On September 30, 996, the year of the God Emperor, the road from Viscount Lot to Baron Galloping Horse was almost flat, with only a small river and some sparse trees.
A convoy was traveling along the dirt road between the two castles. The convoy was led by the steward of the Lot territory. The entire convoy consisted of 6 carriages and transported 1 ton of grain, 15 pork fans, spices, wood, live poultry, etc. Supplies, these things were all on Viscount Roth's list a few days ago.
According to the verbal agreement between the Viscount of Lot and the Gray Goose Tribe, after obtaining these things, the Gray Goose Tribe will return to the north, and this barbarian's southward movement will end.
Just a few hundred meters behind the convoy, 25 armored knights were following the truck from a distance. The leader was Viscount Bob, the former deputy leader of the Maned Wolf Knights.
Since Bob went to the Benma Plain 8 years ago and met the leader of the Gray Goose Tribe who had just eaten the salt mine at that time, the trading relationship between the two companies has continued since then. Bob not only represented the people in the Northwest Earl Territory The salt business in the territories of several viscounts and barons also introduced the Frostwolf family from the royal capital of Dragon Tooth City to the Gray Goose tribe.
This family's business covers multiple kingdoms and principalities. It can be regarded as the largest large-scale business family in the entire human race, as well as the young man from the Blue Dragon family.
After introducing the two people to the Gray Goose Tribe, the tribe has entered a new stage. Starting from the third year of their acquaintance, the Gray Goose Tribe sold more black-scaled horses to Bob every year, and Bob knew If you want Gray Goose to provide more horses, you need to give them more food.
So Bob's caravan went to the Gray Goose tribe once every spring and autumn, and sent another caravan to the Marquis territory in the south of the dragon to buy a large amount of aged grain. These aged grains, calculated in copper coins, were sent to the northernmost part of the kingdom. On the plains, black-scaled horses and salt were exchanged for gold coins. This is the Lott family's business experience.
Of course, it is impossible to completely offset the price of 20 war horses with grain alone, so you also need to purchase rune versions, magic crystals, magic sealing boxes, magic pattern lamps and other magic tools that rely on magic crystals to operate from the royal capital.
The barbarians have salt mines and war horses, but gold coins are of little use to the barbarians. At the same time, the barbarian tents on the grasslands are far less comfortable than the castles full of magic circles of human nobles. Therefore, the barbarians who have obtained a large amount of cash are eager to exchange gold coins for improving their lives. Quality magic tool.
At the same time, because the barbarian demons cannot feel the operation of magic, they cannot understand even the simplest rune boards, and there is no need to worry that these rune boards will be defended by the barbarians.
However, Viscount Bob still did not expect that the Gray Goose tribe had become more powerful than he imagined in the past seven years of continuous trade.
In the first year of business, the leader of the Gray Goose Tribe gave all the salt in the camp to Viscount Bob, and also sold him his mount, which allowed Viscount Bob to feel the strength of the Gray Goose Tribe.
However, only in the second year, when Bob brought Mace Frostwolf to the Gray Goose tribe, Gray Goose had already prepared enough black scale horses, and the Viscount even felt that the goods he brought could not bring all the horses. Walk.
By the time he reaches his third year, Bob needs to sell some rune boards and magic crystals. After that, Bob is no longer even the biggest business target of the Gray Goose Tribe. Blue Dragon and Shuang Lang will all go to the Gray Goose Tribe for large-scale sales. trade, but fall behind.
What Bob couldn't tolerate was that starting from before spring, Bob even heard that other viscounts in the earldom were also going around with Gray Goose.
In Bob's eyes, the so-called Gray Goose Tribe is just an agent in the Galloping Horse Plains that he supports. Although this tribe is a large tribe in the southern part of the Galloping Horse Plains, the total number of barbarian demon-supporters in the tribe is impossible. More than 100 people.
They also need to invest more than 50 people to maintain the security of the salt mine, and also need to put some cavalry on guard at the Cornico Pass. There will not be more than 20 cavalry people who can go to the Galloping Horse Barony.
Bob has entered the plains many times and has a good understanding of the habits of the barbarians. Although the barbarians have the physique of an intermediate knight, it is only a general concept.
Just like the black-scaled horse is indeed a good horse, but in various knights, even the black-scaled horse needs several months of training before it can be called a qualified war horse.
The barbarian tribes cannot use combat skills or fighting spirit in battle, and the barbarian cavalry with strong physical fitness can only charge hard.
The power of the human knights lies in the changes in fighting habits, senses and techniques caused by fighting spirit. Junior knights who have undergone long-term fighting spirit training can condense the fighting spirit in their bodies and strengthen their bodies even if they cannot display their fighting spirit skills on the plains of galloping horses. , you can still fight back and forth with the barbarians.
Viscount Bob, who had many battlefield experiences, decided to teach Gray Goose a lesson.
Bob is the most talented and capable viscount since the Galloping Horse family moved into the Lot territory. He is a senior knight himself and has many connections in Dragon Tooth City and Maned Wolf City.
After sealing the title, Bob was cultivating relationships in Maned Wolf City, Dragon Tooth City, and several other earls and marquis cities, while sending the caravan to the Galloping Horse Plains, turning his Lot territory into a border trade hub. Place of transit.
With the gold coins brought by trade, Bob himself selected 12 junior knights and 5 intermediate knights from his former knights' colleagues and classmates to come to the territory to become his family knights.
Nowadays, the knight squadron with 25 knights is Bob's biggest reliance. With such strength, Bob is not afraid of the barbarian cavalry from the Gray Goose tribe.
In Bob's opinion, the Benma Plain is the place where his family will prosper in the future. Nowadays, this Gray Goose tribe has not only relied on itself to rise, but it is actually planning to invade the south, forcing itself to pay for food in the name of food shortage.
Originally, he wanted to spread out the Baron of Galloping Horse and let the barbarians take them away. Lot himself sent some demon-free people to re-enter the barony, making Baron of Galloping Horse a territory where the people were nominally protected but the nobles were taken captive. In this way, Roth As a close relative of Huck, Viscount Te can place his youngest son as a baron.
Your own knights can arrange for some to become enfeoffed knights. They can also do business with Gray Goose when they go to Galloping Horse Plains in the future, and you can even take care of the Galloping Horse family.
However, by coincidence, the branch of his family did not understand things and did not know how to protect the main branch. The fourth son of the youngest baron actually ran away with the entire people;
The prince just sat back and watched, keeping the knights in the Maned Wolf City. Now he can only rely on himself and the accumulated knights to drive out these barbarians.
. . . . . . . . . . . .
As the carriage gradually moved forward, Lotland's housekeeper could already see the castle of Baron Galloping Horse.
Not long after walking, a patrol of barbarian cavalry came over. After a brief inquiry, the cavalry led the steward and the convoy to the castle.
In the original baron's room on the second floor of the castle, Butler Lot met the leader of Gray Goose.
"Have the Viscount's supplies arrived?" the leader asked nonchalantly.
"Yes, Chief Gray Goose, my Viscount has sent 6 carts of supplies, which are just outside the castle. Please check."
"Okay, let me take a look." The leader of Gray Goose checked the inventory of goods on the carriage handed over by the butler. "It's very good. It seems to be consistent with what we agreed."
"Of course, my Lord Viscount always keeps his word. What do you think of your team?"
"Of course, we will evacuate here according to the agreement with the Viscount." The leader smiled and called to the barbarians in the Baron's castle to prepare to leave.
Soon, 25 cavalrymen in the castle gathered, and then 10 people guarded 6 carriages. The other 15 people were divided into 2 waves, 10 people opened the way, and 5 people stayed behind. A carriage escorted by a group of people headed north.
On the way from Galloping Horse Territory to the plains, you will pass through a section of Lot Territory. There is a small forest on the slope of the road. Here lies Viscount Roth and his squadron of knights.
The Viscount first saw the 10 barbarians walking in front of the carriage, and then the first carriage. At this time, all the knights had already mounted their horses. When the third carriage passed by, the Viscount led a squadron of knights to rush down the slope.
The barbarians had already seen the Viscount when they just rushed out of the woods. Without any hesitation, all the barbarians abandoned their carriages and headed towards the Cornico Pass.
Although the barbarian cavalry are all leather armor and the Viscount's knights are all iron armor, the distance between the two sides is getting closer and closer.
The first group combat skill that members of the Knights need to train is to transfer their fighting spirit to their mounts. Therefore, south of the Cornico Valley, even light-armored cavalry cannot outrun iron-armored knights.
The distance between the two sides kept getting closer, and Bob had already seen the last cavalryman in front. He concentrated all his fighting spirit on the tip of the lance. When the two horses were less than two meters apart, the fighting spirit was thrust forward with the tip of the lance. Although the tip of the spear was still a little far away from the back of the barbarian cavalry, the fighting spirit had already rushed into the cavalry's body, the thin leather armor was torn to pieces, and the cavalry fell to the ground.
There is another hillside ahead. When going uphill, all the horses will slow down, but the knights can use fighting spirit to keep the horses faster, especially the black scale horses. The magic elements of the wind system can be condensed on the horse's hooves, and the knights can We can use fighting spirit to make the proportion of wind elements on the horse's hooves higher and flow more smoothly.
In an instant, Bob impaled the second barbarian, who was dismounted before he could even shout, and then the third and fourth barbarians.
Finally, all the remaining 19 barbarians reached the top of the slope, and then continued running northeast along the edge of the slope.
Bob was willing to let them go at the moment. However, just as Bob was concentrating on picking out a cavalryman, he was suddenly hit on his helmet.
Bob wore an iron helmet, and his sight was narrow. He was staring at the barbarian cavalry in front, and he had no idea what was going on on the flanks.
At this moment, he heard other knights shouting, so he opened his helmet.
Around the slope, there were about 150 cavalry surrounding Bob's knights.
The cavalry did not stop, but circled around Bob's knights.
This is the first time Bob has seen so many barbarian cavalry as Viscount Roth.
The knights gathered together, and at this moment Bob knew that he had fallen into the trap. Not only him, but also Huck and Earl Maned Wolf had fallen into the trap.
From the very beginning, Gray Goose had no intention of robbing a family and leaving. They even said that they might not know whether Gray Goose had not grabbed the rand.
This gray goose is really crazy now. He actually brought a large group of barbarians to the interior of the Dragon Kingdom.
"Why, some cavalry dare to challenge the knights?" Lot sneered. "When did you barbarians have this illusion, thinking that you can defeat the knights with more people?"
Lot shouted, and all the members of the Knight Squadron immediately took charge formation, and the entire squadron rushed in one direction.
There was a loud "bang", and the Viscount fell to the ground before he could break through the cavalry. Then many knights heard a strange whistle, the whistle was melodious.
With the whistle, the horses under the knights suddenly started to stir. Without the strongest captain, the horses stirred again, and the remaining knights' formation quickly shattered.
With the roar, 150 barbarian cavalry rushed into the knight's formation in a roundabout way. Although the knights could still barely control their horses at this moment, they had no intention of fighting in the face of the overwhelming number of barbarians.
"Boom" was heard again. An intermediate knight was hit by a bolt of lightning and fell to the ground. Then the leader of the barbarian tribe rode a horse and crashed into another intermediate knight. The knight was knocked to pieces, and the war horse suddenly ran away. Soon the knight He was thrown off his horse and pierced by numerous cavalry spears.
The combat power of the six intermediate knights and above was instantly reduced by half. The remaining junior knights and knight apprentices were not in the mood to fight anymore, and they were all preparing to break out.
. . . . . . . . . . .
As the sun set, atop the tower of Roth Castle, a demon wielder of the Roth family looked in vain toward the Cornico Pass. This Demon Holder is the illegitimate son of Viscount Roth. Originally, the Viscount would not care about such an illegitimate child, but the 16-year-old child inspired the Demon Holder.
Although he had basically no potential for promotion, he had added combat power to the family, so he was left in the castle by Viscount Roth to guard the castle while the viscount led the main force out.
The bastard saw a group of knights coming over from the northern hillside. They were riding black scale horses and had the temperament of Lot's territory.
"Finally back, the barbarians are gone!" The bastard didn't think much, and took the demon-free people in the castle to the gate of the castle to welcome the arrival of the viscount.
As the knights got closer and closer, the bastard rehearsed in his mind how to appreciate the valor of the viscount and the strength of his brothers. However, what he didn't expect was that the knights only stopped for a moment when they arrived, and one of them shouted loudly, "The Viscount is injured, get out of the way."
"Father, you are so powerful... What? The Viscount is injured?... Why don't you get out of the way quickly and let the Viscount go in quickly without blocking the way."
The knights embraced the viscount into the castle, and the illegitimate son hurriedly followed him in with the demonless ones in panic.
"Father, how are you? Are you seriously injured? Do you want to go to Maned Wolf City to invite a priest?" The bastard followed the knights, but when he saw the "Viscount" who had his back turned to him, he took off his helmet. , the illegitimate son suddenly felt that this figure was very strange, "Father...Father?"
When the other party turned around, the bastard saw an unfamiliar face and froze on the spot.
