"My lord, it's still half an hour's journey. There is a creek ahead. After crossing the creek and turning through the woods, you will find the Valley of the Wolf. There is the Barony of Dina. There is a small hill in the middle of the valley, and the castle of the Barony is built. On the hills, connected to a village... "
The guard who was reporting to Lorist was called Kumode, and he and the commander of the guard battalion, El, came here last time.
Lorist nodded: "Let's go, get some delicious food and have a good rest when we get to the barony. In this weather, it will rain if you say it will, and the mountain road is a bit slippery, so be careful."
The weather in July, thundery showers, Lorist encountered a while ago, and it changed quickly, and it went down fast. Most of the guards were drenched like soaked rats before they even took out their rain capes. The poncho and rain are gone, so it's a waste of time.
This is a mountain road. Although the road is very wide, it rained for a while and the ground was muddy, full of yellow mountain mud. The horse's hoof stepped down and brought up a large cloud of mud. Now I can only walk slowly and can no longer gallop. The wheels of the two carriages were also covered with large lumps of yellow mud, which seemed very heavy at once.
The purpose of Lorist's trip was to go to Barony Dina to take those two girls and their young aunt away. The year before last, I went to the Imperial Capital to attend the Paradise Party, met the girl named Dina Aridori, and spent a night with her aunt whose alias was Tracy. I remember that girl said that she liked Lorist very much, and she would go home and wait for Lorist for three years if she no longer participated in the Paradise Fair. If Lorist was willing to marry him, she would marry her with her younger sister.
Last year, Lorist asked El to make a trip for him, and sent him a thousand Gold Ford and a batch of gifts. After El came back, he told Lorist that the girl was very sad when she found out that Lorist was an earl. She and her sister had no titles, so they couldn't marry Lorist. concubine. And this is what the girl didn't want. She originally thought that Lorist was just a knight, so that she and her sister could become the knight's wife. If Lorist was promoted to baron in the future, then their sisters could become baroness...
Lorist is not willing to force the girl, but the situation in the Antinac Kingdom is not very good. The girl's family territory is close to the northwestern region of the Kingdom of Ridleys. Once the Second Highness is defeated, the northwest region of the Kingdom of Ridleys will join the business alliance. The barony was the first to bear the brunt of the misfortune. Lorist did not want the girl and her family to fall into the hands of those mercenary groups of the business alliance. This was something he could not bear.
Turning through the woods, the eyes suddenly opened up. In front of it was a valley that gradually became gentler. At the foot of the mountain was a piece of reclaimed field. Several small streams meandered through the fields. There was a hill in the distance. There is also a small castle on the hill, and next to the castle is a small village surrounded by a log wall, which is the Barony of Dina.
"My lord, it seems that the Barony of Dina is being besieged..." Reddy put down the binoculars beside him and said.
"Huh?" Lorist took the binoculars and took a closer look. Indeed, there was indeed a mess of camps at the foot of the castle in the distance, blocking the front of the castle. The rider on horseback was yelling at the castle. Above the castle... a petite girl appeared in Lorist's binoculars, wearing a brass-colored half-length armor and waving a long sword in her hand. Biao Shuang stood at the top of the wall and was scolded by the few riders below.
"Pfft..." Lorist was delighted. The girl at the head of the city was Aridoli. I really didn't expect this girl to have such a strong side. It was a one-meter-four-long two-handed sword, which looked extraordinarily joyful.
"My lord, it seems to be a territorial war between the nobles. You can see that there are only four to five hundred people in the camp below, and they are all holding farm tools and sticks. Now seeing these things is really like a joke." Reddy Holding a telescope is very sigh.
Lorist looked back, and this time he brought more than two hundred guards, all of whom were light cavalry, and two carriages.
"Reddy, take the guards to untie the siege, break up the camp, and arrest the riders in front. Also, tell everyone not to kill, those are farmers who were forced to fight by the lord Catch the living if you can." Lorist ordered, as for those people in front, he wasn't even interested in doing it.
"Yes, my lord." Reddy responded and gave a few simple orders.
The guards began to dismount to clean up the mud on the horseshoes, arrange their luggage, and when they were ready, they got on their horses and waited for the order to charge.
Reddy waved his hand, and the guards began to ride their horses forward. The distance was still far away, and there was no need to charge immediately, otherwise even if they rushed to the camp, the mounts under them would not have much strength. Following the command of the two squadron leaders as the team marched, the two hundred guards had already been divided into four cavalry teams of fifty men. Seeing that they were only three hundred meters away from the camp, Reddy appeared at the front, and the "driver" With a sound, the horse started to gallop.
The people in the camp had already spotted the attacking light cavalry, and the girl and several guards above the castle also had expressions of astonishment on their faces. Start yelling.
It's a pity that the camp was built so crudely that no trenches were dug, just like in slow motion. When Reddy clamped his horse's belly, his mount jumped into the air and jumped over the one-meter-high wooden fence. He waved, didn't cut, but slapped the big man in front of him who was watching the cavalry rushing towards him with the blade of the sword. The big man flew more than three meters away, and lay down on the ground and passed out. He had to thank Reddy, if Reddy hadn't slapped him away with soft strength, he might have died when he was hit by a galloping horse.
When the cavalry rushed into the camp, the small-scale raid ended. The few riders at the head didn't make Reddy work hard. Basically, they all fell to the ground with one sword. What Reddy took was heavy. The sword, although it looks like a one-handed sword, is twice as heavy as a two-handed sword, which means that he has a whole body of strange strength, and can make such a heavy sword as light as an embroidery needle.
As soon as a few riders fell down, the farmers in the camp surrendered, and a dozen guys in leather armor and holding swords and shields looked at the situation in front of them and immediately dropped their weapons, holding their hands high. Obey the orders of the guards very honestly.
The girl above the castle suddenly cheered. She should have recognized from the standard armor on the guards that they were friends rather than enemies. El had been here once last year, so the girl probably recognized that this kind of armor was the standard equipment of the Norton family. up. Sure enough, the girl quickly disappeared above the castle, probably to open the gate of the castle and prepare to lower the drawbridge.
When Lorist arrived at the camp with ten guards and two four-wheeled carriages, the girl had already put down the drawbridge in front of the castle and came out with five or six armed guards, who were riding with the guards. The captive Reddy speaks.
A prisoner lying on the ground yelled something despicable, sneak attack, undeclared war, no knightly honor, etc. Before Reddy could speak, the girl pointed at him and scolded something, and the guards behind her rushed forward , began to use fists and feet to let the knight master on the ground know what the honor of a knight is, and even the girl sneaked up and kicked a few times...
Lorist's face was covered with sweat, he really didn't expect the girl who was so delicate in his arms in the past to have such a boyish look. He rode his horse up to him, jumped off the horse, and showed a hearty smile to the girl: "Hey, should I call you Daisy or Aridori?"
The girl was stunned, watching Lorist's eyes slowly turn red, she threw away the two-handed sword she was dragging in her hand, and then rushed over and hammered Lorist's chest non-stop: "You just now Remember to come and see us, you scoundrel…”
Lorist smiled and grabbed her little fist: "I'm sorry, I'm really busy and I can't spare time, so I only asked my subordinates to come over to see you last year. This year, I only have time now. This isn't right away. Are you here yet?"
The girl remembered something, and her mouth pouted: "You lied to me, you said you were a knight, and your subordinates have already told me that you are an earl, so why are you here..."
"There was a silly girl who said she would wait for me for three years. I couldn't rest assured, so I came here to take her away." Lorist stroked the girl's long brown hair.
"Hmph," the girl shook her head arrogantly, avoiding Lorist's hand touching her hair: "You are a distinguished Earl, and we are just the Baron's sisters. In your eyes, we are just like those village girls. Almost, it is impossible for you that Mingmei is marrying our sisters, why take us away? Let our sisters be your concubines? I will not agree... "
Lorist just smiled and looked at her: "Okay, stop making trouble, let's deal with the messy situation in front of you first, what's going on with you? Who are they? Why did they attack your castle?" ?”
It soon became clear that Baron Dina's territory actually only occupied half of the valley, and the other half was the territory of an old man lying on the ground, Baron Andrew. The Second Highness sent troops to the Kingdom of Ridleys, and the two sons of Baron Andrew joined the Second Highness. The eldest son Pricht, the one who deserved a beating, participated in the Second Royal Highness's surprise attack on King Federica's city. He survived the Daxue Mountain crossing the Yunduan Mountain Range, but he was frozen to the point where only half his life remained . After occupying the royal city, His Royal Highness formally appointed these noble children who had made great achievements with him as royal knights.
Later, the soldiers in the province of Campona surrendered to His Royal Highness, and the newly promoted royal knight was escorted home by his younger brother to recover from his injuries. Fortunately, he escaped the subsequent defeat and trapping of His Royal Highness. Half a year later, the injury was mostly healed, and the two brothers were also frightened by the cruelty of the second highness. They didn't want to go to the front line to serve the second highness, so they hid at home and continued to live freely under the pretext of not recovering from their injuries.
Baron Andrew and Baron Dina are not much different, and both are down-and-out land nobles. They used to have a good relationship and helped each other. Now that Baron Andrew saw that his eldest son had become a royal knight, he felt that he had a backer, so he moved his mind and came up with the idea of the Barony of Dina.
The old man's idea is very good, he wants to marry Baron Dina's family, his family has two sons, Baron Dina's family has two daughters, and his wife died early. The younger sister of a widow, she looks so beautiful... She is only in her thirties, and she drools when she thinks about it. As for the ten-year-old boy from the Dina family, he should be adopted as an adopted son, so that Baron Dina can be annexed...
However, the old man's wishful thinking was shattered after he came to propose marriage in person. The eldest lady who is now in charge of Baron Dina scolded the old man face to face and almost had a heart attack. The house is next to each other, everyone knows the details of the old man, Miss Dina has a good memory, and she brings up all the old man's past mistakes and scolds them one by one. The old man has never felt so embarrassing and conspicuous, especially Those lowly farmers and servants were all onlookers. This feud has become serious, and if you don't take an oath, you won't be a human being.
After returning home from embarrassment, the old man mobilized the farmers in the territory and gathered four or five hundred people to declare war on Barony Dina. Well, Baron Andrew has twelve garrisons, and Baron Dina has eight garrisons. Baron Andrew's grudge is black iron two stars, his eldest son Pricht is a newly promoted royal knight with one silver star, and his youngest son is black iron three stars. Baron Dina has a two-star silver-star family knight who is the former Baron Dina's guard and has always been loyal. In addition, Miss Dina has awakened her fighting spirit and is now a one-star black iron. The two sides are equally powerful.
In terms of military strength, Baron Andrew has the upper hand. There are more than 400 farmers in his territory, some refugees he recruited, and servants, while Baron Dina has only more than 200 young and strong men and women, which is half of the number of the enemy. However, there is a castle as a defense, and the two sides are evened out again.
This war has been going on for more than a month and seven days. Casualties on both sides... Uh, less than ten people were injured in total, and no one was killed. The most seriously injured bad guy was loved by his master, Knight Pricht. The horse stepped on it and broke two ribs. The way of attacking the city... relied on verbal battles. The three of Andrew and his son yelled at the bottom of the castle, and Miss Dina responded from the top of the castle. Scolding words like "some kind come up"...
Well, this war is indeed quite a joke. No wonder Reddy, who has seen the big scene, feels that they are playing children and pretending to be house wine.
"How do you think they should be dealt with, Ya Li, or hang them all." Lorist has become a little angry recently, and wants to kill him if he doesn't like it.
The three captives were frightened to death, why would they be killed at every turn? We are nobles, and nobles are spared from death in war, especially the nobles of a kingdom. If there is a dispute over the territory, as long as they don't die on the spot, they can be redeemed. Why, how can you not follow the rules
"I, I am a royal knight, His Majesty's cavalry knight, you, how dare you kill me..." The bruised and swollen Pricht was still speaking stiffly.
"Oh, a royal knight is nothing. I participated in killing a viscount in front of His Royal Highness, and then the brother of the viscount was an earl who brought 10,000 horses to seek revenge on me. I also killed him. There are many more knights, I can't remember, but the Second Highness didn't do anything to me..." Lorist said lightly.
"You, you are that Norton, Earl Norton? The angry bear in the Northland..." Pricht was shocked. The matter of Viscount Aslan and Earl Aslan is a taboo in front of His Majesty the King, and no one dares to mention it in person. However, it was widely circulated in the army. Pricht, under the command of the Second Highness, had heard a lot of versions about Earl Norton and the two brothers Aslan when he had nothing to do.
"Yali, please forgive us. When we were young, you were the eldest sister of our two brothers." After all, Pricht followed the Second Highness to participate in the surprise attack on King Federica's city. With some knowledge, he immediately changed the object of his pleading.
"Bah, you're reminded of what happened when we were young. A while ago, the three of you, father and son, were terrified. You still want me to be your wife..." The girl poohed him.
"But Ya Li, I really like you. You have always looked down on us brothers, so we agreed as soon as my father said it. After all, I will fulfill my wish..." Pricht said very Said angrily.
The girl was silent, and then became depressed, she raised her head and said to Lorist: "Forget it, let them go, it's really boring."
Lorist waved his hand, and several guards returned the weapons and horses of Andrew, father and son. To be honest, the guards really didn't like these things.
"Yali, is it true that I will never see you again?" Pricht led the horse and walked a few steps outside the camp, then turned around and asked.
The girl ignored him, just took Lorist's hand and walked towards the castle.
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