"I'm sorry, Second Highness. Although the Norton family is under the direct control of the Christen royal family, and His Highness also has the blood of the Christen royal family, after all, His Highness now represents the Antinac royal family. Besides, my lord's order is for us to Lead the convoy to the family territory instead of assisting the Antinac royal family to put down the kingdom's lord's rebellion." Fatty Shi shook his head and rejected the request made by His Royal Highness Ogesello.
His Royal Highness came here with his twenty-something guards to mediate between the Norton family's convoy and the coalition of nobles, so that the convoy would pay a small price to reach a peace agreement with the robber lords and avoid war. This is a request from his lover, who is also his closest and most loyal subordinate, Chrisya, and secondly, he also wants to buy and sell a batch of food supplies through the convoy. The commercial blockade was carried out, and the supplies were very scarce.
His Highness the Second Highness was very confident that the coalition of nobles would betray him. During the civil war of the empire, it was he who led the White Lion Legion and the Storm Legion to fight everywhere, and was able to resist the peeping heart of the first prince and the second prince towards the imperial capital. Many lords in the noble coalition army have been rescued by him, I believe there is still some sympathy for this.
What I didn't expect was that people were still on the road, and the news they got was that the aristocratic allied forces were beaten to pieces in the Battle of Qingyeyuan, and the Norton family's northbound convoy won a complete victory. This news surprised and shocked His Highness the Second Highness. He did not expect that the Norton family's northbound convoy would have such a powerful escort force. Seeing Chrisya who was very happy to hear the news, Second Highness thought about it at this moment.
At the beginning, although the Second Highness made great military exploits, he did not like the nobles in the territory of the Antinac Kingdom. Another meaning of the great military exploits is great success. The third prince did rely on the Second Highness to lead the two legions to resist the invasion of the first prince and the second prince. , but five or six years of civil war had exhausted all the resources of the kingdom, and the kingdom was in ruins. Moreover, His Royal Highness has a rather tough character. No one likes a strong king, so the nobles in the territory overwhelmingly supported His Royal Highness to become the emperor. His Highness was helplessly ordered by Antinac I to return to his fief. The island in the west.
The Kingdom of Antinac was severely damaged during the civil war and was unable to maintain the existence of the three legions. As a result, the White Lion Legion was disbanded, and the Storm Legion was sent to the Principality of Melain in the name of support to assist the Grand Duke Melain in defending against the invasion of the second prince. The Royal Guards were also continuously reduced due to the sharp reduction in the kingdom's financial revenue. Only one brigade is left.
Losing the force to suppress the kingdom, the nobles of the kingdom began to disregard the Antinac royal family, and then the third prince got a strange disease and was bedridden. The submissiveness of the territorial nobles has encouraged the arrogance and presumptuousness of the territorial nobles. They began to ignore the kingdom's laws, oppress the subjects, form private armies, carve up the royal territory, and established an alliance of lords to fight against the Antinac royal family.
The Second Highness looked at the current situation of the kingdom and felt anxious. He had a dream to reunify the former Krissen Empire and restore the glory and inheritance of the royal family of the empire. It's a pity that he doesn't have a reliable armed force at hand. Even the guards around him and the garrison of the territory add up to less than 300 people. His elder brother, His Royal Highness, is an amateur in foreign wars, but he is an expert in internal fighting. He has always been extremely careful about this younger brother who threatens his political status, and even cut off the royal family allowance of the Second Highness because of insufficient income.
The Second Highness has great ambitions, but without soldiers, power and money, he can only feel melancholy. Now that I heard that the Norton family's northbound convoy had defeated the aristocratic coalition forces, I began to worry about it. He came to the convoy for one purpose, borrowing troops and food, pacifying the Antinac Kingdom, destroying the alliance of lords, forcing His Highness to abdicate, and allowing himself to take charge of the military and political power of the kingdom. But Schrader rejected his request after understanding his intention.
"Is Abelide the master of the house now?" Chrisya stepped forward and asked.
"Aberide? Who is he?" Shredder looked at the black-haired beautiful knight inexplicably.
Chrisya's face changed, and she asked sharply, "Who are you? Why are you acting in the name of the Norton family?"
Her hand was already on the hilt of the sword.
"We are indeed Norton's family knights, and we are under the order of Baron Norton. By the way, the current Baron Norton is Norton Lorist." Shredder took out the family knight badge, input his fighting spirit, and a roaring bear appeared on the silver screen. quality badge.
Chrisya was stunned, and hesitated for a long time before asking: "Lorist? You mean Little Locke? That crybaby? The little guy with a snot in his nose? Wasn't he exiled to Morente City?" ?”
"Puchi..." Everyone in the big tent laughed. It turned out that my lord had these two nicknames when he was a child.
Shredder suppressed a smile and replied: "Yes, miss. Locke was exiled to Morente City by his family, but he received a letter from his family last year that now he is the only one left in the direct line of the Norton family. The family inherits the territory and title. Many of us here are his friends in Morente City, who were accepted as family knights by him and ordered to escort the convoy northward. May I ask who is the lady? Does it have anything to do with the Norton family?"
"What did you say? Little Locke is the only one left in the Norton family? Then what happened to Abelide and Novisk?" Chrisya asked eagerly, but she immediately realized her abruptness: "I'm sorry, I'm Norton Chrisia. I'm Lorist's cousin. My father is Locke's second uncle. He used to be the deputy head of the Imperial Royal Guard Knights."
"Salute to you..." Shredder and all the people in the big tent gave a knightly salute to Chrisya.
"You should be talking about the young master and the third young master, right?" Shredder said, "The thing is like this..."
Shredder told what he knew about the situation of the Norton family. Chrisya cried bitterly, and the Second Highness stepped forward to hug her to comfort her.
"I thought it was already very painful for our family to lose their father, but the family's situation is even more miserable..." Chrisya said with a sob.
"Miss Chrisia, please be sorry. Please believe that the Norton family will go down the road of prosperity under the leadership of Locke. Our convoy is the foundation of the revival of the Norton family, so I cannot agree to His Highness's request, because I have to Ensure the safe arrival of materials and personnel to the Northland," said Schrader.
"Then you should agree to the request of the Second Highness. Those lords are against him. With the force of your convoy, you can easily eliminate them, break their manor castles, and get their material reserves, so that more materials can be transported." Go back to the Northland. I have been to the family territory, it is very remote and lacks everything. So the more supplies you bring back, the more help the family will be." Chrisya said.
"If you are willing to help me, I will immediately promote the title of the Norton family to earl when I take over the imperial capital." His Highness made a timely promise: "And I will not take your food and supplies for nothing. It can be exchanged with you. I think the standard weapons and equipment of the disbanded White Lion Legion are enough to repay the food and supplies you lent me and reward you for your help. If the Norton family gets this batch of weapons and equipment, I believe they will A lot to do."
Shredder hesitated, he couldn't say a word of rejection. If it's just the promotion of the title, it doesn't matter, but adding the standard equipment of the White Lion Legion is different. The White Lion Legion, the famous main force of the former Krissen Empire, its weapons, armor and other equipment are all carefully crafted by the skilled craftsmen of the empire. Whether it is the attack power of the weapons or the defense power of the armor, the quality is higher than that of similar products First, the iron armor I was wearing was nothing compared to the standard armor of the White Lions. More importantly, the number of the White Lion Army is 89,000 people, divided into four regiments, with all the equipment and reserves, that is 100,000 sets of weapons and equipment.
If you can get the 100,000 sets of weapons and equipment from the White Lions, then the Norton family will not need to worry about weapons and equipment within ten years. As long as a corps is formed, it will be easy to sweep the Northland. Now, the Norton family can safely develop production in the Northland, farm and recuperate, sit and watch the wind and clouds turbulent, laughing proudly at the world.
The Second Highness was also helpless. Back then, the Kingdom of Antinac was unable to maintain the White Lion Army and was forced to disband it. They left but kept the weapons and equipment. However, the successive years of civil wars have consumed a lot. There are not more than 100,000 sets as Schrader imagined, and there are still more than 70,000 sets that are intact and scrapped. Originally, Antinak I, the third prince, wanted to sell this batch of equipment at a high price in exchange for much-needed funds, food and supplies for the kingdom, and stabilize the situation in the kingdom. One-tenth of the cost price cannot be sold. The third prince refused to sell it at a low price, so in a fit of anger, he cut off the business relationship with the Ford Business Alliance.
The Ford Business Alliance is also angry. For more than a hundred years, the Krissen Empire has repeatedly invaded the Faliqiu Plain. offense! We are willing to buy the weapons and equipment of the White Lion Legion at a scrap price, which is very generous. The original decision was to return all these weapons and equipment to the furnace, cast a commemorative statue to celebrate our splitting of the Krissen Empire, and put the logo of the White Lion Legion Casting at the bottom means we won in the end. Do you still think the price is low? Do not sell? Well, then you don't sell anything, and you don't need to buy anything.
Without commercial circulation, the originally prosperous imperial capital became more and more withered, and the people were in dire straits, and the trade control of the Andinak Kingdom by the Ford Business Alliance also caused complaints from the lords of the kingdom. idea of military supplies.
Now the Second Highness has no choice but to pay enough price and attractive conditions for the Norton family's northbound convoy to help him. After thinking about it, there are only two ways. One is to seal the territory, which is to promote the title of the Norton family and then divide a piece of hereditary title in the kingdom. This is something His Highness is very displeased with. The territory of the Kingdom of Antinac is only the three provinces of the former empire, with few lands and many lords. There are already more than one hundred nobles in the territory, and even the royal family's territory has been completely divided up. The Second Highness's idea is to eliminate those who take the lead in making trouble, and leave the honest and loyal ones, and then integrate the kingdom to focus on development, embark on the road to prosperity, and lay the foundation for the revival of the Krissen Empire.
If the Norton family canonize the hereditary title of title, it is equivalent to driving away a pack of wolves and adding a tiger. With the behavior of this northbound convoy, it is hard for the Second Highness to believe that the Norton family will obey him, so this Don't bother. The second is to use the weapons and equipment of the White Lion Legion. From the escort soldiers of the Norton family convoy, it can be seen that they pay great attention to the protection of the family's armed forces. Even these ordinary soldiers wear iron armor. I believe the standard of the White Lion Legion Equipment will be very tempting to them.
His Highness was right, even if Shreide could control himself and not have any thoughts about the standard equipment of the White Lions, there were three heavyweight figures in the big tent who had been staring at Shreide eagerly. They were Bodfinger, Rod Wells and Mons Malek. The three of them were all from the White Lion Legion, and they were all civilian officers. Although the Second Highness had met them, he could no longer remember them. Hearing that the Second Highness was willing to give out the standard equipment of the White Lion Army in exchange for the help of the convoy, the three of them were overjoyed, but they couldn't show it. They kept looking at Shi Ruide with hopeful eyes, hoping that he would agree to the request of the Second Highness.
Shredder finally nodded.
The result of the negotiation was that the convoy used 100,000 Jinford in cash plus helping His Highness form an army of 20,000 people and provided all food, supplies, weapons and equipment, and dispatched the armed forces of the Norton family to escort the convoy to help wipe out all rebellious territorial nobles. All materials seized during the period will be divided equally between the two parties. Until the Second Highness takes over. The Second Highness promised to promote him to the title of the Norton family and make him an earl when he takes over the position, and the territory will still be the original family territory of the Northland. Then, all the standard equipment of the White Lion Legion will be handed over to the convoy. The Second Highness guarantees that this batch of equipment will not be less than 70,000 sets, and all the excess will be given to the convoy free of charge.
This agreement seems to be a disadvantage for the team. It is equivalent to the empty promise of the Second Highness, but the team is going to fight desperately. However, Schrader signed the agreement because he was concerned about Chrisya's face, and secondly, he had his own ideas and would not hurt the team at all. The third is to think that it is possible to make friends with the Second Highness, so that the power of the Norton family can extend to the Kingdom of Antinac, so that the caravan organized by the Norton family in the future can travel from the Kingdom of Antinac to the territory of Viscount Tim of the Kingdom of Ridleys. The lines are unimpeded.
Shredder's idea is very simple. The field scouting battles will be handed over to the escorts of the family convoy. The armored cavalry of the Norton family can crush all resisting enemies, and they can also use this to train troops. In the siege battle with the most casualties, a death camp composed of captives was driven, and the family's long-range troops assisted in the siege. In this way, the casualties for the family's northbound convoy were slight, and the seized supplies could supplement the consumption of the convoy, so why not do it
After more than two months of fighting, the convoy swept across the Hans Demos and Central Provinces of the Antinac Kingdom. Shredder hanged forty-eight nobles and forced thirty-five nobles to bow their knees and swear allegiance in front of the Second Highness. , earning himself the title of a Demon Shredder. He also used the young and strong among the captives and refugees to form an army of 20,000 people for the Second Highness, and successfully captured the former imperial capital, making His Highness helplessly step down and handing over the power of state affairs to the Second Highness.
His Royal Highness kept his promise, and handed over all the 73,645 sets of equipment of the White Lion Army that had been sealed up to the convoy, and handed over to the convoy the documents bearing the royal seal of Christen to be promoted to Baron Norton as Earl. Shredder. At the same time, he expressed his hope that several members of the team can create a great cause together with him and strive for the revival of the Krissen Empire.
Shredder and the others rejected the Second Highness's offer without hesitation, but the Second Highness just smiled and didn't care. However, when Shredder and the others said that the convoy would not stay any longer and was about to embark on the northbound road, the Second Highness said that he would like to ask the convoy one thing, that is, the convoy will go to the last province of Antignac, Verbasia Province, this The nobles in the provinces are the backbone of the lord alliance, and they are also places where the Second Highness has been unable to intervene. The Second Highness had a beautiful idea. He hoped that when the convoy passed by, it would clean up those rebellious lords like the first two provinces.
Shredder shook his head and said, "Sorry, Your Highness, our convoy has been delayed for a long time, and we must go to the Northland immediately. As long as those lords do not hinder the convoy's schedule, the convoy will not attack them."
His Royal Highness smiled and said, "That province has a lot of food..."
The two sides parted amicably, and Chrisya also wrote several trust shredders to Lorist.
The convoy continued northward, and soon Shredder and everyone felt that something was wrong. When the convoy arrived in Verbasia Province, nearly 100,000 refugees followed behind the convoy...
After inquiring clearly, Shrede realized that he had been fooled. The Antinac Kingdom had a small land and a large population, insufficient food for self-sufficiency, and refugees everywhere. I don't know when, rumors spread in the Kingdom that if you follow the convoy, you will be able to live and work in peace and contentment when you arrive in the Northland. All the refugees who heard the rumors followed the convoy.
Shi Ruide was in a rage and wrote a letter to question the Second Highness. His Highness's reply letter was very simple: "There are about 300,000 to 400,000 refugees in the Kingdom of Antinac. Thanks to the convoy's cleanup of the first two provinces, a large amount of land has been vacated, but His Highness has tried his best. After settling down more than 100,000 of them, there is nothing he can do for the rest who are willing to go with the convoy. However, if the convoy can clean up the province of Verbasya, he may be able to settle another 100,000 refugees... "
Everyone's scalps are numb, thinking that there are hundreds of thousands of refugees who continue to come, so what's the matter? It's frightening. If it's reasonable, then the 50,000 to 60,000 people in the convoy's reserves may not be able to support even a single month of food for three months. The only way is to attack the manor castles of those lords, rob food and supplies to feed the refugees behind, and assist the Second Highness to settle the refugees.
This is why Shredder felt very upset when he felt that he had fallen into a pit and had to follow other people's arrangements.