After Oran listened to the report.
"Kunsang, go help me get the people back. If you want them alive, I'll give you sixty people. Go and find them around Gudu Mountain."
Gudushan is the territory of another baron in the county, "West Moore".
His current relationship with Oran is pretty good. At least for now, when soldiers from both sides meet, they won't suddenly fight.
"Okay, I'll snatch a few women back."
Kunsang's way of thinking has become Viking-like. He believes in the strong and sees people from other territories as sinners. He even blurts out cruel words such as going to rob fellow believers.
"Go ahead."
But Nanding, the strongest swordsman in the group, stayed behind.
Kunsang and Nanding, one of them must stay to protect him, so that Olan can feel at ease.
There are still too few talents, but there are only tens of thousands of people in this territory, so there are no talents waiting for him.
Unless he could control a county, and if he wanted to control a county, the other two barons should die.
Oran weaves short-term goals in his mind, and he divides them into two.
One uses Adisha as bait. Now that he has the news, he sends people to snatch her back as a betrothal gift to repair his relationship with Ella. After establishing a marriage contract, he will annex the county and avoid any resistance.
One against the Vikings, one also related to Malm himself, whom she wanted to marry, stretching from Malm to Scotland.
On the island of Britain today, the northernmost region is called "Scotland". Because it was ruled by the Picts, it was also called the Pictish region. .
This place was ruled by the "Albion Dynasty" established by the Picts.
Malm's mother is a Pict, the aunt of the current king of the Albin Dynasty, and the first wife of His Majesty Ella.
The princess of Northumbria, the royal family of Albin, has multiple title claims on Malm.
Although there are some bad rumors about Malm, if they can get married, Oran's noble status can be quickly increased.
In the future, they will swallow up Northumbria, join forces with the Picts, and go south to compete with the Vikings and Southern England (several countries established by the Saxons).
When your strength is not enough, you have to borrow it.
The forces on the British island can cooperate with anyone who can increase their advantage.
"Buzz..."
The castle's prayers came from the worship room.
Everyone stopped and chanted a holy chant...
These are the priests under Ulf. Their duty is to chant scriptures every day, help lords and senior citizens increase their chances of going to heaven, and also perform other duties. For example, they are also responsible for the medical care in the territory.
This sound let the citizens know that it was time to put down their hands, wash up and eat.
After a while, the sun will set, and the territory will become dim, dark and quiet.
Ambitious... to become emperor...
Oran shouted, "I want to prevent the sun from setting!"
Mi'er on the side said, "Sir?"
"Just wait and see, I will build a city of ten thousand cities. Even in the dark, the lights will still be bright."
"As long as the sun rises, this city will never be destroyed!"
The city where the sun never sets?
So what name should it be?
Mi'er was stunned. At this moment, the light from Olan's eyes was more dazzling than the sun.
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"Gudu Mountain".
In the local language, it means "dangerous and difficult to climb". It was named by the conquerors of the Roman Empire hundreds of years ago.
Rome has perished, but everything he created, including names, decrees, currency, and culture, still affects later lords.
No matter how difficult the mountain is to climb, it can be conquered. After hundreds of years of human activities, many mountain roads have been carved out.
On this day, "Hound Dog Sanjeev" led a group of bandits and entered directly from a small valley.
As a former nobleman, he had his own way of dealing with his subordinates, which was... coercion.
When entering the valley, Sanjeev chose a spacious place where it was easy to light a fire and close to a stream, making it easy to put out fires.
After the men laid out the position belonging to the leader and took out the dried meat to prepare for the proficiency test, they were suddenly questioned by Rajeev's cronies.
"Who told you to touch it? You are eating these cakes."
Although they are on the run, nobles and these criminals can never be compared.
Sanjeev watched silently as his knight escort Baal spat and lectured these newly recruited country bumpkins.
Then Sanjeev took a cup of hot tea with wild fruits.
The cold February makes people feel chilly.
"You should be nicer to your men. If these people are scared away by your people, you won't even be able to gather a ten-man team."
Adisha looked on and gave some advice, vaguely feeling that something would happen sooner or later.
"Ants are ants and will never turn into vicious dogs. If you want to resist, just give them a lick and they can even lick the soles of your shoes."
Baal, who had just beaten and scolded his men, came over with a sneer.
Being able to sit with Knight Sanjeev and Countess Adisha shows his distinguished status as a knight's guard and the former's cousin.
"Don't worry, we will soon be able to go north to the Picts' castle. One of my relatives serves in the court. When we get there, with my skills, I can get a position as a knight."
Sanjeev drank another cup of hot tea, and finally a little redness appeared on his cold face.
"You want to take me to the North Country?" Adisha was surprised.
"Your territory has been divided, and mine has been destroyed by the Vikings. We have the same experience. Isn't it good to find a lucky place to start over?"
"Staying in my hometown is my greatest luck. If you can take back my territory, I will agree to your previous promise."
This promise is that Adisha is willing to marry the hunting dog as long as she can return to her hometown.
"I changed my mind. Now, you must follow me to the north."
"Northland" is also one of the names synonymous with Scotland. For Adisha, when winter comes there, the snow is removed all around, and there is no desolate scene. It is even more barren than England.
It even adopted the aristocratic model of "tribal co-governance" and only united the nobles to establish the "Albin Dynasty" more than 20 years ago. The culture is as barbaric and backward as the Vikings.
During the meal, the hungry farmers and the newly joined criminals were only given black cake crust that was so dry and hard that it could knock off their front teeth, and they boiled some wild fruit water to drink.
The hunting dog Sanjeev and his party were able to eat dried meat and some candies they had just snatched from the merchants.
In England during the Seven Kingdoms era, in addition to fighting among themselves and guarding against the North, they also had to deal with the Vikings, their evil neighbors, and the exploitation by Frankish merchants in the south.
The number of criminals and slaves exceeds that of civilians. To the nobles, these people are dead and insignificant.
Even after being reduced to this, Sanjeev behaved like an aristocrat towards his subordinates, beating and scolding them at every turn.
That night, a farmer was so hungry that he wanted to steal some food.
But he was discovered by the guards.
He is a poor person and should be generous, but the food guard is afraid that he will be scolded by the adults when he wakes up tomorrow, so he shouts to catch the thief.
The farmer ran away like crazy. He ran for an unknown amount of time and lay down on the snow.
His consciousness gradually fell into a trance.
"So hungry..."
"I really want to have a full meal..."
Looking at the snow on the ground, he thought it was sweet sugar, grabbed a handful and wanted to swallow it.
But the next moment, a gun slapped his palm, and the sugar melted.
The farmer took one last look at the visitor, and then passed away from hunger and exhaustion.
"The adults have guessed it, but is this man one of Sanjeev's men?"
Kunsang thought for a while, looking at the valley and not knowing which direction to enter, so he ordered, "Rescue this person and ask him clearly. If he is the person we are looking for, that would be the best."
