Warlord: King of All Clans

Hearing the Earl's words, the knights of the personal guards around him were horrified and tried to dissuade him.

"My Lord Earl, it's just a minor defeat, don't get carried away!"

"My Lord!"

Count Fontenay's eyes were covered with bloodstained white cloth, but he still had an extraordinary demeanor. He said in a deep voice: "I have made up my mind. You stay here and dismount to accept the surrender. When you return, assist my son well."

A knight of the royal guard stepped out from the crowd and took the reins of Count Fonteyne's horse, saying, "I am willing to lead the horse for you, my lord."

Count Fontenay nodded and said, "As long as you are here, the Gustav family will not perish."

As everyone stood there in silence, several knights of the royal guard rode up one after another to assist the blind Count Fontenay in launching a knight charge.

Opposite them, Strong was riding on a mammoth, surrounded by more than a dozen two-headed ogres.

Several kobold gunners with burnt hair climbed onto the shoulders of the two-headed ogre. Not being able to see clearly, they stepped on the two sturdy heads.

In order to fight for the high ground, some ogres started biting the ogres' heads directly.

Seeing the enemy commander leading several heavily armored cavalrymen and carrying the flag of the Gustav family rushing towards them, the kobold gunners did not feel fear at all. Instead, they waved small torches in one hand and whipped the ogres in the other, hitting them hard on the face. "Choke! Choke! The enemy is coming! Get ready!"

The ogres unhappily put the cannon barrels on their shoulders under their arms, held them tightly, and aimed them at Count Fontenay.

With Strong's order, more than ten shotguns were ignited by the kobolds.

The Kobolds only have a few finished products of gunpowder, and most of them are low-quality gunpowder that is temporarily mixed. The main feature is the smoke and the loud noise, with power being secondary.

Once lit, thick smoke billows and the sound is like thunder.

When the smoke cleared, all the Ogre Lead Sprayers were knocked down by the huge recoil and sat on the ground.

On the open space ahead, there were only a pile of corpses and a surviving armored war horse, limping to the side.

Looking at the body on the ground, Strong scratched his butt, feeling a little unhappy, "What's going on? Something seems to be wrong."

When they returned to the outskirts of Osluden and reported the results of the battle, unlike the jubilant leaders of a group of foreign races, the human generals such as Roman and Godwin were all silent.

The earldoms in the north are all independent small kingdoms. In the eyes of the foreign races in the wilderness, the powerful earl is the king of the human kingdom.

Now that Strong has defeated a human king, why is he still unhappy?

Godwin looked at the map and suddenly sighed, "I'm afraid we can't take Osluden."

Si Zhuang was not convinced, "Why can't I get it? Give me three months, I promise to get it!"

Leo was unwilling to risk the lives of the Hewan soldiers to expand the territory, so he surrounded the enemy and attacked the reinforcements, eliminated the threat, and then used time to slowly weaken the enemy. No one would say he was wrong.

Looking at the human general's expression, the troll Asa, who had carefully studied the human society in the North, also had some insights and sighed: "You defeated Count Fontenay, which is good, but you killed him, which is bad."

After the main army of the Gustav family was eliminated, there was no longer any force in the entire Earldom of Gustav that could threaten the River Bend Army.

Six thousand border guards led by the eighth-level Grand Knight Andrew arrived at the south of Osluden. Unable to wait for the arrival of Count Fontenay's army, they did not dare to attack easily and only stationed in a small town.

After Strong returned, he asked Roman and Godwin to lead the River Bend Musketeers 20 miles south to prevent a surprise attack by Andrew's Legion.

It seemed that it was only a matter of time before we captured the main city of Count Osluden.

In the small town in the south, Andrew also received the news that Count Fonteyne had died in battle. He could not believe it and in anger he broke into Roman's Musketeer Corps alone.

Godwin showed up to meet the enemy. He and Andrew were both famous strong men and commanders in the North, and they had known each other for a long time.

Seeing Godwin show up, Andrew was furious and said, "I never thought that Godwin, a member of the Beboos family, would surrender to the enemy and live in misery!"

Godwin was determined and explained calmly: "I have received favors from the River Bend. I am only returning a favor by joining the war this time."

Andrew sneered repeatedly, "To associate with foreign races, to be an accomplice to the tiger, to force the Northern Earl to death, is really a great favor."

Godwin looked ashamed and was speechless for a moment.

The two men fought for several rounds, causing chaos in the camp. Andrew knew he was no match for his opponent, so he retreated angrily.

Although Godwin had the upper hand, he felt guilty and lost his fighting spirit, so he did not pursue.

A few days later, Pegasus flew across the sky and Leo finally arrived at Osluden.

He rode Pegasus all the way south from Kittland with his entourage. When he arrived at the city of Arbroath, he received the news from his adoptive father Rigolav that Count Fontenay had died in battle.

Without time to go back to the river bend to see his wife, he continued south and arrived in Osluden.

With Leo's presence, everyone found a backbone and began to discuss the siege.

But Leo's first words were, "Prepare to withdraw."

Solovie and Luo Meng, uncle and nephew, were mentally prepared when they heard this. They nodded and said, "I'll get ready right away."

Godwin and Asa, who were listening, also had no expression on their faces.

Only Strong was still unconvinced, but he was also a smart man. Even after his butt was scratched into three pieces, he did not say a word of objection.

Seeing that the leaders of the other tribes didn't understand, Leo had to explain, "Killing a northern earl is no small matter in our northern territory, let alone being killed by the tribes of the wilderness. There have only been a few cases in the past few hundred years."

"Farbuti, who was the last one to unite the orcs and break through Peshnik and kill Count Isharov in battle, is now being condemned by everyone, and Count Fontena wants me to be the second one."

"In a few days the Archduke will write to me, and I shall have to go to Anhurst and be scolded."

Sure enough, a few days later, before the River Bend Legion evacuated from Osluden, the Archduke’s messenger had already arrived.

"The Grand Duke decrees that Leo Mondo, Count of River Bay, who provoked the border conflict without authorization and caused the death of the Count, must withdraw his troops immediately, return all the lands of the Gustav family, and go to Ancestor to be reprimanded!"

Six was not even as tall as the table in the military tent, so he could only climb onto the table to read the Grand Duke's decree.

After reading it word for word, Six expressed his anger.

"Isn't the Grand Duke on our side? Why is he still helping the other side?!"

Leo sighed and said, "We are not helping the other side, but the North. The Grand Duke is the ruler of the North and has many things to consider. We are just being plotted against by Count Fontenay."

He stood up and picked up Six, "Let's go, I'll take you to Anhurst to play. When I get scolded, you wag your tail for the Duke and don't let him beat me."