Riding and Slashing

Chapter 160 Little girl, you have to be more reserved
Some people are destined to get more opportunities, such as Eric.

He only came back two days before the lord, and was once again given a difficult task-to take 100 people to rebuild the ancient resident under the Goddess Mountain.

That's because Eric's temperament is a good fit.

Ambitious, but also abide by the rules; courageous, but also calm; the most important thing is to understand the world, good at observing words and emotions, can make friends with anyone, and is hardworking and studious.

Although he also has many shortcomings, such as very ordinary skills, such as gambling and lust, and whenever he has free time, he goes to certain entertainment venues...

But the shortcomings do not conceal the advantages. Compared with most people, Eric is already the kind of person who is the easiest to climb to a high position.

Dalion has a straightforward temper. If other people are sent to that station, there is a high possibility of conflict with Dalion. Only Eric, a smooth guy, can play around.

Maybe Eric can still make Dalion limp...

The task that the lord gave Eric was to rebuild that garrison into a valley fortress in the name of rebuilding the Griffon Knights.

As for the establishment of the Griffin Knights... we have to wait for the resident to be built first, otherwise there will be no place to live.

The 100 people that Li Ang asked Eric to bring were bodyguards selected from the Changhe Express.

But it’s not the most combative ones, but those who are loyal enough and have some life skills, such as carpentry, blacksmithing or... mining.

Such a candidate has naturally explained the problem.

The lord did not plan to rebuild the Griffin Knights immediately. He mainly wanted to mine the ebony mine, and everything else could be done slowly...

That's why Eric has to go - there needs to be someone with brains who can guide Dalion while Dalion is still claiming the throne, lest the reckless guy can't wait when he sees these people want to do something.

After all, although Sir Paul de Mar can control him, the old man is too old to keep an eye on him all the time.

Moreover, before the lord raises the Pendor flag, the old man will probably not tell Darion the truth--Leon knows very well that apart from letting Darion stand in the foreground to help Leon attract attention, the old knight actually has something in his heart. There may also be some meaning of investigation.

Because Paul Demar is not sure whether Li Ang will return to the country... He has limited understanding of Li Ang, what if the lord only wants to be a nobleman of the Sarleon Kingdom with peace of mind?
Therefore, if the lord will raise the flag to rebel and claim to be the king of Pendor, then Paul Demar will tell Dalion the truth and let Dalion fully support Leon's restoration of the country.

But if the lord remains silent, then he will let Dalion take on the task of restoring the country—at least his adopted son will firmly carry out this difficult task.

The old knight is still making two-handed preparations.

This idea is very reasonable. Paul Demar vowed to protect the Pendor royal family, but only those who are willing to restore the country are called the Pendor royal family...

In fact, if the lord is given another year and a half, and the nitrate pits in the territory have enough harvest, and the money, food, population and troops are more, then Li Ang will definitely not mind just going straight. It is possible to raise the flag and claim the king...

However, the time for Li Ang to become the lord was more than seven months after all, which is too short. Although he has been developing his strength, many things need time to ferment.

To be honest, to be able to achieve the position of a county consul in seven months is already extremely fast...

But how can a county with 200 people fight against a kingdom with [-] million people... And those [-] people are not under the control of Li Ang in name.

After carefully instructing Eric, after he led the team out of Changhe Town, the lord left for White Hart Castle.

……

"Miss Amy, Lord Li Ang is back!"

In the main building of White Hart Castle, a guard hurried to find Amy.

"Where? Where is it?"

Amy threw down the quill in her hand and jumped out of the room like a wild deer, halfway through the letter being smeared with ink from the pen.

"Er...out of town...Miss Amy, your shawl has fallen..."

The guard looked at Amy who ran downstairs in a hurry, and said the second half of the sentence to the empty stairs in an instant, but Amy probably couldn't hear it.

Amy has been very nervous these days, even after receiving the news from Eric two days ago...

She ran downstairs quickly, until she reached the gate of the castle.

She was not relieved until she saw that Li Ang had entered White Hart Castle safely.

Of course she was worried about Li Ang, but after seeing Li Ang walk into the city gate, she turned around and walked back, and rubbed her face, changing her expression from joy to calmness.

It feels like I ran 800 meters just to see Leon walk into the castle...

She has just received a letter from her mother. In the letter, Ms. Felina probably means: little girl, please be more reserved, your enthusiasm for Baron Leon can be seen even in Sarleon City, When you wrote to ask me to visit Li Ang, you didn't mention me as a mother at all... You may not be able to cherish it if you take the initiative to send it to your door...

The clever Amy certainly understood that her mother was laughing at her.

So Amy self-taught and adjusted her facial expression to what she thought was 'reserved'.

Of course, as a beginner, you don't have a good sense of proportion.

The lord saw Amy from a distance, but he was quite confused - why did this girl turn around and leave when she saw her?
I haven't seen you for ten days, what's wrong?

Could it be that he discovered the skill book that he secretly collected to improve his personal abilities?

There is a copy of "The Combat Life of a Legion Centurion" hidden by the Lord's bed. It was bought in the Bacchus Empire last time. Emperor Lingang is a good place. This book is similar to the "Memoirs of an Officer" wonderful...

Well, it’s even better—the centurion of the Bacchus Empire is very good at playing, there are many scenes and poses, and maybe it can improve the coaching skills...

But it's not right to think about it. Amy discovered this book first. She thought it was a biography of a battlefield. Who knew that she dropped the book and ran away red-faced after reading the beginning.

If it weren't for the lord's discerning eye, this good book would have been buried...

Later, when the lord bought the book, Amy still expressed her disdain at the side - she knew that Li Ang had this book...

"Amy, is there anything going on these days?"

The lord quickly chased after him, walking side by side with Amy.

"Yes, Levius' scouts have come to scout many times, but they were all killed by Sir Roland. The Owl Knights are also asking if they can enter White Hart Castle. They seem to be unable to stay in Troubrun. And My father, I heard that he chased the enemy all the way to the territory of Lion Lake City, I am a little worried... Oh, those corns are more than a foot high, and they grow well..."

Amy was expressionless and chattered, like a robot butler reporting the situation. When she spoke, it was all business, and Li Ang was taken aback for a while.

"Hiss... Amy, wait a minute..."

The lord looked at Amy, and his forehead started to hurt—the girl had no expression on her face, and she spoke as if she was chanting scriptures, but she looked at Li Ang with eager and joyful eyes, and she was a little evasive...

Li Ang felt that this state was very tricky. Of course he could understand Amy's mind, but he had never dealt with this kind of scene, so he was really inexperienced.

Just smash it and follow behind, and start thinking about official business...

But Sarah, who came out of the main building of the castle, saw Amy's appearance. She raised her eyebrows, stood at the door of the main building, and said softly when Amy passed by: "Don't pretend, you haven't mentioned it for a long time." Teacher 'This title, everyone can see it..."

"what?"

Amy was not calm all of a sudden, and a little panicked.

She felt that her mother was probably right, but everyone could see it... No, it can't be like this, she can't be so eager...

If he offered to deliver it to his door, he would not cherish it!

No matter how I say it, I am also the daughter of the princess!
But she is even more inexperienced in this kind of thing... She doesn't know what to do, her mother just laughs at her, but doesn't teach her, and so does Sarah!

"That...Lord Godric..."

"Hmm... the Bacchus Empire..."

The lord and Amy turned their heads and brought up the business at the same time...

Then the two of them closed their mouths at the same time.

It has to be the lord who reacts quickly and knows how to avoid embarrassment: "You tell me..."

As a result, the two of them entered the discussion mode of work...

Sarah, who was waiting to watch the show, sighed deeply, and shook her head feebly.

There is indeed a lot of business to be done right now.

King Ulrik needs 24 dinars. This matter has to be settled within a month, and it is estimated that it is not easy to repay the bill. There are still [-] days left.

The Owl Knights intend to move to White Hart Castle, but they are illegal knights, their status is indeed a bit embarrassing, and their reliability is questionable.This was mainly because Trubrun had a new lord, and that lord asked them to leave as soon as possible—the new lord was a lion knight under the Duke of Brennus, and he didn't like the illegal knights.

On top of that, after Godric's victory at Fort Valonshield, Amy is a little undecided.

She had heard about the battle at Fort Yongshield, and that Godric had led his troops to Lion Lake.

She is very confident in her father's ability to lead the army, so she is not worried, but in this case, White Hart Castle is worth worrying about.

I thought that White Hart Castle would not receive external support for a long time.

Because the troops from Longhe Town, Fletcher Village, Fort Yongshield and other places have all been taken away, and the Horn Call Ranger Group has also disappeared.

In the past ten days, White Hart Castle has been lighting the beacon fire, so it attracted several groups of spies from the Bacchus Empire. Although Sir Roland discovered and solved them in advance, no one can be sure whether the Bacchus Empire sent secret spies to do things. There is no guarantee that something will go wrong.

Therefore, in order to ensure the safety of White Hart Castle, she had to make some preparations.

For example, by using the way the Bacchus Empire entrapped the lord, it also entrapd Governor Levius.

But a few days ago, her mind was full of the safety of the lord, so how could she have any thoughts about planning...

If you want to make a strategy, of course you still have to look at the lord...

However, at the end of the discussion, Amy is the one who will implement it.

Because Li Ang was going to play a poor little lord who was trapped by two countries at the same time and had to flee...

Didn't Emperor Marius deliberately write a letter to Li Ang to alienate him, just to get such a result?

Then give him the result, and give it thoroughly.

……

The eastern border of the Bacchus Empire has been very uneasy recently.

Not long after Governor Levius was sent to Shieldwind Fortress, a lot of things happened in this frontline fortress.

In fact, the governor's life has not been very easy recently. After all, Shieldwind Fortress has only soldiers, no people, and cannot scrape land.

Moreover, the task given to him by Emperor Marius was to capture White Hart Castle within one year.

Now Levius can't drink the blood of soldiers to eat empty pay, but has to pay for himself to replenish his troops.

If it weren't for the different policies of the empire, Levius would have been left impoverished...

The regular army of the Bacchus Empire is uniformly allocated by the state, and the current regular army of the Shieldwind Fortress has played the banner of the "Empire Second Army".

'Second', if you just look at the banner, you probably think this is a very strong main force.

But in fact, this is a group of recruits, the kind that don't even have equipment-in fact, they are a group of farmers, and they haven't even been recognized by the empire.

This 'legion' was formed less than a month ago.

To put it simply, the existence of this legion is the newly expanded troops after Governor Levius was dispatched to Shieldwind Fortress, which was actually used to demand military expenses from Emperor Marius.

In fact, the [-] 'shadow infantry soldiers' under Levius are the real main force in his army.

But this main force is no longer organized as a separate legion.

The Shadow Infantry is actually the Marine Corps that followed General Osa to land across the sea. It belonged to the Shadow Legion before. As the main force of the Conqueror, it was indeed a very strong force.

Later, after the founding of Bacchus, this force was organized separately and became the "Shadow Infantry Corps", which has been led by the Levius family.

However, in order to maintain its purity, this army of all Bacchus did not accept any Pendors to join. With the changes of hundreds of years, the number of shadow infantry soldiers became less and less.

In addition, Levius is firmly opposed to reform, and his own personal morality is not very good. If it is not because of the huge power of the family, the shadow infantry soldiers under his command can also be called a strong army, Emperor Marius may have already Kill him.

Some time ago, after Kairos handed over the two IOUs to Emperor Marius, Livius encountered a lot of trouble.

Although Emperor Marius still let Livius lead the powerful army of shadow infantry, he did not give him an independent organization.

That is to say, the Shadow Infantry is now re-affiliated with the Shadow Legion, and Governor Levius, the leader of the Infantry, cannot receive a separate legion ration, and the military funds provided by the country will be allocated by Governor Kailos, the head of the Shadow Legion. ...

And Kailos didn't like Levius very much at first-the two people's worldviews and values ​​​​did not match. Kairos couldn't understand him, especially Levius who raped and robbed civilians all day long.

Although Kailos is a person who distinguishes between public and private, he can also 'reasonably allocate' the military rations belonging to the Shadow Legion in a business-like manner.

For example, he can wait until October for the money, food and military supplies that the entire Shadow Legion received during the harvest season in May, and then allocate the part that the Shadow Infantry Soldiers deserved to Levius...

This matter is quite reasonable, anyway, money and supplies will be given according to the rules, and it will definitely be given according to the budget.

But for Levius, this is more difficult.

There is no money and food available, and White Hart Castle has to be settled...

Although the bald, middle-aged governor had a very high level of land scraping in the past few years and had plenty of money in his hands, but... using his own money to support the country's soldiers?
That won't work!

And now that he has come to Shieldwind Fortress, he has no source of income...

So Levius had to expand his army.

In the name of attacking White Hart Castle, a new "Empire Second Army" was added.

What he reported to Emperor Marius was: "White Hart Castle has more than 700 defenders. In order to capture White Hart Castle, I must form a new army of 2000 people in Shieldwind Fortress!"

This move is actually reasonable, after all, the [-] shadow infantry alone cannot capture the fortified White Hart Castle.

However, this matter will probably be exactly the opposite of what Emperor Marius had imagined - Marius must have originally planned to force Livius to give up the shadow infantry and hand over this troop to more suitable people...

And the main purpose of Livius' new legion is to ask Emperor Marius for military expenses alone-it's hard to say whether Emperor Marius will agree...

But Levius felt that this had to be done—how could he live without paying empty wages?
He still has seventy or eighty concubines to raise...

And according to common sense, this is indeed a reasonable expansion of the army. Livius felt that this move would definitely get the material support of Emperor Marius.

Of course, there is no telling how many people this newly formed army will actually have in the end—anyway, if you want to fight White Hart Castle, it can be said that the insufficient number of soldiers will be 'dead in battle'...

Since the legion had to be verified by the emperor with enough soldiers when it was first formed, in order to completely escape the sea of ​​suffering, Livius directly engaged in a large-scale conscription.

And it's not recruiting volunteers, nor paying money to recruit soldiers, but recruiting strong men by force-after all, this is the only way that doesn't cost money.

In the first week after he took office, he forcibly recruited more than 2000 people in various villages, including Yimer Village.

It's almost like grabbing a young man when he sees...

By the way, a lot of villagers' property and food were 'found', including some young and beautiful women.

If it was just a forced recruitment of troops, it would be justifiable. Anyway, it was for the emperor's order, and the Bacchus would not refuse to join the army too much.

In addition, the current consul of Ayrshire has changed from the kind Godric to Leon—the lord was deliberately passed on as a monster by Emperor Marius. The Bacchus around the front line are quite afraid of White Hart Castle , Of course, I will not care too much about military expansion.

But this kind of forced arrest of strong men and robbery of property and women is too disgusting.

Levius's bandit-style behavior completely angered the tribunes of the various villages, and also angered General Cleon.

The general who was born as a plague exorcist directly called Levius a "humanoid plague", and even led troops to attack him.

The two sides almost broke out in a large-scale firefight, but it ended with Livius' troops voluntarily withdrawing back to Shieldwind Fortress.

Levius didn't expect the resistance here to be so fierce, so he restrained himself a little, and reluctantly put back the property of those women and villagers.

But since then, the surrounding villages and towns have been resolutely unwilling to provide supplies for Levius' troops, and even drove them away when they saw his troops appear.

Those farmers who were recruited by force also had a lot of opinions on Levius, and they sneaked away every day - Livius arrested people to 'join the army' but didn't pay the army salary, everyone would have an opinion... …

So Levius hid in the Shield Wind Fortress recently and did not dare to show his face, so as not to be shot in the back. He only planned to wait until His Majesty the Emperor quickly allocated the military expenses to himself.

However, he finally waited for a month, and His Majesty the Emperor did send a response, but the response was only one sentence...

"It is not allowed to expand the army without permission!"

(End of this chapter)