Knight with Wand

"What do you mean? Why don't you let me see Young Master Canis this time?"

Heinkel, who came to the Longka camp as an envoy again, questioned the knights of the Thorn Flower family dissatisfied.

Sir Ledo replied calmly: "Unfortunately, our Lord Elliot wanted to see Lord Canis, so he asked him to live somewhere else temporarily. He is no longer in Lonka."

"You sent him to Farolis City? Then I will go there to visit him." Heinkel frowned.

"It's not in Faloris City. I can't tell you where it is specifically." Ledo shook his head. He only suddenly learned two days ago that Leon was going to escort the young master of the Wolf family to see the Baron.

"Why are you in a hurry? Prepare the ransom. On the appointed day, your young master will be released naturally. He is a rough old man, and he is not a rare beauty. It feels like a waste of food for us to eat and drink well." " Lohark scoffed.

"If I can't see the young master, how do I know if you have arranged his treatment as promised? I will give you these two hundred gold crowns when I see him!"

Heinkel felt like he was being teased, and reached out to cover the lid of the cash box on the table.

But Azarian on the side held down the old knight's hand.

"You have no right to break the promise, Your Excellency. We have not treated Lord Canis badly. We just invited him to change to a better living environment. Look at the simple conditions of Lonka. They are all rough-handed soldiers. How can they serve Guna?" The eldest son of the noble Baron?

Wouldn't it be more comfortable to send him to the rear, where he could eat, drink, wash and be taken care of by a maid every day? Wouldn't it be more comfortable than living here? Not telling you where you are going is also for the safety of my master. After all, the world is not peaceful recently. In any case, you must stay today for the two hundred gold coins agreed upon. "The noble son said with a hidden smile, without giving in.

The guards and soldiers in front of the hall door also covered the entrance with evil eyes.

"You are more like robbers than the wolves under my command." The old knight snorted, shook off his restrained hand, and said angrily: "Don't play tricks. If Gunnar's son is missing a hair, how much will you take today?" , and then you have to spit it out a hundred times.”

Putting down the harsh words of warning, Heinkel turned around and came to the door angrily, scolding the thorn flower guards blocking the way: "Get out of the way!"

Azarian did not stop him and raised his hand to signal the soldiers to let him go.

Lohak came to his good brother, opened the cash box, and touched the yellow gold coins inside: "Just let this old man go like this? We haven't counted the money yet. What if we don't have enough?"

Azarian shook his head helplessly: "Don't worry, they won't give you less. This is not a market transaction."

After saying that, the noble son was not as relaxed as he appeared.

Compared to others present, he was one of the few people in Loncan who knew that Katniss was dead.

Leon took away the body of the young master of the Lang family, and only asked him to pretend that nothing happened and deal with the Lang family's envoys as usual to delay time.

Are you going south to find Baron Earliver for reinforcements? Then why bring Katniss's body? Are you afraid that the body will be discovered and placed in a different place?

With this doubt, listening to the sound of Rohark counting gold coins on the table, Azarian looked at the sky outside the door, wondering if Leon had any other way to resolve this crisis.

Fortunately, Leon didn't keep his friends waiting too long.

Returning to Lonka, where the dispute remains unresolved, Leon continues to maintain a confrontation with the Lang family troops stationed in Aiken Village.

Time flies.

April has just begun in Oland 673.

This was the beginning of spring in the northern area of ​​Kantadar, south of the Nightmare Forest, and farmers in Glade County were busy with spring planting.

This place is far away from Mamol County, where the war is intense in the northeast, and the war should not be able to spread here.

With the Penrose Forest in the north serving as a natural barrier for thousands of years, the lords of Glyde County had also assembled their troops when the Battle of Lydingburg broke out a few months ago, responding to Count Marmor's order and marching north to resist. The menacing Orland army.

As long as the troops from the Northern Kingdom heading south are stuck in Mamor, Glade will be safe and sound without any threat.

At least, that's how it should have been.

The Farolis family has been working intensively for two months, risking all the preparations, and finally the harvest season has arrived.

All the great changes in Glade County happened in just a few days.

The garrison of several hundred people inside Archersburg could not even allow the sudden battle to turn into a city attack and defense.

The elite members of the Thorn Flower disguised as a western caravan easily avoided inspection and entered the inner gate by performing repeated bribery and in-and-out transactions during this period.

Their unexpected action killed the defenseless city gate guards.

The Thorn Flower soldiers, who were determined to die, seized the city gate and lowered the drawbridge. They did not even encounter a counterattack by the Kantadar defenders against the lost city gate.

The Pharoris City army ambushing outside the city marched straight into the city and did not encounter any decent resistance. After a short fierce battle, the panicked remaining Archers defenders, along with the lord's family, huddled inside. In the fort.

Even the obstacles caused by the panicked residents in the city were greater than the trouble caused by the defenders.

It only took less than a day to capture this defenseless city. When Baron Thorn Flower entered the city, he felt unreal.

In his life, he had never fought such an easy battle to seize the city. He didn't even use the siege equipment that was being dismantled into parts and transported by truckload from the camp at the edge of the forest.

Thanks to the fact that the enemy had never thought that they would be attacked by a huge army that seemed to have fallen from the sky without any news or signs, Farolis's siege plan was not used at all. It was just a tentative action to seize the gate, and then this huge city was captured.

After blocking the gates of Aches, Elliver only sent three hundred teams to surround the enemy's last highland inner castle, and did not intend to attack.

Rather than consuming precious soldiers for him, he needed the power at hand to take down the key villages and towns in the surrounding areas as soon as possible.

As for the enemies hiding in the lord's castle, once they have consolidated the territory they occupied in Glade County, time will naturally defeat them. After eating up the food in the inner castle, the families of the former lords will beg to surrender to him.

After calming down the brief chaos in the city of Achesburg, Farolis' army restored order, and the logistics team also spent a few days to move from the forest camp to the city.

With a large amount of supplies and wealth stored in a city, the pressure on Elifer suddenly reduced and divided his 4,000 troops into two groups. One group maintained the stability of the city and the blockade of the inner castle, and the rest spread out at the fastest speed to occupy the entire county.

Without any decent obstacles, the wolf-like army easily swept away most of the surrounding villages and towns with empty manpower. In a short period of time when the Glade lords who went on the expedition far away were still unaware, the owner of this land was actually changed.

The big thing has been accomplished.

Elifer also knew that it was finally time to show his cards to the country as soon as possible and find helpers.

Once the Glade army whose territory was taken away got the news and gathered reinforcements back, relying on the power of the Farolis family, it would not be able to monopolize such a victory.

Fortunately, the plan went unexpectedly smoothly, leaving a lot of time for the Thorn Flower family.

He couldn't help but have some fantasies. If his father had also encountered the good thing of the disappearance of the cursed land, there would be a way to retreat to the south. The family would at most surrender to the Kingdom of Kantadar, and would not have fallen into the field today.

Laughing and letting go of the delusion that could be accused of treason, Elifer recalled several letters sent by the Thorn Flower Leader a few days ago.

There was a military report from an officer of the Selva baggage camp, which said that Knight Leon led 200 soldiers in Longka on March 22, defeated the invading 1,000 Wolf Leaders and captured Baron Gunnar's eldest son alive.

There was also a report from Knight Taigas, saying that on the evening of March 24, Adelina was assassinated again. Fortunately, she was prepared, and a so-called foreign knight-errant broke the assassin's plot and did not disturb his wife.

Finally, there was a letter from Leon himself, in which he described two things in more detail.

As for the assassin who intended to assassinate his wife, thinking of the clearer guess in Leon's letter, Baron Thorn Flower pondered.

"What do you want to do, Atias people?"

He knew very little about the strange country he had never heard of, and could not speculate on the specific motives of the foreign forces that came from afar to the Western Continent to assist Kantadar and torment Orland nobles like himself.

Is there anything that Kantadar can give to the other side, but Orland cannot?

There is too little information, and Elliver has no way to guess.

Putting this matter aside for the time being, and thinking back to the process of the battle of Longka described by Leon and the actual number of enemies, Elliver could not help but sigh at the honesty of this child.

An army of 700 people, including the baggage stationed by Aiken, even if it is said that a thousand people were defeated, what's wrong with boasting about the military exploits.

However, whether it is 700 or 1,000, this child has exceeded the standard to complete his mission, not only protecting the Thorn Flower Territory, but also giving the Wolf Family a big lesson.

Thinking of the eldest son of his mortal enemy who shined on the front line of Mamor, being captured by his own vassal, Elliver couldn't help but feel proud on his face.

He sincerely hoped that Gunnar would come to redeem Cannis in person.

In this way, he could appreciate the wonderful expression on his face.

But then, Elifer was a little distressed. He was increasingly unsure of how to reward this young square-flag knight.

Every time he felt that he had given the other party enough favors, it seemed that after a while, the other party would give him a merit beyond the reward.

It seemed that the original idea still had to be changed. Just relying on a baron title and those lands was still too light and could not match the help of this child.

His future was immeasurable, and if he wanted him to serve Thorn Flower for a long time, he could not be stingy.

The so-called oath of allegiance could only be constrained if enough rewards were given, whether it was for sincere people or despicable villains.

He returned to the barracks and ordered Balf to lead the army to guard Acherburg. Then he transferred a company of 100 people from the heavy cavalry and light cavalry to accompany him and set off to return to the territory of Orland.

Whether it was to make the situation in the Nightmare Forest public or to resolve the dispute with the Wolf Family as soon as possible, he had to go back and resolve it personally. His reliable little knight had already done his best.

Central part of Mamor County.

The reinforcements of Kantadar still could not break through the pass occupied by the Orland Army and come to the city to support the besieged city.

After this period of time, the city could no longer hold on, otherwise the defenders who had run out of ammunition and food would have to start eating people for a living.

The soldiers were fine, but the nobles in the city had to maintain their last dignity after feeling that there was no hope for reinforcements.

General Trosa formally signed a document promising basic conditions with the envoys of the enemy nobles, and then accepted their surrender of opening the city.

The siege of four or five months was declared over, and it also announced that Mamor became the new county leader of the Northern Kingdom.

And the Orland army wasted almost no lives on its towering and solid walls.

If Leon were here, he might wonder why there was no vigorous siege battle in the movies and TV shows of his previous life. For several months, the most intense battles between the two sides were only the occasional projectiles of siege equipment on the city walls and urban areas, and the small-scale attempts of the army in the city to break out.

A bloody battle like Rolandal with nearly 100,000 soldiers fighting and hundreds of thousands of casualties of residents is not the norm of war in the current era.

After settling the surrendered troops, the King Supporter led the Orland army into the besieged city. Because the surrender was timely, the city was not full of starving people.

As the army entered, Trosa and the generals examined the map in front of them.

Being able to take over a county at such a small cost, I am afraid that both His Majesty Ledwin and the lords of the Grey Shirt Valley who were summoned to fight will be satisfied with this result.

And this southern expedition, the Northern Kingdom can be regarded as worthy of the friendship with Serian.

Since the capital received news nearly half a year ago that King Kantadar had assembled a large army and was heading straight for Serian, he was ordered to lead the army to the south in order to put some pressure on Kantadar who had made such a big move.

But he did not expect that the thousand-year-old city of Rolandar would fall so quickly.

If it were not for the recent news that Kantadar's army invading the east had been unexpectedly frustrated recently, and that King Aviut seemed to be withdrawing from Serian's territory, he would have almost thought that the ancient country where the legendary holy prophet was sleeping was going to perish.

Did the Holy Court Kingdom Dinesien lend a helping hand to Serian? Trosa knew that unlike the Northern Kingdom, which only looked at the face of the same Ferru compatriots, as a kingdom also ruled by the Holy Sun Church, they were real allies. Perhaps it was their army that repelled Kantadar's offensive.

Temporarily waving away his confusion about the situation in the distant Serian, Trosa turned his attention back to the territory of Orland.

The recent sudden dispute between the two nobles in Kosos County made him confused, but now he can finally free up his hands to deal with this inexplicable dispute. As the largest lord of Gray Shirt Valley and an important minister of the king, he is the only one who can arbitrate and mediate this matter.

While thinking, Earl Trosa looked up with interest and looked at the northern warlock who had volunteered to investigate the accusation: "How did the two families fight? Master Mette, since you have witnessed the process, tell me in detail, how did the grown-up young wolf of the Gunnar family fall into the hands of the little griffin of the Thornflower family?"