"Pu Chi" the long sword pierced into the chest, and the tip of the sword protruded from the back armor.
The Chivani knight froze, and the long sword in his hand fell weakly...
Lorist looked at him with pity, and sighed, "Why are you bothering..."
Blood foamed from the corner of the Chevani knight's mouth: "Defeated. Defeated general, death. Death is not a pity. It is. It is my incompetence that led to this expedition. The entire army was annihilated... I. I only have Only one death can make redemption to the Duke..."
"It's not your fault," Lorist comforted him, "When the Lord Duke was blinded by greed and stretched out his claws to the Norton family, it was the biggest mistake you made. In fact, you have already done a good job, because I spent a lot I can't find a chance to deal with your camp. If the guards in Beiye Town were not captured by us in one fell swoop, I don't even know how long this war will be delayed... "
"Yes, is that so?" Chevani Knight's eyes quickly dimmed. He opened his arms and fell on his back, with a relieved smile on his face.
Lorist silently stared at the Chivani knight lying on the ground for a long time, then said softly, "Go all the way..."
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On August 29th, 1767 in Galint Argyle, Grand Duke Lukins of the Northland ordered the Northland Legion of the Norton family to march against the two brigades with a total of more than 4,000 soldiers. The surviving 1,200 soldiers Seventy-nine people surrendered to the Norton family in an unnamed valley in the Knife Peak Mountains in the Northland. So far, the expedition team that entered the Norton family's territory was wiped out.
The general who commanded the expedition army, the head of the Northland Legion, the chief family knight of the Duke of Lukins, and the three-star Gold Chevany Knight, when the expedition army was cornered by the Norton family and had nowhere to go, asked the new Norton family The head of the family, the new lord Norton Lorist launched a life-and-death duel and died heroically at the age of fifty-three.
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When the silver knight holding the white flag told Lorist that the Chivani knight was willing to order his soldiers to surrender to the Norton family, but when he demanded a life-and-death duel with Lorist, Lorist ignored Josk around him. The objections of Simma and others agreed to this request.
For Lorist, it was not difficult to deal with Chevani, a three-star gold knight, and he wanted to force Chevani to give up his sword and admit defeat. But Chevani Knight was eager to die, disregarding his own safety, and adopted the same style of play, blindly attacking madly, which added a lot of trouble to Lorist.
For the onlookers, this was the first time they had seen Lorist's prowess and swordsmanship. Vasimma and the four mercenary regiment leaders were all dumbfounded. Who would have thought that Lorist, who couldn't even send out a black iron step with his sword light, could fight a knight with three gold stars, and even gained the upper hand, suppressing the attack of the Chevani knight all the time. If it weren't for the mercy of his subordinates who didn't want to hurt the lives of the Chivani knights, the Chivani knights would have been broken into pieces.
Cavalier Chevani became more and more cold-hearted as he fought. He already understood that he was no match for Lorist, and he felt even more ashamed of the opponent's mercy. So when Lorist parried his slash straight to his chest for the last time and forced him to retreat, he did not dodge, but accelerated forward, catching Lorist by surprise, and the long sword in his hand pierced through the Chevany knight chest...
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More than a thousand surrendered soldiers of the Northland Legion were disarmed, stripped of their leather armor, and the bits and pieces of their bodies were searched and confiscated, and then they began to set up camp under the supervision of family soldiers. The silver knight who surrendered told Lorist that yesterday when these soldiers found that the road ahead was blocked and food and grass were desperate, a frenzied internal strife broke out in the dark cave, and they started killing each other. By the time the Chivani knights brought people to stop them, more than 400 soldiers had died. That's why Chevani Knight decided to surrender, seeking a way out for the remaining soldiers, but he himself was determined to die. Even if he defeated Lorist, he would end himself...
Lorist stayed in this unnamed valley for another three days, and ordered those soldiers who surrendered to enter the cave again. Under the supervision of the family soldiers, they collected all the corpses of the soldiers who died in the cave and buried them in the unnamed valley. Surrendering logistics officers inscribed the names of the dead soldiers to mark them for their families to visit later. And named this unnamed valley as Chevany Valley, and engraved a monument to commemorate the Chevany Knights.
Lorist thinks that the war is not troublesome, but the aftermath is troublesome. Especially after Beiye Town was massacred, there were a lot of things that he needed to deal with. As soon as he returned to Beiye Town, he received a messenger from Rock Castle. Sedkamp reported in the letter that the Knights Tournament of the Harmony Cup will end in three days. The hosts of the tournament, Lorist and Viscount Kenmes, must attend the celebration banquet together to congratulate and pay respects to the winners of those competitions. Soderkamp hoped that even if the war was not over, Lorist would take the time to go there, so as not to be considered impolite.
Fortunately, this battle has ended, and it took a total of twenty days. Lorist asked Josk and Paul Binns to take two teams of family soldiers to escort the captives back to Rock Castle first. He had to stay in Beiye Town for two days before going back after finishing the matter. Lorist issued another order to the stewards of the Rock Castle, letting Steward Boris be responsible for relocating the laborers' families in the city and moving them back to the camp outside the city again. The war is over and there is no threat to the camp outside the Rock Castle. Now, you can move out of the city so that construction can continue in the city.
Order Papa Barek to lead someone to accompany Master Sid to survey the mountains near the Morgan Hill Copper Mine, looking for iron ore and other mineral resources. Order Kedan steward to set up a captive camp, and take over the management of the captives and arrange labor when Josk and the others escort the captives to arrive. In the end, Lorist wrote a letter of greetings to Miss Teresty, telling her the news that the crisis in the territory had been resolved, and she could start making promises to the Rock Castle after arranging the construction project of the Rock Castle. Planning and designing her mountain city.
In all fairness, Lorist thinks that Miss Theresty is very suitable to be Baroness Norton. First of all, although Miss Theresty is not stunning, she is also very beautiful. She has a slim figure and fair skin, and most importantly, she has a unique intellectual beauty, which is in line with Lorist's aesthetics. And Miss Teresty is not one of those aristocratic ladies who only act coquettishly and coquettishly, she is also a female scholar, like the words Lorist heard in her previous life, she can become a goddess by her appearance, but she has to rely on her own efforts to become a goddess. Straight A student. Lorist appreciates the self-reliance and self-reliance of Miss Theresty.
During his interactions with Miss Theresty, Lorist could feel her affection for him, so he could tolerate his rudeness towards her, such as hugging and tongue kissing. Although I am angry every time, it is more of a shame and ambivalence. She is unwilling to violate the oath she made, which is to be celibate for the rest of her life and pursue knowledge and truth. This is also Lorist's greatest indignation. It's not good to swear any oath, but to swear this most inhumane oath, it's so annoying.
Lorist asked Steward Speer, who had received his order, to be in charge of counting and registering the property, grain and other materials in Beiye Town. He planned to move all the available materials in Beiye Town back to Fenglin Villa and abandon Beiye Town. The most important thing at present is to build the Rock Castle and start building a mountain city in the Morgan Hills after the Rock Castle is built. As for Beiye Town, there are more than 27,000 mu of good farmland that has been cultivated. It's a pity to be deserted, but the family doesn't have any extra manpower to come to farm at present, so let's throw it here to restore soil fertility, and make plans after Fatty Shi and his northbound convoy arrive.
The mercenary fees of the four mercenary groups have also been settled, and the four mercenary groups accepting the Norton family's employment this time feel that it is worthwhile, not only the mercenary fees are high, but also the loss of personnel is small. Compared with other lords who like to use mercenaries as cannon fodder, the young lord of the Norton family often takes the lead, and the mercenaries instead become followers and join in the fun, which is the last defense of Beiye Town. Although the mercenaries They acted as the main force of the defense, but they were willing, because their capture from the siege soldiers had filled the pockets of every mercenary with coins.
Vasinma took Jim to escort the surviving women and girls in Beiye Town back to Fenglin Villa. In any case, many people in Fenglin Villa have oblique relatives with these women and girls. Let them recuperate in Fenglin Villa for a period of time, and then escort them to the Rock Castle and give them freedom and those single youths. Zhuang contacts love, and when they become a family again, they can forget the past and start a new life.
There is still one problem to be solved right now, that is, Husky's mercenary team will be disbanded. There were more than 20 mercenaries who were willing to join Lorist's family armed forces, and more than 30 mercenaries who had recovered from injuries did not want to bid farewell to their mercenary career, and joined the four mercenary regiments in the past few days. It's just that in this way, Lorist's military stronghold at the junction of the two mountains on the edge of the family's domain, the Demon Dragon Mountain Range, has no one to garrison. If a small team is selected from the family's armed forces, it will affect Lorist's next arrangements. After much deliberation, Lorist decided to choose one of the four mercenary groups to entrust.
Among the four mercenary regiments, Lorist's favorite was the Spear Mercenary Regiment, because this mercenary regiment was composed of retired soldiers and civilian officers, and acted in the most orderly manner. From the battle that just ended, it can be seen that the spear mercenary group suffered the least loss and gained the most. However, after listening to Lorist's commission, Captain Sandro politely declined the task, because he said that he already had two appointments, and he would pick up those two tasks after returning this time.
Lorist's second search was Captain Richard of the Cromwell Mercenary Regiment. Similarly, Captain Richard also refused to accept this mission. He was worried about fighting against the mountain barbarians. very big. After thinking about it, I decided not to accept this commission. The third person to look for was Uleph Masin, the leader of the Night Bat Mercenary Group. The gold was too little, and the employment fee he asked for was 100 kimford per month, and the reward would be doubled.
Lorist almost laughed out of anger. He used to give Halski and the others employment gold coins of one imperial old man's head gold coin per month for silver ranks, and fifty small imperial silver coins per month for black iron and bronze ranks, adding up to one year. It's only about a hundred gold fords. However, the members of the Night Bat Mercenary Group are only double the number of Husky's mercenary squad, but the mercenary fee has increased by ten times, which is really unreasonable.
The Five Swords Mercenary Group readily agreed to Lorist's commission, but they made another request. They hoped to move the family and relatives of their mercenary group members to the Norton family territory, and they were willing to become the citizens of Lorist. Lorist was very surprised.
Dubofu, head of the Five Swords Mercenary Group, said with a wry smile that life forced him to do nothing. Their mercenary group was originally composed of villagers from several neighboring villages, with the purpose of being mercenaries to earn some money to pay the lord's endless taxes, but now the lord's oppression is getting heavier, and their families are already suffering from hunger and cold. Although they formed a mercenary regiment to protect the villagers from being oppressed, they could not reduce their taxes. Moreover, their village was located near the capital of Windbury, and they were often harassed by the soldiers of the kingdom stationed nearby, making them miserable.
Accepting Lorist's employment this time to participate in the war against the Duke's army, the five leaders of the Five Swords Mercenary Group paid attention. During their contact with the soldiers and guards of the Norton family, they found that the Norton family treated their subjects better than others. It is too merciful for the lord. Especially when he saw the fields that were about to be abandoned after the massacre of Beiye Town, he thought about moving all the villages he had there.
Lorist was very happy. What was lacking in the family territory was manpower. He expressed that he welcomed the five swords mercenary group to move the family members and even those villages here, and promised that as long as they could come, they would be given houses and fields. The tax is only 30% of the land, and 10% of other miscellaneous taxes such as fishing, hunting and wood cutting. If you join the family's armed forces or contribute to the family, you can also reduce or exempt various taxes.
Dubofu was also very happy. In the village where he lived, the chief tax was 70% of the field harvest and 50% of miscellaneous taxes. Therefore, his family, relatives and friends could no longer maintain food and clothing. I can't keep going. Lorist added another fire. Now that the Five Swords Mercenary Group has accepted his commission, his relatives can be taken care of according to the treatment of soldiers of his own family after they arrive. If they die in the battle against the mountain barbarians, then Mercenaries who died in battle can also receive pensions like family soldiers.
Well, the only thing that needs to be considered next is how the relatives and villagers of the Five Swords Mercenary Group escaped the control of their lord, which Dubov said he was sure of. Lorist gave him two months and a deposit of fifty goldfords, and Dubofu and the others went back excitedly.
After finishing this matter, Lorist finally breathed a sigh of relief, and handed over the transportation of the materials and belongings in Beiye Town to Vasimma, Speer and Pachiko, and brought Reddy back to Maple Forest Villa. Greeted Mrs. Kress, checked Berunek's body, spent the night with Elina tenderly, and took Reddy and Jim to Rock Castle the next day.
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