they had recaptured the previous day.

However, it is impossible to break the Datang. At some point, the offensive will end, and then an infinite number of troops will rush in and trample everything in the south.

And now there is no hope for mercy. A miserable life of slavery awaits. Or else, everything will be reduced to charcoal by the flames of Datang Oram.

However, at this point the Shujor Alliance does something strange.

“Where are they going?”

After eating a few castles, they advance not inside, but rather past the castles and into the grassland, towards Mainilun. A large army that no one can avoid seeing is advancing towards Mainilun.

“uh?”

The commanders of each castle are perplexed. If they pass like that, they will be intercepted by the troops that escaped from the castle······? That is why the strategy of capturing the castle is meaningful.

However, the commanders of each castle have already been severely defeated by the Shujor Alliance. They are locked in like iron walls because they do not know what Liwaduwan will do.

In this way, the strongest elite soldiers of the Shujor Alliance charge into the Holy Land without any hindrance.

When they belatedly learned that the elite Shujors had gathered in the Holy Land, they hurriedly sent out people from each castle to inform them, but as is often the case, they were blocked and delayed.

The god of war is on his way to welcome the wise god Ol Chaun.