Riding and Slashing

Chapter 273 A Hasty Attack

Just as Malbert guessed, Li Ang is indeed not in Ashcomman at this moment.

Li Ang didn't care about the fleet of the Bacchus Empire at all. He left most of the merchants in Madan and Eichkoman, and headed southwest with a large force.

The merchants were not panicking. In their view, since Master Li Ang would continue to send troops abroad, he was naturally confident enough that Eichkeman would be safe—it had to be said that the simple judgment of the merchants was actually most correct.

Of course Li Ang doesn't care about the Bacchus fleet, Emperor Marius is his ally, and that fleet is under the banner of General Agathon—even if the two sides are not allies, Agathon can't do things like looting merchants , he couldn't even scratch his face.

Right now, Leon is in a place called 'Fondar' in the southwest of Eichkeman.

This place is not in the desert, but a town built in a grassland, surrounded by the best grassland in the entire D'Shar.

The grassland where the town of Fondar is located is the horse breeding land of the Dexia Principality, and it is also the place where the 'Ghazi Marauders' and 'Ghazi Archers' were born.

There is a huge mountain to the south of Eichkeman, which is also known as 'Mount Gazi', and there are temples everywhere on the mountain.

The Desha people regard this mountain as the birthplace of the god Vata, that is, they regard it as a holy mountain, and the huge peninsula around this mountain is also the earliest birthplace of the Dexia people.

The word 'Ghazi' is an ancient D'Shar language, which is almost equivalent to the meaning of 'holy' or 'temple', so being called a 'Ghazi warrior' is the lifelong pursuit of most D'Shar fighters.

But... this ancient D'Shar language is actually no different from the language of the Jatu people...

The D'Shars are not considered the aboriginals of the Pendor Continent. They originally came from the same lineage as the Jatus—they also came from the Amara Continent.

It's just that they came earlier, as early as the time of Kavala, the first king of Pandor, they came to the vicinity of Mount Gazi.

Moreover, the reasons why the D'Shars and the Jatus came to the continent of Pandor are similar - the Jatus came as mercenaries of General Osa in 150 years, and the D'Shars came hundreds of years ago as the first king of Pandor, Kawa. La mercenaries...

But the D'Xia themselves don't admit this. They probably already think of themselves as people in a 'civilized society', and look down on warlord tribes like the Jatu people.And if the belief is different, everything is different. If the Jiatu people do not believe in Vata, they are definitely not their kind.

However, their usual living habits and plundering methods are really no different from those of the Jatu people. A civilized society cannot be developed just by building a few cities...

The Desha people around Mount Ghazi, unlike the settlers who call themselves 'civilized people', are still pure nomads.

They still live around the sacred mountain of Ghazi by water and grass, and have kept their ancient nomadic tradition.

But now that most of the D'Shars have converted to settlers, the nomads at the foot of Mount Ghazi are an anomaly.

Moreover, many Desha 'city dwellers' living in Tuoba or Aishikman today even regard the traditional herdsmen under the holy mountain as mindless barbarians-this is a mockery with a bit of regional discrimination , and it is the people at the foot of the holy mountain that discriminate.

This is because it is not easy to become a 'Gazi warrior'. It not only requires extraordinary martial arts, but also devout beliefs - you have to crawl and kneel down to climb the holy mountain, and go to the temple to sacrifice everything in order to get the 'templar warrior'. ' title.

However, most of the Dexia people who settled in the city cannot be "pious" - the eminent monks in the temples of the holy mountain have a deep understanding of "pious" and cannot dedicate their property and wives to the god Vata people, that is not pious enough...

This is the case in places where politics and religion are united. Everything has to carry the "will of the gods", and I don't know why their god Vata, as a horse, requires believers to dedicate dinars and women...

But the people near Ghazi Mountain are really devout. They even send their wives to the temple alone on their wedding night to seek the blessings of the gods.

Because the god Vata not only represents prosperity and wealth, but also represents reproduction.

In fact, Saravan Sheikh was a warrior who came out of the foot of Gazi Mountain—that's why Sarafan was exiled by Kadan to the southernmost Jihad Fort.

Kadan's Toba City blocked the southern part of D'Shar, and Sarafan could not break through the blockade and return to the surrounding area of ​​Mount Ghazi, otherwise he would probably be fully recognized by the people of Ghazi.

Since the nomadic culture has always been preserved in the area around Mount Gazi, countless skilled riders and archers have been born. The folk customs are tough and heroic, so most D'Shar lords will go to the Gazi area to recruit warriors.

Today's surroundings of Mount Ghazi are probably the De'Shar's "soldier source base", but in the past 20 years, no "Ghazi warrior" can become the lord of the De'Shar...

This is not because of regional discrimination, but because the people of Shengshan, who have always retained the ancient tradition, will not learn the culture of Pande, they can't even speak Pande's language, let alone read and write - this is naturally Those who can't be lords, even the warlords of Jatu know how to learn the official language.

Besides, if you have dedicated everything to God, how can you be a lord?

That's why the lords of D'Shar are particularly willing to come down Mount Ghazi to recruit warriors - these pious people here will not threaten their status, as long as they are honored as 'Ghazi Warriors' is enough...

Yes, most of the D'Shar lords like Bahaman, the 'Ghazi Raiders' or 'Ghazi Archers' in the team are not real templars. It's just a title for the elite troops...

In the eyes of high-level people like Bahaman, the sacred mountain of Gazi Mountain is really just a recruiting base for soldiers. Only the low-level Kuhaha can be so devout, and the high-level ruling class has always had a very good attitude towards gods. flexible……

Fondal Town is the recruitment center of this 'soldier source base', and it is also the place where the nomads near the holy mountain sell war horses.

Li Ang would come here, of course, to march towards Toba——Fondal is between Eichkoman and Toba, and the three places are basically in a straight line.

The entire auction plan that he and Ramon combined is actually not complicated.

From the very beginning, Li Ang was confident that he could conquer Eichcoman quickly—no matter what method he used, after all, the fleet of Emperor Marius would also provide support, but Li Ang used the least labor-saving method to achieve it at the fastest speed. It's just for purpose.

Then Ramon will publicly announce the auction of the seat of Eichcoman in Singal.

Ramon's publicity ability is very good in this era, and the D'Shar lords including Kadan will definitely hear about this at the first time, so they will definitely rush to Singal.

The great lords of D'Shar, including Kadan, must understand the reason why Leon entrusted Ramon to auction Eichcomman - Li Ang's territory is far away from Eichcomman, and an outsider cannot effectively rule the god of Vata For the people of Li Ang, selling the city can maximize Li Ang's interests.

And in order to take back Aishekman intact, Kadan will definitely participate in the auction—if Aishikman fails the auction, then the city will definitely be completely destroyed by Li Ang's army, which is easy to imagine.

It is better to spend money to buy it back than to completely destroy the city, and you can organize an army in Singal by the way, and maybe you can buy it for zero yuan when you hand over the city.

Anyway, the auction house only needs to pay the deposit first, as for whether the final payment is required when delivering the goods, it depends on the actual situation...

At the same time, since it was the Singal people who made the auction, everyone including Kadan would suspect that Tahir, the lord of Singal, might conspire with Li Ang, and they had to go to Singal.

In fact, Kadan's reaction was faster than Li Ang and Ramon's imagined. After Eichkoman was occupied by Li Ang, Kadan had already considered that Tahir might be unstable, so before the news of the auction spread When Toba he went to Singal.

Of course, this does not affect Li Ang and Ramon's plans.

Kadan left Toba City, and most of the D'Shar lords would go to Singal, which would make Toba City and its surrounding areas relatively empty during this time.

Probably few people would have thought that Li Ang would send troops again immediately after occupying Eichkeman - this was still in the process of his 'Santo's Auction', who would have thought that the auctioneer would leave the auction item at this time?

And it was still leaving when the fleet of the Bacchus Empire was 'attacking' Ashcomman...

No one in Dexia knows that Li Ang has a verbal covenant with Mario, at least no one knows at the moment, except Ramon.

Ramon will indeed complete his auction, and he will definitely sell Eichkoman to Emperor Marius - this is the result of an agreement made by Li Ang with him.

Yes, no matter what time or place it is, auctions are always conducted in secret...

Selling a large city to Emperor Marius would give Ramon the highest prestige and the friendship of the Bacchus Empire.

For Ramon, the king of the underground, a country that does not border Singal is the best ally.

At the same time, this is also Li Ang's promise to Mario and Agathon-he will leave Eichcomman to the Bacchus Empire.

Of course, this is a deal, and he must get enough income. Marius said before, "We will wait until you occupy Eichkeman", so let Emperor Marius go to the auction house to bid.

The most important thing is that Eichkeman must be sold to Emperor Marius, so that both Kadan and the Desha lords who supported Kadan can go to Eichkeman, and they will inevitably gather to try to take back the city.

In fact, Cardan has to do this now. If he can’t take back Aishikman, it’s tantamount to announcing to everyone that the current Bahad Khan is dead. Let’s grab Khan’s position quickly...

Eichkeman is bound to usher in an uphill battle.

After all, Li Ang told Agathon earlier in the morning that he only needed the Bacchus Empire to keep Ashcomman.

And this will give Li Ang enough time and space to conquer Toba City.

Ramon will flee from Singal after completing the auction of Aishikman, lest the angry Kadan and Tahir will find him to kill him...

He will rush to Tuoba City to preside over the auction of the title of Bahad Khan together with Li Ang.

——During the auction of the city lord of Eichkoman, the empty city of Toba would definitely not be able to stop Li Ang's army, and both Ramon and Li Ang were confident about it.

The auction of the throne mentioned by Li Ang and Ramon can actually be understood as an auction of military power and the ownership of Toba City.

To put it simply, whoever benefits Li Ang and Ramon more, they will hand over Toba City to each other, and Li Ang's army will support each other to become the real Bahad Khan-of course, before that, Li Ang at least It is necessary to prevent the D'Shar lords from being able to replenish the army quickly, lest they fall into a tight siege.

If necessary, after conquering Tuoba, they had to return to Aishikman and cooperate with Agathon who was defending the city to defeat Kadan's army.

But also running thousands of miles, Li Ang naturally had to avoid the same predicament as Kadan, after all, the lesson from the past happened more than half a month ago.

In order to avoid the situation that Kadan bumped into the main army when he first arrived in Sarleon City, Li Ang had to destroy Fondar, the recruiting center of D'Xia's military resources—or, in other words, move it to another place.

Like... Madan and Ashkoman.

It was Ikram, the son of Bahaman, who brought Leon to Fondar.

Bahaman and his son often went to Fondar to recruit Ghazi raiders, and Ikram was very familiar with this place.

In fact, Ikram is actually emotional now-his father gave Aishekman as the dowry of his younger sister Luha to Li Ang, which meant that he would lose his inheritance rights to Aishikeman. Harman's decision was very opinionated.

Although his father received Li Ang's support and seemed to have a chance to become Bahad Khan, who knows if it will come true?

Compared with Aishekman, who was bound to inherit originally, a "chance" to become the heir of Bahad Khan is not so sweet to Ikram.

In Ikram's view, even if Li Ang fulfilled his promise, even if his father Bahaman really took the position of Bahad Khan with the help of Li Ang, it was just Li Ang's puppet, without the authority of the ruler of D'Xia. dignity.

The thought made him sick.

Young people always value dignity and honor more.

His father, Bahaman, didn't think so at all—if he didn't take the initiative to hug Li Ang's thigh, I'm afraid that even living would be an extravagant hope, what dignity is there...

Besides, Li Ang always has to leave. He can't stay in the territory of Dexia all the time. Being attached to Li Ang for a short time does not mean that he will be a puppet for the rest of his life. He will have the opportunity to recover his strength and accumulate more power. Only when he is strong can he have a real future Word.

But Ikram didn't think so far, he just felt very humiliated-he seemed to be an interpreter leading the way for Li Ang now, feeling like he was leading the invaders to kill his compatriots.

This sense of guilt made Ikram's mood quite unstable.

So, after bringing Leon to Fondar, Ikram decided to take a risk.

Li Ang originally planned to ask Ikram to tell the nomads that from now on things like recruiting soldiers and selling horses can be changed to Ashkoman, where the bids will be higher.

At the same time, if you are willing to serve as a mercenary for the Lord of Sarleon, or sell horses to the Bacchus, you can even earn three times more money than before.

This was originally just to make Fondar no longer a recruiting base for the D'Shar, and to prevent the D'Shar lords from quickly recovering their strength.

Since the people near Gazi Mountain only speak their traditional dialect, which is very different from the mainstream official language of the Pendor Continent, Li Ang couldn't understand the people here, so he asked Ekram as an interpreter.

Oh, Li Ang can understand two sentences - one is 'Bispa' and the other is 'Uzza', which he learned from the Jatu people.

When Li Ang went to Fondar to have a relatively friendly communication with the mountain people here, he would naturally leave the protection of the army temporarily. After all, if he brought too many people, the herdsmen would stay far away.

So the army did not enter Fondar, and Li Ang only brought the guards by his side.

But after Ikram brought Li Ang to the place where the herdsmen gathered in Gazi Mountain, he asked those herdsmen to catch Li Ang in the name of Bahaman-he promised those people that the person who captured Li Ang would become the Khan of Gazi Mountain, And declared that the Caliph Bahaman will set up around Mount Gazi as a permanent reserve, and the 'Mount Gazi' can use ancient traditions to implement self-government!

To put it bluntly, Ikram can be considered smart enough to make those herdsmen listen to him with such a promise. Many mountain people are not willing to deal with 'city people'. Self-government is what the mountain people have always wanted. .

And this intelligent second-generation official probably thought carefully about the consequences - he couldn't kill Li Ang, if Li Ang died here, he would probably die too.

The army of the Sarleion Kingdom will definitely kill him, and even destroy everything including Ashkoman. Li Ang's men will definitely kill his father Bahaman, and maybe his uncle Gawan Khan and his sister Luha will also live. If it doesn't go on, the whole family will be uprooted...

Of course, if Li Ang hadn't died, the ending would have been similar... In order to keep the family, Bahaman might have personally killed this ignorant son...

So Ikram planned to capture Li Ang alive.

He wanted to catch Li Ang, and then force Li Ang to act according to his own ideas.

Li Ang's army is just one mile away. It is of course very dangerous to attack Li Ang here, but Ikram is only a young man in his twenties, and his mind is full of so-called honor and bravery. A heroic feat.

He wants to become the hero of De Xia, and wants to gain status with dignity by standing up...

So Leon suffered an attack.

This attack was actually very sloppy. Nearly a hundred Gaqishan herdsmen rushed forward and rushed towards Li Ang from all directions. It seemed very brave.

In fact, Li Ang really didn't expect Ikram to dare to do such a stupid thing, but fortunately, this attack is not too dangerous for the lord.

This time Li Ang walked into the place where the herdsmen gathered with his personal guards, not alone.

Although he only brought about twenty people, it was quite normal for these twenty people to deal with a hundred nomads without armor, and it was nothing to brag about.

The [-] people accompanying Li Ang were Klose's old teammate from Mettenheim, Sarah and the female explorer she brought along; in addition, Lisa Dilan and Wendy...

(End of this chapter)