Southeast of the Cornico Pass lies the Blue Magpie Castle, the largest border castle in the Dragon Kingdom.
The castle is located on a delta where two rivers intersect.
The castle consists of a main castle and three auxiliary castles forming a fortress complex. From the observation deck of the castle, you can overlook the Roth territory to the west.
At noon on October 12th, the northwest Earl Kempins Maned Wolf held his hand on the railing of the castle observatory and looked at the groups of barbarian cavalry on the other side of the river more than ten kilometers away.
"You said you saw at least 100 cavalry at that time, but I'm afraid it's already more than that now.
The total number of barbarians we saw outside various guard towers and noble territories even exceeded 300. Never before have so many barbarians invaded the territory of the dragon. "Kabbins said solemnly.
"Sir, what I am reporting to you is the number of barbarians we saw about a month ago. With the fall of Lot, there must be more barbarians going south." The person who said this was Huck Galloping Horse, Lant's Father.
After escaping from the barbarian tribe 12 days ago, Huck, Ryan and Obote traveled around for more than ten days. They disguised themselves as lone barbarian cavalry and wandered through the Conic Valley.
After leaving the valley in the south, they immediately headed east into the southeastern remains of Cornico. When they were about to approach the Blue Magpie Castle, they caught up with the knights led by the Maned Wolf Count and stationed in the Blue Magpie Castle.
When the knights saw the two "savages" suddenly appearing, they immediately became vigilant. Fortunately, the deputy captain of the knights and the well-known social master of Maned Wolf City, Deputy Captain Crony Red Dragon, noticed the abnormality.
Under great pressure, he stepped forward to recognize Huck and his two sons, and finally allowed the count to piece together the truth about the two territories south of Cornico that had been invaded by barbarians.
Earl Maned Wolf had already known through his own network that although both Huck and Bob were doing business with the barbarians, Huck obviously had a better bottom line. After he sensed the barbarians' changes this winter, he was ready to inform other nobles as soon as possible. .
After Bob also learned about the barbarian's movements, he did not hesitate to choose to trap Huck to save himself. However, he was played by the barbarian and his whole family was killed.
Now that Huck has returned from the Galloping Horse Plains, it has confirmed the previous speculation of the Earl of Maned Wolf, and the Earl naturally comforts Huck. "Huck, don't worry too much, I've received reliable information.
The people in your territory followed Albert and the others to the great forest. This is something everyone knows in the entire Lot territory.
As long as the people in the territory are saved, the title of your Benma family will never be removed. "
"Thank you, Lord Earl. What I am more worried about now is the war situation in recent winters. The fall of the Lot territory will only attract more barbarians, and now the nobles have not realized the seriousness of the barbarian invasion."
"You are right, these gentlemen have been at ease for too long," the earl teased his subordinates. However, he might have misjudged the situation because of the long period of peace.
"Sir, Lord Earl, we have the latest battle report!"
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Baron Jeor Mormont of Wild Bear Ridge was the first baron to prepare 10 knights to set off to Blue Magpie Castle after receiving the Earl's recruitment order. However, in the days after completing the preparations, Jeor Mormont Baron Ao has never been able to leave his Wild Bear Ridge.
The reason is very simple. A camp of more than 25 barbarian cavalry suddenly occupied outside their Wild Bear Ridge.
The intention of the barbarian cavalry is also obvious: to entangle them. In other words, it blocks the connection between Maned Wolf City and its southern vassals, preventing the troops of various viscounts and barons from supporting Blue Magpie Castle in time.
Yexiong Ridge is a small area, and some magic potions and magical beasts are produced in the mountains and forests.
Many of these valuable materials need to be exchanged with other territories for iron, salt, food and other living supplies, and some of them need to be provided to family knights to improve their strength. In the end, the resources that can be used to exchange for weapons and war horses are very limited.
Geo cannot equip each of his knights with black scale horses and iron armor. The most effective way to kill the barbarian cavalry is to kill the baron as an intermediate knight against a single cavalry.
The other knights are in trouble. They cannot catch up with the barbarians on horseback and will be entangled when they retreat. Unless they are extremely experienced junior knights, ordinary junior knights and reserve knights cannot hurt the armored barbarian cavalry.
Baron Geo tried to organize an attack a few days ago, but was almost surrounded. His eldest son was seriously injured in the battle. In the end, Geo himself stood behind the knights, so that the entire family would not be ruined on the way to Blue Magpie City. On the way.
After that, Geo, who failed to attack, could only hide in the mountains. Fortunately, the barbarians are not good at mountain warfare, and have no interest in entering the mountains and forests. They just want to stay in key areas and block the wishes of the human race.
Looking at the barbarian camp on the Lingbei Plain, Baron Jiao sighed, "This barbarian invasion is so abnormal. What happened to the Lot territory?"
"It doesn't matter what happened in the Lot territory now," the Wild Bear Ridge scholar said. "Jacques's injury is no longer something we can consider. He must be sent to the Maned Wolf City immediately to be treated by the priest of the temple."
"Yes, but how can we break through the group of cavalry in front of us?"
"I have a suggestion..."
An hour later, the barbarian camp developed and the knights from Wild Bear Ridge appeared again on the edge of the mountain, and the barbarian cavalry also immediately gathered.
The knights wandered around the edge of the woods in the mountains, occasionally going out onto the plains, but then immediately returned to the woods.
The wandering of the knights made the barbarian cavalry very hesitant. The barbarians did not like woodlands, let alone mountains. Therefore, the barbarians never entered the woods in the Yexiong Ridge mountainous area to pursue the knights. They usually only stopped after chasing them to the edge of the woods.
Now the Knights of Wild Bear Ridge are at the edge of the woods, as if they want to take a detour to the Maned Wolf City. They may also be deliberately leading the barbarians into the forest to defeat them one by one.
The barbarians were not sure of the knight's true purpose, but the previous battles proved that the barbarian cavalry could not get an advantage from the Wild Bear Ridge knights in the forest.
Finally, the barbarian leader saw that the knights were more than 2 kilometers away from the forest.
Although he still didn't know the intentions of these knights, the barbarian leader decided to lead his troops to intercept them immediately. He didn't want to kill these knights now, he just wanted to drive them back into the forest.
Watching his knights charge towards the barbarian cavalry, even knowing that they would return to the forest later.
But letting his subordinates serve as bait to cover his departure from the territory still gave Geo a sense of shame as a deserter.
The only thing he could do at this moment was to rush to Maned Wolf City as soon as possible, inform the count of the information from the south, and let his son receive treatment.
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Also facing the same predicament was the Elk Viscount. East of the Maned Wolf City, the Elk Viscount had a head-on conflict with the barbarian cavalry for the first time in his life.
The viscount led 20 knights and met a 25-man barbarian cavalry.
The viscount, 2 intermediate knights and 5 junior knights were all equipped with iron armor and black scale horses, but the reserve knights only had ordinary war horses and leather armor.
After the battle, Viscount Elk immediately discovered the gap in combat power between the two sides. He and the two intermediate knights were still able to deal with the fight between the three barbarians with their fighting spirit. The junior knights found that they could not defeat them and could evacuate with the aid of their black-scaled horses. However, 12 preparations The Cavaliers fell into a comprehensive disadvantage of being unable to penetrate, defend, catch up, and escape.
The barbarians do not pay attention to one-on-one chivalry, nor do they take care of the weak. They will cut them when they come up, and they will never fight alone if they can surround them.
The 21 knights immediately suffered casualties. In the end, only the intermediate knights were able to retreat to the castle. Even so, 2 reserve knights were killed and 4 were injured. This was the first time that Elk Castle was attacked by barbarians. .
The viscount stood on the gate of the castle and looked at the barbarians who were circling the castle in the distance.
"This is the battle of the barbarians. How did that guy Bob survive in the Cornico Pass for so many years?" Viscount Elk looked at his defeated soldiers and doubted himself.
"Lord Viscount, those barbarians... they went to lead the knights of Doron," a knight shouted loudly.
"What!" The Viscount knew that these barbarians were going to rob the knights. He had just been defeated and was unable to stop them.
Similar situations are happening constantly. The leader of Gray Goose divided 100 barbarians into four groups and went to the hinterland of Earl Maned Wolf's territory to carry out tasks such as harassment, robbery, and obstruction, so that Earl Maned Wolf's troops could not concentrate.
The leader of Gray Goose placed the main camp outside the Blue Magpie Castle, blocking the place where the Maned Wolf Knights could go.
After receiving the battle report, the Earl finally understood that the situation he faced at this moment was worse than he imagined.
His own troops cannot leave, and his subordinates' teams cannot get through either.
At this moment, the earl really wanted to lead the knights to attack the Gray Goose camp head-on, but there were no clergy in the Blue Magpie Castle, and he was afraid of suffering too many casualties.
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In the Gray Goose tent, the Gray Goose leader met the mysterious young man again.
"Congratulations to the leader for successfully taking over the Lot territory and approaching the Blue Magpie City." The young man said.
"Hahahaha, easy to talk about. In the end, I have to thank you for your plan." The Gray Goose leader looked very happy.
"With the wealth of Lot Castle, Chief, he will definitely be able to rule the entire Galloping Horse Plains. In the future, we will also rely on you, Chief, to do business in salt mines and black-scaled horses."
"Haha, it's easy to say. I have an old friendship with you, the former secretary."
"I... Chief, I am from the Imperial Salt and Iron Division." The young man was a little embarrassed. He had always claimed that he was from the Salt and Iron Division, but the barbarian leader in front of him recognized him as one from the Imperial Palace Division.
"Hey, what are you hiding from me? Yantiesi is represented by the Blue Dragon Family of the Dragon Kingdom on the Galloping Horse Plains.
The people in the Salt and Iron Division talk about salt price and salt quotation. They won’t tell me which territory has weak defenses or which earl has a conflict with the king. This is a matter of concern to your palace secretary, isn’t it? ? "
"this..."
"You are not the first imperial official to see me, and you are not even the first representative of the Palace Division that I have met. You humans only focus on your own affairs, and it is easy to tell where you are from."
"... Then... Leader, you should also know that the magisters and legends in the Dragon Kingdom are very concerned about your activities in the northwest territory. They will not sit back and watch you go deep into the northwest territory." Seeing that he could no longer hide it, the young man simply planned to ask Gray Goose to withdraw his troops.
"Of course, we prairie warriors do not intend to live behind the stone house, and I will not stay under the Blue Magpie City for too long."
"Then you..."
"Our salt mine is in urgent need of slaves. I will find some slaves here and then leave."
"But you are in Blue Magpie Castle...you...you won't send a small group of cavalry to plunder the human demon embracers in various territories, right?"
"Of course, if I don't send troops, can I still ask for it directly from the Earl?"
"Well, you didn't tell me this at the time. You said that you would go north after getting the wealth of Lot's territory." The young man found that the situation in front of him was getting out of control. He was very angry at Gray Goose's betrayal.
"Isn't this plan changed?" The leader of Gray Goose didn't care about the promise that the human race was interested in.
"You, aren't you afraid that if things get too big, the strong men of the Dragon Kingdom and the Human Empire will intervene?"
"Hey, how can you do that? Haven't you, the former secretary of the Imperial Palace, been covering up for me?
Aren't you confusing the strong dragon at the same time, and the old maned wolf at the same time?
Now that I have your cover, how can I give up this great opportunity? "
"you..."
"Didn't you receive a letter from your chief minister before you came here? You must ensure that the plan goes ahead."
"..." The young man did not expect that his actions had been monitored by the barbarian leader in front of him, but how did they know?
"Why are you looking at me like that?" The Gray Goose leader couldn't bear it anymore, "Oh, you want to know why I know your actions so well, right?
It's very simple. Do you still remember the former representative of the Salt Mine before you?
You may not know that he was killed in the tribal melee, but as an intermediate mage, he set up a surveillance circle in the room of the former salt mine leader.
Guess who lives in that room now? "
As the leader spoke, he took out a small mirror. This is a special magic mirror that can run on magic crystals. Through the magic mirror, you can see the situation in a specific room thousands of miles away.
"You...you actually dare to use the methods of the former secretary to spy on the representative of the former secretary!" The young man was irritated. At this moment, he was speaking fiercely, but he crossed his hands and put his hands into the wide cuffs.
There are several terrifying scrolls in the hidden pockets of the sleeves, the contents of which are enough to kill the ignorant barbarian in front of him.
However, before Young Ran could take out the scroll, his own body suddenly appeared in his field of vision, and the neck of his body was empty.
A tall barbarian stood behind the representative in front of the palace. He drew a knife between the flints and beheaded the representative.
"The edge of a knife can not only kill people, but also hurt yourself." The leader of Gray Goose said coldly. "If you treat others as a knife, you will always hurt yourself!"
