The bright silver moon is as big as a copper basin, hanging above the dark blue sky, scattering the silver moonlight to the world...
It was already very late at night. Standing on the high roof of the Rock Castle, overlooking the quiet valley and the sleeping city in the distance, Lorist only felt refreshed, and his restless mood gradually faded with the night wind. calm down.
It's been seven years, time flies so fast, when I organized a motorcade from Chenxi Academy to go north, I never dreamed that today would happen. Thanks to the efforts of myself and my companions, the remote family territory has undergone earth-shaking changes. The former wilderness is now becoming a hopeful paradise on earth.
Lorist couldn't remember how many ups and downs he had experienced along the way, but he found that the enemy he faced was getting stronger and stronger. Last time, the second prince was just a useless king with silver guns. The so-called 100,000 troops were wiped out in one battle. Even the second prince himself was revenged for sending a great swordsman to assassinate him. After breaking through the royal city, he became a prisoner, and was sent to the Kingdom of Antinac to be executed by His Highness the Second Highness.
Now what I am facing is a complete kingdom. Although this kingdom was established by pirates, it has become an independent slavery kingdom after nearly a hundred years of development. They have their own army and countless vicious captors. Slave squads, the integration of these slave hunting squads is also an armed force that cannot be underestimated.
Lorist has read the confessions of those captives, especially the interrogation records of the crucified great swordsman. The great swordsman said that the attack on Hilovas Island almost integrated all the kingdoms of Haneyabad. The strength of the big slave owners and slave traders, they sent about 80 slave hunting teams, the minimum number was dozens, and the maximum number was five or six hundred, with a total force of more than 24,000 people and nearly Five hundred...
I don’t know where I heard the news that Hilovas Island recruited 50,000 to 60,000 refugees to carry out large-scale development and construction. The big slave owners and slave traders of the Kingdom of Haneyabada took the idea of this group of refugees. The people under his command pretended to be smugglers and came to the island to investigate, and they joined forces when they found out that the situation was true.
It’s just that they underestimated the island’s defense force. After they occupied the entire island, they found that they had lost more than 80 ships and nearly 10,000 troops. Some slave traders were regretting that the price paid for this operation was too high. Very uneconomical. Although so many slaves were captured, not many were distributed to each family. But the lost slave hunting team was an elite armed force in the hands of their masters.
Like this captured great swordsman, his master, Duke Guffman, is a well-known slave owner in the Kingdom of Haneyabada. This time he sent five slave hunting teams of nearly 2,000 people, but they met at sea. During the interception and fighting, two ships were burned, and after landing, two slave-catching teams rushing ahead were wiped out, leaving only more than a thousand people.
After occupying Hilovas Island, they counted, and they only got more than 4,000 slaves. Compared with the losses they paid, this number is not worth the loss. That's why the great swordsman decided to send the slaves away first, and stay with the slave hunting team for a few more days to hunt down the residents who fled in the mountains and forests. Then came Bodfinger's reinforcements, and none of them could go back...
"My lord..." Schwader called softly from behind.
Lorist didn't turn around either: "Have you finished evening class?"
"Yes, my lord."
"Well, you go to rest first, don't worry about me. The three allies will come over tomorrow, but I don't know if Baron Felim will bring his precious daughter this time? If so, I will let you go." Three days off, let you take your fiancee to go shopping... "
"My lord!" Schwader was thin-skinned and a little shy
"Hehe..." Lorist laughed, "By the way, ask the kitchen to get me something to eat, then go to the study and bring me a bottle of wine, and then you can go to sleep."
"Yes, my lord."
Shi Huade moved very quickly, and after a while, he brought two servants to set up the tables, chairs, wine and dishes on the rooftop. Probably in retaliation for Lorist's teasing, this kid asked the kitchen to serve a big smoked goose...
The moonlight was beautiful tonight, and now Lorist became interested. He wanted to drink some wine with some side dishes. This big whole smoked goose was a bit of a sight to put on the table. Holding the smoked goose, his mouth was full of oil. Coupled with the fruit wine singing against the moon, this scene is incongruous no matter how you think about it...
"This brat..." Lorist muttered, without touching the smoked goose, he poured a glass of fruit wine in his hand, stood on the edge of the roof and looked at the distant scenery, drinking slowly while thinking about it. Recall the material on the kingdom of Haneyabada.
The Haneyabad Islands are located in the southwest of Hilovas Island. It takes eleven days to arrive at the speed of a medium-sized armed merchant ship. If it is the Flying Fish of Dawn, it will take about seven or eight days.
The appearance of the Haneiya Bada Islands on the map resembles an octopus with teeth and claws, and the name Haneya Bada was originally the name of an octopus demon god who liked to make waves in the sea in ancient mythology. According to legend, the octopus demon god once Stealing a precious ornament from the Blood Moon Goddess Sufina, the result angered the Blood Moon Goddess, taking advantage of a time when the Octopus Demon God was out of the sea to breathe, she summoned her husband, the Sun God, the God of Light and the God of War The great god Sigva, who is full of priesthood, and his sister, the silver moon goddess Daphne, cast spells together to turn this octopus demon who dared to steal the goddess' ornaments into this octopus-shaped archipelago...
This myth and legend tells people a very profound truth, a woman in a rage is unreasonable, so don't provoke a woman if you provoke anyone, you can only coax a woman and not make them angry, otherwise no one can guess the consequences . Just like that octopus demon might have thought that he would fight the Blood Moon Goddess for 300 rounds for this accessory, but he didn't expect that she would directly bring in foreign aid and turn himself into an archipelago...
The Haneyabad Islands, far away from the Galintia mainland, have always been regarded as alien lands, remote, desolate, and with few specialties. It wasn't until the pirates established their country here and vigorously developed the slave trade that the people on the Galintia continent gradually changed their view of the Haneyabad Islands as a barren land.
If the area of the Haneyabada Islands is added up, it is larger than the territory of the Norton family. It's just that half of the area of the Haneyabada Islands is long and narrow islands, which indeed look like octopus tentacles from the map.
The Kingdom of Haneyabada, which has been established for more than 80 years, has a total population of more than 500,000, but slaves account for more than 400,000 of the population of more than 500,000. It's not that they were punished for doing too many wicked things. It took so many years for their descendants to multiply to more than 100,000.
There are also geniuses in the wilderness, and in Lorist's view, the second king of the Kingdom of Haneyabada is such a genius. Originally, the kingdom established by the pirates was an election system, and everyone had the final say on who would be the king, but the second king successfully changed it to a hereditary system, making his family firmly dominate this position.
After the king was elected to power by the pirates, he changed the habit of the pirates living by plundering, and enfeoffed the long and narrow islands around the main island to the pirate chiefs under him as fiefdoms, and gave them slaves to live on these islands. Opening up wasteland and farming, recruiting ordinary pirates to form the royal army, so that ordinary pirates can also live a life without worrying about food and clothing. He also declared that he would no longer plunder the coastal countries along the Gold Coast, eased relations, opened up trade routes, and vigorously developed the slave trade, and finally made this jokingly established kingdom begin to develop steadily.
Being a citizen of the Kingdom of Haneyabad is happiness, but this happiness is built on the blood and tears of the slaves. They were born with no worries about food and clothing, which was the high welfare left by the second king to the descendants of the pirates. But if they want to live a good life, they must either serve the king as soldiers, or learn their skills.
The Kingdom of Haneyabada has two standing forces, one is the royal guard with 28,000 people, and the other is the royal patrol fleet with 24 large and medium-sized armed merchant ships. Both of these forces are directly under the royal family and are under the direct command of the king. And those nobles of the Kingdom of Haneyabada are all great slave owners, and the private armaments in their hands are basically descendants of the pirates under the pirate chiefs of their ancestors. It is composed of those desperadoes, deserters, mercenaries and criminals recruited by the subcontinent.
The kingdom of Haneyabada has two big cities, one is the royal city of Hamidas in the center of the interior of the main island, and the other is the port city of Nubit, which is known as the largest slave trading market in Galintia.
Although they all have their own residences in the royal city of Hamidas, the nobles of the Kingdom of Haneyabad are more accustomed to living in Nubit Port, which is their paradise. Here they drove the slaves to build luxurious and luxurious houses, and enjoyed a life of debauchery on the bones of the numerous slaves.
As a seaport city, Nubit Port can not only purchase special products and fashion items from all over the Galintia continent. It is also more convenient for the great slave owner of the Kingdom of Haneyabad to command his slave traders and slave catchers to sail to the impoverished or war-torn areas of the Galintia continent, and to send back to the Kingdom of Haneyabad a steady stream of the slave...
Lorist has strong confidence in the combat power of his family's armed forces, and it is difficult to find an elite combat force that can stand shoulder to shoulder with him in the Galintia continent. This time, Lorist is going to take Bodfinger's two heavy armored regiments, the One-wheeled Steel Crossbow Corps, Yuri's scout battalion, and Ovekis' Thunderbolt Stone Carriage Battalion, and then bring two guard brigades. A total of more than 37,000 people. I believe that as long as these 37,000 soldiers and horses land on the Haneyabad Islands, not to mention the destruction of the Haneyabad Kingdom, they will sweep the entire territory of the kingdom and hang those black-hearted slave owners and slave traders on the gallows. owned…
What Lorist was worried about now was that he hadn't fully grasped how to get these 37,000 troops to land on the main island without alerting the enemy. Judging from the map, the bay of the Haneyabad Islands is also long, which means that Nubit Harbor is shrunk in the innermost part of the bay, and there are several long and narrow islands outside the bay, which become the natural natural beauty of Nubit Harbor. perimeter barrier.
If there are no people on these islands, then nothing will happen. Lorist can blockade the small islands outside and shut down the ships in Nubit Harbor, but these islands are the fiefdoms of several big slave owners. There are many slaves working on it. If they find out that Lorist is coming with a fleet, then as long as these slaves light a bonfire and ignite a smoke, they can pass the news to Nubit Port, and those pirate ships will swarm out , that would be great fun.
At present, the best way is to transfer the expedition troops to Hilovas Island first, and make preparations for the expedition to set sail, and wait for El and Tagle to transmit the information of the Kingdom of Haneyabada, which will be helpful for the defense there. Once you have an accurate understanding, you can go out. After getting the big troops ashore, I can teach them how to be a good person in the next life.
Lorist's mouth curled into a sinister smile, he would never let go of those big slave owners and slave traders who attacked Xilovas Island, especially those slave hunting teams. They have done too many evil things and deserve retribution. It's not that we don't report, it's not time yet. Now that I have made up my mind to go to the Kingdom of Haneyabad, their retribution will come...
I hope El and Tagle can find out the whereabouts of family knights such as Fatty Shi and Jim, and also hope that they will not be in danger. Even if they are slaves, they will survive for another two months before they can go to rescue them.
Alas... Lorist let out a long sigh, raised his hand and poured all the golden wine in the glass into his mouth. He has kept the news of Fatty Shi's arrest from his family so far so as not to worry them. Lorist turned and looked towards the hillside on the left side of the castle. There were twelve sets of large villas built on the upper two floors. They were the residences of the family's senior managers and leading knights in the Rock Castle. Lorist remembered it clearly. The first one is Fatty Shi's home. Some time ago, Fatty Shi's father came to see his precious grandson, and he is still reluctant to leave. Alas...how could I want to tell them the bad news...
A flash of sword light entered Lorist's eyes, and Lorist's eyes were fixed. Such a sword shadow is already at the level of a first-class sword master. How could it appear in the back garden of Fatty Shi's house, especially this late at night? time...
Could it be that Fatty Shi was recognized by those slave owners, and in order to coerce Fatty Shi to work for them, he sent people to sneak into the Rock Castle to hijack his family... A bad premonition came to his mind, Lorist didn't bother to go up the stairs, He jumped up directly from the roof, followed the outer wall of the castle like a monkey, quickly climbed down, and sprinted towards Fatty Shi's house on the other side of the hill.
It seems to be normal, there is no movement in the room, what reaches Lorist's ears is the normal soft snoring sound, and occasionally I can hear the teeth grinding and whispering of Fatty Shi's precious son...
Lorist quietly disappeared towards the back garden, like a black shadow that silently merged into the mottled tree shadows under the moonlight...
The sword shadow flashing in the back garden is just a person practicing sword. The sword shadow is agile, and the sword energy is contained but not exposed. But the fresh flowers continued to reveal their fragrance unconsciously, as if those sword shadows dancing among the delicate petals were just phantoms...
The sword practitioner's control, accuracy and stability are really amazing, and these are exactly the differences between the great swordsman and the golden swordsman.
Lorist walked out of the shade.
The sword practitioner suddenly became alert, held the sword as a guard, and shouted in a low voice: "Who is it?"
"It's me." Lorist said flatly.
"Uh... my lord..." The sword trainer trembled for a moment, and quickly put away the sword.
"Follow me." Lorist said, turned around and left.
"Woo..." The sword practitioner let out a sigh of annoyance. The moonlight was so beautiful tonight, and he suddenly became interested in practicing swords. Unexpectedly, the lord came back. Practicing swords is watched by adults, and my own realm must not be hidden from the eyes of adults. It's over, except for the inevitable suffering, I will not have a carefree life in the future, I will no longer be able to play with my lovely grandson, and I will be forced to run around exhausted by adults...
At this moment, Lorist is also scolding his mother in his heart, oh my god! This is really unreasonable! I never thought that the coward, the fear of death, the shameless old man who sacrificed his granddaughter just to survive, and the gold three-star swordsman Injerek who was forced by him to sign a ten-year slave agreement, would be quietly promoted to Great swordsman, what kind of shit luck is this paralyzed!
This swordsman is Yingjerek. When Lorist organized the convoy to go northward, he clashed with the local local sergeant Slov slave hunters in the port of Ametlin in the Principality of Rulm. Lorist fought alone. He even killed two gold swordsmen from the slave hunting group. As a three-star gold swordsman, Injerek not only failed to come up, but turned around and ran away. In the end, Lorist caught up with him and took away all his battle qi cheats and private money. Forced him to offer up his precious granddaughter, and signed an agreement to be a slave for ten years before letting him go.
At that time, Fatty Shi was injured by the old man Injerek, and he was bandaged like a rice dumpling. Lorist caught him and assigned the old man's granddaughter to Fatty Shi as a maid. Unexpectedly, the two saw the right eye and became a couple. For Fatty Shi's sake, Lorist did not do anything to the old man.
Later, Lorist returned from the family territory to pick up the northbound convoy, and rewarded those who made great contributions in the convoy camp outside the city of Nadgas in the Kingdom of Antinac. He originally wanted to promote the old man to become the golden knight of the family, but unexpectedly The old man refused, saying that he just needs to be with his granddaughter. At that time, Fatty Shi made his precious granddaughter pregnant, and vowed to marry her as soon as he returned to the family territory...
Lorist only felt that the old man had lived for too long and experienced too much without ambition and only wanted to live a stable life, so he didn't take it seriously, so he simply let him go and spend his old age with his granddaughter peacefully. I gave myself a surprise, and now I am promoted to the family's first great swordsman.
This time Lorist will definitely not let the old man go, he must squeeze the old man dry, anyway, when the old man sees Lorist, he will tremble from the inside out like a mouse seeing a cat. What Lorist wondered most was, how did the old man get promoted to be a great swordsman just because of his uselessness
Back on the roof of the castle, Lorist sat on a chair in a grandiose manner, poured a glass of wine to taste, and let Injerek stand obediently in front of him.
"Tell me, when did you become a great swordsman?"
"Big, my lord, it's been more than a year, more..." The old man began to be afraid again.
"Why didn't you tell me..." Lorist asked lazily.
"My lord, you...you are not here..." the old man trembled when he spoke.
Uh... Lorist himself can't remember clearly, anyway, he is always running around, let the old man admit it for now. But he was still very depressed: "I said why are you shaking, am I so scary, and I won't eat you, and besides, you are also a great swordsman."
"No, sir, I can't say why, anyway, I'm scared when I see you."
"Forget it, Injerek, there is no need to talk nonsense, since you are now a great swordsman, you should help the family." Lorist said.
"My lord, please let me go, I'm already so old." The old man begged for mercy.
"Get out! Don't think that I don't know that being promoted to the great swordsman is equivalent to thirty years of life span. You are now comparable to a strong man. The current situation facing the family is very serious. I am dissatisfied with you. I will give you some time Take people to the kingdom of Haneyabada, because those sons of bitch slave traders attacked our family's Shilovas Island territory, and your precious grandson-in-law was also captured by them... "
"My lord, what did you say?" Now it was the old man's turn to be shocked, and he stopped trembling and frightened.
"That's why I said that I will go to Haneyabada Kingdom for a while, and I will rescue Fatty Shi. Old man, you can also help me, and take a boat to the Sad Ocean after a while to requisition a batch of sea ships for me. , we still lack ships to transport people and horses.”
It is related to the happiness of his precious granddaughter, so the old man no longer pushes back and forth: "Okay, my lord, I promise to requisition enough ships."
"Okay, you go back first, keep the matter of Fatty Shi a secret, don't tell his wife. I will notify you when the time comes." Lorist said.
"Yes, my lord," the old man turned around and left. When he got to the stairs, he remembered and turned around and asked, "By the way, my lord, how many ships do we need to commandeer to be enough?"
"Well, let's requisition more than a hundred ships first, if there is not enough, we have to make up..." Lorist replied.
"What, you want so much?" The old man was taken aback for a moment, and then he stepped on the ground and rolled directly to the bottom.
Lorist shook his head, and muttered: "With this psychological quality, I really don't understand how he was promoted to be a great swordsman..."
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