The Lord of the Rings: Lords of Middle-earth.

Chapter 842 The prying eyes

  "Then why don't you command an army yourself?" Roland suddenly asked in confusion. After all, according to the background of Denethor II, he was basically destined to be the future regent. It was not unreasonable to raise a private army from the family in advance to fulfill his dream! On the contrary, such things would generally be supported and praised by the family! Ambitious families would not let their heirs become fools!

Giving the heir an army to train is also an old tradition of the nobles. However, Roland here represents the powerful nobles of the empire, but the nobles in Middle-earth should be roughly the same as those in the Lagrande Empire, right?

"Well, this involves some political reasons..." Denesor II looked at the expressionless Holfa and shrugged helplessly at Roland.

  "Politics? Could there be other heirs to Gondor?" Roland asked in surprise. After all, as far as he remembered, Aethelion II had only one son, Denethor II. Could it be that there were other sons in this world?

"It has nothing to do with my family, but it is very important to other families..." Denethor II rubbed his brows, sighed helplessly, and gave Roland a look that said you know what I mean.

  Roland, who has been immersed in the history of political struggle for 5,000 years, is so smart! He only saw Denethor II's tired eyes and instantly understood his situation. According to the morality of the nobles of Gondor now, there must be no one who doesn't want to give him a yellow robe to fight for the merit of following the dragon? If Denethor II really pulls out an army before Turgon dies, maybe the Middle-earth version of the yellow robe will come!

"Haha, those termites..." Roland laughed awkwardly. No wonder the young angry man came to the North. It was probably because there was nothing in Gondor that he could control. The wise and knowledgeable Denethor II was unwilling to be used by those people. After all, it was Gondor that was hurt in the end!

"It's actually easy to solve. You need an army that is loyal to you, but the situation inside Gondor is too sensitive for you to deploy. You can consider it!" Roland said, patting the table and nodding.

"Carefully selected by the Kingdom of Lagran! You are trustworthy!" Roland spread out his hands.

“???” Denethor II was stunned. What the hell?

"Don't you understand? I can leave you a piece of land and lend it to you to train soldiers. You can take them away directly when you need them. Of course, if you are willing to pay more, I don't mind letting the kingdom's elite with practical experience train them. In this way, you will get an army with the most complete method to deal with orcs in this land!" Roland's words were like poison mixed with honey, which made Denethor II want to try it even though he knew the danger.

As for what Denethor II really wanted to do with these soldiers? Roland didn't care. Denethor II's early ascension was a salvation for Gondor rather than a harm, and it was also a qualified cover for Raglan. With him waving the flag and shouting in front, Sauron shouldn't rush to Raglan, right? After all, one threat was far away in the north and the other was right at the door. Roland didn't believe that Sauron would give up the near and seek the far!

"Hiss..." Denethor II was stunned at first, then he was attracted by Roland's words. After all, which passionate young man has not dreamed of becoming a hero to save people from danger? The young Denethor II seemed to have seen that Gondor's borders were full of loopholes in the face of the massive invasion of wandering orcs. At this time, Denethor II suddenly appeared with a powerful army, defeated the orcs in no time, and then chased them all the way to recapture Minas Ithil!

  "Besides, I can also provide you with enchanted equipment!" Roland patted his chest loudly. He was very confident in this regard!

Over the years, Yun Feng consciously made enchanted equipment in his spare time. Although it was only the simplest primary enchanted equipment, with the huge number of enchanted equipment he made and the standard enchanted equipment obtained by Roland's system sign-in, the Kingdom of Lagran directly updated the soldiers' equipment as a whole! Those old equipment were sold to Dale, Aqua, Beorn and other places by Ruel's caravan, and a small part of them flowed to the south. However, the interesting point is that although the Gondor nobles did not like to invest in the army, the enchanted equipment shipped to the south became a hot-selling and popular item. At first, Roland was surprised that there were still a group of smart people in the Gondor nobles, but in the end he found out that it was just because this thing was value-preserving and could appreciate in value...

That's right! In this era where armor can be passed down through three generations, a piece of intact enchanted equipment can be used by several generations. These things are high-level consumables. For the nobles, they are like gold and silver, both of which are hard currencies that can maintain their value. No matter how much you hoard, it is never too much!

  "Enchanted equipment?" Denethor II's heart was moved. He knew that the Kingdom of Raglan had sent caravans south to sell enchanted equipment in recent years. He guessed that the Kingdom of Raglan should be acting as a middleman for the dwarves. However, this trip to the north made Denethor II realize that the Kingdom of Raglan probably had a way to produce enchanted equipment! Otherwise, it would be unreasonable for them to equip every soldier they saw with enchanted equipment! The price of that set was enough to make an ordinary middle-class civilian vomit blood!

"Of course, all of them!" Roland said casually, shaking his hands, as if it was a trivial matter.

  "As long as you can recruit a group of farmers, I can let my soldiers train them into a regular army! And equip them with the best weapons! Of course, you need to pay for this!" Roland said calmly. It would be nice to use Gondor to fight a Middle-earth version of the proxy war with Mordor!

Roland knew that Sauron had returned to Mordor and started to attack! However, Sauron did not reveal his identity as in history, which made Roland feel that he had changed part of history. In the original book, Sauron had appeared in Mordor with his identity revealed, and he also stole the Ithil crystal - the crystal of true knowledge!

"..." Roland frowned when he thought of this. He knew the function of the True Knowledge Crystal very well. It was a large map hang... Then wouldn't Mordor have seen all of Lagrande's clothes? Roland felt annoyed when he thought about it. After all, Roland, who inherited the character of the "flower-growing rabbit" who liked to hide things, certainly didn't want to stand naked under the eyes of So Dayan.

"What's wrong, Your Majesty?" Denethor II, who was still daydreaming and as ambitious as a tiger, keenly noticed the change in Roland's expression. Seeing that King Roland seemed to be going back on his word, the originally wavering Denethor II instantly determined to train an army in the North.

"Nothing. I'm worried about the orcs in Mordor." Roland said vaguely. After all, the danger in Mordor is not just the orcs. The real big boss is Sauron behind the scenes. Roland naturally could not tell Denethor II about Sauron's return.

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"It's chaos... strange!" Soran held the Crystal of Truth in the Black Evil Tower and looked towards the north. In an instant, Soran saw the movements of Aquavia, River Valley and Lonely Mountain. However, when Soran focused his attention on the Kingdom of Raglan, a strange scene appeared. The system cities such as Raglan City, Rapids City, and Lulong Fortress were all shrouded in fog. Only Palembang and Dragon Cliff Castle appeared clearly in front of Soran.

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