"Your Highness, I'm overjoyed, overjoyed!" Tiger Ross led a dozen people on horseback and rushed to the big tent. After dismounting, he slammed into the big tent, and then Dolles also rushed in. The open-mouthed Dolles laughed like a fool.
"Overjoyed? What is there to be so happy about..." Lorist said angrily. He was studying the three defensive positions of the Principality of Handela in the big tent. He just suffered a little loss last night, and this time he was holding back in the big tent thinking hard about how to get back.
Now the front line is still in a stalemate. The garrison corps on the three defensive positions of the Principality of Handela can't afford to hide from the giant levered trebuchets commanded by Lorist, so they simply gave up on the hillside for nearly a hundred meters. Forward defensive positions, withdraw the guarding troops, whatever Lorist can do.
It's just that Lorist was also dumbfounded, no one was watching what I was throwing, the trebuchet was almost useless. Because of their bulkiness and huge size, these heavy trebuchets could not move up the hillside at all. And even in the process of moving, you can't throw stones, so you don't have the power to counterattack. Grand Duke Fesabrunn did not believe in evil, and wanted to forcefully move these giant trebuchets up the hillside. As a result, the guards on top threw a lot of rolling wood and stones down, which not only failed the plan of Grand Duke Fessabrunn, but also damaged nearby people. Hundreds of barbarian cavalry dismounted and pushed catapults.
Lorist is at the foot of the mountain, and the defensive position is on the hillside, nearly 500 meters apart. Therefore, even though the defensive side gave up the forward position, once they found that the enemy at the bottom of the mountain had an attacking tendency, they could still quickly enter the forward position and prepare for defense, making Lorist helpless. In particular, the defensive positions on these hillsides are not spread on the hillside like a piece of paper, but cleverly use the drop of the mountain to set up defensive facilities of different levels, so that the attacker will be left and right no matter where the attack is. Two flanks and three-dimensional attacks from all directions above.
Even though Lorist has surpassed the realm of the third-level great swordsman, he still almost suffers a disadvantage in this defensive position. Last night Lorist personally led troops to launch a night attack, but no one expected that the defenders had placed a large number of broken clay pots and glass bottles in the first ditch of the forward position. Lorist was fine, but the family soldiers who followed him in the night attack were unlucky. They were covered in steel armor but there were no armor plates under their shoes. They were caught as soon as they jumped into the trench, screaming, and the guard soldiers followed. At the same time, the guarding soldiers also learned Lorist's insidious tricks. Fist-like stones were thrown by the trebuchet on the mountain, covering the entire forward position, mixed with With a burning fireball...
Seeing that the situation was not good, Lorist hurriedly led the night raiding soldiers back, and after counting them, his lungs almost exploded. An elite guard team of 1,000 soldiers followed him in the night raid, but in the end they didn't even touch the enemy's hair. There were only three or four hundred casualties. The only good thing is that the order to retreat was given in time, and both the wounded and the dead were brought back by the guards. Only a few dozen people were sacrificed, but nearly three hundred people were injured.
Lorist was depressingly thinking about how to get back the loss he had suffered this time, when he heard Tiger Ross yelling, how could he have a good face to show him. Tiger Ross knew that Lorist was in a bad mood because of the failed night attack last night, so he quickly said, "Your Highness, a messenger has arrived from Raging Bear City, bringing you good news."
"What good news?"
"Ms. Sylvia has it. After checking, she is more than two months pregnant..."
Princess Sylvia? Lorist was taken aback, counting the days, um, it's the beginning of July, more than two months pregnant should be the end of April, knowing that he was going to the front line, he couldn't bear to say goodbye to him, so he pestered himself for several times shamelessly Today, Anna was summoned at night. Daisy and the other four concubines came to sleep together in a big quilt, but in the end it was her who inherited the rain and dew. It seems that this girl has a heart, and her hard work pays off. .
"Well, this is indeed a good thing. But why are you so happy?" Lorist was very surprised. It's not that I have no sons. Irina gave birth to two for me, and Anna also gave birth to sons. The lady gave birth to two daughters for me. It's normal for Princess Sylvia to have a big belly, why are you so silly
"Your Highness, if Mrs. Sylvia gives birth to a boy, then he will be a legitimate son. If Your Highness has an heir, then we, the knights of our family, will have hope in the future..." the foolish Dolles explained cheerfully with his mouth open.
"Get out!" Lorist was furious: "I haven't reached forty yet, and I'm in the prime of life, are you so eager for my unborn son to take over my class!"
Knowing that he had said something wrong, Dolles ran away with his head in his arms, while the embarrassed tiger Ross stood aside and said nothing...
"Ah, come back." Dolles, who had just left the big tent, heard Lorist calling him, so he turned back to the big tent again: "Your Highness..."
"Where's the messenger?" Lorist glared at him.
"Waiting outside the big tent..."
"Then hurry up and call in."
The messenger was a bodyguard that Lorist knew. Lorist's bodyguard battalion was composed of 3,000 men. He came to the front with two teams of 1,000 men, and the remaining 1,000 guards stayed at the center of the Bear City to guard the castle and his family. This guard named Valen is a squadron leader and also a member of the guards in Angry Bear City.
What Varen brought was a letter written by Princess Sylvia. The letter was nothing more than reporting the good news to Lorist. Princess Sylvia was very proud of her pregnancy. Rist couldn't help but smile. Then there was a lot of lovesickness, describing how I missed Lorist, and finally said that in order to raise a baby, she was ready to leave for Sakura Ridge Manor, where the scenery is beautiful and the climate is cool, just for summer...
After reading the letter, Lorist asked Warren to go down to rest first, and let him take it back after he had written a reply in two days. After Varen left, Lorist looked at the tigers Rose and Dolles standing side by side, and said with a frown, "I already have three sons, Elina gave me two, and the older one was eleven. You should know that the younger one is seven years old, and I am planning to find a good teacher for him. And Anna also gave birth to a son for me, who is almost four years old this year. So I am not Don't worry about having no heirs, and I also promised that as long as they are my children, they will be included in the family tree and become the heirs in line of my Norton family.
So although it is a good thing for me that Sylvia is pregnant, it is also normal. I am very happy, but I will not celebrate like you. The two of you tell me the truth, do you think many people in the family have the same thoughts as you, and are very concerned about the inheritance rights of our Norton family's first son and concubine son? "
Tiger Rose and Dolles looked at each other, and Tiger Ross took a step forward: "Your Highness, I'm not talking too much. In fact, I think the right of direct son inheritance is the most solid foundation for a century-old noble family. If Your Highness is not married, your own I have no objection that the sons are all listed as the heirs of the family. But His Royal Highness has officially married Mrs. Sylvia, so you and her children are legitimate sons, and should be the first heirs of our Norton family. I am not alone. Many family knights think so... "
Dolles hesitated to speak. Lorist stared and said, "Say what you have to say. No matter what you say here today, I won't take offense or blame you afterwards. Now that the family is getting bigger and bigger, the more you dare to tell the truth in front of me Come less and less. Tell me, tell me what you really think. Think about the difficulty of organizing the caravan to go north, and look at everything we have now. As my earliest followers, I never doubted you For your loyalty and dedication, let me listen to your innermost thoughts.”
"Okay, Your Highness." Dolles spread his hands: "Some things are not that we don't want to say, but that we feel inappropriate. After all, these are His Highness's family affairs. As family knights, we don't want to interfere. But the heirs of the family Not the same, because it is related to the future of the family and has the deepest interests of all of us. If His Highness chooses an unsuitable heir, the future of the family will not be optimistic...
Just like the young master, we have paid attention to it before, but Baron Malek's evaluation is that the young master may become a brave and fearless knight, but he will never become a wise lord, because his character is too tyrannical. Although Mrs. Malek taught him how to be polite and restrained, he still killed those small animals regularly. We all thought it would be a disaster for the family to make the young master the next head of the Norton family... "
"But he's still young..." Lorist defended weakly. In fact, he wasn't ignorant of the report about his eldest son. Tagle sent several intelligence investigators to keep a close eye on his growth. What impressed Lorist the most was that once he made a mistake and was punished by Mrs. Malek, he went out and shot down a little squirrel with an arrow, and then chopped the poor little squirrel into a pulp with a dagger...
"Your Highness, this is not a small problem. Eleven-year-old children can already tell right from wrong. After being scolded and punished, it is not an act of a brave person to spread his anger on creatures weaker than himself. In this matter We all agree that it is Mrs. Irina's pampering of him since he was a child that made the young master develop such a tyrannical character. From this aspect, we are not optimistic about the future of Mrs. Irina's two children. I don't think any of them will be eligible heirs to the family," Dolles retorted.
Lorist remained silent, knowing very well in his heart that this was actually a counterattack by the newcomers in the family against the so-called old people. At some point, there was a distinction between the old and the newcomers in the family. The so-called old people are those people in the original family territory, basically born in Maple Forest Villa, they are proud that they are members of the Norton family since childhood, they look down on those knights and officials who followed Lorist to join the Norton family, and call them newcomers. I think that the old people like myself are the most loyal to the family, and the newcomers are opportunists. These old people are headed by Director Hanks who was sent by Lorist to build roads in the northern wilderness. They believe that the two sons born to Lorist by Elina, who was born in Maplewood Villa, are the legitimate heirs of the Norton family. …
And the newcomers were knights and officials who followed Lorist to join the Norton family on the northbound journey, and they also looked down on those old people. They thought that before Lorist returned to the family territory, these old people were almost huddled in Maple Forest Villa, being bullied by others, precarious, just a group of ignorant country bumpkins. And they followed Lorist to create such a prosperous situation for the Norton family, and let the Norton family flourish. This is their credit and glory. Who can bear the old people in Fenglin Villa climbing on top of them now? This is how conflicts accumulate and gradually develop into conflicts.
Fortunately, there are still many sensible people who have become neutrals, such as Fatty Shi, Bodfinger, Director Speer, Director Kedan, Knight Berunec and others. Standing on the side of whoever does what is beneficial to the family effectively prevents the outbreak of conflicts and conflicts between the old and newcomers, making the development of the family an unstoppable trend...
Lorist was well aware of this, but he didn't really care. There is a difference between the old and the new in the family, but it will allow him to control the whole family better, but he didn't expect that the old man would make a lot of trouble because he wanted to marry Princess Sylvia as his wife, but now the newcomer has to use the son of the concubine. Don't come and give the old people a hard blow. Why don't you just stop...
"Then, didn't Anna give birth to a son for me?" Lorist finally spoke.
Dolles shook his head: "Your Highness, Mrs. Anna's identity is inappropriate. If she becomes the head mother of the Norton family, the family's reputation will be affected..."
Lorist understood that Doles was vaguely reminding himself that Anna was not only a widow before she became Lorist's concubine, but also participated in the Paradise Party held by the dead Queen Kerry when she was a princess. It was a famous lewd party among the nobles of the Antinac Kingdom, and it was there that Lorist met Aridoli and Anna. Although Queen Kerry is dead, and most of her companions and those nobles who participated in the Paradise Party were eliminated by the Second Highness, there is no guarantee that there will be no fish that slip through the net.
If Anna's son succeeds the Norton Patriarch in the future, then Anna will inevitably appear in front of the nobles. And once someone discovers Anna's past, it is very likely that they will use these secret past events to blackmail them to achieve their own goals, or spread the word to create a disturbance on the ground, causing people to doubt the lineage and legitimacy of the successor. For Anna, a peaceful life is her choice, and her son will be her old age support, and the position of Patriarch Norton is not needed.
Alas, I didn't expect that Sylvia's pregnancy would immediately cause such a big disturbance in the family. For Lorist, this is both a good thing and a bad thing. No matter what he says, some things are unavoidable. For some people in the family, determining an heir for the Norton family is not Lorist's private matter, but a major event related to the future of the family, and a major event related to all members of the family.
"You guys go down first, that's all for today, don't add fuel to the flames in the family. Don't worry about some things too early, now I just want Sylvia to give birth to the child safely..."
Lorist waved his hand and sent Tiger Ross and Dolles away. Then a person sat in the big tent and smiled wryly. The family now dominates the Northland, with unlimited scenery. But from Lorist's point of view, this was just a little bit of self-protection ability, and it was also a bit of improvement. The family began to intrigue, which is something that cannot be avoided when the family grows and grows.
All assholes! I don't even think that I am only under forty. If I am sure that I have reached the realm of a sword master, then it will be very easy to live for two or three hundred years. I am really full. I started worrying about my heir so early , and don't even think about my own feelings, good things are turned into bad things by them...
It took Lorist a day to write a long and affectionate letter to Princess Sylvia. It was nothing more than talking about his longing, telling her to take good care of her body, and promised to return to the family whenever she was free. Territory to accompany her or something. Then let Knight Waren take the reply back. Then Lorist began to worry about whether to throw a big banquet to celebrate or to have a private banquet, because the news had to be told to Grand Duke Feisabrun...he is Princess Silvia's real grandfather...
Do you want to please? And will the Grand Duke of Feisabrun agree to come to the banquet? Lorist is tangled...
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