The news Aridoli brought was very mixed. She said that the news of the Norton family's accident did not come from the Northland, but from the letter sent by the Massa Knights of the Dina family's garrison from the front line of the Faricius Plain. She, it is said that civil strife broke out in the Norton family, and the three armies of the Norton family on the front line insisted on returning to the north. His Majesty the King regretted it endlessly, so the Dina family garrison also came back.
However, due to the long journey and the spoils they have been given, more than 1,200 members of the Dina family's garrison team are expected to return to the family territory of Dremke Province in May and June next year. Massa Knights have made arrangements The family defense team spent this winter in the imperial capital and next year’s rainy season before going on the road. In addition, a list of spoils is attached. Because of the care of the Norton family’s armed forces, the Dina family’s defense team suffered few casualties and made huge profits. The total value of the spoils obtained is nearly three thousand gold Ford and so on...
Lorist has no objection to the Dina family's garrison following the Norton family's armed forces to drink soup, and he is not interested in how much property they robbed in the Fali Hill Plain. It is a pity that the Massa Knights only heard about the fact that the large army stopped fighting due to civil strife in the Northland. They mentioned it briefly in the letter, and it is not clear what happened in the Northland...
"Yali, last time you said that you sent servants to the Northland to deliver letters to your sister, but you were stopped at the ferry. It is said that the First Legion of the Norton Family Guards took over Jiangfang, temporarily cutting off the transportation links of the Northland, right? "Lorist asked.
"Yes." Aridori nodded: "The pontoon bridge at the downstream ferry of the Midobro River has been dismantled, and only two riverboats can be used to cross the river. He was seriously wounded, and in order to prevent the enemy from plotting wrongdoing, the communication between the two sides of the Strait was temporarily cut off while the Grand Duke of the Northland was convalescing his wounds, and the ferry would be opened after the situation stabilized. So the servant I sent to deliver the letter came back."
It's a little strange, did something really happen in the family? Lorist stroked his beard and thought, now his beard has grown by half an inch, and when he washes his face in the morning, he looks like Zhang Fei from the folklore in his previous life in the reflection of the sink.
In July, because Aristoli had not received any letters from her younger sister Fennagalli and aunt Diliana, and she was worried about her younger brother who was studying at Dawn College in the Northland, she specially wrote several letters for two servants to send to Going to the Northland, of course, she did not disclose Lorist's affairs in the Barony of Dina in the letter, but instead expressed concern about Lorist's whereabouts and recovery from physical injuries, as Lorist's lover The mother of the illegitimate child, she behaved perfectly, so even if these letters fell into the hands of others, there would be no suspicion.
But what Aridoli didn't expect was that the two servants who delivered the letter came back half a month later. The news they brought to her was that the First Army of Armed Guards of the Norton Family in the Northland had taken over the river defense of the Mitobro River. The downstream pontoon bridge was blocked, and even the chain bridge leading to Winston Province was banned. It is said that it was because the Grand Duke of the Northland was seriously injured in the duel with the Storm Swordsman and needed rest. At the same time, in order to strictly prevent the conspiracy of those with unruly intentions, the external traffic of the Northland was cut off.
Unable to understand the letter, Aristoli ran to find Lorist, who still thought it was normal at the time. When I left the Northland, I entrusted the safety of the family territory to the head of the First Guards Legion, Berunek. Now that I am not in the Northland, the business alliance sent a great swordsman to assassinate him, so the focus of attention is naturally on Northland. Although there is no need to worry about the safety of the family, the Northland will inevitably be harassed by those great sword masters. It should be a normal reaction for Beirunek to take over Jiangfang and cut off traffic, not surprising.
But now Aridoli has brought the news of the Northland again. This information is still transmitted from the Norton Three Armed Legions far on the front line of the Fali Hill Plain, and the Norton Family Armed Three Great Legions are still heading north. It seems that they should Something has happened.
But what does Knight Massa's letter say that His Royal Highness is too late to repent? Could it be that His Highness the Second Highness intervened in the Norton family incident again? This is impossible, the Second Highness is not a brainless person, Lorist has now become the Sword Master of the Nation, if he doesn't confess and coax him to add trouble to the Norton family at this time, he must have been kicked by a donkey...
Lorist thought about it for a long time, but he couldn't figure out what would happen to the family territory. It was impossible for Berunek to betray him. Fatty Shi was his close friend and was in charge of the Second Army of the Guards guarding the city of Bear City, the capital of the Northland. Although the leader of the army, Ovekis, was born as a bandit, he was loyal to him. Moreover, the family territory also has the Volibear Intelligence and Investigation Bureau controlled by Schwader and Tagle. Lorist can't think of anything that will become the root cause of the family territory's chaos.
Lorist finally decided to ask Reddy to take a trip to the Northland to see what happened. Now that his internal injuries have almost healed, he can practice Jinshui Jue again in two or three months to restore his strength. Moreover, the next operation of the Danhai Entrainment Art no longer requires Reddy to help him guide his internal energy. Anyway, Reddy is also very restless during this time, and Suni Lulu, the maid of Yali Doli, has cooked rice. But he refused to promise when to marry her, which almost made Aristotle bleed with anger.
Reddy accepted Lorist's mission, and walked away amid tears of his little lover Suniluru. His itinerary was to go to Hilovas Island first, and then take the island's boat to the north. It is estimated that such a round trip will take three to four months. But what Lorist didn't expect was that in less than two months, at the end of December, Reddy rushed back in a heavy snowstorm. He also brought a person with him, that is Tagle, who was in charge of the Norton family's intelligence system.
With Tagle, soon the changes that happened in the Northland were clearly presented in front of Lorist.
In August of the year before last, Lorist confronted the Storm Sword Master on the front line, and both suffered losses. When the news spread to the North, the top management of the Norton family were both excited and sad. The excited one was that Lorist had become the Sword Master of the Nation, but the sad one was that Lorist was seriously injured and was taken to the Imperial Capital by the Second Highness to recuperate.
Immediately afterwards, the Chaser Legion refused to listen to Fatty Shi's orders, and Jost and Tiger Ross of the Flying Tiger Legion privately led troops south to seek trouble from the Business Alliance to avenge Lorist. Fatty Shi had no choice but to let the Knights of the Angry Bears stationed in Vandenus City go to the empty Muyeyuan Province to prevent the attacks and harassment of the wild rangers.
Similarly, Tiger Ross and Jost led two legions to the front, leaving a mess for Fatty Shi, and nearly half a million immigrants who were forcibly relocated were left in the southern province. Rhea and El, the head of the Fifth Temporary Guard Corps, complained incessantly. On the one hand, they maintained the order of these immigrants. The strength of the seven corps of the Five Temporary Guards Corps is simply not enough.
Fatty Shi had no choice but to dispatch another corps from the Second Guards Corps to send reinforcements. In this way, only one regiment of the Second Guards Corps stationed in the southern part of the Northland is responsible for the defense of the capital, Furious Bear City. Fatty Shi had no choice but to ask the head of the First Guards Corps, Berunek, to dispatch a corps to take over the three external passages.
In January last year, Lorist was assassinated by the great swordsman sent by the business alliance in the imperial capital. He and Genorio led the guards to distract the attention of the great swordsman who came to assassinate, and fought all the way back to the Northland, reaching the city of Angry Bear. But Reddy and Lorist disappeared without a trace, and there was no more news.
Immediately after Raging Bear City was harassed by the Great Swordsman. Fortunately, Princess Sylvia's adoptive mother, Sandy Great Swordsman, was there. The three patron saints of the family were defeated, and the attack of the great sword master of the business alliance on the central castle of Angry Bear City was stopped. However, the news that Lorist, the head of the Norton family, lost his voice and disappeared, still began to spread in the Northland.
No one expected that at the most dangerous moment in the family territory, the manager of Maplewood Villa, Hansk, made a sudden attack. He first hosted a banquet for the head of the 1st Guards Legion, Berunek, and said that he wanted to find out about Lorist. As an old courtier of the Norton family, he is naturally very concerned about the missing Patriarch. The head of the Belunec Legion was born in Maple Forest Villa, and he couldn't refuse the invitation of the general manager Hansk, so he went to the banquet.
At the banquet, Manager Hansk proposed that now that the whereabouts of the Patriarch is unknown and people in the whole Northland are in a state of panic, is it possible to let Leskett, the young master of Fenglin Villa, come out as the temporary Patriarch to stabilize the situation and people in the Northland
The head of the Belunec army rejected the request of the general manager Hansk, but he did not expect that the general manager Hansk came prepared. He hired two great swordsmen from nowhere, restrained the head of the Belunec army on the spot, and Put him under house arrest in Fenglin Villa. At the same time, the old army was summoned to take control of the First Guards Corps, and at the same time, the garrison teams of various towns in the original family territory were recruited, and they used the name of Master Feng Lesket as the temporary owner to fight against Bear City...
"Wait..." Lorist was puzzled: "I have purged the people who were born in Fenglin Villa in the three major armies of the Guards Corps and the Family Armed Corps, so how did Hansk summon the old troops to control the nearby The First Guards Legion, and why are the legionnaires willing to be fooled by Hansk?"
"Alas..." Tager sighed, "Your Highness, you have overlooked a family garrison. It is the garrison battalion."
Lorist suddenly realized that most of the garrison battalions were composed of retired soldiers from the three major legions. They were responsible for guarding the material warehouses, prisons, top-secret industrial and mining workshops and production bases in the family territory. A place of residual heat. The Norton family's armed forces have a total of five garrison battalions, all of which are in the original family territory of Beidi.
More than ten years ago, at least one or two thousand people joined the family armed forces in Fenglin Villa. At that time, Lorist, who had just returned to the family territory, only hated the lack of soldiers, and almost swept all the young and strong in Fenglin Villa into the family armed forces. As time passed, these family soldiers from Fenglin Villa were also replaced by new soldiers. After retiring, they joined the guard battalion and continued to serve the family.
In terms of loyalty, the soldiers of the guard battalion are of course the most loyal to the Norton family. But whether they are loyal to Lorist is still a question. From a certain point of view, they were more like being branded by Maplewood Villa, and Lorist vigorously promoted foreign talents and rejected people from Maplewood Villa, making them feel abandoned. Therefore, it is easier for Young Master Lescott, who was born in Maple Forest Villa, to gain their loyalty.
Because the soldiers of these garrison battalions were all retired from the various legions armed by the family, and most of them were not big or small soldier leaders before retiring. So they replaced the middle and low-level officers of the First Guards Corps in response to the call of Chief Hansk, and easily controlled the entire Corps. As for the garrison teams in those towns, needless to say, they are also retired veterans. Because they have experienced in various armies of the family armed forces, most of them serve as captains in the town garrison teams. When they climbed up and shouted, the defenders below naturally followed blindly...
Lorist's face became ugly: "Didn't Baron Shredder take any effective measures?"
Tagle smiled wryly: "Your Highness, Sir Shredder and Director Speer threw themselves into the trap at that time, and were placed under house arrest by Director Hansk..."
Tager continued to narrate that after Hansk took control of the First Guards Corps, he summoned the town guards from all over the country and gathered nearly 50,000 horses to march towards Bear City. Lord Ovekis, the commander of the Second Guards Corps in charge of guarding the Bear City, showed no sign of weakness. Although he had only one regiment under him, he still refused to surrender and strengthened the city defenses of the Bear City. The town's garrison fought a battle.
With the family civil war about to break out, Fatty Shi and Director Speer decided to go out of the city to persuade Chief Hansk to rein in the precipice and not become the eternal sinner of the Norton family. Unexpectedly, the two of them were also put under house arrest by the frenzied Manager Hansk as soon as they went there. If it weren't for the persuasion of Director Kedan, who pretended to agree with Manager Hansk's proposal and proposed to appoint Young Master Lescott as the temporary head of the house, maybe Manager Hansk would have hanged Fatty Shi on the spot.
It is said that Manager Hansk angrily denounced Fatty Shi as a treacherous villain, and Lorist believed that Fatty Shi entrusted all the administrative power of the family so that the family went astray. Fatty Shi asked depressedly what he did wrong and what led the family to go astray? Manager Hansk thought for a long time but couldn't come up with it, and he was about to order Fatty Shi to be hanged.
At this time, Director Kedan came out to persuade him, saying that Fatty Shi was Lorist's most valued confidant. If he was hanged, Lorist would be furious after his return. The young master Lescott and the mother and son of Mrs. Elina of Fenglin Villa were implicated. Director Hansk had no choice but to suppress his anger and put Fatty Shi and Director Speer under house arrest.
Lorist was also very depressed. He asked Tagle: "What is Hansk's plan? No matter how he is jumping now, once I return to the family territory, he will only be dreaming in vain. He is not afraid of making a big mess Will the punishment be heavier after I come back?"
"That's right, Your Highness, Director Kedan revealed that Director Hansk sent an envoy to the front line of the Fali Hill Plain, and in the name of the Norton family, he requested His Majesty the king to appoint Young Master Lescott as the acting head of the family. He was wounded in Lorist. Handle the affairs of the Norton family before recovery, and said that the three armies of the Norton family will do their best to cooperate with His Majesty the king to attack the business alliance and win the battle of the Fali Hill Plain."
Tagle replied: "The plan of Chief Hansk is to get Master Leskett to obtain the approval of His Majesty the King to suppress Lorist. After all, Lorist is also the Grand Duke of the Northland of the Kingdom of Antinak. Even if he becomes a Juggernaut We must respect the opinion of His Majesty the King. In this way, even if Lorist returns, he will not be able to punish Master Leskett. Chief Hansk hopes to divide the North Land into two parts. Lorist, the Grand Duke of the North, is still in charge of his territory!"
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