King: Start with tauren plowing

Chapter 137

"Master Earl, I think there is one more thing you need to pay attention to."

"what's up?"

"Food shortage." Sir Likaya walked up to Earl Tulip and said very seriously: "Now the southern aristocratic territories of the Kingdom of Sisinoa are experiencing major or minor droughts, and there will definitely be food shortages this winter. "

"And it is said that many serfs starved to death due to the drought, and the plague has begun to spread, and it even has a tendency to develop to our northern Xinjiang."

Earl Tulip's expression froze, he walked slowly to the window, and said slowly, "Is it the fault of Charles III?"

"I can't tell, because although there is no food shortage in Eastern Xinjiang, some serfs have already been infected with the plague." Rikaya analyzed: "Once the plague spreads, it will be difficult to control. If the king really did it, he shouldn't Let the plague spread to your own territory."

"That's not necessarily true. As long as our territory loses more than them, they will gain." Earl Tulip sneered, and added: "After all, he has a cardinal's father, but few people dare to attack him, even if he There is not a single soldier in the territory."

Kaya closed his mouth sincerely when he said these words. According to the tone of the earl, there must be a big man standing behind him. Otherwise, how could he talk about a powerful cardinal so contemptuously.

"Okay, you inform the political officer, Sir Jarod Riley, and ask him to do a good job of epidemic prevention and control the spread of the plague as much as possible. If any serfs are infected, burn their entire village."

"My lord, there is no plague in our northern border now, are you a little too pessimistic?"

"No." Earl Tulip shook his head, looking far away, and said, "I have an intuition that this plague is coming to our northern border. To be precise, it is coming to our Tulip family."

……

The defeated Noxian infantry was stationed around the valley plain.

At this moment, Charles was sitting cross-legged in front of a fire, on which was a triangular frame made of blue rocks, on which was placed a flat pebble.

The pebbles are also cyan and very smooth.Under the roasting of the flame, its temperature rose little by little.Seeing that the fire was almost ready, Charles took out his knife, picked up a butchered lamb thigh, cut it into pieces, and put it on the cobblestone.

zizizi~
The fat secreted by the mutton sizzled under the heating of the pebbles. After a while, the mutton slices bent and showed an attractive luster.

Charles randomly picked two straight twigs and used them as chopsticks, enjoying the meal.

But before he took a few bites, he discovered that a black hand had sneaked up on the cobblestone and took away a few slices of grilled mutton with his bare hands.Charles turned his head and saw that it was Abudkad who was licking his fingers.

"Use this?" Ciel stretched out his hand and gave Abdelkad the branch in his hand.

Abudkad reached out to take it, but it turned out to be a mess. In the end, he grabbed a branch with his left and right hands, put the mutton in his mouth, and muttered; "My lord, this branch is too difficult to use. gone."

"Haha, these are called chopsticks. Come on, I'll teach you how to use them." Charles became interested and enthusiastically taught Abudkad how to use chopsticks, but the result can be imagined.

After repeated teachings from Charles, Abdekad finally looked good, but when he picked up the meat with chopsticks, his stuffing was exposed. He picked up a few pieces, and then dropped a few pieces. In the end, aggrieved, he just I can lie on my stomach and put my mouth on the chopsticks.

"Hahaha!"

This scene made Charles laugh out loud.

When the surrounding soldiers heard the Baron laugh, they all laughed too, and one after another of laughter filled the valley and plain.

The Noxus soldiers were enjoying the food. They set up a fire in groups of ten, roasted the mutton, served it with broth and bread, and had a hearty lunch.This can be called the custom after the victory of Noxus.

"Lord Baron, are we going to attack the Valley Fortress next?" Abdelkad said after chewing and swallowing the mutton in his mouth.

Charles didn't answer right away, he set his sights on the valley fort not far away.This was transformed from a Noxus castle, and Charles knew him well.

The main entrance of the castle is protected by two twin towers, the oval twin towers protrude and hide the gate behind.The walls of this castle are made up of huge blue stones, which are very strong, and the walls are sloped, so it is not easy to climb.

But then the Silver Fox family obviously modified the castle.There are several tall towers erected around the castle. The towers are layer by layer, and several people can stand on each floor. This is the attack position reserved for the archers.

In addition, the Silver Fox family reinforced a circle of walls outside the castle, which made its defense stronger.

Charles estimated that this was not for their Noxus family. After all, their Noxus family still looked half-dead a few months ago.And this city wall started to be built a few years ago. Obviously, it was to prevent orcs.To prevent their Winter Fortress from being breached, the orc army continued to move south.

It can be said that half of this goal has been achieved now. They are indeed guarding against the orcs now, but it is the orc army in Winter Fortress.

A few days ago, Shire had re-observed this valley fortress, and it can only be said that it is indeed a military fortress, lying on the main road between the two mountain ranges.There are also camps set up on the path next to it, so that the combination of points and surfaces forms a linear defense system.

If you want to enter the valley plain on a large scale, you can only break through the valley fortress, and the previous method of crossing the mountains will not work, because there are camps stationed wherever you can go.

But if they want to attack the fortress, casualties will inevitably be inevitable.They don't have siege equipment, and the ladders in TV dramas are just for soldiers to die.There are ladders, but they are not used to rush up with a ladder on their shoulders. The ladders have rollers and are very heavy. When they are placed on the city wall, the guards on the city wall cannot push them at all.In addition, there must be battering rams, tower vehicles and other military equipment.

Moreover, siege warfare is not easy to fight. The valley fortress has two layers of defense, inside and outside. The inner castle is very strong, and it is very difficult to break through.There is also farmland inside the castle, and if they want to besiege without food, they can last for a long time.

Therefore, a hard attack is unreliable. Besides, he helped Earl Tulip find his daughter. If it turned into a siege, it would not be nice to say it.

Of course, it doesn't matter whether it sounds good or not. What if Earl Tulip gets emotional and says that the civil war has destroyed unity and asks him to return the territory to Baron Silver Fox?
Then should he pay it back or not? Pay it back, so many people died, but he got nothing in the end, which is too bad.If he doesn't pay back, he can't afford to offend Earl Tulip.

So we still have to find a way to open the gate of the Peace Valley Fortress. .

Just as Charles was thinking, there was a sudden noise in the distance.

Charles stood up and took a look, only to see a few tauren guards pointing spears at some humans in the distance, shouting something.Obviously, these humans are not soldiers of Noxus, because the tauren dare not shout at the human soldiers of Noxus, after all, many of their officers are human veterans.

Soon, a few tauren led a human over, Charles looked him up and down, and couldn't help but feel happy.

It turned out that this person was Randolph, a surrendered soldier of the Silver Fox Infantry Regiment, who cheated a lot of meat from Bruno by searching for serfs with grain.Later, Shire rewarded him, and he chose to return to the Silver Fox Territory to be responsible for delivering information. Shire gave him a staff of 100 people and financial support.

Both Carlos and Bruno objected at the time, because they were looking down on the silver fox traitor, but the purpose of the Noxus family is to reward those who deserve it.

Although Randolph was a traitor, he betrayed the Silver Fox family and took refuge in the Noxus family. Charles strongly encouraged this kind of behavior.Moreover, the moral level of their Winter Fortress is not necessarily high, and there is no need to despise him for being disloyal.

Now it seems that his original decision is still very correct, isn't it just to pay back now?

"My lord baron, I have had a hard time finding you." When Randolph saw Charles, he knelt down and continued aggrievedly: "My lord baron, you asked me to be a spy in Silver Fox, but you didn't tell me How to notify you, how to send the news back to Winter Fortress."

uh uh...

Charles didn't expect that he actually came to Silver Fox as a spy. He thought Randolph took the money and ran away, but he didn't expect that he really came to Silver Fox to be a spy.

"Who is stationed in the valley fortress now?" Charles asked.

Randolph said confidently: "It turned out that Akbar led the infantry regiment to station here, and later they were urgently transferred to Silver Fox Castle to resist the orcs from the north. Now stationed in the valley fortress is a fief called Arya knight."

"Alia, a female feudal knight?" Charles was a little puzzled. As far as he knew, the silver fox leader might not be so enlightened.

"No, Lord Baron, he's just like a woman, you know..." Randolph winked as he spoke.

No, I don't understand.

Charles answered silently in his heart.

Abdekad's face suddenly turned cold. Now he finally understands why Carlos hates this guy. He hates this guy now, and he can't help but want to do it.

The baron has no wife, no mistress, no son yet, this guy uses such foul language to pollute the baron's thoughts, isn't he courting death?
If the baron is really..., what about the Noxus family, and what about his prosperous life in Abudkader?
He said coldly: "Don't talk about these useless things, let's talk about the real business, such as how many troops are there in this fortress, how many soldiers are there? How many knights are there?"

After being scolded, Randolph quickly restrained his desire to share, and said honestly: "There are only a few knights in armor, and the rest are all serf regiments, and there are not even a few pairs of leather armor."

"Serf regiment?"

"That's right, it's the serf corps." Randolph said, "Now Baron Silver Fox is focusing all his energy on defending the centaurs in the north. The centaurs are already about to hit Cold Winter Fortress, and even the knight commander Claude who just came back Also went directly to the Silver Fox Castle to defend against the centaur."

Charles hummed. If he guessed correctly, this centaur tribe should be called the Flying Claw tribe.

"How many people are there in this serf regiment?"

"Maybe?" Randolph continued to explain: "Now that the Silver Fox collar is in short supply of food, it is too easy to recruit serfs. You only need a few baskets of black bread to recruit a bunch of serfs, so how many serfs does River Valley Fortress want? There can be as many serf regiments as there are regiments.”

This made Charles give up his plan to attack the fortress.

It would be too stupid to fight with the serf army here. If it is a field battle, a 1000-man serf army can be defeated by Charles only by losing a dozen people. If it is changed to a siege battle , Shire estimates that this person will increase at least ten times.

This is the cruelty of siege warfare. No matter when, siege is the next choice.

Charles frowned and said, "We just went to the valley plain to search for the whereabouts of Earl Tulip's eldest daughter, so can this Arya open the fortress?"

Randolph shook his head and said, "Unless Baron Silver Fox gives the order himself, he probably won't open the fortress."

"Then is there a way to make him surrender?" Charles continued: "There are now more than 4000 Noxus soldiers outside, and it is impossible for them to hold the fortress of the valley. Surrendering and opening the gate is the most honorable end."

"Tell them, I would like to swear in the name of Noxus, after they open the fortress, we will never take the opportunity to occupy the city."

Randolph nodded and said, "Master Baron, let me go as an envoy."

Charles came over and patted him on the shoulder, and said, "Do it bravely. There are thousands of Noxus soldiers behind you. And no matter whether you succeed or not, Noxus will remember your efforts."

"Yes, Lord Baron." After saying that, Randolph turned and left.

Charles watched him go until he entered the valley fortress.

Randolph who entered the valley fortress was like a fish meeting water. He bought some freshly baked crispy bread on the side of the street and walked straight towards the middle of the fortress.

This valley fortress now has four gates, which are east, west, north, south.So the streets are very open.

But the inner city, the former citadel of Noxus, had only two gates.And they are all made of iron wrapping.

So as Randolph walked, the street narrowed until he came to the gate of the inner city.There were several guards standing at the door, and Randolph gave a silver nar each to enter.

After entering, Randolph spent money to open the way, and soon saw a man in a skirt with powder on his face approaching.This is Arya Knight.

I saw him holding an orchid finger, and asked softly: "What's the matter with you?"

The voice couldn't help but make Randolph tremble all over. He suppressed his nausea and said: "The Baron Shire of Noxus led more than 4000 soldiers stationed outside the fortress, and wants you to open the gate of the fortress. I swear by name, I will never take the opportunity to attack you."

"This Baron Charles should be in his 20s, isn't he handsome?"

(End of this chapter)