The huge army and loot slowly advanced towards Northwind Flower Fortress. Behind the army, the straight black smoke in the sky disappeared into the Cloud Sea.
Although extremely tired, Ryan is still more aware that the disaster caused by ignoring the corpses in the war will be more terrible. He asked the slaves to clean the battlefield while piling up all the corpses, digging pits and burning them.
As for the subsequent burial issues, we have to leave it to Baron Barnes. This is his territory.
But in the future, this land will probably become very fertile, right?
The army advanced in silence. The war and fatigue made the soldiers and prisoners weak. It was joyful to survive, but they had to wait for them to rest before they could celebrate.
"Lord Ryan."
Lynn came to Ryan and said hesitantly that after experiencing the war, this young man had grown up and respected Ryan.
"Let's go back to Flower of Northwind. Isn't it already compromised?"
Ryan shook his head.
"Flower of Northwind, how can that ancient castle be broken so easily? As long as Baron Barnes is not stupid enough to open the castle door and let the enemy in, there will be no problem."
In fact, Ryan still thinks highly of this Baron Barnes.
There is a stupid son in a landlord's family, but even a stupid son will inherit a huge amount of property, and it will not be anyone else's turn to squander it.
This is how Baron Barnes feels to Ryan today.
Maybe Baron Barnes is ambitious, smart, and understands the rules of the game between nobles. He also made his Baron leader the most powerful military leader Baron under the two viscounts Zero Crossing Prefecture. He is a hundred times better than Divine Steed Territory's prodigal Baron Hatton.
But he just did something stupid
When he was returning with more than a thousand troops, outside Flower of Northwind, when he saw the troops of the nobles on Count Weiss and Viscount Miles, he panicked. Facing twice as many enemies as himself, he asked his men in the castle to open the heavy door.
Forget it, if he can return to the castle, his soldiers can easily resist these enemies.
The problem was that after his army returned from running for reinforcements for an hour and a half, they could no longer run to the other side on the hillside in front of their home.
When Baron Barnes arrived at the gate of the fortress, the tail of his army had been caught by the chasing enemy.
If the castle gate was closed at this time and the battle was fought, Barnes might still be able to win the war, but he was too panicked. When he rushed into the castle, the soldiers behind him had no scruples and began to push forward in panic, trying to enter the castle.
At that time, the thought in these soldiers' minds was that they would die if they stayed. Only by rushing into the castle, the tall fortress would block all threats for them.
This was especially true for the soldiers at the rear, so the army was still in chaos.
The gate of the castle was only so big. How could more than a thousand people pass through quickly? The beginning of the fighting was a massacre.
The army composed of slaves is like this. There is no problem in the downwind situation, so when the battle begins with one-sided killing, the winner is already clear.
In the end, it was Barnes Family's Guardian Knight who stood up and blocked the entrance of the castle. He led the soldiers who had entered the castle to recover and fought in a bloody battle before repelling the enemy.
It can only be said that there is a reason why Baron Barnes is regarded as the most powerful Baron of Zero Crossing Prefecture. Of course, the castle of Flower of Northwind is located halfway up the mountain. Slope problems and road problems also caused the balance of victory to tilt.
However, Barnes's army was still at his doorstep, leaving more than five hundred corpses behind.
When Ryan came to Flower of Northwind Castle, what he saw was the army belonging to those nobles, plundering under the castle of Baron Barnes Flower of Northwind in the village and town only more than a thousand meters away from the castle.
The arrival of the Ryan army stopped the looting, but many of the houses had been burned down. There were constant sounds of crying and wailing, and naked corpses were lying on the already muddy streets.
Clothes are inherently important to soldiers composed of slaves, and these are the only trophies that will not be taken away by the lord after they return to their territory, because they really don't like them.
But these clothes allowed those slaves to survive the cold winter.
The arrival of the Ryan army made all parties nervous, but his Mithril Armor was really dazzling, so the coalition of nobles began to retreat, while the Barnes army on the other side gathered on the wall of the castle.
Harrington rode a war horse to the center of the open space and shouted to the coalition of nobles:
"Your army has been defeated. Do you still plan to start a second war here?"
Among the coalition forces, an obviously gorgeous young man came out on horseback. A tall figure followed him, looking in the direction of Ryan.
"Baron Ryan..."
The young man's eyes were fixed on Ryan. He never thought that his uncle failed again and was defeated by the same person.
He was extremely afraid of Ryan at this moment. It would be fine if he didn't pay attention before, but now, he thinks that Ryan is the same as him. Their fathers are both powerful earls. They are the more noble heirs of the great aristocracy, and they are members of the same circle.
The failure of this war made him regard it as his failure in facing Ryan.
"My name is Casto·Ves. You will remember my name because this will become a nightmare in your life."
After leaving these words, Casto turned and left, but the tall figure next to him looked over, and his eyes fell on Brandt next to Ryan.
"I will use your head to honor my brother."
He raised his foot and kicked the boulder next to him. The next moment, the boulder roared and shattered into pieces.
"Golden Knight..."
Ryan and Brandt's expressions were a little solemn.
"Count Weiss's subordinates, Golden Knight should not be many, but one of them actually appeared in Zero Crossing Prefecture."
"Can you handle it?"
Ryan asked Brandt, who was silent for a moment and then said:
"It still needs a little time."
He is about to break through. In less than a year since receiving the blessing, he will become a Silver Knight. Such a talent makes Ryan envious.
"Even if you break through, you can only deal with the lower limit of Golden Knight. I hope that Casto is not a favored guy."
Ryan knew that Weiss Ducal Family's eldest son was not Casto, so he didn't quite understand this.
Arranging his own army to imprison the prisoners in the previous military camp, Ryan led hundreds of people into Flower of Northwind.
When he saw Baron Barnes again, this middle-aged man was extremely angry.