Riding and Slashing

Chapter 219 Burnt Corn

In the forest, branches swayed and leaves rustled.

A figure slowly came out of the woods.

That was indeed Ardalion.

Wentilph next to Li Ang pulled out an arrow nervously.

Ardalian glanced at her, ignored her completely, and didn't hold any weapon in his hand.

"How did you know I was here?"

Ardalian was still single-handed. He parted the branches and walked towards Li Ang standing in the middle of the road, his voice still loud.

"His Majesty Felgas Aner came to warn me so painstakingly, if I still can't guess that you are here, then I should have been killed countless times..."

The lord opened his hands and looked at Aldalian: "Would you like to chat with me? Chat alone like an adult."

The implication is that what Ardalian did in the past was considered a child's nonsense?
"Boy, you'd better show more respect to your elders!"

Aldalian obviously understood, but he didn't show too much hostility. Instead, he sneered with contempt, and even called himself an elder.

In terms of seniority, he is indeed an elder, so the lord did not retort, but just waved to Aldalian, motioning him to follow him.

"My lord? What are you going to do?"

Wentierf was also beside her, seeing that Li Ang was going to take Aldalian into the forest alone, she was a bit at a loss as to what to do.

"Don't worry, he won't hurt me... right, this elder?"

Li Ang smiled, then shook his head and said to Wendilf: "Your Excellency Aldalion is also a leader who truly loves the Noldor tribe...Wendy, you just need to wait for us here."

This sounded like flattery, but the contemptuous smile on Aldalian's face disappeared immediately, and he followed Li Ang into the woods.

The lord certainly knew that Aldalian would not kill him now.

As long as there are still a large number of Noldor girl rangers working in White Hart Castle, it is impossible for Aldalian to kill him—otherwise the Noldor will break out into civil war, and Felgas Anel's coming to White Hart Castle actually represents this. warn.

Because the cooperation channel between Noldo and humans is entirely based on Li Ang, attacking Li Ang is tantamount to hitting Felgasian and Islandil in the face.

Moreover, this is directly related to the safety of more than 200 young Noldor, including the safety of Wendilf and Wenda Dier.

But Aldalian is indeed daring to deal with other humans - such as attacking businessmen.

At present, the cooperation between the Noldor and humans is still very short. At most, Aldalian's attack on the caravan will only attract questions and criticisms from within the tribe, and will not cause hostility from the Noldor tribe.

Besides, everyone around White Hart Castle knew that Aldalian had always hated humans, and it was perfectly normal for him to attack human merchants.

In order to prevent the trade route from being attacked, of course Li Ang could only chat with Aldalian.

After walking through the woods for more than ten minutes, Li Ang led Aldalian out of the woods and came to an open field.

This is behind the White Deer Castle. Some plants taller than a person are neatly arranged in the field. Hundreds of acres of land are connected together, which looks very spectacular.

"I planted a lot of corn behind White Hart Castle, and now it's time to harvest..."

Li Ang said as he walked into the corn field, looked left and right, broke off a fully ripe corn and handed it to Aldalian.

"What do you want to talk to me about? Is this food?"

Ardalion was very patient at this time. In fact, most of the Noldor elves were very patient. After all, they had a long lifespan, and the most important thing they needed was time.

"Yes, this is good food. I just want to talk to you about food... I heard that you captured a group of Jatus as slaves. They are not Noldor. They only let them eat fruits and leaves in the forest. They probably won’t last long—so you’ll probably have to buy some food to feed them. But I doubt they’ll be able to create enough value for you to buy food.”

The lord pointed to the large cornfield: "These grains are easy to store, do you want to buy some?"

"Hmph... People in Sarleon Land can grow plants, and Jatu people can raise horses. As long as I can capture enough human slaves, I can have whatever I want..."

Ardalian's tone was full of sarcasm.

"Yes, the people of Sarleon can plant, but you have to give them land, a forest full of roots can't grow anything...Jatu people can raise horses, but you have to give them pasture... ...Could it be that you plan to snatch the Fenway family's horse farm?"

The lord shook his head and said with a smile: "The Jatu slaves you captured, I guess you can only let them do a little hard work in Erakle, and they can't create any useful value at all... They can only waste food, and then create a bunch of them. Another pile of excrement - they are used to disposing of it anywhere on the grassland, and they will definitely not be hygienic to you... You are just using this behavior to incite the confrontation between Noldor and humans, so that Vendatyr and her The rangers in the city voluntarily left me, didn't they?"

After speaking, the lord spread his hands and shrugged exaggeratedly.

Ardalian was silent for a while, and smiled self-deprecatingly: "Yeah, those slaves will only dirty Ella Klein... But Li Ang, since you can even think of these things, then you should understand that I really want to Kill you! And you still plan to make a deal with me?"

"There were a lot of people who wanted my life, but they all ended up making deals with me - if they didn't die."

Li Ang kept a polite smile on his face: "Aldalion, I have to tell you that the most needed supplies in the Noldor, namely food and cloth, are all in my hands now."

"It's all in your hands? What do you mean?"

Ardalian finally frowned.

"Literally, only I can sell food to the Noldor now, and I am the only supplier."

Li Ang looked into Aldalian's eyes and said word by word.

"So what? Since I know you have food, I can bring the army to fetch it myself. Why do I need to ask you to buy it?"

Aldalian looked at the corn in his hand, and sniffed the unique fragrance of fresh ears of corn.

"Do you really dare to bring the army to fetch it?"

Li Ang smiled: "Have you forgotten the palm thunder you once saw?"

"Hmph...what? Does everyone in White Hart Castle know magic now? How many magic items can you use?"

Aldalian sneered.

The lord sighed, and pointed to a place in the cornfield that was faintly smoking: "Come with me... I'll let you see it."

The place where the smoke was coming out was in the middle of a large cornfield, and Li Ang led Aldalian around it lightly, and it took a lot of time to get there.

"Who! Don't move!"

When they were tens of meters away from that position, a low voice came from the center of the cornfield.

"Stand at attention! You're stealing again, aren't you! Get out of here and stand up!"

The lord directly gave the order.

"Ah... my lord!"

Three frantic human soldiers emerged from the corn grove in disgrace.

Li Ang led Aldalian to them. Here is an isolated canal and an open space for fetching water. This was supposed to be a water fetching point for drought prevention.

But now there is a small fire in the open space beside the ditch—it was lit with corn stalks, and a few corn cobs were roasting on the fire.

Roasted on wooden sticks, it is deliciously roasted...

When the three guys saw Aldalion behind Li Ang, they were all obviously taken aback.

But they didn't make any other abnormal reactions, they all lowered their heads and waited for the lord to speak.

They were non-commissioned officers who stayed here to guard the cornfields.

Ardalian felt that they were going to be severely punished. Not only did they steal food, but they also set fire to the ground, and they were only found within a few tens of meters...

"Oh, your soldiers are too lax in discipline."

Contempt appeared in Aldalian's eyes again.

"Yeah, did you bastards hear that? I have been despised by my lord! I really don't grow up! It's all burnt!"

The lord yelled and cursed unhappily, and pointed to the corn on the fire: "Get out of here and go to work!"

A non-commissioned officer hurried to get the corn on the ground and planted it, and then poked the fire a few times.

Then, a line of fire lit up from the fire, and quickly extended to the periphery of the corn field...

"Boom!... Om... Om!!"

A deafening explosion sounded, and a massive explosion happened!
This is a whole row of serial explosions, the effect of which is far greater than that of the palm mine. The trees outside the forest were blown up and flying all over the sky, and the mud splashed up to several meters.

"Whoa! We did it, my lord!"

Several non-commissioned officers happily clenched their fists and cheered, and then one of them touched a corn and started to chew.

"Hurry up and put out the fire! How the hell do you know how to eat!"

The lord gave them a kick, so several people stuffed the roasted corn in their mouths, picked up the bucket and ran quickly to the place where the sound exploded.

"what is this?!"

The corn in Aldalian's hand fell to the ground, and he witnessed a big explosion that could be called earth-shaking, and its power would definitely not be half as powerful as a real thunder.

And Li Ang has been standing beside him, without moving a step.

In other words, it seemed that it was only three ordinary human soldiers that caused the explosion?

Aldalian was indeed frightened, and he also understood what Li Ang meant.

Dare to grab food?I'm afraid it will be blown to ashes...

In fact, this is just Li Ang experimenting with his newly configured explosives, and trying to detonate the fuse in a row.

Of course, the three non-commissioned officers will not receive any punishment, because everything is the order of the lord.

When they gathered there, they were actually laying out a fuse.

The reason why Li Ang was not found in time was because they were not in charge of guarding in the first place - all the guards on the periphery were driven away to avoid accidental injury caused by the explosion.The three of them were able to spot someone approaching tens of meters away in the invisible cornfield, which was already quite remarkable.

As for the grilled corn, that was Li Ang's reward for them.

But they did make a mistake - they burned the corn, so the lord is very unhappy!
"Now, do you still think you can lead an army into my territory?"

The lord looked at the fire while asking, and then sighed deeply—the corn left for him by those bastards was the most mushy one...

"What kind of enchanted item is this? I don't believe that humans can use such magic... This is an ability that can only be possessed by Sindari elves! You won't have many such things!"

Aldalian squeezed his fist and murmured.

"Of course not too much, but it's definitely enough to deal with your troops... And as you can see, all my soldiers can use it. Aldalian, what do you think will be the effect of using such a thing on the battlefield?"

The lord still didn't look at the terrifying master beside him, bent down and picked up the black corn on the ground, intending to shake off the burnt black husk.

"Did you bring me here just to show me?"

Aldalian asked in a low voice.

"No, Ardalion, I think you should think about it—after possessing this kind of power, is it still necessary for me to borrow soldiers from the Noldor tribe, and then take the soldiers to die?"

Li Ang brought the roasted corn to his mouth, but seeing the burnt corn kernels, he didn't dare to put his mouth down, so he simply handed it to Aldalian.

"I see what you mean... Then what do you want? What do you want from the Noldor? I don't believe that anyone will help others for no reason!"

Ardalian reached out to take the roasted corn, and for the first time his eyes were no longer cold when he looked at Li Ang.

"Knowledge and art. I would like to make more of these weapons, and the rich knowledge of the Noldor will help me to make them. I have no need for the Noldor to fight for me when they leave the forest. I need, It is the knowledge, technology, and craftsmanship passed down by the Noldor... Ardalion, the inheritance of the various races of the Noldor, is the foundation for the Noldor to prosper again."

Li Ang shook his head and smiled: "It's too extravagant for a group of cultural people with hundreds of years of accumulated knowledge to fight and die..."

"But you still brought Wenda Tier and the others to the battlefield..."

Ardalian seemed suspicious, but his tone was no longer so blunt.

Li Ang suddenly remembered that Wendy Erfu seemed to have said that Wenda Dier looked down on him...

This guy probably likes Vendatil?
"The purpose of fighting side by side before is to make more humans no longer hostile to the Noldor. Aldalion, I think you should ask Vendatil, she is much braver than you, at least she dares to serve as a guardian in White Hart Castle." Civilian, but you have never dared to enter a human castle."

The lord used a little aggressive method.

Aldalian looked at Li Ang expressionlessly, took a bite of the roasted corn and chewed it twice: "Is this called corn? It's delicious."

It's delicious, it's burnt black, and this thing has obviously bitten a corn cob.

It's just the straight guy trying to hide his nervousness.

……

After all, Aldalian saw Vendatil. I don't know what they talked about. Anyway, Aldalian left in the last three steps. When he left, his face was full of sadness. The black ash that came out was not wiped off.

The lord didn't care about him anymore, he was busy dealing with the news from the north.

As Li Ang expected, Dark Falcon Castle is actually very safe. Except for the Jatu people who are not easy to deal with, almost all forces are wooing Li Ang.

To be precise, he was wooing the representative sent by Li Ang, Sir Roland.

Ursula had pulled back an army from Sarleon before and attacked Dawnfurnace.

But the Ravencrow Kingdom was lucky. Dawn Furnace City, which was originally not strong enough to resist, received timely support from Lord Stephen of Oldenburg.

The earl withdrew early with the cavalry troops of the Ravencrow Kingdom, but instead saved a large number of mobile troops for the Ravencrow Kingdom.

In fact, Earl Stephen only supported outside Xiaolu City for three days.

Ursula went to Stephen's camp in person and told Count Stephen the fact that Gregory IV had abandoned Darkfalcon Castle to trade with the Jatus, and Count Stephen decided to withdraw his troops and do nothing to help.

But it was precisely because of Earl Stephen's resistance in the past three days that just let Dawn Furnace City relax, Ursula still failed to capture Dawn Furnace City after all.

The lord of Dawn Furnace City, Duke Andermar, took advantage of the few days when Earl Stephen provided support, and quickly recalled his elite fighters 'Ice Guard Rangers', keeping the most important core city in the east of Ravencrow.

After defending Xiaolu City with difficulty, the Duke of Anderma also suffered heavy losses, so he could only retreat and defend.

However, Gregory IV buried thousands of elite soldiers in Fort Eagle Claw not long ago, but he did not get the slightest benefit from the loss of troops. Now he is facing doubts from many nobles.

At this time, of course he can no longer make enemies to the outside world, so he behaves very faithfully.

Darkfalcon Castle has indeed been handed over to Sir Roland sent by Leon, and now Darkfalcon Castle has hung the Griffin flag high.

Gregory IV first took back the territory of Darkfalcon Castle on the grounds of disobedience, and announced that the Darkfalcon Castle would be transferred to Baron Leon of the Sarleon Kingdom as compensation for the last war.

This is not only fulfilling the agreement with Leon, but also punishing the ambiguity between Earl Stephen and Ursula's rebels.

Darkfalcon Castle is the domain of Lord Faramond, son of Lord Stephen.

In fact, not only the territory of Darkfalcon Castle was taken back, Faramond was also summoned to Ravencrow City by Gregory. This was to take him hostage, and Gregory did it quite directly.

However, Earl Stephen was a highly respected person, and Gregory did not dare to force him too much.Apart from taking Darkfalcon Castle and taking Faramond as a hostage, they didn't do anything else.

In fact, Lord Faramund's Darkfalcon Castle was taken away by Gregory IV, which is not unjust at all - Ursula had been active in Darkfalcon Castle for no reason before, Faramund has indeed been secretly Support Ursula.

Therefore, Earl Stephen did not have any special reaction. He did withdraw his troops early in the last war, and he did not say hello to the king, saying that he was right to disobey the order.

His son had indeed supported the rebels, and it was not too much for the king to give such a treatment, and it seemed that the king had not sold Darkfalcon Castle to the Jatus.

As for the king transferring the returned direct-controlled territory to other people, even if it was transferred to the people of the Sarleon Kingdom, that is the king's freedom, and no one else can control it.

So Earl Stephen just silently withdrew all his troops, guarded his Fort Olden, and sent someone to provide a map of the surrounding area to Sir Roland of Fort Darkfalcon.

The earl showed kindness to Sir Roland, hoping to fight against the Jatus together with Darkfalcon Castle.

After Ursula was repelled in Dawn Furnace City, she originally planned to lead the troops to retreat into the Sarleon Realm as an allied army, but was rejected...

It was Lehman who actually led the troops who rejected her.

(End of this chapter)