"Didn't your heir Tony send someone back to inform you of the situation? Bernard's original station should be reached in about three days' journey, right?" Faced with Lakoff's frank answer, the king continued to ask.
"Your Majesty, my Tony has not sent a messenger back. I was a little strange the day before yesterday and sent a few cavalry to inquire about the situation."
"However, Your Majesty, you also know that it will take at least six days to go back and forth, so it will take a few more days for the cavalry I sent to return!" Lakoff looked solemn and spoke with confidence.
Seeing this, the king frowned and pondered for a moment, and finally looked at Bernard: "Bernard, I will definitely give you a satisfactory answer to this matter when the Autumn March is over!"
"If I find out that someone else did something, I will definitely not be lenient!"
"In addition, if something happens due to the mistakes of my heralds, I will use the gold coins rewarded from this Autumn March to compensate your Tulip family!"
This time the king is not ready to make peace with the situation. He really needs to find the culprit.
Because this is already playing tricks under his nose.
It would be fine if the herald really made a mistake. It would be easy to say whether he would be hung with a rope or punished in some other way.
But if anyone else does something, they must be severely punished.
This is about the majesty of his king.
More importantly, it serves as a warning to others. After all, at such an important time as the army is going on an expedition, if something goes wrong, the Agate Principality may be in danger.
"Yes, Your Majesty!" Bernard nodded. Since the king had spoken out so solemnly, he could only wait for the time being.
"Well, your Tulip family team did a good job this time. After discovering the problem, you can continue to go to the station for the safety of the army!"
"Bernard, after the Autumn Campaign is over, I will reward them with items worth a hundred gold coins from this year's spoils!" The king was worried that Bernard would still be dissatisfied, so he simply gave them another reward as a reward. .
The reward of hundreds of gold coins can already buy hundreds of serfs, which is a good reward.
"Thank you, Your Majesty, for the reward!"
"Well, let's all disperse tonight! You all performed very well today! Go back and have a good rest, and strive to capture Oak City as soon as possible!"
Although they have been filling in the river for the past few days, today is the first day of siege.
However, judging from the effectiveness of today's siege, Oak City's troop strength is as expected, at around 30,000.
I believe that as long as they storm for more than a week, they will be able to capture this big city.
"Yes, Your Majesty!" Upon hearing this, all the earls dispersed.
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"Humph!" Lakoff was the fastest to leave the tent because he was worried that Bernard would cause trouble for him when he left the tent later.
After walking a certain distance and watching Bernard leave with several familiar earls, he stopped and sneered.
This plan can be said to be the rare thing that he has done to win back the Tulip family since the Autumn Campaign.
Moreover, the king is now focusing on siege, and has no idea of replacing their wrong station this time.
In this way, after conquering Oak City in a few days, the benefits will really belong to his cavalry family.
"Little Tony, you have to live up to your expectations this time and bring back more prisoners. Then Bernard will be so angry that he's so angry!"
Thinking like this, Lakoff happily rode his horse back to his camp.
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"Narant, then I'll set off now! You... you have to be careful!" There were stars in the sky, and under the mound of the camp, nearly two hundred Tulip family guards mounted the superior war horses that Narant had temporarily borrowed.
Stella, on the other hand, was saying her final goodbyes to Nalant.
Although she, Boris and others had strongly opposed it before, Nalant still decided to cross the desert and head to the hinterland of the Northern Principality.
In this way, Stella, who was originally calm, felt a little concerned.
"Stella, I know!" Nalant felt concerned and nodded solemnly
After the words fell, the two looked at each other wordlessly for a moment. Both could see the reluctance and Danye in their eyes. After being separated, they didn't know whether they could see each other safely again.
"Then...then I'm leaving!" Looking at each other for a moment, Stella finally said goodbye with her lips pursed.
"Okay! Be careful. If you see something is wrong, you must retreat first, and then we will find a solution together! Also, don't be anxious on the way. Maybe Xiao Huihui can complete the task of reporting the message."
"Yeah!" Stella nodded.
She glanced at Narante again, then suddenly took a step forward, crossed her arms and hugged Narante's chest, "Then I'm leaving, Narante!"
The hug broke apart in an instant, and before Nalant could cooperate, Stella let go of her hand.
Then, blushing, he turned directly onto the back of the white dragon that was also lent to him by Nalant.
"Set off!"
tap! tap!
Following Stella's order, a team of more than two hundred people galloped towards Oak City in the night.
"I was attacked unexpectedly again!"
Looking at Stella's leaving figure, Nalant realized that he had really failed as a time traveler. He was actually taken advantage of by women twice in a row.
Maybe, this is the reason why he couldn't find a girlfriend in his previous life. After all, only those who are bold can chase a girlfriend.
"Next time we meet, no matter what, I have to get back on my feet as soon as possible. If I can't do it, I'll stand on my head and pee!"
In order to avoid becoming a shame among the army of time travellers, Nalant secretly made a vow in his heart that he would avenge his shame next time they meet.
…
After Stella left, Nalant returned directly to the camp.
"Vivian, has the envelope been written?"
"Sir, it has been written and tied to little Huihui's leg together with the badge!"
"Very good, let Shirley tell it to go!"
There are no homing pigeons on this continent, so messengers are still the main way to deliver messages.
This is why Court told them the matter so easily, because he was sure that they would not be able to reach Oak City within four days.
However, although the homing pigeon does not have it, Nalant does have a small gray ash.
In fact, the success rate of letting Xiao Huihui deliver the message is not very high. The main reason is that Xiao Huihui has never been to Oak City and does not know whether he can find it and then correctly deliver the message to the Agate Principality army.
But for the safety of the army, Narant decided to give it a try.
If it doesn't work out, there's nothing you can do about it.
If it succeeds, it is very likely that the information will be conveyed to the nobles of the Agate Principality before the danger comes.
…
There was nothing to say all night, and soon it was the next day.
Today, Nalant did not set off immediately because he still needed to finish capturing the remaining prisoners.
Because, if these prisoners are not removed, I am afraid that once he leaves, these prisoners will come back.
So this is something that must be addressed as a priority.
Narant directly asked Shirley to send out all the honey to search upstream and downstream of the river, and sure enough, there was a harvest soon.
Just as he predicted yesterday, the defeated troops of the Northern Principality were unable to survive in the desert. At this moment, they gradually appeared on the banks of the upstream and downstream rivers and began to replenish water sources.
Narant immediately went out with Boris and Rael with all their strength, and it only took half a day to catch most of the fish that had slipped through the net.
By evening, their number of prisoners numbered eight thousand.
Except for those who died in battle and those who fell into the river and were washed away, almost all the ten thousand troops of the Northern Principality are here.
