"Your Excellency, the situation has changed. Your Highness Pepa has confessed everything to me. Princess Malm is not the eldest daughter of the king at all..."
The contents of this express letter kept Oran from leaving his personal study in the town of "King's Landing" all morning.
Since Oran and Ulf communicated in code, a letter of two thousand words could only translate a hundred useful words.
"Why did Pepa suddenly hook up with Ulf?"
"Was Ulf being bribed in the royal court?"
"How many secrets does King Ella know about the border chaos?"
Then Oran picked up the reply letter from Ella that he received yesterday, read it once, and threw it beside the table.
This is a letter from King Ella accusing Oran of causing many troubles on the border and leading troops into El's territory for no reason.
The letter also rejected Olam's request to convene a "Sein Conference."
He also stated that he would send someone over immediately to find out the truth.
With Ulf's letter, Oran has already regarded the visit of the new king's envoy as a precursor to sending troops.
Looking at the sand table, Olan started to deduce, but couldn't make a satisfactory change.
With each variable added, the total variables generate at least three more paths.
He thought about it for a long time. Tai Tai came in to change the tea several times, and Oran didn't even raise his eyes.
It wasn't until Tai Tan reminded him that it was time to eat, otherwise his body would be in trouble. Then Olan clenched his fists, slammed the table, and cursed, "Damn it!"
"Your Excellency!" Tai Tan immediately lowered his head in fear.
"I thought of it, Titan!"
"what did you say?"
"Call Nanamp over."
Titans guarded outside as Southamp entered.
Oran asked as he picked up the cold wheat cake and asked, "Read this letter."
Nan Anpu glanced over and his expression turned serious, "The king wants to take action against his skills?
Your Excellency, we still have a marriage agreement, and you asked me to monitor the special envoy Sals. I will send people to intercept and check every letter he sends to make sure that the content is not harmful to us.
After the war with the Vikings and Earl, from the border to the king's territory, all people passing through our jurisdiction were strictly searched. We have killed several messengers in Earl's territory.
Because of this, the Earl sent people to the kingdom to ask if we had accepted the king's special order and went to clear out the Vikings. The false story has not been exposed so far. How did the king know about it? "
"Nan'anpu, there is no eternal secret in the world. As long as three people know it, the secret will be exposed sooner or later.
Just like we used a trick to kill "Sen" under "Shi Meng" and bribed the Viking named "Mizzi" to go back and report false news, this matter may be put on the table in the near future.
I have been thinking about it for a long time today, tell me, what are the similarities between us and Ella now?"
"Similarities?"
Nan'an Pu paid attention to Olan's face, and thought of Ella's cross face, and flattered him, "He is a false king who took office arrogantly, and you are my true king."
Flattery comes first, but Nanamp knows Olan’s temperament. Sometimes Olan doesn’t want to hear such nonsense, and immediately blurts out the next words, “Priest Ulf is in the king’s territory, and King Ella’s envoy is also in our White Eagle city. , If we really want to say they are similar, they each send people to inquire about the information."
"Yes, that's it! Do you think this person can be bribed?"
"Buy that knight?"
Nanamp did not dare to respond immediately, and thought for a long time before saying, "According to what Ulf reported and from the twenty soldiers who brought Sals' skills, we know that he is a noble from Ireland to Wales.
Later, he came to the royal court, and other information was unknown... In daily interactions, this man was polite and cautious, unlike a knight who could be bribed. "
"Before a person encounters the temptation of profit or danger, he wears religious robes like a saint, and picks up a sword like a warrior. Don't you find it strange that the little leader named 'Sien' brought fifty people here? To the castle, although I did not let the other old Vikings enter the city, and asked them to put on makeup to disguise their appearance.
But we didn't take any action to imprison 'Saers'. He also lives in our castle with so many people. Do you really know nothing?
His men also frequented brothels and traveled in and out of the countryside.
No farmer or wool merchant ever told the soldiers about this?
And then spread it back to his ears?
As you just said, this knight is very cautious, but obviously too cautious!
Do you know, I asked the maid from the castle to serve him and get him drunk? What drunken words did he say?
Twice in a row, he said good things about our community, and they were passed back to my ears through the mouth of the maid.
What good have we done to him to deserve this?
He came here to urge us to fulfill our covenant, but did he hurry?
We confiscated all their weapons, any resistance?
Even the letter to King Ella, which we intercepted and checked, said that Uncle Ben was raising food and training the team. If the Vikings had not caused rebellion, he would have been able to send troops to support the war with the former king.
If a person occasionally does one or two abnormal things, it is a sign of confusion.
If a person behaves abnormally from beginning to end, there must be something behind it!"
After Olan said this, Nanamp also became wary of Sals.
"Your Excellency, how can we bribe him? Find him and add a sword to his body?"
"It is better to use danger to win people's hearts than to gain people's hearts, but the king can definitely give him more than us. Didn't you also hear from the royal soldiers brought by Sals that he has been named the Earl of Yorkshire? ', As long as I defeat the former king in the future, he will become a noble who can be equal to me. Although this is an empty promise from the king, can my empty words be better than this?"
Nanamp fell into deep thought again and made several suggestions, but none of them were very good.
"Your Excellency, no matter what strategy we use, I think we must first ensure that we have enough ability to fight the enemy. This is the foundation."
"You are thinking the same thing as me. We have divided our forces into many places and are obviously unable to do what we want.
Now everyone thinks that we are going to have a decisive battle with Gold Teeth. We might as well retreat and build a defense line from Seatown to King's Landing, blocking all the passages in Er's southern territory and cutting off his connection with the kingdom.
As soon as we retreated, Gold Tooth's group of Vikings came over, but the one who bore the brunt was Earl.
He might be consumed by the Vikings' rage, he might hurt both sides, or he might cooperate with the Vikings.
The first two developments are both beneficial to us. If it is the third, even better!
The tragic situation of 'Canterbury' is imminent. The king has just held a 'sacred bone canonization ceremony' in the king's territory. Earl has also joined forces with the Vikings. Then we secretly enter Jewe County and fake the news of the king's order. No one You can be held accountable again.
In this dispatch, we cooperated with Shi Meng and disrupted nearly half of Yewei County. We robbed several months of food and a lot of iron tools. We could also move three to four thousand people back to Durham.
There are many outstanding craftsmen and farmers among them. Our strength has increased a lot. Now we stop and plan for follow-up. We can still occupy a local advantage. If we force a war, the defense line in the territory will be empty. Once we lose, it will be difficult to resist. King Ella.
After this matter is done, you can then free up your hands to bribe and deal with Sals, know his intentions, and solve other problems. This is "abandon first and take later". "
Nan'anpu agreed very much and immediately went down to prepare what Oran ordered.
Among them, the most troublesome problem is population migration.
Oran directly used intimidation to have Shi Meng's people make several raids, and successfully transferred the population of several knight leaders to King's Landing.
The food provided for them was food stolen from their territories.
Each household was resettled and given a meal, and the soldiers allowed the refugees to shout Olan's name and praise his kindness.
In order to paralyze the opponent, Oran also released news that he would take the initiative to attack, and asked Jinya and other Vikings in the north to wait for the Oran troops to arrive and catch them all in one fell swoop.
But another week passed, and there was one more Christian Sabbath. The shadow of Oran did not appear. The Vikings' men and horses were even able to move southward until they approached Haizhen before they were driven away.
July 5, 865 AD.
The special envoy (a hundred-man guard) sent by King Ella entered Dan City and came towards King's Landing.
