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Chapter 52 Knights Battle
"The knights are really big food buckets per capita. According to their appetite, they can last for a year at most. When the next winter comes, the food reserves in the territory will be exhausted."

Ronan sat in the main hall of the old castle, reviewing the food situation submitted by Old Mo.

The food in his hands basically comes from the Paikes family in Black Rock City.

Thanks to the large amount of food stored in Pekers Castle, he can not worry about food consumption during this period.

But with the appearance of a hundred knights in the territory, the daily food consumption doubled instantly.

And this number will continue to rise in the future, so he has to start thinking about problems in advance.

So far, the land that can grow food in Hanfeng Territory is only near those two villages, and if it dies after a good harvest, it will only support [-] ordinary people.

The focus is on the large farmland near Black Rock City.

With the spread of the Black Death, the serfs and self-cultivators on these farmlands died and escaped.

As a result, large areas of farmland have been abandoned, and not much food has been harvested throughout the year.

After this winter, someone has to find someone to raise these farmlands again.

Just during this time, Black Rock City carried out a large-scale city cleanup.

Ronan asked the Minister of Finance, Aldrich, to build a lot of manure sites outside the city with the urine and feces collected together with grass, wood, straw, etc., so that they can be used in the future to increase the fertility of the land and promote the growth of crops.

When Ronan was thinking about planting in the farmland of Black Rock City, his attention suddenly turned to another site.

Speaking of the food problem, the most serious trouble has to be the western plains of the kingdom.

Because Earl Cobo, the lord of the western Great Plains, chose to deceive the Principality of the Northern Lions and maliciously raise the price of food, the Knights of the Northern Lions eventually disguised themselves as robbers and crossed the border to plunder the Great Plains.

For this reason, the current emperor dispatched part of his royal guards, including two hundred elite knights, to assist Earl Cobo in resisting the robbers.

And the captain who leads this knight team is Ronan's elder brother Edson.

At this moment.

The gyrfalcon was circling the border between the two countries, over the Lainland in the east of the Insel River, and relayed the situation below to Ronan.

After more than a month of rushing and planning.

Edson led [-] royal guards and [-] Knights of the Golden Wheat Ears who belonged to Earl Cobo and successfully rushed to the Rhine Territory.

And regained the transportation channel of the Insel River, cutting off the transportation route of the Northern Lion Knight.

But now, facing more than 500 robbers who regrouped from various border territories.

Edson chose to abandon the fortifications of the Rhine Territory, took his knights without fear, and confronted the enemy on the vast plain.

Ronan can clearly see the whole picture on both sides through the bird's-eye view in the sky.

On Edson's side, the pure white armor of the royal guard and the black armor of the Knights of the Golden Wheat Spike were distinct in color, neat and solemn.

On the other side, the robbers wore all kinds of strange fur cloths, wrapping themselves tightly.

At first glance, it looks like a rabble of low-class wandering knights.

But when they gathered together to form a complete cavalry unit, whether it was a neat formation or a unified movement, they all revealed a sharp edge.

Two cavalry teams faced each other on the plain, each with more than 500 burly and fierce knights.

Facing the imminent charge, the war horses under their crotches exhaled hot air, neighing and stomping their hooves from time to time.

Realizing that a battle was imminent, Ronan leaned back, leaning himself against the soft back of the chair.

In order to be able to watch the largest cavalier conflict in the past ten years more comfortably in the future.

Suddenly, a sharp horn pierced the silence.

This is the signal to attack, blown by Edson himself.

The knights behind him raised their lances, shouted loudly, and rushed towards the enemy.

And in the distance, the cavalry team formed by the robbers was not to be outdone, and rushed towards them head-on, choosing the most direct head-on confrontation.

The two cavalrymen collided with each other in the center, making a loud noise that shook the sky.

The lance collided with the armor, sparking, and what's more, the opponent was violently penetrated.

Horses collided with horses, screaming, and knights fought with knights, roaring continuously.

After a round of collision, the knights on both sides pulled each other away, leaving hundreds of corpses on the central battlefield.

Most of the surviving knights were also wounded, gritting their teeth to bandage their wounds.

After regrouping, they did not charge again.

Instead, they surround each other in a circle, leaving a huge open space between each other.

Afterwards, Edson, who was not dispatched in the first charge, and Endel, the leader of the Golden Wheat Spike Knights, rode out from behind the team.

The leader who watched the battle from the bandit side also broke away from his subordinates and entered the circle.

In the sky, Ronan, who watched the whole process, understood the situation.

It seems that neither the Kingdom nor the North Lion Principality wants to make matters worse, so they maintain great restraint with each other.

This is the battle in front of me.

Rather than saying it was a war, it was more like a large-scale knightly contest. Both sides strictly followed the rules and etiquette, and used battles to prove their strength.

They confronted each other squarely, and separated from each other to rest after the end.

And now it's the head-to-head confrontation between the leaders.

Edson and Ender are both Tier [-] Golden Knights. Since the robbers dare to fight, they are probably also Tier [-].

"Heh, you despicable guy who doesn't even dare to show his face, I'll send you to hell right now!" Endli rushed out, holding a pitch-black hideous spear in his hand.

Along with the sprint, a layer of black flames burned on him and the horse.

The flame twisted and twisted, and finally wrapped around the spear like a python.

The bandit leader opposite him raised his head wrapped in layers of black cloth, and the only pair of eyes that were exposed were unwavering.

He raised the giant double-edged ax at his waist, swung it in a semicircle and struck it on the spear.

Pure power erupted at this moment, the flame was cut off, the spear deviated from the track, and the vibrations from it made Ender's arm feel a strong numbness.

The two sides staggered past, regrouped and launched an attack again.

After several duels, Endli was knocked off the horse by the giant axe, fell to the ground, his armor was broken, and his life and death were unknown.

Edson behind him was stunned when he saw this scene, and frowned as he looked at the bandit leader.

For some reason, he felt an indescribable strangeness from the opponent's actions.

But before he could think about it, the excited roar suddenly sounded from the robber's side, which made him react, and charged up on the horse.

Endli has been defeated. As the leader of the kingdom, he must step forward to defeat the opponent in order to end the battle smoothly.

The sun was setting, dusk was coming, and the struggle that had lasted from noon to the present came to an end.

Edson defeated the enemy and made the bandit choose to retreat.

He rode on a war horse and watched the knights under him pick up the corpses of his colleagues.

The enemy's body had already been taken away by the robbers, and Edson did not and could not stop it.

Soon his eyes turned to the knights of the Golden Wheat Spike Knights. They were supporting the unconscious leader Endel and giving him emergency treatment.

Obviously, Enderi had lost any ability to resist in a short period of time, and Edson watched the scene expressionlessly.

"Rest here tonight, pay attention to cleaning the wound." He ordered.

(End of this chapter)