Why did the lord rebel

Chapter 416

A white-feathered griffin howled and flew over the Burning Crystal Canyon.

The imperial air knight riding on the back of the griffin saw a federal air cavalry in the air on the other side of the canyon from a distance through the lens of the black crystal flying mirror——the green skin of the orc air cavalry, and the fangs and claws on his crotch. Like a wyvern, exuding a savage and unruly aura.

So, the Imperial Griffon Knight grabbed his blue scarf fluttering in the wind, stretched out his fingers and put his forehead on his forehead, and greeted the distant orc empty riders—the orc on the opposite side beat his chest in response.

The Imperial Sky Knight took another deep look at the orc, then took the reins in hand, controlled the white-feathered griffin to turn around and glide westward.

——Similar encounters are repeated every day above the Burning Crystal Canyon.

Dozens of days ago, when the battle was at its most intense, life-and-death fights in the air were in full swing as on the ground—almost every minute, there were countless Griffin Knights and Wyvern Knights, using arrows, slings and With his own body, he tried every means to inflict maximum damage on the enemy counterparts in the air, trying to make the opponent's blood rain down on the faces of the infantry on the ground.

But after the ceasefire, the patrolling air forces on both sides exercised the utmost restraint.

The griffin air cavalry belonging to the Central Army, as usual today, did not rush to fly over the middle line of the Burning Crystal Canyon, but reached a wordless tacit understanding with the biped flying dragon cavalry on the opposite side, and each chose to turn around and return.

And if we look over the shoulder of the Griffin Air Cavalry and look down, then through the wind and dust, through the dust of the wild horses, we can have a panoramic view of the deployment of the empire's defense line:

The defense line of the Burning Crystal Canyon, which was once proud of the human empire, now only remains of broken walls, like the broken spine of an ancient giant beast, extending and crawling on the cliff on the west side of the canyon;
However, a new frontline fortress has risen in the center of the wreckage.

The civil fortress, a cliff fortress that relies on the main body of the existing fortifications, and then almost entirely relies on the magic power of the magician to move the sand and stone, and hastily reinforce it, although it is rough, it still has full battlefield deterrence.

Firstly, it is because it is located on the commanding heights on the west side of the Burning Crystal Canyon. Looking from a distance, you can have a panoramic view of the entire canyon. The target in the fire roll call;

Secondly, it is because in this fortress, all the elite gathered by the empire from the front line of the eastern border, "one post at ten steps, one sentry at five steps", is not even enough to describe the density of troops in the civil fortress. Behind the wall, the "Cromwell Annihilator" ballista raised up like a dragon's head, interpreted the violent aesthetics of the imperial engineers to the extreme.

After abandoning most of the frontline positions, the civil fort is already the last hope of the imperial army.

As long as they take down the civil fortress, the federation will have a smooth and beautiful river and mountains in the east of the empire—but if they want to eat this strong fortress, the orcs have to weigh whether their teeth are strong enough.

Although the civil fort is strong enough, it still occupies a limited area.

Therefore, most of the soldiers of the imperial army did not follow the elites of the headquarters to the civil fort, but set up a giant camp on the west side of the castle that spread like white mushrooms.If this large camp is regarded as the chest and abdomen of a ferocious beast, then the earthen fortress as its hard head provides enough shelter for the soldiers in the camp.

In order to avoid being attacked by the Orcs, the imperial air cavalry parked the base camp of the griffin, but also further west of the infantry camp.

The Imperial Griffin Cavalry rode their mounts all the way to the west, and when they passed over the camp, they caught a trace of strangeness at the edge of their field of vision:
For some reason, outside the gate on the west side of the camp, a large group of people gathered together.

This is a scene that has never been seen before.

At first, the Griffin Cavalry thought that the rear of the camp was attacked by the enemy, but when he swooped down and took a closer look, he realized through the dark crystal lens that it was the Duke of Shuangfengling that the soldiers had been waiting for for a long time. Chi, led the army to the front line of the Tumu Fort - right among the group of people, there was a dazzling golden goshawk pattern flag fluttering in the wind.

The griffin cavalry, who was relieved, controlled the griffin to climb up again and headed west.

……

Xiahou, who was busy leading the team into the front camp of Tumubao, didn't know that he had become the scenery in the eyes of others.

In fact, he is currently in a rather depressed mood.

When he led the "Shuangfengling Labor Art Troupe" and General Virgil's "Fengyun Brigade" to the Tumubao camp, he thought he would be warmly welcomed by the friendly troops of the empire——

——Not to mention the waving of colorful flags and the noise of gongs and drums, at least someone has to line up and set off a salute, right?

However, the cold reality is that the convoy of the "Shuangfengling Labor Art Troupe" marched all the way outside the gate of the camp, and did not see any imperial soldiers who went out to welcome the Shuangfengling brothers' troops;

Xia Houyan stretched his neck and looked around for a while, but he didn't find any banners with welcome slogans written on it. As far as he could see, there was only a tumbleweed floating in the sky on the boundless loess.

In the imperial army camp, a wisp of cooking smoke curled up, and the years were quiet.

"Mother Xipi!" The lord couldn't help cursing, "Is the imperial army dead?"

But immediately, Kenny Clever denied the guess of the official Xiahou with a scream:

"Look, Master Rosario is waiting for you!"

Xia Houyan hastily followed Kenny Clever's instructions and looked out the car window, and finally found the man who had known his name for a long time under a flagpole outside the camp gate——

——It's strange to say that although Shuangfengling and Rose City have a close relationship, Xia Houyan has never met Grand Duke Rosario, an old friend of the people of Shuangfengling, with his own eyes before.

But now that Grand Duke Rosario is in front of him, Xia Houyan suddenly feels disappointed that meeting him is not as famous as it is.

This may be because Grand Duke Rosario, known as the "Blood of Blood" by the people of the empire, was not wearing his iconic white coat and silver armor cosplay alien version Ma Chao Zhao Zilong at this time;

Or maybe it's because the face of the Grand Duke Rosario, who was cut with ax and cut, was as cold and resolute as the rock of the Cold Bone Mountains. hair fragile;

Or maybe it was because the Grand Duke Rosario was not accompanied by a large number of officers and subordinates. There was only a young retinue who helped the Grand Duke hold a cane, making the overlord of the Eastern Realm more and more like a widow living alone. empty nesters.

Xia Houyan looked at the Grand Duke again through the car window, and then slowly walked out of the car after Alan Cousins ​​opened the door for him.

After getting out of the car, the lord adjusted his neckline a little, and walked towards Duke Rosario with Duke Yingying. He was about to imitate Second Master Guan, and laughed loudly while holding his non-existent long beard. "Water surges into the mountains, and the old Houston is nowhere, and it disappears into ashes without knowing it." In the end, the casting was interrupted by the Grand Duke Rosario's long sigh:

"Like...very similar..."

The official Xiahou was stunned for ten seconds with a question mark on his forehead, before he realized that Grand Duke Rosario was saying that he looked like the dead ghost's father Vincent.

The lord suddenly felt a little uncomfortable: Vincent Igor looked for flowers every day to ask Liu Youyou how old he was, and his reputation in the imperial aristocratic circle was really not very good - he was a dog father and a tiger son, and his conduct was better than that of this dead ghost father. Is it much better to come?

"It's a great honor to meet you, Your Excellency the Grand Duke Rosario." Xia Houyan rolled his eyes, and saluted the Grand Duke Rosario hypocritically, "May your sword light shine on the land of the empire forever."

"Hello, Elliott, welcome to Burning Crystal Canyon." Grand Duke Rosario replied with a smile, "May your farmers and craftsmen be rich forever."

Grand Duke Rosario actually used the usual greetings used by Lord Shuangfengling, which made Xia Houyan blink in surprise.

Afterwards, the other members of Shuangfengling also stepped forward to greet the Grand Duke one by one in order of rank, and the Grand Duke took the trouble to say hello to them one by one, and did not pose a picture to the lower nobles and commoners like the general nobles of the empire. Unruly stinky face.

Only when Pavol Eldridge greeted with a playful smile, Grand Duke Rosario gave the newly appointed "Baron of Beitong Mountain" a look of disgust, and did not return the salute.

Xia Houyan was thoughtful, and felt that he understood why Grand Duke Rosario sent this lazy dog ​​to Shuangfengling.

Known as the "Imperial Garbage Can", the land of soul-cracking really deserves its reputation.

Xia Houyan paid more attention to the saber on the Grand Duke's waist than the red tape such as the meeting of these leaders. On the leather belt of the Grand Duke, there was a gorgeously carved command saber dangling brightly. The same style of saber, Xia Houyan himself In fact, there is also a handle.

It's just that the handle of Xiahou Daguan's command knife is silver, which means that he is "temporarily" the president of Southern Military Affairs, and the golden-handled "President Eastern Military Affairs" knife of Grand Duke Rosario is already full on his waist. Hanging for almost 20 years.

It was not until Sean Mountbatten cleared his throat as a reminder that Xia Houyan withdrew his reluctant gaze from the golden knife of Grand Duke Rosario.

At this time, Grand Duke Rosario had finished interviewing all the high-level members of the Igor family present, and asked Knight Commander Cousins ​​about Miss Katerina Igor's recent situation, and finally turned to the Duke of Frost Maple Ridge. .

"Eliott, I'm sorry, Commander Lane Grant of the Central Army was not there to greet you." The Grand Duke smiled and said, "The Marquis Grant seems to be a little dissatisfied with you recently-I heard it was because of the 'wandering mage' thing? "

Hearing the Grand Duke mention the "Wandering Mage", Xia Houyan's face quickly turned bitter.

Speaking of this group of aggressive people, he couldn't help but get angry.

It happened one day before their convoy arrived at the Tumu Fort camp——

At that time, Xia Houyan was playing the Marne card and listening to songs in the carriage, when suddenly a group of barbarians with extremely savage attire, extremely vulgar behavior and extremely indecent speech rushed to the front of the convoy from some corner on the side of the road. I was stunned to block the way of the "Shuangfengling Labor Art Troupe".

For a moment, Xia Houyan thought that he had met a wild man like Chu Kuang Jieyu, a modern poet who wanted to commit suicide by lying on the track on the motorcade road, or simply a little expert who came to get rich and cheat money.

After I sent someone to inquire in detail, I found out that it turned out to be a group of wandering mages from "Lianhua Ridge" in the Yongri Mountains.

Their intention is also very simple: come to surrender!

Xia Houyan was immediately overjoyed: the importance of elemental power is self-evident, walking on the road and suddenly picking up a pair of wandering mages, his luck is like Tian Boguang, who is hungry and thirsty, met the knife that was just dropped by Duan Wang on the street Baifeng!

However, after Cousins ​​brought the leader of this group of wandering mages, "Master Molière", the long-haired wandering mage who looked good enough to seek refuge with Brother Hong Tian stunned Xia Houyan at the first sentence:

"Master Igor, if you join your territory, how much money can you get a month?"

Immediately afterwards, the master Molière recited his heartfelt words endlessly:
According to him, the wandering mages in Lianhua Ridge are all "noble and noble people who do not admire glory and fortune", and they all have the passion of "being able to observe with their own bodies, and accepting the gentleness of things". Retreat to the mountains and forests!The reason why they chose to go out to Shuangfengling was mainly because they felt that the current situation was difficult and all living beings were suffering, and they were indignant at "there were no heroes in the time, so they made Zhu Zi famous", so they felt that "if we don't want to come out, we will Such as the common people", finally after a difficult ideological struggle, resolutely decided to "see hands and mend the cracks in the sky"!
In the end, Master Molière finally came to his senses and revealed the central idea of ​​this nonsense:

The wandering mages of our "Lianhua Ridge" are all noble and refined scholars, and they are completely different from those vulgar mages and scum in the Mage Academy City!If you want to hire a high-ranking scholar like us, it is definitely impossible to pay a bad price for cabbage like those magicians in the human resource market of the empire——

——I have to pay more!

Master Molière even hinted, whether intentionally or unintentionally, to the lord that he hoped that Shuangfengling could solve the marriage problem for his wandering mage brothers, and the organization would assign a few wives or something—if the object was "Dark-Souls "If you plan to create a virtual idol, that would be even better!

At that time, Xia Houyan was so angry that he almost made Alice kick the bastard out of the car:
In fact, you usually pretend to be a hermit and high-profile, and it’s a routine operation; these days, if you don’t know how to put a few titles on yourself and boast a few words, it’s really hard to make money. Everyone can understand;
But according to his experience, anyone who has a hot head and wants to marry a man with a leather jacket will pay two hundred and five for one——

Without exception!

Fortunately, he was more careful and did not turn his face hastily. Instead, he calmly asked Master Molière to show off his magic skills.

As a result, as soon as Master Molière put his dirty palm on the crystal ball for testing magic power, the crystal filaments inside the crystal ball erupted with dazzling light, illuminating the room like a small sun; The Elven Mage of the Northern Blizzard Mage Group, rubbed his eyes and confirmed it three or four times, and then stupidly reported:

"Level [-]! Intermediate magister!"

This over-the-top level of magic stunned Xia Houyan, and at the same time made Master Laurie and Spiritual Song master who were watching the show turned pale as if struck by lightning:

As we all know, it is not scary for someone to surpass you in strength. The most terrifying thing is that the person who surpasses you in strength turns out to be a social scum that you usually look down upon!

On the contrary, Master Molière, after testing the magic power, looked calm and asked pretendingly:
"Ah, is the middle-level magister very high? Our wandering mages have been living on Lianhua Ridge, so we don't know much about it... Then, if I am an intermediate-level magister, can I get a raise?"

It's like as long as you pay enough taxes, you must be a "people's entrepreneur". Even if you are a sixth-level magician who does everything from burning, killing, and looting on weekdays, you must be treated as a guest of the seat, and you must not let him go!Xia Houyan immediately made a decision to keep Master Molière and his gang... er, the handsome wandering mage in the territory!
As for the salary issue, leave it to Mr. Bob Brook to negotiate.

However, Xia Houyan also decided at the same time that these scumbag mages in Lianhualing would never go to the battlefield unless they received half a year of political education at Huangpo Military Academy. Until the number of people exceeds ten times their own, they will never work hard on the front line.

After signing such a labor contract in a hurry, Xia Houyan had no time to send these wandering mages back to the Land of Cracking Souls, so he could only bring them to the Tumu Fortress - right where the lord and the Grand Duke Rosario While meeting, this group of people was still playing cards and drinking in a carriage behind.

But Xia Houyan never expected that Marquis Lane Grant, the number two person on the front line of the Eastern Frontier and the commander of the Empire Central Committee, had an opinion on himself because of this group of cerebral palsy...

He suddenly felt that the Igor family's trip to the East was inexplicably cast with a layer of unfavorable color——

—especially when he looked up to see the words "Earth and Wood" written on the castle's stone wall.

(End of this chapter)