"Go tell Kairos and ask him to give up Olegaburg... No, let him burn Olegaburg, take everything he can and return it to Siyuan City! Since Fear Legion's cavalry is so powerful, we cannot fight with them in the wild!"
Emperor Marius closed his eyes and gave the order through gritted teeth.
Shadow Centurion immediately obeyed the order and turned around to leave. The spear bag on his back was empty.
"I'm sorry, Sura, my friend, I know Olegaburg has your station... You have come all the way to help me, but I can only sacrifice your auditorium."
Emperor Marius turned around and spoke to a dark corner in the hall.
"This is what it should be, Your Majesty. The auditorium can be rebuilt at any time. As long as we can defeat Fear Legion, we are willing to pay any price... By not letting Snake Worship Cult know that we are here, the Shadow Wolf can play a greater role..."
A warrior wearing a wolf-shaped helmet walked out of the shadows. "You are as great as Emperor Manius. I am very lucky to have met the wise emperor on both continents...Shadow Wolf Pack will accept all your instructions and will never regret it."
The wolf head extending out of the helmet should be to block light. The eyes of this warrior named Sura are blood red, but they are exactly the opposite of Emperor Marius.
The whites of Marius' eyes were bloodshot, which was caused by fatigue;
But Sura has blood-colored pupils, which are obviously formed by spending many years in the darkness.
Probably not used to being in a well-lit place, Sura took two steps back and hid in the shadows again.
"Sura, I will rebuild the garrison for you in Sava Fortress. After Kairos's army enters the city... help me clean up those guys in his army who have an affair with Snake Worship Cult... no matter who they are."
Emperor Marius whispered the order, but it seemed a little difficult to give the order.
"Please rest assured, Your Majesty, I guarantee that in a few days there will no longer be anyone related to Snake Worship Cult in the entire Siyuan City."
Sura lowered his head and said, "Your Majesty, we really cannot compete head-on with the Fear Legion, but Phoenix Knight Order should be coming soon. General Titus's fleet will take them to land directly from Siyuan City. I think you should prepare horses for them."
"I must thank Ash Descendants Empire for all his help..."
Emperor Marius nodded.
"If you hadn't asked General Titus to bring the fleet to support, our port would have been completely occupied by Snake Worship Cult two months ago. Your selfless help will of course be exchanged for Ash Descendants's full support. In order to deal with Snake Worship Cult, we must unite everything..."
Sura bowed slightly, then retreated into the darkness and disappeared.
Three days later, Olegaburg burst into flames.
Siyuan City's defensive battle looks like it will continue.
Pendor Calendar 355 December.
Long River Town.
Granlon and Forster reported to Li Ang that under the witness of Misty Marsh Fortress Lord Baron Heriwold, they successfully destroyed Three Prophets's lair and 'found' the king's seal.
It's just that they didn't meet Three Prophets, and they don't know where Three Prophets is now...
But the two of them did receive a pardon from King Ulrich at Lion City and successfully came aboard with their names cleared.
At the same time, both of them lost their inheritance rights to Lion Lake City.
Forster's crime of kinicide was put on Milgan, and the crime of treason was also recognized on the basis of "interests" - King Ulrich did not make things difficult for him, after all, there was no need for the king to push him into the arms of the enemy.
Because the fact that he was exiled by Alma was public, Alma's exile of him actually deprived him of his inheritance rights. As long as it is Horton Family's property, it has nothing to do with Forster now.
The same goes for Granlon. King Ulrich agrees that Nerida succeeds Duke Alma. It is also true that Granlon divorced Nerida, so Granlon does not get any inheritance rights.
But in this kind of divorce initiated by the woman, Granlon can get the dowry Nerida brought when she got married.
So Granlon became the lord of Payne Village as a knight, and still led Lion Lake City First Banner Guard.
And Forster got his original territory Ermined Village, also as a knight - this was after Alma occupied Long River Town last year. The territory obtained for Forster in order to deal with Count Oden belongs to Forster's own legal territory and has nothing to do with the Horton Family.
Now that they are no longer traitors, King Ulrich will give them fair treatment.
Subsequently, King Ulrich announced a wedding...
He asked Alanric Prince to marry Horton Family, an eight-year-old girl...
This wedding was not only very weird, but also very hasty - from the announcement of the engagement to the completion of the wedding, it only took a day and a half. A banquet in the Imperial Palace solved all the problems, and the banquet did not wait for any guests at all.
The people who participated in the wedding were only the nobles in Lion City. As a family member of 'Princess Prince', only five or six people from the Horton Family were present...
Just after the wedding, the first-class noble title Duke of Lion Lake City was awarded to the eight-year-old girl.
Then Lion City Noble Council publicly announced that Duke of Lion Lake City would hand over all titles and affairs to her husband Alanric Prince.
According to Noble Council, the eight-year-old girl was originally the grand-niece of Alma, who was adopted to Duke Alma's daughter Nerida when she was born eight years ago.
This kind of blood relationship is equivalent to biological adoption, so this can be regarded as the biological granddaughter of Duke Alma and the first heir of Ms. Nerida.
Of course Granlon knows that this girl has nothing to do with Nerida, but no one will delve into this matter at this time. Anyway, no one at the Horton Family said anything.
Therefore, Lion Lake City nominally became the fiefdom of Alanric Prince.
But except for Prince, who showed up when he was 'getting married', he had been 'recuperating' in the tower of Lion City at other times, and could not go to Lion Lake City.
So Lion Lake City was temporarily under the management of Royal Knights, and King Ulrich built a new auditorium for Lion Knight Order in Lion Lake City.
Obviously, the king plans to replenish the Lion Knights who have suffered heavy losses in Lion Lake City.
Overall, Ulrich's decisions are very reasonable, but they are a bit petty.
Even Granlon feels that this is both upright and upright, and he has to find the rules within the rules.
In fact, Granlon and Forster came to Li Ang not mainly to report the situation, but to swear allegiance.
Both Granlon and Forster are now knights, and they currently have no one to be loyal to - they were both loyal to Duke Alma before, but Alma died.
It is the end of the year. As the largest lord in the eastern region, Li Ang, the newly promoted Earl, has welcomed the traditional project of Lion Territory - the allegiance from knights and knights' retinues.
Long River Town changed its flag continuously in the past two years. Duke Elfwan and Duke Alma died one after another. Madam Bella became a heretic, and Lord Malbert returned to Cliff Bay... This caused many knights to lose their allegiance.
At the same time, the continuous wars caused many knights to die on the battlefield. During the time when Three Prophets was causing trouble, many small nobles gave up their territories to follow Three Prophets, and many knights went bankrupt as a result.
Nowadays, the eastern region is full of these dilapidated nobles who have no loyalties, knights who have lost their territories, and retinues whose masters have died.
Most of these people will choose to swear allegiance to the largest local lord at the end of the year.
The reason why they all carry out this traditional project at the end of the year is mainly because these people want to avoid tax collection time...
Of course, knights with fiefdoms could not do this and declare themselves loyal to the king - but that would mean that they had to face all disasters alone, with no one to support them, and they would inevitably face the encroachment of the surrounding lords and the difficulties of the kingdom's tax officials...
Just like a Pioneer Lord, you have to face everything alone, and you can't be absent when you have to fulfill your obligations, such as being called up to fight.
But their own territory is limited, and they cannot expand at will at the border like Pioneer Lord, and they do not have Pioneer Lord's one-year tax exemption...
For most knights, having a suitable boss is much better than fighting alone, especially those warriors who only know how to fight and not engage in economic construction - otherwise they are likely to go bankrupt after a defeat.
As for the followers whose master died, they must follow a new lord to get another chance to stand up again.
The number of knights under Li Ang, the newly promoted Earl, is very small, so there will definitely be more opportunities.
Therefore, the lord has to accept many people kneeling down on one knee and swearing oaths to him every day in recent days...
The allegiance ceremony of the servants is actually very simple. It is like kneeling down on one knee, making a cross and praying, and then swears allegiance to the lord.
The lord needs to hold their hands in front of the statue of Goddess of Order to express acceptance.
Due to the large number of knights' retinues who lost their masters, these retinues were originally the children of nobles. Although they were all second sons or side branches, according to tradition, they had to swear allegiance to the lord individually one by one...
As a result, the Long River Town lord hall has been receiving servants lining up to pledge their loyalty every day in the past few days. All kinds of messy swallow-tailed flags and shields are dazzling, and the mud outside the city is trampled to pieces by horses passing by.
Li Ang I've been in a trance these past few days. I have to be greeted by hundreds of dirty men every day with courtship gestures, which makes me feel like I'm in a trance...
Fortunately, after all, this is strengthening the strength. Every time he meets someone, it means that his military strength has increased by one point. These people are all qualified warriors.
There were quite a lot of followers who came to seek refuge, close to 300 people. Lion Territory really had too many noble children.
There are also quite a few Broken Knights, more than a dozen of them, almost all of them bankrupt, and some are so poor that they don't even have armor - they were obviously sold off...
Of course, the knight's allegiance ceremony will be more formal. You have to make gestures with the sword on the shoulder, and the lord also has to recite an oath.
But knights and soldiers are never the same.
What the retinues are currently pursuing is just formal noble status, which is easy to arrange.
However, what these traditional knights want is to get back their old territory or obtain a new territory. The concepts of these demands are completely different, and the lords naturally have to treat them in different ways.
It happened that Granlon and Forster came to seek refuge, so Li Ang handed over all the knights who came to seek refuge with him to Forster, and then gave Forster a task.
Suppress bandits.
The cold winter has arrived, Pande Continent The northern countries no longer fight with each other.
Raven Kingdom was once again attacked by many Misty Mountains raiding teams, and the Vanskery pirates once again went south to spend the winter in Fieltzwe's territory on the west coast. Everything was no different from before.
And Lionheart Kingdom After the winter tax every year, there will always be a large number of bandits and bandits, which is no different from before.
In fact, after January next year, many 'bandits and bandits' will return to the villages and become good citizens...
And the so-called 'Misty Mountain people' and 'pirates' that Raven Kingdom and Fieltzwe encountered may not all come from the Misty Mountains or Vanskery...
Of course, the lords of various countries will also lead troops to pursue and suppress them, but these so-called 'bandits' who are more familiar with the terrain than the locals are difficult to eradicate, and the lords themselves actually understand this...
Yes, everything is no different from before, Pande Continent has been like this for more than a hundred years.
Right now, there are many 'robbers' appearing around Long River Town.
But what is rare is that most of the bandits near Long River Town do not seem to be poor people in ragged clothes. From time to time, you can actually see some heraldic burqas on them...
Although they also have a sneaky and bullying style, it is obvious that these so-called bandits and robbers like Long River Town are not skilled in business skills, and even their ability to hide their whereabouts is quite poor.
However, these guys are very well-informed and can always successfully transfer before Eric's anti-bandit troops arrive.
In fact, both the lord and Eric know the identities of these so-called bandits, but they are not familiar with these people and it is difficult to find them.
So the lord decided to leave this matter to Forster...
Because Forster is relatively familiar with these so-called bandits.
Most of them are local nobles who have lost their allegiance, but are not willing to obey the rule of Li Ang.
Some became bandits in order to evade taxes, some were habitual robbers at this time, and some were forced to take a 'loan' from a bank and then ran away with the money.
Forster is really good at dealing with these guys.
He first went to the bank with great fanfare and took out a loan, using his territory Ermined as collateral. The loan amount was large, a full 20,000 dinars, and he began to recruit troops.
This is a real loan, and it is made known to everyone. After all, this is the largest single loan of Pande Bank.
Then he led his troops to create a major case - he robbed a convoy transporting taxes from Long River Town to Lion City, costing him a total of 75,000 dinars...
After the robbery, the knights all dispersed, and Forster led the troops to Trublen Village.
This incident naturally caused an uproar, and the entire Long River Town was a sensation.
It didn't take long for taverns and villages all over the country to know that the tax money had been robbed by Forster. It was said that Forster, the former 'Duke of Lion Lake', seemed to be planning to form a coalition to jointly oppose the tyranny of Count Li Ang's forced loans, and was recruiting people at a high price.
There is also a code word "one month enters the long river" spread across various places...
So, one group after another of 'bandits' went to Trublen.
Maybe some are doing it to fight against others, maybe some are joining Forster to jointly deal with Li Ang, and maybe some have other unseen purposes...
But on the last day of December, all the 'bandits' disappeared in Trublen.
And Forster did enter Long River Town on January 1st, and handed back 95,000 dinars to the lord in public... At the same time, he refuted the rumors in public, saying that someone had pretended to be him and committed a crime before, and he just killed the bandits.
Anyway, no matter what others think, at least the matter is resolved, and it has nothing to do with the lord...
Forster knows that this is a declaration of surrender, and it is the duty of the new Ma Zai to take the blame for the boss.
"How many people died?"
The lord is extremely satisfied with the performance of Forster. This level is indeed the true inheritance of Duke Alma.
"I haven't counted them. I can't count them all in the middle of the night... But sir, I have to tell you that one of them is Lion Knight, who is also a baron..."
Forster Xian showed no emotion at all when he mentioned killing.
"Baron? Where was his original fiefdom?"
The lord did not expect that there were high-ranking nobles involved.
"It's Trublen. But there are no villagers in that place, so he went around robbing some time ago. He is probably one of Duke Brennus's subordinates. I heard that his methods are very cruel. The group of people originally regarded him as their leader..."
Forster shook his head. "But I didn't have time to ask his name. I only knew that everyone called him captain, and he was Lion Knight Order's military attache."
"I'm not interested in knowing the name of a dead person, no matter who he is... Trublen will still let your men stationed there. The residents of Wheat Fragrance Territory may gradually move there, but Brennus won't care about it."
Li Ang didn't care much. Anyway, Lion Knight died in the hands of Forster, and it had nothing to do with him...
"Do you need to send those trophies to Long River Town?"
Forster acted very sensible.
"My rule here is that the loot belongs to whoever gets it. You don't have to hand it over, it's all yours."
The lord behaved quite generously. "In addition, Forster, if you can make your territory prosperous and prosperous, and all the people living in the territory will live a happy and prosperous life... then, I will help you get back Lion Lake City..."
"I will do my best... my lord... but why?"
Forster was stunned for a moment. He obviously didn't expect Li Ang to say that.
Lion Lake City, this is of course Forster's deepest wish, and he can even commit treason for it.
But he didn't understand why Li Ang was willing to help him when he could already control him?
The lord patted him on the shoulder. "I never treat a sincere friend badly, no matter what he has done."
It's easy to have a smart person who can do dirty work under you. Long River Town is quite clean now and everything is running well.
Thousands of new recruits were called to Long River Town. Jocelyn's training of new recruits is excellent, and the two-month training is about to be completed.
A large amount of weapons and equipment were continuously transported, and the warehouses were filled with grain and grass.
Eagle Claw Fortress also sent thousands of horses, which were the trophies from killing Gatu people last time.
The Lord's overall strength can be said to have improved by leaps and bounds now, and he lacks almost everything.
However, the gods of the Pande Continent probably don't want to let the lord take his time and concentrate on development...
Pendor Calendar In early January of 356, an uninvited guest came to Long River Town.
That was a very beautiful Bax girl, and she brought several Radiant Cross Knights with her. The girl was holding the flag of Emperor Marius.
"Count Li Ang, I am here to ask for help on behalf of His Majesty the Emperor..."