The village of Farama is situated on a mound with a small river below it. When Lorist arrived with more than a hundred people, the residents of Farama Village were already on standby.
Pat rode forward on a mule he found in White Bird Town and shouted, "Open the door, the lord of Hirovas Island, Lord Norton is coming, come out and greet him!"
No one in the village paid any attention to him. Pat called out three times, and finally a big man's head appeared on the wall of the village. The big man held a longbow in his hand and shouted: "This is Farama Village, we are the Second Highness People, we are not your lord's territory here. Get out of here, or I will let you taste the power of our longbow... "
Pat was so angry that he couldn't have ridden the mule single-handedly into the closed gate. He rode back on the mule resentfully, and reported the reply from the village of Farama to Lorist who was waiting under the mound.
Lorist was sitting in a luxuriously decorated carriage, which was one of the trophies from the capture of Wanghai Manor yesterday. The entire Wanghai Manor has only three carriages and six horses, one for passengers and two for cargo. Now, except for the two pack horses that pulled the carriage that Lorist was riding in, the other four horses had temporarily become the mounts of Farea Josk and the others.
"My lord, why don't we go straight in?" Farea said.
Lorist shook his head. This Farama village is not Wanghai Manor. I heard Sickled introduce it in detail yesterday. The small village here was originally called Xiaohe Village, which was located beside the small river under the mound. After the Second Highness was ordered to return to the princedom of Hilovas Island, the only construction started was this village of Farama.
Back then, most of those who followed the Second Highness to Hilovas Island were his cronies. They also brought their family members. There were more than 4,000 people in total. A serious injury and they want to settle down. So His Royal Highness moved the villagers of Xiaohe Village to another place, and ordered one of his staff, who was proficient in architecture, named Farama, to build a shelter for these soldiers who had made great achievements.
Facts have proved that entrusting this matter to this aide named Farama is actually overkill. This Farama was still thinking about the fortress castle. He first abandoned the original site of Xiaohe Village, thinking that it was not safe and well protected, and then moved the newly built village to the mound, preparing to build the village on the scale of building a fortress castle.
If the Second Highness hadn't visited the construction site on a whim, he would never have discovered that what Farama was going to build was a small fortress castle, which would take four years to complete according to calculations. The Second Highness was half-dead from anger, and grabbed Farama and asked who was building a fortress here to defend? Immediately removed Farama from his staff.
Farama left Shilovas Island, but the construction site has already started. Based on the principle of not wasting, His Highness pinched his nose and approved the original design of the fortress castle, but a lot of deletions were made during the construction, such as the stone quality of the village. The city wall was changed to a wall of logs and mud bricks. Later, the village was finally completed, and everyone asked His Highness the Second Highness to give it a name. The Second Highness said, since this is the design of Farama, it should be called Farama Village.
As a result, Farama Village became the place where the Second Highness placed his subordinates, and the surrounding plains were included in the scope of the village and fully developed. This is the most suitable place for farming on Hilovas Island, with a total of more than 6,000 acres of fields. After the Second Highness left Hilovas Island and returned to the royal capital to take power, there were more than 1,300 people from more than 400 households who stayed in the village of Farama and did not want to leave. They still occupy the fields here, and they still refuse to pay taxes. .
Hickerd told Lorist that there are more than 300 veterans in the village of Farama at present, most of them have seen blood and killed people in battle, and they are veterans who have lived and died in the imperial civil war for a long time. Basically, they have awakened their fighting spirit Among them, there are hundreds of people with the strength of the silver rank. If they were all in their forties or fifties when they were older, and their physical condition began to decline, the Second Highness would not be willing to let them retire from the army and return to the fields.
Lorist took a look at the people he brought, Jose Cfarea, the two Golden Knights, El, and Pat. Jim and Dolles, four silver knights, ten black iron rank guards, sixteen sailors who disembarked, a small team is in Wanghai Manor, there are only six sailors here, five bronze and one black iron, and there is a bronze beside him. Stewart of the order. Fatty Shi didn't come, he summoned Papa Hugo Sickled at the town hall and they were busy studying how to develop this new territory.
Following him to the village of Farama was a hundred members of the White Bird Town Guard led by the lame Victor, dressed in civilian clothes and holding spears. Taking them to attack the village of Farama is just a dream.
Lorist has no doubts that he can lead Josk and the others to attack to win the victory, but this victory must not be very pleasant. Apart from the massacre and bloodshed, he is afraid that these guards and sailors under him will suffer terribly. Lorist didn't want to lose his own manpower in such a battle. Anyway, if he had time, he just played with these rebellious Farama villagers and taught Schwader a lesson in tactics.
He waved at Victor, and the lame garrison captain limped over.
"Victor, does the water source of Farama Village depend on this small river below?" Lorist asked.
"Yes, my lord." Victor replied.
"Tell me about the specific situation."
"My lord, you can't cut off the water source. The village of Farama was built according to the fortress castle. One is that the small river under the mound is close to the village, and it is within the range of their bows and arrows. The other is that there is a well connected to the village. To the river below, there is a reservoir next to it, so it is impossible to prevent them from taking water from the creek." Lorist asked about the water source of the village of Farama, and Victor knew what the lord's plan was. After all, he is also an officer of the Storm Legion, one of the three main armies of the former empire, and he still has some knowledge.
Lorist smiled: "Shward, ride back to White Bird Town and ask Shredder to issue an announcement to recruit a thousand young men with digging tools. The daily reward is a small silver coin and includes three meals. "
Victor turned pale with shock at the side: "My lord, don't you want to lure a thousand young men to come over and use them as cannon fodder for attacking the village?"
Lorist curled his lips: "I'm not as cruel as you guys. The Norton family has never done such a thing. Order your guards to prepare for the camp. You will know what I want to do when I come tomorrow."
Schwader rode away.
At noon the next day, a long group of young and strong people rushed over under the leadership of Fatty Shi and Papa Hugo. For the residents of Bainiao Town, a small silver coin a day is a good reward. If so, there are four Jinfords.
"My lord, what do you want to do?" Fatty Shi asked.
"Nu, I'm going to divert the small river under the mound over there, so I'll start digging from there, and then dig a trench 300 meters from the mound as the center, and see what the idiots above will do if they run out of water."
Lorist said it easily, but Victor next to him felt dizzy. After all, the lord's thinking still wanted to cut off the water source of Farama Village, but it was different from what he imagined. Instead, divert the river away from the river. This is a big project, a thousand young and strong laborers, a thousand gold dollars a day, and food will cost at least twenty gold dollars a day. The sky is two hundred pieces. This is too bullying, clearly using Jinford to smash the enemy to the ground...
For the sake of freedom, the villagers of Farama village insisted on their pride even if the water was cut off, and they would not bow to the evil lord who wanted to climb on top of them and oppress them. But ten days later, another thousand armed soldiers in bright armor and Norton family standard equipment came, and they finally despaired.
"My lord, North was ordered to bring a thousand guardsmen to report to you." North stood at attention and saluted Lorist.
The two whale hunting ships each carried 500 soldiers and finally arrived at Hilovas Island. They set off only two days later than Lorist, but ten days later than Chenxi's Flying Fish. North, who led the team, was an old acquaintance. During the first wave of monsters, he was the guard knight of the Beast City. He assisted Lorist to turn the central town of the sixth district into an ice city by watering the city.
This time, Lorist is planning to form the third battalion of guards and the second battalion of sailors on Hilovas Island. The 1,000 Guards Battalion soldiers North brought this time are all veterans drawn from the 2nd Guards Battalion. In two months, the family will send 1,000 new recruits over, and another 1,000 soldiers will be recruited from Hirovas Island. The third battalion of guards is full of young and strong local people.
"Is the road okay?" Lorist asked.
North smiled: "At first I got seasick a lot, but after about ten days, I got used to it. However, when I got off the boat in the morning and landed on the shore, I got down a lot and took two hours of rest before recovering."
"It's normal." Lorist said, "After staying on the boat for a long time, it's always like this on the shore. It feels like the ground is shaking, haha."
"My lord, are you going to attack that village? Do you want us to go up?" North asked.
"It's okay, the grass under the mound is yellow and dry, and they can't last a few days without water. I also don't want the family's armed forces to be damaged so I can play with them, and it will be over soon. You should rest for a few days , and then the safety of Hilovas Island will be entrusted to you."
"Yes, please rest assured, my lord, the Third Battalion of Guards will definitely live up to your expectations." North saluted.
Just as Lorist breathed a sigh of relief at the arrival of North with a thousand guards, the village of Farama was filled with an atmosphere of desperation. One hundred and twenty-eight veterans in their 40s and 50s put on their old leather armor, took up their swords and guns again, and solemnly drank the last pot of home-brewed spirits, and filed towards the gate of the village. The old man with a broken hand and a cane, and their relatives standing on both sides of the road in the village, weeping silently and watching these veterans leave.
These one hundred and twenty-eight veterans are all the silver rank warriors in the village of Farama. They will shout the name of His Royal Highness Ogesello to launch a decisive charge against the Norton family's armed forces. They believe that their death will make the lord Earl Norton felt terror and shock, and aroused the wrath of the Second Highness, thus earning a way for their loved ones to live.
The gate of the village opened, and one hundred and twenty-eight veterans rushed out with a heroic determination to die on the battlefield, uh, that road is a bit far away, Lorist had someone dig a trench three hundred meters away, that is to say, these brave men The old soldiers need to run 300 meters before jumping over the ditch before they can rush into the Norton family's armed formation and satisfy their desire to die in battle. This seemed a little unfair to the veterans with crutches behind.
The movements in Farama Village certainly attracted the attention of the vigilant Norton family, but Lorist was overjoyed when he saw the long swords in the hands of those veterans charging about 100 meters away with white lights on, and quickly ordered: "The soldiers of the family step back a hundred meters, all silver knights and above come here, Josk, you are not allowed to shoot arrows, listen clearly, I want to catch them alive, these old men with silver grudges are the best labor for hard labor and digging rocks , and no one should make a heavy hand, otherwise whoever kills himself will go to the mountains instead of him!"
Everyone laughed. When the family developed the Black Mire Swamp, the two peaks of the Blade's Edge Mountains were flattened. Which silver rank has never been a coolie, and cutting rocks and rocks with a sword is much more efficient than chiseling.
After all, he was getting older, first he ran for 300 meters, and then jumped over a trench two or three meters wide. He was almost half knocked out, and even jumped over the ditch impatiently, and went up tens of meters to disarm those old men who were exhausted and panting with crutches.
There are no tragic scenes of death in battle, all the old men are crowded together like zongzi. Lorist impatiently urged the family soldiers to bring these old men clear water to quench their thirst. These veterans were treasures in Lorist's eyes...
The village of Farama surrendered, flying the universal white flag. All the villagers came out helping the old and the young. The first thing to do was to find water to drink.
After they were filled with water, Lorist announced their punishment to these desperate and helpless villagers: hard labor. Since they did not pay taxes for five years, all men, women and children, old and young, were punished by hard labor for five years. After five years, you will be free, and you can go wherever you like.
A surprised old man couldn't help but asked: "Master, won't you hang us, dismantle our family, and sell our family as slaves?"
Lorist said with a low face: "The Norton family does not have slaves, and they do not engage in slave business. If you make a mistake, the punishment is hard labor. You will be hanged unless your crime is too great or you have hurt someone's life. As long as you feel at ease We won’t break up your family, but you must remember that if you resist laziness, it will also affect your family, and they will suffer with you.”
After finishing the village of Farama, the journey to the imperial capital is approaching. Lorist decided to take 500 guards battalion soldiers to go. Fatty Shi was left on Hilovas Island to take charge of the population registration, the establishment of the camp of the 3rd Battalion of Guards and the water camp of the 2nd Battalion of the future Sailors, and the preliminary development of the construction plan of Hilovas Island.
Lorist originally wanted Jim to be the commander of the 3rd Guards Battalion to be formed, so he should be released after being with him for so long. North was mature and prudent, and transferred to the commander of the second battalion of sailors, recruiting suitable sailors on Hilovas Island. But what I didn't expect was that Pat fell in love, and he was pursuing the beautiful Martha of the White Bird Restaurant who was scared to cry by him, and he didn't want to go to the imperial capital.
Lorist had no choice but to wish him all wishes come true, and return home with the beauty as soon as possible. Here, Jim and Pat were swapped, making Pat the commander of the third battalion of guards to be formed.
…