Of course the nobles had insight into Viscount Dragoon's methods, but they had no choice.
They must return to their own territory, otherwise they believe that they will lose everything except the soldiers brought to Zero Crossing City. Their people will appear as slaves in the territory of those attacking nobles, and their wealth and food in their warehouses will also be plundered. They believe that the other party can do this because they can do it themselves.
Similarly, as the leader of many nobles, Viscount Miles could not think of a way to deal with it.
Before today, no one would have known that Viscount Dragoon would do this. They had even built defenses at Zero Crossing City.
"Casto, what can you do?"
Viscount Miles looked at Casto·Ves sitting next to him, who also frowned.
He came to Zero Crossing Prefecture this time. One was to help Earl Miles so that his father could gain support from Zero Crossing Prefecture. The second was selfish. He wanted Miles Family to support him personally while supporting Weiss Family.
He knows his father's ambitions and what he wants, so for future plans, he wants a piece of his own rights.
This is inseparable from the support from all aspects of the Weiss Ducal Family. In his vision, Viscount Miles Family is the most important support among them.
So he was happy to help Viscount Miles, but he had already failed once, and he only had 1,500 troops left.
After a while, Casto looked up.
"Viscount Dragoon did this because he wanted us to leave Zero Crossing City and start a war with them. Since he wants it, let's just leave the city."
"Even without Zero Crossing City, we still have an absolute advantage. Don't forget, we have more soldiers, and we also have more knights."
Next to Viscount Miles, Rag still had some doubts. He looked at Casto and asked:
"But without Zero Crossing City, we will lose the advantage of the city, and we don't know if Viscount Dragoon has other support."
Casto looked at Rag with some surprise, then glanced at Kristan on the other side and said:
"Don't worry, the two earl families of Northwind Province did not provide support to Dragon. As for Zero Crossing Prefecture, there is only Baron of the Frozen Earth. Although his soldiers won the war, they also suffered heavy casualties and could not give Dragoon Family any help at all."
Hearing this, Viscount Miles felt relieved. He knew that going out of the city to fight Dragon was the best choice.
"Then..."
The old Viscount Miles coughed a few times and said weakly to other nobles:
"Miles Family will also support some of your soldiers so that you can repel the nobles who invade your territory."
"Thank you, Lord Viscount."
The nobles thanked Viscount Miles, and then left anxiously to return to their own territory.
This dispute between the two viscounts Zero Crossing Prefecture finally turned into a melee in the entire county.
In just the past two days, wars have broken out in the territories relatively close to Zero Crossing City. Every day that passes, new territorial wars will break out, ranging from battlefields of hundreds of people to fighting of thousands of people, permeating every corner of Zero Crossing Prefecture.
As for Ryan?
Ryan is training his soldiers.
He stood in the military camp Drill Ground, watching Brandt shouting angrily at the soldiers, and then thinking about Zero Crossing Prefecture the war taking place today.
"The emergence of chaos and war is essentially the emergence of greed for profit and the emergence of Baronet System."
"The latter caused the former to change from thought to action. Baronet System made those Knightdom lords have to rely on the fifth-class nobles. Naturally, the fifth-class nobles will not allow the existence of enclaves, because that means that it is difficult for his rights to reach those places."
"This will lead to the fact that although those Lordship are Lordship, they may have the substantive rights of Baron."
"Secondly, connecting the Lordship territories makes it easier to manage and use more people and wealth to develop their own territories. This is also what those Lordships need. It is difficult for their original territories to go further. After all, there is only so much wealth that can be generated every year, and it may become less and less due to various accidents."
"Lordship also needs to rely on the fifth-class nobles to put his status above more people. Of course, this is not as comfortable as being a local emperor in his own territory."
"So, it's hard to say how many of the nobles who started the war really want to move their territories next to other nobles."
"But this war is what they want. Before Baronet System is fully implemented, they will plunder more wealth and more slaves."
"The nobles of Northwind Province are indeed strong in their folk customs."
Ryan was sorting out the thoughts in his mind. He was thinking about what else he could get in the coming territorial war.
After much deliberation, there is no good solution. It is indeed difficult to do anything when one's own army has suffered heavy losses.
Preserving existing interests is all Ryan can think of for the time being.
"We can only wait until they have some problems with each other before we can exploit every opportunity."
Ryan thought so, of course, at this time, the most important thing for him is to train a brand new army so that he can seize the opportunity when it comes.
It is not difficult for Ryan to train a similar army, especially since these soldiers are all "veterans" who have experienced a tragic war and survived.
His training methods are advanced enough, and he gives these soldiers enough things. He can even directly let these people see the best among them being Deer Spirit Blessing, and become master knights.
How could there be a shortage of outstanding soldiers in front of such a big pie?
Other nobles felt that Ryan had defeated their elites, but Ryan himself did not think so.
The peace in Flower of Northwind's territory continues, but the wars between Zero Crossing Prefecture's other nobles are in full swing. Ryan even knows that frictions, large and small, are also breaking out in other counties of Northwind Province. The territorial friction caused by Baronet System is getting more intense.
Around mid-August, the armies of the two viscounts in Zero Crossing Prefecture finally faced off on a plain.
Among the 3,500 soldiers belonging to Viscount Dragoon, more than 1,000 are temporarily recruited slave soldiers who have only experienced about ten days of training.
There are also five thousand soldiers belonging to Viscount Miles and Casto. The number of slave soldiers accounts for half, about two thousand.