Chapter 1204: Section 735: Choice (3)
Malin stepped onto the platform, looking at the soldiers in front of him from the Northerner legion, who were clapping incessantly because they believed in themselves.
With trust, Malin began to speak: "You, you young men followed your fathers to Carterburg years ago. At that time, you were scantily dressed, noses running, and it was I who gave your fathers work. You grew up, you came of age, and ultimately chose to join my factory guard, finally accepting reorganization to become my soldiers, mine!"
The soldiers cheered; they really liked that Malin called them his soldiers.
Because that way, they could be distinguished from the soldiers in the north, and only in that way would those oppressive gendarmes not dare to lash them.
Moreover, because they saw with their own eyes, if their fathers hadn’t gone south, it would be them facing despair today.
"I brought you back to this land so that you could return to your hometown with glory, to give a piece of effort to this land. I know you hate the nobility, I know you hate this land that brought you a painful childhood, I know I shouldn’t let you fight for this unjust land! But we have a common enemy, its name is Chaos." Malin took a deep breath as he looked at the soldiers below: "I brought you to repel Chaos, thinking that with a common threat, we humans should cooperate against the enemy... Yet, I never thought that those gentlemen in Copenhagen would be so eager to raise the blade high."
"Master, what should we do?" Tuo Jin Spencer shouted loudly from below the stage.
Malin looked at the soldiers below; these soldiers were the descendants of serfs and free men who had moved south for various reasons back then.
Their fathers either were betrayed by the nobles who were their masters or went bankrupt for various reasons. To avoid their families being torn apart, they moved south with their entire families, witnessing along the way too many corpses who died roadside from losing hope, yet their fathers endured the pain along the journey.
Thus, they earned the right to grow up, the right to study in public schools, and more importantly, to join the factory and factory guard now.