Conquer the first year of Wang Li.
There is no unified calendar in the entire Thur world. The first thing Wu Ming, who was deeply confused, was to promulgate decrees, formulate a new calendar, and unify measurement and so on after he came to power.
This set of chronological methods is called the "new calendar", which begins with the last day of winter in the year when he became king, and is also called the first year of the new calendar.
In the first year of the new calendar, under the call of King William Wallace I, the blue-blooded nobles of the entire Fengying Plain, as well as free people, mercenaries, and even wild people, began to launch a retaliatory campaign against the previous invasion of the highlands. fight back.
An army of nearly 20,000 marched into the high ground through the Death Canyon of Eagle Fort.
Together with them, there are many solo adventurers, volunteer mercenary groups who want to obtain meritorious titles, and small businessmen who are purely for making a fortune.
The blue torrent rushed and stirred, and brought terrible disaster to the highlands at once.
In the first year of the new calendar, in March, the army of the King of Conquerors came to Giant Rock City in the east of the highlands. The guardian of this place was Earl Kyle Wellington. He rejected the envoy of the King of Conquerors and declared: "Every inch here The land belongs to the highlanders, the blue bloods go back to the plains! '
The envoy of King William the Conqueror was still polite: "Your actions will bring war, your people will betray you, cheer for my king, and put your head on the spear!"
The enraged Earl Kyle cut off one of the messenger's ears and let him go back.
The King of Conquerors who got the news immediately began to attack the city. It was just a round of wooden cannon bombardment. Suddenly, several gaps appeared in the seemingly indestructible city wall of the Giant Rock City.
Those people did not fight for Earl Kyle as their lord said, but chanted the slogan "Peace, no shells!", rushed into the lord's room, and arrested Earl Kyle who was caught off guard. Come out, and offer it to the King of Conquerors.
The seemingly indestructible city of Monolith surrendered to the King of Conquerors in a single day.
At this point, the door to the east of the highland is wide open, which is equivalent to the entire highland opening the door to the army of the conquering king.
Earl Kyle is known for his stubborn, granite-like personality.
Even though he had completely failed and was tied up in front of the king of conquest, he held his head proudly: "The king of foreign aggression, you can hang me, even cut off my head, and put it on a spear, but the highlanders The resistance will never stop."
The King of Conquerors smiled and shook his head, and after cutting off Earl Kyle's two ears as punishment, he kindly gave him two choices.
Either continue to cut off the head and send it to Lionheart City in a gift box, or surrender, kneel before the great conqueror, choose to swear allegiance, and kiss the ground under his feet.
Earl Kyle was impassioned before, but after his ears were cut off, the bloody scene and severe pain immediately made him cry bitterly. He immediately knelt down and kissed the land in front of the King of Conquerors, and chose to submit.
For this reason, the King of Conquerors generously retained Kyle's title, but reduced him to a baron, and deprived him of his suzerainty over Boulder City, which he assigned to other heroes.
With the map of the Book of Sages, after occupying Boulder City, the King of Conquerors did not stop at all. Apart from leaving the necessary army to guard the back road and food road, the army immediately rushed towards Lionheart City.
He issued a decree that all nobles who surrendered before the arrival of the army could retain their original titles and fiefdoms, otherwise these rights would belong to the first person who brought them down.
As soon as this decree came out, coupled with the previous publicity, many minor nobles immediately expressed their submission to the King of Conquerors.
Of course, there were some who resisted resolutely, but before Wu Ming arrived, they were overthrown by their own retainers or mercenary regiments. The original mud-legged people lived in noble castles and obtained their land, wealth, and women... Live a life you could never have imagined.
And in order to maintain their current status, they must resolutely support the King of Conquerors and win the Battle of the Highlands!
The whole highland suddenly became a mess.
In this haze, the Blue Dragon Banner slowly approached Lionheart City, the stronghold of the Wellington family and the core of the entire highland's rule.
…
In Lionheart City, in the meeting hall of the Wellington family, many well-dressed nobles could no longer maintain their demeanor.
Their faces were flushed, and they quarreled angrily, telling their own misfortunes and sufferings, and angrily denouncing each other's inaction and stupidity.
There was a deep sense of fear in this mutual prevarication, which made the Grand Duke Wellington, who was on the throne, very helpless.
A few months ago, he still looked like a high-spirited middle-aged man, and he might even become the king of the new principality, but now, his hair is all gray, and there are many wrinkles on his forehead, obviously looking like an old man on the verge of death.
It seemed that Arthur's capture and the successive bad news had hit him hard.
"How many of us are there?"
The Duke of Wellington asked in a low voice.
"We have gathered all the troops in the territory, and urgently recruited all civilians over the age of 16 to join the army. Together with the mercenary group and adventurers, it will not be a problem to gather 50,000 people!"
A fat noble stood up and said.
But even so, there was not much joy on their faces.
After all, most of the 50,000 people are farmers, and there are less than 9,000 regular soldiers who have been trained.
"What about the reinforcements promised by the Celtic family, the Lister family, and the Anlie family?"
The Duke of Wellington frowned.
These families, which had been conquered by Arthur's army, recognized the Wellington family as their lord and patron, and had the obligation to send troops to fight.
But with the spread of the bad news, those fools began to waver again.
But when this kind of resolute suppression was needed, the Wellington family lost their absolute comparison of force because of Arthur's defeat, and the army of the Conqueror King was advancing step by step, so that they could not only fight in the newly conquered land. To increase soldiers to maintain the rule, the elite had to be withdrawn one after another.
As a result, the suppressed local faction suddenly began to rise.
After all, with the accumulation and background passed down by noble families for thousands of years, and the inextricable network of local connections, unless all the citizens are killed, it is impossible to completely clean them up at once.
"them… "
The fat man was at a loss for words, and that kind of demeanor immediately let the Duke of Wellington know the result.
"damn it!"
The Duke of Wellington slapped the conference table, and the air in the room seemed to shake: "I have decided that the current highlands alone cannot fight against the conquerors. We need reinforcements, reinforcements from Cape of Storms!"
"Vaylon, you are the envoy. Go to the Horn of Storms immediately, find their biggest chief of the Storm Tribe, and tell him... as long as he comes to help me, I will give them the Ice City in the north!"
Grand Duke Wellington closed his eyes in pain, and said in a deep voice.
In the eyes of all the nobles in the Sear continent, although the Cape of Storms is vast, it is synonymous with barbarism and barrenness. Not to mention the Fengying Plain, even compared with the highlands, it is wild and backward, and the natural environment is extremely harsh.
In the past, just to deal with the spontaneous plunder of the barbarians every winter, the princes of the highlands and the Fengying Plain had to invest a lot of troops in their respective north.
But now, the Duke of Wellington has personally opened the northern border of the Highlands to them.
"Ice City has always been a barrier against the invasion of the Storm Warriors. Once the Ice City changes hands, our highlands will be exposed to the swords of the Storm Warriors at any time! I object!"
A branch nobleman of the Wellington family immediately stood up and asked loudly, "Duke Wellington, what exactly do you want?"
"I just want to keep the family, so that our glory can continue!"
The Duke of Wellington crossed his fingers and put them on the table: "The storm warriors and those chiefs only need our food, iron, women, and salt... But from the Windfly Plain, that greedy dragon, the one who asked for it It's everything to us!"
Although he explained a sentence, his heart was even more tired.
At this time of life and death, the infighting in the family is still going on, which makes him too disappointed.
"William the Conqueror?"
After hastily making a decision and ending the family meeting, the Grand Duke of Wellington returned to the study, murmuring the name.
His hands began to tremble unconsciously, as if there was some magical power in the name.
If the Conqueror had no magical powers, how could he defeat his invincible son who was protected by the King's Sword
His Excellency the Duke paced slowly in the study, and after a long time, he finally made up his mind.
He pursed his lips, came to a bookshelf, took out a black-covered, dusty classic, and opened it to the last page.
In the center of this page, there is an empty slot. In the center is a black card with purple datura flowers blooming on it, carrying a mysterious flavor.
In the study room, the doors and windows were closed tightly, and the thick curtains were drawn to block out all the light. The surroundings were suddenly plunged into darkness, only the light on the black card became more dazzling.
"By my blood, those who call my contract, come!"
The Duke pulled out a golden dagger, cut his finger, and let the dark red blood drip on the card, while reciting a low call from his mouth, like a mysterious spell.
"My lord duke!"
A cloud of purple mist gushed out from the card, and the mandala flowers on it slowly bloomed, overflowing with coquettish light. In the mist, a man in a cloak loomed and bowed to the Duke: "After hearing the news of the King of Conquerors Afterwards, I knew this day was coming! Everything is under the watchful eye of the Lord of Shadows!"
The Duke of Wellington watched this miraculous scene, but his heart was a little cold, and he gritted his teeth immediately: "I want William Wallace's life!"
"As you wish!"